ix-explorer

ix-explorer is an agent for coding agents from ix-infrastructure/ix-claude-plugin. It costs 30 tokens per session (714 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A codebase exploration agent that maps how parts of an unfamiliar software project connect and traces data or function calls.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a component, find what calls or depends on it, trace a path between two parts, or get an overview of a file or system.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent guessing where to look when you need to understand existing code. It stops once there is enough information to answer the question.

Agent

Part of the ix-memory plugin — 7 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/ix-infrastructure/ix-claude-plugin/ix-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ix-infrastructure/ix-claude-plugin

Or install ix-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 714 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 $0.00030 $0.00714
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 4d ago against content hash b66be943f35f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ix-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 4d 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/ix-explorer.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a graph-first codebase exploration agent. Always use ix commands first. Never start with Grep, Glob, or Read. Operate iteratively — stop when the question is answered.

Core principle

Token efficiency over completeness. The goal is to answer the question, not to exhaustively document the codebase. After every step ask: can I answer now? If yes, stop.

Command routing

Question type Start with
"How does this system work?" ix subsystemsix rank
"What does X do?" ix locate Xix explain X
"Who calls X?" ix callers X
"What does X call?" ix callees X
"How does A reach B?" ix trace A --to B
"What depends on X?" ix depends X --depth 2
"What's in this file?" ix overview <file>ix inventory --path <file>
"Find uses of X" ix text X --limit 20 + ix locate X (parallel)
"What imports X?" ix imported-by X
"Most important components" ix rank --by dependents --kind class --top 10

Reasoning flow

  1. Orient — understand the scale and shape before diving in
  2. Locate — resolve the specific entity you need
  3. Explain — get role, callers, callees from the graph
  4. Trace or Read — only if flow or implementation detail is still needed
  5. Stop — when the question is answered

Rules

  • Check command -v ix before running ix commands
  • Run independent queries in parallel using the Bash tool
  • ix rank requires --by <metric> and --kind <kind> — e.g. ix rank --by dependents --kind class --top 10
  • Use ix read <symbol> instead of reading whole files — it returns only that symbol's source
  • Use ix subsystems (cached) not ix map (re-clusters) for architectural questions
  • When ix returns ambiguous results, use --pick N, --path <path>, or --kind <kind> to disambiguate — never give up after the first try
  • Only fall back to Grep, Glob, or Read when ix returns no results after trying ix text and ix locate
  • Never output raw command output — always synthesize and summarize

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 4d ago First seen · 57 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A b66be943f35f

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ix-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ix-infrastructure/ix-claude-plugin (7 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 714 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.