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title: "Acquire Codebase Knowledge - Air Market"
description: "You have landed in a repository you did not write and there is nothing explaining how it fits together. This walks the codebase and produces a map or documentation of it, so you can find your way bef…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/acquire-codebase-knowledge"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Acquire Codebase Knowledge

Skill by [GitHub](/@github)

# Acquire Codebase Knowledge

Get your bearings in a codebase nobody wrote down

## What this does

You have landed in a repository you did not write and there is nothing explaining how it fits together. This walks the codebase and produces a map or documentation of it, so you can find your way before you start changing things. Ask for it when you are onboarding or when the architecture needs writing down.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Map an unfamiliar codebase
- Document how this architecture fits together
- Onboard yourself into a new repo

## Information

**Acquire Codebase Knowledge at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [GitHub](/@github) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Version | 1.3 |
| Size | 51 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [github/awesome-copilot](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/acquire-codebase-knowledge) |
| GitHub stars | 38,187 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 2,325, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Acquire Codebase Knowledge and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Acquire Codebase Knowledge's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a |
| Content hash | 9fb649af0e714e8e7a81929ada3ead0cde490ff592a3f919239a0a6dab0ea75f |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/acquire-codebase-knowledge/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Acquire Codebase Knowledge](/security/acquire-codebase-knowledge)

## About Acquire Codebase Knowledge

This is for the moment you need to understand a whole codebase rather than one corner of it: mapping it, documenting its architecture, or onboarding into it, including creating codebase docs where none exist.

It is deliberately narrow. It is meant for explicit repository-level discovery requests, not for routine feature work, bug fixes, or small code edits.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- assets/templates/ARCHITECTURE.md - reference
- assets/templates/CONCERNS.md - reference
- assets/templates/CONVENTIONS.md - reference
- assets/templates/INTEGRATIONS.md - reference
- assets/templates/STACK.md - reference
- assets/templates/STRUCTURE.md - reference
- assets/templates/TESTING.md - reference
- references/inquiry-checkpoints.md - reference
- references/stack-detection.md - reference
- scripts/scan.py - script

## Questions

### Is Acquire Codebase Knowledge safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Acquire Codebase Knowledge and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 90921cc46f4e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/acquire-codebase-knowledge.

### How do I install Acquire Codebase Knowledge?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/acquire-codebase-knowledge on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/90921cc46f4e452ea379e70884d60ec25263f16a/skills/acquire-codebase-knowledge. Install from that link, not the branch.

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