How does it handle company mergers?

It includes patterns to identify 'merge artifacts,' such as duplicate resources, overlapping network ranges, and redundant logging pipelines common in multi-company environments.

How does the skill infer design intent?

It uses a core principle of 'evidence to hypothesis,' looking at resource relationships, naming conventions, and timing to suggest why a resource was built a certain way.

What is Infrastructure Archaeology?

It is a specialized Claude Code skill designed to help engineers investigate and document legacy or inherited cloud infrastructure when context and documentation are missing.

Which cloud providers does this skill support?

The skill provides specific patterns for AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes clusters, as well as managed database services like RDS and Redshift.

Can it help with Kubernetes migrations?

Yes, it features detailed patterns for investigating kOps-managed clusters, identifying core vs. optional addons, and assessing migration readiness for EKS.

Infrastructure Archaeology

Name: Infrastructure Archaeology
Author: simplycycling

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クラウドインフラストラクチャ

Investigates, interprets, and documents legacy or inherited cloud infrastructure to recover missing context and design intent.

This skill provides a systematic framework for engineers to navigate complex, undocumented cloud environments, particularly during company mergers or team handovers. It guides the discovery of AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes resources—with specific expertise in kOps-to-EKS migrations—by analyzing configuration evidence to infer original decisions. By identifying 'merge artifacts' like redundant services or overlapping networks, it helps teams map out current states, flag technical debt, and generate essential architectural documentation and Decision Records (ADRs).

主な機能

01Pattern recognition for identifying redundant artifacts in merged environments.

02Decision inference models for legacy RDS Postgres and MSSQL configurations.

03Four-layer investigation framework: existence, function, intent, and risk.

04Specialized heuristics for auditing kOps-managed Kubernetes clusters.

05Automated templates for infrastructure documentation and ADR generation.

060 GitHub stars

ユースケース

01Creating documentation for 'inherited' environments with inconsistent naming and missing tags.

02Reverse-engineering cloud infrastructure after a corporate merger or acquisition.

03Auditing legacy Kubernetes clusters to prepare for EKS migration.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add simplycycling/dotfiles infra-archaeology

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

主な機能

01Pattern recognition for identifying redundant artifacts in merged environments.

02Decision inference models for legacy RDS Postgres and MSSQL configurations.

03Four-layer investigation framework: existence, function, intent, and risk.

04Specialized heuristics for auditing kOps-managed Kubernetes clusters.

05Automated templates for infrastructure documentation and ADR generation.

060 GitHub stars

ユースケース

01Creating documentation for 'inherited' environments with inconsistent naming and missing tags.

02Reverse-engineering cloud infrastructure after a corporate merger or acquisition.

03Auditing legacy Kubernetes clusters to prepare for EKS migration.