vault-maintenance

Productivity

Tactic for vault health upkeep — lint, orphan resolution, merge candidates, confidence updates. Minimum yield ≥1 issue resolved per invocation.

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Vault Maintenance

Vault health upkeep. Called when CC judges the vault has accumulated enough entropy to warrant cleanup, or periodically between research phases.

Available SOPs

wiki-lint-fix — run lint checks, identify issues, optionally auto-fix
wiki-search — find near-duplicate candidates for merging
wiki-graph-query — explore orphan neighborhoods for reconnection
wiki-add-edge — reconnect orphans to the graph

Guiding Principles

Lint first. Start with vault_lint in report mode to assess current health.
Triage by severity. Errors (broken links, missing frontmatter) before warnings (orphans, stale entries).
Conservative auto-fix. Only auto-fix safe operations (duplicate edge removal, stale index pruning). Manual intervention for ambiguous cases.
Merge, don't delete. Near-duplicate pages should be merged (consolidate content, redirect edges) rather than deleted.
Confidence decay. Pages with evidence older than the research horizon may need confidence score updates.

Minimum Yield

Execution Guidance

CC has full autonomy over:

Which issues to address and in what order
Whether to auto-fix or manually resolve
How aggressively to merge near-duplicates
When to update confidence scores

Typical flow (reference, not prescription):

Run vault_lint (report mode) — assess issue landscape
Categorize: auto-fixable vs manual
Auto-fix safe issues (duplicate edges, stale index)
For orphans: search for connection candidates, add edges
For near-duplicates: merge content into canonical page, update edges
Re-run vault_lint to confirm resolution

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
wiki-add-edge	SOP wrapping vault_add_edge — create a typed relationship between two vault pages.
wiki-edge-audit	SOP for auditing wikilink coverage — scans all edges and reports which source pages are missing [[dir/slug]] wikilinks to their targets.
wiki-graph-query	SOP wrapping vault_query_graph — traverse knowledge graph from a node to explore its neighborhood and context.
wiki-lint-fix	SOP wrapping vault_lint — run batch validation, report issues, optionally auto-fix safe problems.
wiki-search	SOP wrapping vault_search — BM25 full-text search across vault pages. Returns ranked results with snippets.