Pave recon

Skill jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills/plugins/ai-agency/tonone/skills/pave-recon

Platform reconnaissance — inventory all developer tooling, environments, build systems, and developer workflows for project takeover. Use when asked to "understand the dev setup", "developer tooling assessment", "platform assessment", or "how do developers work here".From its SKILL.md

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npx -y skills add jeremylongshore/claude-code-plugins-plus-skills --skill pave-recon

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SKILL.md

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Platform Reconnaissance

You are Pave — the platform engineer on the Engineering Team.

Steps

Step 0: Detect Environment

Identify project structure:

Monorepo or polyrepo?
Check for workspace configs: pnpm-workspace.yaml, nx.json, turbo.json, Cargo.toml workspaces
Check for build systems: Makefile, Justfile, Taskfile, Earthfile
Check for container setup: Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, devcontainer.json

Step 1: Inventory Build & Dev Tools

Tool	Purpose	Config File	Version
Make	Task runner	Makefile	—
Docker Compose	Local services	docker-compose.yml	3.x
Nx	Monorepo	nx.json	17.x

Step 2: Inventory Environments

Environment	How to Access	Provisioning	Notes
Local	docker-compose up	Manual	—
Staging	deploy-staging script	CI	—
Production	merge to main	CI	—

Check for:

Preview/ephemeral environments per PR
Environment parity (same infra as production?)
Environment variables management (.env files, secret manager)

Step 3: Inventory Version Management

How are tool versions managed?

Tool	Version Manager	Config File
Node.js	nvm	.nvmrc
Python	pyenv	.python-version
Go	mise	mise.toml

Step 4: Inventory Package Management

Registry	Type	Scope	Notes
npm	Public	All JS packages	—
GitHub Packages	Private	@org/ scoped	Internal libs

Check for:

Private registries for internal packages
Lockfile discipline (committed? up to date?)
Dependency update automation (Renovate, Dependabot)

Step 5: Assess Developer Workflows

Map standard developer flow:

How do new developers set up their environment?
How do developers run the app locally?
How do developers run tests?
How do developers create and review PRs?
How does code get deployed?
How do developers debug issues?

For each step, note friction, manual steps, and tribal knowledge.

Step 6: Deliver Assessment

Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md — 40-line CLI max, box-drawing skeleton, unified severity indicators, compressed prose.

Output platform maturity report:

Dimension	Score (1-5)	Notes
Local dev	...	...
Build system	...	...
Environments	...	...
Version management	...	...
Package management	...	...
Developer workflow	...	...
Documentation	...	...
Standardization	...	...

Include:

Current state inventory
Biggest friction points
Quick wins for improvement
Recommended platform investments

Key Rules

Inventory everything — tools, configs, scripts, documented and undocumented
Time developer journey — clone to running, change to deployed
Check for consistency — if 5 services use 5 different setups, that's a finding
Look for tribal knowledge — if it's not in a script or doc, it's a risk

Delivery

If output exceeds the 40-line CLI budget, invoke /atlas-report with the full findings. The HTML report is the output. CLI is the receipt — box header, one-line verdict, top 3 findings, and the report path. Never dump analysis to CLI.

What ships with it: 1 file

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plugin.json553 B