research-remote-code

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research-remote-code

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Techniques for retrieving and investigating remote codebases and their documentation. Use when user provides a GitHub/GitLab URL to look at, asks to follow conventions from a remote repo, asks "how does package/library X implement/handle Y", or references any external repository's code, structure, or patterns. Examples: "follow the conventions in https://github.com/...", "look at how repo X does Y", "check this GitHub link".

Accessing code from remote repositories

When you need to look at code in a remote repository (GitHub, GitLab, etc.):

1. Shallow clone it: git clone --depth 1 <url> /tmp/<repo-name>
2. Use Read and Grep to examine the code
3. Clean up when done: rm -rf /tmp/<repo-name>

Do NOT use WebFetch or gh api to read files from remote repos; clone locally instead.

When asked to follow conventions or patterns from a remote repo, clone it, read the relevant files, then apply those patterns to the local project.