understand-codebase

A codebase study guide built from the repository itself, with an interactive glossary, architecture diagrams, flashcards, and a quiz. A codebase is the complete collection of files that make up a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn key concepts and architecture, review flashcards, test your understanding, and optionally create a printable PDF.
Why use it?
It turns an unfamiliar project into structured learning material with explanations and links back to the source code.

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/dentiny/kon/understand-codebase
Any agent
npx skills add dentiny/kon --skill understand-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dentiny/kon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,313 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 $0.00042 $0.01313
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00656
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00131

Measured yesterday against content hash 623035ce84ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understand-codebase 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.

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/understand-codebase/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Understand Codebase

Consumers: /kon:understand-codebase

Core principles (always): follow skills/core-principles — teach from what the repo actually contains; simplest path through the concepts.

Turn a repository into study materials: key concepts, architecture, flashcards, and a quiz.

Deliverables (after build step)

Output Contents
understand-guide.html Primary — interactive guide: click a term, glossary heading, or mermaid node → detail side panel; mermaid + vscode:// / cursor:// source links
understand-study.html Flashcards + quiz with snippets + clickable source links
understand-guide.pdf Optional print export when pandoc + LaTeX are installed

All files live under sessions/<session-id>/. Orchestrator runs build_understand_codebase.py after Jun finishes.

Pipeline

  1. 🎸 Azusa (explore) — read-only codebase map → hook saves understand-explore.md
  2. 📚 Jun (author) — reads explore artifact, writes understand-guide.md + understand-study.json
  3. Orchestratorpython3 $KON_ROOT/scripts/build_understand_codebase.py --id "$SID"

Azusa — explore mode

Read agents/Azusa.md. Read-only — no Write/Edit on application source.

Pass SESSION_DIR, EXPLORE_FILE: understand-explore.md.

Required sections (hook persists full output)

## Loaded memory entries
…

## Scope
<what was explored; optional user focus from command>

## Code map
| Area | Key paths | One-line role |
|------|-----------|---------------|

## Concepts spotted (raw)
For each term you see in code/docs — name, where found (`path:line`), rough meaning from evidence:

### <Term>
- **Seen in**: `path:line`, …
- **Notes**: …

## Architecture notes (raw)
- **Deployment shape**: single-node / distributed / hybrid — evidence
- **Major components**: …
- **Data flow**: …
- **External deps**: …

## Implementation anchors
Concrete `path:line` pairs worth flashcard/quiz treatment later.

## Gaps
What could not be determined from the repo alone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. yesterday First seen · 125 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 623035ce84ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

understand-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository dentiny/kon (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,313 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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