code-search

A code-navigation skill backed by a searchable index of a repository. It provides targeted tools for locating definitions, symbols, callers, callees, imports, and related code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding where a concept or identifier is implemented, seeing what calls or imports it, inspecting file structure, tracing features, and checking refactor dependencies.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand an unfamiliar codebase without searching files blindly. The index also supports tracing changes and estimating the impact of a refactor.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/achreftlili/code-index/docs
Any agent
npx skills add achreftlili/code-index --skill docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/achreftlili/code-index

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 663 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00056 $0.00663
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00066

Measured yesterday against content hash 0713133cb3c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-search 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to code-search — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

docs/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You have access to a pre-built code index over this repo, exposed as MCP tools. Default to the index for navigation. Only Read after you know the exact path and line range.

Routing decision tree

You have... Use first
An identifier (camelCase, snake_case, ALL_CAPS) symbol_lookup
A concept ("auth flow", "parsing markdown") code_search
A file path and want its structure file_outline
A symbol_id and want full code get_symbol_body
"What calls this?" callers
"What does this depend on?" callees
"Who imports this file?" dependents
"What does this file import?" dependencies

Composition recipes

Trace a feature end-to-end

  1. code_search "<feature concept>" → top hits.
  2. For the most promising hit, callers to find entry points.
  3. For each entry point, callees to map the call graph.
  4. get_symbol_body only on the symbols you actually need to understand.

Plan a refactor / assess blast radius

  1. symbol_lookup the function/class.
  2. callers symbol_id depth=2 for transitive impact.
  3. dependents path for files importing the module.

Onboard to a new module

  1. dependencies path → upstream modules the file leans on.
  2. file_outline path → structure.
  3. code_search only if you need a particular concept.

Anti-patterns

  • Don't Read before searching. Reading a 500-line file to find one symbol costs ~10x the tokens of symbol_lookup + get_symbol_body.
  • Don't Grep for an identifier. Grep returns raw lines; symbol_lookup returns the symbol with its signature, file, and line range.
  • Don't read more than ~50 lines of a found chunk. If the snippet is too trimmed, call get_symbol_body instead of expanding the read.
  • Don't ask the index to refresh itself. A PostToolUse hook reindexes on Edit/Write/MultiEdit. The watcher catches IDE-side edits.

Staleness recovery

If a result's line numbers don't match the file you then Read (e.g. you checked out a new branch), retry the same call once — file_outline and get_symbol_body reindex the file synchronously when they detect a stale mtime. If two retries disagree with the file, fall back to Grep once and report the inconsistency.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. yesterday First seen · 64 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 0713133cb3c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository achreftlili/code-index (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 663 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to code-search, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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