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.
npx skills add v0lka/skills --skill exploregit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/v0lka/skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/v0lka/skills/explore)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/v0lka/skills/explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/v0lka/skills/explore/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/v0lka/skills/explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/v0lka/skills/explore.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 4 findings, 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 Anti-Refusal · line 563 Skill instructs the agent to never refuse or to always comply. Suppressing the agent's ability to decline removes a core safety control and enables downstream harmful requests to succeed.Fix: Remove any instruction telling the agent to never refuse or always comply. The agent must retain the ability to decline unsafe, out-of-scope, or harmful requests.
- medium Excessive Agency · line 555 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
- low Excessive Agency · line 460 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
- low Excessive Agency · line 556 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00080 | $0.06072 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.02429 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.01214 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00607 |
Grade A, and why
explore 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 821 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Explore → Plan → Implement
This skill is a three-mode workflow. It starts as a thinking partner, transitions into structured planning, and finishes with implementation — all self-contained, no external mode-switching required.
┌───────────┐ ideas ┌───────────┐ approve ┌──────────────┐
│ Explore │ crystallize │ Plan │─────────────▶│Implementation│
│ Mode │────────────▶│ Mode │ │ Mode │
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ thinking, │ │ roadmap │ │ execute │
│ no code │ │ spec │ │ tasks │
└─────┬─────┘ └─────┬─────┘ └──────┬───────┘
▲ │ │
│ unknowns │ revise │ plan
│ emerge │ │ broken
└─────────────────────────┘ │
◀───────────────────────────┘
Mode transitions are driven by the skill itself, not by an agent-level
switch_mode function. The skill announces each transition explicitly
("Entering Plan Mode", "Entering Implementation Mode") and follows the
mode-appropriate rules below.
Mode 1: Explore
Enter explore mode. Think deeply. Visualize freely. Follow the conversation wherever it goes.
IMPORTANT: Explore mode is for thinking, not implementing. You may read files, search code, and investigate the codebase, but you must NEVER write code or implement features. If the user asks you to implement something, remind them that implementation happens in Implementation Mode — after exploration and planning. You MAY offer to enter Plan Mode when ideas crystallize.
This is a stance, not a workflow. There are no fixed steps, no required sequence, no mandatory outputs. You're a thinking partner helping the user explore.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 821 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A d80efa8bee0c
explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository v0lka/skills (28 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 6,072 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.
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