repo-onboarding

repo-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code from 1024XEngineer/bytemind. It costs 21 tokens per session (141 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository-orientation guide that maps a software project’s folders, starting points, build process, tests, and main code paths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a project, debugging its startup flow, checking how it is built, or planning work in a large repository.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar codebase before making changes. It also identifies the most useful files and commands to inspect next.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when joining a project, debugging its startup flow, checking how it is built, or planning work in a large repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add 1024XEngineer/bytemind --skill repo-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/1024XEngineer/bytemind

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for repo-onboarding

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for repo-onboarding

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/1024xengineer/bytemind/repo-onboarding.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 141 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00021 $0.00141
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00071
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00014

Measured 9d ago against content hash 18993ba20deb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-onboarding 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 9d 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.

internal/skills/repo-onboarding/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

repo-onboarding

Workflow

  1. Build a directory-level map (top-level, core modules, test directories).
  2. Confirm startup, build, and dependency management commands.
  3. Outline the runtime path (entrypoint to core modules to outputs/side effects).
  4. List high-value next reads and commands.

Output Contract

  • Repo Map
  • Build and Test Entry
  • Core Runtime Flow
  • Next Read and Run Checklist
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 23 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 18993ba20deb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

repo-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository 1024XEngineer/bytemind (43 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 141 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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