analyzing-projects

analyzing-projects is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided workflow for understanding an unfamiliar codebase. It examines the project overview, programming tools, directory structure, coding patterns, and development process before producing a summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a project, exploring an unfamiliar repository, answering how the code works, or documenting its technology stack and conventions.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to work out how a project is organised and how its parts fit together. It is intended for onboarding and architecture questions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-workflow-v2 plugin — 14 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

About the project

Project Starter is a workflow plugin that equips coding agents with specialized subagents, reusable skills, commands, hooks, and output styles for software projects. It is for developers who want structured assistance with tasks such as planning, debugging, code review, security, and automation across several coding-agent platforms. Catalogue add-ons are components of its own workflow.

CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 · 1,413 stars · on GitHub

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/cloudai-x/claude-workflow-v2/analyzing-projects
Any agent
npx skills add CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 --skill analyzing-projects
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-workflow-v2, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,002 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 $0.00050 $0.01002
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00501
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00100

Measured 5d ago against content hash e548dfccb74f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-projects 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.

skills/analyzing-projects/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analyzing Projects

When to Load

  • Trigger: Onboarding to a new project, "how does this work" questions, codebase exploration, understanding unfamiliar code
  • Skip: Already familiar with the project structure and patterns

Project Analysis Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

Project Analysis Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Quick overview (README, root files)
- [ ] Step 2: Detect tech stack
- [ ] Step 3: Map project structure
- [ ] Step 4: Identify key patterns
- [ ] Step 5: Find development workflow
- [ ] Step 6: Generate summary report

Step 1: Quick Overview

# Check for common project markers
ls -la
cat README.md 2>/dev/null | head -50

Step 2: Tech Stack Detection

Package Managers & Dependencies

  • package.json → Node.js/JavaScript/TypeScript
  • requirements.txt / pyproject.toml / setup.py → Python
  • go.mod → Go
  • Cargo.toml → Rust
  • pom.xml / build.gradle → Java
  • Gemfile → Ruby

Frameworks (from dependencies)

  • React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, Nuxt
  • Express, FastAPI, Django, Flask, Rails
  • Spring Boot, Gin, Echo

Infrastructure

  • Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml → Containerized
  • kubernetes/, k8s/ → Kubernetes
  • terraform/, .tf files → IaC
  • serverless.yml → Serverless Framework
  • .github/workflows/ → GitHub Actions

Step 3: Project Structure Analysis

Present as a tree with annotations:

project/
├── src/              # Source code
│   ├── components/   # UI components (React/Vue)
│   ├── services/     # Business logic
│   ├── models/       # Data models
│   └── utils/        # Shared utilities
├── tests/            # Test files
├── docs/             # Documentation
└── config/           # Configuration

Step 4: Key Patterns Identification

Look for and report:

  • Architecture: Monolith, Microservices, Serverless, Monorepo
  • API Style: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, tRPC
  • State Management: Redux, Zustand, MobX, Context
  • Database: SQL, NoSQL, ORM used
  • Authentication: JWT, OAuth, Sessions
  • Testing: Jest, Pytest, Go test, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 5d ago First seen · 161 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e548dfccb74f

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analyzing-projects is a skill published in the GitHub repository CloudAI-X/claude-workflow-v2 (1,413 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,002 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 2026-08-30.

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