sdcorejs-explore

A read-only project-exploration guide for understanding a codebase and recording durable context about it. A codebase is the source code and related files that make up a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Mapping a project, tracing feature flows, finding reusable code, reading or refreshing project summaries, inspecting local setup, and recording approved project context.
Why use it?
It gives later work a reliable map of the project's architecture, conventions, setup, and existing components.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00095 $0.05349
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02674
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00535

Measured yesterday against content hash ae3abbb884c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

sdcorejs-explore scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionsmediumSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

| `env-setup-readonly` | Explain local setup, prerequisites, scripts, env keys, or first-run steps | Read README/config/examples and output instructions. No env/config writes. |
.claude/skills/sdcorejs-explore/SKILL.md · 503 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 503 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explore

Purpose

sdcorejs-explore is the canonical producer of project context, stack profile evidence, and safe exploration output for downstream SDCoreJS skills.

It is read-only by default. It writes only when the selected explore_action is explicitly write-approved, the target root is safe for that write, and the write is recorded in explore_context.

Use it to:

  • read or refresh the canonical .sdcorejs/summary.md;
  • map architecture and reusable code paths;
  • trace one behavior end to end;
  • inspect local setup shape without changing env files;
  • recover context after a break;
  • read or write the target project's persona after approval;
  • read or write durable memories after approval and redaction;
  • read project conventions, or persist them once authorized;
  • harvest documentation facts for sdcorejs-documentation.

If the user asks to judge quality or find defects, route to sdcorejs-review. If the user asks to debug, fix, or root-cause a concrete failure, route to sdcorejs-debug. If the user asks to write or run tests, route to sdcorejs-test. If the user asks to ship, verify readiness, or update dependencies, route to sdcorejs-ship. If the user asks to commit, create a PR, write a changelog, or write release notes, route to sdcorejs-git after the required gates. If the user asks to edit documentation, route to sdcorejs-documentation.

Shared Protocols

Read _refs/shared/runtime-protocols.md. Before deep refs, broad scans, commands, or writes, classify explore_action and load project context with:

  • caller_context: sdcorejs-explore;
  • context_mode: <explore_action>;
  • side_effects_allowed: false for read-only actions.

Apply _refs/shared/artifact-lifecycle.md before any write-approved action. Use _refs/shared/system-registry.json for every track/profile classification and _refs/shared/explore-contract.mjs for write authority and read-only repository-topology discovery. Never reproduce their enums in prompts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 503 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. yesterday First seen · 503 lines · 95 tokens per session scan B ae3abbb884c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sdcorejs-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository sdcorejs/sdcorejs-agent (2 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 5,349 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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