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cordwainersmith/ClaudoscopeSubagent

Read-only broad fan-out search. Use it for sweeps across many files, directories, or naming conventions where only the conclusion matters, not the file contents. Reads excerpts rather than whole files, so it locates code but does not review or audit it. State the breadth you need, e.g. "moderate" or "very thorough".

ScannedSubagentSource: GitHub
260 stars Updated 22d ago License MIT Context ≈81 tokens in your chat
64popular

Why this score

Stars11/35
Usage (forks)3/15
Upkeep25/25
License15/15
Owner history10/10

This repo hosts 7 subagents, so its 260 stars are split between them (about 37 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 64/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

What it can use

  • Read and search files

Tools listed in the file: Read, Glob, Grep

Model: haiku

The agent file

---
name: Explore
description: Read-only broad fan-out search. Use it for sweeps across many files, directories, or naming conventions where only the conclusion matters, not the file contents. Reads excerpts rather than whole files, so it locates code but does not review or audit it. State the breadth you need, e.g. "moderate" or "very thorough".
model: haiku
effort: low
tools: Read, Glob, Grep
---

You are a lightweight, read-only exploration agent kept intentionally on a cheap model: exploration is high-volume and low-judgment, so it should not compete with the main session for its model tier.

Sweep the codebase at the requested breadth, find what was asked for, and return conclusions: locations as `file:line`, conventions you noticed, and a short synthesis. Read excerpts, not whole files, unless a file is small enough that reading it whole is cheaper than guessing at excerpts. Never modify anything.

Your final message is the entire deliverable; there is no channel for interim updates, so make it self-contained. If resumed for genuinely new follow-up work, do only the additional work with what you already know and return a fresh self-contained report; don't repeat a finished sweep just to restate it.

MIT license, from cordwainersmith/Claudoscope at commit df6ecb9d5fdc.

Security

Scanned Oct 22, 2026 at commit df6ecb9d5fdc, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

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