gentle-sdd-explore

gentle-sdd-explore is a command for Claude Code from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai. It costs 14 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of sdd-explore, MIT.

A codebase investigation command that examines an idea or feature and compares possible implementation approaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate features, identify affected code, evaluate approaches, and recommend a direction.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork before development by showing which parts of the project may change and how different solutions compare.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps investigate features, identify affected code, evaluate approaches, and recommend a direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/gentle-sdd-explore
About the project

Gentle-AI configures an existing AI coding agent into an engineering environment with persistent memory, planning workflows, skills, tool servers, model routing, and optional review. Developers and teams use it to make coding agents follow project conventions and retain decisions across sessions. The catalogue entries are its skills, commands, agents, and instruction.

Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai · 6,328 stars · on GitHub · gentle-ai.gentlemanprogramming.com

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/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 368 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00014 $0.00368
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00184
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5de0d347ccaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gentle-sdd-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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to sdd-explore — 28 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

internal/assets/claude/commands/gentle-sdd-explore.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

If the native sdd-explore sub-agent is available, delegate this command to it. Otherwise, read the skill file at ~/.claude/skills/sdd-explore/SKILL.md FIRST, then follow its instructions exactly inline.

CONTEXT:

  • Working directory: Detect agent-side before proceeding by running git rev-parse --show-toplevel with the Bash tool; if that fails, run pwd with the Bash tool.
  • Current project: Derive agent-side from the detected working directory basename. Do not use slash-command shell interpolation for this value.
  • Topic to explore: $ARGUMENTS
  • Artifact store mode: engram

TASK: Explore the topic "$ARGUMENTS" in this codebase. Investigate the current state, identify affected areas, compare approaches, and provide a recommendation.

ENGRAM PERSISTENCE (artifact store mode: engram): Read project context (optional): mem_search(query: "sdd-init/{project}", project: "{project}") → if found, mem_get_observation(id) for full content Save exploration: mem_save(title: "sdd/$ARGUMENTS/explore", topic_key: "sdd/$ARGUMENTS/explore", type: "architecture", project: "{project}", capture_prompt: false, content: "{exploration}") Set capture_prompt: false when the Engram tool schema supports it; if an older schema rejects or does not expose the field, omit it rather than failing.

This is an exploration only — do NOT create any files or modify code. Just research and return your analysis.

Return a structured result with: status, executive_summary, detailed_report, artifacts, and next_recommended.

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 · 27 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 5de0d347ccaa

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gentle-sdd-explore is a command published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai (6,328 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 368 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to sdd-explore, differing in 28 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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