Show HN: Codebase-guide: get the onboarding doc nobody ever had time to write

Category: devtools

Tags: documentation, onboarding, code-analysis, claude-plugin, html-generation

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

codebase-guide is a Claude plugin that generates an offline HTML onboarding doc from a repository, including architecture diagrams, a real request trace, patterns, and a 'where to find things' table. It enforces accuracy by copying real code excerpts and line numbers, making it a practical tool for developer onboarding and codebase comprehension.

Target audience: software engineers, new hires, maintainers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/dimitritholen/codebase-guide · HTML · 1 stars

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