workflow-audit

name	workflow-audit
description	Review the Claude Code configuration and session history, benchmark against current best practice, and recommend and apply updates for an integrated, token-efficient setup. Use when asked to audit or improve the Claude Code workflow, config, permissions, or token efficiency, or to reduce repetitive permission prompts.

Workflow Audit

Review my Claude Code configuration and session history, benchmark it against current best practice, and recommend (and apply) updates so my setup is an integrated, token-efficient development system tuned to how I actually work.

The two standing priorities are token efficiency and reducing repetitive permission prompts — weigh recommendations against those unless I say otherwise.

What to look at

1. User config — ~/.claude/settings.json (model, hooks, theme, env).
2. Project config — .claude/settings.json, .claude/settings.local.json, .claude/rules/*, and the .ruler/ sources (skills in .ruler/skills/*, root + nested instruction files — generated into CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md and the skill trees per ADR-0058; propose edits against the sources, never the generated copies).
3. Session history — the JSONL transcripts under ~/.claude/projects/-Users-kylemit-Code-Splotch/. Aggregate across sessions; do not read them one line at a time in the main context. Pull out:
   • Tool usage counts (Bash, Read, Edit, Write, Skill, ToolSearch, AskUserQuestion, …).
   • Bash command breakdown by first word — flag read-only shell (grep/ls/cat/find/head/tail/wc) that the dedicated Grep/Glob/Read tools should be doing instead. This is usually the biggest token leak.
   • Permission friction — how often I re-approve similar commands, and how many committed/local allowlist entries are dead one-offs (specific tokens, PIDs, absolute paths) that will never match again.
   • Context bloat — sessions that grew very large (>1 MB) and the workflows that produced them.
   • Dominant workflows — which slash commands / loops I actually lean on.
4. Benchmark — do a web search for current (this year) Claude Code best practices: CLAUDE.md/rules, skills, hooks, subagents, MCP, model tiering, /clear vs /compact. Compare my setup against the modern stack and identify the real gaps (not generic advice).

Prefer Grep/Glob/Read and a read-only exploration subagent for the file/transcript sweeps so this audit doesn't itself burn the main context.

Ask before finalizing

Use AskUserQuestion to confirm alignment before writing the report or changing config. Good things to confirm:

• Which priorities rank highest right now (tokens, permissions, autonomy, review quality).
• Which manual gates are intentional and must be preserved (e.g. git commit/git push should keep prompting).
• Appetite for new machinery (subagents, hooks, MCP) vs. keeping it lean.

Applying changes

Apply the changes I approve directly, and keep them reversible via git:

• Broad allowlist of read-only tool families and trusted commands in the committed .claude/settings.json.
• Machine-specific entries (absolute paths, SDK locations, /tmp, ~/.claude) in .claude/settings.local.json only.
• Deliberately keep prompting for anything mutating outside the repo, rm, non-localhost network calls, and git commit/git push.
• Encode behavioral changes (prefer structured tools over shell, delegate fan-out search to a cheap read-only subagent, /clear between unrelated tasks) in CLAUDE.md, not just the report.

Note every file you touched so git diff .claude CLAUDE.md tells the whole story.

Output format

Write the report to docs/claude-workflow-review-YYYY-MM-DD.md (markdown, dated with today's date — do not overwrite a prior review; each run is a snapshot to compare against the last).

Structure it as:

# Claude Code Workflow Review — Splotch

**Date:** YYYY-MM-DD **Goal:** one line **Priorities (confirmed):** …

## TL;DR

3–5 punchy findings.

## What I looked at

Config files, session count/size, benchmark sources.

## Findings from your session history

Tool-usage table + Bash breakdown table + other signals.

## What you're doing right (don't change)

## Benchmark vs. best-in-class

Layer-by-layer table: CLAUDE.md · rules/skills · hooks · subagents · MCP.

## Recommendations (prioritized)

Tier 1 token efficiency / Tier 2 permission friction / Tier 3 optional.

## What I changed this session

Concrete file list, reversible via git.

## Sources

Links from the web search.

End by printing a short summary of what changed and what's left as optional follow-up.

Shared audit conventions

This is an audit skill. Its findings go in the dated docs/claude-workflow-review-YYYY-MM-DD.md report rather than docs/AUDIT.md, but the run-tracking conventions in .claude/audit-conventions.md still apply:

• Log the run (§2) — add a row to docs/AUDIT-LOG.md linking the dated report and summarizing the headline findings in one line.
• Self-heal (§3) — if the review surfaced a durable method learning (a transcript metric worth pulling, a benchmark source, an analysis trap), fold it into this file.