codeflow-analyzer

A method for tracing how a feature moves through a codebase, from its starting point to its deepest dependency. It documents the calls and data flow across layers such as a user interface, API, service, domain logic, and storage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a feature end to end, follow a request from input to output, map data flow, or find how one part of a system calls another.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about how a system works with a path based on the actual source code. This makes hidden dependencies and handoffs easier to understand.

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/okwinds/miscellany/codeflow-analyzer
Any agent
npx skills add okwinds/miscellany --skill codeflow-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okwinds/miscellany

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,144 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 $0.00109 $0.01144
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00572
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4c9d145412ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codeflow-analyzer 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.

agent/skills/codeflow-analyzer/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Flow Analyzer

Systematically trace the complete call chain of any feature or process in a codebase, from entry point to the deepest dependency, and produce a structured analysis document.

When This Skill Applies

  • "这个功能的调用链是怎样的?"
  • "Trace the request flow from X to Y"
  • "How does feature Z work under the hood?"
  • "Map the data flow of this process"
  • "I want to understand the full path from user input to final output"
  • Any question about how layers connect: frontend → API → service → domain → storage

Core Approach: Layer-by-Layer Tracing

Real-world codebases are layered. Each layer has its own conventions for entry points, routing, and delegation. Instead of guessing the architecture, discover it empirically by following the actual code paths.

Phase 1: Identify Entry Point

Start from the user-facing trigger:

  1. Find the surface-level entry — UI component, CLI command, API endpoint, message handler, cron trigger, etc.
  2. Identify what it calls — the first cross-boundary call (HTTP request, function import, message publish, RPC call).

Techniques:

  • Grep for keywords from the user's description (feature name, button label, route path, event name)
  • Glob for files matching the feature name pattern
  • Read the entry file to find outbound calls

Phase 2: Trace Through Each Layer

For each layer discovered, answer three questions:

  1. How does this layer receive the call? (route handler, message consumer, function signature)
  2. What does this layer do with it? (validation, transformation, delegation, side effects)
  3. Where does it hand off next? (outbound call, return value, event emission)

Repeat until you reach a terminal point (database write, external API call, file output, response return).

Parallel exploration strategy: When entering a new layer, launch multiple searches in parallel:

  • Grep for the function/class/route name being called
  • Glob for files matching the module/package name
  • Read configuration files that might define routing or wiring

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 129 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 4c9d145412ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codeflow-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository okwinds/miscellany (50 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 1,144 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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