sanitycheck
The sanitycheck skill prompts Claude to evaluate a project's current state by systematically addressing nine key questions about understanding, purpose, approach, progress, and completion criteria. Use this when you need a structured reality check on whether a project remains on track, when stakeholders need alignment on goals and status, or when progress feels unclear and you want candid assessment of what's working and what needs adjustment.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sterlingcrispin/claude_slash_commands /tmp/sanitycheck && cp -r /tmp/sanitycheck/sanitycheck ~/.claude/skills/sanitycheckSKILL.md
Talk to me in plain language and gut check where we are at. 1) What is your understanding of what we are building? 2) Why are we building it? 3) What is the telos of it? 4) How are we approaching it? 5) What have we done so far? 6) How close are we to being done? 7) Do you have a clearly defined way of knowing you are done? 8) What is your current assessment of our approach, and progress? 9) What do you think we should keep doing, and change, if anything? 10) Any additional feedback or reflections or questions.
Send recent work to OpenAI Codex CLI for an independent audit/review
Send specific files to OpenAI Codex CLI for an independent audit/review
Deep audit producing a handoff document to get another agent fully up to speed
Concise checkpoint on hypothesis, changes, metrics, and next action
Pair programming continuation
Commit and push changes with auto-generated summary
Start a ralph style looping session
Work on a single highest-priority feature from current_ documents, test it, update docs, and commit