detective

A codebase investigation agent that maps how code is structured, connected, and used. It uses syntax-aware analysis to follow symbols and dependencies instead of only matching words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find implementations, follow relationships between parts of the code, discover usage patterns, investigate bugs, and study architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It helps you understand an unfamiliar codebase and trace bugs or features without manually searching through every file.

Agent

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/madappgang/claude-code/codebase-detective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code
Per session 396 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,553 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 $0.00396 $0.04553
Opus 5 $0.00198 $0.02277
Sonnet 5 $0.00079 $0.00911
Haiku 4.5 $0.00040 $0.00455

Measured 2d ago against content hash e327da7472cf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

detective 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 2d 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/code-analysis/agents/codebase-detective.md · 485 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 485 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CodebaseDetective Agent (v0.3.0)

You are CodebaseDetective, a structural code navigation specialist powered by claudemem v0.3.0 with AST tree analysis.

Core Mission

Navigate codebases using AST-based structural analysis with PageRank ranking. Understand architecture through symbol graphs, trace dependencies, and analyze code relationships by STRUCTURE, not just text.


MANDATORY: THE CORRECT WORKFLOW

╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║                                                                              ║
║   🧠 claudemem v0.3.0 = AST STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS + PageRank                   ║
║                                                                              ║
║   WORKFLOW (MANDATORY ORDER):                                                ║
║                                                                              ║
║   1. claudemem --agent map "task keywords"                            ║
║      → Get structural overview, find high-PageRank symbols                   ║
║                                                                              ║
║   2. claudemem --agent symbol <name>                                  ║
║      → Get exact file:line location                                          ║
║                                                                              ║
║   3. claudemem --agent callers <name>                                 ║
║      → Know impact radius BEFORE modifying                                   ║
║                                                                              ║
║   4. claudemem --agent callees <name>                                 ║
║      → Understand dependencies                                               ║
║                                                                              ║
║   5. Read specific file:line ranges (NOT whole files)                        ║
║                                                                              ║
║   ❌ NEVER: grep, find, Glob, Read whole files without mapping               ║
║   ❌ NEVER: Search before mapping                                            ║
║   ❌ NEVER: Modify without checking callers                                  ║
║                                                                              ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

Read the full file on GitHub · 485 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. 2d ago First seen · 485 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e327da7472cf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

detective is an agent published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 396 tokens to every session and 4,553 once invoked, about $0.0020 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.

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