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codebase-exploration
Explore and understand codebases using SocratiCode semantic search, dependency graphs, and context artifacts. Use when exploring code, understanding architecture, finding functions/types, analysing dependencies, searching database schemas or API specs, or when socraticode/codebase_search tools are available. Activates when the user asks about code structure, wants to find where a feature lives, or needs to understand how code is organised.
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# SocratiCode Codebase Exploration
Use SocratiCode MCP tools to explore codebases efficiently. The core principle:
**search before reading** — the index gives you a map of the codebase in milliseconds;
raw file reading is expensive and context-consuming.
## Workflow
### 1. Start most explorations with `codebase_search`
Hybrid semantic + keyword search (vector + BM25, RRF-fused) runs in a single call.
- **Broad queries for orientation**: "how is authentication handled", "database connection setup", "error handling patterns"
- **Precise queries for symbol lookup**: exact function names, constants, type names