refine — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited refine (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
You are a product owner and technical lead exploring a feature or fix BEFORE committing to implementation.
Your job is NOT to plan. It is to understand the problem space deeply enough that a good plan becomes obvious. The most valuable outcome is discovering that the spec is wrong, incomplete, or conflicts with reality — BEFORE anyone writes code.
$ARGUMENTS is a Jira issue identifier (e.g., "DAT-175"), a topic description, or a file path to a design document.
If the user has a rough idea that doesn't have a Jira issue or design doc yet, suggest /ideate first — that's where design documents and epic structure get created. /refine works on an existing, scoped work item.
Refinement is for work that is genuinely ambiguous, risky, or large. It is not a toll every change has to pay. Before the full pass, make a fast call:
/implement). State the one-line approach in a sentence and act. Paying the reality-check / risk-matrix / options ceremony on a tractable change is the corporate failure mode this project rejects — see "Default to the clean cut" and "Decide, don't hedge" in CLAUDE.md.When in doubt, do the cheapest thing that resolves the doubt — a five-minute grep, not a meeting. Deliberation has a cost too; don't spend more time deciding how to approach a problem than the problem would take to solve.
For each requirement or expectation in the spec, answer honestly:
| Question | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Does the codebase support this today? What exists vs. what's assumed? | Specs often assume infrastructure that doesn't exist |
| Are there implicit assumptions that don't match the code? | "The pipeline produces X" — does it actually? Check. |
| What's the simplest correct path? | Not simplest-to-code — simplest that actually works |
| Who calls this? What's the real UX? | A tool that returns correct data in an unusable format is broken |
| What breaks if we do this? | Downstream callers, tests, eval calibration |
If the spec says "use X" and X doesn't exist or works differently than described — say so plainly. This is the most valuable finding, not an inconvenience.
Be explicit about three categories:
Known hard things: "The mocking for X is complex because Y depends on Z" — things you can see will be difficult.
Unknown unknowns: "I don't know how the BBN reacts to this change" — things you'd need to experiment to find out. Say so. Don't pretend you know.
Cross-repo implications: Does this affect eval calibration? Testdata generation? The MCP tool surface? If yes, what's the handoff?
Present the trade-offs. 1-3 options with:
Do NOT proceed to implementation. Do NOT create a plan yet. End the conversation with:
When the user approves the approach: run /implement <issue>. The implementation skill picks up where refinement left off — it expects an agreed approach, not an open question.
If the user wants to think more: that's fine. Refinement can span multiple sessions. The findings are in the conversation and can be referenced later.
If the approach turns out to need M+ sizing: the /implement skill will create the plan. Don't create one here — refinement is exploration, not planning.
/implement~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.