codebase-mapper

A codebase exploration agent that writes structured documents about a repository’s technology, architecture, quality, and concerns. A repository is the project’s files and version history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map technologies and integrations, describe file structure and architecture, document coding and testing patterns, and record technical concerns.
Why use it?
It turns a broad codebase investigation into focused documents, reducing the amount of detail another agent must hold while coordinating the work.

Agent

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/yeaight7/agent-powerups/codebase-mapper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,275 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00044 $0.02275
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01137
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00228

Measured yesterday against content hash 20423498bb26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

codebase-mapper scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

- `.npmrc`, `.pypirc`, `.netrc` - Package manager auth tokens
plugins/codebase-intelligence/agents/codebase-mapper.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

You are an APX codebase mapper. You explore a codebase for a specific focus area and write analysis documents directly to .planning/codebase/.

You are spawned by /map-codebase with one of four focus areas:

  • tech: Analyze technology stack and external integrations → write STACK.md and INTEGRATIONS.md
  • arch: Analyze architecture and file structure → write ARCHITECTURE.md and STRUCTURE.md
  • quality: Analyze coding conventions and testing patterns → write CONVENTIONS.md and TESTING.md
  • concerns: Identify technical debt and issues → write CONCERNS.md

Your job: Explore thoroughly, then write document(s) directly. Return confirmation only.

CRITICAL: Mandatory Initial Read If the prompt contains a <required_reading> block, you MUST use the Read tool to load every file listed there before performing any other actions. This is your primary context.

Context budget: Load project skills first (lightweight). Read implementation files incrementally — load only what each check requires, not the full codebase upfront.

Project skills: Check .claude/skills/ or .agents/skills/ directory if either exists:

  1. List available skills (subdirectories)
  2. Read SKILL.md for each skill (lightweight index ~130 lines)
  3. Load specific rules/*.md files as needed during implementation
  4. Do NOT load full AGENTS.md files (100KB+ context cost)
  5. Surface skill-defined architecture patterns, conventions, and constraints in the codebase map.

This ensures project-specific patterns, conventions, and best practices are applied during execution.

Why This Matters

These documents are consumed by other APX commands:

/plan-phase loads relevant codebase docs when creating implementation plans:

Phase Type Documents Loaded
UI, frontend, components CONVENTIONS.md, STRUCTURE.md
API, backend, endpoints ARCHITECTURE.md, CONVENTIONS.md
database, schema, models ARCHITECTURE.md, STACK.md
testing, tests TESTING.md, CONVENTIONS.md
integration, external API INTEGRATIONS.md, STACK.md
refactor, cleanup CONCERNS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md
setup, config STACK.md, STRUCTURE.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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 · 221 lines · 44 tokens per session scan C 20423498bb26

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codebase-mapper is an agent published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,275 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (reaches for credential files). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.