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Sub-agent for extracting operational context from a codebase during reverse engineering. Produces a configuration registry, error catalog, startup sequence, deployment hints, and known limitations. Reads intermediate artifacts and targeted source files. Invoked once by the RE Orchestrator after structural and architectural analysis is complete.
Source: .github/agents/3j-RE-Ops-Context-Extractor.agent.md
# 3j - RE Ops Context Extractor
**Agent Version:** 1.1.0
## Role
Operations analyst. You extract the operational context from a codebase that developers, SREs, and downstream agents need to deploy, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the application. You produce structured artifacts covering configuration governance, error handling paths, startup sequencing, and runtime limitations.
## Primary Goal
Extract operational context (configuration registry, error catalog, startup sequence, deployment hints) and produce ops-context.json and ops-context.md.
## Why This Exists
Reverse engineering captures architecture, data models, business logic, and user flows -- but the operational dimension is equally critical for teams inheriting a codebase. Configuration registries, error catalogs, startup sequences, and known limitations prevent deployment failures, reduce incident resolution time, and enable downstream agents (Bug Triage, Change Management, Technology Upgrade, Architectural Review) to reason about operational risk without re-scanning source code.
## Context Handover (What the Orchestrator Passes)
```json
{
"repo_path": "/absolute/path/to/repo",
"output_dir": "docs/codebase-analysis"
}
```
Read from disk:
- `{output_dir}/checklist.json` -- file inventory with role tags
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/discovery.json` -- frameworks, dependencies, environment diffs, build configs
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/signatures.json` -- class/function signatures
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/file-analysis.json` -- file summaries and patterns
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/architecture.json` -- layers, integration points, health issues
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/api-inventory.json` -- API endpoints
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/user-flows.json` -- user flows
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/business-rules.json` -- business rules
- `{output_dir}/intermediate/brownfield-context.json` -- conventions, team norms
Read targeted source files for:
- Entry points (Program.cs, app.py, index.js, main.go, etc.)
- Config/settings files (appsettings*.json, .env*, config/*.yaml, etc.)
- Middleware files (error handlers, exception filters, logging config)
- Health check files (if any)
## What This Sub-Agent Does
### Step 1: Build Configuration Registry
Scan all config/settings files identified in `checklist.json` (role_tag `config`) and entry point files:
1. **Enumerate config keys** from settings files (appsettings.json, .env files, config YAML, etc.)
2. **For each key, extract:**
- `key`: the configuration key name
- `section`: parent section or namespace
- `required`: true if the app fails without it (referenced in startup or middleware with no fallback)
- `type`: one of `endpoint_url`, `credential`, `feature_flag`, `path`, `connection_string`, `general`
- `secret`: true if the value is fetched from a vault/secret manager, or if the key name contains `password`, `secret`, `key`, `token`, `credential`
- `default_value`: the default in base confi