codebase-comprehension-algorithms

codebase-comprehension-algorithms is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pproenca/dot-skills. It costs 229 tokens per session (3,642 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of methods for mapping an unfamiliar codebase to its features, business areas, and architectural structure. It helps connect user-facing behaviour to the files and modules that implement it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer what a codebase does, find the files behind a feature, identify its main architectural path, or assess changes that cross module boundaries.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent guessing where a feature lives or how modules relate when entering an unfamiliar project or reviewing a wide refactor.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to answer what a codebase does, find the files behind a feature, identify its main architectural path, or assess changes that cross module boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pproenca/dot-skills/codebase-comprehension-algorithms
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills --skill codebase-comprehension-algorithms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pproenca/dot-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 229 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,642 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
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How audits are shown
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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 $0.00229 $0.03642
Opus 5 $0.00114 $0.01821
Sonnet 5 $0.00046 $0.00728
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00364

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8e10ac7a8c53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-comprehension-algorithms 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 5d 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.

skills/.experimental/codebase-comprehension-algorithms/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Community Codebase Comprehension And Domain Mapping Algorithms Best Practices

A practitioner-oriented reference of the algorithms that work for mapping a codebase into understandable feature/business domains. Most of these techniques live in the Software Architecture Recovery and Mining Software Repositories literatures and are invisible to working engineers — yet they're the right tools for the job a coding agent is asked to do every day: "what does this codebase do, and where?"

The 47 rules are organized by execution-lifecycle impact: a wrong decision early in the pipeline (which graph to build, which identifiers to keep) propagates through everything downstream. The three CRITICAL categories (graph-, clust-, valid-) are the ones a wrong call cannot be recovered from later. Read them first.

Scope: proven algorithms with peer-reviewed citations or canonical books — Newman Networks, Leskovec-Rajaraman-Ullman Mining of Massive Datasets, Ganter-Wille Formal Concept Analysis, plus 40+ ICSE / FSE / TSE / PNAS / JMLR papers. No tutorial sites, no Stack Overflow, no marketing posts. Deliberately deferred to a future version: GNN/CodeBERT/code2vec (not "proven over decades" yet) and refactoring-recipe stuff (covered by sibling skills like react-refactor and typescript-refactor).

When to Apply

Use these rules when:

  • Onboarding an agent into an unfamiliar codebase: "explain what this codebase does, by domain"
  • Producing an architecture map: "what are the main subsystems and how do they connect?"
  • Locating a feature: "which files implement payments / authentication / search?"
  • Reviewing a refactor: "did this change respect the architectural boundaries?"
  • Detecting architectural debt: "what files have surprising coupling?"
  • Validating an existing decomposition: "does the README's architecture match the code?"
  • Picking algorithms for any of the above — the user wants something that's proven, not vibes

Rule Categories By Priority

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 lines

Files

What ships with it

51 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. 5d ago First seen · 146 lines · 229 tokens per session scan A 8e10ac7a8c53

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codebase-comprehension-algorithms is a skill published in the GitHub repository pproenca/dot-skills (205 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 229 tokens to every session and 3,642 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-09-03.

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