index

A command for building a searchable index of the project’s source files and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before semantic code searches, optionally forcing a full rebuild, estimating the indexing work, or showing detailed indexing statistics.
Why use it?
It prepares the codebase for searches based on meaning, so later questions can find related code instead of relying only on exact text matches.

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/helweg/open-codebase-index/index
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Helweg/open-codebase-index
Per session 7 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 251 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 $0.00007 $0.00251
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.00125
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash c1b1582ed5ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

index 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.

commands/index.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Run the index_codebase tool with these settings:

User input: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the input and set tool arguments:

  • force=true if input contains "force"
  • estimateOnly=true if input contains "estimate"
  • verbose=false (default, for token efficiency)
  • verbose=true if input contains "verbose" (for detailed output)

Examples:

  • /index → force=false, estimateOnly=false, verbose=false
  • /index force → force=true, estimateOnly=false, verbose=false
  • /index estimate → force=false, estimateOnly=true, verbose=false
  • /index verbose → force=false, estimateOnly=false, verbose=true

IMPORTANT: You MUST pass the parsed arguments to index_codebase. Do not ignore them.

Show final statistics including files processed, chunks indexed, tokens used, and duration.

If indexing completes but the codebase still is not ready, tell the user to run /status next.

  • If /status reports failed embedding batches, fix the provider/auth issue and rerun /index normally.
  • Use /index force only for a full rebuild or when /status reports provider/model incompatibility.
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 · 28 lines · 7 tokens per session scan A c1b1582ed5ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

index is a command published in the GitHub repository Helweg/open-codebase-index (185 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 7 tokens to every session and 251 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.