# deep-audit

Splits a theory, proof, paper or codebase into components, fans out independent skeptics and fixes every confirmed defect. Built for when one review pass is not enough.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1668
- Author: pedrohcgs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/deep-audit

## What it does

The skill runs audit waves instead of round-by-round review. The artifact is decomposed by idea — separate claims, lemmas, subsystems, invariants — and each component gets its own skeptic primed to refute. Findings are only accepted with evidence: exact location, a one-sentence defect, and a failing case with specific inputs. Status reports and "this is routine" get rejected.

A separate judge then re-opens every cited spot and rules CONFIRMED, REFUTED or DOWNGRADED. That step is what keeps the fix list honest, since misreads and hypotheses that are actually stated elsewhere drop out. Confirmed defects are fixed in the main loop, then the touched areas are re-audited. Waves continue until two consecutive passes come back empty, with a cap of 5 waves; a finding that survives waves N and N+2 goes back to you rather than into a third patch.

There is also a cold pass: auditors get only the artifact and a minimal instruction, with no fix history and no focus hints. A mechanical battery backs it up — executable checks that compute the population object on adversarial toy cases. The skill expects you to have opted into multi-agent orchestration; if you have not, it proposes that mode and its rough cost first. Its `allowed-tools` cover `Read`, `Grep`, `Glob`, `Bash`, `Write`, `Edit`, `Agent` and `Task`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill deep-audit -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/deep-audit/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill deep-audit -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill deep-audit -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow deep-audit
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill deep-audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --path .claude/skills/deep-audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill deep-audit -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/deep-audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find every gap in a proof before submission
- catch silent hypotheses in a lemma
- check identification claims with executable code
- converge on correctness faster than round-by-round review
- spot contradictions between main text and appendix

## Example prompts
- run a deep-audit on this paper, find all the defects
- audit the migration module rigorously, correctness is the priority
- deep-audit the proof and keep going until two clean passes

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Deep adversarial audit

A convergent alternative to slow round-by-round review. Instead of one reviewer finding one or two issues per pass, fan out many independent skeptics over the *whole* artifact at once, adjudicate what they find, fix everything confirmed, and re-verify. Modeled on the multi-agent methodology behind hard formal-proof efforts (diverse independent portfolio, adversarial throughout, concrete evidence only, synthesize-challenge-repeat).

## When to reach for this
- The artifact is dense enough that a single review keeps surfacing *new* issues each pass (the tell that round-by-round is the wrong tool).
- Correctness is the priority and the cost of a missed defect is high (a paper going to a top venue, a proof, a security-sensitive change, a migration).
- The user asked to "fix ALL of it", "be deeper", "converge faster", "100% rock solid".

Requires the user to have opted into multi-agent orchestration (they asked for a workflow / deep audit / to fan out agents, or ultracode is on). If they haven't, propose it and its rough cost first.

## The method

**1. Decompose (diverse portfolio).** Break the artifact into components by *idea*, not by section: each independent claim, lemma, estimator, subsystem, invariant. Add cross-cutting *failure-mode lenses* (see below). Aim for coverage such that every load-bearing claim is attacked by at least one agent that is looking straight at it. Don't tell the agents your favored reading — preserve independence so they don't all converge on the same attractive-but-wrong conclusion.
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