codebase-exploration

A codebase-exploration skill that uses meaning-based search, dependency graphs, and saved context artifacts to understand software projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find functions and types, analyse dependencies, and explore database schemas or API specifications.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to investigate unfamiliar architecture and locate related code, data definitions, or API descriptions.

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/giancarloerra/socraticode/codebase-exploration
Any agent
npx skills add giancarloerra/SocratiCode --skill codebase-exploration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/giancarloerra/SocratiCode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00088 $0.01190
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00595
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00119

Measured yesterday against content hash 7007b5cd4cb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-exploration 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.

skills/codebase-exploration/SKILL.md · 88 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. yesterday First seen · 88 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 7007b5cd4cb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codebase-exploration is a skill published in the GitHub repository giancarloerra/SocratiCode (3,276 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,190 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.