Pre-Build Feature Audit

by asimons81

Pre-Build Feature Audit is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by asimons81 in hermes-field-kit.

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Install Pre-Build Feature Audit

Copy Pre-Build Feature 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/asimons81/hermes-field-kit/tree/main/skills/pre-build-feature-audit ~/.claude/skills/pre-build-feature-audit

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/asimons81/hermes-field-kit.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/pre-build-feature-audit/SKILL.md in asimons81/hermes-field-kit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pre-build-feature-audit
Collection: One of 16 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Pre-Build Feature Audit does

Performs a read-only audit across source code, history, branches, issues, pull requests, roadmaps, and contributor guidance to ensure a feature hasn't already been implemented or is in progress before starting development.

Pre-Build Feature Audit is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Pre-Build Feature Audit comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, hermes-agent, open-source and python.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Check whether this feature already exists.
Is anyone already building this?
Audit the idea before I start coding.
Would this duplicate an open pull request?

Counter-Triggers

Do not load this skill when:

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

Frequently asked about Pre-Build Feature Audit

What else does asimons81 publish alongside Pre-Build Feature Audit?
Pre-Build Feature Audit is one of 16 skills that DirSkills catalogs from asimons81/hermes-field-kit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Don't Lie to Me, Hermes Environment Migration and Hermes Field Kit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Pre-Build Feature Audit does, and is maintained by asimons81 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the asimons81/hermes-field-kit page.
How does Pre-Build Feature Audit compare to other Quality skills?
Pre-Build Feature Audit ranks #1284 by stars among the 1354 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 Pre-Build Feature Audit against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.