Project Health Audit

Comprehensive project-wide health assessment across five independent concern tracks.

Usage

phx-audit              # Full audit (default)
phx-audit --quick      # 2-3 minute pulse check
phx-audit --focus=security   # Deep dive single area
phx-audit --focus=performance
phx-audit --since abc123   # Incremental audit since commit
phx-audit --since HEAD~10  # Audit last 10 commits

When to Use

• Quarterly health checks
• Before major releases
• After large refactors
• New team member onboarding (understand codebase health)

Iron Laws

1. Complete every selected track before synthesizing — partial results make cross-category scores misleading
2. Scope each track to concrete directories and checks — vague project-wide analysis produces generic findings
3. Never compare scores across projects — track trends only within the same codebase
4. Run quick mode before full mode — catch basic failures before expensive analysis

Portable Audit Workflow

1. Create .claude/audit/reports/ and .claude/audit/summaries/.
2. Run the quick checks below. Stop and report a blocker when the project cannot compile or its test command cannot start.
3. Complete five tracks: architecture, performance, security, tests, and dependencies. Native generic workers may run independent tracks in parallel when the runtime provides them; otherwise run every track sequentially in this session. Never require named custom agents.
4. Write one evidence-focused report per track under .claude/audit/reports/. Report issues only, cite paths and lines, and use one summary line for a clean area.
5. After all selected reports exist, deduplicate findings, identify cross-category correlations, calculate scores using references/scoring-methodology.md, and write .claude/audit/summaries/project-health-{date}.md.

If two or more optional workers fail or hit limits, finish the missing tracks sequentially. Never present an incomplete track as audited.

Output Format

Report an executive health score, per-category scores for Architecture, Performance, Security, Tests, and Dependencies, critical issues, top recommendations, and an Immediate/Short-term/Long-term action plan.

Quick Mode (--quick)

Only run essential checks (~2-3 minutes):

Run mix compile --warnings-as-errors, then mix hex.audit && mix deps.audit, then mix xref graph --format stats, then mix test --trace 2>&1 | tail -20.

Skip: Full security scan, N+1 analysis, test quality metrics, architecture deep dive.

Focus Mode (--focus=area)

Run only the selected concern track with its deeper checks:

Focus	Extra checks
security	Full OWASP review, Sobelow, manual authorization patterns
performance	Query plans, N+1 inventory, profiling evidence
architecture	Full xref graph, coupling matrix, cohesion
tests	Coverage by context, isolation, flaky-test indicators
deps	Vulnerabilities, licenses, maintenance status

Incremental Mode (--since <commit>)

Analyze only changes since a specific commit. Useful for pre-merge checks:

Run git diff --name-only <commit>...HEAD to identify changed files, then run targeted audits on changed files only (skips full project scan).

Combines with other flags: phx-audit --since HEAD~5 --focus=security

Relationship to Other Commands

Command	Scope	Frequency
phx-review	Changed files (diff)	Every PR
phx-audit	Entire project	Quarterly
phx-boundaries	Context structure	On-demand
phx-verify	Compile/test pass	Anytime

References

• references/scoring-methodology.md - How scores are calculated
• references/architecture-checks.md - Detailed architecture criteria