Survey Patterns Agent Skill
Survey the codebase for analogous features, reusable utilities, and existing patterns relevant to a proposed change. Returns structured findings without writing code. Use when the user asks to \"survey patterns\", \"find existing patterns\", \"look for analogous features\", \"check how similar things are done\", \"find prior art for this change\", or needs pattern context before planning a change.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo --skill survey-patternsThe instruction itself
5 sections, as written by the authorSurvey Patterns
Search the codebase for analogous features and reusable building blocks before planning a change. Returns structured findings. Does not write code or plans.
Step 1: Identify the Task
Determine what the change is about:
- If a task description was passed in, use it
- Otherwise, derive it from conversation context (the user's latest request)
State the task back in one sentence to confirm scope before searching.
Step 2: Spawn Pattern Survey Subagent
Spawn a single subagent in the foreground (model: "opus", no name). Its prompt must direct it to treat the shared working tree and its git index as read-only and to survey by reading and reasoning. The subagent's prompt must include:
- The confirmed task description from Step 1
- An instruction to read references/pattern-surveyor.md for survey guidelines, categories, and output format before searching
The subagent covers all three categories (Analogous Features, Reusable Utilities, Convention Anchors) in one sweep and returns a single structured report.
Step 3: Output Findings
Output the subagent's report verbatim. Do not reformat or re-synthesize — references/pattern-surveyor.md specifies the exact output format the subagent produces.
Then use the TaskList tool and proceed to any remaining task.
Rules
- Do not write files.
- Do not propose implementation steps.
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How to use it
Take tobihagemann/survey-patterns from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
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.