Augmented Outside-In Discovery with Claude Code

A practical walkthrough of using Claude Code to accelerate discovery of unfamiliar or legacy codebases through four key use cases: reverse-engineering a product backlog, generating C4 architecture diagrams in Mermaid, tracing end-to-end feature flows, and rating code quality. Includes concrete prompts for each use case and honest caveats about AI limitations, such as hallucinated user roles and the need to validate AI-inferred insights with domain experts. Also covers converting prompts into reusable commands.