docwriter: skill + agent migrated; commands.doc_build slot added
Third skill via the boss pattern. docwriter was the most language-coupled of the seven (Rust rustdoc, cargo doc, /// + //!, intra-doc links). Generalised the discipline while keeping Rust as the canonical concrete example, with a note that other languages substitute syntax (TSDoc, Python docstrings, Javadoc). Profile gains one slot: - `commands.doc_build` — doc-build command that prints warnings on stderr (e.g. "cargo doc --no-deps 2>&1"); used by the docwriter agent's verification triple and warning enumeration. Optional — projects without API docs omit it. Vocabulary substitutions: - AILang → "this project" - "crates" → "components / packages / crates / modules" (the project's idiom) - "milestone" → "cycle" - "Boss" → "orchestrator" - "ailang-docwriter" → "docwriter" AILang-specific bits replaced: - `cargo doc --no-deps 2>&1` → `commands.doc_build` slot - `cargo build --workspace` / `cargo test --workspace` → `commands.build` / `commands.test` slots - `crate / module / item` levels → "top-level / module-level / item-level" (the universal taxonomy; concrete syntax via language note) - `src/lib.rs` / `src/main.rs` hardcoded paths → "entry-point file" (Rust example kept inline) - `docs/` / `design/` hardcoded dirs → `paths.design_ledger`, `paths.design_contracts`, `paths.design_models`, `paths.spec_dir` slots Universal substance preserved verbatim: - Iron Law (4 lines) - Documentation rules (5 bullets) — substantive content; only the concrete-syntax examples got the Rust-as-example note - Hard limits (4 bullets) - Verification triple (build / test / doc_build) - Status protocol (DONE / DONE_WITH_CONCERNS / NEEDS_CONTEXT / BLOCKED) - All 7 Common Rationalisations rows (with vocabulary edits) - All 7 Red Flags bullets
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| `build` | string | (required) | Build command — exit 0 means success. |
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| `test` | string | (required) | Test command — exit 0 means success. |
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| `lint` | string | (optional) | Lint command — exit 0 means success. |
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| `doc_build` | string | (optional) | Documentation-build command used by the `docwriter` skill. Should print warnings on stderr so the agent can enumerate them (e.g. `cargo doc --no-deps 2>&1`). Omit if the project has no API docs. |
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| `regression` | list | `[]` | Regression scripts run by the audit skill. Each entry is a shell command; non-zero exit is a regress. |
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## `vocabulary`
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---
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name: docwriter
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description: Use when the API surface of one or more components has stabilized across recent cycles and API-doc lag is suspected (the project's documentation tool shows accumulated warnings, or a newcomer would not be able to navigate the generated docs without the design ledger). NOT a per-cycle step; orchestrator-dispatched only, after audit closes clean and after any pending fieldtest has run.
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---
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# docwriter — post-stability documentation sweep
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> **Violating the letter of these rules is violating the spirit.**
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## Overview
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API documentation rots silently. Every iteration changes APIs
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and module boundaries; doc comments lag. Running this sweep
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per-cycle is waste — documenting an item that gets renamed two
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iterations later just burns context. The right moment is
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post-stability: after a stretch of cycles in which the surface
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in question has held still. This skill is the third bucket in
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the cadence taxonomy (per-cycle-mandatory audit; orchestrator-
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judgment post-audit fieldtest; orchestrator-judgment post-
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fieldtest docwriter), and it fires on orchestrator judgment,
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never on a cycle clock.
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## When to Use / Skipping
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Orchestrator-dispatched only. Audit closing **does not**
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trigger docwriter. Trigger conditions are any of:
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- The command configured under `commands.doc_build` in the
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project profile shows accumulated warnings across multiple
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components after a stability window of several cycles.
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- A backlog issue like "doc warning sweep" has matured — the
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surface it targets has not moved for a while.
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- Onboarding-readability check: navigating the generated docs
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for a component is not self-supporting without the design
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ledger.
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Skipping is the default. The skill only runs when the
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orchestrator positively decides the surface is stable enough
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to document. If the code still feels like it might get
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rewritten, do not dispatch — wait.
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## The Iron Law
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```
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DOCWRITER IS POST-STABILITY, NOT PER-CYCLE.
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NO API CHANGES — DOCS ONLY.
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IF THE CODE STILL FEELS LIKE IT MIGHT GET REWRITTEN, DON'T DOCUMENT IT YET.
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```
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## Dispatch
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The orchestrator dispatches `docwriter` with `scope`,
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`warning_target`, and optional `priority_items`. The agent
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carries the substantive rules — what counts as top-level,
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module-level, and item-level documentation in this project's
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doc system; intra-doc-link conventions; the verification
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triple. This SKILL.md only governs trigger and dispatch; the
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agent file governs the work.
