knowledge-explorer

knowledge-explorer is a skill for Claude Code from Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (3,548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line manager for a verified research library about tools, libraries, and frameworks. The library stores dated Markdown entries grouped by category and software-development stage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list research entries, draft entries from GitHub repositories, add or update entries, and repair generated descriptions.
Why use it?
It keeps technical research organized, validated, searchable, and updated instead of scattered across notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is uv run research/knowledge-explorer.py [--verbose] <command> [args].

Good fit Use it to list research entries, draft entries from GitHub repositories, add or update entries, and repair generated descriptions.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamie-bitflight/claude_skills/knowledge-explorer

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,548 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 135
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 263
    uvx/uv tool run commands without ==version create a rug-pull risk.
    Fix: Pin the version: uvx package-name==1.2.3
How audits are shown
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 $0.00124 $0.03548
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.01774
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00710
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00355

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6d389e840017, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-explorer 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 8d 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.

.claude/skills/knowledge-explorer/SKILL.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

knowledge-explorer

Manages entries in research/ — a knowledge base of verified research on tools, libraries, and frameworks. The script is research/knowledge-explorer.py (PEP 723, run via uv run).

KB root: research/ relative to repo root. Each entry is a .md file inside a category subdirectory (e.g., research/agent-frameworks/agno.md).

Script invocation

uv run research/knowledge-explorer.py [--verbose] <command> [args]

--verbose / -v prints tracebacks on error.

Commands

list

Browse all KB entries grouped by category with freshness metadata.

uv run research/knowledge-explorer.py list [--layer 0|1|2]

Options:

Observed output (2026-02-22, truncated):

research/
+-- agent-frameworks/  (8 entries, 0 overdue)
|   +-- agno.md  v2.4.7  · verified 2026-01-31  · review 2026-05-01
|   +-- bmad-method.md  6.0.0-Beta.4  · verified 2026-02-01  · review 2026-05-01
+-- developer-tools/  (19 entries, 0 overdue)
|   +-- github-cli.md  v2.64.0  · verified 2026-02-20  · review 2026-05-20

Each entry shows: filename, version, verified date, next-review date, and [OVERDUE] when next_review < today. Categories show total entry count and overdue count. Running the script with no subcommand also invokes list.

show-template

Print the skill-spec frontmatter template for new entries.

uv run research/knowledge-explorer.py show-template

Observed output (2026-02-22):

---
name: kebab-case-identifier
description: >-
  Verified reference for <topic>. Use when configuring or working with
  <topic> in deployments. Max 1024 chars.
license: MIT
metadata:
  topic: kebab-case-identifier
  category: category-dir-name  # one of: agent-frameworks, agent-infrastructure, ...
  source_url: https://...
  github: owner/repo
  version: "1.0.0"
  verified: "2026-02-22"
  next_review: "2026-05-23"
  tags: "tag1,tag2"
---

# Display Name

[Body content here]

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 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. 8d ago First seen · 362 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A 6d389e840017

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knowledge-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 3,548 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 2026-08-30.

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