survey

survey is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from genkovich/sdd. It costs 194 tokens per session (2,964 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide that maps a codebase's architecture, or helps choose the basic structure for a new project. It records the result in an architecture map for other development steps to use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan an existing codebase or establish a foundation for a new one, including its stack, folders, data approach, and development rules.
Why use it?
It gives the project a shared description of its structure, technology choices, data approach, and conventions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sdd plugin — 22 skills, 10 agents shipped together

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/genkovich/sdd/survey
Any agent
npx skills add genkovich/sdd --skill survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/genkovich/sdd

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sdd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 10 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for survey

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 194 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,964 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 5.1 $0.00194 $0.02964
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.01482
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00593
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00296

Measured today against content hash bda0d069c56d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey 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 today.

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/survey/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: survey

The pipeline's anchor on architecture. It produces docs/architecture-map.md — the single source of "what the system is" that specify (constraints), design (matches against it), data-model, and implement all read instead of re-discovering the code. It runs in one of two modes, auto-detected:

  • Brownfield (the repo has source) → scan it once and persist the current architecture.
  • Greenfield (empty / near-empty repo) → run a short, level-adaptive foundation session: pick the stack / structure / data approach / conventions with the user (defaults-heavy), fix them as the foundation + foundational ADRs, and emit a scaffold tasks.json that scaffold turns into a real skeleton. Greenfield detail → ./references/foundation.md.

Repo-level utility (one map serves every feature). The scan is delegated to explorer; question phrasing → ../_shared/ask-style.md; depth → ../_shared/size-matrix.md.

Map prose follows artifact_language (carry the language in the explorer's dispatch prompt) — frontmatter keys like test_cmd / reflects_commit stay machine-form, module/file names stay as-is → ../_shared/artifact-language.md.

Owner

Architect / Tech Lead — they own the architecture (brownfield: confirm it reflects reality; greenfield: decide the foundation).

Inputs

  • (Optional) a path/scope hint (default: repo root).
  • (Read, never overwrite) an authored architecture doc if present (docs/architecture.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, root CLAUDE.md, ADRs) — a strong input the map reconciles with, never clobbers.
  • (Optional, greenfield) docs/idea-brief.md — the intent G3 would otherwise ask for; present → confirmed, not re-asked.

Protocol

  1. Detect mode + freshness (incremental re-survey on stale). If docs/architecture-map.md exists and is fresh (its reflects_commit ≈ current HEAD) → «map is fresh (reflects <commit>). Reuse or refresh?»; STOP on reuse. If it exists but is stale, prefer the incremental re-survey: git diff --name-only <reflects_commit>..HEAD, group the changed paths by top-level module, and dispatch the step-3 explorer scoped only to the changed subfolders; update just the touched map rows/sections (module inventory, conventions, frontend, machine keys) and re-stamp updated_at + reflects_commit. Fall back to the full re-scan only when the diff spans more than half the modules in the inventory (or reflects_commit no longer resolves) — say which mode ran in the handoff. No map at all → decide the mode: brownfield if the repo has source (modules/packages beyond config), else greenfield (empty or only scaffolding like a bare go.mod / package.json).

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. today Changed · +1 lines bda0d069c56d
  2. 6d ago First seen · 77 lines · 194 tokens per session scan A 354a4e0b5945

Subscribe to this mod's changes

survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository genkovich/sdd (119 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 2,964 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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