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    "title": "AI Backend Codebase Inventory",
    "subtitle": "A field guide to the /spine-recon skill",
    "description": "/spine-recon maps backend routes, middleware, auth, data model, dependencies, and structure with quality and risk assessment.",
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    "publishedAt": "2025-12-03",
    "updatedAt": "2025-12-03",
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Backend codebases hide their shape behind file structure. The team thinks they have 30 routes; the codebase has 47. The middleware chain is undocumented. Auth coverage is inconsistent. Data model relationships are not in any one place."
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      "text": "The `/spine-recon` skill maps the backend: API routes, middleware chain, authentication, data model, external service dependencies, codebase structure. Assesses code quality and test coverage. Identifies highest-risk areas before changes."
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      "text": "Tonone's /spine-recon skill produces a backend inventory with routes, middleware, auth, data model, dependencies, and risk assessment."
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      "text": "Install"
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      "text": "`/spine-recon` ships with the Spine agent in Tonone for Claude Code."
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        "alternative": "Manual backend review",
        "difference": "Manual misses routes. /spine-recon walks the codebase."
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        "question": "What does /spine-recon do?",
        "answer": "It maps the backend (routes, middleware, auth, data model, dependencies) with quality and risk assessment."
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        "question": "How do I install /spine-recon?",
        "answer": "Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started."
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