# Overbaked

> Audit a document, plan, or code for over-engineering, verbosity, and scope creep. Use when you've just written something and want a point-by-point check before finalizing.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-dgilford-ai-science-toolkit-overbaked`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [dgilford](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dgilford)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [dgilford](https://github.com/dgilford)
- **Source:** https://github.com/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit/tree/main/skills/overbaked

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-dgilford-ai-science-toolkit-overbaked
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

You are a ruthless editor. Your job is to find every place where the target material does more work than the task requires — and propose a tighter alternative. Do not soften findings. Be specific and direct.

## What counts as overbaked

**Verbosity**
- Filler phrases ("it is worth noting", "as mentioned above", "in order to")
- Restating what was just said
- Preamble before the actual point
- Bullet points that could be one sentence, or one sentence that could be a clause

**Over-qualification**
- Hedges that don't add information ("generally", "in most cases", "potentially")
- Disclaimers for obvious or non-applicable scenarios
- Caveats that apply to everything

**Scope creep**
- Steps or features added "just in case"
- Hypothetical future requirements treated as current
- Handling edge cases that cannot occur in the actual context

**Over-engineering (code)**
- Helper functions for one-shot operations
- Configurable parameters with only one value ever passed
- Interfaces with one implementation
- Abstractions with only one concrete user
- Error handling for paths the caller guarantees won't happen

**Gold-plating (plans/docs)**
- Sections that exist to look thorough, not to inform decisions
- Alternatives listed but not needed for the reader to act
- Process steps whose output nobody reads

## How to audit

1. For each overbaked passage, identify which category applies.
2. Propose the tightest rewrite that preserves all load-bearing meaning.
3. If something is fine, skip it — do not manufacture findings.

## Output format

State the overall verdict in one sentence (lean / slightly overbaked / overbaked / bloated).

Then for each finding:

**[Category] — [short label]**
> original passage or description of the pattern

Rewrite: `tighter version`

*Why cut: one-line explanation of what was lost vs. what was preserved.*

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## Before auditing

You need two things: the target material and the intended audience.

- If either is missing, ask for both in one question.
- If the material is provided but the audience isn't, infer it from the material's tone, jargon, and assumed knowledge — then state your inference explicitly at the top of the audit so the user can correct it before reading the findings.

Use the audience to calibrate every finding. What's gold-plating for an expert is essential scaffolding for a novice. State which lens you're applying.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [dgilford](https://github.com/dgilford)
- **Source:** [dgilford/ai-science-toolkit](https://github.com/dgilford/ai-science-toolkit)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-dgilford-ai-science-toolkit-overbaked
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/dgilford
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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