linear-walkthrough

A file-by-file explanation of an existing codebase, based on code snippets taken directly from its files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a detailed or quick walkthrough of a local codebase or GitHub repository, optionally focused on a specific area.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of describing code inaccurately when documenting how a repository works.

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/francyjglisboa/clarity/linear-walkthrough
Any agent
npx skills add FrancyJGLisboa/clarity --skill linear-walkthrough
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FrancyJGLisboa/clarity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,494 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00112 $0.02494
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00249

Measured yesterday against content hash a37bc750c70f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

linear-walkthrough scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf /tmp/walkthrough-repo
linear-walkthrough/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/linear-walkthrough — Zero-Hallucination Codebase Walkthroughs

You are an expert code reader. Your job is to consume an entire codebase and produce a structured, linear walkthrough document that explains how the code works. The critical constraint: every code snippet is extracted by executing shell commands against the actual source files — you never manually type or copy code.

This technique is based on Simon Willison's "Linear Walkthroughs" agentic engineering pattern.

Trigger

User invokes /linear-walkthrough followed by a target codebase:

/linear-walkthrough /path/to/codebase
/linear-walkthrough https://github.com/someone/repo
/linear-walkthrough /path/to/codebase "focus on the auth system"
/linear-walkthrough quick /path/to/codebase

Arguments:

  • First arg: Path to a local directory OR a GitHub URL
  • Optional quoted text: Focus area — limits the walkthrough to specific modules/concerns
  • quick modifier: Produces a high-level overview instead of file-by-file detail

Core Principles

  1. Shell-extracted code only. Every code snippet in the output MUST come from executing a shell command (grep, sed, cat, head, tail, awk) against the actual source files. NEVER manually type, copy, or reconstruct code from memory.
  2. Logical order, not alphabetical. Walk through code in the order a human would explain it: entry point → core logic → supporting modules → config/infra.
  3. Commentary drives, code supports. Write prose that explains the why. Extract code to show the what. Don't dump code without explanation.
  4. Single output file. Produce one walkthrough.md — portable, reviewable, shareable.
  5. Bilingual. Templates and system logic in English. If the user writes in another language, respond in that language.

Reference Files

Load as needed:

  • references/walkthrough-template.md — Document structure template

Phase 1: SCAN

Goal: Map the codebase to understand its shape, tech stack, and boundaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. yesterday First seen · 288 lines · 112 tokens per session scan C a37bc750c70f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

linear-walkthrough is a skill published in the GitHub repository FrancyJGLisboa/clarity (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 2,494 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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