Repo intelligence brief

Skill Arnie016/codex-prompt-templates/skills/repo-intelligence-brief

Inspect a GitHub or local repository and produce a compact Codex-ready architecture/task brief. Use for repo onboarding, weekend project selection, fork analysis, setup discovery, extension ideas, or turning a source repo into a useful build plan.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add Arnie016/codex-prompt-templates --skill repo-intelligence-brief

Assembled from the repository path, not quoted from the project. Check it against their README if it does not work.

One thing to look at

1 stars1 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

SKILL.md

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Repo Intelligence Brief

Use this to turn a repo into a practical Codex work unit.

Intake

If the repo is remote, prefer a shallow clone into a bounded sources/ or vendor/ folder. Inspect before installing.

Run:

scripts/repo_snapshot.sh <repo>

Then read:

README and docs index
package manifests and lockfiles
entry points
tests and CI config
license

Output

# Repo Intelligence Brief

## What It Is
## Why It Matters
## Architecture
## Setup Commands
## Extension Points
## Useful Patterns To Steal
## Risks And Trust Notes
## First Three Codex Projects
## Smallest Valuable Build

Rules

Mark unverifiable trend claims as unverified.
Do not run install scripts until the source-intake safety pass is complete.
Keep the brief under 1200 words unless the user asks for deep research.
Prefer actionable project ideas over generic summaries.

Use $sandbox-source-intake first when a repo asks for broad permissions, downloads binaries, or has suspicious install instructions.

Validation

README, license, manifests, entry points, tests/CI, and docs index were checked when present.
Setup commands are marked inspect-only unless actually run.
Trend or popularity claims are verified or labeled unverified.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.