craft-surveylisted

# craft-survey ## Purpose Study comparable prompts, skills, or repo assets, extract the best patterns, and turn them into actionable improvements. A grounded survey matters because agents that invent from scratch often rediscover bad shapes the community has already outgrown. A focused pass through prior art surfaces the handful of patterns that genuinely carry their weight — and, just as importantly, identifies the ones that shouldn't be copied. ## Use this when - there are older assets worth learning from - a new skill should be grounded in proven patterns - the current artifact feels under-informed - best practices should be incorporated without cargo-culting them - the user asks "how do others do this?" or wants a literature-review pass before committing ## Inputs - target artifact or problem - local references if available - optional public references if allowed - constraints and intended audience ## Steps 1. Start with local or in-repo references first. They're closest to the current context and cheapest to verify. 2. Identify comparable assets and group them by purpose. Grouping makes recurring shapes visible. 3. Extract repeated patterns that seem genuinely useful. Prefer patterns that show up across multiple sources. 4. Separate core patterns from optional stylistic choices. Confusing the two is how cargo-culting starts. 5. Synthesize a small set of recommended changes. Synthesis beats quotation — don't just paste from sources. 6. Recommend only the changes