Runtime Configuration (Step 0)

Read ops/derivation-manifest.md for vocabulary mapping. Read ops/config.yaml for all maintenance thresholds.

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Target: $ARGUMENTS

Parse immediately:

• If empty: run full audit (all checks)
• If "orphans": find orphan decisions only
• If "links": check broken wiki-links only
• If "schema": validate schema compliance across all decisions
• If "registers": audit decision register coverage and completeness

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Philosophy

A knowledge system that cannot audit itself will rot.

Individual /pm-review checks decisions for quality. /pm-audit checks the system for structural integrity. These are different problems. A system can contain individually high-quality decisions that are nevertheless disconnected, uncategorized, and inaccessible — effectively invisible to future coordination.

/pm-audit is the health scan. It finds the issues that individual review misses: decisions no register points to, wiki-links to files that were deleted or renamed, registers that grew too large to navigate, schema drift where fields added in new templates haven't been backfilled into old decisions.

Run /pm-audit when the vault feels slow or when coordination starts feeling inefficient — that inefficiency often has a structural cause.

Audit Checks

Check 1: Orphan Decisions

A decision not referenced by any decision register is an orphan. Orphans exist in the vault but cannot be discovered through normal navigation.

bash
1# Get all decision filenames
2ls decisions/*.md | grep -v "index.md" | grep -v "-register.md"
3
4# For each decision, check if it appears in any register
5for f in decisions/*.md; do
6  basename=$(basename "$f" .md)
7  count=$(rg "$basename" decisions/*-register.md decisions/index.md --count 2>/dev/null | grep -v ":0" | wc -l)
8  if [ "$count" -eq 0 ]; then
9    echo "ORPHAN: $basename"
10  fi
11done

Check 2: Broken Wiki-Links

Wiki-links pointing to non-existent files.

bash
1# Extract all [[links]] from decisions/
2rg "\[\[([^\]]+)\]\]" decisions/ --include="*.md" -o --no-filename | sort -u
3
4# Cross-reference against actual files
5# Flag any [[link]] where the target file doesn't exist

Check 3: Schema Violations

bash
1# Missing required fields
2rg "^description: \"\"" decisions/ --include="*.md" -l
3rg "last_reviewed: YYYY-MM-DD" decisions/ --include="*.md" -l
4rg "^type: $" decisions/ --include="*.md" -l
5
6# Invalid enum values
7rg "^type:" decisions/ --include="*.md" -h | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
8rg "^status:" decisions/ --include="*.md" -h | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
9rg "^meta_state:" decisions/ --include="*.md" -h | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

Check 4: Register Size and Coverage

bash
1# Count decisions in each register
2for f in decisions/*-register.md; do
3  count=$(rg "\[\[" "$f" | wc -l)
4  echo "$f: $count references"
5done
6
7# Check for registers approaching the split threshold (35 decisions)

Registers approaching 35 decisions should be flagged for split consideration.

Check 5: Stale Decisions

bash
1# Find decisions by last_reviewed date
2# Flag any older than stale_issue_days from config.yaml
3rg "^last_reviewed:" decisions/ --include="*.md" -h | sort | head -20

Check 6: Pending Observations and Tensions Backlog

bash
1# Count pending observations
2rg "^status: pending" ops/observations/ --include="*.md" -l | wc -l
3
4# Count pending tensions
5rg "^status: pending" ops/tensions/ --include="*.md" -l | wc -l

If pending observations > threshold (from config.yaml), flag for /pm-retrospect. If pending tensions > threshold, flag for /pm-retrospect.

Check 7: Inbox Pressure

bash
1ls inbox/ | wc -l

If inbox has items, flag for /pm-document processing.

Output Format

## Audit Complete — YYYY-MM-DD

### System Metrics
- Total decisions: N
- Total decision registers: N
- Total observations (pending/total): N/N
- Total tensions (pending/total): N/N
- Inbox items awaiting processing: N

### Check 1: Orphan Decisions
- Orphans found: N
- [[decision-a]], [[decision-b]] — not referenced by any register

### Check 2: Broken Wiki-Links
- Broken links found: N
- In [[decision-x]]: [[nonexistent-decision]] — target file missing

### Check 3: Schema Violations
- Violations found: N
- [[decision-y]] — missing last_reviewed date
- [[decision-z]] — description is empty

### Check 4: Register Coverage
- [[qftest-register]]: 12 decisions (healthy)
- [[architecture-register]]: 28 decisions (approaching split threshold — flag)
- [[sprint-register]]: 5 decisions (healthy)

### Check 5: Stale Decisions
- Stale decisions (>14 days): N
- [[decision-a]] — last reviewed 21 days ago

### Check 6: Pending Backlog
- Pending observations: N [TRIGGER: /pm-retrospect] if > threshold
- Pending tensions: N [TRIGGER: /pm-retrospect] if > threshold

### Check 7: Inbox
- Inbox items: N [TRIGGER: /pm-document] if > 0

---

### Priority Actions
1. [CRITICAL] Fix N orphan decisions — assign to registers
2. [HIGH] Process N pending observations — run /pm-retrospect
3. [MEDIUM] Update N stale decisions
4. [LOW] Review N schema violations

### Vault Health Score: N/100
[Breakdown: orphans -Xpts, schema violations -Xpts, stale decisions -Xpts, broken links -Xpts]

Vault Health Scoring

Starting from 100. Report final score.