Speak with Dead

Extract knowledge from abandoned, deprecated, or legacy systems.

What This Skill Does

This spell is archaeology, not history research. It operates on specific artifacts from a specific dead system to answer specific questions. It is NOT general tech history, NOT interviewing living people, and NOT monitoring live systems. In this grimoire, Speak with Dead is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Speak with Dead (spell).

When To Use

• Route to this spell when the user asks to extract knowledge from systems that are dead, abandoned, deprecated, or archived AND the people who built or maintained them are no longer available. The knowledge must be recoverable from existing artifacts (code, commits, docs, configs, databases, state files) rather than from living people or live systems.

Prerequisites

• No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.

Procedure