Open critic
Basano, an open critic whose pass you can trust.
It checks a finished build against a standard and reports what holds and what fails.
What is Basano?
Basano is an open critic for the Claude Skills catalog, built by RampStack. It reviews a finished build against a standard and reports what holds and what fails, prioritized by severity. The name comes from the Greek basanos, the touchstone, the stone that tests whether gold is genuine.
The idea
The honest verdict.
A critic is only worth having if its judgment is trustworthy in both directions. Basano is built so that its "this holds" is reliable because its "this fails" is unsparing.
A failure is never softened into a pass or a minor note. What cannot be assessed is marked as such, never quietly counted as a pass. A verdict reads passes only when every assessed area holds.
A passing verdict that carried a real failure is structurally impossible to construct. The rule is enforced in the synthesis, not promised in the prose.
What Basano does
Five jobs, each in service of the verdict.
Scopes the review.
Turns a build and a standard into the areas worth checking: SEO, accessibility, code quality, performance, content, and others as the build calls for.
Selects verification skills.
For each area, picks the relevant audit and review skills from the catalog, the same selection used elsewhere, so the review maps to skills that actually check that dimension.
Reports a prioritized verdict.
Synthesizes findings into a structured result. Failures lead, ordered by severity, with the reason each one matters. Not a raw issue dump, a verdict.
Surfaces holds, not just fails.
A critic is only worth having if its judgment is trustworthy both ways. Basano shows what holds alongside what fails, so a pass is something a reader can act on.
Reports, does not fix.
Basano returns a verdict and stops. The fix is the human's call, or a follow-on build; the critic only judges.
The stop
It judges, you decide.
Basano reports the verdict and stops. It changes nothing. The fix is yours to make, or a follow-on build. The critic only judges, which is why the judgment can be trusted.
Read the code. Read the catalog.
The repo is the working implementation and the worked examples. The catalog is what Basano reviews against. Solutions is how to bring RampStack in to operate it for you.