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map-the-landscape

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By tamdogood/builder-essential-skills (GitHub) · coding · 227 stars · scanned at commit 1be9984

Map the big picture around a topic or software repository by identifying its boundaries, layers, actors, components, relationships, flows, history, fault lines, and open questions, then explain how the pieces fit together and where to look next. Use when a user asks to understand a whole field, domain, technology, ecosystem, industry, codebase, architecture, unfamiliar repo, or phrases such as "give me the big picture", "map the landscape", "how does this all fit together?", "help me get orient…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'map-the-landscape' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'map-the-landscape' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named map-the-landscape already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '1be9984bdafbb68eaff400bdd82773a1d41ee7ec' -- 'skills/map-the-landscape' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/map-the-landscape' ~/.agents/skills/'map-the-landscape' && 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/'map-the-landscape' ~/.claude/skills/'map-the-landscape' (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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