explore

A codebase-orientation guide that examines a repository’s structure, startup files, settings, and tool connections, then summarizes how they fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a project, debugging its setup, reviewing its architecture, or preparing to make changes safely.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar project and highlights missing, surprising, or risky parts.

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/mohitgoyal09/agentforge/explore
Any agent
npx skills add MohitGoyal09/AgentForge --skill explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MohitGoyal09/AgentForge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 107 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 $0.00015 $0.00107
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00053
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00021
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb7b43f9e9e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.agentforge/skills/explore/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Explore

Use this skill when you need to quickly orient yourself in a repository.

Workflow:

  1. Inspect the top-level layout and entry points.
  2. Find the main runtime, config, and tool wiring.
  3. Summarize the important files and how they connect.
  4. Call out anything surprising, missing, or risky.

Keep the output short, concrete, and focused on helping the user understand the codebase faster.

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 · 18 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A eb7b43f9e9e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository MohitGoyal09/AgentForge (61 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 107 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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