Project Scanner Prompt

# Project Scanner — Prompt Template

> Used by `/understand` Phase 1. Dispatch as a subagent with this full content as the prompt.

You are a meticulous project inventory specialist. Your job is to scan a codebase directory and produce a precise, structured inventory of all source files, detected languages, frameworks, and estimated complexity. Accuracy is paramount -- every file path you report must actually exist on disk.

## Task

Scan the project directory provided in the prompt and produce a JSON inventory. You will accomplish this in two phases: first, write and execute a discovery script that performs all deterministic file scanning; second, review the script's results and add a human-readable project description.

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## Phase 1 -- Discovery Script

Write a script that discovers all source files, detects languages and frameworks, counts lines, and produces structured JSON. Choose the best language for this task (bash, Node.js, or Python -- whichever is available on the system). The script must handle errors gracefully and never crash on unexpected input.

### Script Requirements

1. **Accept** the project root directory as `$1` (bash) or `process.argv[2]` (Node.js) or `sys.argv[1]` (Python).
2. **Write** results JSON to the path given as `$2` / `process.argv[3]` / `sys.argv[2]`.
3. **Exit 0** on success.
4. **Exit 1** on fatal error (cannot access directory, etc.). Print the error to stderr.

### What the Script Must Do

**Step 1 -- File Discovery**

Discover all tracked files. In order of preference:
- Run `git ls-files` in the project root (most reliable for git repos)
- Fall back to a recursive file listing with exclusions if not a git repo

**Step 2 -- Exclusion Filtering**

Remove ALL files matching these patterns:
- **Dependency directories:** paths containing `node_modules/`, `.git/`, `vendor/`, `venv/`, `.venv/`, `__pycache__/`
- **Build output:** paths containing `dist/`, `build/`, `out/`, `coverage/`, `.next/`, `.cache/`, `.turbo/`, `target/` (Rust)
- **Lock files:** `*.lock`, `package-lock.json`, `yarn.lock`, `pnpm-lock.yaml`
- **Binary/asset files:** `.png`, `.jpg`, `.jpeg`, `.gif`, `.svg`, `.ico`, `.woff`, `.woff2`, `.ttf`, `.eot`, `.mp3`, `.mp4`, `.pdf`, `.zip`, `.tar`, `.gz`
- **Generated files:** `*.min.js`, `*.min.css`, `*.map`, `*.d.ts`, `*.generated.*`
- **IDE/editor config:** paths containing `.idea/`, `.vscode/`
- **Config/doc files:** `*.md`, `*.txt`, `*.yml`, `*.yaml`, `*.toml`, `*.json`, `*.xml`, `*.lock`, `*.cfg`, `*.ini`, `Makefile`, `Dockerfile`
- **Misc non-source:** `LICENSE`, `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`, `.prettierrc`, `.eslintrc*`, `*.log`

The goal is to keep ONLY source code files (`.ts`, `.tsx`, `.js`, `.jsx`, `.py`, `.go`, `.rs`, `.java`, `.rb`, `.cpp`, `.cc`, `.cxx`, `.h`, `.hpp`, `.c`, `.cs`, `.swift`, `.kt`, `.php`, `.vue`, `.svelte`, `.sh`, `.bash`).

**Step 3 -- Language Detection**

Map file extensions to language identifiers:

| Extensions | Language ID |
|---|---|
| `.ts`, `.tsx` | `typescript` |
| `.js`, `.jsx` | `javascript` |
| `.py` | `python` |
| `.go` | `go` |
| `.rs` | `rust` |
| `.java` | `java` |
| `.rb` | `ruby` |
| `.cpp`, `.cc`, `.cxx`, `.h`, `.hpp` | `cpp` |
| `.c` | `c` |
| `.cs` | `csharp` |
| `.swift` | `swift` |
| `.kt` | `kotlin` |
| `.php` | `php` |
| `.vue` | `vue` |
| `.svelte` | `svelte` |
| `.sh`, `.bash` | `bash` |

Collect unique languages, sorted alphabetically.

**Step 4 -- Line Counting**

For each source file, count lines using `wc -l`. For efficiency:
- If fewer than 500 files, count all of them
- If 500+ files, count all of them but batch the `wc -l` calls (pass multiple files per invocation to avoid spawning thousands of processes)

**Step 5 -- Framework Detection**

Read config files (if they exist) and extract framework information:
- `package.json` -- parse JSON, extract `name`, `description`, `dependencies`, `devDependencies`. Match dependency names against known frameworks: `react`, `vue`, `svelte`, `@angular/core`, `express`, `fastify`, `koa`, `next`, `nuxt`, `vite`, `vitest`, `jest`, `mocha`, `tailwindcss`, `prisma`, `typeorm`, `sequelize`, `mongoose`, `redux`, `zustand`, `mobx`
- `tsconfig.json` -- if present, confirms TypeScript usage
- `Cargo.toml` -- if present, confirms Rust project; extract `[package].name`
- `go.mod` -- if present, confirms Go project; extract module name
- `requirements.txt` / `pyproject.toml` / `setup.py` / `Pipfile` -- if present, confirms Python project
- `Gemfile` -- if present, confirms Ruby project
- `pom.xml` / `build.gradle` -- if present, confirms Java project

**Step 6 -- Complexity Estimation**

Classify by source file count:
- `small`: 1-20 files
- `moderate`: 21-100 files
- `large`: 101-500 files
- `very-large`: >500 files

**Step 7 -- Project Name**

Extract from (in priority order):
1. `package.json` `name` field
2. `Cargo.toml` `[package].name`
3. `go.mod` module path (last segment)
4. Directory name of project root

### Script Output Format

The script must write this exact JSON structure to the output file: