Map The Landscape

tamdogood/map-the-landscape

Map the big picture around a topic or software repository by identifying its boundaries, layers, actors, components, relationships, flows, history, fault lines, and open questions, then explain how the pieces fit together and where to look next. Use when a user asks to understand a whole field, domain, technology, ecosystem, industry, codebase, architecture, unfamiliar repo, or phrases such as "give me the big picture", "map the landscape", "how does this all fit together?", "help me get oriented", or "what am I missing?

4k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills --skill map-the-landscape

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take tamdogood/map-the-landscape from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.