explore-instance

explore-instance is a skill for Claude Code from tulip/tulip-mcp. It costs 53 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for surveying a Tulip instance, meaning one organization's deployed Tulip environment. It lists data tables, users, stations, machines, and app groups so you can see what is configured.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding to an instance, auditing its setup, or checking what data, equipment, applications, and access settings exist.
Why use it?
It avoids checking each part of the environment separately when you need an overview or audit. It can also show table schemas, record counts, queries, and aggregations.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the tulip plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when onboarding to an instance, auditing its setup, or checking what data, equipment, applications, and access settings exist.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tulip/tulip-mcp/explore-instance
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 tulip/tulip-mcp --skill explore-instance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tulip/tulip-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tulip, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00053 $0.00940
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00376
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00094

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1d1ec350dc85, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore-instance 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.

skills/explore-instance/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explore a Tulip instance

Keywords

list tables, list users, list stations, list machines, list apps, audit, instance overview, who has access, what's deployed, environment, shop floor, overview

Overview

This skill helps you survey a Tulip instance — what data tables exist, how stations are configured, who the users are, and what machine types are defined. It's useful for audits, onboarding to a new instance, or answering broad "what do we have?" questions.

Use this skill when: The user wants to understand the current state of their Tulip instance, audit configurations, or explore what's deployed.


Workflow

Tables and data

listTables()                                 # All tables with names and column info
getTable(tableId="<id>")                     # Full table schema including column types
countTableRecords(tableId="<id>")            # How many records are in a table
listTableAggregations(tableId="<id>")        # Saved aggregations on a table
listTableQueries(tableId="<id>")             # Saved queries on a table

Stations and shop floor

listStations()                               # All stations
getStation(stationId="<id>")                 # Station details
listStationGroups()                          # How stations are organized
getStationGroup(stationGroupId="<id>")       # Group details
listStationAppAssignments(stationId="<id>")  # What apps are assigned to a station
listStationGroupAppAssignments(stationGroupId="<id>")  # App assignments for a group
listInterfaces()                             # Player interfaces
getInterface(interfaceId="<id>")             # Interface details

Apps

listAppGroups()                              # App groups and their containing apps

Users and access

listUsers()                                  # All users in the instance
getUser(userId="<id>")                       # User details including role
listUserRoles()                              # All available roles
getUserRole(userRoleId="<id>")               # Role details
listUserGroups()                             # All user groups
getUserGroup(userGroupId="<id>")             # Group details
getUserGroupUsers(userGroupId="<id>")        # Members of a user group

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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 · 109 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 1d1ec350dc85

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explore-instance is a skill published in the GitHub repository tulip/tulip-mcp (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-15.