codebase-exploration-loop SKILL.md skillA
codebase-exploration-loop from ivy00johns/skill-madness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ivy00johns/skill-madness/codebase-exploration-loop@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- ivy00johns/skill-madness
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skills/loops/codebase-exploration-loop/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Jun 22, 2026
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- 10,780 bytes
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- 11
- License
- MIT
Build a working mental model of an unfamiliar codebase by looping: fan out read-only subagents to map subsystems, synthesize, find the gaps in your understanding, and repeat until a written architecture summary answers every seed question — each answer citing where in the code it comes from. The deep-research fan-out shape applied to the LOCAL codebase (Read/Grep, no web), with a subagent-parallelism cap and a loop-until-dry stop on understanding gaps. Use when onboarding to a new repo…
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
# codebase-exploration-loop > **A configuration of [`loop-controller`].** That skill supplies the loop > machinery — primitive selection, the full guardrail stack, state > externalization. This skill supplies the three things specific to "understand > this codebase": the **seed-question proof** (a default-FAIL question list that > only flips on a code citation), the **read-only fan-out** that maps subsystems > in parallel, and the **loop-until-dry** stop on remaining understanding gaps. > Read `loop-controller` for the guardrails; they're inherited, not repeated here. > > **Why `disable-model-invocation`:** this loop spends tokens fanning out a wave > of subagents per iteration, repeatedly, until your questions are answered. It > is user-driven — you want to *type* `/codebase-exploration-loop` with your > questions, not have Claude silently launch an exploration swarm because you > asked a passing question about a file. ## The 5-part contract | Part | This loop | |---|---| | **trigger** | "I don't understand X" about an unfamiliar repo — onboarding, reverse-engineering, or an explicit `/codebase-exploration-loop` with a list of seed questions | …
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How to install
mdr add ivy00johns/skill-madness/codebase-exploration-loop@sha256:3f33cb76c7ca5cbaThe 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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Source
ivy00johns/skill-madness · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
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