v0.4.3 to v0.4.12

---

name: emperor-excavate

description: >-

Digital coding archaeology. Use when the codebase is lost, ancient, mixed,

undocumented, Pascal, assembly, COBOL, a ROM, or any stack that is not the

agent's fashion. Survey artifacts, hunt manuals, recover one runnable

behavior. Language-agnostic.

metadata:

part-of: emperor-time

---

# Excavate

Open `references/archaeology.md`. Then `references/language-agnostic.md`.

Dowsing surveys. Jail hunts one manual heading. Judgment refuses "I modernized

it" as DONE.

Probe = whatever command the recovered unit answers to. Not pytest-by-default.

`scripts/emperor excavate` works as an alias for the identify survey.