codebase-index

# Codebase index A skill for generating a pre-computed, machine-readable index of a design system's codebase. The index contains three pieces: a component inventory, a relationship graph, and summary statistics. Together they form a queryable map that eliminates the need for AI agents or developers to explore the codebase from scratch every time they need to understand the system. ## Before you begin: verify references Before doing anything else, confirm that every file listed in this skill's frontmatter `references:` field exists at its relative path from this SKILL.md. If any are missing, stop — the install is incomplete. This usually means a third-party installer (for example `npx skills install`) flattened the skill into a standalone folder and dropped the repo-root `knowledge-notes/` directory this skill depends on. Tell the user to reinstall using a supported method from `1-INSTALL.md` (git clone, or the `.plugin` bundle in Cowork) and to run `verify-install.sh` from the install root to confirm the fix. Only proceed without the references if the user explicitly says to — and if they do, state clearly in your output that it was produced in degraded mode without the pack's reference material. ## Context When an AI agent needs to work with a design system codebase, it has two options: explore or navigate. Exploration means scanning directories, grepping for imports, reading files one by one. Navigation means loading a pre-computed index and reasoning over cached data....