Local Codebase Chat

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Lets your agent answer questions about a linked local codebase from indexed snapshots via the plan Claude skill.

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About this skill

How Ask Plan links a browser-selected local codebase and how to answer questions from its indexed snapshots instead of guessing from file names. Use when the user asks about their linked local codebase or `localCodebase` is in application state.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by builderio/agent-native in templates/plan/.agents/skills/plan-local-codebase-chat/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

The local-codebase application-state key is written by the Ask Plan browser folder picker when a user links a local codebase. It includes the selected folder name plus personal resource paths for the latest code index, file tree, and captured source snapshots.

  • The Ask Plan page can link a browser-selected local codebase folder. The UI indexes safe text files, skips generated/secret-looking paths, writes a small personal instruction resource under instructions/local-codebases/, and stores captured file snapshots under codebases/<id>/snapshots/<timestamp>/.
  • For live codebase questions, call view-screen when context is unclear and inspect localCodebase. First read its indexPath with the resources tool using scope: "personal", then read relevant captured file resourcePaths before making claims. Do not infer API contracts, schema shape, or UI behavior from file names alone.
  • If the file needed to answer is absent or skipped, ask the user to sync again or attach the file instead of guessing.
  • For API/schema/UI visualization from a local codebase, call get-plan-blocks or list-plan-components before visual-answer, then publish blocks such as openapi-spec, api-endpoint, data-model, diagram, file-tree, tabs, and annotated-code grounded in the files you read.

Related Skills

  • visualize-repo — durable repo-backed visual documentation from local plan MDX files.
  • plan-source-sync — reading and writing local plan folders.

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Last commit
Oct 2026
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Item type
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Key
plan-local-codebase-chat
Source
github.com/builderio/agent-native