tree-sitting 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.

tree-sitting from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/tree-sitting@v0.10.1

Pins v0.10.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
oaustegard/claude-skills
Path
tree-sitting/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
v0.10.1, committed Oct 1, 2026
First version recorded
May 1, 2026
Size
3,225 bytes
Repository stars
158
License
MIT

Symbol-level navigation of a local checkout using tree-sitter ASTs. Answers where a symbol is defined, what lines it spans, which symbols a file exposes, what a directory holds, and where a name is referenced — every answer carries exact line ranges to feed straight into a scoped read. Use for "where is X defined", "who calls X", "find the function/class named", "what's in this file", "give me the line range for", "show me the source of", "list the symbols in", or before editing a file you…

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

# tree-sitting

Tree-sitter symbol index over a local checkout. Every result carries line
ranges, so the next step is a scoped `Read`.

## Setup

Needs Python 3.10+ and `pip install tree-sitter`. On macOS, `/usr/bin/python3`
is 3.9 and will not work; use a Homebrew or uv Python. Grammars are bundled
for Linux x86_64 (`parsers/*.so`) and macOS (`parsers/*.dylib`).

If a file's grammar doesn't load, the file is skipped and stderr prints
`WARNING: no grammar for …` with the fix. Resolve that before trusting an empty
result. On other platforms, run `python3 scripts/build_grammars.py` (needs git
and cc). It writes to `$TREESIT_PARSERS_DIR`, or `~/.cache/tree-sitting/parsers/`
when that is unset, and grammars there take precedence over the bundle.
Installed `tree-sitter-<lang>` wheels are the last fallback.

## Use

`scripts/treesit.py` in this skill's directory scans the repo on every call
(cached on disk; invalidated when files or grammars change), prints a tree
overview, then answers the queries. Batch queries so one scan serves them all.

```bash
python3 scripts/treesit.py REPO                                   # overview, depth 1
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/tree-sitting@sha256:bec0e0ab901828ab

The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.10.1, 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 badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_g4wmgj5pypwfq3ml.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_g4wmgj5pypwfq3ml)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between May 1, 2026 and Oct 1, 2026, about one every 22 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v0.10.1 latest2026-10-01 0bf3b2d 3,225 BA view · diff
v0.10.02026-09-30 09bae02 3,214 BA view · diff
v0.9.02026-09-30 a3e8a52 3,362 BA view · diff
v0.8.02026-08-25 6df976b 10,336 BA view · diff
v0.7.12026-07-29 9141df6 7,983 BA view · diff
v0.7.02026-07-16 62a1e68 7,983 BA view · diff
v0.6.02026-05-17 171b321 6,902 BA view · diff
v0.5.02026-05-01 7a97e8d 6,890 BA 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 (3225 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

oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_g4wmgj5pypwfq3ml
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/tree-sitting
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bec0e0ab901828abef62f75d0ac85eae040b9df05423abffc15b6040c52c1a17

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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