discover-standards

To extract tribal knowledge from a codebase, this Skill identifies implicit patterns and converts them into concise, documented Markdown standards. It surfaces 3-5 major areas and presents area-focused documentation options for review.

Documenting codebase patterns for new contributors is best handled by automatically surfacing common practices as Markdown standards. This creates living documentation that reflects evolving code practices and tooling to reduce onboarding time.

You generate documentation with frontmatter headers by prompting the system to draft standard entries. Produced standards are output as Markdown files containing a frontmatter header with name and description fields alongside a concise body.

Yes, you can use this to identify standards across codebases of varying sizes. The Skill operates on different codebase scales to auto-document patterns and integrate them with the agent-os standards index workflow.

Yes, the generated documentation integrates with an agent-os standards index workflow. After identifying key areas and drafting standard entries, the output Markdown files are structured to align with this workflow.