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Explain how a part of the codebase works, from trigger to result, at the depth an experienced engineer needs to start changing it. Use for "how does X work", "walk me through Y", "where should this code go", "which layer owns Z".
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npx skills add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins --skill how -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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