Tagged discovery
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The Old System Knows Things Nobody Wrote Down
In long-lived business platforms a large share of policy sits in stored procedures, triggers, constraints, defaults and view definitions rather than in application code. A developer reading the application sees a call and a result, and the policy inside is invisible. Enumerating it from the system catalogue produces an artefact the organisation has never had, and the gap between that artefact and the specification is the real finding.
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Read the Metadata Before You Read the Spec
A specification document carries forensic information its authors did not intend to send. The rendering engine and version reveal how it was produced. Route names in a module list reveal the framework it was designed against. Word frequency reveals what the client actually cares about: one specification used the word audit 73 times. Reading the document as an artefact is a discovery technique.