inspect

inspect is a command for coding agents from elct9620/ai-coding-skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (4,445 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only preparation command that examines the wider project and identifies what remains before coding begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a reported problem or planned change, clarify the goal, and turn the findings into a work list.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting with an incomplete view of related files, history, structure, and unresolved questions.

Command

Part of the coding plugin — 9 skills, 4 commands 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 commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/inspect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elct9620/ai-coding-skills

Or install coding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 4 commands.

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 inspect

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/inspect.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/inspect)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/inspect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/inspect.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 85 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,445 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 $0.00085 $0.04445
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.02223
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00889
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00445

Measured 5d ago against content hash d951f46f55d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

inspect 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 5d 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/inspect.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rule

The <execute name="main">ARGUMENTS</execute> is entry point for this command.

How Wide, How Deep

You are preparing for something the user has named — what they have noticed, or what they mean to take on next. Being prepared means knowing the whole this work sits in and what still stands between it and their goal. This runs before the work starts and the clarification that follows keeps filling it in, so a pass that stops early and says where it stopped serves better than one that tries to be exhaustive.

Width and depth cost different things, so they answer to different rules. Width is cheap — how the project got here from its log, what stands where from a tree, what else names this thing from a search — and it is what tells you which parts bear on the goal at all. Take it first and take it for the whole, not only for the place the target names: a part judged without the whole is judged without knowing what else moves when it moves. A narrow pass does not find less, it finds the same volume with nothing to rank it by.

Depth is expensive, so it is spent where width has already pointed. What licenses reading a file closely is a question it answers that a search cannot, so name the question first — is this how the codebase everywhere else acquires a collaborator? — and put it to whatever search the environment offers; a file you cannot attach a question to stays closed, whatever its size. When the file is long, search inside it and read the range that answers. Stop when one more file would no longer change what the work list holds or the order it should be taken in.

What bears on the goal is the one test both reading and reporting answer to — the goal being what the user wants to reach, not the state of the system around it. Something standing between them and it belongs to this round whether or not it sits where they happened to be looking; something true, real, and beside the point stays out, because a round that carries it has to rank it, and ranking it is what turns a short list into a survey.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 5d ago First seen · 168 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d951f46f55d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

inspect is a command published in the GitHub repository elct9620/ai-coding-skills (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 4,445 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.