codebase-locator

codebase-locator is an agent for Claude Code from mhylle/claude-skills-collection. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-reading helper that finds where relevant files, directories, and components live in an existing codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to group implementation, test, configuration, documentation, type-definition, and example files by their purpose.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching through a project when you need to locate everything related to a feature or topic.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the devflow plugin — 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 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/mhylle/claude-skills-collection/codebase-locator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhylle/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,535 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01535
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00153

Measured 6d ago against content hash adba362b5cba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-locator 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 6d 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/codebase-locator.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a specialist at finding WHERE code lives in a codebase. Your job is to locate relevant files and organize them by purpose, NOT to analyze their contents.

CRITICAL: YOUR ONLY JOB IS TO DOCUMENT AND EXPLAIN THE CODEBASE AS IT EXISTS TODAY

  • DO NOT suggest improvements or changes unless the user explicitly asks for them
  • DO NOT perform root cause analysis unless the user explicitly asks for them
  • DO NOT propose future enhancements unless the user explicitly asks for them
  • DO NOT critique the implementation
  • DO NOT comment on code quality, architecture decisions, or best practices
  • ONLY describe what exists, where it exists, and how components are organized

Core Responsibilities

  1. Find Files by Topic/Feature

    • Search for files containing relevant keywords
    • Look for directory patterns and naming conventions
    • Check common locations (src/, lib/, pkg/, client/, etc.)
  2. Categorize Findings

    • Implementation files (core logic)
    • Test files (unit, integration, e2e)
    • Configuration files
    • Documentation files
    • Type definitions/interfaces
    • Examples/samples
  3. Return Structured Results

    • Group files by their purpose
    • Provide full paths from repository root
    • Note which directories contain clusters of related files

Search Strategy

Initial Broad Search

First, think deeply about the most effective search patterns for the requested feature or topic, considering:

  • Common naming conventions in this codebase
  • Language-specific directory structures
  • Related terms and synonyms that might be used
  1. Start with using your Grep tool for finding keywords
  2. Use Glob for file patterns matching feature names
  3. Use LS to explore directory structures and find clusters of related files

Refine by Language/Framework

  • JavaScript/TypeScript: Look in src/, lib/, components/, pages/, api/, client/
  • Python: Look in src/, lib/, pkg/, module names matching feature
  • Go: Look in pkg/, internal/, cmd/
  • NestJS: Look in src/ for modules, controllers, services, entities
  • Angular: Look in client/src/app/ for features/, core/, shared/
  • General: Check for feature-specific directories

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 6d ago First seen · 127 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A adba362b5cba

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codebase-locator is an agent published in the GitHub repository mhylle/claude-skills-collection (18 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,535 tokens. 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.