--- title: Real case study: documenting a legacy project with... description: A real-world case study of using Claude AI to document a legacy enterprise application that had no existing documentation. The team built a knowledge system... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/real-case-study-documenting-a-legacy-project-with-claude-skills-ze7wnl79r twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Real case study: documenting a legacy project with Claude skills | daily.dev og:description: A real-world case study of using Claude AI to document a legacy enterprise application that had no existing documentation. The team built a knowledge system... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/real-case-study-documenting-a-legacy-project-with-claude-skills-ze7wnl79r og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZE7Wnl79r.png og:image:alt: Real case study: documenting a legacy project with Claude skills og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Real case study: documenting a legacy project with Claude skills **[Think As A Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/thinkasadev)** · [@giogdev](https://daily.dev/giogdev) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A real-world case study of using Claude AI to document a legacy enterprise application that had no existing documentation. The team built a knowledge system powered by Claude skills to reverse-engineer understanding of the codebase, with the ultimate goal of rewriting the legacy project using modern technology. The post covers the journey, system structure, and outcomes of this AI-assisted documentation effort. ## Content We keep hearing that AI can speed up our work, cutting development and improve delivery times... but how far can we actually push it? How much can AI really be part of both the BEFORE and the AFTER of development? In this article, I want to share a real experience: how we used AI to document an old legacy enterprise application. I'll walk you through the journey that led us to build a knowledge system powered by Claude, how we structured it, and where we ended up, all with one goal in mind: rewriting a legacy project with modern tech, starting from documentation that simply didn't exist. 🇮🇹 [https://www.thinkasadev.com/documentare-progetto-legacy-con-skill-claude/](https://www.thinkasadev.com/documentare-progetto-legacy-con-skill-claude/) 🇬🇧 [https://www.thinkasadev.com/en/documenting-legacy-project-claude-skills/](https://www.thinkasadev.com/en/documenting-legacy-project-claude-skills/) #claude #skill #enterprise #docs #legacy ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Augmented Outside-In Discovery with Claude Code](https://daily.dev/posts/augmented-outside-in-discovery-with-claude-code-aioapbedf) · We Are .NET · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Using Claude to Build an AI Knowledge Base in 30 Minutes](https://daily.dev/posts/using-claude-to-build-an-ai-knowledge-base-in-30-minutes-yt678a9qq) · Salesforce Engineering · 3 upvotes · 0 comments - [How Claude Skills Replaced Our Documentation](https://daily.dev/posts/how-claude-skills-replaced-our-documentation-lfxb2loug) · DEV · 7 upvotes · 0 comments - [I Let Claude AI Work Beside Me for 30 Days — It Changed How I Build Software](https://daily.dev/posts/i-let-claude-ai-work-beside-me-for-30-days-it-changed-how-i-build-software-eyij78o8j) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/real-case-study-documenting-a-legacy-project-with-claude-skills-ze7wnl79r) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/real-case-study-documenting-a-legacy-project-with-claude-skills-ze7wnl79r","headline":"Real case study: documenting a legacy project with Claude skills","text":"A real-world case study of using Claude AI to document a legacy enterprise application that had no existing documentation. 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