verify-docs

Testing & Quality

Audit docs/* and root markdown for staleness. Checks `last_verified` headers against git mtime, validates Python code examples parse, checks cross-reference links resolve. Use monthly, before release, or after any large refactor.

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Verify docs freshness

Run the four checks below and produce a single report. Do NOT auto-fix — surface findings for human review (stale docs usually need a human to decide whether behavior is still accurate).

1. Stale `last_verified` stamps

Every canonical doc in this repo carries  near the top.

Glob: README.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/**/*.md.
For each file, extract the stamp. Flag as P1 stale when:
- Stamp is absent (canonical docs must have one), OR
- Stamp is >60 days old, OR
- Stamp date is earlier than the most recent commit touching the file's owning module per the Doc Update Mapping in docs/dev-workflows.md.

Owning-module lookup (from docs/dev-workflows.md):

Doc	Owning module
`docs/features/pipeline.md`	`libs/core/genblaze_core/pipeline/`
`docs/features/provider-system.md`	`libs/core/genblaze_core/providers/`
`docs/features/media-embedding.md`	`libs/core/genblaze_core/media/`
`docs/features/object-storage.md`	`libs/core/genblaze_core/storage/` + `libs/connectors/s3/`
`docs/features/parquet-sink.md`	`libs/core/genblaze_core/sinks/`
`docs/features/manifest-provenance.md`	`libs/core/genblaze_core/canonical/` + `libs/core/genblaze_core/models/manifest.py`
`docs/features/cli.md`	`cli/`
`ARCHITECTURE.md`	whole repo — use root mtime
`docs/app-workflows.md`	`libs/core/`
`docs/dev-workflows.md`	`Makefile` + `.github/workflows/`

Use git log -1 --format=%cs -- <path> to get last-touched date for a module.

2. Python example syntax

Every Python fenced block in docs/features/*.md should at minimum be parseable.

For each code block ( python ... ), write to a temp file and run python3 -c "import ast; ast.parse(open(p).read())".
Report parse errors only. Ignore import-resolution failures (examples use real API keys that aren't available in the audit env).

3. Cross-reference link integrity

Grep markdown files for local links: \[.+?\]\(\./.+?\), \[.+?\]\(\.\./.+?\), \[.+?\]\(docs/.+?\).
For each match, resolve relative to the link's source file. Flag unresolved.

4. Feature-doc ↔ canonical-file alignment

ARCHITECTURE.md has a "Canonical Files" section mapping concepts to paths. Confirm each path listed there exists. Flag any libs/core/genblaze_core/... reference that no longer resolves (a common rot pattern after refactors).

Report format

## Docs Audit — YYYY-MM-DD

### P1 — Stale `last_verified`
- docs/features/pipeline.md — stamp 2026-01-10, module last touched 2026-03-22

### P2 — Broken example syntax
- docs/features/webhooks.md — block 3: SyntaxError at line N

### P3 — Broken cross-links
- README.md → docs/features/queue-integration.md: target not found

### P4 — Missing canonical file
- ARCHITECTURE.md references libs/core/genblaze_core/old_module.py: not present