Rapid orientation in unfamiliar projects — trace data pipelines, map architecture, find output-vs-generator mismatches.
Rapid orientation in unfamiliar projects — trace data pipelines, map architecture, find output-vs-generator mismatches.
# Codebase Orientation
## When to Use
- User asks you to "investigate" or "look at" an unfamiliar project
- User reports a problem in generated output (e.g., "links are too long", "pages look wrong")
- You need to understand how data flows through a multi-stage pipeline
- You're dropped into a project with multiple directories and need to understand the architecture first
- User asks "what generates X" or "how does this work"
**Core pattern: start at the output and trace backward through the