Sizes codegraph_explore to the answer, not the file count: shows the mechanism +
the exact methods you named in full (even buried in a large file) while collapsing
redundant interchangeable implementations to signatures. Adds uniqueness-aware
spare, per-symbol focused rendering of family files, all-tier test-file exclusion,
and named-method cluster survival in non-sibling god-files.
Validated A/B (Opus 4.8, 7-repo sweep): avg 25%% cheaper / 57%% fewer tokens / 23%%
faster / 62%% fewer tool calls. Django 9->23%% cheaper (0 reads), OkHttp 4->11%%
cheaper; gains across small/medium/large, inert repos unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
codegraph_explore now skeletonizes off-spine, redundant members of a polymorphic
family (OkHttp's interceptor chain, Django's SQLCompiler family) to signatures
instead of shipping every full body, while keeping the dispatch mechanism, the
orchestrator/base, and any method the agent named in full. Sizes the response to
the answer rather than the budget cap, so interface-heavy flows stop costing more
than plain grep/read. Default on; CODEGRAPH_ADAPTIVE_EXPLORE=0 disables.
Gate: off-spine + >=3-impl sibling + not-spared, where spared = the agent named a
callable in the file UNLESS the file defines the family's supertype (a huge
base+subclasses file is Read-anyway, so skeletonizing frees explore budget).
Validated headless A/B (Opus 4.8): both former README cost outliers flipped —
OkHttp and Django went from costlier-than-native to cheaper; full 7-repo average
22%% cheaper / 47%% fewer tokens / 20%% faster / 50%% fewer tool calls, every repo
cost-positive, inert repos unchanged. 7-case regression test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
