orienting-codebases skillA
orienting-codebases is agent-read markdown (skill) from oaustegard/claude-skills: Interactive codebase orientation for a HUMAN who wants to learn the code. Runs the same tree-sitting + featuring pipeline as exploring-codebases but synthesizes it into guided exercises and an HTML teaching artifact rather than an analysis document. Use for "orient me to this repo", "teach me this codebase", "walk me through this code", "learning orientation", or when someone wants genuine comprehension rather than a task completed. The audience is the test: if nobody is being taught and the goa.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/orienting-codebases@v0.4.0mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/orienting-codebases@sha256:adc269327ce75790Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_eoyewyu7h7frqx7n)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.4.0 latest | 2026-08-25 | 4fcc13f | 10,811 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-05-12 | 11ef653 | 10,863 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-05-12 | ba5a075 | 12,980 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 (10811 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 148 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eoyewyu7h7frqx7n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/orienting-codebases GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/adc269327ce7579046407ed83e300239746d5cce4a08897b06064f9076ae03b5
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