query-code

A code-reading skill that searches a project's source directory for existing patterns related to a task. It reports relevant files and says when the code contains no matching context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task mentions a service, feature, endpoint, or other technical area that may already have related code.
Why use it?
It helps the agent understand how the project already works before changing code, reducing guesswork and duplicate implementations.

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/djscheuf/agentic-dev-ecosystem-template/query-code
Any agent
npx skills add djscheuf/agentic-dev-ecosystem-template --skill query-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/djscheuf/agentic-dev-ecosystem-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 373 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 $0.00037 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash adeb92df949b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

query-code 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 2d 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.

.devin/skills/query-code/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Code Query

Before touching the code, check what related code already exists.

When to Run

  • As part of assessing current project state.
  • Any task that mentions a specific service, feature, or endpoint
  • Not needed for: trivial one-liners, docs-only typo fixes, mechanical rename tasks

Process

  1. Read the task description carefully.
  2. Identify relevant domain terms from the task description.
  3. Grep src/ for keywords from the task description — service names, feature names, technical terms.
  4. Read matching files in parallel. Don't read all of src/ — only the ones that match.
  5. Summarize what's relevant in 3–5 bullets for the user, each citing the file path.
  6. If the src/ is silent on the topic, say so explicitly. Don't make things up.

Output Format

Code context for <task>:
- [src/ui/services/payment.ts] Payment service handles charge creation and refund operations
- [src/api/models/transaction.cs] Transaction model includes status and timestamp fields
- [src/scripts/seed_data.cs] Seed data script for initializing transaction records
- Nothing in src/ about <specific-subtopic>; proceeding without prior context.

Never

  • Read all of src/. It grows over time; bounded reads only.
  • Skip this step "to save tokens" on a real task. One minute of code context saves an hour of wrong-direction work.
  • Paraphrase code content as if it were your own knowledge. Always cite the file path.
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. 2d ago First seen · 40 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A adeb92df949b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

query-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository djscheuf/agentic-dev-ecosystem-template (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 373 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 2026-08-30.

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