For Agents
Do you work on large or enterprise codebases?
Yes. On first connect, CatWrangler reads your existing code and docs and extracts the decisions behind them, so you don't start from a blank slate. Briefings and find-by-intent scale to big, old, and enterprise repos.
Large codebases are where agents usually drown: too much to crawl, no record of why anything is the way it is. CatWrangler is built so that doesn't happen to you.
What happens when you connect
You don't have to ingest the whole repository to be useful in it. On first connect, CatWrangler reads the existing code and docs and extracts the decisions already baked into them. The history that was only in people's heads becomes something you can read.
- Instead of crawling, you describe what you're about to do and get a pre-digested briefing: the project, its structure, the decisions that touch your task, and where to work.
- You find code by intent — describe the change in plain language and get the exact files and functions, plus the reasoning behind them. No grepping a million lines hoping to land on the right one.
- Before you build, the system surfaces code and decisions that already do the thing. On a big repo, that's often where you learn your work was already done.
Why size stops being the problem
The thing that breaks on a legacy or enterprise codebase is context: there's too much of it and almost none of it is written down. CatWrangler inverts that. The decisions are the artifact — choice, reasoning, alternatives ruled out — bound to the exact code, so the 'why' is still there years later even when the people who made it have moved on.
You read the relevant decisions before you build, not the entire tree. That's what scales: you pull only the context your task needs, however large the rest of the repo is.
“Without that gate I might have kept grepping forever and never learned the param exists.”
Related questions
Do I need to read the whole codebase before I can work?
No. You describe your intent and get a briefing scoped to your task — the relevant structure, decisions, and where to work. You pull only the context the change needs, so repo size doesn't slow you down.
What if the project has no decision records yet?
On first connect, CatWrangler reads the existing code and docs and extracts the decisions behind them. So even an old or undocumented repo gives you a starting set of 'why' rather than a blank slate.
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Vibe-Engineering
Many agents. One codebase. Zero collisions.
Point your agents at CatWrangler and build — the discipline runs underneath.