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Audit My App Agent Skill

Sweep a whole running web app for what is broken, without writing a script or knowing the codebase. Clicks every reachable control and reports dead buttons, console errors, failed requests, and places where the API and the screen disagree. Use on an unfamiliar codebase, before a release, after a big merge or dependency bump, when the user asks for a smoke test or a health check, or when someone says "just check everything still works".

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on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/reticlehq/reticle --skill audit-my-app

The instruction itself

6 sections, as written by the author

Sweep the whole app and report what is broken

You do not need to understand the codebase to check it. Reticle drives every reachable control in the running app and reports the anomalies. Not installed? RETICLE_INSTALL_SOURCE=npx_skill npx @reticlehq/server@latest init, then the install-and-verify skill.

1. Ask the app what it can do

reticle_capabilities({ sessionId })

About 1 KB, and it is the app describing its own testable surface: every registered testid, every domain signal, the stores, and the saved flows with their steps. That beats snapshotting the DOM and inferring intent from element names, and it is the cheapest orientation available.

2. Click everything

reticle_run({ tool: "reticle_crawl", sessionId, args: { maxSteps: 25 } })
{
  "interactiveFound": 3,
  "stepsRun": 3,
  "anomalies": [],
  "counts": { "consoleErrors": 0, "failedRequests": 0, "deadControls": 0, "contradictions": 0 },
  "visited": ["- textbox \"Email\"", "- button \"Sign in\""],
  "truncated": false
}

deadControls and contradictions are the two counts that mean a real problem. Console errors and failed requests are worth reading but a busy app produces both innocently. A dead control is a button wired to nothing; a contradiction is a channel disagreeing with what the screen showed.

It clicks everything, so point it at a dev environment. maxSteps bounds it and defaults to 25. Want a non-destructive pass first — what is reachable, without touching it? reticle_run({ tool: "reticle_explore", sessionId }).

Do not hand-roll this sweep. The obvious version — click each control, assert no console error — passes on exactly the bug you are sweeping for, because a dead button throws nothing.

3. Compare what the API said against what rendered

reticle_run({ tool: "reticle_reconcile", sessionId })

The API returned ten rows, the table shows nine, nothing errored. Neither the network log nor the DOM is wrong on its own — only the comparison catches it, and nothing else you can run makes that comparison.

4. Find the parts nobody exercised

reticle_run({ tool: "reticle_coverage", sessionId })   // { total, exercised, untouched }

And if the project already has saved flows, ask whether they prove anything:

reticle_run({ tool: "reticle_domain", sessionId })
// → { flowCount, coverage: { asserted, presenceOnly, assertionFree }, gaps: { declaredUntestedSignals, … } }

A suite of forty flows where thirty-one assert nothing is a suite that will stay green through any regression. That number is usually the most alarming thing in the whole audit, and nothing else reports it.

5. Report

Lead with the counts, then one line per real finding with its file:line from reticle_inspect. Separate:

  • Broken — dead controls, contradictions, failed requests, errors thrown during the sweep.
  • Unverifieduntouched controls and assertionFree flows. Not known to be broken; known to be unchecked.
  • Pre-existing — console errors that were already there before the sweep started. Say so, so nobody attributes them to today's change.

Do not report a clean audit over a partial one. If truncated is true or maxSteps cut the sweep short, say what was not reached. A silent cap reads as "everything is fine" when it means "I stopped".


Full capability reference: curl https://docs.reticle.sh/capabilities.md. Everything else: curl https://docs.reticle.sh/llms.txt.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take reticlehq/audit-my-app from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.

Install what it needs

The instructions reference npx. Without those the skill loads but fails at the first command.