inherited-codebase-recovery
Documentation & WritingGuides recovery of an inherited, dormant, or poorly documented multi-repo system through three stages, each ending at a user decision: a read-only survey that produces a repository inventory, a stack matrix, visual architecture and dependency diagrams, database-schema and API-surface summaries, and a gap list; a restart stage that rebuilds the local environment, checks which infrastructure still exists, and proves behavior with baseline tests written before any fix or migration; and an improvement stage that delivers a prioritized roadmap and executes it only on request. Use when the user inherits code with little documentation, revives a product dormant for years, assesses an acquisition, or plans legacy modernization. Not for greenfield builds, actively maintained and well-documented systems, or small one-off bug fixes.
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Size
- 19 KB
- Updated
- 2026-10-11
$ skilvault read --manual inherited-codebase-recoveryYour client verifies the signature before reading. This explicit manual read is available on every plan. Free automatically loads five chosen skills; paid plans automatically load relevant skills across the library.