discover

discover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from synaptiai/agent-capability-standard. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,101 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An open-ended exploration tool that looks for hidden patterns, relationships, unusual findings, or opportunities in data or systems. It is intended for questions where the important result is not known in advance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore files, datasets, or systems for relationships, patterns, anomalies, gaps, or other unexpected insights.
Why use it?
It helps reveal useful connections or anomalies that a targeted search might miss. Findings include their significance, novelty, and the method used to find them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the agent-capability-standard plugin — 42 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

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/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/discover
Any agent
npx skills add synaptiai/agent-capability-standard --skill discover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agent-capability-standard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 2 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.

agentmods badge for discover

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/discover.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/discover)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/discover"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/synaptiai/agent-capability-standard/discover.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,101 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 $0.00033 $0.02101
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01051
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00210

Measured 5d ago against content hash 15641db3d398, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

discover 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 5d 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.

skills/discover/SKILL.md · 256 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 256 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intent

Explore data or systems to find patterns, relationships, or anomalies that were not explicitly requested or expected. Discovery is open-ended exploration that surfaces novel insights rather than confirming hypotheses.

Success criteria:

  • At least one non-obvious finding surfaced
  • Significance level assigned to each discovery
  • Novelty classified (known, suspected, surprising)
  • Methodology documented for reproducibility

Compatible schemas:

  • schemas/output_schema.yaml

Inputs

Parameter Required Type Description
search_space Yes string|object Where to look (files, data, systems, domains)
discovery_type No string What kind of discovery: relationship, pattern, anomaly, gap, opportunity
constraints No object Bounds on exploration (time, scope, depth)
seed_observations No array Initial observations that may hint at discoveries

Procedure

  1. Define search space boundaries: Establish what is in and out of scope

    • File patterns, directories, or data sources
    • Conceptual boundaries (domain, time range)
    • Depth limits (how many hops of relationships)
  2. Apply discovery heuristics: Use exploration strategies systematically

    • Pattern mining: Look for recurring structures, naming conventions, code patterns
    • Relationship mapping: Find connections between entities (imports, calls, references)
    • Anomaly detection: Identify outliers, inconsistencies, unusual structures
    • Gap analysis: Find missing elements, broken links, incomplete patterns
  3. Assess significance: Evaluate each finding's importance

    • High: Directly actionable or explains important behavior
    • Medium: Useful context or potential issue
    • Low: Interesting but not actionable
  4. Classify novelty: Determine how surprising each discovery is

    • Known: Documented or widely understood
    • Suspected: Hypothesized but not confirmed
    • Surprising: Unexpected or counter to assumptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 256 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 256 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 15641db3d398

Subscribe to this mod's changes

discover is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/agent-capability-standard (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,101 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 2026-08-31.

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