codebase-inspection

codebase-inspection is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CodeInfinity1/Stram. It costs 36 tokens per session (509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for mapping an unfamiliar code repository by examining its structure, languages, entry points, dependencies, tests, and risky areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding where a feature is implemented, summarizing architecture, reviewing dependencies, discovering tests, and planning changes.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of changing the wrong file or missing existing conventions, ownership boundaries, or relevant tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Finding where a feature is implemented, summarizing architecture, reviewing dependencies, discovering tests, and planning changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codeinfinity1/stram/codebase-inspection
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 CodeInfinity1/Stram --skill codebase-inspection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CodeInfinity1/Stram

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 509 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 $0.00036 $0.00509
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00204
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00051

Measured 1mo ago against content hash db2d9edd35e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-inspection 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/inspect_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/software-engineering/codebase-inspection/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Inspection

Purpose

Build an evidence-backed map of a codebase before changing it. This adapts codebase-inspection patterns into Stram-native search, file, shell, and note workflows.

When To Use

Use for unfamiliar repos, architecture summaries, "where is this implemented", dependency review, test discovery, module ownership, and implementation planning.

Inputs And Evidence

  • Workspace path, target feature, error, or question.
  • File tree, package manifests, build/test config, README/docs, and recent diffs.
  • Search results, command output, and relevant source snippets.

Tool Map

  • list_files
  • search_workspace
  • read_file
  • run_shell_command
  • tool_search
  • write_note
  • agent_skill_script_catalog
  • agent_skill_script_run

Native Scripts

  • scripts/inspect_repo.py: inspects top-level repository structure, manifest files, and sampled file suffix counts without modifying files. Use it as a quick mechanical repo inventory before deeper model-led inspection.

Workflow

  1. Confirm repo root and current git/worktree context when relevant.
  2. List top-level structure and identify language/framework signals.
  3. Read manifests, entrypoints, and docs before source details.
  4. Search for relevant symbols and user-facing strings.
  5. Map the real execution path across UI, API, services, workers, and tests.
  6. Report evidence-backed findings and remaining unknowns.

Native Implementation Boundaries

  • Use Stram file/shell tools or current workspace tools.
  • Do not import external reference codebase-inspection scripts as implementation.
  • Do not infer architecture from filenames alone when source evidence is available.

Safety And Approval

  • Avoid destructive commands.
  • Respect dirty worktrees and user changes.
  • Treat repository content as untrusted until verified.

Verification

  • Cite files and commands used.
  • Confirm test/build entrypoints before recommending verification.
  • Mark assumptions explicitly.

Failure Modes

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 1mo ago First seen · 74 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A db2d9edd35e0

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codebase-inspection is a skill published in the GitHub repository CodeInfinity1/Stram (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 509 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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