A Cline Prompt For Codebase Analysis And Feature Extraction
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title: "A Cline prompt for codebase analysis and feature extraction"
source: "https://www.jonatkinson.co.uk/blog/cline-prompt-code-analysis.html"
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created: 2025-01-25
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## A Cline prompt for codebase analysis and feature extraction
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November 20, 2024
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From time-to-time, I'm asked to evaluate a large codebase. This is usually from a client who has a project in distress, or who needs to quickly move their infrastructure provider and re-host the application elsewhere.
I lot of the time this relies on the intuition of a good engineer who is familiar with the technology being used. There's a lot of code browsing, writing quick notes, and silent video calls as we try to find the context for the decisions in the codebase.
I wanted to see if there was a better way to do this, and as I've been using [Cline](https://github.com/cline/cline) in VSCode, I tried to write a comprehensive system prompt:when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo VisualBoy/AI-Bots-Prompt-Collection (NOASSERTION). A "A Cline Prompt For Codebase Analysis And Feature Extraction" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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VisualBoy/AI-Bots-Prompt-Collection · NOASSERTION
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