tree-sitting
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Symbol-level navigation of a local checkout using tree-sitter ASTs. Answers where a symbol is defined, what lines it spans, which symbols a file exposes, what a directory holds, and where a name is referenced — every answer carries exact line ranges to feed straight into a scoped read. Use for "where is X defined", "who calls X", "find the function/class named", "what's in this file", "give me the line range for", "show me the source of", "list the symbols in", or before editing a file you have not read. Each invocation auto-scans and is self-contained. Not for first-encounter repo orientation (use exploring-codebases), for what a codebase DOES rather than what it contains (featuring), for binding-resolved Python caller sets (searching-codebases), or for literal text and regex matching (plain ripgrep).
Install
npx skills add oaustegard/claude-skills --skill tree-sitting -a claude-code
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Byte-identical to the scanned commit, with the repository’s licence and a SOURCE.txt.
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