{"slug":"fresh-eyes-sweep","title":"fresh-eyes-sweep","summary":"Imported from paulrberg/agent-skills/skills/fresh-eyes-sweep.","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-01T14:18:53.061584Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills","stars":94,"forks":7,"license":"MIT","updatedAt":"2026-10-01T13:58:51Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<p>argument-hint: \"[paths] [--max-runtime DURATION]\"\ncompatibility: Requires Git and local command and edit access.\ndisable-model-invocation: true\nname: fresh-eyes-sweep\nskill-dependencies:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>codebase-design</li>\n<li>code-polish</li>\n<li>commit\ndescription:\nAudit an entire repository with fresh eyes for correctness errors, bugs, omissions, duplication, inconsistencies,\nstale or duplicate tests, stale comments, and other evidenced mistakes; fix every safe issue and verify the result.</li>\n</ul>\n<hr>\n<h1>Fresh Eyes Sweep</h1>\n<p>If these instructions are already present in the conversation from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly;\ndo not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.</p>\n<p>Inspect the requested Git scope for evidenced mistakes, fix every safe issue, and account for every mapped file. A\nverified no-op requires that coverage and a full pass that finds nothing new. Leave sound work unchanged; edits are not\nrequired to demonstrate a successful sweep.</p>\n<p><code>--max-runtime DURATION</code> is optional: it is a positive integer followed by <code>m</code> or <code>h</code>, such as <code>45m</code> or <code>3h</code>. Reject an\ninvalid duration, unknown option, or ambiguous positional input. When a deadline is supplied, calculate it before\nauditing and reserve the final 15% for aggregate validation and reporting, clamped to 5–30 minutes and never exceeding\nthe total runtime. At that window, settle in-flight slices and do not start new fixes; report an incomplete sweep with\nits ledger rather than overrunning the deadline.</p>\n<h2>Overnight Autonomy</h2>\n<p>At invocation, read the environment's local time. If it is strictly after 22:00 or strictly before 08:00, treat the\nentire run as autonomous even if it later crosses a boundary. Exactly 22:00 and 08:00 are outside this window.</p>\n<p>During an autonomous overnight run:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not ask the user any questions or pause for clarification, selection, or approval. This does not broaden the\nskill's authority: leave destructive, disclosure, purchase, public-contract, and other approval-dependent actions\nundone.</li>\n<li>Use the smallest safe reversible interpretation and continue all independent work. Put every ambiguity, blocked issue,\nand approval-dependent choice on an overnight backlog instead of interrupting the run.</li>\n<li>Present the backlog at the end with each item's evidence, safe disposition, impact, and decision needed. Phrase the\nentries as findings, not questions. Omit the section when the backlog is empty.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Ledger Interface</h2>\n<p>Resolve <code>scripts/sweep-ledger.py</code> from this <code>SKILL.md</code>. Create the scratch ledger outside the repository:</p>\n<pre><code>uv run \"&lt;skill-dir&gt;/scripts/sweep-ledger.py\" init \\\n  --root &lt;repo&gt; --ledger &lt;scratch.json&gt; [&lt;path&gt;...]\n</code></pre>\n<p>With no paths, <code>init</code> maps the whole repository. With paths, it maps exactly those Git scopes. It records every tracked\nand non-ignored untracked file plus each path's pre-existing worktree status. The helper does not classify generated,\nvendored, binary, safe, important, or defective files.</p>\n<p>Record an agent decision atomically only after inspecting or otherwise accounting for the path:</p>\n<pre><code>uv run \"&lt;skill-dir&gt;/scripts/sweep-ledger.py\" mark \\\n  --ledger &lt;scratch.json&gt; --status &lt;pending|inspected|fixed|reported|excluded&gt; \\\n  --path &lt;path&gt; [--path &lt;path&gt;...] [--reason &lt;text&gt;]\n</code></pre>\n<p><code>excluded</code> requires an agent-written reason. Unknown paths or invalid batches fail without a partial update. Concurrent\n<code>mark</code> calls serialize on a sidecar <code>&lt;scratch.json&gt;.lock</code>, so parallel subagents may mark their own paths.</p>\n<pre><code>uv run \"&lt;skill-dir&gt;/scripts/sweep-ledger.py\" pending --ledger &lt;scratch.json&gt; [--limit &lt;n&gt;]\nuv run \"&lt;skill-dir&gt;/scripts/sweep-ledger.py\" summary --ledger &lt;scratch.json&gt;\n</code></pre>\n<p><code>pending</code> returns the next unaccounted paths in stable order. <code>summary</code> returns exact status counts, pre-existing edit\ncount, completeness, percentage inputs, and a ten-cell bar. Use those facts directly; never estimate progress or\nreimplement ledger arithmetic.</p>\n<h2>Setup</h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Require Git and read applicable repository instructions. Record the worktree root, starting commit, starting status,\nresolved scope, and any deadline and validation window.