Codebase Scan

Codebase Scan is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by Fr-e-d in GAAI-framework.

161 stars27 forkson Fr-e-d/GAAI-frameworkAdded 2026/09/08Repository updated 2026/09/04

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Install Codebase Scan

Copy Codebase Scan 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/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework/tree/main/.gaai/core/skills/cross/codebase-scan ~/.claude/skills/codebase-scan

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/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .gaai/core/skills/cross/codebase-scan/SKILL.md in Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/codebase-scan
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Codebase Scan does

Codebase Scan creates a high-level map of a project’s directories, entry points, configs, and core modules. Use it during bootstrap or onboarding before deeper architecture extraction.

Codebase Scan is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Codebase Scan comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-coding, ai-developer-tools and ai-governance.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Codebase Scan

Purpose / When to Activate

Activate:

During Bootstrap initialization (before architecture extraction)
When onboarding GAAI onto an existing codebase
When the project structure is unknown

Process

Recursively list directories and files
Identify entry points, config files, manifests, and core modules
Highlight likely architecture boundaries
Output a structured project tree and key file list

Outputs

codebase_tree — structured directory tree with annotations for key files

key_files_list — list of significant files: entry points, configs, manifests, core modules, test runners

Quality Checks

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

Frequently asked about Codebase Scan

What else does Fr-e-d publish alongside Codebase Scan?
Codebase Scan is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Abort-Safe Handler, Ambiguity Detector and Approach Evaluation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Codebase Scan does, and is maintained by Fr-e-d in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework page.
How does Codebase Scan compare to other Automation skills?
Codebase Scan ranks #2084 by stars among the 2226 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Codebase Scan against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.