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    "title": "AI Project Reconnaissance for Claude Code",
    "subtitle": "A field guide to the /apex-recon skill",
    "description": "Lighter than takeover. /apex-recon reads codebase, git history, open work, and dependency graph to produce a focused inventory before planning.",
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    "publishedAt": "2025-12-06",
    "updatedAt": "2025-12-06",
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Sometimes the team needs orientation, not the full takeover artifact. The new project is familiar enough that a takeover is overkill, but unfamiliar enough that planning without context is risky."
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      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The `/apex-recon` skill is the focused inventory: codebase structure, git history, open work, dependency graph. Faster and lighter than `/apex-takeover`, designed for orientation rather than comprehensive handoff documentation."
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      "text": "Tonone's /apex-recon skill produces a focused project inventory for orientation before planning."
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      "text": "Install"
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      "text": "`/apex-recon` ships with the Apex agent in Tonone for Claude Code."
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        "alternative": "/apex-takeover",
        "difference": "Takeover is comprehensive. /apex-recon is faster orientation."
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        "question": "What does /apex-recon do?",
        "answer": "It produces a focused project inventory for orientation before planning."
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        "answer": "/apex-takeover is the full multi-specialist artifact. /apex-recon is faster and lighter."
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        "question": "How do I install /apex-recon?",
        "answer": "Install Tonone for Claude Code via tonone.ai/get-started."
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