smart-explore

A memory-guided way to explore a software project and build an overview of its code, architecture, current work, and known issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to get oriented in an unfamiliar project, catch up after previous sessions, understand the main files, review project status, and identify what to work on next.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to read the entire codebase blindly by using notes from earlier work to focus attention on relevant files and decisions.

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/msapps-mobile/claude-plugins/smart-explore
Any agent
npx skills add MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins --skill smart-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 498 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 $0.00092 $0.00498
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00249
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00050

Measured 2d ago against content hash c2266fcf34a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smart-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.

plugins/cowork-mem/skills/smart-explore/SKILL.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

smart-explore: Memory-Guided Project Exploration

Before reading files blindly, check what memory already knows. Past sessions may have documented the architecture, key files, gotchas, and current status.

Exploration Workflow

1. Check memory first

# What do we know about this project?
COWORK_MEM_DB=~/mnt/.claude/.cowork-mem/memory.db \
python3 {SKILL_DIR}/scripts/vector_search.py "project architecture overview" --limit 8

# Any recent decisions or file edits?
python3 {SKILL_DIR}/scripts/memory_store.py timeline --hours 168 --limit 20

2. Orient from memory → fill gaps with file reads

Use what memory tells you to target your file reads:

  • If memory mentions src/auth.py was refactored, read that file
  • If memory notes a known bug in the API layer, look there first
  • Skip files that memory says are stable/untouched

3. Build a mental model

After combining memory recall + targeted file reads, produce a brief summary:

  • What the project does (1 sentence)
  • Current state (what's working, what's in progress)
  • Key files / architecture (3-5 most relevant)
  • Active issues or blockers (from memory)
  • What to work on next (from last session summary)

4. Save any new insights

python3 {SKILL_DIR}/scripts/memory_store.py add insight \
  "Project overview: <what you learned>" --tags "architecture,overview"

What Makes This "Smart"

Regular exploration = read every file from scratch. Smart-explore = memory tells you where to look, so you read 20% of the files and understand 80% of the project state.

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 · 56 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A c2266fcf34a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smart-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 498 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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