codemap-creator

A command that creates or updates a hierarchical map of a codebase, showing files and their functions, classes, variables, and imports.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps map a directory or entire project, skip selected files, and update an existing map using Git changes, merge requests, or pull requests.
Why use it?
It gives developers a structured view of a project without manually tracing every file. Update mode can focus on changed files instead of rebuilding the whole map.

Command

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/gantisstorm/essentials-claude-code/codemap-creator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,536 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 $0.00019 $0.01536
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00154

Measured 2d ago against content hash 401320ecdb2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codemap-creator 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 2d 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.

essentials/commands/codemap-creator.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Map Creator

Generate or update a hierarchical code map using Claude Code's built-in LSP tools. Maps functions, classes, variables, and imports in a nested tree structure.

Modes

Create Mode (default)

Generate a new codemap from scratch:

/codemap-creator src/
/codemap-creator . --ignore "node_modules,dist"

Update Mode

Update an existing codemap with only changed files:

/codemap-creator --update .claude/maps/code-map-src-a3f9e.json --diff
/codemap-creator --update .claude/maps/code-map-src-a3f9e.json --mr 123
/codemap-creator --update .claude/maps/code-map-src-a3f9e.json --pr 456

Arguments

Create Mode

  • Root directory (required): Starting point for the tree

    • /codemap-creator src/ → maps from src/ as root
    • /codemap-creator backend/services → maps from services/ as root
    • /codemap-creator . → maps entire project as root
  • Ignore patterns (optional): Skip files/directories

    • /codemap-creator src/ --ignore "*.test.ts,node_modules"

Update Mode

  • --update (required): Path to existing codemap to update
  • --diff (optional): Use git diff to find changed files (uncommitted + staged)
  • --mr (optional): Use GitLab MR to find changed files (via glab)
  • --pr (optional): Use GitHub PR to find changed files (via gh)

If no diff source specified with --update, defaults to --diff.

Hierarchical Output

The codemap shows a nested tree structure from your chosen root:

root_dir/
├── subdir1/
│   ├── file1.ts
│   │   └── symbols: [class UserService, function getUser...]
│   └── nested/
│       └── file2.ts
│           └── symbols: [interface Config...]
├── subdir2/
│   └── file3.ts
│       └── symbols: [function helper...]
└── index.ts
    └── symbols: [export *, function main...]

Instructions

Step 1: Parse Input and Detect Mode

Parse $ARGUMENTS to determine mode:

Update Mode (if --update present):

  1. Extract codemap path after --update
  2. Detect diff source:
    • --diff → use git diff --name-only + git diff --staged --name-only
    • --mr <id> → use glab mr diff <id> --name-only
    • --pr <id> → use gh pr diff <id> --name-only
    • Default to --diff if no source specified
  3. Get list of changed files

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 2d ago First seen · 196 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 401320ecdb2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codemap-creator is a command published in the GitHub repository GantisStorm/essentials-claude-code (91 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Unlicense. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,536 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 2026-08-30.