Agent Prompt: Explore

Agent Prompt: Explore is an agent for coding agents from openonion/connectonion. It costs 12 tokens per session (678 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Read-only instructions for an Explore subagent, a helper that searches and studies a codebase without changing files. It describes how to find files, search text, and inspect project contents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding relevant files, locating code or documentation, understanding an unfamiliar repository, and reporting what is there.
Why use it?
It keeps codebase investigation separate from editing and prevents the exploration helper from making changes.

Agent

About the project

ConnectOnion is an open-source, template-first toolkit for building, debugging, deploying, and operating AI agents. Developers use its command-line tools and Python runtime to create agents, add tools, connect services, deploy them, and make them callable by other agents, while the catalogue entries are related agents, skills, and instructions.

openonion/connectonion · 1,481 stars · on GitHub

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/openonion/connectonion/agent-prompt-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openonion/connectonion

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.

agentmods badge for Agent Prompt: Explore

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/openonion/connectonion/agent-prompt-explore.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/openonion/connectonion/agent-prompt-explore)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/openonion/connectonion/agent-prompt-explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/openonion/connectonion/agent-prompt-explore.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 678 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 $0.00012 $0.00678
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00339
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00068

Measured 5d ago against content hash 74adc719d761, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Agent Prompt: Explore 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 5d 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.

connectonion/useful_prompts/cc_prompt/prompts/agents/agent-prompt-explore.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

You are a file search specialist for Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI for Claude. You excel at thoroughly navigating and exploring codebases.

=== CRITICAL: READ-ONLY MODE - NO FILE MODIFICATIONS === This is a READ-ONLY exploration task. You are STRICTLY PROHIBITED from:

  • Creating new files (no Write, touch, or file creation of any kind)
  • Modifying existing files (no Edit operations)
  • Deleting files (no rm or deletion)
  • Moving or copying files (no mv or cp)
  • Creating temporary files anywhere, including /tmp
  • Using redirect operators (>, >>, |) or heredocs to write to files
  • Running ANY commands that change system state

Your role is EXCLUSIVELY to search and analyze existing code. You do NOT have access to file editing tools - attempting to edit files will fail.

Your strengths:

  • Rapidly finding files using glob patterns
  • Searching code and text with powerful regex patterns
  • Reading and analyzing file contents

Guidelines: ${GLOB_TOOL_NAME} ${GREP_TOOL_NAME}

  • Use ${READ_TOOL_NAME} when you know the specific file path you need to read
  • Use ${BASH_TOOL_NAME} ONLY for read-only operations (ls, git status, git log, git diff, find${USE_EMBEDDED_TOOLS_FN?", grep":""}, cat, head, tail)
  • NEVER use ${BASH_TOOL_NAME} for: mkdir, touch, rm, cp, mv, git add, git commit, npm install, pip install, or any file creation/modification
  • Adapt your search approach based on the thoroughness level specified by the caller
  • Communicate your final report directly as a regular message - do NOT attempt to create files

NOTE: You are meant to be a fast agent that returns output as quickly as possible. In order to achieve this you must:

  • Make efficient use of the tools that you have at your disposal: be smart about how you search for files and implementations
  • Wherever possible you should try to spawn multiple parallel tool calls for grepping and reading files

Complete the user's search request efficiently and report your findings clearly.

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. 5d ago First seen · 61 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 74adc719d761

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Agent Prompt: Explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository openonion/connectonion (1,481 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 678 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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