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Best codebase onboarding skills, page 3
Codebase onboarding skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | Generates a tree of AGENTS.md files for a repository, one at the root and more in complex subdirectories, so agents learn its structure and conventions. | code-yeongyu/ | 70k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 98 | 98.Audit Full Single-pass codebase analysis leveraging a 1M-token context window for comprehensive security scanning, architecture review, and dependency auditing. | yonatangross/ | 289 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 99 | Analyze the codebase structure and count lines of code by category using cloc. | ArduPilot/ | 163 | — | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | GPL-3.0 | today |
| 100 | Maps an unfamiliar repo or subsystem with the ripwire CLI before reading files, climbing an escalation ladder only until you are oriented. | redhat-et/ | 2.4k | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 101 | Explores code structure with tree-sitter AST search tools, getting a ranked symbol map and file outlines before reading full source, to save tokens. | thedotmack/ | 98k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 102 | Answers where and how questions about a codebase with parallel research agents and a write-up where every claim cites a file and line, describing only what exists. | Wirasm/ | 2.3k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 103 | 103.Code Navigation Rapid, focused navigation to locate definitions/usages and map the impact of proposed changes. | pilinux/ | 506 | — | ~354 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 104 | 104.Mh Init mini-harness · initialize or re-initialize a repo's memory under .harness/repoinfo/ with a multi-agent pass — three-perspective codebase overview, ranked scripts map, issue scan, git-seeded update… | HangYu8123/ | 199 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 15 days ago |
| 105 | Build a full trading terminal on openalgo-charts - symbol search, interval switcher, chart-type picker, indicator menu, drawing rail with clipboard, live OpenAlgo REST plus WebSocket data behind a… | marketcalls/ | 140 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Apache-2.0 | 7 days ago |
| 106 | 106.Ripwire Repo Map Maps a repository with the ripwire CLI before reading code, ranking what to touch, who calls it and which tests to run. | redhat-et/ | 2.4k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 107 | Creates a QUICKSTART, doctor scripts and a documented .env.example for an unfamiliar repo from facts scanned in the repo, and audits how easy it is to onboard. | buildfastwithai/ | 785 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 15 days ago |
| 108 | Answers structural questions about a repository, such as where a symbol is defined, what calls it and what changed recently, through the basemind MCP server. | Goldziher/ | 106 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 109 | Builds or refreshes the basemind code index from the command line, for when basemind reports no index or its MCP server is not running. | Goldziher/ | 106 | — | ~997 | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | today |
| 110 | 110.Codebase Query Query and analyze codebases semantically using codebase-memory-mcp graph database. | meain/ | 285 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 111 | Analyze an unfamiliar codebase and generate a structured onboarding guide with architecture map, key entry points, conventions, and a starter CLAUDE.md. | affaan-m/ | 275k | 3 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 112 | Orientation to the aspens codebase for agents working on the CLI itself: its Node.js stack, commands, module layout and debug settings. | aspenkit/ | 102 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 25 days ago |
| 113 | Answers how-and-where questions about a codebase by running parallel explorer agents and writing a research document where every claim cites file and line. | Wirasm/ | 2.3k | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 114 | Explains how a module behaves in a few short, read-only sections, with a path-and-line citation behind every non-trivial claim. | pilinux/ | 506 | — | ~244 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 115 | 115.Project Analyze Scans codebases to generate architecture documentation (ARCHITECTURE.md). Use when joining an existing project, understanding codebase structure… | mylukin/ | 250 | — | ~253 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 8 mo ago |
| 116 | 116.Learn Codebase Prime a codebase by reading every source file in full. Use when starting work on a new or unfamiliar project, or when the user asks to "learn the… | thedotmack/ | 98k | — | ~226 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 117 | Teaches the lo2cin4bt backtesting product from the repository's own docs and code, in the learner's language, ending each answer with one next step. | lo2cin4/ | 288 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 2 mo ago |
| 118 | 118.Codegraph QA Use CodeScope to analyze any indexed codebase via its graph database (neug) and vector index (zvec). | QwenLM/ | 143 | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 119 | Zero-to-sensing path picker for RuView (WiFi-DensePose) — pick docker-demo, repo-build, or live-esp32 and run the next concrete step. | ruvnet/ | 97k | — | ~333 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 120 | 120.Code Explainer Explains a pasted code snippet in plain English, returning the detected language, a one-sentence summary, how it works and one practical tip. | mergisi/ | 4k | — | ~283 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 days ago |
