quaere-semantic

quaere-semantic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from haru0416-dev/quaere. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,403 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-understanding workflow that analyses the meaning of individual symbols—such as functions, classes, and variables—before explaining or changing existing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for in-depth code review, exploration, explanation, or implementation work that first requires understanding existing code’s intent.
Why use it?
It prevents explanations from being treated as facts when they were only guessed by requiring supporting evidence, calibrated reasoning, or an explicit unknown.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it for in-depth code review, exploration, explanation, or implementation work that first requires understanding existing code’s intent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haru0416-dev/quaere/quaere-semantic
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 haru0416-dev/quaere --skill quaere-semantic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haru0416-dev/quaere

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,403 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 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 $0.00113 $0.02403
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01202
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00240

Measured 9d ago against content hash 332b4362c893, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quaere-semantic 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 9d 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.

skills/core/quaere-semantic/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Semantic Review

Iron Law

No Why without one of: a consulted corroborator marked confident, calibrated reasoning marked plausible, or UNKNOWN — probe: <next step>.

Paraphrasing implementation is not understanding, and a fabricated Why becomes ground truth for the next agent that reads the analysis. Three grounding states, and only these, are acceptable:

  • confident — a NAMED external corroborator (a test, caller, git blame, spec, or ADR) was actually consulted and supports the claim.
  • plausible — reasoned from the code's own shape but unverified, and explicitly marked as such.
  • UNKNOWN — probe: <step> — the next action that would resolve it.

confident is earned by a consulted corroborator, never by felt certainty. For any unit that mutates state or crosses a trust boundary, if no co-located test, caller, blame, or spec was actually read, the highest marker permitted is plausible. When corroboration is impossible (no tests, no comments, no history, no spec), non-obvious constants and ordering get plausible or UNKNOWN — never an invented intent stated as fact. plausible and UNKNOWN are honest acknowledgments of weaker grounding, not loopholes.

This gate is the load-bearing rule; everything below exists to make the gated Why get produced per unit.

Operational anti-paraphrase test

Analysis is understanding only if it survives a semantic-preserving rewrite of the code (rename a local, swap an equivalent loop form, replace if/else with a ternary, reorder a commutative op). If the rewrite would change any of your answers, that answer is paraphrase — rewrite it to the underlying semantics.

When to use

  • Full-file or full-module review where the user wants comprehension, not a checklist.
  • Reading an unfamiliar codebase before implementing a feature that touches it.
  • Code where intent is non-obvious: clever optimizations, workarounds, hidden invariants.

When NOT to use

  • Single-line edits, typos, formatting, quick symbol lookups.
  • Code where naming makes intent self-evident and the operational test would not change the answer.
  • Bulk mechanical refactors with no semantic risk.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 9d ago First seen · 149 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 332b4362c893

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quaere-semantic is a skill published in the GitHub repository haru0416-dev/quaere (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,403 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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