explore

explore is an agent for Claude Code from aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc. It costs 35 tokens per session (469 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only codebase explorer that studies how a project is organised and how its code works before implementation. It records relevant files, conventions, tests, entry points, and gaps in the specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before coding an issue to trace imports, inspect tests, find integration points, and prepare an exploration report for the implementer.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making changes in the wrong place or against the project's existing patterns. It also identifies questions that the issue description does not answer.

Agent for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-claude plugin — 6 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before coding an issue to trace imports, inspect tests, find integration points, and prepare an exploration report for the implementer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc/explore
About the project

Agent-Assisted SDLC is a sample software development pipeline in which an AI coding assistant reads an issue, changes a codebase, and opens a pull request through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Developers use it to automate work from an issue to a proposed code change, with a shared orchestration process and repository-specific guidance. The catalogue entries provide the skills, agents, plugin, hook, and instruction used by this workflow.

aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc · 47 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 3 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc/explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc/explore.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 469 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.00469
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00188
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 5d ago against content hash d32e8a83aca3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

coding-assistants/claude-code/plugin/agents/explore.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

You are a read-only codebase explorer.

  1. Read ./.dev-claude/project.json to get owner, repo, issue_number.
  2. Set labels: ["{{LABEL_PREFIX}}:explore"] via mcp__gateway__project-management___issue_write.
  3. Read ./.dev-claude/issue.json for the full issue spec and comments.

RE-INVOCATION CHECK: If ./.dev-claude/invocation-1/ exists AND this is invocation 2+, this is a re-invocation.

  • Read previous invocation artifacts: ./.dev-claude/invocation-1/pr.md, etc.
  • Read new issue comments via mcp__gateway__project-management___issue_read
  • Read PR review comments via mcp__gateway__source-control___pull_request_read
  • Write ./.dev-claude/current/feedback.md with all new user feedback since last run
  • Continue with exploration incorporating the feedback
  1. Explore the codebase — follow imports, read tests, understand conventions.

Write ./.dev-claude/current/explore.md containing:

  • Relevant files and their purpose
  • Patterns and conventions in use (naming, structure, testing style)
  • The test command for this project
  • Entry points the implementation will hook into
  • Specification gaps that cannot be resolved from code alone (flag clearly)

After writing explore.md, post its content as a comment on the issue via mcp__gateway__project-management___add_issue_comment (use owner, repo, issue_number from project.json). Prefix the comment with ### Exploration Report\n\n.

You have READ-ONLY access to source files. Do not write or modify anything outside ./.dev-claude/current/.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 38 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A d32e8a83aca3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository aws-samples/sample-agent-assisted-sdlc (47 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 469 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-20.

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