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Codebase explain

Skill risadams/ink-and-agency/skills/codebase-build/codebase-explain

A dual-host skills plugin for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex with a self-evolve loop that learns from every invocation.

Install
npx -y skills add risadams/ink-and-agency --skill codebase-explain

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Tell the agent to explain code with broader context and a higher-level perspective. Use when you're unfamiliar with a section of code or need to understand how it fits into the bigger picture.

SKILL.md

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I don't know this area of code well. Go up a layer of abstraction. Give me a map of all the relevant modules and callers, using the project's domain glossary vocabulary.

Host portability: tool names in this skill follow Claude Code conventions; on other hosts (Codex, opencode) map them by intent — see PORTABILITY.md.

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Self-Evolve Loop

This skill learns across invocations — the full contract is SELF-EVOLVE.md. Start: read the learnings journal — ~/.ink-and-agency/learnings/codebase-explain.md and/or the workspace-local .ink-and-agency/learnings/codebase-explain.md — if present, and apply its guidance. End: self-evaluate the results; optionally ask the user for feedback (never block on it); append signal-bearing learnings to the journal (user-global when the sandbox allows writing there, workspace-local otherwise); route skill-improvement ideas per the contract's tiers — edit the canonical source when one is present, never the plugin cache.

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