from-codebase-perspective

from-codebase-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 40 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only method for answering from the viewpoint of the existing codebase: the code, structure, conventions, and constraints already present in a project. It needs access to the working tree to find evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a proposed change against existing code, project structure, conventions, and technical constraints.
Why use it?
It shows what the current code is likely to accept or resist instead of judging a proposal in isolation. If the code cannot be reached, it stops without inventing evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-critique plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a proposed change against existing code, project structure, conventions, and technical constraints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/from-codebase-perspective
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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill from-codebase-perspective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-critique, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 3d ago against content hash 041069feef38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

from-codebase-perspective 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/odin-critique/skills/from-codebase-perspective/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

From codebase perspective

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User wants an answer only from the codebase seat (what existing code tolerates or punishes).
Authority Read-only. No file, VCS, credential, paid, published, deployed, or remote mutation.
Side effect Returns a codebase-perspective analysis in chat.
Done Returns a codebase-perspective answer without blending.

Not for

  • Rebuilding a design from primitives: use from-first-principle.
  • Blended multi-seat analysis: run each from-*-perspective seat independently and compare after.
  • Source or remote mutation: this skill is read-only.

Inputs

The question or proposal to analyze from the codebase seat. The codebase under analysis must be readable in the working tree; if it is not reachable, stop and report that the seat has no evidence.

Procedure

  1. Confirm the seat is codebase only. State that money, customers, timing, impact, career, breaking, rent-seeking, innovation, stability, moat, human, and skeptic perspectives are out of scope. Done when: the out-of-scope seats are named.
  2. Read the existing code, structure, conventions, and constraints that bear on the question. Done when: the relevant code is read and the evidence base is stated.
  3. Determine what the existing code tolerates: patterns, shapes, and directions it already accepts without friction. Done when: tolerates patterns are listed with code evidence.
  4. Determine what the existing code punishes: patterns, shapes, and directions that fight the current structure, require rework, or break invariants. Done when: punishes patterns are listed with code evidence.
  5. Emit the answer strictly from the codebase seat. Do not blend any other perspective; if another seat is relevant, name it as a separate lens to run independently. Done when: a codebase-perspective answer is emitted without blended content.

Failure and recovery

  • Unreachable codebase: stop. Report that the codebase seat has no evidence and emit no analysis.
  • Question outside the codebase seat: stop. Name the seat the question belongs to and emit no codebase answer.
  • Pressure to blend lenses mid-answer: refuse. The non-blending rule is load-bearing; comparison happens only after independent outputs.
  • Partial evidence: emit only the portion grounded in read code and label the rest as unverified. Never present inference as observed code behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 3d ago First seen · 45 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 041069feef38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

from-codebase-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-06.

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