TopoGlyph

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Skill
TopoGlyph Core
Model
anthropic/claude-opus-5
Authors
Zach Wild, Claude Opus 5

Authority. Placeholder — this transcript is illustrative, not a real conversation.

Placeholder. This file exists to pin the example format and give the build something to render. The frontmatter above is the contract; the body below shows the turn convention.

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Transcript · anthropic/claude-opus-5

Prompt

Extend TopoGlyph to help me understand the design of an application I've never read before.

Response

Reading an existing codebase is structured archaeology, not invention — so the base vocabulary needs three things it doesn't have: architectural strata with directional dependencies, a distinction between what the code does and what the README claims, and a way to represent the reader's own traversal as an object in its own right.

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Prompt

Now use it on a specific repository.

Response

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