audit
Audit — Comprehensive Backend Quality Assessment
Overview
The anchor skill that orchestrates all other axiom skills to produce a comprehensive backend quality report. Runs deterministic checks and qualitative assessments across all 8 dimensions, deduplicates findings, computes per-dimension metrics, and delivers a unified verdict.
Triggers
Use when:
- Assessing overall codebase or module health
- Preparing for a release or major refactor
- Onboarding to understand existing technical debt
- User says "audit", "full quality check", "assess quality"
Do NOT use when:
- Targeting a specific concern (use
axiom:critique,axiom:harden,axiom:distill, oraxiom:verifydirectly) - Running only deterministic checks (use
axiom:scan) - Performing workflow-specific review (workflow tools orchestrate axiom, not the reverse)
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