scip-explore

scip-explore is a skill for Codex from PlunderStruck/scip-query. It costs 24 tokens per session (657 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository investigation guide for understanding how a system works from its starting input to its visible results. It follows code, runtime behavior, data changes, handoffs, failures, and recovery across files and symbols.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps investigate systems end to end before explaining, planning, changing, or reviewing them, including tracing inputs, transformations, state changes, consumers, and failure paths.
Why use it?
It prevents explanations or changes based on only one part of a complex codebase. This is useful when behavior crosses multiple modules, processes, or state stores.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit It helps investigate systems end to end before explaining, planning, changing, or reviewing them, including tracing inputs, transformations, state changes, consumers, and failure paths.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/plunderstruck/scip-query/scip-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 PlunderStruck/scip-query --skill scip-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PlunderStruck/scip-query

Made for: 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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 657 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 $0.00024 $0.00657
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00263
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00066

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9fb1e41e69f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scip-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/capture-evidence.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/scip-explore/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SCIP Explore

Load $scip-query for mechanics when the question crosses code locations or module boundaries. Use ordinary search and file tools for a local lookup or implementation read.

A repository system is cooperating code and resources that turns an initiating input into observable results. Establish only the parts whose behavior could change the requested answer or edit. For substantial work, keep concise notes on established facts and remaining questions; a formal evidence ledger is not required.

Find the existing path

Start with locations named by the request or found through ordinary search. Use system --source when module structure is unknown, entrypoints when the initiating surface is unclear, and context <target> when existing reuse or impact candidates matter. Avoid repeating source through another command once its behavior is established.

When several implementations appear relevant, compare their entry surfaces, incoming execution, runtime connections and consumers. Path, recency and result order do not establish the live implementation. Keep distinct paths separate until routing or behavior resolves which serves the request.

Before planning new behavior, find a comparable working feature and the central path it uses. Identify the existing owners and extension points. Use $scip-plan to document this flow and the reuse decisions before implementation.

Resolve relationships and behavior

Choose the relationship that answers the next concrete question: incoming execution for callers; outgoing execution for callees; runtime for producer/consumer handoffs; dataflow for value transfer; dependencies for module reliance. Batch related roots. Use another family only when its meaning matches the missing fact. The command guide covers specialist choices.

Read implementations and relevant invocations with ordinary tools to verify predicates, arguments and effects. Preserve the decisions that matter: authorization, precedence, bounds, transformations, state writes, returned defaults, notifications, owner lifetime, concurrency, errors and recovery. Follow queued work to its consumer when completion depends on it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files 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.

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 Changed · -22 lines · -18 tokens per session 9fb1e41e69f7
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -22 lines · -58 tokens per session 0251c009fb87
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A fb1105094fba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scip-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository PlunderStruck/scip-query (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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