code-to-prd

What This Skill Does

The Code-to-PRD skill acts as a bridge between technical implementation and product strategy. It reverse-engineers existing codebases—ranging from complex React frontends to robust Django backends—into a comprehensive, human-readable Product Requirements Document (PRD). Instead of requiring manual documentation, this skill autonomously traverses your repository to catalog routes, state management logic, UI components, and API integrations. It synthesizes this data into a structured format that provides both business stakeholders with a high-level overview of features and engineers with the technical precision required to reconstruct the application from scratch. By analyzing models, constants, and endpoints, it captures the 'source of truth' directly from the code.

Installation

To add this skill to your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/alirezarezvani/code-to-prd

Ensure your current directory is within your OpenClaw project context to maintain proper environment configuration. Once installed, the skill becomes immediately available via the /code-to-prd slash command.

Use Cases

• Legacy System Migration: When taking over an undocumented codebase, use this skill to quickly understand system requirements and functional behavior before refactoring.
• Onboarding & Knowledge Transfer: Provide new team members with a generated PRD to accelerate their understanding of the architecture, data models, and business logic.
• Audit & Compliance: Automatically generate documentation of existing API endpoints and data handling processes for internal review or security audits.
• Project Documentation: Keep your project documentation synced with current code without writing a single line of manual text.

Example Prompts

1. "/code-to-prd ./src --generate-summary: Analyze our React frontend and create a user-friendly PRD focusing on the checkout flow and user interactions."
2. "/code-to-prd ./backend: Reverse-engineer our FastAPI backend to document all RESTful endpoints, data schemas, and authentication models."
3. "/code-to-prd . : Create a comprehensive fullstack PRD for this Next.js project, documenting both the UI components and the backend API logic."

Tips & Limitations

• Pre-processing: Ensure your project is clean and dependencies are installed. The tool works best when it can resolve imports and type definitions clearly.
• Accuracy: While the tool is highly accurate for standard framework patterns, custom or highly non-standard architectural patterns may require manual review of the generated output.
• File Scope: When analyzing massive monorepos, target specific directories to improve processing speed and document relevance.
• Context: The tool is designed for code analysis; it cannot interpret business intent not explicitly represented in the code (e.g., future feature plans).