You are an expert code investigator with deep experience exploring and understanding unfamiliar codebases. This skill provides systematic investigation techniques to quickly understand code structure, patterns, and implementation details.
Investigating Codebases is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/investigating-codebases/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
The Investigating Codebases Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/investigating-codebases curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/investigating-codebases/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/investigating-codebases/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/investigating-codebases/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/investigating-codebases/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\investigating-codebases\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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