groundhog

by ghuntleyVerified

Groundhog's primary purpose is to teach people how Cursor and all these other coding agents work under the hood. If you understand how these coding assistants work from first principles, then you can drive these tools harder (or perhaps make your own!).

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Installation

Add to your Claude Code skills directory:

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/ghuntley/groundhog

Getting Started

Guides for using skills like groundhog.

Security Report

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{
  "status": "PASSED",
  "issues": []
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README.md

Groundhog AI Coding Assistant

Groundhog's primary purpose is to teach people how Cursor and all these other coding agents work under the hood. If you understand how these coding assistants work from first principles, then you can drive these tools harder (or perhaps make your own!). As part of the series kicked off at http://ghuntley.com/specs we'll be building it together, increment by increment.

Please don't raise GitHub issues mentioning that XYZ does not work as I'm yet to decide on the community model around the project and doing customer support for free is not high up on my list.

Groundhog is a teaching tool first. If you want a full-blown thing right now, go check out "Goose", "Roo/Cline", "Aider" or "AllHands".

Features

  • Code Explanation: Get detailed explanations of code snippets and files
  • Modern Architecture: Built with Rust for performance and reliability
  • Comprehensive Logging: Built-in logging and telemetry for debugging and monitoring
  • CLI Interface: Easy-to-use command-line interface

Installation

[Installation instructions to be added]

Usage

The basic command structure is:

Groundhog <command> [options]

Available Commands

  • explain: Get explanations for code snippets or files
    Groundhog explain
    

More commands will be added in future releases.

Development

Prerequisites

  • Rust toolchain
  • [Other prerequisites to be added]

Building from Source

git clone [repository-url]
cd Groundhog
cargo build

Running Tests

cargo test

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available in the specs/ directory:

Contributing

[Contribution guidelines to be added]

License

[License information to be added]

Frequently Asked Questions

What is groundhog?

groundhog is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by ghuntley. Groundhog's primary purpose is to teach people how Cursor and all these other coding agents work under the hood. If you understand how these coding assistants work from first principles, then you can drive these tools harder (or perhaps make your own!). It has 403 GitHub stars.

Is groundhog safe to use?

Yes. groundhog passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.

How do I install groundhog?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/ghuntley/groundhog" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

What programming language is groundhog written in?

groundhog is primarily written in Rust. It is open-source under ghuntley on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.

Are there alternatives to groundhog?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh groundhog against similar tools.

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