skill-reverse-engineering

You can regenerate architecture documentation by scanning directory structures and synthesizing local file summaries. This approach identifies dominant languages, components, and architecture drift to automatically update your project's ARCHITECTURE.md file.

Identifying architecture drift involves analyzing local file summaries and directory structures to detect discrepancies between the codebase and existing documentation. The process updates KNOWN_ISSUES.md to reflect current tech debt and project state.

To update outdated code documentation, you can perform an automated codebase analysis that scans directories and synthesizes summaries. This regenerates architecture diagrams and component maps to synchronize documentation with recent rapid changes.

Yes, you need Python scripts to run this automated codebase analysis. The reverse engineering process requires Python to scan directories, analyze local summaries, and synthesize the global architecture documentation.

Yes, you can analyze a large codebase without reading every file by using iterative local summarization. The scanning mechanism identifies key components and dominant languages by evaluating directory structures instead of individual file contents.