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understand-codebase from cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase/understand-codebase@git:20260907.dc703b6

Pins git:20260907.dc703b6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase
Path: skills/understand-codebase/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20260907.dc703b6, committed Sep 7, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 2, 2026
Size: 2,777 bytes
Repository stars: 7
License: MIT

Build an evidence-backed map of an unfamiliar repository with the ai-architect code graph. Use before implementing a feature, debugging an unfamiliar subsystem, explaining architecture, or making structural claims about symbols and dependencies.

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

# Understand Codebase

Use the eight-tool `core` profile. Do not assume that pipeline-only tools are available.

For Rust caller or impact questions, request `lsp: true` in `analyze_codebase`
and make rust-analyzer available. Inspect `lsp_status.state`: `disabled` means
static-only analysis; `failed` means analysis continued and may retain partial
LSP results. Record the error and treat affected conclusions as unverified until
source checks or a successful rerun support them. `completed` means the pass
returned, not that every call resolved. Record unresolved sites and coverage gaps.

If a full-profile workflow supplies a `check_security_gates` receipt, inspect
both `gates_passed` and `assessment_complete`. A true pass with an incomplete
assessment is not security clearance: report skipped checks, unresolved symbols
and warnings. This core-profile workflow does not invoke that additional tool.

## Workflow

1. Call `health_check` and record the active profile and tool count. Stop with an installation or configuration instruction if the server is unavailable.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase/understand-codebase@sha256:f64124469612294d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260907.dc703b6, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 2, 2026 and Sep 7, 2026, about one every 36 days.

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git:20260907.dc703b6 latest	2026-09-07	dc703b6	2,777 B	A	view · diff
git:20260802.44305d5	2026-08-02	44305d5	1,862 B	A	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 (2777 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

cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mtgaoz7y73eq3vbt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cdeust/ai-architect-mcp-codebase/understand-codebase
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f64124469612294d843f26eeb4eb00a5645edfbe03e1ed2f22d2481122df7ec4

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