codebase-onboarding
by alirezarezvani (GitHub) in alirezarezvani/claude-skills
What it does
Analyze a codebase and generate onboarding documentation for engineers, tech leads, and contractors. Fast fact-gathering and repeatable onboarding outputs. Use when onboarding a new engineer, writing architecture-overview docs for a new project, or producing tech-lead briefings for unfamiliar repos.
Quoted from the skill's SKILL.md under its MIT license.
Install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/engineering/skills/codebase-onboarding ~/.claude/skills/codebase-onboarding
The command copies the skill from the author's repo. SkillTrove does not host it.
Files
- SKILL.md
- references/onboarding-template.md
- references/output-format-templates.md
- scripts/codebase_analyzer.py
Source: https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/main/engineering/skills/codebase-onboarding. Checked 2026-10-13.
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