everything-search

everything-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jl-cmd/claude-dev-env. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,369 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Windows file-search helper that uses Everything, a fast file indexer, through its command-line program. It finds files using names, paths, extensions, dates, or sizes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding files by name, type, location, modification date, or size on Windows. If Everything cannot search, it can fall back to other file-search methods.
Why use it?
It avoids slow, broad folder scans when you need to locate a specific file. Searches stay limited to a project or another stated condition.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-dev-env plugin — 62 skills, 3 commands, 9 agents, 8 hooks shipped together

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/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env/everything-search
Any agent
npx skills add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env --skill everything-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-dev-env, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 3 commands, 9 agents, 8 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,369 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00063 $0.01369
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00685
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00274
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00137

Measured 4d ago against content hash 17f3bbc2fed3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

everything-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 4d 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.

packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills/everything-search/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Search files instantly on Windows using the Everything command-line interface (es.exe).

Announce at start: "I'm using the everything-search skill to find files."

Hard limits

Every search carries a scope: a project path or registry token, an ext: filter, a dm: date filter, a size: filter, or a name pattern. A bare whole-drive scan or a network-share sweep is out of bounds — narrow the search to what you need.

When es.exe fails or returns nothing, self-heal first: fall back to the Glob tool (name and path patterns) or Grep (file contents), and report the outage so the reader knows the index was unavailable. When self-healing also fails, ask the user through AskUserQuestion with a short analysis and next-step options.

Registry tokens

The es_exe_path_rewriter hook resolves scope tokens before the command runs. A {project-name} placeholder or a bare registry key from ~/.claude/project-paths.json becomes its quoted absolute path in the command. The hook allows and rewrites — it never blocks — so a search scoped to a registered project names the project token and lets the hook fill in the path.

Instructions

Command Syntax

Path (WSL): /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Everything/es.exe Path (Windows): "C:/Program Files/Everything/es.exe"

CRITICAL:

  • Search terms are SPACE-SEPARATED, not quoted together
  • When searching a path, use backslashes inside quotes: "Y:\\path\\to\\folder"
# CORRECT - WSL format with path search
/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Everything/es.exe "Y:\\path\\to\\folder" searchterm

# CORRECT - space-separated terms
/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Everything/es.exe ext:mp4 dm:last3months

# WRONG - quoted with semicolons (breaks parsing)
/mnt/c/Program\ Files/Everything/es.exe "ext:mp4;mov;avi dm:last3months"

Search Operators

By Extension:

ext:mp4                    # Single extension
ext:mp4 | ext:mov | ext:avi  # Multiple extensions (OR)

By Date Modified:

dm:last3months            # Modified in last 3 months
dm:lastweek               # Modified in last week
dm:today                  # Modified today
dm:>=2024-01-01           # Modified on or after date

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 4d ago First seen · 155 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 17f3bbc2fed3

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everything-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,369 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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