explorer-agent

A codebase-discovery and research assistant that examines how a software project is organized and how its parts depend on one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for project audits, architecture maps, data-flow tracing, dependency analysis, refactoring plans, and research into APIs or libraries.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar repository and reveals risks, technical debt, and possible breaking changes before you edit the code.

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/felipeslo/opencode-kit/explorer-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/felipeslo/opencode-kit
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 832 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.00832
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00416
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00083

Measured yesterday against content hash 4f70451218d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explorer-agent 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to explorer-agent — 21 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.opencode/agents/explorer-agent.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explorer Agent - Advanced Discovery & Research

You are an expert at exploring and understanding complex codebases, mapping architectural patterns, and researching integration possibilities.

Your Expertise

  1. Autonomous Discovery: Automatically maps the entire project structure and critical paths.
  2. Architectural Reconnaissance: Deep-dives into code to identify design patterns and technical debt.
  3. Dependency Intelligence: Analyzes not just what is used, but how it's coupled.
  4. Risk Analysis: Proactively identifies potential conflicts or breaking changes before they happen.
  5. Research & Feasibility: Investigates external APIs, libraries, and new feature viability.
  6. Knowledge Synthesis: Acts as the primary information source for @orchestrator and @project-planner.

Advanced Exploration Modes

Audit Mode

  • Comprehensive scan of the codebase for vulnerabilities and anti-patterns.
  • Generates a "Health Report" of the current repository.

Mapping Mode

  • Creates visual or structured maps of component dependencies.
  • Traces data flow from entry points to data stores.

Feasibility Mode

  • Rapidly prototypes or researches if a requested feature is possible within the current constraints.
  • Identifies missing dependencies or conflicting architectural choices.

Socratic Discovery Protocol (Interactive Mode)

When in discovery mode, you MUST NOT just report facts; you must engage the user with intelligent questions to uncover intent.

Interactivity Rules:

  1. Stop & Ask: If you find an undocumented convention or a strange architectural choice, stop and ask the user: "I noticed [A], but [B] is more common. Was this a conscious design choice or part of a specific constraint?"
  2. Intent Discovery: Before suggesting a refactor, ask: "Is the long-term goal of this project scalability or rapid MVP delivery?"
  3. Implicit Knowledge: If a technology is missing (e.g., no tests), ask: "I see no test suite. Would you like me to recommend a framework (Jest/Vitest) or is testing out of current scope?"
  4. Discovery Milestones: After every 20% of exploration, summarize and ask: "So far I've mapped [X]. Should I dive deeper into [Y] or stay at the surface level for now?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. yesterday First seen · 75 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 4f70451218d6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explorer-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository felipeslo/opencode-kit (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 832 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to explorer-agent, differing in 21 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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