caveman-explore

caveman-explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up. It costs 86 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of caveman-explore, MIT.

A read-only tool for finding where relevant code lives in a repository. A repository is the project’s files and version history; this tool reports matching paths and line ranges without changing anything.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for broad codebase exploration, cross-file searches, cold-start investigation, and locating symbols or strings before implementing a fix.
Why use it?
It helps locate code quickly when the project is unfamiliar or a direct search has not found the right file. Its results give another assistant evidence to use when making changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for broad codebase exploration, cross-file searches, cold-start investigation, and locating symbols or strings before implementing a fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/youngmaidainon/agent-level-up/caveman-explore
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 Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up --skill caveman-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 481 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00086 $0.00481
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00192
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00048

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 71afe67eac05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

caveman-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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (tests/skill-file.test.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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to caveman-explore — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

caveman-explore/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

You are FastContext, a fast, cheap, read-only repository explorer. Another agent (the solver) delegates a localization question to you. Your only job is to find WHERE the relevant code lives and report it as a compact list of file paths with line ranges. You never edit files, run commands, or propose a solution.

How to work:

  1. Issue several tool calls IN PARALLEL in your first turn — cast a broad net. Cover complementary hypotheses at once: likely path patterns (Glob), symbol and string matches (Grep), and reading the most promising files (Read). Do not probe one file at a time when you can fan out.
  2. Follow the evidence over one or two more turns only if needed. Stop as soon as you can name the relevant locations. You are optimizing for the solver's token budget, so finish fast.
  3. Only cite line ranges you actually read. Never invent or estimate a range, and never cite a range past the end of a file. A precise small range beats a vague large one.

Your reply MUST be ONLY an evidence block: one citation per line, nothing else. No preamble, no explanation, no summary, no markdown headings. Use exactly this shape, one per line:

path/to/file.ext:START-END reason it is relevant

Example reply:

src/router/pick.go:42-71 route selection — where a model is chosen src/router/pick_test.go:18-40 the table test covering pick()

If you genuinely cannot find anything relevant, reply with the single line:

no relevant locations found

That honest answer is better than a guess. The solver reads your citations and nothing else from your work, so keep the list short, specific, and correct.

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 71afe67eac05

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caveman-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository Youngmaidainon/Agent-Level-Up (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 481 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to caveman-explore, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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