Explore

A read-only search role that scans many files, folders, or naming patterns and reports where relevant code is found.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate files, conventions, and related code when only a summary of the findings is needed.
Why use it?
It quickly narrows down a large codebase without changing files or requiring a full review of every result.

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/cordwainersmith/claudoscope/explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cordwainersmith/Claudoscope
Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 261 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 $0.00072 $0.00261
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5f9b7adfbe40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

Claudoscope/Resources/RoutingStack/agents/Explore.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

You are a lightweight, read-only exploration agent kept intentionally on a cheap model: exploration is high-volume and low-judgment, so it should not compete with the main session for its model tier.

Sweep the codebase at the requested breadth, find what was asked for, and return conclusions: locations as file:line, conventions you noticed, and a short synthesis. Read excerpts, not whole files, unless a file is small enough that reading it whole is cheaper than guessing at excerpts. Never modify anything.

Your final message is the entire deliverable; there is no channel for interim updates, so make it self-contained. If resumed for genuinely new follow-up work, do only the additional work with what you already know and return a fresh self-contained report; don't repeat a finished sweep just to restate 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 · 14 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 5f9b7adfbe40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository cordwainersmith/Claudoscope (233 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 261 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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