Orienting Codebases | Agent Skills Atlas

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Interactive codebase orientation for human learning. Companion to exploring-codebases (which builds Claude's understanding); this skill builds the user's understanding through guided exercises grounded in learning science. Uses the same tree-sitting + featuring pipeline but synthesizes into interactive teaching via HTML artifacts rather than analysis documents. Triggers on "orient me to this repo", "teach me this codebase", "help me understand this code", "learning orientation", or when the user wants to build genuine comprehension of an unfamiliar codebase rather than just getting work done in it.

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Category: General
Reported license: MIT
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.