You know this feeling: You open a new repository, read the README, click five files, open the wrong folder, find a second entry point, and ten minutes later you still cannot answer a basic question: What should I read first if I want the real shape of this codebase? That is the moment spine is built for. spine is a small onboarding tool that scans a repository, finds a verified architecture spine, and turns it into something a developer can actually use: a compact architecture map a prioritized reading order a short mental model subsystem summaries a few gotchas The important part is not that it looks smart. The important part is that it stays grounded. spine only draws architecture edges it can verify from source. GitHub: https://github.com/ahmedbutt2015/spine Why Claude Code users should care If you are already living inside Claude Code, spine is not just a documentation tool. It is a context tool.…