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Build × AI / 5 min read

Follow the button. Find the code.

Use REA to investigate one feature in software you own, with an evidence-first prompt and a worked static-analysis example.

Drew Ski’s animated REA inspection bench reveals the message board inside a fictional app enclosure.

A Save button is only the surface. Underneath it may be a bridge, a message, a handler and a file write. REA gives coding agents tools to investigate those connections.

For this episode, we built a tiny, fictional Drew Ski Notes app and packaged its JavaScript as an Electron-style ASAR archive. REA identified the notes:save message and its handler. We inspected the corresponding source to understand the validation and local-file destination. This was static analysis of our own fixture; we did not run the Electron app or test a commercial product.

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  • Official setup and cost notes
  • A bounded investigation prompt
  • Our Save-button trace and verification checklist

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