Bootstrap Brownfield

Architectural discovery for existing products before SDD planning.

Harness discovery

See ../nextstage-harness/references/harness-discovery.md. Load rules from {harness_root}/rules/*.md. Read architecture-rules.md first. Legacy: .cursor/rules/*.mdc only if {harness_root} is absent. Compare findings to canonical rules when present — checks are advisory if rules missing.

When to use

• "Analyze the existing project" / "brownfield bootstrap"
• First SDD planning on repo with code but no requirements.md
• Before requirements-generator on legacy code

Workflow

Step 1 — Structure detection

Under {product_root} (and repo root if legacy layout — document inconsistency):