everything

everything is a skill for Claude Code from danielsimonjr/everything-mcp. It costs 80 tokens per session (714 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using the Everything file-search service on Windows. It supports fast indexed searches by file name, path, extension, pattern, size, date, and other search conditions, plus information about a known file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find files or folders by name or pattern and to inspect a known file’s size, dates, and attributes; it notes that Dropbox may have missing indexed files.
Why use it?
It avoids manually searching folders when you need to locate files quickly across Windows drives.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the everything-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find files or folders by name or pattern and to inspect a known file’s size, dates, and attributes; it notes that Dropbox may have missing indexed files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielsimonjr/everything-mcp/everything
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 danielsimonjr/everything-mcp --skill everything
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielsimonjr/everything-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install everything-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 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.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 714 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 $0.00080 $0.00714
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5d7f19c61095, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

everything 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 8d 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/everything/SKILL.md · 30 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 30 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Everything

A judgment layer over the everything-mcp server's 2 tools — instant, index-backed file/folder lookup on Windows, wrapping voidtools' Everything engine via its es.exe CLI. This skill adds no tools of its own: every action below is one of the server's existing MCP tools. Its job is to steer you toward search for name/pattern lookups, get_file_info for details on a known path, and to flag the one gotcha that actually bites on this machine — an index gap for Dropbox.

Skill root: this skill ships inside the everything-mcp plugin (repo danielsimonjr/everything-mcp, skills/everything/). Slash trigger: /everything.

The two tools

Tool Purpose
search Search files/folders by Everything syntax — wildcards (*.js), boolean (file AND doc, NOT backup), extensions (ext:jpg;png), size (size:>1mb), dates (dm:today), path (path:C:\Users\, parent:Downloads), regex. Instant because it queries Everything's live index, not the filesystem.
get_file_info Given a full path or filename, returns size, creation/modified/accessed dates, and attributes.

Reach for search whenever the ask is "find/locate/where is a file matching X" — it's instant across the whole indexed drive set, no directory walk needed. Reach for get_file_info once you already have a candidate path and need its details rather than more candidates.

If a tool isn't loaded, fetch its schema first: ToolSearch select:mcp__plugin_everything-mcp_everything-mcp__search.

Gotcha: Everything does NOT index ~\Dropbox on this machine

Observed on this machine: Everything's index excludes C:\Users\danie\Dropbox (the reason for the exclusion wasn't investigated — only the observed behavior). A search call scoped to or containing Dropbox paths will silently miss files that exist there. For any Dropbox-rooted search, don't trust search — fall back to a direct filesystem walk (Get-ChildItem -Recurse via PowerShell, or the fzf-mcp server's fuzzy_search_files) instead of assuming absence from an empty search result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 30 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. 8d ago First seen · 30 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 5d7f19c61095

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everything is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielsimonjr/everything-mcp (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 714 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.