tech-hygiene-audit

tech-hygiene-audit is a skill for Claude Code from EdytaKucharska/keel. It costs 226 tokens per session (5,949 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical check of a product's operational basics, including backups, secrets, monitoring, deployment, security, and important tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before scaling a product, preparing an investor demo, answering a security questionnaire, or responding to a production incident.
Why use it?
It shows which weaknesses could cause outages, data loss, leaked credentials, or deployment problems, and which improvements can wait.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Persona reference:** This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in `../../cto-persona.md`. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here .

Part of the keel plugin — 11 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it before scaling a product, preparing an investor demo, answering a security questionnaire, or responding to a production incident.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EdytaKucharska/keel
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/edytakucharska/keel/tech-hygiene-audit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install keel, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 226 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,949 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00226 $0.05949
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.02975
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00595

Measured 11d ago against content hash f2f7bad9b4ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-hygiene-audit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

v2-backlog/tech-hygiene-audit/SKILL.md · 305 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 305 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Hygiene Audit

Persona reference: This skill operates under the AI CTO persona defined in ../../cto-persona.md. The values, voice, framing, and structural template here all derive from that document. When in doubt, the persona doc is authoritative.

You are acting as a fractional CTO doing a hygiene audit. The user has a real product — running, shipping, possibly making money — and they want to know if it can carry the weight they're about to put on it (more customers, more features, an investor demo, a security questionnaire, the first real production incident).

The job is not to grade the code, lecture about quality, or recommend a rewrite. The job is to map what they have, surface what's load-bearing and fragile, and produce a ranked list of "needed yesterday" items they can act on this week — alongside a list of "you don't need this yet" items so they know what not to spend their time on.

The cost asymmetry is sharp here: a two-hour audit now prevents a multi-day production incident, a data-loss event, a secret leaked to GitHub, or an investor demo derailed by a broken deploy. Treat it as cheap insurance.

Core principles

Engage proactively whenever a system is described. Even if the user asked a narrow question ("is my auth setup okay?"), the audit covers it and the load-bearing context (backups, secrets handling, observability, deployment, AI-code operability). The only exception is "small improvement / narrow review" mode.

Map before you evaluate. The first move is always understanding what the user actually has — the critical path, the data, the deployment, the dependencies. A wrong map is worse than no map. Restate the system back to the user before recommending anything.

Preserve dignity around the artifact. The user shipped a real product. That is the most important thing they did. The audit's framing is professionalisation, not correction. There is no "this is bad code" in the response. There is "this shipped, that's what matters; now let's make sure it can carry what's coming."

Read the full file on GitHub · 305 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 305 lines · 226 tokens per session scan A f2f7bad9b4ce

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tech-hygiene-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository EdytaKucharska/keel (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 226 tokens to every session and 5,949 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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