exploration

exploration is a skill for Claude Code from xiaobei930/cc-best. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,070 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for understanding an unfamiliar codebase by locating its entry points, definitions, usage, dependencies, and cross-module flows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a new project, find a function or file, trace an architecture, or investigate a specific bug.
Why use it?
It helps developers build a reliable picture of existing code before changing or documenting it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cc-best plugin — 19 skills, 44 commands, 8 agents, 20 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect a new project, find a function or file, trace an architecture, or investigate a specific bug.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/exploration
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 xiaobei930/cc-best --skill exploration
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaobei930/cc-best

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-best, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 44 commands, 8 agents, 20 hooks.

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 exploration

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/exploration.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/exploration)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/exploration"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xiaobei930/cc-best/exploration.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,070 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 $0.00024 $0.01070
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00107

Measured 4d ago against content hash cda25b84c748, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploration 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.

skills/exploration/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

代码库探索

本技能提供代码库探索的通用方法论,包含两种策略模式。

子文件

策略选择

场景 推荐策略 原因
快速了解某个模块 isolated-research 一次性探索,不污染上下文
理解复杂的跨模块流程 iterative-retrieval 需要多轮精炼
简单的文件/函数定位 直接 Grep/Glob 无需完整探索流程
新项目初始理解 iterative-retrieval 需要建立全局认知
调试特定 Bug isolated-research 聚焦单一问题
架构分析和文档化 iterative-retrieval 需要完整依赖图

通用探索方法

搜索工具选择

目标 工具 示例
按文件名/路径查找 Glob **/auth/**/*.ts
按代码内容查找 Grep "function authenticate"
读取完整文件 Read 直接读取已知路径文件
深度子任务(隔离) Task 派发子代理执行

搜索策略模式

## 入口点搜索

- 路由/API 端点
- 中间件
- main/index 文件
- 配置文件

## 定义搜索

- class/function 定义
- type/interface 定义
- 常量/枚举定义

## 使用搜索

- import/require 语句
- 函数调用点
- 类实例化

## 依赖搜索

- package.json
- import 图谱
- 模块边界

输出格式(通用)

所有探索结果应遵循统一格式:

## 探索报告

### 问题/目标

[描述探索的目标]

### 关键发现

| 文件                | 行号 | 功能说明       |
| ------------------- | ---- | -------------- |
| `src/auth/login.ts` | 42   | 登录验证入口   |
| `src/lib/jwt.ts`    | 15   | Token 生成逻辑 |

### 依赖关系

[可选:模块依赖图、调用链]

### 结论

[对问题的回答]

### 后续建议

[可选:建议的下一步动作]

子策略

1. isolated-research(隔离研究)

特点

  • 在子代理中执行,不污染主上下文
  • 一次性任务,快速返回
  • 适合聚焦的单一问题

详细指南参阅 isolated-research.md

2. iterative-retrieval(迭代检索)

特点

  • 多轮迭代,逐步精炼
  • 置信度评估驱动
  • 适合复杂跨模块问题

详细指南参阅 iterative-retrieval.md


与角色系统配合

角色 探索场景 推荐策略
/cc-best:pm 理解现有功能 isolated-research
/cc-best:lead 架构分析、技术设计 iterative-retrieval
/cc-best:dev 实现前了解相关代码 isolated-research
/cc-best:qa 理解测试范围 isolated-research
/cc-best:fix 追踪 Bug 根因 iterative-retrieval

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 153 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A cda25b84c748

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploration is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaobei930/cc-best (50 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,070 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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