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Audit documentation hygiene for the let-go docs/ tree — find stale or unverified docs, dangling or one-sided supersession links, duplicate authoritative-for claims, and docs missing from the README index. Use when asked to check doc freshness, run doc triage, audit docs/, find stale docs, or verify documentation hygiene before a docs PR.

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docs-status — documentation hygiene triage

Drives scripts/docs_status.py, the read-only judgement-layer report over docs/**/*.md frontmatter. The pre-commit hook and CI floor check keep the mechanical fields honest (frontmatter present, status:/last-verified: parseable); this surfaces the judgement layer they leave to a human or agent. Full reference: docs/docs-status.md.

How to run

From the repository root:

python3 scripts/docs_status.py            # text report over docs/

Stdlib-only Python; no install step. Override the scan root with --root and the thresholds with --stale-days / --human-stale-days.

What the findings mean, and what to do

  • stale-last-verified — the doc hasn't been touched in a while. Re-read it; if still accurate, a trivial edit (or the pre-commit hook) refreshes last-verified:. Don't bump the date without actually reviewing.
  • aged-human-verified — a human vouched once, long ago. Flag it for a human to re-attest. Do not refresh it yourself.
  • supersession — mirror the missing half (supersedes: ↔ superseded-by:), fix a dangling target, or add the superseded-by: link a status: superseded doc is missing.
  • authoritative-for clashes — two docs claim the same topic. Propose which one yields, or split the topic. This is a judgement call — surface it, don't silently rewrite.
  • missing-index — add a row to docs/README.md routing the doc.

The one hard rule

Never write human-verified:. It records that a human reader vouched for a doc, and is set only by explicit human action — not by this tool, not by you, even when a human asks you to edit the doc's other fields. A blank human-verified: is reported only as a count, never as a per-doc task. See docs/frontmatter-hook.md for why this field is special.

Apply the freshness, status:, and link fixes the way a human reviewer would — the tool reports; you exercise the judgement.