</li>\n<li>Initialize the ledger for the requested scope. The agent may additionally inspect shared configuration and\ninstructions needed to understand that scope; do not silently widen the ledger. If <code>init</code> maps more than roughly\n2,000 files and the user gave no <code>[paths]</code>, partition the mapped ledger into bounded, system-aware directory or\nsubsystem slices and continue without asking solely because of file count. Keep the complete requested scope in the\nledger and preserve cross-slice invariants through the system map and aggregate validation. When a supplied deadline\ncannot cover every slice, stop at its validation window and report the resumable frontier; ask only when no safe\npartition can preserve a material invariant and the user must choose a narrower outcome. During an autonomous\novernight run, record that choice in the overnight backlog and complete everything that remains independently safe.</li>\n<li>Classify generated, vendored, minified, binary, and bulk-data artifacts. Validate them through their generator,\nschema, or invariants when line-by-line review is inappropriate, then mark them with the agent's reason.</li>\n<li>Build a compact system map: executable entry points, workspace or package dependency directions, public interfaces,\ngenerators and derived artifacts, external and persisted-data seams, and the owner of each material invariant. Trace\nthe highest-risk workflows end to end before choosing slices.</li>\n<li>Inspect recent history and diffs, especially the newest changes, to find affected callers, dependencies, tests,\nconfiguration, and docs. Rank slices and fixes by evidenced impact: correctness, data loss, security, and externally\nexposed personal-data or disclosure risk first; then reliability, maintainability, measured performance, and\ndeveloper experience. Treat recency as one prioritization signal, never as a substitute for coverage.</li>\n<li>Discover build, test, lint, typecheck, format, and codegen checks.</li>\n<li>Establish a baseline for every safe, relevant check before the first fix. If it is red, prioritize reproducible\nfailures before discretionary work; defer failures that need an unclear or prohibited action while continuing with\nindependently verifiable work.</li>\n<li>Preserve every pre-existing edit recorded by the ledger. Do not revert, absorb, commit, or report it as a finding.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>After mapping, report <code>### \uD83D\uDD0E Sweep mapped — &lt;files&gt; files · &lt;slices&gt; slices · ledger &lt;scratch.json&gt;</code>. Slice count is an\nagent organization choice; file count comes from the ledger.</p>\n<p>The ledger outlives the session. A later session resumes the same sweep by pointing at the same ledger path instead of\nre-running <code>init</code>: <code>pending</code> defines the frontier, and already-accounted paths are not reinspected. Carry the ledger\npath into every progress update, and name it again when reporting an incomplete sweep, so the user can hand it to the\nnext session.</p>\n<h2>Subagents</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Delegate independent slices when it materially improves coverage or completion time; use the smallest effective team\nwithin host limits and the user's delegation preferences.</li>\n<li>When the host supports model selection, choose reviewer and fixer models deliberately for the task; otherwise use the\nhost default.</li>\n<li>Announce the planned fan-out in one line before launching: agent count and the model of each group.</li>\n<li>Cap concurrent reviewers at 4 unless the user raises it, always within the host's available concurrency.</li>\n<li>Record each spawned task ID in the coordinator's slice plan so a later stop request resolves against real IDs. The\nledger's <code>reason</code> records exclusions only.</li>\n<li>Give writing agents stable IDs, dependency waves, exact non-overlapping write scopes, repository constraints, and\nrequired completion evidence. In every slice brief, completion evidence must include every discovered strict static\ngate — typecheck, lint, and format/import order — applicable to the languages in the slice's write scope, scoped as\nnarrowly as the tool permits. Assign each repository-wide gate to one validation owner after its affected slices\nsettle; other agents report that dependency instead of duplicating the run. Assign shared manifests, lockfiles,\nexports, and integration files to one sequential owner.</li>\n<li>Reconcile every wave before starting dependents. Use a fresh-context verifier when independent scrutiny addresses a\nconcrete risk, such as concurrency, security, or a cross-slice invariant; a routine edit alone does not require one.</li>\n<li>Subagents and workers never commit. The coordinating session commits settled slices serially as checkpoint commits, so\nonly one process touches the Git index.</li>\n<li>A session holds one coordination claim, and each new claim replaces the last. When the repository uses a claim-based\ncoordinator such as <code>ai-coord</code>, claim the union of every in-flight writing slice (running agents plus the\ncoordinator's own edits) before launching a writer. Widen to a new union, never to a scope that drops a slice still\nbeing written, and release only after every in-flight slice is reconciled and committed.</li>\n<li>On lint-staged or other hook failures during a checkpoint commit, follow <code>$commit</code>'s failure-recovery guidance rather\nthan diagnosing index contention here.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Inspect and Fix</h2>\n<p>Work through coherent slices so implementation, callers, tests, configuration, and documentation stay visible together.