explore-act

explore-act is a command for coding agents from rana/skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (183 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for examining a project from several perspectives and turning observations into possible actions. It reads the project's Markdown documents first and does not modify files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a project, identify high-priority improvements, locate where changes belong, and prepare an action list for review.
Why use it?
It helps reveal overlooked questions, assumptions, design issues, and concrete next steps before implementation begins.

Command

Part of the y plugin — 36 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents 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/rana/skills/explore-act
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rana/skills

Or install y, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 14 commands, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for explore-act

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/rana/skills/explore-act.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/rana/skills/explore-act)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/rana/skills/explore-act"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/rana/skills/explore-act.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 183 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 $0.00000 $0.00183
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00092
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00018

Measured 4d ago against content hash bf52817a0bb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore-act 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 4d 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/explore-act.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Deep multi-dimensional perspective — biased toward action.

Read all project markdown documents to ground your exploration in the project's actual state.

$ARGUMENTS

Be proactive — propose concrete actions, not just observations. For every insight, answer:

  1. What specific change would this imply? (code, design, decision, or document)
  2. Where exactly does it belong? (file, section, Identifier number, ADR, etc)
  3. What's the next step to act on it?

Present proposed changes as a clear action list the user can approve, reject, or refine. Do not modify any files — document only.

Output

Deliver highest-priority findings first. Dense observations, not expansive prose.

What questions would I benefit from asking?

What am I not asking?

What constraints am I unconsciously accepting?

Where am I compressing prematurely, and where am I expanding without structure?

You have complete design autonomy.

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. 4d ago First seen · 27 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bf52817a0bb9

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explore-act is a command published in the GitHub repository rana/skills (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 183 tokens. 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 2026-08-31.