Skills Development Workspace Surface Audit

Workspace Surface Audit

v20260401
workspace-surface-audit
Workspace Surface Audit scans repo files, MCP servers, plugins, connectors, and environment configs to report current capabilities and recommend ECC-native skills, hooks, agents, or workflows for setups like Claude Code.
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Overview

Workspace Surface Audit

Read-only audit skill for answering the question "what can this workspace and machine actually do right now, and what should we add or enable next?"

This is the ECC-native answer to setup-audit plugins. It does not modify files unless the user explicitly asks for follow-up implementation.

When to Use

  • User says "set up Claude Code", "recommend automations", "what plugins or MCPs should I use?", or "what am I missing?"
  • Auditing a machine or repo before installing more skills, hooks, or connectors
  • Comparing official marketplace plugins against ECC-native coverage
  • Reviewing .env, .mcp.json, plugin settings, or connected-app surfaces to find missing workflow layers
  • Deciding whether a capability should be a skill, hook, agent, MCP, or external connector

Non-Negotiable Rules

  • Never print secret values. Surface only provider names, capability names, file paths, and whether a key or config exists.
  • Prefer ECC-native workflows over generic "install another plugin" advice when ECC can reasonably own the surface.
  • Treat external plugins as benchmarks and inspiration, not authoritative product boundaries.
  • Separate three things clearly:
    • already available now
    • available but not wrapped well in ECC
    • not available and would require a new integration

Audit Inputs

Inspect only the files and settings needed to answer the question well:

  1. Repo surface
    • package.json, lockfiles, language markers, framework config, README.md
    • .mcp.json, .lsp.json, .claude/settings*.json, .codex/*
    • AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, install manifests, hook configs
  2. Environment surface
    • .env* files in the active repo and obvious adjacent ECC workspaces
    • Surface only key names such as STRIPE_API_KEY, TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN, FAL_KEY
  3. Connected tool surface
    • Installed plugins, enabled connectors, MCP servers, LSPs, and app integrations
  4. ECC surface
    • Existing skills, commands, hooks, agents, and install modules that already cover the need

Audit Process

Phase 1: Inventory What Exists

Produce a compact inventory:

  • active harness targets
  • installed plugins and connected apps
  • configured MCP servers
  • configured LSP servers
  • env-backed services implied by key names
  • existing ECC skills already relevant to the workspace

If a surface exists only as a primitive, call that out. Example:

  • "Stripe is available via connected app, but ECC lacks a billing-operator skill"
  • "Google Drive is connected, but there is no ECC-native Google Workspace operator workflow"

Phase 2: Benchmark Against Official and Installed Surfaces

Compare the workspace against:

  • official Claude plugins that overlap with setup, review, docs, design, or workflow quality
  • locally installed plugins in Claude or Codex
  • the user's currently connected app surfaces

Do not just list names. For each comparison, answer:

  1. what they actually do
  2. whether ECC already has parity
  3. whether ECC only has primitives
  4. whether ECC is missing the workflow entirely

Phase 3: Turn Gaps Into ECC Decisions

For every real gap, recommend the correct ECC-native shape:

Gap Type Preferred ECC Shape
Repeatable operator workflow Skill
Automatic enforcement or side-effect Hook
Specialized delegated role Agent
External tool bridge MCP server or connector
Install/bootstrap guidance Setup or audit skill

Default to user-facing skills that orchestrate existing tools when the need is operational rather than infrastructural.

Output Format

Return five sections in this order:

  1. Current surface
    • what is already usable right now
  2. Parity
    • where ECC already matches or exceeds the benchmark
  3. Primitive-only gaps
    • tools exist, but ECC lacks a clean operator skill
  4. Missing integrations
    • capability not available yet
  5. Top 3-5 next moves
    • concrete ECC-native additions, ordered by impact

Recommendation Rules

  • Recommend at most 1-2 highest-value ideas per category.
  • Favor skills with obvious user intent and business value:
    • setup audit
    • billing/customer ops
    • issue/program ops
    • Google Workspace ops
    • deployment/ops control
  • If a connector is company-specific, recommend it only when it is genuinely available or clearly useful to the user's workflow.
  • If ECC already has a strong primitive, propose a wrapper skill instead of inventing a brand-new subsystem.

Good Outcomes

  • The user can immediately see what is connected, what is missing, and what ECC should own next.
  • Recommendations are specific enough to implement in the repo without another discovery pass.
  • The final answer is organized around workflows, not API brands.
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Category Development
Name workspace-surface-audit
Version v20260401
Size 5.03KB
Updated At 2026-04-02
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