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codebase-recon

v1.0.0

Analyze git history to understand a codebase before reading any code. Reveals hotspots, risk areas, team structure, and development momentum.

Codex1 Skill

By Jiachen YuLicense: MIT1.1k GitHub starsUpdated 2 days ago

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Sep 22, 2026
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Install codebase-recon for Codex

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins
codex plugin marketplace upgrade awesome-codex-plugins
codex plugin add codebase-recon@awesome-codex-plugins

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the awesome-codex-plugins catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “codebase-recon” remain stable.

  • Codex: codebase-recon@agent-plugin-marketplace → codebase-recon@awesome-codex-plugins

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/yujiachen-y/codebase-recon-skill/.

Plugin files

plugins/yujiachen-y/codebase-recon-skill/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/codebase-recon/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

codebase-reconskills/codebase-recon/SKILL.md

Use when entering an unfamiliar codebase, onboarding to a new project, or wanting to assess codebase health before reading code — analyzes git history to reveal hotspots, risk areas, team structure, and development momentum

Plugin manifests1

plugins/yujiachen-y/codebase-recon-skill/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "codebase-recon",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Analyze git history to understand a codebase before reading any code. Reveals hotspots, risk areas, team structure, and development momentum.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Jiachen Yu",
    "url": "https://github.com/yujiachen-y"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/yujiachen-y/codebase-recon-skill",
  "repository": "https://github.com/yujiachen-y/codebase-recon-skill",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "git",
    "codebase",
    "recon",
    "onboarding",
    "code-health",
    "bus-factor",
    "hotspots"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Codebase Recon",
    "shortDescription": "Analyze git history to understand a codebase before reading any code.",
    "longDescription": "Reveals project health, risk areas, team structure, and development momentum by analyzing git history. Auto-scales analysis windows for small/medium/large repos and cross-references hotspots with bug magnets to identify high-risk files.",
    "developerName": "Jiachen Yu",
    "category": "Developer Tools",
    "capabilities": [
      "Read",
      "Write"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/yujiachen-y/codebase-recon-skill",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Run codebase recon on this repository.",
      "Use codebase-recon to assess this codebase before I dive in.",
      "Show me hotspots, bug magnets, and bus factor for this repo."
    ],
    "brandColor": "#0E7490"
  }
}

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