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Overview

Codex is a supported platform for Understand Anything. Installation is handled via an AI-driven flow: you instruct Codex to fetch and execute the installation instructions directly from the repository.

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Prerequisites

  • Codex installed
  • Git installed and available on your PATH

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Installation

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Trigger the AI-driven install

Open Codex and send the following message:
Fetch and follow instructions from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything/refs/heads/main/.codex/INSTALL.md
Codex will fetch the install guide and execute the steps on your behalf.
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What Codex does for you

The instructions tell Codex to:
  1. Clone the repository to ~/.codex/understand-anything: 
    git clone https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything.git ~/.codex/understand-anything
  2. Create the skills symlink so Codex can discover them: 
    mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills
ln -s ~/.codex/understand-anything/understand-anything-plugin/skills ~/.agents/skills/understand-anything
    On Windows (PowerShell), the equivalent commands use New-Item and mklink /J instead of ln -s.
  3. Restart Codex to discover the newly linked skills.
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Restart Codex

Restart Codex so it picks up the new skills from ~/.agents/skills/understand-anything.

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Verification

Confirm the symlink is in place: 
ls -la ~/.agents/skills/understand-anything
You should see a symlink pointing to the plugin’s skills/ directory inside the cloned repo.

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First Use

Once the skills are discovered, invoke Understand Anything by telling Codex: 
Analyze this codebase and build a knowledge graph
Or directly: 
Help me understand this project's architecture
Skills also activate automatically when Codex detects relevant context.

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Updating

To pull the latest version: 
cd ~/.codex/understand-anything && git pull
The symlink means skills update instantly — no restart needed.

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Uninstalling

rm ~/.agents/skills/understand-anything
rm -rf ~/.codex/understand-anything

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Next Steps

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