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codebase-onboarding from wst2002/claude-code-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add wst2002/claude-code-skills/codebase-onboarding@git:20261016.55bd98a

Pins git:20261016.55bd98a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: wst2002/claude-code-skills
Path: skills/codebase-onboarding/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261016.55bd98a, committed Oct 16, 2026
First version recorded: Oct 16, 2026
Size: 2,646 bytes
Repository stars: 3
License: MIT

Use when joining or exploring an unfamiliar codebase, asked to explain how a project works, where something is implemented, how to run it locally, or to create an onboarding guide for new team members.

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 Onboarding

## Overview

Give a new developer a working mental model in minutes: what the project does, how it is organized, how a request flows through it, how to run it, and where to make common changes. Every claim points to a file.

## Method

1. **Identify the project:** README, manifests (`package.json`, `pom.xml`, `pyproject.toml`, `go.mod`), languages, frameworks, versions.
2. **Find how it runs:** scripts, `Makefile`, `docker-compose.yml`, `.env.example`, CI workflow (the CI file shows the real build and test steps).
3. **Map the structure:** top-level folders and what each owns. Find the entry points (server start, routes, CLI main, app root).
4. **Trace one real flow end to end:** for example an HTTP request from route → handler → service → database → response, with file paths.
5. **Find the conventions:** state management, data access, error handling, logging, testing style, naming.
6. **List the gotchas:** required services, generated code, environment quirks, slow or flaky parts, areas without tests.
7. **Write the guide** with the format below. Verify the run commands exist.

## Output format

```
# <Project> — onboarding

## What it is
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add wst2002/claude-code-skills/codebase-onboarding@sha256:2e1e54f395d0d4a7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.55bd98a, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_urhqoulsndlwh2gz.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_urhqoulsndlwh2gz)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 16, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261016.55bd98a latest	2026-10-16	55bd98a	2,646 B	A	view · diff
git:20261016.de13fc3	2026-10-16	de13fc3	2,444 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 (2646 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

wst2002/claude-code-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_urhqoulsndlwh2gz
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wst2002/claude-code-skills/codebase-onboarding
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2e1e54f395d0d4a7862ec73192f9d492b716d6c8e4ed228e6f2436c1fa37d894

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