Workflow B: Extract engineering intent from existing codebase

This workflow recovers latent intent from code that already exists. Alloy's codebase archaeology inspects the project and emits candidate findings in the hypothesis format for human review.

1. Developer runs alloy discover.
2. Alloy inspects structure, tests, gates, docs, and history.
3. Alloy creates hypotheses.
4. Developer reviews hypotheses.
5. Accepted hypotheses become intent records.
6. Alloy identifies missing evidence.
7. Alloy can create a Foundry validation or iteration brief to strengthen the evidence.

See also the other Workflows and the conversational counterpart Capture Intent from Conversation.

Source: Product Brief §22 (Primary Product Workflows), Workflow B.