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Floorplan follows an app’s checkout screen into the code behind it

Floorplan makes a plain-English map of an app, matching frontend requests to backend endpoints across repositories. Its health checks flag common mistakes for review.

Axonometric of Chris Pirillo: he walks a dotted path through a cut-open building
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The checkout button works, and nobody can explain which server charges the card. Floorplan’s README starts with that uncomfortable gap between having an app and understanding it.

The MIT-licensed project combines Node scripts that trace files and connections with Claude or Codex descriptions. You can start from a familiar screen, then follow its requests into the server and outside services. Recent-work indicators identify parts the agent changed.

Its health checks look for problems including exposed keys, open database rules and fakeable payment webhooks. The project’s own description is admirably short: “A check, not an audit.” A ready-made fix prompt is a lead to investigate; applying it without reading the affected path would recreate the problem the map is meant to solve.

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The interesting test comes after the next change: can the person maintaining the app explain why the highlighted files had to move together?

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