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
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/exploring-codebases@v2.5.1mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/exploring-codebases@sha256:ac625263fcfc10e2Pin 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tq5ogzodiwiigbhf)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.5.1 latest | 2026-08-25 | 9b9c991 | 9,436 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.5.0 | 2026-08-25 | 6df976b | 9,433 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.4.0 | 2026-08-22 | ad31500 | 9,381 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.4.0 | 2026-07-16 | 1ccd62f | 8,381 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.3.1 | 2026-06-21 | d12fdbc | 6,391 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 (9436 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 · 147 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tq5ogzodiwiigbhf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/exploring-codebases GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ac625263fcfc10e2ddafbe4198516647953976033a49ec967567dab604afa186