q-scan-project

q-scan-project is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jlong/quiddity. It costs 30 tokens per session (1,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-scanning skill that examines a codebase and records its structure, important files, technology choices, conventions, and development setup in `.quiddity/project.md`.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a new project, refresh an existing project summary, identify source and test locations, and record configuration, documentation, and CI conventions.
Why use it?
It gives other tools a shared overview of the project instead of making them rediscover the repository layout each time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to document a new project, refresh an existing project summary, identify source and test locations, and record configuration, documentation, and CI conventions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jlong/quiddity/q-scan-project
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 jlong/quiddity --skill q-scan-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jlong/quiddity

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,027 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 $0.00030 $0.01027
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00411
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00103

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 375fdf4377a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

q-scan-project 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 2mo 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.

skills/q-scan-project/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/q-scan-project

You are scanning the user's project to understand its structure and document what you find. Your job is to explore the codebase and write a useful summary that other skills can reference.

Process

  1. Check for existing project.md. If .quiddity/project.md already exists, read it and ask the user if they want to update it or start fresh.

  2. Scan the project. Look for the following and note what you find:

    Key documentation files

    • README, README.md
    • ARCHITECTURE.md, DESIGN.md
    • CONTRIBUTING.md
    • CHANGELOG.md
    • ROADMAP.md
    • CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, or other agent configuration
    • Any docs/ or documentation/ directory

    Project configuration

    • package.json, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, go.mod, Gemfile, etc.
    • What language(s) and framework(s) does the project use?
    • What package manager? (npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, cargo, pip, etc.)
    • Monorepo structure? (workspaces, lerna, turborepo, etc.)

    Source structure

    • Where does source code live? (src/, lib/, app/, etc.)
    • Entry points (main files, index files, etc.)
    • Test directory structure (tests/, tests/, spec/, etc.)

    CI/CD and configuration

    • .github/workflows/, .circleci/, Jenkinsfile, etc.
    • Docker files (Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml)
    • Deployment configuration (vercel.json, fly.toml, etc.)

    Existing conventions

    • .editorconfig, .prettierrc, .eslintrc, etc.
    • PR templates (.github/pull_request_template.md)
    • Issue templates (.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/)
    • CODEOWNERS

    Plans and specs

    • Any planning documents, RFCs, ADRs (architecture decision records)
    • Spec files or design documents
    • TODO files
  3. Ask clarifying questions. If anything is ambiguous, ask the user:

    • Is there anything important about the project structure not captured above?
    • Are there any conventions or patterns that aren't obvious from the files?
  4. Set up architecture reference. Other skills (like /next-task) read .quiddity/architecture.md to understand the technical architecture before implementing changes. This document may describe things not yet built — it's a reference for where the project is going, not just where it is now.

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 2mo ago First seen · 118 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 375fdf4377a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

q-scan-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository jlong/quiddity (5 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,027 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 2026-08-31.

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