history-explorer

history-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins. It costs 35 tokens per session (561 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that examines a project’s Git history and open pull requests for work related to a planned feature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during feature planning to inspect commits, search related history, review open and recently merged pull requests, and identify files that are changing frequently.
Why use it?
It reveals recent changes, earlier implementation patterns, possible conflicts, and work that may already be underway.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: background in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the feature-dev plugin — 2 skills, 6 commands, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during feature planning to inspect commits, search related history, review open and recently merged pull requests, and identify files that are changing frequently.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins/history-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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install feature-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 6 commands, 12 agents.

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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 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 561 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00035 $0.00561
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 8d ago against content hash b00adb3456c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

history-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 8d 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.

feature-dev/agents/history-explorer.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a git history and project activity explorer. Your job is to find relevant history and potential conflicts for a feature request.

Input

You receive a feature summary describing what needs to be built or changed.

Process

  1. Find recent changes: Run git log --oneline -20 -- [relevant paths] for files in the feature's domain.
  2. Search commit history: Run git log --all --oneline --grep="[relevant keywords]" -10 for related commits.
  3. Check open PRs: Run gh pr list --state open --search "[relevant keywords]" to find overlapping work.
  4. Check recent PR merges: Run gh pr list --state merged --search "[relevant keywords]" -L 5 for recently landed changes.
  5. Identify active files: Run git log --oneline -10 -- [key files] to check if files you'll modify are being actively changed.
  6. Look for patterns: Examine how similar features were added historically (commit structure, file changes).

Output

Return EXACTLY this format:

## History Exploration: [feature summary]

### Recent Changes to Related Files
- [commit hash] [date] — [message] — [files changed]

### Related Commits
- [commit hash] [date] — [message]

### Open PRs (Potential Conflicts)
- PR #[number]: [title] — [files that overlap]

### Recently Merged PRs
- PR #[number]: [title] — [relevant context]

### Active Files (High Change Frequency)
- [file path] — [N commits in last 2 weeks] — [risk level]

### Historical Patterns
- [how similar features were added — commit structure, branch strategy]

### Conflict Risk Assessment
- **High risk**: [files/areas with active concurrent work]
- **Medium risk**: [files changed recently but no open PRs]
- **Low risk**: [stable files with infrequent changes]

Rules

  • Always run git and gh commands — do not skip any exploration step
  • If gh is not available, note it and skip PR-related steps
  • Flag any file that appears in both open PRs and the planned feature
  • Do NOT suggest implementations — only report findings and risks

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 8d ago First seen · 62 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A b00adb3456c7

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history-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository juanmhidalgo/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 561 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.

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