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kb-status

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Read-only status report for the knowledge base — phase progress, source freshness (per-source cursor age), counts (areas, decisions, detected-issues by severity, GH index sizes), staleness summary (files with last_verified older than 90 days), consultation/usage stats (how often the KB is actually read during sessions), and the last few entries from audit-log.md.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/kb-status/SKILL.md

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/kb-status

Prints a compact dashboard of the KB's current state. Read-only — never modifies anything.

When to run

  • Any time the user wants to know whether /kb-refresh is needed.
  • Before starting fresh work on a feature/bug — to confirm the KB's most recent verified SHA.
  • After /kb-build finishes — to confirm all steps are done.

Steps

1. Pull state summary

pwsh -NoProfile -File .agents/scripts/kb-state.ps1 <<'EOF'
{"op": "summary"}
EOF

Returns {progress, cursors, audit_tail}.

2. Compute counts from disk

In parallel Bash calls (or Glob + Read):

  • architecture/: count .md files.
  • conventions/: count.
  • history/by-year/: list filenames; the count = year span.
  • history/decisions/: count.
  • areas/: list directories; per area, check whether all four sub-files exist (INDEX.md, issues.md, decisions.md, tech-debt.md, patterns.md).
  • github/issues-index.json, prs-index.json, discussions-index.json: read; report length.
  • github/milestones.json: read; report {open: N, closed: N}.
  • github/wiki/: count .md files.
  • detected-issues/index.json: read; count by severity (high, med, low) and by status (open, triaged, accepted, etc.).

3. Compute staleness

For every .md file under architecture/, conventions/, history/decisions/, areas/<area>/:

  • Read frontmatter last_verified.
  • If older than today by > 90 days: count as stale.
  • Bucket by area for the report.

Grep shortcut: Grep for last_verified: across the KB, parse the date, compare. The skill can shell out to pwsh if needed but this is a fast in-process check.

3.5 Compute usage / consultation stats

The KB is only worth its build cost if it gets consulted. The authoritative, retroactive view comes from the transcript scanner (parses real tool-call records, immune to the injected prose that mentions the KB in every session):

pwsh -NoProfile -File .agents/scripts/kb-usage-audit.ps1 -Json

Returns {totalSessions, maintenance, nonMaintenance, consulted, consultedPctOfNonMaint, mechanism:{askSkill,research,search,directRead}, lastConsult, topAreas[], byMonth[]}. A session is consulted if it ran /kb-ask//kb-issues, spawned kb-research, ran kb-search, or (in a non-maintenance session) read a KB file.

For the cheap "since hooks installed" view, read the live hook logs if present (gitignored, written by track-kb-usage.js / track-session-start.js):

  • .build/.agents/kb-sessions.jsonl — one record per session start (denominator).
  • .build/.agents/kb-usage.jsonl — one record per consultation event; distinct session_id with a consult kind (read/search/ask-skill/research) = numerator.

If neither log exists yet, report "live tracking: no data yet (hooks newly installed)" and rely on the scanner.

4. Print the dashboard

Compose a markdown report and print it directly. Sections, in order:

# KB status

## Build progress
| Step | Status | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 — bootstrap | done | ... | ... |
| ... |
| 7 — github-indexes | partial | ... |  |
| ... |

## Source freshness
| Source       | Cursor                | Age      |
|--------------|----------------------|----------|
| code         | <sha (short)>         | 3 days   |
| commits      | <sha>                 | 3 days   |
| issues       | 2026-04-22T...        | 5 days   |
| prs          | 2026-04-23T...        | 4 days   |
| discussions  | 2026-04-20T...        | 7 days   |
| wiki         | <sha>                 | 12 days  |

## Counts
- Architecture docs: 8
- Conventions: 5
- History years: 12 (2014–2026)
- History decisions: 23
- Areas with full sub-files: 18 / 22
- GH indexes: issues 4823, prs 1247, discussions 89
- Wiki articles: 34
- Detected issues: open 142 (high 18, med 81, low 43); triaged 12; accepted 7; fixed 31

## Staleness
- KB files with last_verified > 90 days: 14
  - areas/PROV-ORACLE/: 3
  - areas/PROV-FIREBIRD/: 5
  - history/decisions/: 6

## Usage
- Consulted in 10 / 228 non-maintenance sessions (4.4%); last consult 2026-06-27.
- Mechanism: /kb-ask|/kb-issues 1, kb-research 0, kb-search 1, direct read 9.
- Top consulted areas: FSHARP (5), INTERNAL-API (1), PROV-POSTGRES (1).
- Since hooks installed: 3 / 41 sessions consulted the KB.

## Recent activity
<last 10 lines from state/audit-log.md>

## Suggestions
- 14 files are >90 days old — consider /kb-refresh.
- step 7 (github-indexes) is partial: <gate failures>. Re-run /kb-build to resume.
- 4 areas missing one or more sub-files: PROV-ACCESS, PROV-INFORMIX, ASPNET, TOOLS.
- KB consulted in only 4.4% of sessions — the build cost isn't paying off; consider the discoverability improvements in agent-rules → *Consult the knowledge base*.

The "Suggestions" section is omitted if everything is healthy. The usage suggestion fires when consultedPctOfNonMaint is low (rough threshold: < 25%).

5. Stop

The skill prints the dashboard and exits. No follow-up actions, no questions.

Do not

  • Modify any file. Read-only.
  • Spawn agents. The skill is a thin reporter; everything is in state/ or computed from disk.
  • Decide whether to refresh on the user's behalf — only suggest.
  • Print the full audit-log.md; the tail of 10–20 lines is enough.