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top-down-learning

Comprehensive codebase understanding through structured documentation and guided learning. Use when Claude needs to help a user understand how a project works by exploring and documenting the codebase architecture, concepts, and modules in a .learning/ directory, then guiding them through understanding the code with adaptive explanations. Triggered by requests like "help me understand this project", "document the architecture", "explain how this codebase works", or "guide me through the code".

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Updated 1/19/2026
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quick start

Installation and usage

Comprehensive codebase understanding through structured documentation and guided learning. Use when Claude needs to help a user understand how a project works by exploring and documenting the codebase architecture, concepts, and modules in a .learning/ directory, then guiding them through understanding the code with adaptive explanations. Triggered by requests like "help me understand this project", "document the architecture", "explain how this codebase works", or "guide me through the code".

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use top-down-learning