parecode-explore

A read-only codebase exploration tool for answering where code is defined, how it works, and where a symbol is used. It delegates the exploration to a separate Parecode agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate components or functions, explain their behavior, and find every usage of a name.
Why use it?
It gives focused answers to navigation questions without making changes to the code. This is useful when a large codebase makes definitions and usages hard to trace.

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/basilskywalk/parecode/parecode-explore
Any agent
npx skills add BasilSkyWalk/parecode --skill parecode-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BasilSkyWalk/parecode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 161 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 $0.00034 $0.00161
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00032
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash 1ed22fbe68fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parecode-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 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.

plugins/claude-code/skills/parecode-explore/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

When the user asks you to explore the codebase, find where things are defined, look up usages of a symbol, or explain how a specific component works:

  1. Do not attempt to answer the question inline.
  2. Do not use ParecodeSearch or other grep tools directly in your current session.
  3. Instead, you must spawn the parecode-explore agent and delegate the entire exploration task to it.

Pass the user's full request to the parecode-explore agent. Wait for its response, and then present its findings to the user.

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 · 13 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1ed22fbe68fb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parecode-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository BasilSkyWalk/parecode (5 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 161 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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