| 121 | Generate or refresh .ai/repository-analysis.instructions.md whenever the user needs a repository-wide map of architecture, projects, technology stack, developer workflows, CI/testing, documentation… | JocysCom/ | 213 | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | 3 mo ago |
| 122 | Drives the basemind code-intelligence tool from the command line for symbol search, callers, git history and blame, document search and web crawling, sharing its cache with the MCP server. | Goldziher/ | 106 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 123 | Reports whether a fresh Codewhale checkout is current, builds and passes its tests, and what changed since the contributor was last here, without touching the working tree. | codewhale-hq/ | 41k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 124 | Establishes live repo truth at the start of a Codewhale session, five commands covering checkout, worktree sprawl, uncommitted changes and which AGENTS.md rules apply. | codewhale-hq/ | 41k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 125 | Acts as a persistent read-only advisor that maps the repository once, then answers a cheaper executor agent's questions concisely across a long session. | Th0rgal/ | 515 | — | ~568 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | today |
| 126 | 126.Aspens CLI Shell Project context for the aspens CLI entry point: Commander wiring, the welcome screen, missing-hook warnings, CliError exit handling and the public programmatic exports. | aspenkit/ | 102 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 25 days ago |
| 127 | 127.Kc Scope PR Scope a kube-coder change before you open or update a PR — what the diff actually touches, which tests reach it, what the change made worse, and what is left untested. | imran31415/ | 388 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 128 | Reads only the lines needed from a source file and answers with a short summary and path:line citations, without changing anything. | pilinux/ | 506 | — | ~250 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 129 | Systematically detects all reentrancy vulnerability variants in smart contracts — classic, cross-function, cross-contract, and read-only reentrancy. | quillai-network/ | 129 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 130 | 130.Gemini Start a Google Gemini CLI session with 1M context for large codebase analysis | agentic-box/ | 140 | — | ~220 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 131 | Symbol-level code context for LLM coder-agents: tree-sitter extracts symbols, PageRank ranks them over the cross-file reference graph, and the top class/function signatures are fed to the LLM as a… | agentsope/ | 459 | — | ~3.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 132 | Sets up a shared repo environment for people and agents: CLAUDE.md, a CONTEXT.md glossary, ADRs, standards and a design-system folder, and audits drift with --check. | Yeachan-Heo/ | 40k | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 133 | 133.Get Call Paths Get a path in the call graph from a source function to a specified destination function in the codebase. | opensage-agent/ | 127 | — | ~272 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 mo ago |
| 134 | Writes an onboarding document for a new contributor or agent, covering project state, conventions and priorities relevant to a chosen role. | Donchitos/ | 26k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 135 | Scans a game project to detect its development stage, check artifacts for gaps and recommend next steps, with gap rules that depend on the workflow tier. | Donchitos/ | 26k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 8 days ago |
| 136 | A skill your agent uses to drive the active investigation features of the skydoves/compose-stability-analyzer IntelliJ / Android Studio plugin: the static Recomposition Cascade visualizer that walks… | rosuH/ | 1.9k | 1 repo | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 137 | Answers where code is defined, who calls it and what shape a file has from a pre-built index, returning paths and line numbers instead of file contents. | Goldziher/ | 106 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 138 | Produces a quick structured report on a NixOS Flake repository, covering its hosts and Nix file count, by calling the flake-stats-mcp tool. | Ruixi-rebirth/ | 100 | — | ~199 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 17 days ago |
| 139 | 139.CodeNavi Investigates unfamiliar codebases before changing them, makes small targeted edits and records what it learns in a .notebook/ folder for later sessions. | tech-leads-club/ | 7k | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | CC-BY-4.0 | 17 days ago |
| 140 | 140.Gsd Onboard Guide existing codebase onboarding through mapping, doc ingest, and planning setup | open-gsd/ | 10k | 1 repo | ~507 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 141 | 141.Code Tour Create CodeTour .tour files — persona-targeted, step-by-step walkthroughs with real file and line anchors. | affaan-m/ | 275k | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 142 | 142.Ast Grep Guides ccusage structural code searches with ast-grep. An agent skill from ccusage/ccusage. | ccusage/ | 19k | — | ~296 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | today |
| 143 | Answers an open question with sourced findings, searching the repo and official docs first, separating verified facts from inference and not implementing anything. | Yeachan-Heo/ | 40k | — | ~350 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 144 | 144.Tradingview Datos de mercado de TradingView via APIs publicas internas sin auth: Scanner (~300 columnas con quote/indicadores tecnicos/financials/earnings/ratings/targets), Symbol Search v3 (ISIN/CUSIP/CIK)… | gauss314/ | 246 | — | ~4.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
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