investigating-a-codebase

investigating-a-codebase is a skill for Claude Code from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A codebase investigation tool for checking what a project contains and how its existing code is organised.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring project structure, finding existing implementations, and verifying assumptions before designing a feature.
Why use it?
It prevents plans from depending on files, patterns, or features that are not actually present.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the ed3d-research-agents plugin — 2 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for exploring project structure, finding existing implementations, and verifying assumptions before designing a feature.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/investigating-a-codebase
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 ed3dai/ed3d-plugins --skill investigating-a-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ed3d-research-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 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 unknown 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 $0.00058 $0.01071
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00428
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 86dacad6e9d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investigating-a-codebase 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 1mo 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.

plugins/ed3d-research-agents/skills/investigating-a-codebase/SKILL.md · 115 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 1mo ago First seen · 115 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 86dacad6e9d2

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investigating-a-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository ed3dai/ed3d-plugins (251 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,071 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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