Analyze Existing Project
# Analyze Existing Project
## Recipe
- Category: Planning
- Recommended mode: Plan Mode
- Risk level: Low
- Estimated scope: Medium
## Purpose
Build an evidence-based understanding of an existing Lovable project before planning or changing it. The result should identify the product, architecture, data flow, conventions, risks, and unknowns without modifying the project.
## Use When
- joining or revisiting an existing project
- preparing a feature, refactor, migration, integration, or security review
- Project Knowledge may be incomplete or outdated
- the relevant implementation area is unclear
- previous changes caused regressions or architectural inconsistency
## Do Not Use When
- the task is already small, isolated, and fully understood
- implementation has already been approved and only execution remains
- the user asked for a targeted debugging or security recipe instead
## Required Context
Provide when known:
- `[ANALYSIS_SCOPE]`: Whole project or a specific area
- `[PROJECT_GOAL]`: What the product is intended to achieve
- `[FOCUS_AREAS]`: Features, routes, flows, integrations, or concerns to prioritize
- `[KNOWN_CONCERNS]`: Suspected risks, inconsistencies, or failures
- `[EXCLUDED_AREAS]`: Areas that must not be inspected or discussed
- `[OUTPUT_DEPTH]`: Concise, standard, or deep
## Promptwhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo ubin8/Lovable-Cookbook (MIT). A "Analyze Existing Project" 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.
tags
lifestylecommunitygeneral
source
ubin8/Lovable-Cookbook · MIT