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Evaluate a system's current structural form — its architecture, rigidity, pressure points, and capacity for change — to determine transformation readiness before initiating metamorphosis.

Catalog the system's structural elements without judgment — understand what exists before evaluating it.

Expected: A complete structural inventory showing components, their ages, modification recency, dependency profiles, and classification as skeleton or flesh. This is the "X-ray" of the current form.

Evaluate a system's current structural form, identify transformation pressure, and classify transformation readiness. Covers structural inventory, pressure mapping, rigidity assessment, change capacity estimation, and readiness classification for architectural metamorphosis. Use before any significant architectural change to understand the starting point, when a system feels stuck without clear reasons, when external pressure from growth or tech debt is mounting, or as periodic health checks for long-lived systems. Source: pjt222/development-guides.