graphlore-explore

A way to explore a codebase through a knowledge graph, which maps relationships between files, functions, and features. It helps locate where a behavior is implemented without reading the whole repository first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding to a repository, following a feature from start to finish, investigating a bug, or finding where a named behavior is implemented.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching unfamiliar code and tracing a feature or bug across many files.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,722 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 $0.00093 $0.01722
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00861
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00172

Measured yesterday against content hash c9ebf588aed9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

graphlore-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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/graphlore-explore/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploring a codebase with Graphify

The graphlore MCP server (tools are named graphlore_*; they read the Graphify-built graph) exposes a codebase knowledge graph as tools. Reach for it before grepping or reading many files: it answers structural questions ("what connects to X", "which subsystems exist", "where does this flow run") cheaply, returning just the relevant slice instead of whole files.

If the graphlore_* tools are not available, the MCP server isn't connected — see the project README for the .mcp.json / Claude Desktop config.

The server reads one project — the directory it was started with; there is no per-call project argument, so a question about another repo needs another server. graphlore_build requires the graphify CLI on PATH: graphlore has no extractor of its own.

Preconditions: make sure the graph exists and is fresh

  1. graphlore_freshness() — is graph.json stale vs. the current git HEAD?
  2. If missing or stale: graphlore_build(".", update=True) (AST-only update needs no API key; mode="deep" adds semantic edges but needs a backend key).

Find code by what it does — graphlore_locate

For a behavioral question ("where is retry/backoff handled?", "how are redirects followed?"), reach for graphlore_locate("<natural-language question>") first: one call runs semantic search, maps the top hit to its enclosing graph node, and returns the token-budgeted subgraph around it plus hidden_links — semantically similar code that is structurally disconnected (duplication / missing-abstraction / sync-async-twin candidates that neither search nor the graph surfaces alone). Works across Python, JS/TS, Go, Java, Rust, C++ and 165+ languages. Needs the optional [semble] extra; without it, fall back to graphlore_search (name-based) and the structural flow below.

Canonical flow (cheap → targeted)

  1. graphlore_overview() — ALWAYS first. Size, god nodes, community count, surprise edges, and suggested next steps.
  2. graphlore_communities() — the major subsystems. Read these like a table of contents.
  3. graphlore_subgraph("<node>", hops=2, budget_tokens=1500) — the workhorse. A token-budgeted BFS slice around a node; this is the cheap way to feed the model just the relevant structure. Start from a god node or a community member.
  4. graphlore_query("<natural-language question>", budget=1500) — ask the graph directly (BFS/DFS traversal, no LLM key needed).
  5. graphlore_node_details("<node>") — resolve a node to its file:line, type, community, and docstring when you need to jump to source.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. yesterday First seen · 118 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A c9ebf588aed9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

graphlore-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository yasinyaman/graphlore (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,722 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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