Harden Skill

Overview

Resilience-focused assessment skill covering DIM-2 (Observability) and DIM-7 (Resilience) from the backend quality dimension taxonomy. Finds error handling gaps, silent catches, resource leaks, and operational fragility that could cause cascading failures under stress.

This skill combines deterministic pattern detection (via axiom:scan) with qualitative judgment to assess how well code handles failure, communicates errors, and manages resources.

Triggers

Positive Triggers

Activate this skill when:

• User says "harden code", "harden this", or "resilience review"
• User says "check error handling" or "audit error handling"
• User runs /axiom:harden
• Preparing code for production deployment
• After an incident exposed error handling gaps