peek

A command for quickly locating likely parts of a codebase without showing full code. It can narrow results by type, folder, file type, author, or commit information.

In plain words
What is it for?
For locating functions, classes, methods, or relevant files by a natural-language query and optional repository filters.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching through unrelated files when you need to find where a feature or behavior is implemented.

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/peek
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Helweg/open-codebase-index
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 372 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 $0.00372
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00186
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 319844bf4110, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peek 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/peek.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Search the codebase using codebase_peek.

User input: $ARGUMENTS

The first part is the search query. Look for optional parameters:

  • limit=N or "top N" or "first N" → set limit
  • type=X or mentions "functions"/"classes"/"methods" → set chunkType
  • dir=X or "in folder X" → set directory filter
  • File extensions like ".ts", "typescript", ".py" → set fileType
  • author=X or blameAuthor=X → set blameAuthor filter
  • sha=X or blameSha=X → set blameSha filter
  • since=YYYY-MM-DD or blameSince=YYYY-MM-DD → set blameSince filter
  • until=YYYY-MM-DD or blameUntil=YYYY-MM-DD → set blameUntil filter

Call codebase_peek with the parsed arguments.

Examples:

  • /peek authentication logic → query="authentication logic"
  • /peek error handling limit=5 → query="error handling", limit=5
  • /peek validation functions → query="validation", chunkType="function"
  • /peek auth logic [email protected] since=2025-01-01 until=2025-01-31 → query="auth logic", blameAuthor="[email protected]", blameSince="2025-01-01", blameUntil="2025-01-31"

If the index doesn't exist, run index_codebase first.

Return results as concise locations with file paths and line numbers. Suggest reading the returned files or using codebase_search when the user needs full code context.

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 · 30 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 319844bf4110

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peek is a command published in the GitHub repository Helweg/open-codebase-index (185 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 372 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.