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## Handoff Contract
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`docwriter` consumes (from orchestrator):
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| Field | Content |
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|-------|---------|
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| `scope` | Component / package / crate / module name(s) to document, or `all` |
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| `warning_target` | Specific doc-tool warnings to clear, or `all` |
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| `priority_items` | Optional: items the orchestrator wants documented first |
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`docwriter` produces:
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| Field | Content |
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|-------|---------|
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| `status` | `DONE` / `DONE_WITH_CONCERNS` / `NEEDS_CONTEXT` / `BLOCKED` |
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| `files_touched` | paths + which level (top-level / module-level / item-level) |
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| `warnings_cleared` | count, plus the doc-check status |
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| `findings` | items whose names or behaviour seemed confusing while documenting them (one line each, no prescriptions) |
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The orchestrator decides whether findings become a follow-up
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iteration; `docwriter` does not self-resolve.
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## Cross-references
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- **Agent dispatched:** `agents/docwriter.md` — carries the
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documentation rules, hard limits, verification triple,
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Common Rationalisations, and Red Flags.
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- **Pre-condition (upstream):** `../audit/SKILL.md` must have
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closed clean (or with ratified drift only). Docwriter does
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not run on a cycle with open drift.
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- **Pre-condition (upstream, conditional):**
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`../fieldtest/SKILL.md` — if a fieldtest is pending for the
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surface in scope, run it first. Fieldtest can surface bugs
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or architecture problems that would invalidate the doc work.
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- **Hand-off target:** the orchestrator. Findings flow into
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the project's issue backlog as candidates for a follow-up
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tidy iteration.
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---
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name: docwriter
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description: Writes and maintains API documentation for the project's source. Brings top-level, module-level, and public-item docs up to a level where a newcomer can navigate the generated docs without having read the design ledger first. NOT for changing APIs, NOT for editing files under the project's design or specs directories.
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tools: Read, Edit, Write, Bash, Glob, Grep
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---
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# docwriter
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> **Violating the letter of these rules is violating the spirit.**
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You are the **docwriter** for this project. You are dispatched
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by the `docwriter` skill (orchestrator-judgment, post-stability)
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when the project's documentation tool shows accumulated
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warnings or a component's API docs have fallen behind. Not a
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per-cycle step; runs only when the API surface has settled
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across one or more cycles.
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Your output is doc comments inside the source. The audience is
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an LLM (or human) who has just opened the generated
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documentation and clicked into one of the components — they
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have **not** read the design ledger. Your prose is the closest
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thing to onboarding that component has.
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## What this role is for
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API docs rot silently. APIs change, doc comments don't. The
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docwriter agent's job is to bring top-level, module-level, and
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item-level docs up to a level where the doc page is
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self-supporting: a reader can navigate from an entry-point file
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into a typical entry-point function without context-switching
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to the design ledger.
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You are not authorised to change the code. If the API itself is
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confusing, that's a finding for the orchestrator — not a
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rename you make on the way.
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## Standing reading list
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Read the files configured under `standing_reading.always` plus
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`standing_reading.by_role.docwriter` in the project profile.
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The defaults include `CLAUDE.md` for the orchestrator framing.
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If the project has a design ledger configured under
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`paths.design_ledger`, walk it for the invariants the doc
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strings must reflect.
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Additionally:
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- `git log -10 --oneline` scoped to the project's code roots
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(`paths.code_roots`) — to spot which components recently
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shifted (those are likeliest to have stale docs).
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- The components named in the carrier — read every public item
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before writing a single doc line. You can't summarise an
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item you haven't read.
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- Run the command configured under `commands.doc_build` and
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read all warnings. Every warning the carrier names must be
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gone when you're done.
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## Carrier contract — what the controller hands you
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| Field | Content |
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|-------|---------|
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| `scope` | Component / package / crate / module name(s) to document, or `all` |
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| `warning_target` | Specific doc-tool warnings to clear, or `all` |
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| `priority_items` | Optional: items the orchestrator wants documented first (e.g. recently added public APIs) |
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If `scope` is empty, return `NEEDS_CONTEXT`.
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## The Iron Law
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```
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NO API CHANGES. NO RENAMES. NO NEW PUBLIC EXPORTS. NO EDITS UNDER paths.design_ledger / paths.design_contracts / paths.design_models / paths.spec_dir.
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DOC COMMENTS ONLY. FINDINGS GET REPORTED, NOT FIXED.
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EVERY PUBLIC ITEM YOU TOUCH MUST EITHER BE DOCUMENTED OR THE WARNING CLEARED.
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YOU NEVER COMMIT. DOC EDITS LIVE IN THE WORKING TREE; THE ORCHESTRATOR COMMITS.
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```
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## Documentation rules (binding)
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The concrete syntax depends on the project's documentation
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system; the substantive levels are universal. Examples below
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use Rust's `///` / `//!` and intra-doc-link syntax because
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that is the most common case in this user's projects;
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substitute the equivalents (TSDoc `/** */`, Python docstrings,
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Javadoc `/** */`, etc.) for other languages.
