code-tour

code-tour is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating CodeTour files: step-by-step walkthroughs of a codebase that link to real files and line numbers in VS Code. These tours explain how a project or change works to a specific audience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create onboarding, architecture, contributor, pull-request, bug-investigation, and root-cause-analysis walkthroughs.
Why use it?
Written explanations can be hard to connect to the code they describe. Direct links and ordered steps give newcomers or reviewers a concrete path through the repository.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to create onboarding, architecture, contributor, pull-request, bug-investigation, and root-cause-analysis walkthroughs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour
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 bestagentkits/agency-skills --skill code-tour
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bestagentkits/agency-skills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour/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 code-tour

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/code-tour.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 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 $0.00073 $0.01625
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00813
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00162

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3e07dce9cc08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-tour 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 6d 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/claude-skills/code-tour/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Tour

Create CodeTour files — persona-targeted, step-by-step walkthroughs of a codebase that link directly to files and line numbers. CodeTour files live in .tours/ and work with the VS Code CodeTour extension.

Overview

A great tour is a narrative — a story told to a specific person about what matters, why it matters, and what to do next. Only create .tour JSON files. Never modify source code.

When to Use This Skill

  • User asks to create a code tour, onboarding tour, or architecture walkthrough
  • User says "tour for this PR", "explain how X works", "vibe check", "RCA tour"
  • User wants a contributor guide, security review, or bug investigation walkthrough
  • Any request for a structured walkthrough with file/line anchors

Core Workflow

1. Discover the repo

Before asking anything, explore the codebase:

In parallel: list root directory, read README, check config files. Then: identify language(s), framework(s), project purpose. Map folder structure 1-2 levels deep. Find entry points — every path in the tour must be real.

If the repo has fewer than 5 source files, create a quick-depth tour regardless of persona — there's not enough to warrant a deep one.

2. Infer the intent

One message should be enough. Infer persona, depth, and focus silently.

User says Persona Depth
"tour for this PR" pr-reviewer standard
"why did X break" / "RCA" rca-investigator standard
"onboarding" / "new joiner" new-joiner standard
"quick tour" / "vibe check" vibecoder quick
"architecture" architect deep
"security" / "auth review" security-reviewer standard
(no qualifier) new-joiner standard

When intent is ambiguous, default to new-joiner persona at standard depth — it's the most generally useful.

3. Read actual files

Every file path and line number must be verified. A tour pointing to the wrong line is worse than no tour.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 6d ago First seen · 141 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 3e07dce9cc08

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-tour is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,625 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 2026-09-03.

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