symdex-code-search

symdex-code-search is a skill for Codex from husnainpk/SymDex. It costs 85 tokens per session (2,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository code-search tool that finds definitions, callers, routes, file outlines, and related code by meaning across many programming languages and file types.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace how code works, find which route handles a path, inspect a project’s structure, or assemble a focused set of code for a larger investigation.
Why use it?
It helps you locate the exact code you need without reading large parts of a repository. It can also show confidence and freshness information for its results.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to trace how code works, find which route handles a path, inspect a project’s structure, or assemble a focused set of code for a larger investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/husnainpk/symdex/symdex-code-search
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 husnainpk/SymDex --skill symdex-code-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/husnainpk/SymDex

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,113 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 $0.00085 $0.02113
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01056
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00211

Measured 9d ago against content hash caa998587fa5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

symdex-code-search 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/symdex-code-search/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use SymDex before broad file browsing. Use it to save tokens by retrieving the exact code the agent needs instead of scanning whole files. SymDex currently covers 21 language surfaces, including Python, Go, Kotlin, Dart, Swift, HTML, CSS, Shell, Vue/Svelte script blocks, and Markdown headings plus supported fenced code blocks.

Current SymDex Snapshot

  • Package version: 0.1.26
  • Latest public tag: v0.1.26
  • MCP tool surface: 21 tools
  • Language coverage: 21 language surfaces, including Android/Kotlin, Flutter/Dart, iOS/Swift, HTML, CSS-family stylesheets, Shell, Vue/Svelte script blocks, Markdown headings, and supported fenced code blocks
  • Route extraction: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Spring/Kotlin, Laravel, Gin-style Go, ASP.NET, Rails/Sinatra, Phoenix, and Actix
  • Search outputs: one-line CLI token-savings footers plus MCP roi, roi_summary, and roi_agent_hint
  • Quality outputs: MCP results and CLI JSON include quality with confidence, freshness, parser mode, language surface, generated-file hints, and embedding availability
  • Context packs: CLI symdex pack and MCP build_context_pack assemble token-budgeted evidence bundles for broader feature questions
  • Semantic backends: local sentence-transformers, Voyage, OpenAI-compatible /embeddings, Gemini, and compatible proxies
  • Hosted embedding support: SYMDEX_EMBED_RPM plus symdex index --lazy for foreground structural indexing with background embedding fill
  • No-embedding mode: symdex index --no-embed skips semantic embedding work entirely
  • Watch behavior: low-memory structural refresh by default; use symdex watch --embed only when semantic embeddings must refresh continuously
  • State model: global ~/.symdex by default, optional workspace-local ./.symdex with registry.json
  • Markdown support: .md, .markdown, and .mdx headings plus supported fenced code blocks are indexed alongside source files

Start Here

  1. If the SymDex CLI reports a newer release, prefer upgrading before long sessions.
  2. Confirm the repo id.
  3. If the repo id is already known, pass repo on every scoped tool call.
  4. If the repo id is unknown, call list_repos and match the current worktree.
  5. Check freshness with get_index_status(repo).
  6. If the current worktree is not indexed, call index_folder(path=".").
  7. If the workspace already has .symdex, treat it as the intended local SymDex state and reuse it.
  8. Reuse the returned repo id for the rest of the task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 163 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A caa998587fa5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

symdex-code-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository husnainpk/SymDex (209 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,113 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.

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