Overview
understand is an open-source docs skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by Egonex-AI. Its author describes it as: “Analyze a codebase to produce an interactive knowledge graph for understanding architecture, components, and relationships”. The project has 84k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything`.
What understand does
Analyze the current codebase and produce a `knowledge-graph.json` file in the project's data directory (`.ua/`, or the legacy `.understand-anything/` when it already exists). This file powers the interactive dashboard for exploring the project's architecture.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for understand is organised into these sections:
- Options
- Progress Reporting
- Phase 0 — Pre-flight
- Phase 0.5 — Ignore Configuration (full analysis only)
- Phase 1 — SCAN (Full analysis only)
- Phase 1.5 — BATCH
- Phase 2 — ANALYZE
- Full analysis path
- Incremental update path
- Phase 3 — ASSEMBLE REVIEW
- Phase 4 — ARCHITECTURE
- Phase 5 — TOUR
Installation
Add understand to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add Egonex-AI/Understand-AnythingReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Gemini CLI — declared in the repository topics
- OpenCode — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
understand is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, an established project with 83,527 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 6,625 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does understand do?
- Analyze a codebase to produce an interactive knowledge graph for understanding architecture, components, and relationships
- How do I install understand?
- Run /plugin marketplace add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything before installing.
- Is understand free to use?
- Yes. understand is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does understand work with?
- understand lists Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does understand come from?
- understand ships inside Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, a repository that contains 10 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 83,527 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.