# Work Explore

> Explore and understand an existing codebase. Use when the user wants to understand the code, explore a project, discover an architecture, or before modifying existing code.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-christopherlouet-claude-base-work-explore`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [christopherlouet](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/christopherlouet)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [christopherlouet](https://github.com/christopherlouet)
- **Source:** https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base/tree/main/.claude/skills/work-explore
- **Website:** https://christopherlouet.github.io/claude-base/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-christopherlouet-claude-base-work-explore
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Explore a Codebase

## Goal

Understand a codebase BEFORE modifying it. Never code without having explored.

## Instructions

### 1. Overview (5 min)

```bash
# Project structure
ls -la
tree -L 2 -I 'node_modules|.git|dist|build' | head -40

# Configuration
cat package.json | head -30
cat README.md | head -50
```

**Questions to answer:**
- Project type (frontend, backend, fullstack, lib)?
- Tech stack (languages, frameworks)?
- How to run the project?

### 2. Architecture (10 min)

**Identify the layers:**
- Entry points (main, index, app)
- Routes / Controllers
- Services / Business logic
- Data access / Models
- Utilities

**Patterns to spot:**
- Architecture (MVC, Clean, Hexagonal)
- State management
- Error handling
- Configuration

### 3. Data flow

Trace a complete flow:
```
Request → Validation → Processing → DB → Response
```

### 4. Conventions

- Code style (linter config)
- Naming (camelCase, snake_case)
- Test structure
- Commit format

## Expected output

```markdown
## Project summary

**Type**: [frontend/backend/fullstack]
**Stack**: [languages and frameworks]
**Architecture**: [main pattern]

## Key structure
- `/src/xxx` - [description]
- `/src/yyy` - [description]

## Entry points
- `file.ts:line` - [role]

## Identified conventions
- [Convention 1]
- [Convention 2]

## Sensitive areas
- [Area 1] - [why]
```

## Rules

- ALWAYS explore before modifying
- Do not assume — verify in the code
- Note patterns to reuse them

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [christopherlouet](https://github.com/christopherlouet)
- **Source:** [christopherlouet/claude-base](https://github.com/christopherlouet/claude-base)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://christopherlouet.github.io/claude-base/

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-christopherlouet-claude-base-work-explore
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/christopherlouet
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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