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axiom-audit-testing

Use when the user wants to audit test quality, find flaky test patterns, speed up test execution, or prepare for Swift Testing migration.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a highly actionable, well-sequenced audit procedure with concrete detection patterns, executable fixes, explicit verification steps, and a complete output contract. Its weaknesses are moderate verbosity (padded example and scope sections) and a monolithic structure with zero progressive disclosure — specialized material like the OS27 evaluation-gate rules should live in reference files.

Suggestions

Move the Category 1.4 OS27 AI-evaluation-gate rules (grep block, the three pinning conditions, and the availability-guard guidance) into a dedicated reference file (e.g. references/ai-eval-gates.md) and keep only a short summary plus a clearly signaled one-level-deep pointer in SKILL.md.

Trim the padding: cut the 'Tool Use Is Mandatory' preamble to one line, reduce five near-identical invocation examples to two or three distinct ones, and delete the terminal 'Scope' section that restates the description.

Consider splitting the per-category grep patterns and fix examples into a references/anti-patterns.md file, keeping SKILL.md as the phase workflow and health-score/output contract.

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Conciseness

The body is dense and operational — exact grep patterns, fix snippets, and severity tables with almost no explanation of concepts Claude already knows — matching the "efficient; minor instances of over-explanation" anchor. Not a 5 because of padding: five invocation examples, a redundant terminal "Scope" section, and a "Tool Use Is Mandatory" preamble all add tokens without adding guidance.

4 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: copy-paste grep regexes per category ("sleep\\(", "static var.*=", "\\.evaluates\\("), runnable Swift fix examples for confirmation-based waiting and nonisolated XCTestCase, exact skip-path lists, and a complete output-format template. Not below 5 because the common cases (flaky, speed, migration, Swift 6, quality) are each covered with concrete detection and fix guidance.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Five phases are explicitly sequenced (map coverage → detect anti-patterns → reason about completeness → cross-reference compounds → health score) with validation checkpoints: "read surrounding context to verify it's a real issue before reporting", "Require evidence from the Phase 1 map — don't speculate", "Present this map in the output before proceeding", plus a false-positive checklist and output limits for error recovery. This is a read-only audit, so the destructive/batch cap does not apply.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Section structure (numbered phases, per-category subsections, tables) is good, but the ~370-line body is fully inlined with no bundle files at all (no references/, scripts/, or assets/ exist), matching the anchor for content that should be separate sitting inline. Not a 2 because organization and navigation within the file are clear; not a 4 because clearly separable material — the specialized OS27 AI-evaluation-gate rules (~40 lines) and the invocation examples — is not split out or referenced one level deep.

3 / 5

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20

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description with an explicit "Use when" clause and four concrete, natural trigger phrases tied to a distinct Swift-testing niche. Its main weakness is structural: capability and trigger are fused into one sentence, so the full scope of the skill (coverage mapping, health scoring, Swift 6 checks) is undersold.

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Specificity

The description lists several concrete actions — "audit test quality, find flaky test patterns, speed up test execution, or prepare for Swift Testing migration" — which are specific rather than generic, matching the anchor for several specific actions with minor gaps. It falls short of a 5 because the detection/mechanism side (coverage mapping, health scoring, anti-pattern detection) is never named, and it is above 3 because more than 1-2 concrete actions are given.

4 / 5

Completeness

Both what and when are present and the "Use when..." trigger clause is explicit with four concrete conditions, matching the score-4 anchor. It is not a 5 because the what and when are merged into a single clause rather than stated as an explicit capability sentence followed by explicit triggers; it is above 3 because the when-clause is explicit and specific, not merely implied.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural phrases users would say are well covered: "audit test quality", "flaky test", "speed up test execution", "Swift Testing migration" — good keyword coverage matching the score-4 anchor. Not a 5 because common variations like "flaky tests", "test coverage", "XCTest", or "test smells" are missing, which limits synonym coverage.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"find flaky test patterns" and "prepare for Swift Testing migration" carve out a clear Swift/iOS test-auditing niche with minimal conflict risk, mostly distinct per the score-4 anchor. Not a 5 because "audit test quality" is broad enough to overlap with general code-review or testing skills.

4 / 5

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16

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20

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Validation

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Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository

CharlesWiltgen/Axiom

Path

axiom-codex/skills/axiom-audit-testing/SKILL.md

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