Analyze Codebase is a well-rated Claude Code skill (quality score 80/100) in the architecture sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/analyze-codebase/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when user wants to understand a codebase, explore project structure, or generate analysis.
The Analyze Codebase skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/analyze-codebase curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/analyze-codebase/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/analyze-codebase/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/analyze-codebase/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/analyze-codebase/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\analyze-codebase\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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