A command for exploring a codebase or directory by listing files, finding relevant paths, reading important files, and summarising the structure.

It is for answering questions such as where files are located, what type of project a directory contains, and how its main parts fit together.

It turns the initial task of understanding an unfamiliar project into a guided inspection of its folders and contents.

explore — Command for Claude Code by ankitaa186

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/ankitaa186/host-terminal-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install host-terminal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 5 commands, 1 MCP server.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ankitaa186/host-terminal-mcp/explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ankitaa186/host-terminal-mcp/explore.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 624 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00010	$0.00624
Opus 5	$0.00005	$0.00312
Sonnet 5	$0.00002	$0.00125
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00062

Measured 7d ago against content hash 62e33b4b48c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 7d 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.

commands/explore.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Exploration

Explore and understand codebases, directory structures, and file contents.

Workflow

Identify target - directory path or search criteria
Gather structure - list files, directories, key patterns
Analyze contents - read important files (README, configs, entry points)
Summarize findings - present organized overview

Usage

/explore <path>
/explore <natural language query>

Exploration Commands Used

This command orchestrates multiple ~~terminal operations:

Operation	Command
Directory listing	`ls -la <path>`
Tree structure	`tree -L 3 <path>`
Find files	`find <path> -name "<pattern>"`
File contents	`cat <file>`
Search content	`grep -r "<pattern>" <path>`
File info	`file <path>`, `wc -l <file>`

Examples

Explore a project

/explore ~/projects/myapp

Returns: directory structure, key files, project type detection

Find specific files

/explore find all test files

Executes: find . -name "*test*.py" -o -name "*_test.go" -o -name "*.test.js"

Understand project structure

/explore what's the architecture of this codebase

Analyzes: README, package.json/pyproject.toml, src/ structure, entry points

Search for patterns

/explore where is authentication handled

Searches: grep -r "auth\|login\|session" --include="*.py"

Auto-Detection

The explore command automatically detects:

Project type: Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Java, etc.
Build system: npm, pip, cargo, maven, gradle
Framework: React, Django, FastAPI, Express, etc.
Key files: Entry points, configs, tests, docs

Output Format

📁 Project: myapp
📋 Type: Python (FastAPI)
📦 Dependencies: requirements.txt (23 packages)

Structure:
├── src/
│   ├── main.py (entry point)
│   ├── api/
│   ├── models/
│   └── utils/
├── tests/
├── docs/
└── config/

Key Files:
- README.md: Project documentation
- pyproject.toml: Build configuration
- src/main.py: FastAPI application entry

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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.

7d ago First seen · 99 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 62e33b4b48c1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is a command published in the GitHub repository ankitaa186/host-terminal-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 624 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 2026-09-01.

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