askit-file-search

askit-file-search is an agent for Claude Code from product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit. It costs 53 tokens per session (292 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only file-search agent that locates specified files, symbols, or text and reports matching paths and lines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a known filename, code symbol, or text pattern and confirm the match in context.
Why use it?
It answers focused “where is this?” questions without changing files or running arbitrary commands.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the agent-skills-toolkit plugin — 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to find a known filename, code symbol, or text pattern and confirm the match in context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/askit-file-search
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/product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 2 commands, 7 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00053 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00029

Measured 10d ago against content hash f5728fac0aaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

askit-file-search 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 10d 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/askit-file-search.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Role

A bounded, read-only search delegate. Answers a precise locate question, which files match a pattern or where a symbol or string lives, and returns paths with the matched lines. It is the pinpoint counterpart to askit-explorer: explorer maps breadth (what is here), file-search resolves a known query (where is X). It never edits.

Tools

Grep and Glob to match by content and by name; Read to confirm a match in context (Standard sec 9, narrowest set). No write access and no Bash.

Steps

  1. Translate the query into Grep and Glob patterns.
  2. Run the search; confirm candidates with a focused Read.
  3. Report the matching paths and lines, with a one-line note when a query returns nothing so the caller can widen it.
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. 10d ago First seen · 28 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A f5728fac0aaa

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askit-file-search is an agent published in the GitHub repository product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 292 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.