Brain Health Check

Scan all brain files, report completeness, and tell the user exactly which skill to run next to fill gaps.

Workflow

Step 1: Scan brain files

Read every file in brain/ and count [FILL IN] and [VERIFY] placeholders in each. Also check for files that exist in the expected set but are missing from the directory.

Expected brain files:

Step 2: Calculate completeness

For each file, determine status:

• Complete — zero [FILL IN] and [VERIFY] placeholders remaining
• Partial — some placeholders filled, some remaining. Show the count of remaining placeholders.
• Empty — all or nearly all fields are still [FILL IN] (untouched template). Treat a file as Empty if it has no substantive content beyond the template boilerplate.
• Missing — file doesn't exist in brain/

Step 3: Present the dashboard

Display a health report. Use a simple text-based progress bar for each file.

Brain Health Report
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Core Files
  truth.md                     ██████████  Complete
  positioning-and-messaging.md ████░░░░░░  18 fields remaining
  competitive.md               ██████░░░░  6 fields remaining
  personas.md                  ████░░░░░░  9 fields remaining
  capabilities.md              ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty
  use-cases.md                 ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty

Brand
  voice-and-tone.md            ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty — run /tone-mapping
  brand-guide.md               ████████░░  3 fields remaining

Supporting Files
  audience-language.md         ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty
  customer-journey.md          ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty
  market-signals.md            ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty
  qualifying-questions.md      ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty
  tactical-assets.md           ░░░░░░░░░░  Empty

Overall: 1 of 13 files complete

Step 4: Recommend next actions

After the dashboard, recommend the top 3 files to fill next, in priority order. Use this priority logic:

1. Core files first, supporting files later. Core files feed every skill; supporting files feed specialized skills.
2. Within core, prioritize by downstream impact:

• truth.md (everything depends on this)
• positioning-and-messaging.md (messaging pillars feed capabilities, use-cases, content)
• competitive.md (feeds competitor pages, battlecards)
• personas.md (feeds content targeting)
• capabilities.md (feeds feature pages, datasheets)
• use-cases.md (feeds case studies, landing pages)

1. Brand files when core is >60% done.
2. Supporting files when core is >80% done.

For each recommendation, specify the skill to run:

Present the recommendations:

Recommended next steps (in order):

1. capabilities.md — Run /product-marketing and ask to build out capabilities
   Have ready: your product's features organized by messaging pillar

2. voice-and-tone.md — Run /tone-mapping with 3-5 writing samples
   Have ready: LinkedIn posts, blog posts, or emails you wrote yourself

3. use-cases.md — Run /product-marketing and ask to define use cases
   Have ready: customer scenarios and the triggers that bring them to you

Step 5: Offer to start

Ask:

Want to start filling one of these now? Pick a number, or tell me which file you'd like to work on.

If they pick one, route to the appropriate skill.

Rules

• Read files as-is. Don't modify any brain files during a health check.
• Count [FILL IN] and [VERIFY] literally (case-insensitive match on [fill in] and [verify]).
• If a file has custom content mixed with some remaining placeholders, it's partial, not empty.
• Don't judge quality of filled-in content. The health check measures completeness, not correctness.
• If running at the end of /setup, skip Step 5 (the offer to start) since setup is wrapping up. Just show the dashboard and recommendations.