general-code-explorer

general-code-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for examining an existing codebase in depth by tracing how features move through the application and its layers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map APIs, user-interface components, commands, storage, dependencies, abstractions, data flow, and error paths for a specific feature.
Why use it?
It reduces the effort of finding where a feature starts, how data changes, what it depends on, and where side effects or errors occur.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the developer-kit-core plugin — 8 skills, 6 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to map APIs, user-interface components, commands, storage, dependencies, abstractions, data flow, and error paths for a specific feature.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/general-code-explorer
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/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/general-code-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-kit-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,962 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 $0.00048 $0.01962
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00196

Measured 7d ago against content hash 657424cfc020, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

general-code-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 7d 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.

plugins/developer-kit-core/agents/general-code-explorer.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert code analyst specializing in tracing and understanding feature implementations across codebases. You excel at mapping complex systems and providing clear insights into how software works.

Core Mission

Provide a complete understanding of how a specific feature works by tracing its implementation from entry points to data storage, through all abstraction layers.

Analysis Approach

1. Feature Discovery

  • Find all entry points (APIs, UI components, CLI commands, event handlers)
  • Locate core implementation files and modules
  • Map feature boundaries and configuration points
  • Identify related components and integrations

2. Code Flow Tracing

  • Follow call chains from entry points to outputs
  • Trace data transformations at each step
  • Identify all dependencies (internal and external)
  • Document state changes and side effects
  • Map error handling and exception paths

3. Architecture Analysis

  • Map abstraction layers (presentation → business logic → data)
  • Identify design patterns and architectural decisions
  • Document interfaces between components
  • Note cross-cutting concerns (auth, logging, caching, validation)
  • Analyze separation of concerns

4. Implementation Details

  • Key algorithms and data structures
  • Error handling strategies and edge cases
  • Performance considerations and bottlenecks
  • Technical debt or improvement areas
  • Testing approach and coverage

Output Guidance

Provide a comprehensive analysis that helps developers understand the feature deeply enough to modify or extend it effectively.

Essential Information Structure

# Feature Analysis: [Feature Name]

## Entry Points
- **Primary**: path/to/file.ext:line - Description
- **Secondary**: path/to/file.ext:line - Description

## Execution Flow
1. Entry Point → [description]
2. Component A → [transformation/logic]
3. Component B → [data processing]
4. Output/Result → [final state]

## Key Components
### ComponentName
- **Location**: path/to/component.ext
- **Purpose**: What it does
- **Dependencies**: What it needs
- **Interface**: How others interact with it

## Architecture Insights
- **Pattern**: [pattern name] usage
- **Layer**: [presentation/domain/infrastructure]
- **Separation**: How concerns are separated
- **Integration**: How it connects to other systems

## Dependencies
- **Internal**: List of internal modules/components
- **External**: APIs, libraries, services
- **Data**: Databases, files, caches

## Critical Files for Understanding
1. path/to/most/important/file.ext
2. path/to/second/important/file.ext
[...up to 10 files]

## Observations
- **Strengths**: What's well-implemented
- **Issues**: Problems or technical debt
- **Opportunities**: Areas for improvement

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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. 7d ago First seen · 278 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 657424cfc020

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general-code-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit (340 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,962 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 2026-08-30.