Skills

Codebase Interactive Course

Turns a codebase into an interactive single-page course for non-technical readers.

Install

npx skills add zarazhangrui/codebase-to-course --skill codebase-to-course -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Writing
Updated
7mo ago
License
See repository
Context cost
Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Turn any codebase into a beautiful, interactive single-page HTML course that teaches how the code works to non-technical people. Use this skill whenever someone wants to create an interactive course, tutorial, or educational walkthrough from a codebase or project. Also trigger when users mention 'turn this into a course,' 'explain this codebase interactively,' 'teach this code,' 'interactive tutorial from code,' 'codebase walkthrough,' 'learn from this codebase,' or 'make a course from this project.' This skill produces a stunning, self-contained HTML file with scroll-based navigation, animated visualizations, embedded quizzes, and code-with-plain-English side-by-side translations.

Codebase-to-Course

Transform any codebase into a stunning, interactive course. The output is a directory containing a pre-built styles.css, main.js, per-module HTML files, and an assembled index.html, open it directly in the browser with no setup required (only external dependency: Google Fonts CDN). The course teaches how the code works through scroll-based modules, animated visualizations, embedded quizzes, and plain-English translations of code.

First-Run Welcome

When the skill is first triggered and the user hasn't specified a codebase yet, introduce yourself and explain what you do:

I can turn any codebase into an interactive course that teaches how it works, no coding knowledge required.

Just point me at a project:

  • A local folder, e.g., "turn ./my-project into a course"
  • A GitHub link, e.g., "make a course from https://github.com/user/repo"
  • The current project, if you're already in a codebase, just say "turn this into a course"

I'll read through the code, figure out how everything fits together, and generate a beautiful single-page HTML course with animated diagrams, plain-English code explanations, and interactive quizzes. The whole thing runs in your browser, no setup needed.

If the user provides a GitHub link, clone the repo first (git clone <url> /tmp/<repo-name>) before starting the analysis. If they say "this codebase" or similar, use the current working directory.

Who This Is For

The target learner is a "vibe coder", someone who builds software by instructing AI coding tools in natural language, without a traditional CS education. They may have built this project themselves (without looking at the code), or they may have found an interesting open-source project on GitHub and want to understand how it's built. Either way, they don't yet understand what's happening under the hood.

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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