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name: spec-miner description: Use when Reverse-engineering specialist that extracts specifications from existing codebases.

Spec Miner

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. — One of 66 full-stack developer skills in Jeff Allan's claude-skills plugin (MIT, 9.4k stars).

What you get

• Public GitHub repo (Jeffallan/claude-skills)
• the skills/spec-miner folder with SKILL.md and references. Install via /plugin install fullstack-dev-skills@jeffallan.

Customize your output

• Fork the repo and extend the skill's reference files for your own stack conventions.

Example output

Activates on a matching request (e.g. building or reviewing Spec Miner code) and can chain with other skills in the pack.

Best for

Full-stack developers and engineering teams using Claude Code.