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.
npx skills add oaustegard/claude-skills --skill mapping-codebasesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/mapping-codebases)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/mapping-codebases"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/mapping-codebases/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/mapping-codebases"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/oaustegard/claude-skills/mapping-codebases.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00099 | $0.00545 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00218 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00109 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00055 |
Grade A, and why
mapping-codebases 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.
What it actually says
Mapping Codebases (deprecated)
Use tree-sitting instead.
Why
This skill wrote _MAP.md files to disk — a persisted symbol inventory per
directory, generated once and read many times. That tradeoff made sense when
scanning was expensive. It isn't: tree-sitting parses a 250-file repo in about
700ms and answers queries against the in-memory AST in under a millisecond.
A persisted map costs what a runtime scan does not — it goes stale, it needs regenerating, it gets committed, and it must be excluded from every other tool that walks the tree. Nothing was gained for that.
Replacement commands
TREESIT=/mnt/skills/user/tree-sitting/scripts/treesit.py
# Was: codemap.py /path/to/repo → root orientation
python3 $TREESIT /path/to/repo
# Was: reading every _MAP.md in the tree → full inventory
python3 $TREESIT /path/to/repo --depth=-1 --detail=sparse
# Was: grepping _MAP.md for a symbol → direct lookup
python3 $TREESIT /path/to/repo --no-tree 'find:parse_input'
The archived version
The last working release is
mapping-codebases-v0.8.0
(2026-03-31). It carries scripts/codemap.py and the eleven bundled
parsers/*.so grammars. The release is the snapshot; nothing in this directory
reproduces it.
Note that v0.8.0 ships a latent bug: codemap.py:1216 calls an unimported
get_parser() inside a try swallowed by a bare except Exception, so HTML
inline-JavaScript symbol extraction silently returned nothing. It will not be
fixed.
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 33e6dde9445a
mapping-codebases is a skill published in the GitHub repository oaustegard/claude-skills (154 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 545 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.
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