codebase-onboarding

codebase-onboarding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from New1Direction/korgex. It costs 53 tokens per session (1,968 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of codebase-onboarding, MIT.

A method for examining an unfamiliar codebase and creating an onboarding guide with its structure, entry points, and conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a repository, opening a project for the first time, understanding its architecture, or creating a starter CLAUDE.md file.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent guessing where the application starts, how its parts fit together, and how the project is normally changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when joining a repository, opening a project for the first time, understanding its architecture, or creating a starter CLAUDE.md file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/new1direction/korgex/codebase-onboarding
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 New1Direction/korgex --skill codebase-onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/New1Direction/korgex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,968 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 92% 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 5.1 $0.00053 $0.01968
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00787
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00197

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 716e42006634, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-onboarding 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to codebase-onboarding — 25 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.

src/skills_builtin/codebase-onboarding/SKILL.md · 234 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 234 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Onboarding

Systematically analyze an unfamiliar codebase and produce a structured onboarding guide. Designed for developers joining a new project or setting up Claude Code in an existing repo for the first time.

When to Use

  • First time opening a project with Claude Code
  • Joining a new team or repository
  • User asks "help me understand this codebase"
  • User asks to generate a CLAUDE.md for a project
  • User says "onboard me" or "walk me through this repo"

How It Works

Phase 1: Reconnaissance

Gather raw signals about the project without reading every file. Run these checks in parallel:

1. Package manifest detection
   → package.json, go.mod, Cargo.toml, pyproject.toml, pom.xml, build.gradle,
     Gemfile, composer.json, mix.exs, pubspec.yaml

2. Framework fingerprinting
   → next.config.*, nuxt.config.*, angular.json, vite.config.*,
     django settings, flask app factory, fastapi main, rails config

3. Entry point identification
   → main.*, index.*, app.*, server.*, cmd/, src/main/

4. Directory structure snapshot
   → Top 2 levels of the directory tree, ignoring node_modules, vendor,
     .git, dist, build, __pycache__, .next

5. Config and tooling detection
   → .eslintrc*, .prettierrc*, tsconfig.json, Makefile, Dockerfile,
     docker-compose*, .github/workflows/, .env.example, CI configs

6. Test structure detection
   → tests/, test/, __tests__/, *_test.go, *.spec.ts, *.test.js,
     pytest.ini, jest.config.*, vitest.config.*

Phase 2: Architecture Mapping

From the reconnaissance data, identify:

Tech Stack

  • Language(s) and version constraints
  • Framework(s) and major libraries
  • Database(s) and ORMs
  • Build tools and bundlers
  • CI/CD platform

Architecture Pattern

  • Monolith, monorepo, microservices, or serverless
  • Frontend/backend split or full-stack
  • API style: REST, GraphQL, gRPC, tRPC

Key Directories Map the top-level directories to their purpose:

src/components/  → React UI components
src/api/         → API route handlers
src/lib/         → Shared utilities
src/db/          → Database models and migrations
tests/           → Test suites
scripts/         → Build and deployment scripts

Read the full file on GitHub · 234 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. 1mo ago First seen · 234 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 716e42006634

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codebase-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository New1Direction/korgex (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 1,968 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to codebase-onboarding, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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