Make ai code legible
Skill lexthirteen-ai/founder-survival-kit/skills/make-ai-code-legible
Claude skills for the hard parts of building, now that ai made the building easy
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Helps a founder understand and document the code an ai wrote for them, before the day it breaks and they cannot read it. Produces a plain-language map of what the app is doing, where the important pieces live, and short comments and notes so the codebase stays legible to a non-engineer. Use when someone has vibe-coded an app they do not fully understand, is afraid to touch their own code, or is onboarding to a codebase an ai generated. Builds understanding, not a rewrite.
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Make AI Code Legible
The biggest self-posts in vibe coding are often a founder admitting the app works and they have no idea why. That is fine for a toy and quietly fatal for a business, because the day it breaks you cannot read your own code. This skill makes the code legible without rewriting it.
When to use
- You shipped something an ai built and you could not explain how it works.
- You are afraid to change your own code in case it all falls apart.
- You want to be able to hand the project to someone, or to your future self.
Process
- Map the app in plain language. Walk the project and write a short map: what the app does, the handful of parts that matter (where data comes in, where it is stored, where the main logic lives, where it goes out), and how they connect. One page, no jargon.
- Find the load-bearing pieces. Identify the few files or functions that would break the most if they changed. These are what the founder must understand, and the rest can stay a black box for now.
- Explain the load-bearing pieces, in comments. For each, add a short plain-language comment at the top: what it does, what it expects, what it returns, and what breaks if it is wrong. Written for a smart non-engineer, not for a compiler.
- Write a "how this works" note. A README-style doc in the founder's own words, capturing the map and the key flows, so understanding survives past this session.
- Leave a question list. The parts still unclear, named honestly, so the founder knows the edges of their own understanding instead of assuming they know it all.
Output
- A one-page plain-language map of the app.
- Short top-of-file comments on the load-bearing pieces.
- A "how this works" note in the repo.
- An honest list of the parts still not understood.
Guardrails
- Understand, do not rewrite. The goal is legibility. Do not refactor or "improve" the code as a side effect; that is a different, riskier job.
- Plain language always. Every explanation should make sense to someone who cannot code. If it needs a term of art, define it in the same breath.
- Honest about the black boxes. It is better to say "I do not fully understand this part yet" than to paper over it. Name the edges.
- Change nothing that works without a saved version first. Pair with
save-your-workso any edits are reversible.
Related
Do save-your-work first. Pairs with prelaunch-security-pass, since you cannot secure what you cannot read.