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title: "moe-backstory"
description: "Recover a behavioral spec from a codebase that never had one."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/moe-backstory
last-updated: 2026-10-21
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# moe-backstory
Recover a behavioral spec from a codebase that never had one.
- Slug: moe-backstory
- Publisher: Zak Keown
- Repository: https://github.com/zak-keown/moe
- Manifest: plugins/moe-backstory/plugin.json
- Version: 0.2.0
- License: Apache-2.0
- Category (editorial): documentation
- Skills: 22 (analysis-pipeline, autonomous-discovery, behavioral-spec-writing, binary-analysis, community-intelligence, container-execution, contract-detection, doc-research, ecosystem-analysis, fidelity-validation, git-archaeology, incremental-analysis, multi-source-synthesis, provenance-methodology, runtime-observation, second-pass-review, source-analysis, source-completeness, spec-sanitization, test-suite-analysis, validation-methodology, visual-exploration)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-09-02
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-04
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/moe-backstory
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## Skills

- analysis-pipeline: Reverse engineering: multi-source product intelligence analysis with provenance tracking. Master methodology for all analysis agents.
- autonomous-discovery: Layer 1 intelligence source discovery: auto-detect available sources, search for public information, negotiate with user, produce inventory manifest
- behavioral-spec-writing: Layer 3 deep documentation methodology. Per-module behavioral specifications, external and behavioral integration contracts, behavior documentation, end-to-end user journey analysis. Transforms Layer 2 synthesis into implementable behavioral specifications. Loaded by the analyzer agent during Layer…
- binary-analysis: Layer 1 methodology for extracting behavioral intelligence from compiled binaries, bytecode archives, managed assemblies, and bundled applications. Covers artifact identification, string extraction strategy, decompilation workflows, provenance requirements, and handoff to source code mode.
- community-intelligence: Layer 1 skill for community intelligence gathering. Search channels, extraction methodology, consensus analysis, version-aware behavioral changes, structural contamination guard. Loaded by the analyzer agent for community intelligence gathering.
- container-execution: Infrastructure skill for containerized target execution. Runtime detection, container lifecycle, security restrictions, interaction patterns.
- contract-detection: Layer 1 skill for parsing machine-readable API contracts. OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, Protobuf/gRPC, and JSON Schema detection, extraction, and behavioral claim generation. Loaded by the analyzer agent during Layer 1.
- doc-research: Public documentation extraction methodology. Search sequence (3 tiers), behavioral claim extraction rules, output structure, termination criteria, and gap analysis. Loaded by the analyzer agent for documentation research.
- ecosystem-analysis: Layer 1 skill for SDK and ecosystem analysis. SDK discovery strategy, behavioral extraction methodology, integration test mining, output formats. Loaded by the analyzer agent for SDK and ecosystem work.
- fidelity-validation: Cross-validates sanitized output specs against raw source specs to detect lost behavioral detail, dropped constants, missing features, or diluted precision. Run AFTER sanitization and AFTER contamination audit passes.
- git-archaeology: Layer 1 skill for mining git history for behavioral intelligence. Repository overview, commit message mining, PR/MR description extraction, blame-based maintenance heat maps, issue tracker cross-referencing. Loaded by the analyzer agent during Layer 1.
- incremental-analysis: Detect existing workspace, diff current sources against high water mark metadata, classify specs as unchanged/stale/orphaned/new, re-analyze only what changed. Activates automatically when /analyze finds an existing workspace.
- multi-source-synthesis
- provenance-methodology
- runtime-observation
- second-pass-review
- source-analysis
- source-completeness
- spec-sanitization
- test-suite-analysis
- validation-methodology
- visual-exploration

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.