codebase-tour

codebase-tour is a skill for Claude Code from sananthanarayan/skilldrop. It costs 170 tokens per session (3,507 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A short, change-focused tour of an unfamiliar code repository for a newcomer or a coding agent. It identifies the install, run, and test commands from CI, package scripts, and the Makefile, then traces the files involved in one change.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for getting oriented before making a specific change in an unfamiliar repository, including learning how to install, run, and test it.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of editing the wrong part of a project or missing its required setup and checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skilldrop plugin — 122 skills, 10 agents, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit It is for getting oriented before making a specific change in an unfamiliar repository, including learning how to install, run, and test it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour
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 sananthanarayan/skilldrop --skill codebase-tour
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sananthanarayan/skilldrop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skilldrop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 10 agents, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for codebase-tour

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for codebase-tour

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sananthanarayan/skilldrop/codebase-tour.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,507 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 $0.00170 $0.03507
Opus 5.5 $0.00068 $0.01403
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00701
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00351

Measured 5d ago against content hash 873cc8dd5264, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codebase-tour 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 26 executable files (evals/files/1/src/config.ts, evals/files/1/src/domain/shipments/filter.ts, evals/files/1/src/domain/shipments/repository.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

packs/dev-team/skills/codebase-tour/SKILL.md · 116 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

60 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. 5d ago First seen · 116 lines · 170 tokens per session scan A 873cc8dd5264

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codebase-tour is a skill published in the GitHub repository sananthanarayan/skilldrop (2 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 3,507 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-10-21.

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