explore

explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yonatangross/orchestkit. It costs 68 tokens per session (3,979 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Multi-angle codebase exploration spawning 3-5 parallel agents for code structure, data flow, architecture patterns, and health assessment. Generates ASCII visualizations, import graphs, and design pattern detection with cross-session memory storage. Use when exploring a repo, discovering architecture, onboarding to a…

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside the plugin that ships it — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed.

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

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/yonatangross/orchestkit/explore.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yonatangross/orchestkit/explore)
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,979 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00068 $0.03979
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01989
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00796
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00398

Measured today against content hash 27e2a159db10, 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/dependency-mapper.sh, scripts/post_explore_summary.py, scripts/render-spec.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/ork/skills/explore/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Exploration

Multi-angle codebase exploration using 3-5 parallel agents.

🎯 Quick Start

/ork:explore authentication

Opus 5: Exploration agents use native adaptive thinking for deeper pattern recognition across large codebases.


STEP -0.5: Effort-Aware Agent Scaling (CC 2.1.120+)

Read $CLAUDE_EFFORT to scale exploration depth before any other decision.

# CC 2.1.120+ env var; explicit --effort= overrides
EFFORT = os.environ.get("CLAUDE_EFFORT")
for token in "$ARGUMENTS".split():
    if token.startswith("--effort="):
        EFFORT = token.split("=", 1)[1]
EFFORT = EFFORT or "high"  # default
Effort Agent count Phases Time
low 1 (structure-only) 1, 2, 8 ~1 min
medium 2 (structure + data flow) 1, 2, 3 (subset), 8 ~3 min
high (default) 4 (full parallel team) 1–8 ~6 min
xhigh (Opus 5) 5 (+ uncertainty pass on health scores) 1–8 + caveats ~8 min

Override gate: if the user passes --effort=high explicitly while $CLAUDE_EFFORT is low, the flag wins. /ork:doctor warns when xhigh is requested without Opus 5.


STEP 0: Verify User Intent with AskUserQuestion

BEFORE creating tasks, clarify what the user wants to explore:

AskUserQuestion(
  questions=[{
    "question": "What aspect do you want to explore?",
    "header": "Focus",
    "options": [
      {"label": "Full exploration (Recommended)", "description": "Code structure + data flow + architecture + health assessment"},
      {"label": "Quick scan", "description": "Find relevant files + structure, skip deep analysis"},
      {"label": "Data flow", "description": "Trace how data moves through the system"},
      {"label": "Architecture patterns", "description": "Identify design patterns and integrations"}
    ],
    "multiSelect": false
  }]
)

Based on answer, adjust workflow:

  • Full exploration: All phases, all parallel agents
  • Quick scan: Files + structure only (phases 1-2), skip health/deps/product — no deep agents
  • Data flow: Focus phase 3 agents on data tracing
  • Architecture patterns: Focus on backend-system-architect agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 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. today First seen · 348 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 27e2a159db10

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explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository yonatangross/orchestkit (225 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 3,979 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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