\nFor each slice, reason from first principles: identify the intended outcome and required behavior from the user's\nrequest and repository evidence. Treat the current implementation as something to justify, not as a requirement.\nInterrogate it in this order:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is unnecessary, overly complicated, or based on weak assumptions? Challenge those assumptions against evidence.</li>\n<li>What can be deleted entirely while preserving required behavior and contracts? Check consumers and invariants before\nconcluding that a piece is unnecessary.</li>\n<li>After removing unnecessary pieces, what remaining logic, interfaces, or workflow can be simplified?</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Prefer deleting over simplifying, simplifying over optimizing, and optimizing over automating. Apply confirmed, safe\nimprovements within the requested scope; this ordering does not justify dropping requirements or automating needless\nwork.</p>\n<p>Trace important control, data, concurrency, and error paths end to end. Hunt for concrete bugs, omissions, invalid\nassumptions, unhandled edges, security/reliability failures, inconsistencies, duplication, dead code, stale docs, and\nneedless complexity. Also inspect evidenced problems in performance, dependencies, data formats and extensions,\nconfiguration, observability, accessibility, agent context, naming, and directory structure. Style preferences and\nunverified hunches are not findings.</p>\n<p>At applicable external and persisted-data seams, inspect validation; domain precision and units; deterministic ordering\nand deduplication; idempotency and repeat-run behavior; atomicity and interruption safety; retry and pagination\ncompleteness; bounded concurrency, cancellation, and resource cleanup; and secret, log, path, temporary-file, and\ncommand safety.</p>\n<p>Confirm each issue before editing. Fix the smallest root cause when intent is clear and verification is available. Add a\nregression test when it protects a meaningful failure mode absent from existing coverage; do not add tests that merely\nmirror reversible prose or configuration edits. Fix verifiable in-scope residual risks rather than reporting them. Mark\n<code>reported</code> only for real decisions: intent is ambiguous, a safe fix would change a public contract for consumers outside\nthe repository, or no verification is available. Give every <code>reported</code> finding a recommended fix and its blast radius.\nDo not add speculative features, broad refactors, or cosmetic churn.</p>\n<p>Treat source files over 1000 lines and test files over 2000 lines as discovery candidates only. Split a file only when\ncohesion, coupling, change risk, or testability establishes a better seam; line count alone is not evidence. When a\nconfirmed structural issue requires interface or seam redesign, use <code>$codebase-design</code> when available. Centralize the\ninvariant in its owning module, apply the deletion test to pass-through modules, introduce a seam only where behavior\nactually varies, and keep callers and tests on the resulting interface.</p>\n<p>Before changing an interface, persisted format, exported name, or path, enumerate and migrate every producer, consumer,\nschema, fixture, generator, export or manifest, script or recipe, check, configuration reference, and document. Search\nfor the old identifier afterward and account for every intentional remainder. Apply dependency or framework updates,\ndata-format or extension changes, renames, and reorganizations only when the migration is atomic, compatibility is\ndemonstrable, and repository checks can prove it. Do not retain a performance change without a recorded baseline metric\nand repeatable benchmark.</p>\n<p>If an experiment fails its evidence bar, revert only that experiment's attributable edits; never use repository-wide\nclean, checkout, or reset commands. After each nontrivial change wave, run <code>$code-polish</code> over that wave's exact changed\nfile union when available. Otherwise apply the same fixed-scope contract inline: simplify only where comprehension or\ndefect risk measurably improves, review by severity, fix evidenced defects, and rerun the narrowest proving checks.</p>\n<p>On long runs, post updates only after coherent slices settle, using the ledger summary's exact bar and counts. The bar\nmeans path accounting, not depth of inspection.</p>\n<h3>Tests</h3>\n<p>Review tests as code under the same first-principles questions, aiming for a smaller suite that catches the same or more\ndefects. For each test, identify the required behavior it protects, then:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delete tests that are stale or unhelpful: they target removed or renamed behavior kept alive only by mocks or\nfixtures; cannot fail (no meaningful assertion, asserting a mock's own return value, tautologies); pin incidental\nimplementation details or call sequences no requirement depends on; restate language, framework, or dependency\nbehavior; or are skipped or commented out with no live reason.</li>\n<li>Merge tests that effectively prove the same thing: identical paths differing only in inputs become one table-driven or\nparameterized test; a narrower test fully subsumed by another test's assertions goes; duplicates across files collapse\ninto the owning suite.