Brutal Vibe Audit
When the user questions code quality, asks for technical reviews, or wants to distinguish real engineering from AI slop, apply the 20-metric engineering audit.
Auto-Trigger Patterns
- •"Code review" or "technical audit" requests
- •Questions about "production readiness"
- •"Vibe check" or "slop check" on code
- •Concerns about "AI-generated code" quality
- •Technical due diligence needs
- •Questions like "can we ship this?"
- •Architecture reviews
- •Security or performance concerns
- •Quality assessment requests
What This Skill Does
Scores engineering reality across 20 metrics (0-5 each, 100 total):
Section A: Architecture & Vibe (1-5)
- •Architectural Justification
- •Dependency Bloat
- •README vs Reality Gap
- •AI Hallucination Smell
- •Folder Structure Sanity
Section B: Core Engineering (6-10) 6. Error Handling Strategy 7. Concurrency Model 8. Data Structures & Algorithms 9. Memory Management 10. Type Safety & Contracts
Section C: Performance & Scale (11-14) 11. Critical Path Latency 12. Backpressure & Limits 13. State Management 14. Network Efficiency
Section D: Security & Robustness (15-17) 15. Input Validation & Trust 16. Secrets & Supply Chain 17. Observability
Section E: QA & Operations (18-20) 18. Test Reality 19. CI/CD & Reproducibility 20. Bus Factor & Maintainability
Verdict Bands
- •0-40: VIBE CODING SCRAP - Rewrite
- •41-60: AI/JUNIOR PROTOTYPE - 70% rewrite
- •61-75: TECHNICAL DEBT BOMB - Refactor before scaling
- •76-85: SOLID ENGINEERING - Ship with monitoring
- •86-95: PROFESSIONAL GRADE - Minor polish
- •96-100: UNICORN TIER - NASA level
When to Use
- •Pre-launch technical reviews
- •Code quality assessments
- •Technical due diligence (M&A, investment)
- •AI-generated code validation
- •Architecture decisions
- •Performance concerns
- •Security audits
Complementary Audits
- •Jobs Audit: If UX/design also needs review
- •Carlin Audit: If marketing claims need verification
- •Multi-Audit: For comprehensive product analysis
Invoke
Use /vibe-audit [codebase path] for explicit invocation.