reindex

A command that completely rebuilds a project’s search index from the beginning. The index is the prepared data that lets semantic search find code by meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after major codebase changes or when search status reports indexing or provider problems. It can also show files processed, code sections indexed, token use, and duration.
Why use it?
It helps when the existing index is missing, outdated, or incompatible with the current search setup. Rebuilding makes the project ready for semantic searches again.

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/reindex
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 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 218 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 $0.00008 $0.00218
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00109
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00022

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2547cf66322e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reindex 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/reindex.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Run the index_codebase tool with force=true to rebuild the index from scratch.

User input: $ARGUMENTS

Parse the input and set tool arguments:

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

Examples:

  • /reindex → force=true, estimateOnly=false, verbose=false
  • /reindex verbose → force=true, estimateOnly=false, verbose=true

IMPORTANT: You MUST call index_codebase with force=true.

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.
  • If /status reports provider/model incompatibility again after a rebuild, surface that clearly as an unexpected issue.
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 · 8 tokens per session scan A 2547cf66322e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reindex is a command published in the GitHub repository Helweg/open-codebase-index (185 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 218 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.