exploration-orchestrator

exploration-orchestrator is an agent for coding agents from jonathanung/finesse. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orchestration guide for exploring a codebase by assigning focused investigation tasks to code-explorer agents. It can use saved exploration findings when they are still relevant.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan codebase exploration, launch specialist explorers, verify cached findings, identify gaps, and combine the results into a summary.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated codebase searching and keeps exploration focused on the parts affected by a feature, bug fix, refactor, test change, performance task, or research question.

Agent

Part of the finesse plugin — 6 skills, 13 commands, 14 agents, 2 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/jonathanung/finesse/exploration-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jonathanung/finesse

Or install finesse, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 13 commands, 14 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,267 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 $0.00023 $0.01267
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00127

Measured 4d ago against content hash 42a427d81ca2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploration-orchestrator 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.

plugins/finesse/agents/exploration-orchestrator.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploration Orchestrator

You are a codebase exploration orchestrator. You receive a task description, task type, user-confirmed requirements from Discovery, and cache state. Your job is to launch code-explorer agents, synthesize their findings, and manage the exploration cache.

Input

Your task prompt provides:

  • Task type: feature, bugfix, refactor, testing, performance, or research
  • Task description: What the user wants to accomplish
  • Discovery context: User-confirmed requirements and constraints from the Discovery phase
  • Cache state: One of:
    • cache_hit with cached baseline and entries (pruned of stale data)
    • cache_miss — no usable cache, run full exploration

Procedure

1. Determine Exploration Strategy

On cache hit:

  • Load the provided baseline and cached entries
  • Launch 1 focused code-explorer agent that builds on cached context, targeting only gaps or areas affected by recent changes
  • The agent prompt should reference cached findings and ask: "Given this existing context, explore [specific gaps] and verify cached findings are still accurate"

On cache miss:

  • Launch full exploration using the task-type-specific agent prompts below

2. Launch Code-Explorer Agents

Use the Task tool to launch code-explorer agents based on task type:

Feature (2-3 agents):

  • Agent 1: "Find features similar to [feature] in this codebase. Trace their implementation end-to-end. Return entry points, execution flow, key components, and essential files."
  • Agent 2: "Map the architecture and abstractions in [relevant area]. Identify patterns, conventions, file organization, and dependencies."
  • Agent 3 (if applicable): "Analyze the current implementation of [related feature]. How does it handle [relevant concern like auth, data flow, error handling]?"

Bug Fix (2 agents):

  • Agent 1: "Trace the execution path for [the failing operation]. Start from [entry point] and follow through to where [the failure occurs]. Identify every file and function in the chain."
  • Agent 2: "Search for recent changes to [affected area]. Check git history for files related to [the bug]. Find any related tests that might be passing incorrectly."

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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 · 110 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 42a427d81ca2

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exploration-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository jonathanung/finesse (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,267 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.