orienting-codebases
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Interactive codebase orientation for a HUMAN who wants to learn the code. Runs the same tree-sitting + featuring pipeline as exploring-codebases but synthesizes it into guided exercises and an HTML teaching artifact rather than an analysis document. Use for "orient me to this repo", "teach me this codebase", "walk me through this code", "learning orientation", or when someone wants genuine comprehension rather than a task completed. The audience is the test: if nobody is being taught and the goal is to get work done, use exploring-codebases instead.
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npx skills add oaustegard/claude-skills --skill orienting-codebases -a claude-code
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