investigate

investigate is a skill for Claude Code from allemaar/open-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (900 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only fact-finding workflow for understanding a codebase before making changes. It examines files, dependencies, and usage patterns to identify how the requested area works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a project, find entry points and dependencies, search for usages, and identify which files or patterns relate to a question.
Why use it?
It gives you evidence about the relevant files and relationships before implementation decisions are made. The workflow does not modify code or create a refactoring plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the open-skills plugin — 70 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect a project, find entry points and dependencies, search for usages, and identify which files or patterns relate to a question.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate
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.

Any agent
npx skills add allemaar/open-skills --skill investigate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allemaar/open-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills.

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 investigate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for investigate

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/allemaar/open-skills/investigate.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 900 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00071 $0.00900
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00450
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash 395a003ea472, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigate 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 12d 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.

skills/investigate/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/investigate

Read-only fact-gathering — understand the codebase before acting.

Structured execution spec: protocol.yon. Read it for the canonical rules and step sequence; this file is explanation. The two must stay in sync — if you edit one, update the other and refresh the @STAMP date.

Caller Options. Before executing, run the Caller Options protocol (caller-options/SKILL.md): triage this invocation for material optionality across the venues and modes declared in front-matter; if one path clearly dominates, proceed silently; otherwise surface the options to the caller. A resolved-invocation marker means COP already ran — execute the fixed combination directly, do not re-enter COP.

Fact-Gathering Protocol. READ ONLY. No plans, no code, no refactors. Just facts.

Phase 1 — Context Loading

  1. Parse the query — identify target files, directories, or concepts from the user's request.
  2. List files — read the target directory structure.
  3. Read entrypoints — load package.json, README.md, index files, or whatever serves as the front door to the target area.

Phase 2 — Pattern Discovery

  1. Search for usages — grep for functions, components, or patterns relevant to the query. Follow call sites and import chains.
  2. Load relevant skills — check if a domain skill applies:
    • If your repository maintains its own standards skills (UI conventions, coding standards), load the matching one — this pack does not ship them.
    • Otherwise → any matching installed skill for additional context

Phase 3 — Reporting

Output a structured fact report:

  • Files Found — paths to all relevant files, not just descriptions
  • Patterns Used — architectural or implementation patterns in play
  • Dependencies — what this area depends on; what depends on it
  • Constraints Discovered — existing conventions, locked APIs, shared types — anything that would constrain a future implementation

Rules

  • MUST NOT create plans or write code — read only
  • MUST include file paths in the report, not just descriptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 74 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 395a003ea472

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investigate is a skill published in the GitHub repository allemaar/open-skills (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 900 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.