# lsp-concurrency-audit

This skill checks how a type’s or file’s fields are accessed across concurrent contexts and produces a safety report. Use it before refactoring or when investigating possible data races.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 165
- Author: blackwell-systems
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/blackwell-systems/agent-lsp/tree/HEAD/skills/lsp-concurrency-audit/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/lsp-concurrency-audit

## What it does

The skill uses LSP to collect types and fields, inspect calling methods, and trace calls across concurrency boundaries. For each field, it reports synchronization, concurrent readers and writers, then assigns a status and severity. Audit a whole file or narrow the check with `--type <TypeName>`.

The `agent-lsp` MCP server is required. Boundary detection is heuristic, so indirect calls through callbacks can be missed. A mutex on a type does not prove that every method acquires it; external locking may also be reported as unsafe. Check the report against the code before treating a field as protected.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add blackwell-systems/agent-lsp --skill lsp-concurrency-audit -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add blackwell-systems/agent-lsp --skill lsp-concurrency-audit -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add blackwell-systems/agent-lsp --skill lsp-concurrency-audit -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install blackwell-systems/agent-lsp lsp-concurrency-audit
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add blackwell-systems/agent-lsp --skill lsp-concurrency-audit -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/blackwell-systems/agent-lsp --path skills/lsp-concurrency-audit
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add blackwell-systems/agent-lsp --skill lsp-concurrency-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/blackwell-systems/agent-lsp/tree/HEAD/skills/lsp-concurrency-audit/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find fields accessed from concurrent contexts
- flag fields with concurrent writes as race candidates
- trace methods called from goroutines or threads
- review field synchronization before refactoring

## Example prompts
- Check concurrent access in `internal/server.go` with `/lsp-concurrency-audit internal/server.go`.
- Audit only the `Session` type in `server.go`: `/lsp-concurrency-audit server.go --type Session`.
- Inspect `cache.go` for possible races and report concurrent readers and writers: `/lsp-concurrency-audit cache.go`.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: lsp-concurrency-audit
description: Concurrency safety audit for a type or file. Maps all fields, traces which are accessed from concurrent contexts (goroutines, threads, async tasks), and flags fields that lack synchronization. Produces a field-level safety report. Language-agnostic across 4 concurrency families.
argument-hint: "<file-path> [--type <TypeName>]"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: mcp__lsp__start_lsp mcp__lsp__open_document mcp__lsp__blast_radius mcp__lsp__find_callers mcp__lsp__list_symbols mcp__lsp__get_symbol_source mcp__lsp__find_references
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires the agent-lsp MCP server (github.com/blackwell-systems/agent-lsp)
metadata:
  required-capabilities: documentSymbolProvider referencesProvider
  optional-capabilities: callHierarchyProvider
---

> Requires the agent-lsp MCP server.

# lsp-concurrency-audit

Given a type or file, map all fields, identify which are accessed from multiple
concurrent contexts, and flag fields that lack synchronization. Produces a
field-level concurrency safety report.

## When to Use

- Before refactoring a type that is accessed from goroutines/threads
- Auditing a codebase for data race candidates
- Reviewing a PR that adds concurrent access to an existing type
- Understanding which fields in a type need mutex protection

## Input

```
/lsp-concurrency-audit <file-path> [--type <TypeName>]
```

If `--type` is provided, audit only that type. Otherwise, audit all types in
the file that have concurrent callers.

## Step 1: Discover types and fields

Call `list_symbols` on the target file to enumerate all types (structs, classes):

```
mcp__lsp__list_symbols({ "file_path": "<target>" })
```

For each type (kind=23 struct, kind=5 class), collect:
- Type name
- All fields (children with kind=8 field or kind=7 variable)
- Whether any field's name or detail contains sync primitives
  ("Mutex", "RWMutex", "Lock", "Semaphore", "atomic", "Atomic", "sync.",
  "pthread_mutex", "std::mutex")

If `--type` was specified, filter to that type only.

## Step 2: Blast radius and sync-guarded status

Call `blast_radius` on the file:

```
mcp__lsp__blast_radius({
  "changed_files": ["<target>"],
  "scope": "all"
})
```

From the result, for each method on each target type:
- Record `sync_guarded: true/false` from the response
- Record `non_test_callers` count (blast radius)
- Record `test_callers` count

## Step 3: Trace concurrent boundaries

For each method on each target type, call `find_callers` with
`cross_concurrent: true`:

```
mcp__lsp__find_callers({
  "file_path": "<target>",
  "line": <method_line>,
  "column": <method_column>,
  "direction": "incoming",
  "cross_concurrent": true
})
```

Record for each method:
- `concurrent_callers`: list of callers that cross concurrent boundaries
- `pattern`: the concurrent entry pattern detected (e.g., "go func(", "Thread.start(")
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