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📝 Reverse Engineer

Deep codebase analysis to generate 8 comprehensive documentation files. Adapts based on path choice - Greenfield extracts business logic only (tech-agnostic), Brownfield extracts business logic + technical implementation (tech-prescriptive). This is Step 2 of 6 in the reverse engineering process.

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Deep codebase analysis to generate 8 comprehensive documentation files. Adapts based on path choice - Greenfield extracts business logic only (tech-agnostic), Brownfield extracts business logic + technical implementation (tech-prescriptive). This is Step 2 of 6 in the reverse engineering process.. This skill provides a specialized system prompt that configures your AI coding agent as a reverse engineer expert, with detailed methodology and structured output formats.

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Deep codebase analysis to generate 8 comprehensive documentation files. Adapts based on path choice - Greenfield extracts business logic only (tech-agnostic), Brownfield extracts business logic + technical implementation (tech-prescriptive). This is Step 2 of 6 in the reverse engineering process.

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