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The inherited-codebase navigation lab

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A codebase is a graph, not a document dump

Trace the request through entry point, domain logic, data and tests.

A codebase is a graph, not a document dump ready.

Predict
Inspect
Verify

Dumping an entire repository into context adds noise and still misses conventions. A stronger handoff starts with a map: the files that define behaviour, the dependency edges between them, local instructions and the command that proves the change.

Map before modifying.
Context should be task-shaped.
Tests are part of the specification.