invest-backfill

Generate architecture documentation for an existing codebase by surveying the repository to infer patterns and automatically producing doctrine files like VECTOR.md, CLAUDE.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md that reflect actual project structure.

Backfilling project doctrine files analyzes your codebase and generates missing documentation without overwriting existing files, ensuring your current configurations and conventions remain intact during the inference process.

Bootstrap architecture conventions on an older software project by scanning the existing code structure to infer patterns, then tailoring generated doctrine files using observed project signals and standard Investiture defaults.

Validate generated doctrine files against your codebase by running invest-doctrine to review the output, enabling validation and enforcement of the architecture rules inferred during the backfill process.

Backfilling doctrine on an existing repository generates VECTOR.md, CLAUDE.md, and ARCHITECTURE.md files by surveying the codebase, yielding actionable doctrine content and operator prompts for review.

Generating doctrine files from code requires an existing project with code and structure that lacks doctrine files, allowing the backfill process to survey the repository and infer patterns to produce tailored documentation.