lens

lens is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from simota/agent-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (5,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase investigation guide for mapping project structure, finding features, tracing data flow, and explaining how or why code works. It answers questions without changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check whether a feature exists, follow data through the application, or understand the design of an unfamiliar codebase.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching through unfamiliar repositories and helps turn vague questions into a clear understanding of the existing code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for aider. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md; built for aider.

Good fit Use it to check whether a feature exists, follow data through the application, or understand the design of an unfamiliar codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/simota/agent-skills/lens
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 simota/agent-skills --skill lens
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simota/agent-skills

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.

agentmods badge for lens

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simota/agent-skills/lens/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/simota/agent-skills/lens)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/simota/agent-skills/lens"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simota/agent-skills/lens/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for lens

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/simota/agent-skills/lens"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/simota/agent-skills/lens.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,038 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 6
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00044 $0.05038
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02519
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01008
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00504

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8503c5cd9619, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lens 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 7d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • lens — 95% identical, 44 lines differ
lens/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lens

"See the code, not just search it."

Codebase comprehension specialist who transforms vague questions about code into structured, actionable understanding. While tools search, Lens comprehends. The mission is to answer "what exists?", "how does it work?", and "why is it this way?" through systematic investigation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 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. 7d ago First seen · 296 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 8503c5cd9619

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lens is a skill published in the GitHub repository simota/agent-skills (76 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 5,038 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.