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exploring-codebases

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

First-encounter orientation on a repository nobody here has worked in yet. Runs a fixed five-step workflow — venv setup, tarball fetch, tree-sitting structural scan, featuring synthesis, then reasoning over the two — and yields an account of what the repo contains and how it is arranged, optionally written out as _FEATURES.md. Use for "I just cloned this", "what is this repo", "what does this do", "explore this repo", "give me an orientation", "what are the main features", "review what's new in…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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• exploring-codebases 100/100 · Low risk

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'exploring-codebases' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'exploring-codebases' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named exploring-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 "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'plugins/code-intelligence/skills/exploring-codebases' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/code-intelligence/skills/exploring-codebases' ~/.agents/skills/'exploring-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/'exploring-codebases' ~/.claude/skills/'exploring-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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