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To generate a codebase context summary, scan the repository's tracked file structure using git ls-files and load prioritized documentation like README.md to orient yourself quickly. This produces a compact overview of the project's purpose, stack, and modules.

Bootstrapping a new session requires scanning tracked files and loading priority docs such as CLAUDE.md and docs/INDEX.md. This cold-start approach rapidly rebuilds your working context, providing purpose, stack details, and next-step guidance.

Context loading does not read all files; it enforces strict reading limits of no more than three full files and bounds the summary length. It scans the file structure via git while excluding .git and node_modules directories.

You can scan a repository structure by listing tracked files with git ls-files and excluding directories like node_modules. This method provides a directory and file overview to orient you without hitting filesystem reading limits.

A repository context scan prioritizes loading README.md, then CLAUDE.md, and finally docs/INDEX.md if present. This targeted documentation loading establishes project goals and conventions efficiently for new sessions.

You need a codebase scan for project orientation during new sessions, when tackling unfamiliar repos, after clear or compact operations, or in hands-off handover scenarios where fast orientation is required.