system-explorer

system-explorer is a skill for Claude Code from cyyeh/skills-playground. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided learning workflow for exploring a software system, from finding relevant systems and researching them to creating an interactive HTML course. It pauses for user choices between stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn a specific system, compare systems in a category, or investigate tools that meet a technical requirement.
Why use it?
It organizes an unfamiliar technical topic into a staged path instead of presenting disconnected research and explanations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the system-explorer plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn a specific system, compare systems in a category, or investigate tools that meet a technical requirement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyyeh/skills-playground/system-explorer
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 cyyeh/skills-playground --skill system-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyyeh/skills-playground

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install system-explorer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,748 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 $0.00130 $0.01748
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00175

Measured 9d ago against content hash 837c84fd092f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-explorer 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 9d 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/system-explorer/system-explorer/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

System Explorer

Single entry point that orchestrates three sub-skills into a complete learning pipeline: discover systems, analyze in depth, and generate an interactive course -- with user checkpoints between each phase.

First-Run Welcome

When triggered, greet the user and explain the pipeline:

I can help you explore and learn any software system -- from discovery to a full interactive course.

Here's how it works:

  1. Discover -- Find and compare systems that match what you're looking for
  2. Analyze -- Deep-dive research with layered depth (beginner to advanced)
  3. Generate -- Build an interactive multi-page HTML course you can browse

Just tell me what you want to explore:

  • A specific system -- "Explore Kafka"
  • A category -- "I want to understand message queues"
  • A requirement -- "Help me find a database for time-series data"

Flow

User query
    |
    v
+---------------------+
|  1. Clarify target   |  Ask questions if ambiguous
+----------+----------+
           v
+---------------------+
|  2. Ask output dir   |  User chooses where artifacts go
+----------+----------+
           v
+---------------------+
|  3. system-finder    |  Discover & compare systems
|     -> comparison    |  User picks system(s)
+----------+----------+
           v  Checkpoint
+---------------------+
|  4. system-analyzer  |  Deep-dive research
|     -> analysis files|  User reviews findings
+----------+----------+
           v  Checkpoint
+---------------------+
|  5. system-to-course |  Generate HTML site
|     -> [output-dir]  |  User reviews output
+----------+----------+
           v
     Done

Smart Shortcuts

Skip phases when they are not needed:

  • Specific system named ("explore Kafka") -- Skip finder and go directly to analyzer. Confirm with user: "You want to explore Apache Kafka. Shall I start the deep-dive analysis, or would you prefer to see alternatives first?"
  • Existing finder-report.md -- If [output-dir]/finder-report.md exists, offer to skip finder: "I found an existing finder report. Want to use it, or start fresh?"
  • Existing analysis -- If [output-dir]/analysis.json or [output-dir]/analysis.md exists, offer to skip to course generation: "There's already an analysis on file. Jump to course generation, or redo the analysis?"
  • Multiple systems -- If the user wants to compare multiple systems, run analyzer for each (potentially in parallel using the Agent tool), then generate a combined or separate course site per system.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 9d ago First seen · 154 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 837c84fd092f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

system-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyyeh/skills-playground (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,748 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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