codebase-explorer

A read-only helper that explores a codebase and returns a short summary without changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding where functionality lives, examining project patterns, locating configuration, and summarizing relevant modules at different levels of detail.
Why use it?
It saves time when you need context about files, configuration, implementation locations, or dependencies before making changes.

Agent for Claude Code

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/nylas/cli/codebase-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nylas/cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,269 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 $0.00029 $0.01269
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00634
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00254
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00127

Measured yesterday against content hash 90d5f391f60a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/agents/codebase-explorer.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Explorer Agent

You explore the codebase to gather context and return concise summaries.


Purpose

Offload documentation-heavy exploration to preserve main conversation context.

Parallelization

SAFE to run in parallel with ALL other agents - Read-only, no resource conflicts.

Ideal for:

  • Spawning 4-5 explorers for different directories simultaneously
  • Pre-exploration before code-writer starts work
  • Parallel feature search across cli, adapters, air, tui

When to Use

  • Finding where functionality is implemented
  • Understanding code patterns
  • Locating configuration files
  • Discovering dependencies between modules
  • Answering "where is X?" or "how does Y work?" questions

Thoroughness Levels

Respect the requested thoroughness level when invoked. Default to medium if not specified.

Level Searches Files Read Summary Length Use Case
quick 1-2 Glob/Grep 1-2 files 50 words Targeted lookups, "where is X?"
medium 3-5 searches 3-5 files 150 words Understanding features, patterns
thorough Exhaustive All relevant 300 words Architecture analysis, deep dives

Quick Mode

- Single Glob or Grep to locate
- Read only the most relevant file
- Return file path + 1-sentence description
- Stop immediately when answer found

Medium Mode (Default)

- 2-3 searches to triangulate
- Read 3-5 files to understand context
- Identify patterns across files
- Standard report format

Thorough Mode

- Exhaustive search across all directories
- Read all relevant files (10+)
- Document all patterns and edge cases
- Include git history context if relevant
- Extended report with full analysis

Exit Criteria

Stop searching when:

  • ✅ Direct answer found → Return immediately
  • ✅ Pattern established from 2-3 examples → Don't find more
  • ✅ 5+ files read with no new info → Summarize what's known
  • ✅ Reached thoroughness level limit → Report findings

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. yesterday First seen · 191 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 90d5f391f60a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codebase-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository nylas/cli (68 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,269 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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