codehub-exploring

A workflow for exploring an unfamiliar codebase using OpenCodeHub, a tool that maps code structure and execution flows. It helps locate relevant repositories, symbols, and processes before reading source files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study architecture, follow authentication or request flows, find where a feature enters the system, and inspect related code.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching files manually when you need to understand how a system works or trace a request through the code.

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/theagenticguy/opencodehub/codehub-exploring
Any agent
npx skills add theagenticguy/opencodehub --skill codehub-exploring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theagenticguy/opencodehub

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00063 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00130

Measured 2d ago against content hash 62d0109fca9f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codehub-exploring 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 2d 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

This is a copy

94% identical to opencodehub-exploring — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/opencodehub/skills/codehub-exploring/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploring Codebases with OpenCodeHub

When to Use

  • "How does authentication work?"
  • "What's the project structure?"
  • "Where is the database logic?"
  • "Show me the request lifecycle."
  • Onboarding to a codebase you have not seen before.

Workflow

1. mcp__codehub__list_repos                              → Pick the repo name
2. READ codehub://repo/{name}/context                        → Stats + staleness envelope
3. mcp__codehub__query({query: "<concept>", repo})       → Hybrid BM25 + vector hits, grouped by process
4. mcp__codehub__context({name: "<symbol>", repo})       → 360-degree view, categorised edges, cochange side-section
5. mcp__codehub__sql for process traces                  → Step ordering from the relations table
6. Read source files only after the graph has pointed you at the hot spots

If the context envelope warns the index is stale, run codehub analyze in the terminal first.

Checklist

- [ ] mcp__codehub__list_repos — confirm the repo
- [ ] READ codehub://repo/{name}/context — check freshness
- [ ] mcp__codehub__query for the concept
- [ ] Scan returned processes (execution flows) before scanning files
- [ ] mcp__codehub__context on the strongest hit
- [ ] Inspect confidenceBreakdown — prefer confirmed edges for architectural claims
- [ ] Review cochanges as a secondary signal (git history, NOT call deps)
- [ ] Follow PROCESS_STEP edges via mcp__codehub__sql to trace the flow end-to-end
- [ ] Read source files for implementation detail only

Tools

mcp__codehub__query — hybrid BM25 + vector search, grouped by process

mcp__codehub__query({ query: "payment processing", repo: "my-app", limit: 20 })

→ results: ranked symbols with file path, kind, score
→ processes: execution flows that contain the top hits (populated when PROCESS_STEP edges exist)
→ next_steps: pointer to the next tool

Use it as the first broad read after the context resource. Prefer it over Grep for concept-level questions.

mcp__codehub__context — 360-degree view of a symbol

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 2d ago First seen · 121 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 62d0109fca9f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codehub-exploring is a skill published in the GitHub repository theagenticguy/opencodehub (3 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,305 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to opencodehub-exploring, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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