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codebase-exploration

Explore and understand codebases using SocratiCode semantic search, dependency graphs, and context artifacts. Use when exploring code, understanding architecture, finding functions/types, analysing dependencies, searching database schemas or API specs, or when socraticode/codebase_search tools are available. Activates when the user asks about code structure, wants to find where a feature lives, or needs to understand how code is organised.

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Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, actionable overview that follows a search-first workflow and cleanly offloads detailed parameter reference to a separate file. Minor conciseness redundancy and the absence of full invocation examples keep two dimensions at 4 rather than 5.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence, but the 'search before reading / map of the codebase in milliseconds' rationale is restated across the core principle and step 3, a minor instance of over-explanation that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete tool names with specific parameters (fileFilter, languageFilter, minScore default 0.10, mode "interactive", SOCRATICODE_WATCHER env vars) plus a Goal→Tool table give mostly executable guidance, but there are no full copy-paste invocation examples to reach a 5.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear numbered sequence (1–6) with status-checking and troubleshooting checkpoints in step 5; exploration is not a destructive/batch operation so the validation cap does not apply, but the checkpoints are implicit rather than explicit validate-then-proceed gates.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body is a well-organized overview that delegates full per-tool parameter detail to a single one-level-deep, clearly signaled reference file ('For full parameter details on every tool, see references/tool-reference.md'), which exists as a real bundle file.

5 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that pairs concrete capabilities with explicit, natural trigger phrases and a tool-anchored niche. Voice is appropriately third person, and both 'what' and 'when' are answered clearly.

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Specificity

Names multiple concrete capabilities (semantic search, dependency graphs, context artifacts, finding functions/types, analysing dependencies, searching database schemas/API specs), with minor abstraction in 'explore and understand' keeping it just below the comprehensive 5 anchor.

4 / 5

Completeness

Clearly states what it does ('Explore and understand codebases using SocratiCode semantic search, dependency graphs, and context artifacts') and explicitly when to use it with concrete trigger phrases ('Use when…', 'Activates when the user asks about code structure…').

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Strong natural-phrase coverage with synonyms ('exploring code', 'understanding architecture', 'code structure', 'find where a feature lives', 'how code is organised'), though a few common variations a user might say are not enumerated.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The SocratiCode niche and tool-specific trigger ('when socraticode/codebase_search tools are available') make it mostly distinct, though the generic 'explore codebases' framing carries minor overlap risk with general code-exploration skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

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