Best Practices Audit

by sd0xdev

Best Practices Audit is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by sd0xdev in sd0x-harness.

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Install Best Practices Audit

Copy Best Practices Audit into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/tree/main/skills/best-practices ~/.claude/skills/best-practices

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/best-practices/SKILL.md in sd0xdev/sd0x-harness
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/best-practices
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1745 skills

What Best Practices Audit does

Best Practices Audit checks a codebase against industry standards and records the verdict, gap roadmap, and debate proof. Use it when you need a conformance judgment for a specific implementation rather than open-ended research.

Best Practices Audit is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Best Practices Audit comes from a repository tagged agent-harness, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, codex and harness-engineering.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Best Practices Audit

Supplementary Agent

Dispatch performance dimension analysis:

Agent({ description: "Analyze performance-related best practices compliance", subagent_type: "performance-optimizer", prompt: Analyze codebase for performance best practices related to: <topic> Check for N+1 queries, memory leaks, blocking operations, and caching issues. })

Non-Negotiable Rules (Normative Source)

SKILL.md is the normative source for these rules. Reference files elaborate but do not override.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Best Practices Audit provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/codex-brainstorm
/deep-research
/codex-review-fast
/codex-architect
/codex-security
/best-practices

Frequently asked about Best Practices Audit

What else does sd0xdev publish alongside Best Practices Audit?
Best Practices Audit is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adr, Architecture Design and Ask. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Best Practices Audit does, and is maintained by sd0xdev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the sd0xdev/sd0x-harness page.
How does Best Practices Audit compare to other Quality skills?
Best Practices Audit ranks #1596 by stars among the 1745 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Best Practices Audit against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.