survey

survey is a skill for Claude Code from jmylchreest/aide. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,693 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase survey tool that maps a project's structure, technologies, starting points, and frequently changed areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking packages and workspaces, identifying the technology stack, locating entry points, and finding parts of the code that change often.
Why use it?
It gives developers an overview of an unfamiliar project before they edit it, including where programs, web requests, services, and command-line tools begin.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aide plugin — 25 skills, 9 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for checking packages and workspaces, identifying the technology stack, locating entry points, and finding parts of the code that change often.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey
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 jmylchreest/aide --skill survey
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmylchreest/aide

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aide, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 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 survey

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for survey

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jmylchreest/aide/survey.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,693 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00018 $0.01693
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00847
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00169

Measured 11d ago against content hash ee8c9213efc1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

survey 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 11d 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/survey/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Survey

Recommended model tier: balanced (sonnet) - this skill performs structured queries

Understand the structure, technology, entry points, and change hotspots of a codebase. Survey describes WHAT the codebase IS — not code problems (use findings for that).

Available Tools

1. Survey Stats (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__survey_stats)

Start here. Get an overview of what has been surveyed: total entries, breakdown by analyzer and kind, and per-analyzer freshness (the git commit each analyzer last ran at, and how many commits behind HEAD it is).

Is the codebase surveyed?
→ Uses survey_stats
→ Returns: counts by analyzer (topology, entrypoints, churn, modules) and kind, plus freshness vs git HEAD

If freshness shows an analyzer is commits behind HEAD, re-run survey_run before trusting its data.

2. Survey Run (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__survey_run)

Run analyzers to populate survey data. Three analyzers available:

  • topology — Packages, workspaces, build systems, tech stack detection (filesystem view)
  • entrypoints — main() functions, HTTP handlers, gRPC services, CLI roots (cobra/urfave). Uses code index when available; falls back to file scanning
  • churn — Git history hotspots (files/dirs that change most often)
  • modules — Structural modules discovered by clustering the import/reference graph: what files actually belong together, which directory layout can hide. Requires the code index (aide code index)
Survey this codebase
→ Uses survey_run (no analyzer param = run all)
→ Returns: entry counts per analyzer, an added/removed diff vs the previous run, and the git commit the run is tagged with

3. Survey List (mcp__plugin_aide_aide__survey_list)

Browse entries filtered by analyzer, kind, or file path. No search query needed.

Kinds: module, entrypoint, dependency, tech_stack, churn, submodule, subproject, workspace, arch_pattern

What other projects live inside this repo?
→ Uses survey_list with kind=subproject
→ Returns: child project scopes (submodules, nested repos) with identity and whether each has its own .aide store — their files belong to THEIR stores, not this project's

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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. 11d ago First seen · 184 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ee8c9213efc1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

survey is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmylchreest/aide (17 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,693 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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