Universal Audit Pattern

Category: Quality Time Saved: 4+ hours per audit Battle-tested: Yes — applied to docs, code, security, architecture

The Problem

You need to audit something — documentation accuracy, code quality, security compliance, architectural drift. You start checking things randomly, fix some issues, get distracted, lose track of what you've reviewed.

Why Ad-Hoc Audits Fail

• No systematic coverage — you miss things
• No severity ranking — you fix minor issues while critical ones wait
• No completion criteria — you don't know when you're done
• No reproducibility — next audit starts from scratch