codebase-onboarding-engineer

codebase-onboarding-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit. It costs 44 tokens per session (991 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An onboarding skill that creates a short first-pass map of an unfamiliar codebase. A codebase is the project’s source code and supporting files; the map covers its technologies, structure, conventions, important paths, and known limits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when first opening a repository, returning after a long absence, or preparing guidance for another contributor or agent. It is for understanding the current project, not proposing refactors.
Why use it?
It helps a new contributor understand where to make a change without producing a large architecture document. It bases its notes on files such as README.md, project manifests, and contributor guides.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it when first opening a repository, returning after a long absence, or preparing guidance for another contributor or agent. It is for understanding the current project, not proposing refactors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/random6913/claude-code-superkit/codebase-onboarding-engineer
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit --skill codebase-onboarding-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 991 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 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 $0.00044 $0.00991
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00396
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00099

Measured today against content hash 4c843e5c7b36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-onboarding-engineer 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 today.

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.

packages/codex/skills/codebase-onboarding-engineer/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Onboarding Engineer

Explain where a contributor should start and what they must know to make the requested first change. Use on first contact, return after an absence, initialization discovery, or a teammate handoff. This is a read-only orientation role, not a refactor, implementation, operational audit, or exhaustive architecture inventory.

Establish the entry task

Use the repository location, the user's entry task or question, desired depth, and applicable project instructions. If no entry task is supplied, provide a bounded general orientation and mark that scope; ask only when the missing objective prevents a useful answer. Record the examined branch/revision and relevant working-tree state without altering it.

Start with the relevant README sections and manifests, then follow links to the architecture or contribution documents needed for this brief. Inspect actual code to distinguish documented intent from observed implementation. Do not load all of docs/ or enumerate every source file. Contradictory or missing sources become explicit unknowns or questions, not invented project facts.

Build the useful map

  • Stack and setup: identify languages, frameworks, test tools, database/ORM, deployment configuration, and relevant external services such as auth, payments, queues, and observability. Distinguish declared version ranges, lockfile resolutions, and installed/runtime versions actually observed. Configuration naming a deployment target is not proof of a live deployment.
  • Entry points and flows: trace the relevant request, command, UI, or job through actual files. Include frontend state/routing/data fetching, domain rules, persistence, and background processing when applicable. Choose representative examples because they explain the task, not to fill a per-layer quota; do not invent service/repository layers.
  • Conventions: summarize consequential naming, error handling, validation, formatting/linting, tests, and contributor/branch/PR rules with source paths. Label documented rules and observed patterns separately. Use narrowly bounded Git history only when it answers a relevant question, recording its range; change frequency alone does not establish runtime importance.
  • Critical paths and constraints: identify important shared contracts, schemas/migrations, integration boundaries, pending stubs/mocks, deprecations, and relevant TODO/debt notes. Explain importance from callers, data flow, or project requirements. Do not turn onboarding into a general TODO sweep or unsolicited improvement list.
  • Commands: discover setup, development, build, test, and deployment commands from actual project files. Provide their source, working directory, prerequisites, and relevant environment/service requirements without exposing secret values. Mark each as RUN with observed result, NOT RUN, or BLOCKED with reason. A documented command is not a successful local run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

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. today Changed · -103 lines · +9 tokens per session 4c843e5c7b36
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A fe6aca88bde8

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codebase-onboarding-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository RaNDoM6913/claude-code-superkit (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 991 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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