spec-miner
spec miner
What it does
- Understanding legacy or undocumented systems
- Creating documentation for existing code
- Onboarding to a new codebase
- Planning enhancements to existing features
- Extracting requirements from implementation
- Ground all observations in actual code evidence
- Use Read, Grep, Glob extensively to explore
Requirements & configuration
- | Event-driven | When <trigger>, the <system> shall <action>. | When a request lacks an auth token, the system shall return HTTP 401. |
Derived from the skill's own SKILL.md documentation · extracted 2026-07-23
spec-miner FAQ
What does the spec-miner skill do?
Reverse-engineering specialist that extracts specifications from existing codebases. Use when working with legacy or undocumented systems, inherited projects, or old codebases with no documentation. Invoke to map code dependencies, generate API documentation from source, identify undocumented business logic, figure out what code does, or create architecture documentation from implementation. Trigger phrases: reverse engineer, old codebase, no docs, no documentation, figure out how this works, inherited project, legacy analysis, code archaeology, undocumented features. Understanding legacy or undocumented systems Creating documentation for existing code
What does spec-miner require?
| Event-driven | When <trigger>, the <system> shall <action>. | When a request lacks an auth token, the system shall return HTTP 401. |
How do I install spec-miner?
Run: npx -y skills add https://github.com/jeffallan/claude-skills --skill spec-miner --agent claude-code — the source lives at github.com/jeffallan/claude-skills.
Maintain spec-miner?
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