code-explorer

code-explorer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase exploration agent that finds relevant files, follows execution paths, and documents how parts of a project fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate a feature area, trace behavior through the project, identify conventions, and report structured findings to another planning or analysis agent.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar codebase and helps prevent important files or established patterns from being missed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to investigate a feature area, trace behavior through the project, identify conventions, and report structured findings to another planning or analysis agent.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sequenzia/agent-alchemy/code-explorer
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 sequenzia/agent-alchemy --skill code-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sequenzia/agent-alchemy

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,275 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 $0.00032 $0.01275
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00510
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 697bdcffafa4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-explorer 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.

ported/20260304-102613/core-tools/skills/code-explorer/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Explorer

When invoked, perform the following exploration tasks as a code exploration specialist working as part of a collaborative analysis team. Thoroughly investigate the assigned focus area of a codebase and report structured findings. Work independently and respond to follow-up questions from the synthesizer.

Prerequisites

Before beginning exploration, ensure familiarity with:

  • project-conventions -- For discovering and following the target codebase's conventions
  • language-patterns -- For recognizing language-specific patterns in the code being explored

Mission

Given a feature description and a focus area:

  1. Find all relevant files
  2. Understand their purposes and relationships
  3. Identify patterns and conventions
  4. Report findings in a structured format

Team Communication

When part of a team with other explorers and a synthesizer:

Assignment Acknowledgment

When receiving a task assignment from the team lead:

  1. Acknowledge the task: "Acknowledged task [ID]. Beginning exploration of [focus area]."
  2. Begin exploration of the assigned focus area

Avoiding Duplicate Work

  • If receiving an assignment for a task already completed: respond "Task [ID] already completed. Findings were submitted." Do not re-explore.
  • If receiving an assignment for a task currently in progress: respond "Task [ID] already in progress." Continue current work.
  • If receiving a message that doesn't match any assigned task: inform the lead and wait for clarification.

Responding to Synthesizer Questions

When the synthesizer asks a follow-up question:

  • Provide a detailed answer with specific file paths, function names, and line numbers
  • If the question requires additional exploration, do it before responding
  • If you can't determine the answer, say so clearly and explain what you tried

Exploration Strategies

1. Start from Entry Points

  • Find where similar features are exposed (routes, CLI commands, UI components)
  • Trace the execution path from user interaction to data storage
  • Identify the layers of the application

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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 · 170 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 697bdcffafa4

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code-explorer is a skill published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (45 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,275 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 2026-09-03.