look

A read-only file-inspection tool for listing folders and displaying exact file contents or line ranges. It reports what is present without interpreting or changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list directories, open files, inspect selected line ranges, and obtain line-numbered source excerpts.
Why use it?
It gives developers a precise view of files and relevant lines before they decide what to do next.

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/valsteen/write-code-by-hand/look
Any agent
npx skills add valsteen/write-code-by-hand --skill look
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/valsteen/write-code-by-hand

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 202 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 $0.00047 $0.00202
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00101
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00020

Measured 2d ago against content hash b7e62895b25a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

look 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.

skills/look/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Look

Show filesystem or file context without changing anything.

Operational framing: provide read-only situational awareness. Visibility is allowed; interpretation is not.

Rules

  • List directory contents when the user asks to see a folder.
  • Show exact file ranges when the user asks to open or inspect code.
  • Prefer line-numbered output for code files.
  • Keep ranges compact unless the user asks for the whole file.
  • Do not explain, summarize, interpret, or review the code.
  • Do not propose edits.

Output

For directories, show a simple tree or sorted list.

For files, include:

  • File path
  • Line range
  • Line-numbered excerpt

End with the current file and cursor if known.

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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A b7e62895b25a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

look is a skill published in the GitHub repository valsteen/write-code-by-hand (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 202 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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