Open source alternatives to smart-explore
24 open source AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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github-ops
Launchgithub-ops is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It manages a GitHub repository with a focus on community health, CI reliability and the experience of contributors. It covers triaging issues by classify
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opensource-pipeline
Launchopensource-pipeline is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It prepares a private project for safe public release through a three-stage pipeline. The fork stage strips secrets from a copy. The sanitise st
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andrej-karpathy-skills
Launchandrej-karpathy-skills is a single CLAUDE.md file from the multica-ai project that is meant to improve how Claude Code behaves on coding tasks. It is derived from Andrej Karpathy's public observations about LLM coding pitfalls. The file dis
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microsoft/markitdown
Launchmarkitdown-mcp is the MCP server package for MarkItDown, Microsoft's tool for converting many file formats to Markdown for language models. It is a lightweight server that runs over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE, and exposes one tool, conve
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od-contribute
Launchod-contribute is an agent skill in the OpenDesign project that provides a guided, one-click contribution flow to the OpenDesign repository, written so that people without a coding background can send a real pull request. It is locked to the
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github-deep-research
Launchgithub-deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that researches a single GitHub repository in several rounds and writes a report in Markdown. It is for requests that need more than a README summary, such as a comprehensive
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About smart-explore

smart-explore
Token-optimized structural code search using tree-sitter AST parsing
smart-explore is a skill from the claude-mem project that replaces full-file reading with structural code search based on tree-sitter AST parsing, which keeps token use low. While the skill is active, it tells the agent to use its smart_search, smart_outline and smart_unfold tools as the primary way to explore code, instead of Read, Grep and Glob. The core principle is to index first and fetch on demand: get a map of the code before loading implementation detail. Before opening any file, the agent asks whether it needs to see all of it or whether a structural overview would do. The three tools work in order. smart_search walks a directory, parses the code files and returns ranked symbols and files in one call, which replaces the usual cycle of globbing, grepping and reading. smart_outline gives the structural skeleton of a single file. smart_unfold returns the full source of one named symbol. The skill notes that it only loads instructions, so the agent must call the MCP tools itself.
- Price
- Free
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- thedotmack
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- AI Skills
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- github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem/smart-explore











