oaustegard/claude-skills · plugins/code-intelligence/skills/exploring-codebases/SKILL.md

exploring-codebases skillA

exploring-codebases is agent-read markdown (skill) from oaustegard/claude-skills: First-encounter orientation on a repository nobody here has worked in yet. Runs a fixed five-step workflow — venv setup, tarball fetch, tree-sitting structural scan, featuring synthesis, then reasoning over the two — and yields an account of what the repo contains and how it is arranged, optionally written out as _FEATURES.md. Use for "I just cloned this", "what is this repo", "what does this do", "explore this repo", "give me an orientation", "what are the main features", "review what's new in .

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

Latest version
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/exploring-codebases@v2.5.2
Exact content
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/exploring-codebases@sha256:55c81d5d4fd3e35c

Pin 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.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v2.5.2 latest2026-09-09 5e58100 9,325 BA view · diff
v2.5.12026-08-25 59ad255 9,436 BA view · diff
v2.5.02026-08-25 955c1d2 9,433 BA view · diff
v2.4.02026-08-22 a8e6362 9,381 BA view · diff
v2.4.02026-07-16 4d115ac 8,381 BA view · diff
v2.3.12026-07-07 6154d36 6,391 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (9325 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 · 148 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qlmo3reoou6zyryl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/exploring-codebases
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/55c81d5d4fd3e35cb5c68e4db63ce8c53cc8823a0cde5e5904bfc00579804dc3

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