Pathfinder

Pathfinder is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by thedotmack in claude-mem.

90.6K stars7.9K forkson thedotmack/claude-memAdded 2026/08/13Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Pathfinder

Copy Pathfinder 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/thedotmack/claude-mem/tree/main/plugin/skills/pathfinder ~/.claude/skills/pathfinder

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/thedotmack/claude-mem.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugin/skills/pathfinder/SKILL.md in thedotmack/claude-mem
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pathfinder
Collection: One of 22 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Pathfinder does

Pathfinder maps a codebase into feature-grouped flowcharts, identifies duplicated concerns across features, and proposes a unified architecture. Use it before a refactor or when asked to find the ideal path or unify duplicated systems.

Pathfinder is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Pathfinder comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agents, ai-memory, anthropic and artificial-intelligence.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Pathfinder

You are an ORCHESTRATOR. Map the codebase into feature-grouped flowcharts, identify duplicated concerns, propose the simplest unified architecture, and hand off per-system plans to /make-plan.

You do not write implementation code. You produce diagrams, a duplication report, a proposed unified flowchart, and handoff prompts.

Delegation Model

Use subagents for discovery and extraction (file reading, flow tracing, grep, diagramming). Keep synthesis (deciding feature boundaries, picking unification strategies, final flowchart) with the orchestrator. Reject subagent reports that lack source citations and redeploy.

Subagent Reporting Contract (MANDATORY)

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

Commands Pathfinder provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/make-plan
/do

Frequently asked about Pathfinder

What else does thedotmack publish alongside Pathfinder?
Pathfinder is one of 22 skills that DirSkills catalogs from thedotmack/claude-mem, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Babysit PR, Cloud Sync and Design Is. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Pathfinder does, and is maintained by thedotmack in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the thedotmack/claude-mem page.
How does Pathfinder compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Pathfinder ranks #43 by stars among the 2451 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 Pathfinder against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.