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wshobson/agents
Scans the codebase to generate project-doc.md and AGENTS.md.
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
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Install Improve Codebase Architecture
$ npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install fossasia/eventyay-interpretation improve-codebase-architecture --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture .claude/skills/improve-codebase-architecture && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "improve-codebase-architecture" agent skill from https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture into .claude/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "improve-codebase-architecture", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architectureType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install fossasia/eventyay-interpretation improve-codebase-architecture --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture .agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "improve-codebase-architecture" agent skill from https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture into .agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "improve-codebase-architecture", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install fossasia/eventyay-interpretation improve-codebase-architecture --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture .cursor/skills/improve-codebase-architecture && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "improve-codebase-architecture" agent skill from https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture into .cursor/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "improve-codebase-architecture", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git --path .agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install fossasia/eventyay-interpretation improve-codebase-architecture --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture .gemini/skills/improve-codebase-architecture && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "improve-codebase-architecture" agent skill from https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture into .gemini/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "improve-codebase-architecture", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install fossasia/eventyay-interpretation improve-codebase-architectureInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture .github/skills/improve-codebase-architecture && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "improve-codebase-architecture" agent skill from https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture into .github/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "improve-codebase-architecture", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install fossasia/eventyay-interpretation improve-codebase-architecture --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture .opencode/skills/improve-codebase-architecture && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "improve-codebase-architecture" agent skill from https://github.com/fossasia/eventyay-interpretation/tree/dev/.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture into .opencode/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "improve-codebase-architecture", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
improve-codebase-architecture- GitHub stars
- 1.6k
- Used in
- 32 other repos
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 731 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 41
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
- Works in 3 steps: Explore → Present candidates as an HTML report → Grilling loop
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Improve Codebase Architecture is an agent skill from fossasia/eventyay-interpretation. Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `HTML-REPORT.md`).
The repository describes itself as: A plugin for live interpretation of video streams. The licence is Apache-2.0.
Example prompts
- “/improve-codebase-architecture”
Workflow steps
3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1ca0139. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Improve Codebase Architecture loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 39 tokens; SKILL.md has 731 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from fossasia/eventyay-interpretation at commit 1ca0139, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© fossasia). 731 words, ~1,346 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- improve-codebase-architecture
- description
- Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
- disable-model-invocation
- true
Improve Codebase Architecture
Surface architectural friction and propose deepening opportunities — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability.
This command is informed by the project's domain model and built on a shared design vocabulary:
- Run the
/codebase-designskill for the architecture vocabulary (module, interface, depth, seam, adapter, leverage, locality) and its principles (the deletion test, "the interface is the test surface", "one adapter = hypothetical seam, two = real"). Use these terms exactly in every suggestion — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." - The domain language in
CONTEXT.mdgives names to good seams; ADRs indocs/adr/record decisions this command should not re-litigate.
Process
1. Explore
Read the project's domain glossary (CONTEXT.md) and any ADRs in the area you're touching first.
Then use the Agent tool with subagent_type=Explore to walk the codebase. Don't follow rigid heuristics — explore organically and note where you experience friction:
- Where does understanding one concept require bouncing between many small modules?
- Where are modules shallow — interface nearly as complex as the implementation?
- Where have pure functions been extracted just for testability, but the real bugs hide in how they're called (no locality)?
- Where do tightly-coupled modules leak across their seams?
- Which parts of the codebase are untested, or hard to test through their current interface?
Apply the deletion test to anything you suspect is shallow: would deleting it concentrate complexity, or just move it? A "yes, concentrates" is the signal you want.
2. Present candidates as an HTML report
Write a self-contained HTML file to the OS temp directory so nothing lands in the repo. Resolve the temp dir from $TMPDIR, falling back to /tmp (or %TEMP% on Windows), and write to <tmpdir>/architecture-review-<timestamp>.html so each run gets a fresh file. Open it for the user — xdg-open <path> on Linux, open <path> on macOS, start <path> on Windows — and tell them the absolute path.
