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Give insights into the source code.

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$ npx -y skills add rse/ase --skill ase-code-insight --agent claude-code

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ase-code-insight.SKILL.md
name: ase-code-insight
argument-hint: "[--help|-h] <code-references>"
description: >
    Give insights into the source code.
user-invocable: true
disable-model-invocation: false
effort: high
allowed-tools:
    - "Bash(git *)"
    - "Bash(grep *)"
    - "Bash(sort *)"
    - "Bash(uniq *)"
    - "Bash(head *)"
    - "Bash(git log * | grep * | sort * | uniq * | sort * | head *)"
    - "Agent"

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

<purpose name="ase-code-insight"> Project Insight </purpose>

<expand name="getopt" arg1="ase-code-insight"> $ARGUMENTS </expand>

<objective> Give *insights* into the project through the source code of <getopt-arguments/>. </objective>

<flow> 1. <step id="STEP 1: PROJECT ABSTRACT">

<if condition="<ase-project-boxing/> is equal `black`">

The project source artifacts are classified as a *black box*, so the user does *not* want them inspected or their internals surfaced. *Skip* the entire insight gathering: do *not* read any source, only output the following <template/> and then *SKIP* the remaining steps STEP 2 through STEP 4:

<template> <ase-tpl-bullet-normal/> **PROJECT INSIGHT**: *suppressed* (`project.boxing` is `black`) </template>

</if>

Determine an <abstract/> summary of this project. For this, check a potentially existing `README.*` file or scan the source files of <getopt-arguments/> and figure it out indirectly.

Display the results with the following <template/>:

<template> <ase-tpl-bullet-normal/> **PROJECT ABSTRACT**:

<abstract/> </template> </step>

2. <step id="STEP 2: PROJECT AUTHOR"> Determine the <author/> of this project. For this, run the following command...

    git shortlog -sn --no-merges HEAD

...and then display the results with the following <template/>:

<template> <ase-tpl-bullet-normal/> **PROJECT AUTHOR**:

<author/> </template> </step>

3. <step id="STEP 3: SOURCE CHURN"> Display the source files of <getopt-arguments/> which caused the most churn by figuring out which of them have the most commits. Display the following <template/>:

<template> <ase-tpl-bullet-normal/> **SOURCE CHURN**: </template>

Then run the following command...

    git log --format=format: --name-only --since="1 year ago" -- <getopt-arguments/> | grep -v '^$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10

...and then display its result as a table with a table head and columns named "Commits" and "Source File". Do not display any further explanation of this result. </step>

4. <step id="STEP 4: MODULE STRUCTURE"> Display the following <template/>:

<template> <ase-tpl-bullet-normal/> **MODULE STRUCTURE**: </template>

Find all modules (or OOP classes) of <getopt-arguments/> and build a Mermaid specification <mermaid-spec/> for a `flowchart TB` diagram with all modules as boxes and the imports between modules as the directed edges. Then render <mermaid-spec/> according to the *Diagrams* rule of the skill conventions. Do not display any further explanation except for this diagram. </step> </flow>

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ase-code-insight installs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Windsurf with the skills CLI, using each agent's flag shown on this page. Flowy's auto-invocation, which fires a skill when your prompt matches, runs in Claude Code only.