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Explain Repo — Development skill for Claude Code

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Onboarding summary for a codebase — what it is, how to run it, key files, conventions.

How to install Explain Repo

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/kalypsokichu-code-kalypso-claude-workflow-explain-repo/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/kalypsokichu-code-kalypso-claude-workflow-explain-repo && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kalypsokichu-code/kalypso-claude-workflow/HEAD/commands/explain-repo.md -o ~/.claude/skills/kalypsokichu-code-kalypso-claude-workflow-explain-repo/SKILL.md

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

What Explain Repo does


description: Onboarding summary for a codebase — what it is, how to run it, key files, conventions argument-hint: "[area-to-focus]" model: sonnet context: fork allowed-tools:

  • Read
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Bash(git log:*)
  • Bash(git remote -v)
  • Bash(ls:*)

Explain Repo

Produce an onboarding summary for the current repo. If `$ARGUMENTS` is provided, focus on that area (e.g., `auth`, `frontend`, `migrations`).

Steps

  1. Identify the repo
    • Read README.md, CLAUDE.md (

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