/audit

name: audit
description: Project health audit and health check — architecture, performance, tests, dependencies, code quality. Use when assessing overall project health, before releases, or after refactors.
effort: high
argument-hint: "[--quick|--full|--focus=area|--since=commit]"

Project Health Audit

Comprehensive project-wide health assessment using 5 parallel specialist subagents.

Usage

/phx:audit              # Full audit (default)
/phx:audit --quick      # 2-3 minute pulse check
/phx:audit --focus=security   # Deep dive single area
/phx:audit --focus=performance
/phx:audit --since abc123   # Incremental audit since commit
/phx:audit --since HEAD~10  # Audit last 10 commits

When to Use

• **Quarterly** health checks
• **Before major releases**
• **After large refactors**
• **New team member onboarding** (understand codebase health)

Iron Laws

1. **Wait for ALL agents before synthesizing** — Partial results create misleading health scores because cross-category correlations get missed 2. **Scope agent prompts to specific directories** — Vague prompts like "analyze the codebase" produce generic findings that waste tokens and miss real issues 3. **Never compare scores across projects** — Scoring methodology depends on project size and maturity; only track trends within the same project 4. **Quick mode before full mode** — Run `--quick` first to catch compile/test failures before spending tokens on 5 parallel agents

Subagent Architecture

Spawn 5 specialists in parallel using Agent tool. Each call routes to a declared-model plugin specialist (sonnet/opus) so the work doesn't fall through to `general-purpose` (Opus by default):

| Subagent | Focus | Output File | Routes to | |----------|-------|-------------|-----------| | Architecture Reviewer | Structure quality, coupling, cohesion | `arch-review.md` | `phoenix-patterns-analyst` (sonnet) | | Performance Auditor | N+1, indexes, bottlenecks, scalability | `perf-audit.md` | `general-purpose` (TODO: no perf specialist exists yet) | | Security Auditor | OWASP scan, auth patterns, secrets | `security-audit.md` | `security-analyzer` (opus) | | Test Health Auditor | Coverage, quality, flaky tests | `test-audit.md` | `testing-reviewer` (sonnet) | | Dependency Auditor | Vulnerabilities, outdated, unused | `deps-audit.md` | `general-purpose` (TODO: per-package `hex-deps-triager` only) |

Workflow

Step 1: Create Task List and Spawn All 5 Auditors (Parallel)

**Create Claude Code tasks** for real-time progress visibility:

For each auditor:
  TaskCreate({subject: "{Area} audit", activeForm: "Auditing {area}..."})
  TaskUpdate({taskId, status: "in_progress"})

Then spawn all 5 agents with Agent tool (parallel). Route to declared-model specialists where they exist, keep `general-purpose` only where no specialist covers the audit category:

Agent(subagent_type: "phx:phoenix-patterns-analyst", prompt: "Architecture audit: analyze module structure, context boundaries, coupling, cohesion. Write findings to .claude/audit/reports/arch-review.md", run_in_background: true)
Agent(subagent_type: "general-purpose",          prompt: "Performance audit: N+1 queries, missing indexes, bottlenecks, scalability. Write findings to .claude/audit/reports/perf-audit.md", run_in_background: true)
Agent(subagent_type: "phx:security-analyzer",        prompt: "Security audit: OWASP scan, auth patterns, secret leakage. Write findings to .claude/audit/reports/security-audit.md", run_in_background: true)
Agent(subagent_type: "phx:testing-reviewer",         prompt: "Test health audit: coverage, quality, flakes. Write findings to .claude/audit/reports/test-audit.md", run_in_background: true)
Agent(subagent_type: "general-purpose",          prompt: "Dependency audit: vulnerabilities, outdated, unused. Write findings to .claude/audit/reports/deps-audit.md", run_in_background: true)

**Why specialist routing matters**: `general-purpose` subagents inherit the parent session model (usually Opus). Plugin specialists declare their own model in frontmatter (sonnet/haiku for most). Routing 3 of 5 audit tracks to declared-model specialists materially cuts Opus subagent volume per audit run.

**Agent prompts must be FOCUSED.** Scope each prompt to the relevant directories and patterns. Do NOT give vague prompts like "analyze the codebase."

**Output efficiency**: Tell each agent: "Report ONLY issues found. Do NOT list clean checks, passing categories, or 'What's Good'. One summary line per clean area suffices."

Step 2: Collect Results

Wait for ALL auditors to complete. Mark each auditor's task as `completed` via `TaskUpdate` as it finishes. NEVER proceed while any auditor is still running.

Read reports from `.claude/audit/reports/`.

**Rate-limit circuit breaker:** if 2+ auditors return empty results or rate-limit/API errors, STOP spawning. Synthesize from the reports that exist, mark missing categories as "not audited (rate limit)", and tell the user to re-run `/phx:audit` after the limit resets. Never leave the user typing "continue" against dead agents.

Step 3: Compress Findings

After all 5 auditors complete, spawn context-supervisor:

Agent(subagent_type: "phx:context-supervisor", prompt: """
Compress audit findings.
Input: .claude/audit/reports/
Output: .claude/audit/summaries/
Priority: Health scores per category, critical findings
only, cross-category correlations, deduplicate findings
found by 2+ agents.
""")

Read `.claude/audit/summaries/consolidated.md` for synthesis.

Step 4: Calculate Health Score

Each category scores 0-100. See `${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/scoring-methodology.md`.

Step 5: Generate Report

Write to `.claude/audit/summaries/project-health-{date}.md`.

Output Format

Report includes: Executive summary with health score (A-F, numeric/100), per-category score table (Architecture, Performance, Security, Tests, Dependencies), critical issues, top recommendations, and acti