Codebase Management

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user wants to index a project
• Check infrastructure health
• Start/stop file watching
• Configure context artifacts

Example prompts

• “/codebase-management”

Requirements

• Docker
• A credential in OPENAI_API_KEY
• A credential in GOOGLE_API_KEY

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Check infrastructure: codebase_health — verifies Docker, Qdrant, Ollama/embedding provider, and embedding model
2. 2Start indexing: codebase_index — runs in background, returns immediately
3. 3Poll progress: codebase_status — call every ~60 seconds until 100% complete
4. 4Done: Graph auto-builds after indexing. In the default watcher mode, the file watcher auto-starts. Ready to search.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1e829bf. 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 (its code samples are json).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

  • xyz.cloud.qdrant.io

  Also links to:

  • ollama.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • OPENAI_API_KEY
  • GOOGLE_API_KEY
  • QDRANT_API_KEY

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Codebase Management loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 712 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~105

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~5.3k

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

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 giancarloerra/SocratiCode at commit 1e829bf, republished under its AGPL-3.0 licence (© giancarloerra). 712 words, ~1,767 tokens.

name

codebase-management

description

Set up, index, and manage SocratiCode codebase indexing. Use when the user wants to index a project, check infrastructure health, start/stop file watching, configure context artifacts, troubleshoot indexing issues, manage the code graph, or any SocratiCode administrative task. Activates when the user mentions indexing, setting up search, SocratiCode infrastructure, or managing the codebase index.

{
  "artifacts": [
    {
      "name": "database-schema",
      "path": "./docs/schema.sql",
      "description": "PostgreSQL schema — all tables, indexes, constraints, foreign keys."
    }
  ]
}

© giancarloerra, AGPL-3.0. 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 (references) in skills/codebase-management of giancarloerra/SocratiCode.

• SKILL.md
• references/tool-reference.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1e829bf

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in giancarloerra/SocratiCode, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

• hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-pluginsplugins/giancarloerra/socraticode/skills/codebase-management