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Codebase Overview — Development skill for Claude Code

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Generate a comprehensive, beginner-friendly overview of the entire codebase.

How to install Codebase Overview

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/dgriffith-bad-daves-robot-army-codebase-overview/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/dgriffith-bad-daves-robot-army-codebase-overview && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgriffith/bad-daves-robot-army/HEAD/commands/codebase-overview.md -o ~/.claude/skills/dgriffith-bad-daves-robot-army-codebase-overview/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Codebase Overview does

name: codebase-overview description: Generate a comprehensive, beginner-friendly overview of the entire codebase pattern: /codebase-overview(?:\s+(.+))?

Using @agent-mentor create a comprehensive overview of the codebase tailored to the user's experience level, saving the output to the reports directory.

Input Parsing

The user invoked: /codebase-overview {optional_focus}

Examples:

/codebase-overview - Complete overview
/codebase-overview frontend - Focus on frontend archite

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