agent-teams-simplify-and-harden

A two-phase team loop that produces production-quality code: implement, then audit using simplify + harden passes, then fix audit findings, then re-audit, repeating until the codebase is solid or the loop cap is reached.

Budget guidance: Track the cumulative diff growth across rounds. If fix rounds have added more than 30% on top of the original implementation diff, tighten the scope: skip medium/low simplify findings and focus only on harden patches and spec gaps.

Break the work into discrete, parallelizable tasks. Each task should be independent enough for one agent to complete without blocking on others.

Implementation + audit loop using parallel agent teams with structured simplify, harden, and document passes. Spawns implementation agents to do the work, then audit agents to find complexity, security gaps, and spec deviations, then loops until code compiles cleanly, all tests pass, and auditors find zero issues or the loop cap is reached. Use when: implementing features from a spec or plan, hardening existing code, fixing a batch of issues, or any multi-file task that benefits from a build-verify-fix cycle. Source: pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills.