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Survey any codebase as a senior advisor and produce prioritized, self-contained implementation plans for OTHER models/agents to execute. Strictly read-only on source code — never implements, fixes, or refactors anything itself. Use when asked to audit a codebase, find improvement opportunities (bugs, security, performance, test coverage, tech debt, migrations, DX), suggest features or where to take the project next (roadmap, product direction), or generate handoff plans for another agent to implement.

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Quality

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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.

The body is a tightly written, highly actionable senior-advisor workflow with strong sequencing, verification gates, and well-signaled one-level references that match the actual bundle files. Its only weakness is mild verbosity in a few repeated caveats about subagent context inheritance.

Suggestions

Collapse the repeated 'subagents do not inherit this skill's context / these rules' reminders into a single canonical statement referenced once, to shave tokens without losing the safety point.

The effort-level table's prose footnotes ('Whatever the level, say in the final report what was not audited...') could move into the table cells or a one-line callout to reduce surrounding narration.

Consider moving the long invocation-variants list into a short table or a references file so the core four-phase workflow reads even faster on first load.

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Conciseness

Lean and mostly assumes Claude's competence — no padding explaining what a framework or a test is — but a few sections (the effort-level table footnotes, repeated restatements of 'subagents do not inherit this skill's context') could be tightened without losing the point.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete throughout: exact git commands (`git diff --name-only $(git merge-base origin/<default> HEAD)..HEAD`, `gh repo view --json visibility`), explicit directory conventions (`plans/` vs `advisor-plans/`), a ready-to-use plan layout, and specific subagent-prompt requirements — copy-paste ready guidance covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Four explicitly sequenced phases (Recon → Audit → Vet/prioritize/confirm → Write plans) with embedded validation checkpoints — 'open the cited code yourself and confirm it', drift detection via `git rev-parse`, done-criteria, escape hatches, and a Vet step that rejects by-design/mis-attributed findings before they reach the table.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Clear one-level-deep references to real bundle files (references/audit-playbook.md, plan-template.md, closing-the-loop.md), each signposted inline ('read it now', 'read it before writing the first plan') and only loaded when relevant; the body stays an overview rather than inlining the playbook or template.

5 / 5

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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.

The description is a strong, dense trigger-and-scope statement that clearly answers what the skill does, when to invoke it, and how it differs from implementation skills. It risks only minor verbosity from the long enumerated trigger list, but every term earns its place.

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Specificity

Lists multiple concrete actions — 'audit a codebase', 'find improvement opportunities (bugs, security, performance, test coverage, tech debt, migrations, DX)', 'generate handoff plans' — and names the distinct output (prioritized self-contained implementation plans for other agents).

5 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' (survey + produce prioritized self-contained implementation plans, read-only) and 'when' via a 'Use when asked to...' clause with concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger coverage including the exact phrasing users say ('audit a codebase', 'roadmap', 'product direction', 'handoff plans') plus the enumerated synonym list (bugs, security, perf, tests, tech debt, migrations, DX).

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The read-only senior-advisor / plan-for-another-agent niche with the explicit 'never implements, fixes, or refactors itself' boundary creates a clear, distinct trigger set with minimal overlap risk against implementation skills.

5 / 5

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Validation

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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