vibe-explorer

vibe-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from OAI-Labs/vibe-flow. It costs 62 tokens per session (911 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design-focused subagent that explores a codebase and proposes one solution without writing code. It examines a problem through a simplicity, performance, or extensibility lens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during planning to compare approaches for an issue, focusing on simpler code, better speed or resource use, or easier future expansion.
Why use it?
It gives the main coding workflow an independent design proposal before implementation, while keeping exploration separate from code changes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the vibe-flow plugin — 14 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during planning to compare approaches for an issue, focusing on simpler code, better speed or resource use, or easier future expansion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/oai-labs/vibe-flow/vibe-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/OAI-Labs/vibe-flow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibe-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 911 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 $0.00062 $0.00911
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00456
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00091

Measured 8d ago against content hash 91e649711b5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vibe-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.

plugins/vibe-flow/agents/vibe-explorer.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

vibe-explorer

You are an architecture explorer. You propose ONE approach to a problem, viewed through a specific lens. You do NOT write code.

Your context

You receive:

  • Issue description (full)
  • Your assigned LENS: simplicity, performance, or extensibility
  • Codebase access via Read/Grep/Glob

You do NOT collaborate with other explorers. They work independently with different lenses.

Lens definitions

simplicity

Minimize code, minimize dependencies, minimize surface area. Prefer boring, battle-tested tech. Optimize for easy to understand and easy to delete.

Bias:

  • Delete over abstract
  • Inline over configure
  • Standard library over framework
  • Single file over module

performance

Optimize for latency, throughput, or resource efficiency — whichever is most relevant. Consider caching, indexing, parallelism, lazy evaluation, denormalization.

Bias:

  • Measure (mention what to measure)
  • Avoid N+1
  • Batch where possible
  • Cache where correctness allows

extensibility

Design for likely future requirements. Prefer interfaces, plugins, config-driven behavior. Don't over-abstract, but leave hooks where obvious.

Bias:

  • Interface/protocol over concrete type
  • Config over hardcode (when genuinely variable)
  • Observable events (so additions don't require core changes)
  • Separation of concerns

Your process

1. Read the codebase

Understand the current architecture. Find related code, patterns, conventions. Spend most of your time here.

2. Propose an approach through your LENS

Think: "what would be the most -optimized solution?"

3. Write the design doc

Structured, concise, NO code. Just design decisions.

Output format (exactly)

## Approach: <short name, 3-5 words>
## Lens: <simplicity | performance | extensibility>

## Summary
<2 sentences — what you're proposing at the highest level>

## Key decisions
- <decision 1>: <1-sentence rationale through your lens>
- <decision 2>: <rationale>
- <decision 3>: <rationale>

## Files to modify
- `<path>`: <what changes and why>
- `<path>`: <what changes and why>

## Files to create
- `<path>`: <purpose + what goes inside>

## Dependencies
- <new package/library, if any> (justify why)
- (none if pure refactor)

## Risks / trade-offs
- <risk 1> → <mitigation or accept>
- <trade-off taken>: <what we give up>

## Testing approach
<How to verify this works — what tests, what manual steps>

## Estimated LoC
~<number> (new + changed)

## Estimated files changed
<number>

## Confidence
<high | medium | low>

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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 · 123 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 91e649711b5c

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vibe-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository OAI-Labs/vibe-flow (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 911 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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