Work explore

Skill christopherlouet/claude-base/.claude/skills/work-explore

Explore and understand an existing codebase. Use when the user wants to understand the code, explore a project, discover an architecture, or before modifying existing code.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add christopherlouet/claude-base --skill work-explore

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SKILL.md

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Explore a Codebase

Goal

Understand a codebase BEFORE modifying it. Never code without having explored.

Instructions

1. Overview (5 min)

# Project structure
ls -la
tree -L 2 -I 'node_modules|.git|dist|build' | head -40

# Configuration
cat package.json | head -30
cat README.md | head -50

Questions to answer:

Project type (frontend, backend, fullstack, lib)?
Tech stack (languages, frameworks)?
How to run the project?

2. Architecture (10 min)

Identify the layers:

Entry points (main, index, app)
Routes / Controllers
Services / Business logic
Data access / Models
Utilities

Patterns to spot:

Architecture (MVC, Clean, Hexagonal)
State management
Error handling
Configuration

3. Data flow

Trace a complete flow:

Request → Validation → Processing → DB → Response

4. Conventions

Code style (linter config)
Naming (camelCase, snake_case)
Test structure
Commit format

Expected output

## Project summary

**Type**: [frontend/backend/fullstack]
**Stack**: [languages and frameworks]
**Architecture**: [main pattern]

## Key structure
- `/src/xxx` - [description]
- `/src/yyy` - [description]

## Entry points
- `file.ts:line` - [role]

## Identified conventions
- [Convention 1]
- [Convention 2]

## Sensitive areas
- [Area 1] - [why]

Rules

ALWAYS explore before modifying
Do not assume — verify in the code
Note patterns to reuse them

What ships with it: 1 file

1.7 KB alongside SKILL.md

examples/

exploration-example.md1.7 KB