code-search

code-search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jmylchreest/aide. It costs 15 tokens per session (1,087 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase search tool for finding named parts of a program, such as functions, classes, methods, interfaces, and types. It can also show where those parts are used and give a compact outline of a file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding a symbol's definition, locating every call site, listing the symbols in a file, and getting a quick structural overview before reading the full code.
Why use it?
It helps developers trace code without manually opening many files or guessing where a function is defined or called.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the aide plugin — 26 skills, 9 agents 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/jmylchreest/aide/code-search
Any agent
npx skills add jmylchreest/aide --skill code-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmylchreest/aide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install aide, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 9 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for code-search

README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,087 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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00109

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4f1ac607181e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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/code-search/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recommended model tier: balanced (sonnet) - this skill performs straightforward operations

Search for code symbols (functions, classes, methods, types) and find their call sites.

Available Tools

1. Search Symbols (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__code_search)

Find functions, classes, methods, interfaces, and types by name or signature.

Example usage:

Search for: "getUserById"
→ Uses code_search tool
→ Returns: function signatures, file locations, line numbers

2. Find References (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__code_references)

Find all places where a symbol is called/used.

Example usage:

Who calls "getUserById"?
→ Uses code_references tool
→ Returns: all call sites with file:line and context

3. List File Symbols (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__code_symbols)

List all symbols defined in a specific file.

Example usage:

What functions are in src/auth.ts?
→ Uses code_symbols tool
→ Returns: all functions, classes, types in that file

4. File Outline (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__code_outline)

Get a collapsed structural outline of a file — signatures preserved, bodies replaced with { ... }. Uses ~5-15% of the tokens of the full file. Use this before reading a file to understand its structure, then use Read with offset/limit for specific sections.

Example usage:

Outline src/auth.ts
→ Uses code_outline tool
→ Returns: collapsed view with signatures, line ranges, bodies collapsed

5. Check Index Status (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__code_stats)

Check if the codebase has been indexed.

Example usage:

Is the code indexed?
→ Uses code_stats tool
→ Returns: file count, symbol count, reference count

6. Search Findings (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__findings_search)

Search static analysis findings (complexity hotspots, secrets, code clones, coupling issues).

Example usage:

Any complexity issues in src/auth?
→ Uses findings_search tool with query "auth" or file filter
→ Returns: findings with file, line, severity, description

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 5d ago First seen · 157 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 4f1ac607181e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmylchreest/aide (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,087 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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