Project Discovery

by rsmdt

Project Discovery is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

508 stars58 forkson rsmdt/the-startupAdded 2026/08/26+29% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/03

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Install Project Discovery

Copy Project Discovery 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/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/team/skills/cross-cutting/project-discovery ~/.claude/skills/project-discovery

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/rsmdt/the-startup.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/team/skills/cross-cutting/project-discovery/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/project-discovery
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Project Discovery does

Project Discovery builds a map of a codebase by tracing structure, detecting the tech stack, and checking documentation against implementation. Use it when onboarding, finding entry points, or verifying docs.

Project Discovery is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Project Discovery comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Frequently asked about Project Discovery

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Project Discovery?
Project Discovery is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Project Discovery does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Project Discovery compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Project Discovery ranks #2168 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 Project Discovery against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.