Agent skill

Bom Explore

Explores and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees, licenses, services, cryptographic assets, audit findings, evidence occurrences…

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Install Bom Explore

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cdxgen/cdxgen bom-explore --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore .claude/skills/bom-explore && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "bom-explore" agent skill from https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore into .claude/skills/bom-explore/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bom-explore", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cdxgen/cdxgen bom-explore --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore .agents/skills/bom-explore && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "bom-explore" agent skill from https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore into .agents/skills/bom-explore/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bom-explore", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cdxgen/cdxgen bom-explore --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore .cursor/skills/bom-explore && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "bom-explore" agent skill from https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore into .cursor/skills/bom-explore/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bom-explore", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git --path claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cdxgen/cdxgen bom-explore --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore .gemini/skills/bom-explore && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "bom-explore" agent skill from https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore into .gemini/skills/bom-explore/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bom-explore", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cdxgen/cdxgen bom-explore

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore .github/skills/bom-explore && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "bom-explore" agent skill from https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore into .github/skills/bom-explore/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bom-explore", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install cdxgen/cdxgen bom-explore --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore .opencode/skills/bom-explore && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "bom-explore" agent skill from https://github.com/cdxgen/cdxgen/tree/master/claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore into .opencode/skills/bom-explore/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "bom-explore", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: bom-explore
GitHub stars: 1.1k
Token cost: ~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length: 420 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 17
Repo updated: Oct 6, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: Apache-2.0

At a glance

Explores and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees, licenses, services, cryptographic assets, audit findings, evidence occurrences…

Asked to inspect
SKILL.md covers Working non-interactively, Start here, By document type and Triage patterns, plus 1 more section
Calls jq
Triage an existing BOM

What it does

Bom Explore is an agent skill from cdxgen/cdxgen. Explores and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees, licenses, services, cryptographic assets, audit findings, evidence occurrences and callstacks, unpackaged container binaries, HBOM and OBOM categories, and Golem or Cargo hotspots. Use when asked to inspect, query, summarize, or triage an existing BOM, find what is inside an SBOM, or answer ad hoc questions about BOM contents without writing scripts.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Security, covering Cryptography, Audit readiness and Supply chain security. The repository describes itself as: Creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate in your CI/CD pipeline with…. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

Asked to inspect
Triage an existing BOM
Find what is inside an SBOM
Answer ad hoc questions about BOM contents without writing scripts

Example prompts

“Use the bom-explore skill to explore and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees…”
“/bom-explore”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5497d57. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- jq
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
- cdxgen.github.io
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bom Explore loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 120 tokens; SKILL.md has 420 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~120
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cdxgen/cdxgen at commit 5497d57, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© cdxgen). 420 words, ~1,167 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bom-explore/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: bom-explore
description: Explores and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees, licenses, services, cryptographic assets, audit findings, evidence occurrences and callstacks, unpackaged container binaries, HBOM and OBOM categories, and Golem or Cargo hotspots. Use when asked to inspect, query, summarize, or triage an existing BOM, find what is inside an SBOM, or answer ad hoc questions about BOM contents without writing scripts.

Explore a BOM interactively

cdxi is a REPL for querying a BOM without writing one-off jq pipelines. Use it for ad hoc investigation and triage.

bash

cdxi
cdxi /absolute/path/to/bom.json
cdxi /absolute/path/to/bom.evinse.json

If bom.json exists in the working directory, cdxi imports it automatically.

Read reference/safety.md first — the review-before-sharing rule applies to anything you quote out of a BOM.

Working non-interactively

cdxi is interactive, which makes it awkward to drive from an agent turn. When you need a single answer rather than a session, prefer jq against the BOM file:

bash

jq '.components | length' /absolute/path/to/bom.json
jq -r '.components[] | "\(.purl)"' /absolute/path/to/bom.json | sort
jq '.annotations[]' /absolute/path/to/bom.json

Recommend cdxi to the user when their question is genuinely exploratory and they will want to pivot repeatedly. Use jq yourself when you need one fact.

Start here

Command	Shows
`.summary`	Overall BOM shape and counts
`.print`	Component table
`.tree`	Dependency tree
`.validate`	Validation status
`.create .`	Generate a BOM for the current directory
`.exit`	Leave

Always begin with .summary. It tells you which of the specialized command families are even populated.

By document type

Dependencies and licenses

.print, .tree, .provides, .licenses, .tagcloud, .dispatchedges

.tagcloud is a quick way to see what a BOM is mostly made of.

