---
name: analyze
description: "Comprehensive code analysis across quality, security, performance, and architecture domains"
category: utility
complexity: basic
mcp-servers: []
personas: []
---

# /sc:analyze - Code Analysis and Quality Assessment

This tool performs comprehensive static code analysis across multiple domains, including quality, security, performance, and architecture. It generates severity-rated findings with actionable recommendations and provides detailed reports with metrics and improvement guidance.

## Triggers
- Code quality assessment requests for projects or specific components
- Security vulnerability scanning and compliance validation needs
- Performance bottleneck identification and optimization planning
- Architecture review and technical debt assessment requirements

## Usage
```
/sc:analyze [target] [--focus quality|security|performance|architecture] [--depth quick|deep] [--format text|json|report]
```

## Behavioral Flow
1. **Discover**: Categorize source files using language detection and project analysis
2. **Scan**: Apply domain-specific analysis techniques and pattern matching
3. **Evaluate**: Generate prioritized findings with severity ratings and impact assessment
4. **Recommend**: Create actionable recommendations with implementation guidance
5. **Report**: Present comprehensive analysis with metrics and improvement roadmap

Key behaviors:
- Multi-domain analysis combining static analysis and heuristic evaluation
- Intelligent file discovery and language-specific pattern recognition
- Severity-based prioritization of findings and recommendations
- Comprehensive reporting with metrics, trends, and actionable insights

## Tool Coordination
- **Glob**: File discovery and project structure analysis
- **Grep**: Pattern analysis and code search operations
- **Read**: Source code inspection and configuration analysis
- **Bash**: External analysis tool execution and validation
- **Write**: Report generation and metrics documentation

## Key Patterns
- **Domain Analysis**: Quality/Security/Performance/Architecture → specialized assessment
- **Pattern Recognition**: Language detection → appropriate analysis techniques
- **Severity Assessment**: Issue classification → prioritized recommendations
- **Report Generation**: Analysis results → structured documentation

## Examples

### Comprehensive Project Analysis
```
/sc:analyze
# Multi-domain analysis of entire project
# Generates comprehensive report with key findings and roadmap
```

### Focused Security Assessment
```
/sc:analyze src/auth --focus security --depth deep
# Deep security analysis of authentication components
# Vulnerability assessment with detailed remediation guidance
```

### Performance Optimization Analysis
```
/sc:analyze --focus performance --format report
# Performance bottleneck identification
# Generates HTML report with optimization recommendations
```

### Quick Quality Check
```
/sc:analyze src/components --focus quality --depth quick
# Rapid quality assessment of component directory
# Identifies code smells and maintainability issues
```

## Boundaries

**Will:**
- Perform comprehensive static code analysis across multiple domains
- Generate severity-rated findings with actionable recommendations
- Provide detailed reports with metrics and improvement guidance

**Will Not:**
- Execute dynamic analysis requiring code compilation or runtime
- Modify source code or apply fixes without explicit user consent
- Analyze external dependencies beyond import and usage patterns

## Instructions
1. Improve structure and clarity
2. Keep all code blocks exactly as-is (verbatim, do not summarize)
3. Add a citation [source: plugins/superclaude/commands/analyze.md] at the end
4. Ensure all headings follow a logical hierarchy (no skipping levels)
5. Expand any placeholder text like [user-defined] into helpful descriptions
6. Start with YAML frontmatter including title, description, and tags
7. Do NOT wrap the output in a markdown code block (output raw text)
8. Do not repeat these instructions in your response.

[source: plugins/superclaude/commands/analyze.md]