map

map is a skill for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 35 tokens per session (428 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase mapping workflow that examines a project's technologies, commands, layout, conventions, tests, and risks, then saves the findings in .vbw/map.md. A codebase is the complete collection of source files and project configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work in an existing project to record how to build and test it and to document its structure and risks.
Why use it?
It gives later plans a picture of how the existing project works instead of making them rely on guesses. This helps avoid using the wrong build or test commands.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the vbw plugin — 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when starting work in an existing project to record how to build and test it and to document its structure and risks.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw
Claude Code
/plugin install vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks.

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
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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 map

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 428 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 $0.00035 $0.00428
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00171
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured today against content hash 7cc8c80915b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

map 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 today.

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.

plugin/skills/map/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" config models 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" config effort 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" workflows on 2>&1 || true
"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vbw" interview 2>&1 || true

Write to the user's level, explanation depth and involvement (above; "-": plain words), and pass them to the workflow as "profile": {"level", "depth", "involvement"} (none for "-").

(Outside a VBW project the effort line shows an error: omit effort.)

If this is not a VBW project yet ("not a VBW project" above), set it up first: vbw init and vbw statusline on. VBW needs the Workflow tool: the workflows line above turns it on (say so in one line when it did); without it, say why and stop.

Run VBW_SESSION_ID=${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID} vbw run start map, then start the Workflow vbw:mapping with args {"models": <the JSON above>, "effort": <the effort JSON above>, "profile": ...}. When it returns, VBW_SESSION_ID=${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID} vbw run end, then write its map to .vbw/map.md (replacing any older map), then tell the user in a few lines what the codebase is and how to build and test it, and name any angle listed in missing. The Architect and Lead read this map when they plan.

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. today First seen · 27 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 7cc8c80915b1

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map is a skill published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 428 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 2026-10-22.

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