Evidence and usage

.occurrences, .callstack, .inspect <component>

Populated only when the BOM came through evinse or --evidence. See bom-evidence.

Services and SaaSBOM

.services, .formulation

Cryptography

.cryptos (all cryptographic assets), .sourcecryptos (JavaScript/TypeScript source-derived algorithms only), .trusted (trusted keys and certificates)

Reach for .sourcecryptos when the question is about code-level algorithm usage rather than shipped certificates. See crypto-bom.

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Container and rootfs

.unpackagedbins, .unpackagedlibs

These isolate executable and shared-library components that sit outside OS package ownership — the files an image ships that no package manager accounts for. A high count is worth surfacing. See container-sbom.

AI and provenance

.aibom, .provenance

Audit findings

.auditfindings, .auditactions

Use these to triage --bom-audit annotations. See bom-audit.

Go / Golem evidence

.golemsummary, .golemhotspots, .golemcoverage, .golemtips

Work top-down: summary, then hotspots, then coverage, and only then .occurrences, .callstack, or .inspect <component>. See bom-evidence.

Rust / Cargo

.cargohotspots, .cargoworkflows

Hardware BOM

.hbomsummary, .hbomclasses, .hbomevidence, .hbomdiagnostics, .hbomfirmware, .hbombuses, .hbompower, .hbomtips

Start with .hbomsummary; use .hbomdiagnostics when the HBOM looks sparse. See os-hardware-inventory.

Operating system BOM

.osinfocategories, .obomtips, .instrumented

.instrumented isolates trace-derived components — see runtime-trace-bom.

Vulnerabilities

.vulnerabilities

Triage patterns

"What is in this SBOM?" .summary → .tagcloud → .licenses

"Which dependencies are actually used?" .occurrences → .callstack → .inspect <component> (needs an evinse BOM)

"What should I look at first in this container image?" .summary → .unpackagedbins → .unpackagedlibs → .trusted

"What did the audit find?" .auditfindings → .auditactions

"Why is my Go evidence thin?" .golemcoverage → .golemtips

"Why is my HBOM empty?" .hbomdiagnostics, then hbom diagnostics outside the REPL

Reference

REPL guide: https://cdxgen.github.io/cdxgen/#/REPL

Files

Just SKILL.md in claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore of cdxgen/cdxgen.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5497d57

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Questions about Bom Explore

What does Bom Explore do?

Explores and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees, licenses, services, cryptographic assets, audit findings, evidence occurrences…. Bom Explore is an agent skill from cdxgen/cdxgen. Explores and triages a CycloneDX BOM interactively with the cdxi REPL, using built-in commands for dependency trees, licenses, services, cryptographic assets, audit findings, evidence occurrences and callstacks, unpackaged container binaries, HBOM and OBOM categories, and Golem or Cargo hotspots.

When should I use Bom Explore?

Bom Explore fits situations like: asked to inspect; triage an existing BOM; find what is inside an SBOM; answer ad hoc questions about BOM contents without writing scripts.

How do I install Bom Explore in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore in cdxgen/cdxgen) into .claude/skills/bom-explore in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bom Explore in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (claude-plugin/skills/bom-explore in cdxgen/cdxgen) into .agents/skills/bom-explore in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bom Explore in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cdxgen/cdxgen --skill bom-explore -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bom-explore, .gemini/skills/bom-explore, .github/skills/bom-explore and .opencode/skills/bom-explore in your project.

What does Bom Explore need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Bom Explore needs the command-line tools its instructions call (jq).

Does Bom Explore access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: cdxgen.github.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bom Explore safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bom Explore use?

Bom Explore is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Bom Explore use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Bom Explore?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bom Explore: Security Review (valory-xyz/open-autonomy, 129 stars), Implementing Sigstore For Software Signing (mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, 34k stars), Nis2 Navigator (lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, 826 stars) and Skill Scanner (getsentry/skills, 1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Bom Explore?

cdxgen (a GitHub organization) maintains it in cdxgen/cdxgen, which has 1,085 GitHub stars. The repository holds 17 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.

Source: cdxgen/cdxgen on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Bom Explore

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Explore a BOM interactively

Working non-interactively

Start here

By document type

Dependencies and licenses

Evidence and usage

Services and SaaSBOM

Cryptography

Container and rootfs

AI and provenance

Audit findings

Go / Golem evidence

Rust / Cargo

Hardware BOM

Operating system BOM

Vulnerabilities

Triage patterns

Reference

Files

Compare with similar skills

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