Project Quickstart Skill

中文说明

A Codex skill that helps students, job seekers, and new contributors quickly understand unfamiliar software repositories.

It guides an agent to inspect a repo, build a learner-friendly mental model, produce interview-ready talking points, and avoid overclaiming by citing evidence and verification status.

What It Produces

• One-sentence project summary
• Architecture and core-flow explanation
• Mermaid architecture or flow diagram
• Important files to read first
• Evidence map for key claims
• Strengths, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Interview or resume talking points
• Verification status and remaining uncertainties

Install

Clone this repository, then copy the skill folder into your Codex skills directory.

Windows PowerShell:

git clone https://github.com/ZYZ666-RGB/project-quickstart-skill.git
$skillsDir = if ($env:CODEX_HOME) { Join-Path $env:CODEX_HOME "skills" } else { Join-Path $HOME ".codex\skills" }
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force $skillsDir
Copy-Item -Recurse .\project-quickstart-skill\project-quickstart $skillsDir

macOS/Linux:

git clone https://github.com/ZYZ666-RGB/project-quickstart-skill.git
mkdir -p "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills"
cp -R project-quickstart-skill/project-quickstart "${CODEX_HOME:-$HOME/.codex}/skills/"

Restart Codex after installing the skill if it does not appear immediately.

Usage

Explicit invocation:

Use $project-quickstart to help me understand this repository and prepare an interview-ready project brief.

Natural-language invocation examples:

Help me quickly understand this project for an interview.

I just cloned this repo. Which files should I read first?

Turn this project into resume-ready project experience and list the technical highlights.

Included Resources

project-quickstart/
+-- SKILL.md
+-- agents/openai.yaml
+-- assets/project-brief-template.md
+-- evals/routing-cases.yaml
+-- references/output-rubric.md
+-- scripts/repo_snapshot.py

Evals

Routing and behavior cases live in:

project-quickstart/evals/routing-cases.yaml

Use them to test positive, negative, and edge routing behavior across different orchestration models.

License

MIT