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  "name": "@eventmodelers/cli",
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- "version": "1.0.113",
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  "description": "Eventmodelers CLI — real-time Claude agent + skills for Claude Code, for any stack (Node, Supabase, Axon, OpenCQRS, UmaDB, Kurrent, or modeling-only)",
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  # Analyze a Code Base
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- You are a facilitator running an interview, not a batch analyser. The code gives you a hypothesis; the person gives you the truth. **The board is the deliverable** — never hand over a JSON model, `config.json` or `high-level-analysis.json`. Everything you derive is created on the board as you go.
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+ You are the **orchestrator** of an interview. The code gives you a hypothesis; the person gives you the truth. **The board is the deliverable** — never hand over a JSON model, `config.json` or `high-level-analysis.json`.
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- This skill owns the *conversation and the layering*. Everything that touches the board is **delegated** to the skill named in the table at the bottom — do not re-implement placement, scenarios or attributes by hand.
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+ This skill owns only what is specific to legacy code: reading the sources, mapping code to elements, the layering of passes, and recording decisions with code references. Every modeling rule (naming, element types, chaptering, ordering, screens, scenarios, interviewing) lives in the skill named at each step — **read and follow that skill, don't restate or re-implement it here**.
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  Then invoke `connect` (if not already connected). Prefer `mcp__eventmodelers__*` tools; if the MCP server is not connected, say so and continue over REST (see `learn-eventmodelers-api`) — never silently fall back to writing files.
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- ## The goal — a model business people *and* AI can both read
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+ **One agent, one identity on the board.** The canvas shows one robot avatar per agent id, and a write without a valid `x-agent-id` is shown as a *second*, anonymous robot. So every board write of this run must carry the agent id `connect` resolved (`AGENT_ID`): MCP calls get it from `.mcp.json`, but every `curl` fallback, upload script (e.g. screenshots) and Playwright helper must send `x-agent-id` too, and any subagent that writes to the board must be handed `agent=<AGENT_ID>` inline (a subagent is a fresh session and resolves nothing). Do the board writes yourself where you can; use subagents only for reading code.
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- The finished board has two readers, and every element has to serve both:
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+ ## Step 1 — Is there a running UI? (once, when the analysis starts)
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- - **Business people** read titles, order, screens and scenarios. Titles are the words the business uses (*Visit Booked*), in the right sequence, with no technical terms — the "say it out loud" test.
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- - **AI** (a later agent generating code, tests or docs from the board) reads fields, descriptions, edges and scenarios, and cannot ask what you meant. So it needs what a person would take for granted: identifying fields with types and realistic examples, edges that show where data comes from (every field has an origin), Given/When/Then rules for the decisions that matter, and a `description` that says in a sentence what the element means and links back to the legacy source (class, endpoint, table).
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+ Ask once, before reading the sources, and only when starting fresh (no chapters from this analysis yet): *"Is there a running instance I can inspect? URL, and a login or test account if needed."* Wait for the answer. Record it (URL or "no running UI") in each chapter's `Legacy Sources` note and reuse it on later passes. Skip it when the request already answers it.
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- Therefore: never trade one reader for the other. No cryptic titles to save space, no business prose without fields once the layer calls for them, no implicit order, no unexplained abbreviations. When the person uses a term the code doesn't (or the reverse), the board carries the business term and the `description` records the code term — so both readers can find each other. Where something is still unclear, a QUESTION comment makes the gap visible to both instead of hiding it.
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+ Ask again mid-way only when it helps — typically when the order isn't clear from the code: *"I can't tell the order of these steps from the code. Is there a running UI I can use to check? Otherwise, here are my questions: …"*
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- ## Principles
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- - **What to model:** business processes, state transitions, business rules hidden in code and tests, domain flows.
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- - **What not to model:** databases, frameworks, caching/logging/monitoring, class structure, UI styling.
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- - **Evidence, not elements.** Controllers, repositories, entities and `@Transactional` services tell you a business step exists — they are not the step. Model the *decision* it represents.
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- - **Say it out loud test.** If you cannot say an element's name to a domain expert and be understood, you are modeling the implementation — rename it. Class names, packages and endpoints go in the element's `description` (the link back to the legacy source), never in its title.
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- - **The user outranks the code.** On a conflict model what the person says and leave a QUESTION comment (`/wdyt`, `handle-comment`) on the node recording what the code does instead.
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- - **Never invent to fill a gap.** Not in the sources and not said by the person → ask; if it stays open, leave a QUESTION comment, not a guess.
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- - **Stop when they say stop**, at any depth. A shallow, correct model beats a deep, invented one.
