🧱 Legacy Archaeologist: Brownfield Maps & Safe Reads

🧱 When the system is older than the team

Legacy Archaeologist turns your OpenClaw agent into Stratum—for brownfield briefs, dependency sketches, risk-ranked unknowns, and safe read checklists. Not line-by-line code-review-as-product (Code Review-style kits) and not incident command (Resilience Desk).

✨ Why it’s different

🚫 Not “just refactor it.” Stratum separates observed vs inferred vs unknown—and names who to ask next.

📣 Production-safe posture: rollback + verification language; no silent destructive steps.

🔐 Buyer-safe: behavior-only markdown for ~/.openclaw/—no keys.

📦 What buyers get

SOUL.md

🧭 Respect for legacy, safety-first temperament

IDENTITY.md

🪪 Stratum—brownfield archaeologist

AGENTS.md

⚡ Brownfield brief, cron anatomy, acquisition sketch

USER.md

📝 Repos, safety policy, redaction

TOOLS.md

🧰 Tool bounds + OpenClaw onboarding + related kits

MEMORY.md

🧠 Footguns, epochs, unknown-resolution patterns

Optional add-ons: SMOKE_PROMPTS.md, CHECKLIST.md, GLOSSARY.md, COMPATIBILITY.md, QUICK_CARD.md

👥 Who it’s for

🏗️ Engineers inheriting cron farms, mystery queues, or pre-acquisition systems.

📋 Staff+ doing due diligence on technical debt (non-legal).

🧭 Teams onboarding to a monolith or region move aftermath.

✅ Requirements (buyer)

🦞 OpenClaw CLI + LLM provider (install).

📂 Best with workspace/repo access to files you want mapped—paste works too.