orienting-codebases SKILL.md skillA
orienting-codebases from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/orienting-codebases@v0.4.0Pins v0.4.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
orienting-codebases/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v0.4.0, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 12, 2026
- Size
- 10,811 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
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…
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What the file says
# Orienting Codebases Interactive codebase orientation for the human, not the agent. Same tree-sitting + featuring pipeline as exploring-codebases, but synthesizes into guided HTML exercises via composing-html instead of analysis documents. See README.md for design rationale. ## Pipeline ### 0. Setup (once per session) ```bash uv venv /home/claude/.venv 2>/dev/null uv pip install tree-sitter-language-pack --python /home/claude/.venv/bin/python export PYTHON=/home/claude/.venv/bin/python export TREESIT=/mnt/skills/user/tree-sitting/scripts/treesit.py export GATHER=/mnt/skills/user/featuring/scripts/gather.py export COMPOSE=/mnt/skills/user/composing-html/scripts/build.py ``` ### 1. Get the repo ```bash OWNER=... REPO=... REF=main curl -sL -H "Authorization: Bearer $GH_TOKEN" \ "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/tarball/$REF" -o /tmp/$REPO.tar.gz mkdir -p /tmp/$REPO && tar -xzf /tmp/$REPO.tar.gz -C /tmp/$REPO --strip-components=1 ``` For local repos, skip the curl — point directly at the path. ### 2. Structural scan ```bash $PYTHON $TREESIT /tmp/$REPO --stats ``` ### 3. Feature gathering ```bash $PYTHON $GATHER /tmp/$REPO \ …
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How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/orienting-codebases@sha256:adc269327ce75790The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.4.0, 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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The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between May 12, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 52 days.
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| 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
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Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · 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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