This document provides guidance on how to work with legacy code. It begins by defining what legacy code is, such as code written many years ago with low quality and no tests. It then discusses signs that code has become legacy, like being unmanageable, buggy, or hard to understand. The document recommends starting by analyzing and writing tests for the legacy code. It proposes refactoring the code in small steps using techniques like dependency injection, third party libraries, and design patterns to decouple and clean up the code while keeping it functioning. The overall process is about breaking the legacy code into more manageable pieces and improving qualities like readability, testability and maintainability over time.