shadow-frog-viewer

A browser and search tool for the `.shadow/` code knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to see an overview, search files, symbols, or text, view project preferences, inspect recent discoveries, filter by labels, or find notes related to a particular file.
Why use it?
It provides a way to find and inspect stored project discoveries without manually opening each markdown file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/microsoft/shadowfrog/shadow-frog-viewer
Any agent
npx skills add microsoft/ShadowFrog --skill shadow-frog-viewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/ShadowFrog

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,681 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 $0.00053 $0.01681
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00840
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00336
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00168

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8e55d7d85a43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shadow-frog-viewer 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (dream-lineage.py, shadow-viewer.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/shadow-frog-viewer/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ShadowFrog Viewer

Query and browse .shadow/ content. Prerequisite: .shadow/ exists.

Primary: Python Helper Script

The companion script shadow-viewer.py lives in the same directory as this SKILL.md file. To find and run it:

# Project install (Copilot CLI):
python3 .github/skills/shadow-frog-viewer/shadow-viewer.py [options]
# Or for Claude Code:
python3 .claude/skills/shadow-frog-viewer/shadow-viewer.py [options]

Available Views

Command What it shows
--summary Overview: counts, source/status/label breakdown, per-file table, cross-cutting titles (default)
--search QUERY Universal search — matches file names, symbol names, and discovery text. Includes cross-cutting and preferences
--prefs Project-wide preferences
--recent [N] N most recent discoveries with full content (default: 10)
--labels LABEL Discoveries filtered by label (e.g., bug, security, bug,performance)
--top FILE Top actionable discoveries for FILE — concise output (default: 3 entries, ~600 chars) suitable for the preToolUse hook. Includes both per-file shadow entries and any _cross/ discoveries that reference FILE. Verified discoveries rank first.
--check-invariants Audit structural integrity — bidirectional cross-references, label/source/category enum compliance, heading format, no-orphan-back-pointer. Exits 0 if clean, 1 with one violation per line. Run after dream reconciliation or before commit.

No arguments defaults to --summary.

Options

Flag Effect
--shadow-dir DIR Override .shadow/ location (default: auto-detect from CWD)
--top-labels LABELS Comma-separated label filter for --top (default: bug,security). Empty string disables label filtering.
--top-limit N Max discoveries to show in --top (default: 3)
--top-max-chars N Hard cap on --top total output length (default: 600). Use 0 for no cap.

Examples

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 163 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 8e55d7d85a43

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shadow-frog-viewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/ShadowFrog (21 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,681 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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