codebase-context

A skill for building an architectural overview of an internal software system from its code and documentation. It searches for relevant repositories, technical documents, and active contributors.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for locating a system's main code, APIs, data models, design documents, runbooks, and likely owners before making changes or explaining how the system works.
Why use it?
It helps avoid basing an architecture summary on one incomplete or outdated source. It gathers broad context before examining the most important implementation details.

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/gleanwork/cursor-plugins/codebase-context
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/cursor-plugins --skill codebase-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/cursor-plugins

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 1,031 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01031
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00515
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured yesterday against content hash 6dc991ee8b93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-context 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to codebase-context — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

glean/skills/codebase-context/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Context

Gather comprehensive architectural context about an internal system by searching code and documentation across the organization.

Determine the system name from the user's request. If not specified, ask before proceeding.

Core Principles

  • Breadth before depth: Find all relevant pieces before diving deep
  • Docs + code: Both tell important parts of the story
  • Be skeptical: Not every search result is relevant context
  • Freshness matters: Stale docs can mislead

Process

Phase 1: Find the Code

Search for the system's codebase across all repositories:

code_search "[system] main OR core updated:past_month"
code_search "[system] service handler"

Look for:

  • Main entry points and core modules
  • API definitions (REST, gRPC, GraphQL)
  • Key data structures and models

Phase 2: Find the Documentation

Search for architecture and design docs:

search "[system] architecture OR design doc"
search "[system] RFC OR proposal"
search "[system] runbook OR playbook"

Phase 3: Identify Key Contributors

Find who's actively working on this system:

code_search "[system] owner:* updated:past_month"

Cross-reference with employee_search for contact info.

Phase 4: Vet All Content

For each piece of content, evaluate:

Test ✅ Include ⚠️ Note ❌ Reject
Relevance Core component, directly relevant Mentions system but not central Keyword coincidence
Currency <6 months, matches code 6-12 months 12+ months with no activity
Authority Approved RFC, design doc, official runbook Team wiki, notes, drafts Outdated proposals, abandoned work
Doc/Code consistency Docs reflect current state Note discrepancy, prefer code Doc significantly wrong — warn user

Repository Health:

  • ✅ ACTIVE: Commits in past month
  • ⚠️ SLOWING: Last commit 1-6 months ago
  • ❌ STALE: No commits in 6+ months

Phase 5: Generate Vetted Context Report

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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 · 149 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6dc991ee8b93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codebase-context is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/cursor-plugins (3 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,031 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to codebase-context, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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