mak:reverse-engineering — Project Analysis into the Doc Set

Bootstraps the project's docs/ from the bundled template set at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/reverse-engineering/assets/project_docs/, then fills it by analyzing the codebase — recording the facts observed in the code.

The set's own rules live inside it:

• project_docs/00.INDEX.md — structure, per-topic SSOT, frontmatter conventions, content rules, domain / process registries (the rulebook)
• project_docs/CLAUDE.md — the analysis procedure (how to execute the rulebook)

This skill orchestrates: copy → analyze/fill → template cleanup. The two files above are the SSOT for everything else — follow them, don't restate them.

The set is one fixed composition — core documents 00–06 plus the unnumbered domains/ (one file per feature domain) and processes/ (one file per traced scenario) folders, each with a _template.md copy source. Templates are in English. Fill content in the user's language (or the project's documented language policy), keeping the structure; the INDEX's rule text is translated at cleanup (docs/CLAUDE.md §2 step 4).

Procedure

1. Confirm target and state

• Confirm the project root (default: current working directory).
• Check for existing guide documents — docs/ content, plus obvious guide files elsewhere (e.g. a root-level ARCHITECTURE/CONTRIBUTING guide). If any exist, list them and confirm with the user whether to merge (merge / copy only missing files / abort). Never overwrite an existing document without reading it first.
• On merge, this skill's doc-set format is the baseline — migrate the existing documents' content into the set's structure (per-topic SSOT, numbering, frontmatter per 00.INDEX.md), not the other way around. For projects with a mature docs/, recommend "copy only missing files" as the lower-impact default. Before executing a merge, present the plan first: which files will be created/changed and which originals become superseded — proceed after confirmation. Facts already written in the existing guides are treated as source material for step 3 (verify against code before carrying over; unverifiable claims become _(TODO)_). After migration, list the superseded originals and let the user decide whether to archive or delete them — do not delete on your own.

2. Copy the set

• Copy the whole set from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/reverse-engineering/assets/project_docs/ into <project>/docs/.
• Copy domains/ and processes/ recursively (each holds its _template.md — copying only top-level *.md loses them).
• If the project has no README.md, offer ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/reverse-engineering/assets/README.template.md as an optional starting skeleton (separate decision; skip silently if the user doesn't want it). If used, read the whole template first.

3. Analyze and fill

Follow docs/CLAUDE.md §2 (single flow and fill order — SSOT there, not restated here; scenarios go to processes/<name>.md, feature domains to domains/<name>.md, each via its _template.md).

Delegation — if the mak:analyzer agent is in the available agent list, delegate the analysis/filling to it in batches, following docs/CLAUDE.md §2's order. Pass each batch: the project root, the assigned document list, a pointer to docs/00.INDEX.md + docs/CLAUDE.md as the rulebook, the output language, and the observation format — each code-issue observation tagged with category, severity, status, and location per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/reverse-engineering/assets/analyzed-issues.template.md. Keep interactive decisions (merge confirmations, ambiguous conventions needing user input) in the main thread, and apply the cross-document syncs (00.INDEX.md registries, related_to symmetry) that analyzer reports back. If analyzer is unavailable, fill directly.

Batches may be delegated in parallel, but only after the fill order and cross-document dependencies are respected, only among batches that have no dependency on each other, and only when their assigned document sets do not overlap — two batches writing the same document collide. A workable split: A processes/ + 02 + 05 first (the trace grounds the structure documents) → B 01 §1–§4 + 03 and C 04 + 06 in parallel → D domains/ + 01 §5–§6 after A, B, and C (domains are discovered while tracing; 01's Change Checklist and Troubleshooting link into 03/04/06).

Hard rules while filling (SSOT: docs/CLAUDE.md §1):

• Record observed facts (is), not aspirations; unverified cells get _(TODO — <what's needed>)_, never guesses.
• Respect per-topic SSOT — one home per topic, links elsewhere.
• Keep frontmatter type / related_to symmetric per the INDEX rules.
• No time-stamped status anywhere in the set.

4. Template cleanup + verification

Run the cleanup and the completion checklist exactly as defined in docs/CLAUDE.md §2 step 4 and §4 (remove > Template: blocks except in CLAUDE.md/_template.md, remove the INDEX intro and example registry rows, prune the stack table, no unreplaced <...>, translate the INDEX rule text, grep check zero hits).

5. Report

Summarize: files created, docs filled vs left _(TODO)_, improvement observations noted while tracing (listed here — never written into the set), and suggested next steps (e.g. fill remaining TODOs; if the user wants a roadmap, mak:roadmap-planning creates it as a separate document outside the set).

If any of those observations are code issues, ask the user whether to keep them in the out-of-set analyzed-issues document (docs/<NN>.analyzed-issues.md, numbered per docs/00.INDEX.md §Content Rules). On approval, the main thread collates the observations, removes duplicates, assigns IDs, and writes the document from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/reverse-engineering/assets/analyzed-issues.template.md (format rules live in the template). If the document already exists, read it and merge, keeping existing IDs.

Cautions

• This skill writes documents only — no source-code changes.
• Large analysis can be staged: agree with the user on which docs to fill this session and record the rest as _(TODO)_.
• Do not run git commit/push unless the user explicitly says "commit"/"push".