explore-codebase SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
explore-codebase from arasz/ai-badger is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arasz/ai-badger/explore-codebase@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arasz/ai-badger
- Path
features/common/skills/explore-codebase/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 1, 2026
- Size
- 4,552 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when arriving at an unfamiliar codebase, or an unfamiliar region of a known one, and the question is "what is here and how is it arranged" rather than "where is this specific thing". Trigger phrases: "help me understand this repo", "what does this project do", "where does X live", "walk me through the architecture", "I'm new to this codebase", "what are the main modules". Not for tracing one symptom to its cause — that is `debug-issue`; not for judging a diff — that is `review-changes`.…
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
# Explore codebase Orient before reading. The failure this skill exists to prevent: opening files in the order a search engine returned them and calling the resulting impression an understanding. The workflow derives from the skill templates the `code-review-graph` project auto-installs (MIT, © 2026 Tirth Kanani), rewritten here to be tool-agnostic: every step carries a baseline that needs no graph server. ## Steps 1. **Establish the shape before the content** — how large, what languages, how many entry points. Accelerated: a graph-stats call (e.g. `list_graph_stats`-shaped; discover the real tool name from the server's own listing). Baseline: `git ls-files | wc -l`, `cloc` or `git ls-files | sed 's/.*\.//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn` for the language split, and the project's own manifest (`package.json`, `*.csproj`, `pyproject.toml`) for its declared dependencies and entry points. 2. **Find the module boundaries the project actually has**, not the ones its directory names suggest. Accelerated: an architecture-overview or community-listing call (e.g. `get_architecture_overview`-shaped) clusters by real coupling. Baseline: read the top-level …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arasz/ai-badger/explore-codebase@sha256:f3c902a456391b6fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 1, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 14 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-11 | c8da0f0 | 4,552 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-08 | 9006bf5 | 4,550 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-07 | 013ee4d | 4,537 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-01 | 868ef5a | 4,485 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4552 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
arasz/ai-badger · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_d663dcmoziravw36 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arasz/ai-badger/explore-codebase GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f3c902a456391b6f6c9e2d5fde669aaed1340179c2be7b63a1b5e327e30f8b1b
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