explore

explore is a skill for Claude Code from Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes. It costs 44 tokens per session (962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase-discovery guide that uses parallel searches to find relevant files, code, and data flow across a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate architecture, cross-cutting behavior, file relationships, and questions such as how a payment or session flow works.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand how existing code works without relying on a single file or search result.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to investigate architecture, cross-cutting behavior, file relationships, and questions such as how a payment or session flow works.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes/explore
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 Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes --skill explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 962 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 $0.00044 $0.00962
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00385
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00096

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 69eb0d9b5969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore 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.

.claude/skills/explore/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explore — Codebase Discovery

Parallel codebase search. Runs 8 searches per turn for efficient discovery. Direct execution.

Design rationale: This skill executes directly as a simple MCP call, not substantial analytical work. The Warp-Grep MCP handles the complexity internally.

When This Applies

Signal Action
"How does X work?" Use /explore
Data flow across files Use /explore
Cross-cutting concerns Use /explore
Understanding architecture Use /explore
User says "/explore" Run discovery

How It Works

Warp-Grep is an MCP tool that activates automatically for natural language code questions. It:

  1. Interprets your question
  2. Runs up to 8 parallel searches
  3. Returns relevant code snippets with context

Tool Reference

The Warp-Grep MCP provides these capabilities:

Capability Description
Parallel search Up to 8 searches per turn
Context-aware Returns surrounding code
Natural language Understands questions
Cross-file Follows data flow

Query Patterns

Good Queries

"How does the payment processing flow work?"
"Where are user sessions managed?"
"How is error handling done in the API layer?"
"What happens when a request comes in?"
"How do modules communicate?"
"What's the data flow for authentication?"

Less Effective Queries

Query Problem Better Tool
"Find function X" Too specific Grep or rg
"Open file Y" Not a search Read tool
"Does X exist?" Simple check Glob

When to Use /explore

Use Case Use /explore?
"How does authentication work?" YES
Data flow analysis YES
Understanding module interactions YES
Finding all usages of a pattern YES
Cross-cutting concern analysis YES
Architecture understanding YES

When NOT to Use /explore

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 1mo ago First seen · 178 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 69eb0d9b5969

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mburdo/knowledge_and_vibes (44 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 962 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 2026-08-30.

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