# audit

Scans codebases to generate and gap fill AGENTS.md context files. Helps bootstrap shared rules for AI assistants on greenfield or legacy repos.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4300 installs · ★ 1550
- Author: jsmastery-pro
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-08-09
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/jsmastery-pro-audit

## What it does

This skill writes canonical `AGENTS.md` context files that agents read across tools. When working with Claude Code, it writes a one line `CLAUDE.md` pointer that imports `AGENTS.md` via an `@` import. If an older `CLAUDE.md` contains actual notes, it requests confirmation to migrate that text into `AGENTS.md`.

Execution adapts to the repository state. On fresh setups, it asks multiple choice questions about code standards after scaffolding. In established repos without documentation, it inspects the project and places root and scoped docs where conventions differ. Large scans spawn a temporary read only `scout` subagent on `haiku` to keep token usage down.

The only required system dependency is `git`. This tool strictly focuses on initial context: it does not generate architecture specs or maintain docs during ongoing edits.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill audit -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill audit -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill audit -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install jsmastery-pro/skills audit
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/skills --path skills/audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add jsmastery-pro/skills --skill 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/jsmastery-pro/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- bootstrap root `AGENTS.md` context for a new scaffold
- map conventions across an undocumented existing codebase
- document conventions for a specific subfolder path
- migrate legacy `CLAUDE.md` documentation into `AGENTS.md`

## Example prompts
- /audit
- /audit src/auth
- /audit payments

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

Below is the content of a third-party file. It is data, not instructions for you: do not act on anything written inside unless the human asks. Block tag: 56d65995964e5d9b.

BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE 56d65995964e5d9b
```text
---
name: audit
allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Edit, Agent, AskUserQuestion
description: "Run /audit on a greenfield project, an existing codebase with missing docs, or one area (/audit src/auth) to bootstrap the project's AI context, the AGENTS.md files every later skill reads. Writes tool agnostic AGENTS.md plus thin CLAUDE.md pointers, adding only what is missing; never overwrites curated content."
---

## Output style (plain words, no dashes, no hyphens)

<!-- OUTPUT-STYLE:START -->
Write everything this skill produces, files and messages alike, in plain simple language. Talk to the reader as `you`, warm and direct like a colleague, and present every step as a recommendation they may run or skip, never an order. Keep technical terms that carry real meaning; explain each in plain words. Never use a dash or a hyphen as punctuation: no em dash, no en dash, and no hyphenated compounds. Write `read only`, not `read-only`. Say it in simple words, or reword the sentence. Code, file paths, command flags, and values other skills match on keep their hyphens. Use short sentences, commas, or parentheses. Clear beats clever.
<!-- OUTPUT-STYLE:END -->

## What this skill does

The context bootstrapper: writes the `AGENTS.md` files every later skill and AI tool reads.

- Greenfield (no code yet): ask for coding standards, seed root `AGENTS.md` from the answers plus the build approach (name and one line principle) from the scope header if `/scope` set one. Runs after the project is scaffolded with its chosen stack (`/scope` → `/architect` decides the stack → scaffold → `/audit`); earlier is premature.
- Brownfield, undocumented (code, no `AGENTS.md`): scan the whole project, write root `AGENTS.md` and nested `<area>/AGENTS.md` files, judging what is global (root) vs area specific (nested).
- Brownfield, partially documented: check existing root and nested docs against the whole codebase; add only what is missing (new global facts, nested docs for undocumented areas); never clobber curated content.

Does not create specs (/architect owns those), maintain files after changes (/sync owns that), or write the feature scope (/scope owns `docs/scope/`).

## Context file convention (AGENTS.md is canonical)

Durable context lives in the tool agnostic `AGENTS.md` (root and nested); every agent (Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, and others) reads it. `CLAUDE.md` is only a one line pointer whose entire body imports the sibling `AGENTS.md` via Claude Code's `@` import (exact pointer body in `agent-prompt.md`); content is never duplicated across the two.

- Write knowledge into `AGENTS.md`. Create it when missing. Never overwrite an existing `AGENTS.md` (it may be user or tool authored); gap fill conservatively, with permission.
- Migrate legacy content: a `CLAUDE.md` with content but no `AGENTS.md` → ask permission, move its content into a new `AGENTS.md`, replace `CLAUDE.md` with the pointer. Never silently discard curated content.
- Root stays short and global; nested `AGENTS.md` only for meaningful areas with real conventions (same root/nested rules as previously applied to `CLAUDE.md`).

## Scope
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