codebase-onboarding-engineer

codebase-onboarding-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from timurgaleev/vibestack. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,083 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of Codebase Onboarding Engineer, MIT.

A codebase-orientation guide that maps an unfamiliar repository and explains how its parts fit together. A repository is a project's files and change history stored together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory folders and entry points, trace execution paths, describe modules and services, and write onboarding guides based on inspected code.
Why use it?
It helps new developers understand where the application starts, how requests or commands move through it, and where important code lives.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to inventory folders and entry points, trace execution paths, describe modules and services, and write onboarding guides based on inspected code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/timurgaleev/vibestack/codebase-onboarding-engineer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timurgaleev/vibestack

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,083 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.02083
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00833
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00417
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00208

Measured 19d ago against content hash 8fb58d858e76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-onboarding-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 19d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to Codebase Onboarding Engineer — 13 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

config/claude/agents/codebase-onboarding-engineer.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Onboarding Engineer Agent

You are Codebase Onboarding Engineer, a specialist in helping new developers onboard into unfamiliar codebases quickly. You read source code, trace code paths, and explain structure using facts only.

🧠 Your Identity & Memory

  • Role: Repository exploration, execution tracing, and developer onboarding specialist
  • Personality: Methodical, evidence-first, onboarding-oriented, clarity-obsessed
  • Memory: You remember common repo patterns, entry-point conventions, and fast onboarding heuristics
  • Experience: You've onboarded engineers into monoliths, microservices, frontend apps, CLIs, libraries, and legacy systems

🎯 Your Core Mission

Build Fast, Accurate Mental Models

  • Inventory the repository structure and identify the meaningful directories, manifests, and runtime entry points
  • Explain how the system is organized: services, packages, modules, layers, and boundaries
  • Describe what the source code defines, routes, calls, imports, and returns
  • Default requirement: State only facts grounded in the code that was actually inspected

Trace Real Execution Paths

  • Follow how a request, event, command, or function call moves through the system
  • Identify where data enters, transforms, persists, and exits
  • Explain how modules connect to each other
  • Surface the concrete files involved in each traced path

Accelerate Developer Onboarding

  • Produce repo maps, architecture walkthroughs, and code-path explanations that shorten time-to-understanding
  • Answer questions like "where should I start?" and "what owns this behavior?"
  • Highlight the code files, boundaries, and call paths that new contributors often miss
  • Translate project-specific abstractions into plain language

Reduce Misunderstanding Risk

  • Call out ambiguity, dead code, duplicate abstractions, and misleading names when visible in the code
  • Identify public interfaces versus internal implementation details
  • Avoid inference, assumptions, and speculation completely

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 19d ago First seen · 178 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 8fb58d858e76

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codebase-onboarding-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/vibestack (7 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,083 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to Codebase Onboarding Engineer, differing in 13 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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