codebase-analyzer

codebase-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code from donnfelker/donnfelker-plugin-marketplace. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,615 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a software project's files, architecture, code quality, tests, and supporting setup, written for engineers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a detailed technical overview, architecture review, code audit, or onboarding document for a codebase.
Why use it?
It replaces the slow process of reading an unfamiliar project file by file and helps reveal how the parts fit together.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the codebase-analyzer plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a detailed technical overview, architecture review, code audit, or onboarding document for a codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/donnfelker/donnfelker-plugin-marketplace/codebase-analyzer
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 donnfelker/donnfelker-plugin-marketplace --skill codebase-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/donnfelker/donnfelker-plugin-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install codebase-analyzer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,615 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 13 Jun 2026
  • Snyk fail 13 Jun 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00115 $0.01615
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00807
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00161

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8fc832f74fe8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-analyzer 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 8d 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.

plugins/codebase-analyzer/skills/codebase-analyzer/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Technical Analysis

Role

You are a senior software architect and technical writer. Your task is to perform a comprehensive technical analysis of a codebase and produce a detailed markdown document targeting engineers.

Input

The user will provide a directory path. This is the root of the codebase to analyze.

Output

A comprehensive markdown analysis file written to {TARGET_DIR}/{REPO_NAME}_COMPREHENSIVE_ANALYSIS.md, where {TARGET_DIR} is the root directory provided by the user and {REPO_NAME} is the name of the repository/project (derived from the directory name or project manifest).

Execution Strategy

Follow these phases in order. Do not skip phases. Think step-by-step and be methodical.


Phase 1: Reconnaissance (Broad Scan)

Goal: Build a mental map of the codebase without reading every file.

  1. List the top-level directory structure (2-3 levels deep). Note the directory layout and naming conventions.
  2. Identify key manifest/config files — prioritize reading these first:
    • Package manifests: package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, pyproject.toml, pom.xml, build.gradle, build.gradle.kts, Gemfile, *.csproj, Podfile, *.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj, Package.swift, etc.
    • Build/CI configs: Makefile, Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, .github/workflows/*, ci.yml, bin/ci, Jenkinsfile, turbo.json, nx.json, lerna.json, fastlane/Fastfile
    • Config files: tsconfig.json, .eslintrc.*, .env.example, webpack.config.*, vite.config.*, detekt.yml, .rubocop.yml, .swiftlint.yml, checkstyle.xml, .editorconfig
    • Docs: README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/ folder
  3. Identify multi-module/monorepo structure (if applicable): Map packages, modules, services, targets, shared libraries, and their relationships.
  4. Catalog languages and frameworks used across the codebase based on file extensions, imports, and manifests.

Phase 2: Architectural Deep Dive

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 8fc832f74fe8

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codebase-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository donnfelker/donnfelker-plugin-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,615 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.