codebase-explorer SKILL.md skillA
codebase-explorer from yashs33244/explorer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yashs33244/explorer/codebase-explorer@git:20261020.ce3b87cPins git:20261020.ce3b87c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yashs33244/explorer
- Path
skills/codebase-explorer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261020.ce3b87c, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 4, 2026
- Size
- 6,952 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Turn a codebase, system or subject into an interactive beginner field guide with SVG diagrams (hand-drawn or clean style, 102 diagram types, real logos), step-by-step walkthroughs, interview questions, scrollable tables and a published artifact. Use when the user asks to explore, explain or onboard them onto a repo or technology "with diagrams", says "explorer", "field guide", "teach me this codebase", or wants an interview-style tour of how something works.
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 Explorer Builds one self-contained page that teaches a codebase the way an expert would interview a newcomer: for each topic a plain explanation, three hand-drawn SVG diagrams, a walk through the real files, a table of what to open, try-it commands and 8 to 10 interview questions with simple answers. It was first built for PostgreSQL (see `examples/postgres` in the explorer repo: 20 topics, 63 diagrams, 190 questions). ## When to use - "Explain this repo/system to me from scratch, with diagrams." - "Onboard me so I can contribute." "Quiz me on how X works." - Any time the answer is better as pictures plus a guided tour than as chat text. Skip it for a one-fact question or a small bug fix. ## What you need - `node` (the builder has no dependencies) and Google Chrome (to look at diagrams; `scripts/render.sh`). - The Artifact tool to publish. Load the `artifact-design` skill first, as that tool requires. - Optional: `/graphify <repo>` to map a large repo first and pick topics from its communities. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yashs33244/explorer/codebase-explorer@sha256:3053250b3ff5bdffThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.ce3b87c, 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_sxpmhey3taxcq2ho)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Oct 4, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261020.ce3b87c latest | 2026-10-20 | ce3b87c | 6,952 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261020.922a467 | 2026-10-20 | 922a467 | 6,952 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.4bf219c | 2026-10-04 | 4bf219c | 6,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261004.3e516a3 | 2026-10-04 | 3e516a3 | 6,408 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 (6952 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
yashs33244/explorer · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sxpmhey3taxcq2ho GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yashs33244/explorer/codebase-explorer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3053250b3ff5bdffc8383d23ea77d9f314dbb37db8d1d362fa7e6ae3886ec458
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