Audit a Rails Project with the Thoughtbot Audit Skill

A developer ran the Thoughtbot Rails Audit Skill (a Claude-powered tool) against a five-year-old Rails 8 side project to surface tech debt. The audit completed in under 10 minutes and produced a structured markdown report with 20+ findings grouped by category and severity — covering testing gaps, a missing PostgreSQL trigram index causing slow LIKE queries, and view-layer logic smells. The post then details a multi-step workflow to convert the audit report into labelled, severity-tiered GitHub issues using Claude: splitting findings into individual markdown files, proposing a label scheme, applying labels, and finally creating the issues via the GitHub CLI. The whole process took an afternoon versus days of manual review.