analyzing-code-quality

A code-review procedure for assessing maintainability, risks, and technical debt, meaning work needed to improve aging or difficult code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding complexity hotspots, repeated code, weak error handling, inconsistent naming, anti-patterns, and signs of limited test coverage.
Why use it?
It helps locate bug-prone and hard-to-maintain parts of a codebase before planning improvements.

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/quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer/analyzing-code-quality
Any agent
npx skills add quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer --skill analyzing-code-quality
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 695 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 $0.00031 $0.00695
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00347
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00069

Measured yesterday against content hash 76981480ec15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyzing-code-quality 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.

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/analyzing-code-quality/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Announce at start: "Using codebase-analyzer to analyze code quality."

Overview

Identify quality patterns, anti-patterns, complexity hotspots, and risk areas that make code hard to maintain.

Process

  1. Find hotspots: files changed most frequently via git log
  2. Detect anti-patterns: god classes, long methods, deep nesting, feature envy (see references/anti-pattern-catalog.md)
  3. Check error handling consistency
  4. Assess naming conventions and readability
  5. Estimate test coverage indicators (test-to-source ratio, test file presence)
  6. Find complexity hotspots (deep nesting, long functions)

Quick Reference

Anti-Pattern Detection Risk
God class >500 lines, >15 methods High
Long method >50 lines Medium
Deep nesting >4 levels of if/for High
Feature envy Method uses another class more than its own Medium
Duplicated code Similar blocks in 3+ files Medium
Missing error handling try/catch absent around IO High

Trigger Signals

  • HIGH confidence: Code generation artifacts (header comments, generated markers) -> trace-codebase-provenance
  • HIGH confidence: Build-time code injection patterns -> analyze-build-pipeline
  • MEDIUM confidence: High churn files with complex logic -> refactoring priority
  • LOW confidence: Normal quality patterns -> no deep dive needed

Quality-Churn Correlation

A file that changes frequently AND has high complexity is a bug factory. A file that changes frequently but is simple is just a configuration hub. The CORRELATION is the insight, not the individual metrics. Use git log --format='%H' --name-only to find high-churn files, then cross-reference with complexity. For churn analysis commands, see _shared/references/git-archaeology-techniques.md.

Quality Gradients

Code quality degrades from edges inward. Entry points and API handlers are polished. Internal services and data access layers accumulate debt. Check the gradient to find where debt hides. A codebase that is clean at the edges but rotten in the middle has a steeper remediation curve than one with uniform moderate quality.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 76981480ec15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

analyzing-code-quality is a skill published in the GitHub repository quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 695 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 2026-08-31.

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