searching-codebases SKILL.md skillA
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searching-codebases from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/searching-codebases@v2.5.0Pins v2.5.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
searching-codebases/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2.5.0, committed Aug 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 15, 2026
- Size
- 8,325 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Binding-resolved Python symbol queries via pyright — every true caller (--refs), the real definition (--def), or an inferred signature (--hover) of a .py symbol, excluding the same-named false positives text search cannot tell apart. Use when a task needs ALL callers or users of a named Python symbol and grep would over-match. Python only, and only for the caller/definition question: measured 2026-07-04 on real issue-localization tasks, plain ripgrep tied or beat the semantic and indexed-regex…
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
# Searching Codebases Find code in any codebase by pattern or concept. One entry point, two search strategies, automatic routing. ## When NOT to use this skill Python callers and definitions only. Every other code question is cheaper elsewhere, and the measurement below is why this skill is edge-case-only. | Situation | Use | |---|---| | What symbols does this file contain? | tree-sitting | | Where is X defined, so I can read it? | tree-sitting | | Any structure question, any language | tree-sitting | | A literal string or regex | plain ripgrep | | Which files are most about a concept? | bm25 | | First look at an unfamiliar repo | exploring-codebases | Non-Python code has no pyright binding resolution to offer, so there is no version of this skill that applies to it. ## Prerequisites ```bash uv tool install ripgrep ``` tree-sitting installs automatically when needed — for `--expand` context expansion and for the binding-resolved `--refs`/`--def`/`--hover` tier, which uses it to resolve symbol positions. Only the bare `tree-sitter` package is fetched; the language grammars ship bundled. ## Primary Command ```bash SKILL_DIR=/mnt/skills/user/searching-codebases …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/searching-codebases@sha256:3658c49c783396e9The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.5.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 15, 2026 and Aug 25, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.5.0 latest | 2026-08-25 | 4fcc13f | 8,325 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.3.0 | 2026-07-29 | 9141df6 | 7,805 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.2.0 | 2026-07-04 | 91fafe7 | 7,805 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.1 | 2026-06-15 | edabfb1 | 7,233 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1.0 | 2026-06-15 | 815e109 | 6,917 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 (8325 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tksvphx3kxzreubu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/searching-codebases GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3658c49c783396e93c7c977195e312bfa59085a17a7ecf7d5094216fc5b41517
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