Audit Standards

What it does

When your agent uses it

• The user says audit against settings
• Audit standards
• Check standards compliance
• Audit this project

Example prompts

• “Use the audit-standards skill to audit the current project against the development standards defined in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md”
• “/audit-standards”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Bash

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1Pre-flight check
2. 2Inventory the project
3. 3Audit each principle
4. 4Generate GitHub issues
5. 5Write prioritised fix plan to CLAUDE.md
6. 6Report summary

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cfae287. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • Bash

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git
  • gh

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git and gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Audit Standards loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 83 tokens; SKILL.md has 700 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~83

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:43

  - Any `.env`, `.env.template`, `.gitignore` — secrets handling

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:108

  ls .env* 2>/dev/null

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:113

  - `.gitignore` exists and excludes `.env`, secrets, build artifacts, IDE files

• NoteMentions a .env fileSKILL.md:115

  - No `.env` with real values present

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit cfae287, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 700 words, ~1,754 tokens.

name

audit-standards

description

Audits the current project against the development standards defined in ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. Documents non-compliant findings as GitHub issues and writes a prioritised fix plan to the project CLAUDE.md. Use when the user says audit against settings, audit standards, check standards compliance, or audit this project.

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep, Bash

disable-model-invocation

true

gh auth status 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: gh is not authenticated. Run: gh auth login"; exit 1; }

find . -not -path './.git/*' -type f | sort

cat .markdownlint.json 2>/dev/null || echo "MISSING"

markdownlint '**/*.md' 2>&1 | head -50

cat .gitignore 2>/dev/null || echo "MISSING .gitignore"
ls .env* 2>/dev/null

find . -not -path './.git/*' \( -name 'CLAUDE*.md' -o -name 'AGENTS*.md' -o -name 'GEMINI*.md' \) | sort

gh issue list --state open --limit 100 --json title --jq '.[].title'

gh issue create \
  --title "<principle>: <brief description of violation>" \
  --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Principle

<which standard this relates to>

## Finding

<description of the non-compliance>

## Expected

<what the standard requires>

## Current state

<what was found in the project>

## Suggested fix

<concrete change to make>
EOF
)" \
  --label "enhancement"

## Standards Audit — YYYY-MM-DD

Issues generated from `/audit-standards` review against ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md.
Suggested fix order:

### Group 1 — Correctness (fix first)

- #N: <title>
- #N: <title>

### Group 2 — Standards Compliance

- #N: <title>
- #N: <title>

### Group 3 — Quality Improvements

- #N: <title>
- #N: <title>

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/productivity/claude-workflow-skills/skills/audit-standards of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit cfae287