code-explore

A workflow for investigating how software works by tracing its execution paths and data flow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate entry points, follow a feature through the code, understand data movement, and produce an analysis report.
Why use it?
It helps explain architecture or diagnose root causes before code is changed, while keeping the task focused on investigation.

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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/code-explore
Any agent
npx skills add sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill code-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,149 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 $0.00051 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00115

Measured yesterday against content hash 609ec947ef29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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 yesterday.

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/code-explore/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Explore Skill

Trigger

  • Keywords: code explore, code investigation, research code, trace code, feature understanding, quick investigation, code exploration

When to Use

  • Quickly understand how a feature works
  • Trace execution paths / data flow
  • Diagnose problem root causes
  • No dual confirmation needed (no Codex cross-validation)

When NOT to Use

Scenario Alternative
Need dual confirmation /code-investigate (Claude + Codex)
Git history tracking /git-investigate
System verification /feature-verify
Code review /codex-review-fast

Workflow

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 1: Locate Entry Point                                │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1. Grep keywords -> find related files                     │
│ 2. Identify entry points (Controller / Service / Provider) │
│ 3. Build file list                                         │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          ↓
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 2: Trace Path                                        │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1. Start from entry point, Read                            │
│ 2. Identify dependencies -> continue tracing               │
│ 3. Map call chain (A -> B -> C)                            │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          ↓
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 3: Understand Logic                                  │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1. What is the core logic?                                 │
│ 2. How does data flow?                                     │
│ 3. Error handling mechanisms?                              │
│ 4. Key decision points?                                    │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          ↓
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 4: Output Report                                     │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1. Architecture overview (diagram / table)                 │
│ 2. Key files list                                          │
│ 3. Execution flow                                          │
│ 4. Findings / notes                                        │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

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.

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. yesterday First seen · 164 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 609ec947ef29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (188 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,149 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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