explore

explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from v0lka/skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (6,072 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for exploring an idea, turning the findings into an implementation plan, and then carrying out the approved plan. It acts as a thinking partner before code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for investigating problems, shaping product or code ideas, writing a structured roadmap, and implementing that roadmap after approval.
Why use it?
It helps clarify unclear requirements and exposes unknowns before implementation begins. The resulting plan records the work, locations, and conditions for acceptance.

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/v0lka/skills/explore
Any agent
npx skills add v0lka/skills --skill explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/v0lka/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 explore

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/v0lka/skills/explore.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/v0lka/skills/explore)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/v0lka/skills/explore"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/v0lka/skills/explore.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,072 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 $0.00080 $0.06072
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.03036
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00607

Measured 4d ago against content hash d80efa8bee0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 4d 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.

research/explore/SKILL.md · 821 lines

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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 821 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 821 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A d80efa8bee0c

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explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository v0lka/skills (16 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 6,072 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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