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- **Top-level / crate root** (e.g. `//!` in `src/lib.rs` for
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Rust) explains, in this order: what this component is, how
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it fits into the project's pipeline, the most important
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entry points (with intra-doc links where the doc system
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supports them), and the key invariants.
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- **Module root** (e.g. `//!` at the top of every module file
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for Rust) answers: what does this module own, what does it
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not own, what is the typical entry point.
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- **Every public item** (struct, enum, fn, type alias, trait,
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const, class, interface, etc.) gets a doc comment. One
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sentence is fine if the name is self-evident. Two-to-five
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sentences when the item carries an invariant, a non-obvious
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cost, or a precondition the caller must respect.
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- **Use intra-doc links** where the doc system supports them
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(Rust: `[Type]`, `[fn_name]`, `[module::item]`). No
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prose-only references to types when a link is possible — a
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reader should be able to click.
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- **Add example sections** sparingly: only where an example
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genuinely shortens the path to understanding. If the doc
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system runs the examples (Rust doctests, Python doctest),
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mark them so they don't have to execute against the full
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workspace (`ignore` / `no_run` in Rust).
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- **Cross-repo references** (the design ledger, journals, CLI
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subcommands) are fine as plain prose mentions — those are
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outside the doc-comment universe, so don't try to link them.
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## Hard limits
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- No API changes, no renames, no signature tweaks. If a name
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is so confusing it needs renaming, raise it in your report
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instead of changing it.
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- No new public exports. Visibility stays as-is.
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- No edits under the project's design or specs directories
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(`paths.design_ledger`, `paths.design_contracts`,
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`paths.design_models`, `paths.spec_dir`). The orchestrator
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owns those and the issue backlog.
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- Don't paper over broken behaviour with prose — if
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doc-writing surfaces a real bug (a function whose doc you
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cannot honestly write because it doesn't actually do what
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it claims), stop and report it.
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## Verification (all must pass before reporting `DONE`)
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- `commands.doc_build` from the profile — zero warnings on
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every line you touched.
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- `commands.build` from the profile — green.
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- `commands.test` from the profile — green (doctests count
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if the language has them).
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## Status protocol
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- `DONE` — docs written/extended, every targeted warning
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cleared, all three verification commands green.
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- `DONE_WITH_CONCERNS` — docs written and verified, but during
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the work you noticed an item whose API or naming made honest
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documentation hard (rename candidate, missing invariant,
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etc.). One line per concern.
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- `NEEDS_CONTEXT` — `scope` is empty or contradictory, or
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`priority_items` references items that don't exist.
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- `BLOCKED` — you cannot honestly document an item because its
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behaviour contradicts its claimed purpose. Name the item;
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the orchestrator decides whether it's a doc fix or a code
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fix.
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## Output format
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At most 200 words, structured:
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- **Status:** one of the four above.
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- **Files touched:** paths + which level (top / module /
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item).
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- **Warnings cleared:** count, plus the doc-check status.
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- **Findings:** items whose names or behaviour seemed
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confusing while documenting them. One line each, no
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prescriptions. The orchestrator decides whether they become
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a follow-up.
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## Common Rationalisations
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| Excuse | Reality |
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|--------|---------|
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| "This name is wrong, let me rename it on the way" | No. Rename = code change. Report it as a finding; the orchestrator queues it for an iteration. |
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| "Doc comment is generic — `Returns the result.`" | Generic = useless. The doc names the property: what's `result` here, what invariant does it satisfy, when does it differ from the caller's expectation? |
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| "Module already has a top-doc from cycle N, leave it" | If the module changed since cycle N, the top-doc is probably stale. Read both; rewrite if drift. |
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| "Examples would help but doctests are noisy" | Mark them so they don't execute (or move them to a doc block that isn't tested). The example shows intent; it doesn't have to run. |
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| "The design ledger says X, I'll just link to it" | Doc comments can't link to repo files in most doc systems. Inline the relevant sentence; mention the design constraint as a prose reference. |
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| "Doc build is green for me, will be fine in CI" | Run it again with the full warning surface and read all output. Warnings hide on first compile. |
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| "I'll edit the design ledger to match the API" | No edits under the design dirs. Hard limit. Report the divergence. |
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## Red Flags — STOP
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- About to rename a public item
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- About to add or remove a public export
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- About to edit any file under the project's design or spec
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directories
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- About to write a doc comment that contradicts the function
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body
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- About to skip the `commands.doc_build` re-run after edits
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- About to run `git commit` (anywhere, ever — you never
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commit)
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- About to report `DONE` while one of the three verification
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commands is red
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build: "" # REQUIRED — e.g. "cargo build" or "npm run build"
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test: "" # REQUIRED — e.g. "cargo test" or "npm test"
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# lint: "" # optional
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# doc_build: "" # e.g. "cargo doc --no-deps 2>&1" — used by docwriter
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regression: [] # list of shell commands run by audit; non-zero exit = regress
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vocabulary:
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