sw-audit

sw-audit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Obsidian-Owl/specwright. It costs 36 tokens per session (909 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recurring review of an entire codebase for architecture problems, growing complexity, inconsistent practices, and accumulated workarounds. It records the findings in an AUDIT.md file without changing source code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for periodic codebase health checks, reviewing technical debt, and identifying issues to prioritize in future work.
Why use it?
It helps reveal system-wide issues that checks on individual changes may miss. Keeping findings in a file makes them available for later planning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/obsidian-owl/specwright/sw-audit
Any agent
npx skills add Obsidian-Owl/specwright --skill sw-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Obsidian-Owl/specwright

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 909 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.00909
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00454
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00091

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6ec1e1520b79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sw-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 5d 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.

core/skills/sw-audit/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Specwright Audit

Goal

Find systemic codebase issues that per-change quality gates miss. Architecture debt, complexity growth, convention drift, and accumulated workarounds compound silently. Surface them, let the user prioritize, and persist findings for future design cycles.

Inputs

  • The codebase itself
  • {projectArtifactsRoot}/CONSTITUTION.md -- practices to check against
  • {projectArtifactsRoot}/AUDIT.md -- prior findings (if exists, for ID matching)
  • {projectArtifactsRoot}/LANDSCAPE.md -- module structure (if exists, for triage)
  • {projectArtifactsRoot}/config.json -- audit config (optional audit section)

Outputs

  • {projectArtifactsRoot}/AUDIT.md -- findings per protocols/audit.md format
  • Findings presented to user grouped by dimension before saving

Constraints

Scope (LOW freedom):

  • This skill reads and analyzes. It NEVER modifies source code, creates branches, runs builds, or starts work units.
  • Does NOT create currentWork in workflow.json. Does NOT require a lock. Can run while a work unit is in progress.
  • It is not a core workflow stage and never claims top-level work ownership.
  • On compaction: re-run from scratch (no state to recover).

Triage (MEDIUM freedom):

  • Determine audit depth from argument and codebase size:
    • Path argument → Focused: analyze specified directory/module only
    • --full argument → Full: parallel agents, all dimensions
    • No argument → auto-triage: Standard (<50 files) or Full (50+ files)
  • If LANDSCAPE.md exists, use module count to inform triage.

Analysis (HIGH freedom):

  • Four dimensions: architecture, complexity, consistency, debt.
  • Delegate per protocols/delegation.md:
    • specwright-architect: architecture + complexity (structural analysis)
    • specwright-reviewer: consistency + debt (convention and quality analysis)
  • Standard depth: 2 agent calls (sequential or parallel).
  • Full depth: up to 4 parallel calls (one per dimension).
  • Include constitution practices as the baseline for consistency checks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 5d ago First seen · 92 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 6ec1e1520b79

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sw-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository Obsidian-Owl/specwright (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 909 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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