# skill-doctor

Grades your agent setup against recent local Claude Code and Codex sessions in a repo. Generates a self-contained HTML report with verified skill diffs.

- plugin · `type=plugin` · Claude Code · ★ 28733
- Author: Alireza Rezvani
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/tree/HEAD/engineering/skill-doctor
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/plugins/skill-doctor

## What it does

The plugin audits agent performance by inspecting recent local sessions from Claude Code and Codex scoped to one repository. Its `collect_sessions.py` tool collects conversations into a temporary scratch directory. An always-on 12-pattern redactor strips API credentials, bearer tokens, and connection strings before any file hits disk.

The agent reviews condensed transcripts against fixed efficiency and code-quality rubrics. Rather than trusting model arithmetic, `score_aggregator.py` acts as a deterministic aggregation gate. It rejects scores for sessions that were never sampled, drops justifications under 20 characters, and demands that every suggestion cites a recorded session id and includes a staged diff.

Finally, `render_report.py` emits a zero-JS dark-mode `report.html` ready for print-to-PDF export. Because all three bundled tools rely strictly on the Python standard library, you need a local Python environment, but zero extra packages. Proposed skill updates remain staged as diffs until you explicitly approve each one.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Plugin marketplace**
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
```
In the agent chat (not a shell):
```text
/plugin install skill-doctor@claude-code-skills
```

## When to use it
- audit agent efficiency and code quality across real conversation logs
- strip API tokens and credentials from transcript files before analysis
- block fabricated evaluations through deterministic aggregation checks
- draft grounded skill diffs backed by concrete session citations

## Example prompts
- /cs-skill-doctor
- Run /cs-skill-doctor to inspect recent sessions and build the report
- Test the scoring pipeline using /cs-skill-doctor with the --sample flag

## Source text · skill-doctor · MIT

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```text
# skill-doctor — grade the agent setup from real sessions

A rebuild of [warpdotdev/common-skills' `skill-doctor`](https://github.com/warpdotdev/common-skills/tree/f3b58c81d1cfd5d8eabf2e32edb32db2b0573923/.agents/skills/skill-doctor)
(MIT, © Denver Technologies, Inc.) as a full plugin in this library's conventions.

The idea is upstream's, and it is a good one: the only honest benchmark for an
agent setup is **what actually happened in its recent sessions**. skill-doctor
harvests the last N days of local Claude Code / Codex conversations scoped to one
repo, has the agent judge each condensed transcript against two fixed rubrics
(efficiency and code quality), measures which installed skills actually fired,
and proposes only the skill edits the evidence justifies — rendered as one local,
shareable HTML report.

See **Deviations from upstream** below for the authoritative list of what changed.

---

## Pipeline

| Step | Who | Artifact |
|------|-----|----------|
| 1. Collect | `scripts/collect_sessions.py` | `inventory.json` + redacted `transcripts/*.md` |
| 2. Score | the agent, against `scorers/*.md` | `session_scores.json` (labels + reasons only) |
| 3. Draft | the agent, per `references/skill_edit_governance.md` | `proposed/<skill>/SKILL.md` + `suggestions.json` |
| 4. Aggregate | `scripts/score_aggregator.py` — **the gate** | validated `report.json` (all arithmetic lives here) |
| 5. Render | `scripts/render_report.py` | self-contained `report.html` |

Everything lands in one `mktemp -d` scratch dir; nothing is written into the
user's repo and nothing is uploaded anywhere. All three tools are stdlib-only and
support `--help`, `--output json`, and `--sample`.

## The gate (what makes this version stricter)

Upstream had the scoring agent compute its own averages and assemble
`report.json` by hand. Here `score_aggregator.py` owns that step and refuses:

- a score whose label is not in the rubric table (numbers are derived, never accepted);
- a score for a session that was never sampled (fabrication guard);
- a reason under 20 characters (theater guard);
- a suggestion that cites no sampled session id (evidence traceability);
- a suggestion with no drafted diff.

Exit 4 means nothing is written — the SKILL.md instructs the agent to fix what
the gate names, never to bypass it. Zero suggestions passing the filing bar is a
valid, reportable success.

## Privacy contract

- Session history is read-only input; artifacts are `chmod 0700`/`0600`.
- Every transcript line passes a 12-pattern secret redactor (keys, tokens, JWTs,
  connection strings, env-style secrets) **before** it touches disk; there is no
  off switch, and per-label redaction counts land in the inventory and report.
- The report page itself says what was and wasn't collected.

Details and sources: `skills/skill-doctor/references/session_mining_privacy.md`.

## Deviations from upstream

**This numbered list is the authoritative record.** The `attribution.derivation_note`
in `.claude-plugin/authoring-notes.json` summarizes it; if the two ever disagree, this list wins.

**Structural**

1. **Repo-native plugin layout.** Upstream is a bare skill folder
   (`SKILL.md`, `scripts/`, `scorers/`, `references/`, `assets/`). Here it is a full
   plugin: `skills/skill-doctor/{SKILL.md,scripts,scorers,references,assets}` plus
   `agents/cs-skill-doctor.md`, `commands/cs-skill-doctor.md`, a manifest plus an
   `attribution` record in `.claude-plugin/authoring-notes.json`, and this README.
2. **Preserved verbatim:** both scoring rubrics (`scorers/efficiency.md`,
   `scorers/code-quality.md`) and the skill-improvement method + filing bar (now
   §1–§2 of `references/skill_edit_governance.md`). These are the best part of
   upstream and were not touched.
3. **Warp session source dropped.** Upstream reads Warp's `warp.sqlite` stores via
   a 388-line hand-rolled protobuf decoder (`warp_decoder.py`). This library
   targets Claude Code (plus the Codex sync), and vendoring an unverifiable binary
```
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