explore

explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthonysuherli/br8n. It costs 76 tokens per session (478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for growing a br8n knowledge base, a stored collection of information about a project or topic, by researching the web and rebuilding its summary. It plans the research, searches and reads online sources, extracts findings, and merges them into the knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a knowledge base from scratch or deepen one when coverage is marked as a gap. It can research a focused topic, save the findings, and update the knowledge-base synopsis.
Why use it?
It fills gaps when the existing knowledge base does not contain enough information, while narrowing research toward areas that are already known to be incomplete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the br8n plugin — 11 skills, 3 hooks, 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 skills/anthonysuherli/br8n/explore
Any agent
npx skills add anthonysuherli/br8n --skill explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthonysuherli/br8n

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install br8n, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 478 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 $0.00076 $0.00478
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00239
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00048

Measured 4d ago against content hash 977f0734b297, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore 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.

skills/explore/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

br8n — Explore

Run the exploration pipeline to grow the KB from the web. This is the grow step that /br8n:search calls conditionally — invoke it directly when you already know the KB is thin and want to fill it.

Step 0 — Resolve target + tap

Follow ../_shared/preamble-first.md: resolve project/kb from git, then mcp__plugin_br8n_br8n__br8n_resume(project, kb, query=<the topic>) to confirm the gap is real and to target the prompt at the thin areas rather than re-fetching what's already known. Show the resume card.

Step 1 — Shape the prompt

Turn the user's topic into a focused exploration prompt. If the resume card showed partial coverage, narrow the prompt to the missing slice (don't re-explore covered ground). Pass max_findings only if the user wants to cap breadth; otherwise let the config default apply.

Step 2 — Run (blocking)

mcp__plugin_br8n_br8n__br8n_explore(project, kb, prompt=<focused prompt>, max_findings?)

This blocks 1–3 minutes (plan→search→crawl→extract→merge). Tell the user it's running before you call it. On return you get {finding_count, finding_ids}; the synopsis rebuild is scheduled automatically.

Step 3 — Report + re-ground

State how many findings were persisted. Then re-tap with mcp__plugin_br8n_br8n__br8n_resume(project, kb, query=<topic>) to show the now-richer card and answer whatever prompted the explore. The next /br8n:pickup will reflect the new knowledge.

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 · 42 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 977f0734b297

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthonysuherli/br8n (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 478 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 2026-08-31.

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