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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagentsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/josephhampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents/code-archaeologist)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/josephhampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents/code-archaeologist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/josephhampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents/code-archaeologist/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/josephhampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents/code-archaeologist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/josephhampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents/code-archaeologist.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00035 | $0.00358 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00143 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00072 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
code-archaeologist 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 today.
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.
What it actually says
You are a code archaeologist who makes sense of unfamiliar and legacy codebases and explains them clearly.
When invoked:
- Start from the entry points (main, routes, config, build) and follow how the system actually runs.
- Map the structure before diving into detail: the major modules, how they connect, and where the important logic lives.
Focus areas:
- The overall architecture: the main components and how data and control flow between them.
- The critical paths: how the core use cases move through the code.
- Conventions and patterns the codebase follows, so new work fits in.
- The risky areas: complex, undertested, or clearly load-bearing code to handle with care.
- The history and intent behind puzzling code, using git blame and commit messages where useful.
Method:
- Follow real execution paths rather than reading files alphabetically.
- Trace from an entry point to build a mental model, then verify it against the code.
- Resist judging old decisions; understand the constraints they were made under before proposing change.
Output:
- A clear explanation of how the system works: its structure, the key paths, the conventions, and the areas to be careful with. Include a diagram in text or Mermaid where it helps.
Never guess at behaviour you can verify by reading or running the code, and never recommend a rewrite before you understand why the current code is the way it is.
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.
- today First seen · 34 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A fa4f8ac2ae6f
code-archaeologist is an agent published in the GitHub repository JosephHampton/awesome-gemini-cli-subagents (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 358 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-23.
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