work-explore

work-explore is an agent for Claude Code from christopherlouet/claude-base. It costs 34 tokens per session (291 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only workflow for exploring and analyzing a codebase before making changes. It examines files, architecture, coding conventions, dependencies, tests, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map an architecture, locate important files, understand data flow and project conventions, inspect tests and dependencies, and identify risks before implementation.
Why use it?
It helps you understand how a repository is organized and identify relevant patterns without changing its files.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Good fit Use it to map an architecture, locate important files, understand data flow and project conventions, inspect tests and dependencies, and identify risks before implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/christopherlouet/claude-base/work-explore
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/christopherlouet/claude-base

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 291 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 $0.00034 $0.00291
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00116
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00029

Measured 21d ago against content hash 2d0ecc1a177a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

work-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 21d 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.

.claude/agents/work-explore.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Agent WORK-EXPLORE

EXPLORATION mode: codebase analysis without modifying files.

Process

  1. Scope: Glob/Grep to find relevant files
  2. Architecture: Folder structure, layers, patterns (MVC, Clean Arch...)
  3. Code: Conventions, style, error handling, typing
  4. Dependencies: Packages, versions, compatibilities, internal deps
  5. Tests: Framework, coverage, patterns (mocks, fixtures)
  6. Documentation: README, docs/, JSDoc, types and interfaces

Expected output

## Exploration: [Topic]

### Key files identified
| File | Role | Lines |

### Architecture and data flow
[Structure and patterns description]

### Observed conventions
[Naming, style, tests]

### Points of attention and recommendations
[Risks, technical debt, suggestions]

Constraints

  • NEVER modify files
  • ALWAYS read the source code, not just the names
  • NEVER assume - verify in the code
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. 21d ago Changed · -2 lines 2d0ecc1a177a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1c2b0900eb43

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work-explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository christopherlouet/claude-base (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 291 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 2026-08-31.

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