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ss-ai-audit

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Audit Serial Studio's AI-facing material (CLAUDE.md, doc/claude/**, .claude/skills/**, and optionally the in-app assistant corpus under app/rcc/) against code ground truth. Use when asked to "audit the skills/docs", "check the docs for drift", "verify CLAUDE.md is still true", or after a refactor that moved/renamed things (TU splits, workflow consolidation, symbol renames). Finds stale claims and fixes them with targeted edits; docs-only, never touches code.

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Serial Studio — AI-facing doc audit

AI-facing docs steer future edits only while they are true; a stale claim is worse than no claim because it gets verbalized with confidence at the point of action. Code evolves, docs don't — this skill is the periodic re-sync. Two sweeps have been needed already (2026-06 corpus sweep, 2026-07 skills audit), so treat drift as expected, not exceptional.

Procedure

  1. Enumerate the claim-bearing files in scope: CLAUDE.md, doc/claude/** (including architecture/), .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md + references/, and — if asked — the in-app assistant material under app/rcc/.

  2. Extract the verifiable claims. A claim is anything checkable against the repo: a file path, a symbol (Class::method), a numeric constant, a CLI flag or default, a workflow file name, a pipeline step list, an enum value list, a registration touch-point list, a "this file contains X" example. Skip opinions and rules — audit facts.

  3. Verify each claim against ground truth with Grep/Read — the code is the truth, the doc is the suspect. For volume, fan out parallel read-only subagents, one per skill or subsystem, each with an explicit numbered claim list and a VERIFIED / WRONG (+ correct fact) / NOT FOUND verdict format with file:line evidence. Keep the missions disjoint (doc/claude/j-space.md, named lenses).

  4. Fix with targeted edits — and fix every mirror. Wrong facts propagate: the same claim typically lives in CLAUDE.md, a doc/claude/ sub-doc, and one or more skills. After correcting one instance, grep the wrong literal across all AI-facing files and fix every copy in the same pass. Before each fix, state the ground-truth evidence (file:line) in chat — a correction you can't evidence is a new guess.

  5. Report what was verified clean vs corrected, with the evidence. Do not silently fix.

Known drift magnets (check these first)

  • Moved implementations — TU splits and renames leave docs pointing at the old file (e.g. ProjectEditor.cpp → Project/ProjectEditorShared.h + ProjectEditorForms.cpp).
  • CI workflow names — jobs get consolidated/renamed (test.yml/deploy.yml → ci.yml).
  • Interface vs concrete attribution — a method documented on the interface that only the concrete class carries (IScriptEngine::guardedCall → JsScriptEngine::guardedCall).
  • Look-alike constants — two real numbers conflated (65536 enqueue queue vs 4096 kCapturedPoolSize). Verify which structure the number belongs to, not just that it appears in code.
  • Pipeline/checklist step lists — scripts grow steps (black, generate-sdk) that the doc's enumeration silently omits.
  • "Known bug" examples — landmines get fixed; a doc citing one as present is stale (reframe as "was fixed; flag reintroduction"), and "e.g. in file X" sightings get cleaned up (Q_FOREACH in BluetoothLE.cpp).
  • Registration touch-point lists — new switches/resources appear (icon .qrc entries, extra BusType switches); re-grep a recently added enum value and mirror every hit.

Rules

  • Docs-only. Never "fix" code to match a doc — if the code looks wrong, say so in chat; the doc records reality, the maintainer changes reality.
  • Every correction carries file:line ground-truth evidence.
  • Stay in the AI-facing lane; user-facing docs (README.md, doc/help/**) have their own linter (documentation-verify.py) and tone rules — don't restyle them from here.
  • When a skill's facts change, check doc/claude/repo-skills.md and CLAUDE.md's pointers to it still describe it correctly.