Signal Friction Scan

Use this to turn recent session history into a grounded shortlist of improvements: skill patches, new skills, docs, runbooks, commands, monitors, automations, or deliberate skips.

This is a scan and synthesis skill, not a license to mutate the system immediately. Default to Pass 1: investigate, produce a shortlist, and stop unless Joel explicitly asks to create or patch assets.

When to Use

Trigger on requests like:

• "scan friction"
• "find repeated workflows"
• "what should we package?"
• "look at recent sessions"
• "find missing skills"
• "turn recent work into skills"
• "what keeps pissing me off?"
• "capture the signal/friction scan process"
• "find prompt/system skill improvements from recent work"