codebase-explorer

codebase-explorer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lfyxhappy/lfcode. It costs 59 tokens per session (361 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only guide for understanding an unfamiliar code repository by tracing real entry points, configuration, data flow, runtime behavior, and nearby tests. It reports confirmed facts separately from guesses and unknowns.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps locate a feature, map package boundaries, follow a symbol or request through the system, inspect runtime behavior, and identify relevant tests.
Why use it?
It prevents proposals based only on filenames or source snippets. It also checks whether the code, process, response, or generated artifact being discussed is actually current.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It helps locate a feature, map package boundaries, follow a symbol or request through the system, inspect runtime behavior, and identify relevant tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lfyxhappy/lfcode/codebase-explorer
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 lfyxhappy/lfcode --skill codebase-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lfyxhappy/lfcode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 361 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 $0.00059 $0.00361
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00144
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 86c005325a9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-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 1mo 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/lfcode/src/skill/lfcode/.bundle/codebase-explorer/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Codebase Explorer

Build an evidence-based map of the repository before drawing conclusions.

Workflow

  1. Establish the repository root, applicable AGENTS.md files, package boundaries, and the user's requested scope.
  2. Check git status, the current branch, and relevant diffs. Preserve unrelated user changes.
  3. Inventory files with rg --files, then inspect manifests, entrypoints, configuration, scripts, and the tests closest to the behavior.
  4. Trace the requested symbol or data through callers, persistence, APIs, and runtime consumers with rg. Follow the real execution path instead of relying on names alone.
  5. When runtime behavior matters, run the smallest safe diagnostic or inspect the actual response, logs, or generated artifact.
  6. Report concrete file paths and line locations, separating confirmed facts, likely inferences, and unanswered questions.

Boundaries

  • Treat an exploration request as read-only. Do not edit files, install dependencies, commit, push, or contact external services unless the user explicitly asks.
  • Do not infer that a source change is deployed or that a build artifact is current without checking the process, path, timestamp, or response that uses it.
  • Avoid dumping credentials, cookies, tokens, personal data, or unredacted request bodies into notes or the final report.

Completion check

End with the discovered entrypoints, important dependencies, relevant tests, and the narrowest next action. State what was not verified.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 28 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 86c005325a9c

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codebase-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository lfyxhappy/lfcode (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 361 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-05.