python-repo-quickstart

python-repo-quickstart is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE. It costs 97 tokens per session (1,854 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A quick-analysis guide for understanding a Python repository's purpose, structure, dependencies, setup requirements, and starting points.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for identifying whether a project is an app, library, command-line tool, or data project, and for finding how to install and run it.
Why use it?
It shortens the time needed to get oriented in an unfamiliar Python codebase.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arabelatso/skills-4-se/python-repo-quickstart
Any agent
npx skills add ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE --skill python-repo-quickstart
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 python-repo-quickstart

README.md
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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,854 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00097 $0.01854
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00927
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00185

Measured yesterday against content hash e246bb361c13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-repo-quickstart 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/analyze_repo.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/python-repo-quickstart/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Python Repository Quick Start

Rapidly analyze and understand Python repositories to get started quickly.

Quick Start

When a user provides a Python repository:

  1. Scan repository structure: Identify key files and directories
  2. Determine project type: Web app, CLI tool, library, data science, etc.
  3. Find entry points: Locate main execution files
  4. Identify dependencies: Find requirements and dependency management
  5. Extract setup instructions: Determine how to install and run
  6. Summarize functionality: Understand what the project does

What This Skill Analyzes

Project Purpose & Type

  • Identify project category (web app, CLI, library, data science)
  • Understand main functionality from README and code structure
  • Determine intended use case

Repository Structure

  • Entry points (main.py, app.py, manage.py, etc.)
  • Package organization (src/, app/, lib/)
  • Test structure (tests/, test_*.py)
  • Documentation (docs/, README.md)
  • Configuration files

Dependencies & Requirements

  • requirements.txt (pip)
  • Pipfile/Pipfile.lock (Pipenv)
  • pyproject.toml/poetry.lock (Poetry)
  • environment.yml (Conda)
  • setup.py/setup.cfg (setuptools)

Setup & Execution

  • Virtual environment setup
  • Installation commands
  • Environment variables needed
  • How to run the application
  • How to run tests

Analysis Workflow

1. Initial Scan

Automated analysis:

python scripts/analyze_repo.py <repo_path>

Manual analysis:

  • List top-level files and directories
  • Identify key indicator files
  • Check for README

2. Identify Project Type

Check for framework indicators:

Django:

  • manage.py present
  • settings.py in project
  • Django in dependencies

Flask:

  • app.py or application.py
  • Flask imports in code
  • templates/ and static/ directories

FastAPI:

  • FastAPI imports
  • main.py with app definition
  • uvicorn in dependencies

CLI Tool:

  • cli.py or __main__.py
  • argparse, click, or typer usage
  • Console scripts in setup

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. yesterday First seen · 332 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A e246bb361c13

Subscribe to this mod's changes

python-repo-quickstart is a skill published in the GitHub repository ArabelaTso/Skills-4-SE (248 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,854 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.

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