find-examples

A search skill for finding how an API, library, or coding pattern is used in internal repositories. It compares examples, adds their surrounding context, and checks whether they are recent and suitable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find imports, configurations, tests, implementations, documentation, and differing usage patterns for a named internal API, library, or coding technique.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of copying an outdated or misleading example when implementing something new. It gives developers evidence from existing code before they choose an approach.

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/gleanwork/cursor-plugins/find-examples
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/cursor-plugins --skill find-examples
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/cursor-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 929 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00041 $0.00929
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00093

Measured yesterday against content hash 75def7db4145, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-examples 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to find-examples — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

glean/skills/find-examples/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Examples

Search across all repositories to find usage examples of an API, library, or pattern.

Determine the API, library, or pattern from the user's request. If not specified, ask before proceeding.

Core Principles

  • Prioritize recency: Recent examples are more likely to follow current best practices
  • Show context: Code snippets without context aren't helpful
  • Be skeptical: Not every match is a good example
  • Quality over quantity: 3 excellent examples beats 10 mediocre ones

Process

Phase 1: Search for Usage

Search for the API/pattern across the organization:

code_search "[topic] import OR require"
code_search "[topic] usage example"
code_search "[topic] implementation"

Phase 2: Find Different Approaches

Look for variations in how it's used:

code_search "[topic] config OR configuration"
code_search "[topic] test OR spec"

Phase 3: Find Documentation

Search for any guides or documentation:

search "[topic] how to use OR getting started"
search "[topic] best practices OR guidelines"

Phase 4: Vet Each Example

For each code example found, evaluate:

Test ✅ Include ⚠️ Caution ❌ Reject
Quality Clean, well-structured, tested, recent Works but has issues — note them Hacky, deprecated, anti-pattern, prototype
Recency <6 months 6-12 months — may be outdated 12+ months with no activity
Context Production code, tests, well-maintained Experiments — verify before using Abandoned PRs, copy-pasted boilerplate
Relevance Similar context to what user needs Different context but instructive Same API, unrelated purpose

Anti-Pattern Signals — reject or warn:

  • Large try/catch blocks swallowing errors
  • Commented-out code
  • TODO comments indicating known issues
  • Files in /deprecated/, /old/, /legacy/ paths
  • Skipped tests, no tests at all
  • No recent commits in repo

Phase 5: Present Vetted Examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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 · 134 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 75def7db4145

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find-examples is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/cursor-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 929 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to find-examples, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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