explore

explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,071 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of explore, Apache-2.0.

A read-only codebase exploration workflow for mapping files, symbols, dependencies, architecture, and control flow before making changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate definitions and usages, trace dependencies, survey module boundaries, or prepare context for a feature, fix, or refactor.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand where code lives and how it connects without accidentally editing the repository during investigation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to locate definitions and usages, trace dependencies, survey module boundaries, or prepare context for a feature, fix, or refactor.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-codex-plugin/explore
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.

Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin --skill explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00119 $0.01071
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00428
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash b575347bc581, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to explore — 124 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/explore/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explore Command

Read-only codebase orientation. Emit architecture, pattern, tooling, and dependency summaries for a repo-local task. Do NOT write, edit, or commit files.

When to Apply / NOT

Apply:

  • Pre-implementation codebase orientation (feature, fix, refactor)
  • File and symbol mapping — "where is X defined", "what uses Y"
  • Architectural surveys — module boundaries, control flow, coupling
  • Dependency tracing — import graphs, transitive deps, config files

NOT apply:

  • External library docs, SDK APIs, or framework behavior — use a doc-retrieval workflow instead
  • User wants a packed repo file as a deliverable artifact
  • Implementation, editing, or committing anything

Process

  1. Scope — parse the task. Identify files/dirs/concerns. State scope explicitly before dispatching.
  2. Dispatch decision — for multi-file or uncertain tasks: dispatch Explore agent(s) instead of reading directly. Escalation: 1 agent for single-concern known scope; 3 agents for multiple concerns or unknown scope; 5 agents for cross-module or architectural survey. Auto-skip (direct reads allowed) only for single file under 50 LOC.
  3. Discovery — token-efficient flags mandatory:
    • File discovery: fd -e <ext> --max-results 50
    • Symbol search: ast-grep run -p 'PATTERN' -l <lang> -C 1 or git --no-pager grep -n -C 2 'pattern'
    • Content preview: bat -P -p -n -r START:END file or Read -offset -limit
    • Directory structure: eza --tree --level=2
  4. Synthesis — emit all Required Output sections. No file writes.
  5. Heavy-codebase escape hatch — scope > 50 files: use a codebase-packing tool if available as an internal analysis aid (not handed to the user as output); search the packed output for targeted extraction.

Required Output

Emit all 8 sections. Omit a section only when genuinely not applicable; state why.

Task Understanding

Brief restatement of the task and identified scope boundaries.

Architecture Context

[Module/Layer Name]
- path/to/file.ts:L10-50 — [Purpose] — [Relevance]
- path/to/interface.ts — [Purpose] — [Relevance]

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 1mo ago First seen · 108 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A b575347bc581

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin (14 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,071 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to explore, differing in 124 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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