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gitnexus-exploring from mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/gitnexus-exploring@git:20260809.a6d9541

Pins git:20260809.a6d9541 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness
Path: .claude/skills/gitnexus/gitnexus-exploring/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260809.a6d9541, committed Aug 9, 2026
First version recorded: May 6, 2026
Size: 2,978 bytes
Repository stars: 15
License: Apache-2.0

Use when the user asks how code works, wants to understand architecture, trace execution flows, or explore unfamiliar parts of the codebase. Examples: "How does X work?", "What calls this function?", "Show me the auth flow".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Exploring Codebases with GitNexus

## When to Use

- "How does authentication work?"
- "What's the project structure?"
- "Show me the main components"
- "Where is the database logic?"
- Understanding code you haven't seen before

## Workflow

```
1. READ gitnexus://repos                          → Discover indexed repos
2. READ gitnexus://repo/{name}/context             → Codebase overview, check staleness
3. query({search_query: "<what you want to understand>"})  → Find related execution flows
4. context({name: "<symbol>"})            → Deep dive on specific symbol
5. READ gitnexus://repo/{name}/process/{name}      → Trace full execution flow
```

> If step 2 says "Index is stale" → run `node .gitnexus/run.cjs analyze` in terminal.

## Checklist

```
- [ ] READ gitnexus://repo/{name}/context
- [ ] query for the concept you want to understand
- [ ] Review returned processes (execution flows)
- [ ] context on key symbols for callers/callees
- [ ] READ process resource for full execution traces
- [ ] Read source files for implementation details
```

## Resources

| Resource                                | What you get                                            |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/gitnexus-exploring@sha256:21b18eee1f679eff

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.a6d9541, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_5ujacygldnm5ixhk.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5ujacygldnm5ixhk)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Aug 9, 2026, about one every 95 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260809.a6d9541 latest	2026-08-09	a6d9541	2,978 B	A	view · diff
git:20260506.3a07173	2026-05-06	3a07173	3,037 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2978 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness · 15 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5ujacygldnm5ixhk
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mckruz/microsoft-agentic-harness/gitnexus-exploring
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/21b18eee1f679efff654bf45f9dc32a495c81c014d210ac7e778c58a2a204dbd

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