project-explorer

project-explorer is a skill for Claude Code from MausRundung/mcp-explorer. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,521 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase exploration add-on that scans project files, maps which files depend on which others, searches for patterns, checks npm packages, and renames files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps answer questions about project structure and dependencies, find TODOs or symbol uses, review npm package age, and rename files.
Why use it?
It provides broad project information without requiring an agent to open every file separately, while keeping file access within allowed directories.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps answer questions about project structure and dependencies, find TODOs or symbol uses, review npm package age, and rename files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mausrundung/mcp-explorer/project-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 MausRundung/mcp-explorer --skill project-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MausRundung/mcp-explorer

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,521 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 $0.00039 $0.01521
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00608
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00304
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00152

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4dee46e6d589, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

project-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.

plugin/project-explorer/skills/project-explorer/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Explorer

Use the project-explorer MCP server to answer structural questions about a codebase without reading files one by one: what is in the project, what imports what, where a symbol or pattern occurs, and which npm packages are stale.

The server exposes five usable tools through one STDIO process: list_allowed_directories, explore_project, search_files, check_outdated, rename_file. delete_file exists but ships disabled in this plugin's mcp.json.

Full argument tables: references/tool-reference.md.

When to use

  • "What is the structure of this project?", "which files import X?", "how entangled is this module?"
  • Broad code search across many files: TODO/FIXME inventories, API usage sites, config keys, dead exports, large recently-changed files.
  • Dependency hygiene before a release or upgrade.
  • Any task where reading files individually would cost many round trips.

Do not use it as a substitute for opening one known file, and never use it as a mass-edit tool - it only reads, reports, and renames.

Workflow

1. Confirm scope first

Call list_allowed_directories once at the start. Every other tool is path-restricted to those directories.

  • A non-empty list means paths outside it fail with Access denied.
  • An empty list means the server has no allow-list and can read anywhere. Treat that as a signal to pass explicit project-root paths in mcp.json rather than as license to scan the whole disk.

Relative directory / searchPath values resolve against the first allowed directory, not the editor's cwd - so an unrooted "src" can silently point at the wrong project. Prefer absolute paths, or verify the first allowed directory before using a relative one.

2. Map the project

explore_project({ "directory": "/absolute/path/to/project" })

Returns per-file sizes, detected config files, parsed imports/exports/functions, and a local dependency graph (edge list, most-imported and most-importing files). JS/TS import edges are resolved through tsconfig baseUrl/paths; Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, and C# produce import/export-like declarations without resolved edges.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed 4dee46e6d589
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 143 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A dd2bbb080c31

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project-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository MausRundung/mcp-explorer (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,521 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.

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