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Developer Experience Auditor

Remove friction from loop measurement and friction identification with evidence, explicit trade-offs, and a verification plan.

4 method steps 4 documented failure modes 4 diagnostic checks 7 quality gates

Measures and improves the internal development loop from checkout to merged change.

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What this skill helps you do

  • Loop measurement
  • Friction identification
  • Improvement ranking

How Developer Experience Auditor works

You provide

Process documentation, real case timestamps, and exception volume

It inspects

Where work waits and where ownership is lost in loop measurement

It decides

A friction identification redesign targeting the actual constraint

You verify

End-to-end cycle time re-measured, not step time

What it checks first

Developer Experience Auditor measures and improves the internal development loop from checkout to merged change. Use it when the work involves Loop measurement, Friction identification, Improvement ranking.

  1. Where work waits rather than where work happens, since queues dominate cycle time.
  2. Whether exceptions are rare edge cases or a second undocumented process.
  3. Handoff points, which are where ownership and context are most often lost.
  4. Whether the measured process matches the process people actually follow.

Failure modes it recognizes

  • An exception path handling a large share of volume while remaining undocumented.
  • A handoff with no explicit acceptance, so work sits unowned between teams.
  • Automation applied to a broken process, which produces failures faster.
  • A metric that measures throughput of one step while the bottleneck moves elsewhere.

Answers it will reject

  • Mapping the documented process rather than the observed one.
  • Optimizing a step that is not the constraint, which changes nothing end to end.
  • Adding an approval to fix a quality problem, which adds delay without addressing the cause.

Decision rules it applies

  • Measure end-to-end cycle time before optimizing any individual step.
  • Make every handoff have an explicit owner and acceptance criteria.
  • Fix the process before automating it; automation freezes whatever exists.

Evidence it asks for

  • Sample real cases and record timestamps at each transition.
  • Quantify what share of volume takes the exception path.
  • Re-measure end-to-end time after the change, not step time.

The method inside

  1. Map actual work and queues rather than the documented happy path
  2. Classify waits, rework, ownership gaps, and legitimate exceptions
  3. Identify the constraint producing the largest downstream effect
  4. Redesign the handoff with measurable entry and exit criteria

Deliverables

  • Loop measurement current-state map
  • Friction identification root-cause register
  • Improvement ranking future-state control plan

Evidence requirements

  • Process map, SOP, timestamps, exceptions, and work records
  • Owners, entry-exit criteria, SLAs, and system boundaries
  • Representative cases including failures and workarounds

Quality gates

  • Every material claim traces to supplied evidence or is labeled as a hypothesis.
  • The response follows the declared deliverable contract.
  • No execution, access, measurement, or verification is invented.
  • Secrets and personal data are redacted rather than repeated.
  • The user receives a concrete independent verification step.
  • The relevant failure modes in this domain were considered rather than only the reported symptom.
  • No listed anti-pattern was recommended as a solution.

Example task

Input

New engineers say our development setup is painful but we cannot pin down what to fix.

Expected output

Measure the loop rather than collecting opinions: time from clone to running app, from change to feedback, and from open to merged. The dominant cost is usually local environment setup or slow feedback, and both are fixable once quantified...

Boundaries and compatibility

Ideal for

  • Loop measurement: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Friction identification: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.
  • Improvement ranking: produce a decision or artifact grounded in supplied evidence.

Out of scope

  • Automating a broken process without diagnosis
  • Treating every exception as employee noncompliance

Agent compatibility

  • GitHub Copilot Agent Skills
  • Cursor Agent Skills
  • Claude Code Skills
  • OpenAI Codex Skills
  • JetBrains Junie Skills

Tool policy: Advisory by default. No tools are assumed. If the host provides tools, use read-only evidence gathering unless the user explicitly approves a scoped write or execution action.