DevQL Explore First

DevQL Explore First is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by bitloops in bitloops.

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Install DevQL Explore First

Copy DevQL Explore First 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/bitloops/bitloops/tree/main/bitloops/src/host/hooks/augmentation/skills/devql-explore-first ~/.claude/skills/devql-explore-first

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/bitloops/bitloops.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: bitloops/src/host/hooks/augmentation/skills/devql-explore-first/SKILL.md in bitloops/bitloops
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/devql-explore-first
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What DevQL Explore First does

DevQL Explore First directs codebase exploration through `bitloops devql query` before using grep, find, or broad file reads. Use it to locate symbols, files, tests, implementations, and related source regions in a repository.

DevQL Explore First is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. DevQL Explore First comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, ai-assistant and ai-infra.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

DevQL Explore First

<VERY_IMPORTANT> For code understanding and exploration, DevQL is the primary discovery tool, not a one-time preflight. Use bitloops devql query ... whenever locating symbols, files, tests, implementations, callers/usages, or the next source region to inspect. </VERY_IMPORTANT>

Do not use sed, rg, grep, find, wc, directory crawling, or broad source-file reads to discover task-relevant code while DevQL can answer the lookup. Use traditional tools only to:

read bounded ranges returned by DevQL
inspect files you are editing after DevQL selected them
run tests or git/status commands
fall back when DevQL fails, is empty, or contradicts the task

Do not run bitloops devql --help or bitloops devql query --help.

Choose the most specific selector:

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

Frequently asked about DevQL Explore First

What else does bitloops publish alongside DevQL Explore First?
DevQL Explore First is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from bitloops/bitloops, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Using DevQL. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way DevQL Explore First does, and is maintained by bitloops in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the bitloops/bitloops page.
How does DevQL Explore First compare to other AI Engineering skills?
DevQL Explore First ranks #2420 by stars among the 2793 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 DevQL Explore First against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.