external-gitcode-ascend-code-comprehension

external-gitcode-ascend-code-comprehension is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ascend-ai-coding/awesome-ascend-skills. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A code-analysis aid that explains an unfamiliar codebase at three levels: individual functions, modules, and the whole system.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for summarising code structure and explaining how parts of a large software system work together.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand complex projects such as machine-learning and distributed-training frameworks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Part of the external-gitcode-ascend-skills plugin — 91 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for summarising code structure and explaining how parts of a large software system work together.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ascend-ai-coding/awesome-ascend-skills/code-comprehension
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 ascend-ai-coding/awesome-ascend-skills --skill code-comprehension
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ascend-ai-coding/awesome-ascend-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install external-gitcode-ascend-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 91 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,989 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 unknown 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 $0.00068 $0.01989
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00994
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00199

Measured 5d ago against content hash db22f60610c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

external-gitcode-ascend-code-comprehension 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 5d 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.

external/gitcode-ascend/code-comprehension/SKILL.md · 193 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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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. 5d ago First seen · 193 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A db22f60610c7

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external-gitcode-ascend-code-comprehension is a skill published in the GitHub repository ascend-ai-coding/awesome-ascend-skills (167 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,989 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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