answer
Answer questions about a codebase without touching it, running or writing throwaway code when that is what the answer needs.
Skill by arwagner
Install
Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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Use cases: writing
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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Network hosts it talks to 1
codeload.github.com· found in install command
Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/answer
What's inside
- Skill name
answer- Description
- Answer questions about a codebase without touching it, running or writing throwaway code when that is what the answer needs. Use when the user says "just answer", "no changes yet", "answer only", "don't touch anything", or asks a question and wants an answer instead of an edit.
- License
- unknown
- Instructions
- 55 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Files (1)
- SKILL.md
The license isn't open source, so the instructions aren't shown here. Read SKILL.md on GitHub
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- 0.542score
roadmap
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Chart an effort too big for one session as a map of tickets, then work them one at a time.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
build
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Write the code a plan describes, start to finish, test-first, without checking in.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
explain-branch
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Explain what a branch does — each change, and how it serves the branch's overall purpose.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
review-code
arwagner
Review code, or a change to code, on three axes at once — standards, spec, correctness — and talk the findings through.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
topic
arwagner
How to work through a topic with someone — breadth-first traversal, checkpoints, callbacks, and pacing.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
coding-standards
arwagner
The standards code in this repo is held to — what the repo documents, plus a baseline of code smells and seams.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
commit
arwagner
Group every outstanding change in a repository into logical commits, one intent per commit, then commit them.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
explain
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Explain a topic in plain language and short bursts, breadth-first from the top down.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.539score
scratchpad
arwagner
Rules for the .scratchpad/ folder — where working files go and what belongs there.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.537score
clarify
arwagner
Say this one thing in the plainest language there is.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.537score
discuss
arwagner
Talk a topic through until you and the user understand it the same way — breadth-first, one question at a time, holding your own view back.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9
Signals
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Last commit (this folder)
- Aug 4, 2026 (2 months ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- License unknown
- Repository
- github.com/arwagner/buddy
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
More from arwagner
- 0.542score
roadmap
arwagner
Chart an effort too big for one session as a map of tickets, then work them one at a time.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
build
arwagner
Write the code a plan describes, start to finish, test-first, without checking in.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
explain-branch
arwagner
Explain what a branch does — each change, and how it serves the branch's overall purpose.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
review-code
arwagner
Review code, or a change to code, on three axes at once — standards, spec, correctness — and talk the findings through.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
topic
arwagner
How to work through a topic with someone — breadth-first traversal, checkpoints, callbacks, and pacing.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9 - 0.542score
coding-standards
arwagner
The standards code in this repo is held to — what the repo documents, plus a baseline of code smells and seams.
SkillBFreshness: B★ 1Claude Code +9
Cite this page
answer skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/arwagner-answer (last updated 2026-10-24)