grep-before-read
grep-before-read is a Codebase mapping & onboarding skill for AI agents, published by weikinhuang in the dotfiles repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates grep-before-read F (41/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Default to `rg`/`grep` for discovery instead of reading whole files. Use whenever you're hunting for a symbol, function, pattern, or a specific line in a repo you don't already have fully loaded in context - especially on files over ~400 lines, unknown codebases, or when the user asks "where is X defined/used?". Do NOT use when the file is already loaded in context, when a test suite already scopes the discovery, or when the user handed you an exact path to a short file.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 41 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 21
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 63 / 100
- Maturity
- Incomplete: missing or partial frontmatter
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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