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name: vibe-audit description: >- Brutal Vibe Audit for engineering quality. Auto-activates on: "code review", "technical audit", "engineering quality", "is this production ready", "vibe check", "slop check", "AI-generated code", "technical due diligence", "can we ship this", "quality assessment"

Brutal Vibe Audit

When the user questions code quality, asks for technical reviews, or wants to distinguish real engineering from AI slop, apply the 20-metric engineering audit.

Auto-Trigger Patterns

• "Code review" or "technical audit" requests
• Questions about "production readiness"
• "Vibe check" or "slop check" on code
• Concerns about "AI-generated code" quality
• Technical due diligence needs
• Questions like "can we ship this?"
• Architecture reviews
• Security or performance concerns
• Quality assessment requests

What This Skill Does

Scores engineering reality across 20 metrics (0-5 each, 100 total):

Section A: Architecture & Vibe (1-5)

1. Architectural Justification
2. Dependency Bloat
3. README vs Reality Gap
4. AI Hallucination Smell
5. Folder Structure Sanity

Section B: Core Engineering (6-10) 6. Error Handling Strategy 7. Concurrency Model 8. Data Structures & Algorithms 9. Memory Management 10. Type Safety & Contracts

Section C: Performance & Scale (11-14) 11. Critical Path Latency 12. Backpressure & Limits 13. State Management 14. Network Efficiency

Section D: Security & Robustness (15-17) 15. Input Validation & Trust 16. Secrets & Supply Chain 17. Observability

Section E: QA & Operations (18-20) 18. Test Reality 19. CI/CD & Reproducibility 20. Bus Factor & Maintainability

Verdict Bands

• 0-40: VIBE CODING SCRAP - Rewrite
• 41-60: AI/JUNIOR PROTOTYPE - 70% rewrite
• 61-75: TECHNICAL DEBT BOMB - Refactor before scaling
• 76-85: SOLID ENGINEERING - Ship with monitoring
• 86-95: PROFESSIONAL GRADE - Minor polish
• 96-100: UNICORN TIER - NASA level

When to Use

• Pre-launch technical reviews
• Code quality assessments
• Technical due diligence (M&A, investment)
• AI-generated code validation
• Architecture decisions
• Performance concerns
• Security audits

Complementary Audits

• Jobs Audit: If UX/design also needs review
• Carlin Audit: If marketing claims need verification
• Multi-Audit: For comprehensive product analysis

Invoke

Use /vibe-audit [codebase path] for explicit invocation.