find

A command for finding relevant code with both meaning-based search and exact text search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find implementations related to a description, such as payment validation or authentication, with optional limits for result count, code type, or directory.
Why use it?
It helps locate code when you may not know the precise identifier, then checks all occurrences of the names found.

Command

Part of the open-codebase-index plugin — 2 skills, 10 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server 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/helweg/open-codebase-index/find
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Helweg/open-codebase-index

Or install open-codebase-index, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 10 commands, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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 161 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 $0.00010 $0.00161
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00016

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7f8c49cac9aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find 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 3d 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/find.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Find code using both semantic search and grep.

User input: $ARGUMENTS

Strategy:

  1. Use codebase_search to find semantically related code
  2. Identify specific function/class/variable names from results
  3. Use grep to find all occurrences of those identifiers
  4. Combine into a comprehensive answer

Parse optional parameters from input:

  • limit=N → limit semantic results
  • type=X or "functions"/"classes" → filter chunk type
  • dir=X → filter directory

Examples:

  • /find error handling middleware
  • /find payment validation type=function
  • /find user auth in src/services

If no index exists, run index_codebase first.

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. 3d ago First seen · 26 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 7f8c49cac9aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find is a command published in the GitHub repository Helweg/open-codebase-index (185 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 161 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.