deep-analysis

A codebase investigation tool for tracing how software works, finding implementations, and studying architecture across a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace a feature’s flow, locate related code, investigate behavior, or understand a project’s structure.
Why use it?
It helps answer questions about unfamiliar code without relying only on file-by-file searching. It requires checking the available code-search method and using an indexed codebase when available.

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/madappgang/claude-code/deep-analysis
Any agent
npx skills add MadAppGang/claude-code --skill deep-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MadAppGang/claude-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,794 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 $0.00062 $0.02794
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01397
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00279

Measured 3d ago against content hash 724d1655c4fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-analysis 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 3d 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/code-analysis/skills/deep-analysis/SKILL.md · 369 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 369 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Code Analysis

This Skill provides comprehensive codebase investigation capabilities using the codebase-detective agent with semantic search and pattern matching.

Prerequisites (MANDATORY)

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║                        BEFORE INVOKING THIS SKILL                             ║
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║                                                                              ║
║  1. INVOKE code-search-selector skill FIRST                                  ║
║     → Validates tool selection (claudemem vs grep)                           ║
║     → Checks if claudemem is indexed                                         ║
║     → Prevents tool familiarity bias                                         ║
║                                                                              ║
║  2. VERIFY claudemem status                                                  ║
║     → Run: claudemem status                                                  ║
║     → If not indexed: claudemem index -y                                     ║
║                                                                              ║
║  3. DO NOT start with Read/Glob                                              ║
║     → Even if file paths are mentioned in the prompt                         ║
║     → Semantic search first, Read specific lines after                       ║
║                                                                              ║
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When to use this Skill

Claude should invoke this Skill when:

  • User asks "how does [feature] work?"
  • User wants to understand code architecture or patterns
  • User is debugging and needs to trace code flow
  • User asks "where is [functionality] implemented?"
  • User needs to find all usages of a component/service
  • User wants to understand dependencies between files
  • User mentions: "investigate", "analyze", "find", "trace", "understand"
  • User is exploring an unfamiliar codebase
  • User needs to understand complex multi-file functionality

Read the full file on GitHub · 369 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. 3d ago First seen · 369 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 724d1655c4fc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository MadAppGang/claude-code (279 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,794 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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