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makefile-review

Audit Makefiles for build correctness, portability, and recipe duplication

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/athola/nm-pensive-makefile-review
Or

Night Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/pensive. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.

Table of Contents

  • Quick Start
  • When to Use
  • Required TodoWrite Items
  • Workflow
  • Step 1: Map Context (makefile-review:context-mapped)
  • Step 2: Dependency Graph (makefile-review:dependency-graph)
  • Step 3: Deduplication Audit (makefile-review:dedup-candidates)
  • Step 4: Portability Check (makefile-review:tooling-alignment)
  • Step 5: Evidence Log (makefile-review:evidence-logged)
  • Progressive Loading
  • Output Format
  • Summary
  • Testing

Testing

Run pytest plugins/pensive/tests/skills/test_makefile_review.py to verify review logic.

Makefile Review Workflow

Audit Makefiles for best practices, deduplication, and portability.

Quick Start

/makefile-review

When To Use

  • Makefile changes or additions
  • Build system optimization
  • Portability improvements
  • CI/CD pipeline updates
  • Developer experience improvements

When NOT To Use

  • Creating new Makefiles - use abstract:make-dogfood
  • Architecture review - use architecture-review

Required TodoWrite Items

  1. makefile-review:context-mapped
  2. makefile-review:dependency-graph
  3. makefile-review:dedup-candidates
  4. makefile-review:tooling-alignment
  5. makefile-review:evidence-logged

Workflow

Step 1: Map Context (makefile-review:context-mapped)

Confirm baseline:

pwd && git status -sb && git diff --stat

Verification: Run git status to confirm working tree state.

Find Make-related files:

rg -n "^include" -g'Makefile*'
rg --files -g '*.mk'

Document changed targets, project goals, and tooling requirements.

Step 2: Dependency Graph (makefile-review:dependency-graph)

@include modules/dependency-graph.md

Step 3: Deduplication Audit (makefile-review:dedup-candidates)

@include modules/deduplication-patterns.md

Step 4: Portability Check (makefile-review:tooling-alignment)

@include modules/portability-checks.md

Step 5: Evidence Log (makefile-review:evidence-logged)

Use imbue:proof-of-work to record command outputs with file:line references.

Summarize findings:

  • Severity (critical, major, minor)
  • Expected impact
  • Suggested refactors
  • Owners and dates for follow-ups

Progressive Loading

Load additional context as needed:

Best Practices & Examples: @include modules/best-practices.md

Read Full Documentation on GitHub

Metadata

Author@athola
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Updated2026-05-01
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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-athola-nm-pensive-makefile-review": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}
Safety NoteClawKit audits metadata but not runtime behavior. Use with caution.

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