Guided Journey · Engineering

Improve Code Quality

Vibe-coded prototype → production-ready code

Takes you from a working-but-untested vibe-coded prototype to a production-ready product with tests, clean structure, a business-rules boundary, and resilience at scale. It orchestrates nine skills phase by phase, asking you the decision questions at every step and recording every result in your project's docs/ folder so the journey resumes across sessions.

Written to your repo
  • docs/TESTING.md
  • docs/TECH-DEBT.md
  • docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
  • docs/RELIABILITY.md
  • docs/IMPROVE-CODE-QUALITY-PLAN.md journey tracker — stop anytime, resume any session

One prompt runs it

Every phase asks before it acts, and every decision lands in your project’s docs/ folder as a living document — quit anytime, resume in any session.

Use it when you need to
  • Take an AI-generated or hackathon prototype to production
  • Put untested code under characterization tests before touching it
  • Raise code quality without mixing refactors and behavior changes
  • Add timeouts, circuit breakers, and health checks before launch
  • Make honest scaling and data-layer decisions
Install this metaskill
npx skills add wondelai/skills/improve-code-quality --global

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Journey Map

9 phases, one deliberate order

Each phase invokes one skill from the library, asks you the decision question, and writes the answer to your project’s docs/ before moving on.

  1. 01 Can I change this code without breaking it unknowingly? Legacy Code working-with-legacy-code → docs/TESTING.md + docs/TECH-DEBT.md Gate
  2. 02 Is this readable to the next person (and agent)? Clean Code clean-code → docs/TECH-DEBT.md
  3. 03 Can I reshape structure without changing behavior? Refactoring refactoring-patterns → docs/TECH-DEBT.md
  4. 04 Is complexity hidden behind deep modules? Software Design software-design-philosophy → docs/TECH-DEBT.md
  5. 05 Do business rules depend on the framework, or vice versa? Clean Architecture clean-architecture → docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
  6. 06 What habits keep it clean after we stop? Pragmatic Programmer pragmatic-programmer → docs/TECH-DEBT.md
  7. 07 Will it survive a hostile production? Release It! release-it → docs/RELIABILITY.md
  8. 08 Is it sized for the load we actually have? System Design system-design → docs/ARCHITECTURE.md + docs/RELIABILITY.md
  9. 09 Is the data layer correct and durable under concurrency? Data-Intensive Apps ddia-systems → docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
In Practice

Take a Vibe-Coded Prototype to Production

The demo works. The code was written by vibes. Launch is in six weeks.

This repo is a working prototype built fast and untested. Run the
improve-code-quality journey: safety net first, then readability,
structure, production hardening, and honest scaling decisions.
Structural and behavioral changes in separate commits.

Use improve-code-quality skill.
Example Prompts

Try these with the skill installed

I vibe-coded this app in a weekend — make it production-ready. using improve-code-quality skill

Prototype hardening

Run the code-quality journey on this repo, safety net first. using improve-code-quality skill

Safety net first

Resume hardening this codebase from the tracker. using improve-code-quality skill

Resume journey
The Source

Born from a guide

This journey packages the playbook below as a single skill — the guide is the long-form read behind every phase.

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Install Improve Code Quality

Free, open-source, and ready in 30 seconds.

npx skills add wondelai/skills/improve-code-quality --global
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