Pattern Audit

Skill name: pattern-audit

Audit pattern-review rule-set health. Use periodically or before sharing rules to inspect .pattern-review rules for schema problems, duplicate IDs, overlap, weak triggers, missing examples, unclear rationale, and maintenance recommendations without changing active rules.

Use this for rule-system maintenance. It is not part of every pattern-review run.

Deterministic helper:

python3 /Users/trent.brown/agentic-development-workflow/scripts/pattern_tool.py audit-rules <pattern-dir>

Workflow:

• Fail if no applicable .pattern-review directory is found. Tell the caller to run /pattern-init <intended-scope>.
• Display the .pattern-review directory being audited before inspecting it.
• Run the helper for cheap shape validation.
• Inspect active rules, proposals, deferred entries, and rejected entries for semantic concerns:
• duplicate IDs or surprising overrides;
• near-duplicate rules;
• overlapping scopes/triggers with conflicting obligations;
• weak or missing rationale;
• missing examples or exceptions where they would materially help;
• agentic triggers or reviews that are too vague to audit;
• stale or unclear provenance.
• Write .pattern-review/audit.md for the rule set being audited.
• If a rule-system issue should change active rules, write a proposal to .pattern-review/proposals.yaml. Do not modify rules.yaml directly.
• Treat schema-invalid active rules as blocking audit findings until fixed through pattern-promote or explicit manual repair.