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A field guide to the /pave-recon skill

AI Platform Engineering Inventory

Platform engineering reconnaissance: inventories all developer tooling, build systems, environment configurations, local development setups, internal CLIs and scripts, and deployment workflows. Produces a picture of how developers currently work and where the friction points and inconsistencies are.

Pave · Platform Engineering4 min readNovember 23, 2025

Reconnaissance is the first thing a senior engineer does on an inherited project: read the lay of the land before changing anything. Skip it and the first change reveals an assumption that turned out to be wrong.

The /pave-recon skill produces the recon for the upave domain. Platform engineering reconnaissance: inventories all developer tooling, build systems, environment configurations, local development setups, internal CLIs and scripts, and deployment workflows. Produces a picture of how developers currently work and where the friction points and inconsistencies are.

Tonone's /pave-recon skill produces a focused inventory of the upave domain before changes are made.

Install

/pave-recon ships with the upave agent in Tonone for Claude Code. Install Tonone via tonone.ai/get-started. Tonone is free and MIT-licensed.

1. Add to marketplace

$ claude plugin marketplace add tonone-ai/tonone

2. Install Pave

$ claude plugin install pave@tonone-ai

Frequently asked questions

What does /pave-recon do?
Platform engineering reconnaissance: inventories all developer tooling, build systems, environment configurations, local development setups, internal CLIs and scripts, and deployment workflows. Produces a picture of how developers currently work and where the friction points and inconsistencies are.
How do I install /pave-recon?
Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started. Tonone is free and MIT-licensed.

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