are-generate

name	are-generate
description	Generate AI-friendly documentation for the entire codebase
disable-model-invocation	true

Generate comprehensive documentation for this codebase using agents-reverse-engineer.

Run the generate command in the background and monitor progress in real time.

Steps

1. Read version: Read .claude/ARE-VERSION → store as $VERSION. Show the user: agents-reverse-engineer v$VERSION

2. Run the generate command in the background using run_in_background: true:

   npx agents-reverse-engineer@$VERSION generate --backend claude $ARGUMENTS
   

3. Monitor progress by polling the latest progress log:

   • Wait ~15 seconds (use sleep 15 in Bash), then use Glob to find the latest .agents-reverse-engineer/progress-*.log file, and Read it (use the offset parameter to read only the last ~20 lines for long files)
   • Show the user a brief progress update (e.g. "32/96 files analyzed, ~12m remaining")
   • Check whether the background task has completed using TaskOutput with block: false
   • Repeat until the background task finishes
   • Important: Keep polling even if no progress log exists yet (the command takes a few seconds to start writing)

4. On completion, read the full background task output and summarize:

   • Number of files analyzed and any failures
   • Number of directories documented
   • Any inconsistency warnings from the quality report

This executes a two-phase pipeline:

1. File Analysis (concurrent): Discovers files, applies filters, then analyzes each source file via AI and writes .sum summary files with YAML frontmatter (content_hash, file_type, purpose, public_interface, dependencies, patterns).

2. Directory Aggregation (sequential): Generates AGENTS.md per directory in post-order traversal (deepest first, so child summaries feed into parents), and writes CLAUDE.md pointers.

Options:

• --dry-run: Preview the plan without making AI calls
• --eval: Namespace output by backend.model for side-by-side comparison (e.g., file.ts.claude.haiku.sum, AGENTS.claude.haiku.md)
• --concurrency N: Control number of parallel AI calls (default: auto)
• --fail-fast: Stop on first file analysis failure
• --debug: Show AI prompts and backend details
• --trace: Enable concurrency tracing to .agents-reverse-engineer/traces/