explain-my-code

explain-my-code

This skill should be used when the user asks to "document this codebase", "explain my code", "generate architecture docs", "write an onboarding doc", "analyze this repo", or wants self-contained technical documentation produced from source. Signal tokens include "codebase", "repo", "architecture diagram", "onboarding", "system overview", "tech stack", ".md doc". Casual phrasings (when paired with an onboarding/documentation intent) include "help a new dev understand this whole codebase", "write up how this project works", "map out this code into a doc". Also trigger when the user points at a repository and asks for a single Markdown write-up with Mermaid diagrams. Do NOT use for a quick one-line "what does this do" answer, for line-by-line code review or bug-finding (that is wordpress-architect-review or a review skill), for refactoring or modernization plans (that is refactoring-analyst), or for producing diagrams alone (that is codebase-to-mermaid).

Installation

# Copy this command into Claude Code to install this skill
/plugin add https://github.com/chrismccoy/skills/tree/master/explain-my-code/skills/explain-my-code

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• Author: chrismccoy
• Stars: 2

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