# Codebase Exploration

Use when exploring, understanding, or answering questions about a codebase that has...

- Repository: https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise (8087 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add repowise-dev/repowise --skill codebase-exploration -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add repowise-dev/repowise --skill codebase-exploration -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add repowise-dev/repowise --skill codebase-exploration -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add repowise-dev/repowise --skill codebase-exploration -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add repowise-dev/repowise`

## Description

Use when exploring, understanding, or answering questions about a codebase that has Repowise indexed (a .repowise/ directory in the project root). Activates for "how does X work", "explain the architecture", "where is Y implemented", "what does this module do", or any task that needs an understanding of structure before diving into source files.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Codebase Exploration with Repowise

This project has a Repowise intelligence layer. For an exact identifier, string
or file name, Grep, Glob and Read are faster. For how code works, who calls it,
what a change breaks and why it is shaped this way, reach for the Repowise MCP
tools: they return documentation, ownership, history, decisions, and graph
structure that plain file reads don't, usually in one round-trip instead of many.

## Which tool for which question

The rest: https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/blob/HEAD/plugins/claude-code/skills/codebase-exploration/SKILL.md