codebase-onboarding SKILL.md skillA
codebase-onboarding from borghei/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add borghei/claude-skills/codebase-onboarding@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- borghei/claude-skills
- Path
engineering/codebase-onboarding/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 21, 2026
- Size
- 7,118 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,075
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Analyze a codebase and generate onboarding docs: architecture overviews, file maps, setup guides, runbooks, and debugging guides. Use when onboarding new team members, open-sourcing, or documenting after a major refactor.
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 Onboarding Analyze any codebase and generate production-quality onboarding documentation tailored to the audience. Produces architecture overviews with system diagrams, annotated key file maps, step-by-step local setup guides, common developer task runbooks, debugging guides with real error solutions, and contribution guidelines. Supports Markdown, Notion, and Confluence output formats. ## Core Capabilities - **Architecture analysis** — tech stack identification from manifests/lockfiles, system boundary mapping, Mermaid data-flow diagrams, dependency graphs, module ownership. - **Key file annotation** — surface the 20 most important files and why they matter; mark entry points, config hubs, shared utilities, and files dangerous to modify without coordination. - **Setup guide generation** — prerequisites with exact versions, `git clone`-to-tests steps, env-var docs, infra setup (Docker/DB/cache), and a verification checklist. - **Task runbooks** — add an API endpoint, run/write tests, create & apply migrations, deploy to staging/production, add a dependency safely. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add borghei/claude-skills/codebase-onboarding@sha256:0b27740b4707672aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_jsx552so7jtbkwjp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Mar 21, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-10-23 | 2b5180a | 7,118 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-10-23 | cd5632b | 7,015 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-06-22 | 65b93aa | 6,909 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-06-17 | 8980a67 | 6,320 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-06-17 | 0c19211 | 18,133 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-30 | 6b5a5d8 | 18,277 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-03-21 | 36e3f67 | 18,248 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 (7118 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
borghei/claude-skills · 1,075 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jsx552so7jtbkwjp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=borghei/claude-skills/codebase-onboarding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0b27740b4707672ad11de97387ed7af51cbefab6b0592b83cec7c41f4bf66f47
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