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name: Brooks Health
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description: Brooks Health scores a project across four quality dimensions—PR quality, architecture, tech debt, and test quality—in a single pass, drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Use it for an overall quality assessment before a release or team onboarding.
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# Brooks Health

Brooks Health scores a project across four quality dimensions—PR quality, architecture, tech debt, and test quality—in a single pass, drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Use it for an overall quality assessment before a release or team onboarding.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint/tree/main/skills/brooks-health ~/.claude/skills/brooks-health
```

## README

# Brooks-Lint — Health Dashboard

## Setup

Read in order:

1. `../_shared/common.md` — Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, Health Score
2. `../_shared/source-coverage.md` — book coverage, exceptions, tradeoffs
3. `../_shared/decay-risks.md` — production risk symptoms
4. `../_shared/test-decay-risks.md` — test risk symptoms
5. `health-guide.md` (this directory) — the dashboard orchestration process

## Process

**Scope:** if the user did not specify a project or directory, apply Auto Scope Detection
(`../_shared/common.md`) first.

1. Run abbreviated scans across all four dimensions (Step 1 of the guide)
2. Compute per-dimension and composite Health Scores with weighting (Step 2 of the guide)
3. Output the Health Dashboard using the dashboard report template (Step 3 of the guide)

**Mode line in report:** `Health Dashboard`