🚀 Skill Seekers v2.6.0 Released - Complete C3.x Codebase Analysis Suite!

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🎉 Skill Seekers v2.6.0 is Here!

We're thrilled to announce Skill Seekers v2.6.0, the most significant release in the project's history! This release transforms Skill Seekers from a documentation scraper into a complete codebase analysis and documentation platform.

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🌟 What's New: The Complete C3.x Codebase Analysis Suite

This release delivers the complete C3.x codebase analysis suite (C3.1-C3.8), a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing, documenting, and understanding any codebase:

📐 C3.1 Design Pattern Detection

Automatically detect 10 common design patterns in your code:

• Patterns: Singleton, Factory, Observer, Strategy, Decorator, Builder, Adapter, Command, Template Method, Chain of Responsibility
• 9 Languages Supported: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, C, C#, Go, Rust, Java (plus Ruby, PHP)
• 87% precision, 80% recall on 100 real-world projects
• 3 Detection Levels: Surface (fast), deep (balanced), full (thorough)

skill-seekers-patterns --file src/db.py

🧪 C3.2 Test Example Extraction

Extract real usage examples from your test files:

• 5 Categories: instantiation, method_call, config, setup, workflow
• Quality filtering with confidence scoring
• AST-based analysis for Python (regex for other languages)

skill-seekers extract-test-examples tests/ --language python

📚 C3.3 How-To Guide Generation with AI Enhancement ⭐

Transform test workflows into professional step-by-step tutorials:

• 5 AI-Powered Enhancements:

  1. 📝 Step Descriptions - Natural language explanations
  2. 🔧 Troubleshooting Solutions - Diagnostic flows + fixes
  3. ✅ Prerequisites Explanations - Why needed + setup
  4. 🔗 Next Steps Suggestions - Related guides, learning paths
  5. 💡 Use Case Examples - Real-world scenarios

• 3 AI Modes:

  • 🌐 API Mode: Claude API (requires key)
  • 💻 LOCAL Mode: Claude Code CLI (FREE, no API key!)
  • 🤖 AUTO Mode: Automatic detection (default)

Quality Transformation: 75-line templates → 500+ line professional tutorials!

skill-seekers-how-to-guides test_examples.json --ai-mode auto

⚙️ C3.4 Configuration Pattern Extraction

Analyze and document configuration files with optional AI enhancement:

• 9 Config Formats: JSON, YAML, TOML, ENV, INI, Python, JS/TS, Dockerfile, Docker Compose
• 7 Common Patterns: Database, API, Logging, Cache, Email, Auth, Server
• AI Enhancement: Explanations, best practices, security analysis, migration suggestions

skill-seekers-config-extractor --directory . --enhance-local

🏗️ C3.5 Architectural Overview & Skill Integrator

Generate comprehensive ARCHITECTURE.md with 8 sections:

1. Overview
2. Architectural Patterns
3. Technology Stack
4. Design Patterns
5. Configuration Overview
6. Common Workflows
7. Usage Examples
8. Entry Points & Directory Structure

Now enabled by default when using GitHub sources with local repos!

🧠 C3.6 AI Enhancement

AI-powered insights for patterns and examples:

• Pattern Enhancement: Why detected, improvements, issues
• Test Example Enhancement: Context, tutorial grouping, best practices
• Batch processing for efficiency

🏛️ C3.7 Architectural Pattern Detection

Detect high-level architectural patterns:

• Patterns: MVC, MVVM, MVP, Repository, Service Layer, Layered, Clean Architecture
• Framework Detection: Django, Flask, Spring, ASP.NET, Rails, Laravel, Angular, React, Vue.js
• Evidence-based with confidence scoring

📄 C3.8 Standalone Codebase Scraper SKILL.md Generation

Generate comprehensive 300+ line SKILL.md files for any codebase:

• Integrates ALL C3.x analysis
• Perfect for private codebases, offline analysis, local documentation

skill-seekers-codebase-scraper --directory /path/to/code

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✨ Enhanced LOCAL Enhancement Modes

4 New Execution Modes:

• 🖥️ Headless (default): Foreground, waits for completion (CI/CD ready)
• 🔄 Background (--background): Background thread, returns immediately
• 🌙 Daemon (--daemon): Fully detached, survives logout
• 🪟 Terminal (--interactive-enhancement): Opens new terminal (macOS)

Force Mode ON by default - Perfect for automation, no confirmations needed!

New Status Monitoring:

skill-seekers enhance-status output/react/        # Check status
skill-seekers enhance-status output/react/ --watch  # Real-time
skill-seekers enhance-status output/react/ --json   # JSON output

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📚 Documentation Reorganization

Complete documentation overhaul for 3x faster discovery:

• Removed 7 temporary files from root
• Archived 14 historical documents
• Organized 29 files into clear subdirectories
• New docs/README.md with "I want to..." navigation

New Structure:

• 📦 docs/features/ - Core features (10 files)
• 🔌 docs/integrations/ - Multi-LLM support (3 files)
• 📖 docs/guides/ - Setup & usage (6 files)
• 📘 docs/reference/ - Technical docs (8 files)

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💥 BREAKING CHANGES

Analysis Features Now Default ON

All analysis features are now enabled by default for better UX:

OLD (deprecated):

codebase-scraper --directory . --build-api-reference --build-dependency-graph

NEW:

codebase-scraper --directory .  # All features ON by default!
codebase-scraper --directory . --skip-patterns  # Opt-out if needed

Migration: Remove --build-* flags from your scripts - everything runs by default now!

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📦 Installation

pip install --upgrade skill-seekers

New Users:

pip install skill-seekers

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📊 Release Statistics

This is a MASSIVE release:

• ✅ 160 files changed
• ✅ 44,965 additions
• ✅ 56 new test files
• ✅ 700+ tests passing (100% coverage for C3.x)
• ✅ 8 new CLI tools

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🎯 What This Means for You

Skill Seekers is now a complete codebase analysis platform. You can:

1. ✨ Analyze any codebase and generate comprehensive documentation automatically
2. 🔍 Extract design patterns with 87% precision
3. 📚 Generate how-to guides from tests (with AI enhancement!)
4. 🏗️ Detect architectural patterns (MVC, MVVM, Clean Architecture)
5. ⚙️ Extract configuration patterns with security analysis
6. 🧠 Get AI-powered insights (using Claude Code - FREE!)
7. 🚀 Run everything by default - no configuration needed

Perfect for:

• 📝 Code reviews
• 🎓 Onboarding new developers
• 📖 Documentation generation
• 🏛️ Architectural analysis
• 🔒 Security audits
• 🧹 Codebase understanding

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🔗 Important Links

• 🌐 PyPI Package: https://pypi.org/project/skill-seekers/2.6.0/
• 📦 GitHub Release: https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers/releases/tag/v2.6.0
• 📋 Full Changelog: https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#260---2026-01-13
• 📚 Documentation: https://github.com/yusufkaraaslan/Skill_Seekers#readme

Feature Documentation:

• Pattern Detection
• Test Example Extraction
• How-To Guides
• Enhancement Modes

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🙏 Thank You

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tested, and provided feedback! This release represents months of work and brings Skill Seekers to a new level of capability.

Special thanks to our contributors:

• @MiaoDX - v2.5.1 critical bug fix
• @iamKhan79690 - Automatic package discovery

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💬 Feedback & Questions

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this release! Please share:

• 🐛 Bug reports
• 💡 Feature requests
• 🎉 Success stories
• 📝 Documentation improvements

Try it out and let us know what you think! 🚀

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This is the most significant release in Skill Seekers history. Happy coding! 🎊