identifying-tech-stack

A project-analysis guide that identifies the programming languages, frameworks, libraries, build tools, runtimes, and deployment systems used by a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a new project, checking whether a migration is practical, reviewing dependency health, or preparing a technology inventory.
Why use it?
It gives you a fuller picture of what actually runs, including outdated dependencies and differences between declared and installed software.

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/identifying-tech-stack
Any agent
npx skills add quangphu1912/codebase-analyzer --skill identifying-tech-stack
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 904 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 $0.00904
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00452
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00090

Measured yesterday against content hash 7185da43d955, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identifying-tech-stack 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/identifying-tech-stack/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Announce at start: "Using codebase-analyzer to identify the tech stack."

Overview

Catalog every technology, framework, library, and tool in use. First Track A skill -- its output informs all subsequent analysis. This skill goes beyond surface-level detection to reveal the project's true runtime reality: what actually ships, what was migrated halfway, and what the team struggles with.

Process

  1. Read package manifests (package.json, Cargo.toml, go.mod, requirements.txt, pom.xml, .csproj, Gemfile, etc.)
  2. Identify build tools from config files (webpack.config, vite.config, tsconfig, Makefile, Dockerfile, Jenkinsfile)
  3. Detect frameworks from code patterns and dependencies
  4. Identify runtime/language versions (engines field, .python-version, .nvmrc, rust-toolchain.toml)
  5. Map deployment infrastructure (Docker, K8s, serverless, CI/CD)
  6. Flag outdated or deprecated dependencies
  7. Produce tech stack report

Diagnostic Reasoning

  1. Read package manifests in dependency order: Lock files first (ground truth of what's installed), then manifests (declared intent). Divergence = dependency drift.

  2. Check scripts before dependencies: package.json "scripts" reveal the ACTUAL build pipeline. If "build" runs webpack but devDependencies lists vite, someone migrated partially. Declared deps lie; scripts tell truth.

  3. Compare dependencies vs devDependencies placement: Business logic in devDependencies = build-time-only (code generation). Test utilities in dependencies = production monitoring. Misplaced deps reveal team confusion.

  4. Look for overrides/resolutions: Each override in package.json is a hidden story about a transitive dependency conflict. Count them -- more than 5 indicates dependency hell.

  5. Check engine pinning: Pinned engines ("node": "18.x") reveal deployment constraints. Absent engines with cutting-edge syntax = only runs on developer machines.

  6. Detect migration fossils: Both webpack.config AND vite.config = migration in progress. Both .eslintrc AND eslint.config = migration stalled. Coexistence = incomplete transition.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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 · 69 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 7185da43d955

Subscribe to this mod's changes

identifying-tech-stack 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 904 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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