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audit-skills

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Efficiency audit of a skill library on four measured axes — token cost, ceremony/duplication bloat, trigger-description precision, and overlap clusters — plus usage axes when invocation telemetry exists. Every claim carries a number; findings land as diffs and budgets, not advice. Use before tightening skills, after adding many, or as a periodic library health check.

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/audit-skills — A Number or It Didn't Happen

Skills are input tokens paid on every invocation. "This skill feels bloated" is a claim; this skill replaces it with measurements — and marks what it cannot measure UNVERIFIED instead of guessing.

Invocation

/audit-skills                       # audit the high-traffic set
/audit-skills --all                 # every skill in the library

Procedure

  1. Measure (python3 scripts/audit_skills.py --json out.json — works on any skills/<name>/SKILL.md tree): per skill, token estimate, bloat % (preamble + cross-skill duplicated boilerplate), trigger-description flags, and overlap clusters (shingle Jaccard, no heavy deps).
  2. Fold in usage only if real telemetry exists (an invocation log). Absent that, dead-weight and trigger-precision are reported UNVERIFIED — fire counts are never invented.
  3. Classify before cutting — the heuristics lie sometimes: dense procedure (big, low ceremony) → keep; deliberate shared blocks → keep; extractable payload (verbatim templates, catalogs) → move to references/ with a read-on-demand stub; true overlap → merge.
  4. Bank the result as a budget: record each audited skill's size + ~10% headroom and wire a lint check that fails on re-bloat. Prove the gate: append filler, watch it fail, revert.
  5. Refute your own edit — measure the before/after token delta and run the library's full check suite before claiming "tighter, behavior unchanged". End with ONE verdict line, logged to the ledger:
AUDIT: skills | <n> in scope | <before>→<after> tok | tightened: <list> | UNVERIFIED: <axes or none>

Rules

  • Size alone is not bloat; dense forced procedure is the product.
  • "Dead" requires a fire count; "overlapping" requires a similarity score AND a human-verified same-job read.
  • UNVERIFIED axes stay UNVERIFIED until telemetry exists. Re-run then.

Composes with

  • /refute — step 5 is a forced refutation of the audit's own claim.
  • /gate — the per-skill budget is a standing gate.
  • /verdict — AUDIT: lines land in the ledger; the next audit diffs against the last.

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