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- ## How to interview
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- - **Build what the code shows; ask only what it can't tell you.** Elements, fields, edges and scenarios that follow from the API, persistence, tests and UI go onto the board directly — no confirmation round, no tick-boxes for things you can see. Ask only about **order** and **unclear business requirements** (what the code leaves open or contradicts). When you ask, propose first: "From `VisitController` I see the owner picks a pet and then books a visit — is that the real sequence?" — never an empty question.
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- - **One question at a time**, answerable in a sentence or two. Never a wall of questions.
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- - The recurring question is **"what happens next?"** — walk the flow forward until the person says it ends, then backwards once: "what has to have happened before this?"
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- - **Order before placement.** Place where the code or UI make the order clear; where they don't, ask first. The timeline is only as right as its sequence.
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- - **Draw as you go.** Everything you derived or were told goes onto the board immediately — the person watches the model grow. Never disappear for ten tool calls.
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- - **Ask before every descent.** Which flow next and how much deeper — never decide alone.
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- ### Be proactive — and ask about order above all
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+ Naming, what to model and the anti-patterns are in `eventmodeling-core-rules` (read it once per session); how to ask is in `eventmodeling-interview-protocol` and `/timeline` (*Facilitator principles*). On top of that:
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- **Order is what the timeline is made of.** An event model is a left-to-right sequence: a column's position *is* the business order, and a wrong order is a wrong model, not a cosmetic flaw. So never place an element at a position you guessed — place it where the code or UI make the order clear or the person confirmed it, and if the order is still open, hold the element back (or leave a QUESTION comment) rather than put it somewhere plausible. Chapters get their order the same way.
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- - Whenever you have two or more elements (events, chapters, milestones), propose an order *and* ask: "I'd put *Owner Registered* before *Pet Added* — does the clinic ever add a pet first, or can it happen in either order?"
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- - Ask what must have happened **before** each step (preconditions) and what **can run in parallel** or in any order.
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- - Ask where the **ordering of chapters** comes from: which flow starts the story, which depends on another, which repeat.
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- - Ask when a step can happen **again** (a second visit, a re-booking) and what it means then.
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- - In a chat, put an order question as a `poll` with the candidate orders, or a `confirm` on your proposal (see Chat mode).
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- - Don't wait for gaps to surface: whenever the code leaves you guessing — what triggers an automation, who is allowed to act, what happens on failure, whether a step is optional — ask, with your best hypothesis attached. Still one question at a time: pick the one that unblocks the most.
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- Questions to keep in rotation: *What happens next? · Which comes first — and can it be the other way round? · What must be true before this can happen? · Who triggers this? · What do they see before they decide? · Can this fail — and what does the business do then? · Is that the word the business uses? · Which flow now? · Deeper, or enough?*
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+ - **Evidence, not elements.** Controllers, tables and services show a business step exists — they are not the step. Code names go in `description`, never in titles. A model must serve business readers (titles, order) and AI readers (fields, edges, descriptions with the code reference) alike.
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+ - **Never place at a guessed position.** Where neither code, UI nor person settles the order, ask (see *Step 1*) or leave a QUESTION comment.
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  1. **API** (look hardest here) — REST controllers, routes, handlers, message listeners, scheduled jobs, outbound clients. Each entry point is a candidate **screen + command** (a person writes), **screen + read model** (a person reads) or **automation** (jobs, listeners, calls to other systems). Request/response payloads hint at fields; the caller hints at who triggers it.
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- - Walk it like a user: start at the entry page, follow the navigation, and note each page, form, button and list. Record, per step, what the person sees, what they can do, and what changed afterwards — that is a screen, a command and the event or read model behind it.
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- - **The UI is the best source for what is possible and in which order.** Menus, buttons, wizard steps and enabled/disabled states show which actions exist and which come first; use the click path as the *proposed* order and put it to the person ("after *Add Pet* the app leads to *Book Visit* — is that the real sequence?"). The person still confirms the order before anything is placed.
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- - **Screenshot every step and paste it onto the board as an image.** Save each screenshot (`browser_take_screenshot`, or `page.screenshot()` in the script) to the scratchpad, then place it as a SCREEN in the chapter, at the column of the step it belongs to, in walk order:
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- The image is the real legacy screen kept as evidence. Where a person decides, `/html-screen` may add a clean wireframe later, but never replaces the screenshot unasked. Screenshot only what you walked, never invent screens. Mask personal data (names, emails) in the shots, or use test data.
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+ | Code construct → element | `VisitController#processNewVisitForm` + `visits` insert → *Book Visit* / *Visit Booked* |
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+ | Person overrides the code | Code allows cancelling a visit; the person says it never happens → not modeled |
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