Legacy Codebase Analyzer includes pricing or quota commentary; 33 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 5,288 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Legacy Codebase Analyzer sits in the Security category under the security-misc sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
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Comprehensive legacy codebase analysis skill with automated tools for technical debt assessment, security vulnerability detection, performance analysis, and strategic modernization planning. Transforms complex legacy systems into actionable modernization roadmaps through seven production-ready Python analysis tools.
Legacy Codebase Analyzer is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the security-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
The Legacy Codebase Analyzer Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 119,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\legacy-codebase-analyzer\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Legacy Codebase Analyzer is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{legacy-codebase-analyzer-2026,
author = {Claude Skills Team},
title = {Legacy Codebase Analyzer [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/legacy-codebase-analyzer/}
}Browse all Security skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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