Lazarus isn't just for dead code anymore 🧟 → 🗺️ (skills renamed)

[CognitiveCodeAI]

Lazarus now reaches for any unfamiliar repo

Lazarus started as "raise your dead codebases" — and that's still the hook. But the truth is the skills were never limited to old or broken code. Onboarding, repairing, and auditing a repo you don't know cold is just as useful when the code is:

• a service that landed on your desk last week,
• an open-source project you want to contribute to, or
• a perfectly healthy codebase you just need a confident read on.

The "legacy" framing under-sold that — and, more concretely, it made the skills under-trigger on healthy repos, because Claude matches your request against wording soaked in "legacy / broken / won't run." So we widened the framing. Same tools, broader reach.

What changed

The skill commands were renamed (this is the one breaking change):

Old	New
/lazarus:legacy-discover	/lazarus:discover
/lazarus:legacy-repair	/lazarus:repair
/lazarus:principal-audit	/lazarus:audit

Plain-English triggering is unchanged — "make this run locally", "audit this codebase", "help me get oriented" all still work.

Under the hood, the audit skill also got more honest:

• [VERIFIED] now strictly means re-observed this run — no laundering a prior audit's guess into a fresh fact.
• It won't lean a "don't rewrite" call on a test suite it never actually ran.
• It now applies a frontend / accessibility lens (touch targets, ARIA, contrast) instead of skewing backend.
• Grep-derived counts are flagged as directional estimates, not precise facts.
• Dependencies are classified by where they run (runtime / bundle / build / test) before being rated.

The destructive-command guard is unchanged and unaffected — rm -rf /, force-push, DROP TABLE, terraform destroy, and ~25 other patterns are still blocked deterministically.

To update

/plugin update lazarus@cognitivecode
/reload-plugins

Details on the rename live in the pinned issue (#2). Questions, snags, or ideas — reply here or open an issue. If Lazarus has saved you an afternoon, a ⭐ helps others find it. 🙏

[CognitiveCodeAI]

Superseded by v0.3.0 — see the release notes: https://github.com/CognitiveCodeAI/lazarus/releases/tag/v0.3.0