Cold-Start Check

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Install via npx:

npx skills add fellowship-dev/dogfooded-skills/skills/ops/cold-start-check

When to Use

• After a doc update: Verify that the changes actually make the system understandable to a fresh agent.
• Before a doc sprint: Establish a baseline of what's discoverable — then re-run after the sprint to measure improvement.
• Periodic health check: Monthly or quarterly, to catch doc rot before it compounds.
• After onboarding a new repo to the harness: Confirm that docs/ gives an agent enough to work independently.

What It Does

Cold-start-check asks a rubric's questions to N fresh agent sessions that have never seen the repo before. It grades each response against expected concepts, then aggregates across sessions to identify: