Using DevQL

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

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Install Using DevQL

Copy Using DevQL 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/using-devql ~/.claude/skills/using-devql

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/using-devql/SKILL.md in bitloops/bitloops
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/using-devql
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What Using DevQL does

Using DevQL helps answer repository understanding questions in Bitloops repos by locating files, symbols, lines, and snippets before reading code. Use it first for exact or conceptual code lookup when DevQL guidance is enabled.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Using DevQL

Overview

DevQL is Bitloops's typed repo-intelligence surface. In repos where this guidance is enabled, use DevQL first for repo-understanding questions when it is available in the current session. If DevQL returns nothing useful or is not available, fall back to targeted repo search or file reads.

When to Use

understanding what a file, function, module, class, or symbol does
resolving the concrete artefacts matched by a path or line range
looking up an exact symbol with symbolFqn
looking up identifiers, literals, paths, or snippets with search plus searchMode: LEXICAL
looking up an approximate name or conceptual behavior with search in the default AUTO mode
answering architecture questions after selecting a concrete area

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

Frequently asked about Using DevQL

What else does bitloops publish alongside Using DevQL?
Using DevQL is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from bitloops/bitloops, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include DevQL Explore First. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Using DevQL does, and is maintained by bitloops in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the bitloops/bitloops page.
How does Using DevQL compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Using DevQL ranks #2434 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 Using DevQL against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.