Audit Docs

Documentation Audit Skill

Audit all documentation sources for drift, staleness, and inconsistency against actual codebase behavior.

When to Use

• User says "audit docs", "check documentation", "docs audit", "documentation review", "docs drift", "stale docs"

Critical Constraints

NEVER:

• Modify any source files
• Update an existing report — always generate a new one
• Compare doc-to-doc without first grounding claims in actual code behavior
• Run subagents in the background (run_in_background: true is prohibited)

ALWAYS:

• Ground every cross-reference finding in what the code actually does (not what other docs say)
• Use subagents for parallel exploration
• Write report to {{AUTOSKILLIT_TEMP}}/audit-docs/docs_audit_{YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS}.md
• Provide file:line references for every finding
• Categorize findings by severity (CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW)
• Produce a usable report even when one or more subagents fail

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Documentation Sources

Enumerate and audit all of the following:

• CLAUDE.md — project instructions, architecture tree, file path references, tool/skill counts, layer descriptions
• docs/architecture/**/*.md — component names, module paths, layer assignments
• docs/requirements/**/*.md and docs/specs/**/*.md — API surface, behavioral contracts
• All README.md files at any depth in the repository
• Module/class/function docstrings in Python files under src/
• Recipe YAML description, summary, and note fields in .autoskillit/recipes/ and src/autoskillit/recipes/

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Inconsistency Categories

Flag findings in these categories (maps to REQ-SKILL-004):

• Stale claims — doc asserts X, actual code behavior is Y
• Orphaned references — doc mentions a file, module, tool, class, or skill that no longer exists
• Missing docs — new subsystem or module with no mention in CLAUDE.md tree or arch docs
• Path/name drift — hyphen-vs-underscore mismatches, renamed symbols, old module paths
• Count mismatches — CLAUDE.md states N tools/skills/hooks but actual count differs
• Inter-doc contradictions — CLAUDE.md says A, arch doc says B about the same entity

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Audit Workflow

1. Pre-flight: Verify {{AUTOSKILLIT_TEMP}}/audit-docs/ directory exists; create it if not.

1. Familiarization wave — spawn 6 parallel subagents, one per subsystem group. Each subagent reports: actual module/component names, exported symbols, behavioral summary (2–5 sentences per module). If any subagent fails, record the gap and continue.

| Agent | Subsystems | Focus | |---|---|---| | Agent 1 | core/, config/ | What these modules actually expose and do | | Agent 2 | execution/, workspace/ | Runtime orchestration and workspace lifecycle | | Agent 3 | recipe/, migration/ | Recipe schema, rules, validation, migration engine | | Agent 4 | server/ | MCP tool surface, gating, lifespan, factory | | Agent 5 | cli/, hooks/ | CLI commands, hook scripts, what each does | | Agent 6 | skills/, skills_extended/ | Bundled skills, categories, tiers |

1. Doc inventory — enumerate all documentation sources (list files found under each source category above).

1. Cross-reference wave — spawn 4 parallel subagents, each checking one doc domain against the familiarization findings:

| Agent | Domain | What to check | |---|---|---| | Agent A | CLAUDE.md | Architecture tree accuracy, file path references, tool/skill counts, layer descriptions | | Agent B | docs/architecture/** | Component names, module paths, layer assignments | | Agent C | docs/requirements/** and docs/specs/** | API surface, behavioral contracts | | Agent D | Recipe YAML descriptions + docstrings | Step descriptions, ingredient names, parameter docs |

1. Consolidate — merge findings from all 4 agents, deduplicate by file:line, assign severity.

1. Self-validation pass — for every CRITICAL or HIGH finding, re-read the cited file line to confirm the claim; downgrade or remove if not confirmed.

1. Write report to {{AUTOSKILLIT_TEMP}}/audit-docs/docs_audit_{YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS}.md (relative to the current working directory) using the format below.

1. Output summary — print finding counts by severity to terminal.

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Report Format

# Documentation Audit Report — {YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM}

## Summary
| Severity | Count |
|----------|-------|
| CRITICAL | N     |
| HIGH     | N     |
| MEDIUM   | N     |
| LOW      | N     |

## Findings

### CRITICAL

#### [DOC-001] {Title}
- **File:** `path/to/doc.md:42`
- **Claim:** "..."
- **Actual:** "..."
- **Fix:** ...

...

## Coverage Gaps
{If any familiarization subagent failed, list affected subsystems here}

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Exclusions

Do NOT flag:

• Test files (tests/)
• Generated files ({{AUTOSKILLIT_TEMP}}/, uv.lock, *.pyc)
• Comment-only files or changelog entries
• External tool output or CI logs
• Doc-to-doc wording differences that don't contradict each other factually

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Severity Guidelines

CRITICAL:

• Orphaned references to deleted modules/tools
• CLAUDE.md architecture tree listing a path that doesn't exist

HIGH:

• Stale behavioral claim that would mislead an implementer
• Count mismatch (e.g., CLAUDE.md says N skills, actual is M)

MEDIUM:

• Path/name drift (hyphen vs underscore, module moved)
• Missing doc for a significant new subsystem

LOW:

• Minor wording drift
• Docstring describes a parameter that was renamed

Source & license

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

• Author: TalonT-Org
• Source: TalonT-Org/AutoSkillit
• License: MIT

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