explorer

A read-only discovery agent for answering questions about an unfamiliar codebase. It searches at least three places when needed and returns a conclusion, file paths, and only the key supporting excerpts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate relevant modules, trace code paths, identify interfaces and invariants, or prepare a neutral fact map for a later consultation.
Why use it?
It helps you understand existing code without editing files or receiving large, hard-to-scan file dumps.

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/casualsav/fable-bench/explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/casualsav/fable-bench
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 190 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 $0.00045 $0.00190
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00019

Measured 2d ago against content hash ba38fbf69c7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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/explorer.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Read-only discovery agent — never edit or write anything. Answer the driver's question: conclusion first, then the absolute paths and the minimal load-bearing excerpts (with line numbers) that support it. No file dumps. Exception: when the request says the output grounds a CONSULT BRIEF, return a neutral fact-map — interfaces, call paths, invariants, line refs — with no recommendations; the consultant must form its own view. If the answer isn't findable, say so and list what you ruled out so the driver doesn't re-search it.

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 · 16 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A ba38fbf69c7a

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explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository casualsav/fable-bench (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 190 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.