codebase-onboarding
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Use when you land in an unfamiliar or inherited codebase and must get productive fast: a breadth-first map of entry points, request flow, module ownership, hidden side effects (cron, webhooks, workers) and churn hotspots, committed as CODEBASE-MAP.md. NOT a deep audit of one module (that is `analyze`) or chasing one failure (that is `debug`).
Install
npx skills add ericrisco/rsc-harness --skill codebase-onboarding -a claude-code
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