# First project discovery

> Establish shared project facts and local authority without leaking machine state.

Source: https://accd.github.io/verchestra/docs/workflows/first-project-discovery/
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First discovery creates a reviewable baseline before feature work begins.

1. Detect repository and monorepo boundaries.
2. Select colocated, centralized, or root-only workspace placement.
3. Record shared trackers, architecture sources, project boundaries, and database metadata.
4. Build local driver capabilities from the tools available on this machine.
5. Configure read-only probe profiles outside tracked project artifacts.
6. Generate source-bound discovery evidence and request human review.

Shared facts are committed. Credentials, provider sessions, leases, caches, and per-machine driver choices stay local. Re-running discovery reconciles new projects and changed evidence instead of duplicating the workspace.

Continue with [feature delivery](../feature-delivery/) after the baseline is accepted.