c4-codebase-architecture

c4-codebase-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OKHP3/skillz. It costs 47 tokens per session (3,046 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of c4-codebase-architecture, MIT.

A method for inspecting a repository and documenting its architecture with the C4 model. C4 is a way to describe a system at levels such as its users and surroundings, major deployable parts, and internal components.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reverse-engineer a codebase, create system-context or component diagrams, document infrastructure, and onboard engineers.
Why use it?
It turns source code and infrastructure into architecture views that are easier to understand and review. It also highlights boundaries or responsibilities that the code alone does not make obvious.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/okhp3/skillz/c4-codebase-architecture
Any agent
npx skills add OKHP3/skillz --skill c4-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OKHP3/skillz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 3,046 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.03046
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01523
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00609
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00305

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Security

Grade A, and why

c4-codebase-architecture 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.

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Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to c4-codebase-architecture — 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.

community/c4-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md · 539 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 539 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

C4 Model Codebase Documentation Skill

Purpose

This skill helps an agent inspect a codebase and produce useful C4-style architecture documentation. It should combine evidence from the repository with targeted follow-up questions whenever code inspection alone is not enough to determine system boundaries, responsibilities, runtime topology, or business intent.

The skill should be pragmatic rather than dogmatic. The goal is not to force every repository into a perfect set of four diagrams, but to produce the clearest possible architecture view at the right level of detail.


When to use this skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • understand the architecture of an existing codebase
  • produce C4 documentation for a repository
  • generate a system context, container, or component view
  • onboard new engineers with architecture docs
  • reverse engineer system structure from code and infrastructure definitions
  • compare intended architecture with implemented architecture

This skill works best when the repository includes at least some of the following:

  • source code
  • infrastructure as code
  • deployment descriptors
  • README or docs
  • API specifications
  • CI/CD configuration
  • test suites

What this skill should produce

The skill should aim to produce some or all of the following, depending on what the codebase supports:

  1. System Context

    • the system under study
    • human users or personas
    • external systems, APIs, providers, or dependencies
    • key relationships
  2. Container view

    • main deployable or runnable units
    • databases, queues, frontends, APIs, workers, serverless functions, data stores
    • protocols and interactions between them
  3. Component view

    • major internal components within a selected container
    • their responsibilities and relationships
  4. Supporting narrative

    • assumptions made from code inspection
    • unresolved ambiguities
    • questions for the user
    • notable architectural risks or mismatches

Read the full file on GitHub · 539 lines

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  1. yesterday First seen · 539 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 69c37c26f2e5

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c4-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository OKHP3/skillz (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 3,046 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 c4-codebase-architecture, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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