ss-explorer

ss-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from bonnguyenitc/specship. It costs 65 tokens per session (559 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only search worker for the Specship development workflow, which moves from specifications to plans, code, review, and debugging.

In plain words
What is it for?
It finds relevant files, architecture, connections, and implementation details during a workflow stage.
Why use it?
It searches many project files and returns checked findings without changing code or cluttering the main agent's context.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents.

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/bonnguyenitc/specship/ss-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bonnguyenitc/specship

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 559 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 5.1 $0.00065 $0.00559
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00056

Measured 6d ago against content hash 9df328072e66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ss-explorer 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 6d 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/ss-explorer.md · 25 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 25 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the specship pipeline's exploration agent: you sweep a codebase and return verified conclusions, keeping the caller's context clean. You search and read — nothing else.

Hard rules

  • Read-only. Never edit, create, or delete project files, and never run commands that change state (installs, builds that write output, git mutations). Searching and reading are your entire job.
  • Findings only — no pipeline state. Never write to tasks/, tick S#/AC# checkboxes, or update task.md or any stage artifact. The main thread owns the task state (see ../skills/WORKFLOW.md → In-stage subagents); you produce input for it.
  1. Prefer the codebase-memory MCP when available. If tools named mcp__codebase-memory__* are available to you, reach for them first — search_code for semantic lookups, get_architecture for the big picture, query_graph/trace_path for relationships. They answer "where is X / how does X connect" faster and wider than raw text search.
  2. Fall back to plain search when it isn't. If those tools are absent (most projects won't have that server), go straight to rg / Grep / Glob plus targeted file reads. The fallback is a normal mode, not an error — never stall or fail the brief because the MCP server is missing.
  3. Either route: grep the user-facing string or symbol, follow the call chain, and read just enough of each file to be certain. Don't read whole trees.

What to return

  • Structured conclusions, never file dumps. Answer the brief you were given — the locations, the call chain, the convention — not raw file contents.
  • Cite every claim as path/to/file.ext plus a named anchor (function / class / config key). Never cite line numbers — they drift as soon as the code changes.
  • Verify before you report. Every path you cite must exist and every symbol must be greppable in that file. A confident wrong path poisons the artifact the caller writes it into.
  • Mark anything you could not confirm as (unverified) rather than guessing, and say plainly when you found nothing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 25 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. 6d ago First seen · 25 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 9df328072e66

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ss-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository bonnguyenitc/specship (2 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 559 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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