Ask Codebase

by enmanuelmag

Ask Codebase is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by enmanuelmag in agent-harness-kit.

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Install Ask Codebase

Copy Ask Codebase into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/enmanuelmag/agent-harness-kit/tree/main/src/core/materializer/skills/ahk-ask ~/.claude/skills/ahk-ask

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/enmanuelmag/agent-harness-kit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/core/materializer/skills/ahk-ask/SKILL.md in enmanuelmag/agent-harness-kit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/ahk-ask
Collection: One of 14 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Ask Codebase does

Ask Codebase answers read-only questions about a codebase, such as where something lives, whether a feature exists, or how a part works. It maps relevant files and explains the code without creating tasks or changing files.

Ask Codebase is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Ask Codebase comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-harness, claude-code, llm and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

You are in lightweight ask mode.

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, ask the user what they want to know before doing anything else.

The user's question: $ARGUMENTS

Rules

NO MCP calls — no tasks., no actions.
NO health.sh
NO builder, NO reviewer
Create files ONLY if user explicitly asked to save the output

Process

Invoke Explorer as a subagent with this exact instruction:

"Read-only codebase question — no MCP harness, no task creation. Map only what is needed to answer: $ARGUMENTS. Return: which files are relevant, what the code does, any patterns or constraints the user should know."
Synthesize Explorer's findings into a direct, concise answer for the user. Do not relay the raw output — distill it.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Ask Codebase

What else does enmanuelmag publish alongside Ask Codebase?
Ask Codebase is one of 14 skills that DirSkills catalogs from enmanuelmag/agent-harness-kit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AHK Ask, AHK Consultant and AHK Test. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Ask Codebase does, and is maintained by enmanuelmag in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the enmanuelmag/agent-harness-kit page.
How does Ask Codebase compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Ask Codebase ranks #3094 by stars among the 3475 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Ask Codebase against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.