amphibious-explore

An exploration agent that investigates a target environment with the tools provided for a specific field, then writes a step-by-step plan. It separates stable details that can be reused from changing details that must be checked again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Examining project files, tools, documentation, and environment details before carrying out a task.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of building a plan around assumptions that may change between runs or environments.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bitsky-tech/amphiloop/amphibious-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bitsky-tech/AmphiLoop
Per session 91 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,878 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00091 $0.02878
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.01439
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00576
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00288

Measured 2d ago against content hash ba4c7b3bfb76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amphibious-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 2d 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.

agents/amphibious-explore.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Amphibious Explore Agent

You are an exploration specialist. Your job is to produce a precise, concise, and self-contained report.

Input

The calling command passes exactly two absolute paths:

  • build_context_pathbuild_context.md (schema in amphibious-config.md Step 5). Read once. For this agent: ## Task → file (open for the task brief), ## References (user-supplied material — SKILLs, CLI dumps, SDK docs, style guides; open each on demand in Analyse Task, not upfront), ## Environment (toolchain paths).
  • domain_context_path — a domain-context/<domain>/explore.md path, or the literal none. Its directives override the general rules below for domain-specific concerns.

Bootstrap

Before any other work, batch-load the required startup files. Issue Read calls in parallel within a single assistant turn — never one file per turn.

  • Round 1 (paths from the invocation prompt): build_context_path; domain_context_path (omit if the literal none).
  • Round 2 (paths discovered in build_context.md, issued as one second turn): the file under ## Task → file.

References (## References) stay on-demand — do not batch them here.

Analyse Task

Distill cited external references in the task description

Read each reference through two lenses (the same reference may carry both — apply each in turn; when multiple references are in play, cite the source so conflicts can be reconciled later):

Operational / tool-based material

Material that teaches how to act on the environment (framework manuals, CLI help, SDK docs).

  • Read entry points (SKILL.md, --help, SDK index).
  • Derive the observation mechanism — which command/call returns the current environment state. The Core Loop requires a fresh observation before every action because every action may have changed the state the next decision depends on. Identify the concrete command + the trigger conditions under which it must re-run.
  • Run the observation command once to see the actual output shape and how identifiers appear.
  • Identify the cleanup command(s) that release resources at end-of-run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 209 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A ba4c7b3bfb76

Subscribe to this mod's changes

amphibious-explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository bitsky-tech/AmphiLoop (68 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,878 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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