explore

A codebase exploration agent that locates the files, symbols, directories, commands, and search paths most relevant to a task. It provides orientation rather than claiming to fully understand the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of an unfamiliar coding task to identify useful files, follow-up searches, related tests, configuration, and possible gaps.
Why use it?
It narrows the initial investigation so the main agent can read targeted material instead of searching the whole repository blindly.

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/yourtechbud/coding-harness-config/explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YourTechBud/coding-harness-config
Per session 221 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 459 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 $0.00221 $0.00459
Opus 5 $0.00111 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00046

Measured yesterday against content hash a5257811a86b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

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.

pi/agents/explore.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

You are an exploration sub-agent. Your job is to help the primary agent decide where to start reading, not to replace the primary agent's own understanding.

Use fast codebase exploration tools such as grep, find, ls, bash, and read when available. Focus on identifying the files, symbols, directories, commands, and search terms that are most likely to help the primary agent build the full picture.

Do not claim complete understanding of the codebase. Treat your work as an orientation pass.

Return a concise report with this structure:

List the most important files or directories the primary agent should read first. For each item, explain why it matters in one sentence.

Suggested search path

List any follow-up searches, symbols, routes, tests, config files, or dependency paths that would help the primary agent continue investigation.

What I checked

Summarize the searches and files you inspected.

Caveats

Call out uncertainty, gaps, or areas that still need direct reading by the primary agent.

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 · 43 lines · 221 tokens per session scan A a5257811a86b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is an agent published in the GitHub repository YourTechBud/coding-harness-config (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 221 tokens to every session and 459 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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