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Learn a codebase by re-deriving its design decisions yourself. A Claude Code skill.
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rederive is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by EricJujianZou. Learn a codebase by re-deriving its design decisions yourself. A Claude Code skill. It has 52 GitHub stars.
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Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/EricJujianZou/rederive" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
rederive is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under EricJujianZou on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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rederive is a skill for coding agents that teaches you a codebase by making you design it yourself from first principles. It only asks you questions to guide you to the right answer, and it won't explain things. We made this on purpose to aim for understanding through derivation, instead of memorizing what the agent says.
npx skills add EricJujianZou/rederive
The same command installs it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, opencode, Windsurf, Amp, Goose and about 15 other agents. It puts the skill in every agent folder it finds in your project. Add -g to install it for every project instead. Then type /rederive in your agent.
It needs git, bash and python3.
As a Claude Code plugin:
/plugin marketplace add EricJujianZou/rederive
/plugin install rederive@rederive
By hand, clone the repo and copy skills/rederive into your agent's skills folder, such as ~/.claude/skills/ or ~/.agents/skills/:
git clone https://github.com/EricJujianZou/rederive
cp -r rederive/skills/rederive ~/.agents/skills/
The start of a session on Express (an example, shortened):
/rederive # the repo you are in
/rederive ~/code/myapp # a local repo
/rederive https://github.com/expressjs/express # clones it into the current folder
Talk to it in plain words. Tell it you're stuck, ask to skip a problem, or say you want to start over.
.rederive/map.md. Don't open it until you're done, because it has the answers..rederive/log.md: where you struggled and what you worked out alone. Read it at the end to see what to practice.Everything stays on your machine. .rederive/ goes in the repo's local git exclude list, so it never shows up in your commits. rederive sends no telemetry.
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