claude-ide-bridge: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/ide-explore/SKILL.md

ide-explore is a skill for Claude Code from Oolab-labs/claude-ide-bridge. It costs 48 tokens per session (917 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase exploration workflow that uses editor language tools to map project structure and connections between code.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for onboarding to a project, tracing what calls a function, finding where symbols are used, and investigating a particular file or module.
Why use it?
It helps you understand unfamiliar code by showing architecture, entry points, call paths, and related references.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

This is Oolab-labs/claude-ide-bridge's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-ide-bridge itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-ide-bridge configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Oolab-labs/claude-ide-bridge. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oolab-labs/claude-ide-bridge/main/.claude/skills/ide-explore/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Oolab-labs/claude-ide-bridge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 917 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 $0.00048 $0.00917
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00458
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00092

Measured 7d ago against content hash 7829e520d5ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ide-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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/ide-explore/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IDE Codebase Explorer

Prerequisites

  1. Check if the getToolCapabilities MCP tool is available to you.
    • Not available (no MCP tool by that name): stop and tell the user: "This skill requires the Claude IDE Bridge with a connected VS Code extension. It uses LSP tools (type hierarchy, call hierarchy, references, hover, inlay hints) that have no CLI equivalent.

      To use this skill:

      1. Start the bridge: npm run start-all (in claude-ide-bridge/)
      2. Ensure the Claude IDE Bridge extension is installed in your IDE
      3. Use the claude --ide session (not remote-control)"
    • Available: call it. If extensionConnected is false: show the same message. If true: proceed.

Explore and explain a codebase using the IDE bridge's full LSP capabilities. Produces a structured architectural overview.

Workflow

Phase 1: Overview

  1. Use getProjectInfo to understand the project type, languages, and frameworks
  2. Use getFileTree with depth 3 to see the directory structure
  3. Use getToolCapabilities to see what language tooling is available
  4. Identify the focus area from the argument: $ARGUMENTS
    • If a specific file: explore that file and its connections
    • If a module/directory: explore the module's public API and internal structure
    • If a question: search for relevant code to answer it

Phase 2: Entry points and architecture

  1. Use searchWorkspace to find entry points (main, index, app.listen, export default, etc.)
  2. Use getDocumentSymbols on key files to list classes, functions, and exports
  3. For the focus area, use getTypeHierarchy on major classes to understand inheritance
  4. Use getCallHierarchy (outgoing) on entry points to trace the startup flow

Phase 3: Dependency mapping

  1. For the focus area's main exports:
    • Use findReferences to see who depends on them
    • Use goToDefinition on imports to trace dependencies
    • Use getHover on key functions to read their type signatures
  2. Use searchWorkspaceSymbols to find related types and interfaces
  3. Build a dependency map: what depends on what

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 7d ago First seen · 110 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 7829e520d5ae

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ide-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository Oolab-labs/claude-ide-bridge (38 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 917 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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