codebase-design

codebase-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rengwu/wayfinder-maps. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,383 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of codebase-design, MIT.

A shared vocabulary and design approach for creating modules: pieces of code that hide substantial behaviour behind a small, clear interface. It focuses on clean seams, useful contracts, and testing through the interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or restructuring modules, deciding where a seam should go, or making code easier to test and navigate. It is also useful when another coding workflow needs consistent terms for architecture decisions.
Why use it?
It gives developers precise language for discussing where code belongs and how callers should use it. This can expose overly complicated interfaces and opportunities to keep implementation details local.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wayfinder-maps plugin — 14 skills shipped together

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/rengwu/wayfinder-maps/codebase-design
Any agent
npx skills add rengwu/wayfinder-maps --skill codebase-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rengwu/wayfinder-maps

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wayfinder-maps, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00057 $0.01383
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00138

Measured 4d ago against content hash 83c49fdc2f6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-design 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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to codebase-design — 59 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/.optional/codebase-design/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Design

Design deep modules: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface, placed at a clean seam, testable through that interface. Use this language and these principles wherever code is being designed or restructured. The aim is leverage for callers, locality for maintainers, and testability for everyone.

Glossary

Use these terms exactly — don't substitute "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." Consistent language is the whole point.

Module — anything with an interface and an implementation. Deliberately scale-agnostic: a function, class, package, or tier-spanning slice. Avoid: unit, component, service.

Interface — everything a caller must know to use the module correctly: the type signature, but also invariants, ordering constraints, error modes, required configuration, and performance characteristics. Avoid: API, signature (too narrow — they refer only to the type-level surface).

Implementation — what's inside a module, its body of code. Distinct from Adapter: a thing can be a small adapter with a large implementation (a Postgres repo) or a large adapter with a small implementation (an in-memory fake). Reach for "adapter" when the seam is the topic; "implementation" otherwise.

Depth — leverage at the interface: the amount of behaviour a caller (or test) can exercise per unit of interface they have to learn. A module is deep when a large amount of behaviour sits behind a small interface, shallow when the interface is nearly as complex as the implementation.

Seam (Michael Feathers) — a place where you can alter behaviour without editing in that place; the location at which a module's interface lives. Where to put the seam is its own design decision, distinct from what goes behind it. Avoid: boundary (overloaded with DDD's bounded context).

Adapter — a concrete thing that satisfies an interface at a seam. Describes role (what slot it fills), not substance (what's inside).

Leverage — what callers get from depth: more capability per unit of interface they learn. One implementation pays back across N call sites and M tests.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 4d ago First seen · 114 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 83c49fdc2f6a

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codebase-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository rengwu/wayfinder-maps (115 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,383 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to codebase-design, differing in 59 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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