The report uses Tailwind via CDN for layout and styling, and Mermaid via CDN for diagrams where a graph/flow/sequence reliably communicates the structure. Mix Mermaid with hand-crafted CSS/SVG visuals — use Mermaid when relationships are graph-shaped (call graphs, dependencies, sequences), and hand-built divs/SVG when you want something more editorial (mass diagrams, cross-sections, collapse animations). Each candidate gets a before/after visualisation. Be visual.
For each candidate, render a card with:
- Files — which files/modules are involved
- Problem — why the current architecture is causing friction
- Solution — plain English description of what would change
- Benefits — explained in terms of locality and leverage, and how tests would improve
- Before / After diagram — side-by-side, custom-drawn, illustrating the shallowness and the deepening
- Recommendation strength — one of
Strong,Worth exploring,Speculative, rendered as a badge
End the report with a Top recommendation section: which candidate you'd tackle first and why.
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Use CONTEXT.md vocabulary for the domain, and the /codebase-design vocabulary for the architecture. If CONTEXT.md defines "Order," talk about "the Order intake module" — not "the FooBarHandler," and not "the Order service."
ADR conflicts: if a candidate contradicts an existing ADR, only surface it when the friction is real enough to warrant revisiting the ADR. Mark it clearly in the card (e.g. a warning callout: "contradicts ADR-0007 — but worth reopening because…"). Don't list every theoretical refactor an ADR forbids.
See HTML-REPORT.md for the full HTML scaffold, diagram patterns, and styling guidance.
Do NOT propose interfaces yet. After the file is written, ask the user: "Which of these would you like to explore?"
3. Grilling loop
Once the user picks a candidate, run the /grilling skill to walk the design tree with them — constraints, dependencies, the shape of the deepened module, what sits behind the seam, what tests survive.
Side effects happen inline as decisions crystallize — run the /domain-modeling skill to keep the domain model current as you go:
- Naming a deepened module after a concept not in
CONTEXT.md? Add the term toCONTEXT.md. Create the file lazily if it doesn't exist. - Sharpening a fuzzy term during the conversation? Update
CONTEXT.mdright there. - User rejects the candidate with a load-bearing reason? Offer an ADR, framed as: "Want me to record this as an ADR so future architecture reviews don't re-suggest it?" Only offer when the reason would actually be needed by a future explorer to avoid re-suggesting the same thing — skip ephemeral reasons ("not worth it right now") and self-evident ones.
- Want to explore alternative interfaces for the deepened module? Run the
/codebase-designskill and use its design-it-twice parallel sub-agent pattern.
© fossasia, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture of fossasia/eventyay-interpretation.
- SKILL.md
- HTML-REPORT.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1ca0139
Used in 33 other repositories
We found 41 copies of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 32 other GitHub owners. This page covers the copy in fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.
- bestofjs/bestofjs.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Improve Codebase Architecture this skillfossasia/eventyay-interpretation | 1.6k | 32 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Scanwshobson/agents | 40k | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Presentationsasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks | 69k | — | ~858 | Automated safety check: Pass | CC0-1.0 | |
| Repo Scanaffaan-m/ECC | 274k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Repo Scanaffaan-m/ECC | 274k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Vulnerability Scanningsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills | 47k | 1 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Improve Codebase Architecture
What does Improve Codebase Architecture do?
Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick. Improve Codebase Architecture is an agent skill from fossasia/eventyay-interpretation. Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you pick.
How do I install Improve Codebase Architecture in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture in fossasia/eventyay-interpretation) into .claude/skills/improve-codebase-architecture in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Improve Codebase Architecture in Codex?
Run `npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture in fossasia/eventyay-interpretation) into .agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Improve Codebase Architecture in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add fossasia/eventyay-interpretation --skill improve-codebase-architecture -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/improve-codebase-architecture, .gemini/skills/improve-codebase-architecture, .github/skills/improve-codebase-architecture and .opencode/skills/improve-codebase-architecture in your project.
What does Improve Codebase Architecture need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Improve Codebase Architecture is instructions for the agent only.
Does Improve Codebase Architecture access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Improve Codebase Architecture safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Improve Codebase Architecture use?
Improve Codebase Architecture is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Improve Codebase Architecture use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Improve Codebase Architecture?
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Who maintains Improve Codebase Architecture?
fossasia (a GitHub organization) maintains it in fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, which has 1,552 GitHub stars. The repository holds 41 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: fossasia/eventyay-interpretation on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.