understanding-codebase

A project guide for a monorepo—a single repository containing multiple related apps and packages—covering structure, technologies, naming, architecture, workflow, and coding rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work, exploring the codebase, onboarding, asking about project structure, or needing context about how the monorepo is organized.
Why use it?
It helps developers and agents find the right part of the repository and follow its existing conventions instead of making inconsistent changes.

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/narpatsinghpurohit/tstack/understanding-codebase
Any agent
npx skills add narpatsinghpurohit/tstack --skill understanding-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/narpatsinghpurohit/tstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,970 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 $0.00070 $0.01970
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00985
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00197

Measured 2d ago against content hash 754cdec54de8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understanding-codebase 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/understanding-codebase/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Guide

Tech stack

Layer Technology
Monorepo Turborepo + Bun workspaces
Backend NestJS, Mongoose, MongoDB
Frontend React + Vite, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Zustand
UI Tailwind CSS + shadcn/ui
Validation Zod (shared between frontend and backend)
Auth JWT (access + refresh tokens, Bearer header), Argon2
Linting Biome (replaces ESLint + Prettier) — config at root biome.json
Testing Jest (backend + mobile), Vitest + React Testing Library + MSW (web), Jest + RNTL (mobile)
Mobile React Native CLI, React Navigation, NativeWind

Monorepo layout

project/
├── apps/
│   ├── api/                  # NestJS backend
│   │   └── src/
│   │       ├── core/         # Auth, database, logging infrastructure
│   │       ├── common/       # Shared pipes, guards, filters, decorators, interceptors
│   │       ├── config/       # Env validation (Zod), config namespaces
│   │       └── modules/      # Feature modules (singular naming)
│   ├── web/                  # React + Vite frontend
│   │   └── src/
│   │       ├── components/   # Shared UI (ui/ for shadcn, layout/ for shell)
│   │       ├── features/     # Feature modules (co-located, 3-file split)
│   │       ├── hooks/        # Global custom hooks
│   │       ├── lib/          # API client, utilities
│   │       ├── routes/       # TanStack Router route tree
│   │       └── stores/       # Zustand stores
│   └── mobile/               # React Native app
│       └── src/
│           ├── components/   # Shared mobile UI components
│           ├── features/     # Feature modules (co-located, 3-file split)
│           ├── hooks/        # Global custom hooks
│           ├── lib/          # API client, utilities
│           ├── navigation/   # React Navigation config (stacks, tabs, drawers)
│           └── stores/       # Zustand stores
├── packages/
│   └── shared/               # Zod schemas, types, constants
│       └── src/
│           ├── schemas/      # Zod validation schemas (single source of truth)
│           ├── types/        # Shared TypeScript interfaces
│           └── constants/    # Error codes, enums, route constants
├── specs/                    # Feature specs (requirement, design, tasks)
├── turbo.json                # Task pipeline
├── biome.json                # Linting & formatting (root config)
└── tsconfig.base.json        # Shared TypeScript config

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 173 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 754cdec54de8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

understanding-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository narpatsinghpurohit/tstack (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,970 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 2026-08-31.

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