codebase-orientation

codebase-orientation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from proflead/codex-skills-library. It costs 36 tokens per session (213 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A guide for quickly understanding an unfamiliar codebase, meaning a software project’s source files and structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps map modules, find entry points, and record the steps needed to run the project on a developer’s machine.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching for where the program starts, how its modules relate, and how to run it locally.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It helps map modules, find entry points, and record the steps needed to run the project on a developer’s machine.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/proflead/codex-skills-library/codebase-orientation
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 proflead/codex-skills-library --skill codebase-orientation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proflead/codex-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 213 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 unknown 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 $0.00036 $0.00213
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00085
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00043
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00021

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d10d016d72dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-orientation 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.

skills/foundation/codebase-orientation/SKILL.md · 30 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 30 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A d10d016d72dd

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codebase-orientation is a skill published in the GitHub repository proflead/codex-skills-library (159 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 213 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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