nix-explorer

nix-explorer is an agent for coding agents from sammasak/claude-code-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (363 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A specialist for exploring NixOS configurations, Nix flakes, and Home Manager modules. NixOS is a Linux system managed through configuration files; flakes package and share Nix projects, while Home Manager manages user settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading Nix code, explaining module relationships and option definitions, and understanding how packages are built in Nix configurations.
Why use it?
It helps explain how unfamiliar Nix files connect without requiring the reader to trace every module and option manually. It can answer questions about settings, relationships, and package build definitions.

Agent

Part of the personal plugin — 25 skills, 7 agents shipped together

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/sammasak/claude-code-skills/nix-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sammasak/claude-code-skills

Or install personal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 7 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.

agentmods badge for nix-explorer

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/sammasak/claude-code-skills/nix-explorer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/sammasak/claude-code-skills/nix-explorer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 363 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00047 $0.00363
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6789c9ac11fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nix-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 4d 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/nix-explorer.md · 34 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago First seen · 34 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 6789c9ac11fb

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nix-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository sammasak/claude-code-skills (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 363 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.