executing-comprehensive-reviews

name: executing-comprehensive-reviews description: Use when reviewing content for clarity, generating questions, or checking alignment. Triggers on "review for clarity", "suggest questions", "check alignment", "comprehensive review".

Executing Comprehensive Reviews

Guide for content review workflows including clarity improvements, question generation, and book-implementation alignment validation.

Instructions

Step 1: Parse Review Requirement

Extract from request:

• Target: Specific file, chapter, or pattern
• Review Type: clarity | questions | alignment | comprehensive
• Scope: Single file, chapter, full codebase

Type Detection:

• Contains "clarity" or "clear" -> Clarity review
• Contains "question" or "deeper" -> Questions review
• Contains "align" or "implementation" -> Alignment check
• Contains "comprehensive" or "full" -> All types
• Ambiguous -> Ask user which type(s)

Step 2: Optional Exploration

If requirement is broad or exploratory:

1. Search for relevant content

   Glob: chapters/**/*.md
   Grep: {topic keywords}
   

2. Read identified files to assess coverage

3. Create exploration summary:

   • Relevant entries discovered
   • Content gaps identified
   • Relationship mappings

Skip exploration if:

• Specific file path provided
• Review type is alignment (has own discovery)
• User requests direct review only

Step 3: Execute Review Type(s)

Clarity Review

For improving readability without changing voice:

1. Read target content completely
2. Identify clarity issues:
   • Ambiguous sentences
   • Missing transitions
   • Jargon without context
   • Overly complex structure
3. Propose improvements preserving authorial voice
4. Present suggestions to user for approval
5. Apply approved changes
6. Update last_updated in frontmatter

Voice preservation checklist:

• Maintains first-person where used
• Keeps practical, experience-based tone
• Preserves original examples
• Doesn't over-formalize

Questions Review

For generating follow-up questions to deepen content:

1. Read target content completely
2. Identify deepening opportunities:
   • Claims that could use evidence
   • Patterns that could use examples
   • Concepts that connect to other chapters
   • Edge cases not addressed
3. Generate 3-5 follow-up questions
4. Present questions to user for selection
5. Add selected questions under "### Follow-up" heading
6. Update last_updated in frontmatter

Question quality criteria:

• Answerable from experience/research
• Leads to actionable content
• Not already covered in file
• Connects to reader needs

Alignment Check

For validating book-implementation consistency:

1. Inventory phase:

   • Scan CLAUDE.md for documented commands/agents
   • List all .claude/ files and structures

2. Cross-reference phase:

   • Check each documented item exists
   • Check each implemented item is documented

3. Pattern validation:

   • Verify documented patterns match implementation
   • Check file paths are accurate

4. Link validation:

   • Test internal links in documentation
   • Verify file references resolve

5. Report findings:

   • Orphans: Exist but undocumented
   • Phantoms: Documented but missing
   • Broken links: Invalid references
   • Pattern compliance: Match/mismatch

Alignment is read-only - no modifications, just diagnostics.

Step 4: Synthesize Findings

Collect outputs from all executed reviews:

From Exploration (if run):

• Entries discovered
• Gaps identified
• Relationships mapped

From Clarity:

• Issues found
• Suggestions approved
• Files modified

From Questions:

• Questions generated
• Questions added
• Themes identified

From Alignment:

• Orphan count
• Phantom count
• Broken links
• Compliance status

Step 5: Prioritize Recommendations

High Priority (Breaking issues)

• Alignment: Missing implementations, broken links
• Clarity: Confusing core concepts

Medium Priority (Content gaps)

• Questions: Unanswered follow-ups
• Exploration: Missing relationships

Low Priority (Polish)

• Clarity: Minor improvements
• Style: Consistency tweaks

Step 6: Report Results

## Review Complete

**Requirement:** {original requirement}

### Reviews Executed

| Type | Status | Key Findings |
|------|--------|--------------|
| Exploration | Complete/Skipped | {entries} found |
| Clarity | Complete/Skipped | {issues} found, {applied} fixed |
| Questions | Complete/Skipped | {count} generated |
| Alignment | Complete/Skipped | {gaps} identified |

### Priority Recommendations

**High:** {numbered list}
**Medium:** {numbered list}
**Low:** {numbered list}

### Files Modified

{list with brief descriptions}

### Next Steps

- {context-specific actions}

Key Principles

Type Routing Matrix

Sequential Execution

• Exploration -> Review -> Synthesis
• Each stage informs the next
• Don't parallelize within a review

User Choice Points

• Which review types to run
• Whether to apply clarity suggestions
• Which questions to add
• Alignment runs automatically (read-only, safe)

Synthesis Over Pass-Through

• Don't concatenate reports
• Extract key findings across reviews
• Prioritize by impact
• Provide actionable next steps

Examples

Example 1: Clarity review on specific file

Request: "Review chapters/6-patterns/2-self-improving-experts.md for clarity"

Execute:
- Skip exploration (file specified)
- Read file completely
- Identify 3 clarity issues
- Present suggestions
- User approves 2
- Apply changes
- Update frontmatter

Report: "2 clarity improvements applied"

Example 2: Generate questions for content

Request: "Suggest follow-up questions for chapter 8"

Execute:
- Explore chapter 8 structure
- Find 4 relevant entries
- Generate questions for each
- Present: 12 questions total
- User selects 5
- Add to respective files

Report: "5 questions added across 4 files"

Example 3: Alignment check

Request: "Check alignment between book and implementation"

Execute:
- Inventory CLAUDE.md references
- Scan .claude/ structure
- Cross-reference

Findings:
- 2 orphan commands (exist, undocumented)
- 1 phantom reference (documented, missing)
- 3 broken internal links

Report: "6 alignment issues found, 1 high priority"

Example 4: Comprehensive chapter review

Request: "Comprehensive review of chapter 7"

Execute:
- Explore: Find 6 entries
- Alignment: Check chapter references
- Clarity: Review each entry
- Questions: Generate follow-ups

Synthesize:
- High: 1 broken link
- Medium: 3 clarity issues
- Low: 8 potential questions

Report with prioritized action list