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orienting-codebases

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By oaustegard/claude-skills (GitHub) · coding · 158 stars · scanned at commit 487272b

Interactive codebase orientation for a HUMAN who wants to learn the code. Runs the same tree-sitting + featuring pipeline as exploring-codebases but synthesizes it into guided exercises and an HTML teaching artifact rather than an analysis document. Use for "orient me to this repo", "teach me this codebase", "walk me through this code", "learning orientation", or when someone wants genuine comprehension rather than a task completed. The audience is the test: if nobody is being taught and the go…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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• plugins/code-intelligence/skills/orienting-codebases 75/100 · Review before installing

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'orienting-codebases' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'orienting-codebases' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named orienting-codebases already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'orienting-codebases' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'orienting-codebases' ~/.agents/skills/'orienting-codebases' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'orienting-codebases' ~/.claude/skills/'orienting-codebases' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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