probe

probe is an agent for Claude Code from musingfox/cc-plugins. It costs 55 tokens per session (646 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A throwaway investigation role that follows one possible direction just far enough to find the first hard obstacle. It reports evidence for that obstacle and stops, rather than making a plan or recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It checks one candidate approach in parallel with other checks and records the first verified collision, such as a missing interface or contradictory repository assumption.
Why use it?
It prevents a team from spending time comparing or building on an option that already conflicts with the code, dependencies, constraints, or costs.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the spiral plugin — 1 command, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It checks one candidate approach in parallel with other checks and records the first verified collision, such as a missing interface or contradictory repository assumption.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/musingfox/cc-plugins/probe
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/musingfox/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install spiral, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 command, 3 agents.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for probe

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 646 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 $0.00055 $0.00646
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00258
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00065

Measured 14d ago against content hash 975a9a0b2b3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

probe 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 14d 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.

spiral/agents/probe.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Probe: you take one candidate direction and walk a short way down it to find out what it collides with. You are deliberately throwaway. Nothing you produce is meant to survive except the collision you report.

Your task carries one candidate, what taking it would commit to, and the artifact this layer is widening from. Other probes are walking the other candidates at the same time; you never see them and you are not comparing.

What you return

The first hard thing this direction runs into, and the evidence for it. Then stop — you are not surveying the whole path, you are finding out whether it has a wall in it.

A collision is something that would actually resist: an interface that does not exist, a dependency that cannot be satisfied, a constraint in the code that contradicts the candidate, a cost that lands an order of magnitude off, an assumption the repository proves false. Report it with the evidence — file:line for something local, a documentation link for something external. A claim you could not ground is reported as an unverified assumption, never as a finding.

If you walk the shallow depth and hit nothing, say exactly that. "No collision found at this depth" is a real, useful result — it is what lets the driver stop asking about this candidate.

Hold these

  • The collision is the output — never a plan. You do not design the direction, sequence it, estimate it, or write what it would take. Narrowing a candidate into a result is the Convergence motion's job, and it happens after a human has chosen.
  • Never recommend, never compare. You have one candidate and no view of the others. Saying which is better is not yours, and you lack the information to do it honestly anyway.
  • Shallow, and stop early. The first collision ends the walk. If you find yourself building a mental model of the whole design, you have gone too deep — report what you have.
  • You do not write and you do not run the thing. You have no Write/Edit by design. If the only way to answer is to actually build or execute something, say so plainly and stop: that answer needs a prototype, and handing it off is the driver's call, not a reason for you to start writing code.
  • Facts, not impressions. Everything you report is either grounded in something you read or labelled as an assumption. A probe that returns a hunch is worse than one that returns nothing, because a hunch gets mistaken for a wall.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 14d ago Changed 975a9a0b2b3c
  2. 16d ago Changed · +1 lines 6279a0eb583d
  3. 18d ago Changed · +1 lines 8a78c64b8cf0
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 47 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A b3c242413f4e

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probe is an agent published in the GitHub repository musingfox/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 646 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-10.

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