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Before deleting or merging, confirm the protected behavior is obsolete or still covered by a named retained test; use\ncoverage output, or a temporary targeted break of the code, when the overlap is not obvious. A merge keeps every\ndistinct assertion, input, and diagnosable failure message. Keep regression tests for fixed bugs unless another test\ndemonstrably covers the same case. Never delete or skip a failing or flaky test to get green: fix the cause or mark it\n<code>reported</code>. Run the affected suites before and after, and record the test-count delta.</p>\n<h3>Comments</h3>\n<p>Compare every comment with the code, callers, and history it describes. Fix only clear <code>STALE</code> (describes behavior the\ncode no longer has), <code>ORPHANED</code> (names a missing symbol, path, flag, or concept), <code>MISLEADING</code> (materially suggests\ndifferent behavior), or <code>REDUNDANT</code> (narrates self-explanatory code without intent, constraint, or context) comments.\nRewrite when the correct claim is proven; otherwise remove. Never change executable code merely to make a comment true,\nand leave useful rationale and imperfect-but-accurate wording alone.</p>\n<p>Treat behavior-bearing comments as code: compiler and tool directives (<code>//go:*</code>, build constraints, cgo preambles,\n<code>go:embed</code>, <code>@ts-expect-error</code>, lint suppressions, coverage pragmas), license headers, public API docs, and concurrency,\nownership, or safety contracts. Edit them only when the tooling semantics are proven and validated by the relevant\ntooling; otherwise mark them <code>reported</code>.</p>\n<h2>Verify and Report</h2>\n<p>Run the narrowest check proving each fix, including every discovered typecheck, lint, and format/import-order gate\napplicable to its changed files, then aggregate checks scoped to changed files. Reinspect affected paths and repeat\nuntil a pass finds no new evidenced issue. Before declaring completion, revisit the first-principles questions against\nthe result, including the sweep's own additions; passing checks alone does not justify unnecessary complexity. During a\nsupplied deadline's validation window, reconcile owned edits and run the aggregate format, lint, type, test, build, and\ninvariant checks justified by the final changed-file union. Compare final results with the recorded baseline. Audit\ncoverage, fixes, and checks against tool output before claiming completion. When the sweep pushed commits and the\nrepository defines CI workflows, such as <code>.github/workflows</code>, watch the pushed head's runs before reporting\n(<code>gh run list --commit &lt;sha&gt;</code>, then <code>gh run watch &lt;run-id&gt;</code>, in the background when the host supports it); fix failures\nattributable to the sweep and report the CI outcome. When changed code behaves differently by platform and local checks\ncovered only one, name the unverified platforms as a risk.</p>\n<p>Lead with\n<code>### ✅ Sweep ledger complete — &lt;accounted&gt;/&lt;mapped&gt; files accounted (&lt;inspected&gt; inspected, &lt;excluded&gt; excluded)</code> only\nwhen helper <code>complete</code> is true; otherwise use <code>### ⛔ Sweep incomplete</code>. Summarize fixed, reported, excluded, and check\ncounts, plus deleted and merged tests with the test-count delta and fixed comments when non-zero. Include a compact\n<code>Check | Baseline | Final</code> table, changed artifacts and verified fixes, and subagent results. When non-empty, also\ninclude reverted experiments with the failed evidence, each <code>reported</code> finding with its evidence, recommended fix, and\nblast radius, and the overnight backlog when applicable. On <code>### ⛔ Sweep incomplete</code>, name the ledger path so the next\nsession can resume from <code>pending</code>. Do not dump the scratch ledger's contents, unrelated pre-existing changes, or bulk\ndata; include task-relevant evidence when it materially supports the report.</p>\n<p>In an interactive (non-overnight) run with any <code>reported</code> findings, end with one decision question listing them: fix all\nas recommended, pick specific items, or leave them reported. Treat invocation wording that already authorizes fixing\n(for example \"fix any/all problems\" or \"I will follow your judgement\") as that approval up front and skip the question,\nexcept for destructive actions, external writes, and purchases, which still need explicit confirmation regardless of\ninvocation wording. On approval, run a fix wave over the approved items under the same sweep rules — confirm, fix,\nverify, update the ledger, and rerun <code>$code-polish</code> — then report the updated ledger and check results. During an\nautonomous overnight run, skip the question and leave <code>reported</code> findings in the overnight backlog instead.</p>\n<p>Completion requires every mapped path accounted for, every finding fixed and verified, fixed by an approved fix wave, or\nreported with evidence and a pending decision, and every relevant check passing or its failure attributed.</p>\n","files":[{"path":"agents/openai.yaml","sizeBytes":43,"isText":true},{"path":"scripts/sweep-ledger.py","sizeBytes":9454,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":19341,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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