gitnexus-exploring

A code-exploration workflow that uses GitNexus to map repositories, find related code, inspect symbols, and trace execution flows. An execution flow is the path code follows through connected functions or components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate project structure, trace authentication or other flows, find callers of a function, and inspect the implementation of key symbols.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand unfamiliar codebases and answer questions about architecture, call relationships, and how a feature works.

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/fo0/clawstash/gitnexus-exploring
Any agent
npx skills add fo0/clawstash --skill gitnexus-exploring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fo0/clawstash

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 772 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 $0.00055 $0.00772
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00386
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00077

Measured yesterday against content hash afca7ac8aded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitnexus-exploring 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-exploring/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploring Codebases with GitNexus

When to Use

  • "How does authentication work?"
  • "What's the project structure?"
  • "Show me the main components"
  • "Where is the database logic?"
  • Understanding code you haven't seen before

Workflow

1. READ gitnexus://repos                          → Discover indexed repos
2. READ gitnexus://repo/{name}/context             → Codebase overview, check staleness
3. gitnexus_query({query: "<what you want to understand>"})  → Find related execution flows
4. gitnexus_context({name: "<symbol>"})            → Deep dive on specific symbol
5. READ gitnexus://repo/{name}/process/{name}      → Trace full execution flow

If step 2 reports the index stale, rebuilding is not routine — run npx gitnexus analyze --skip-agents-md only if the task needs a fresh index, then git status + git checkout -- any tracked file it touched (read-only policy). If query returns empty for a known repo → run npx gitnexus index . to register.

Checklist

- [ ] READ gitnexus://repo/{name}/context
- [ ] gitnexus_query for the concept you want to understand
- [ ] Review returned processes (execution flows)
- [ ] gitnexus_context on key symbols for callers/callees
- [ ] READ process resource for full execution traces
- [ ] Read source files for implementation details

Resources

Resource What you get
gitnexus://repo/{name}/context Stats, staleness warning (~150 tokens)
gitnexus://repo/{name}/clusters All functional areas with cohesion scores (~300 tokens)
gitnexus://repo/{name}/cluster/{name} Area members with file paths (~500 tokens)
gitnexus://repo/{name}/process/{name} Step-by-step execution trace (~200 tokens)

Tools

gitnexus_query — find execution flows related to a concept:

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 80 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A afca7ac8aded

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gitnexus-exploring is a skill published in the GitHub repository fo0/clawstash (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 772 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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