Surfaces the current phase, outstanding work, exit-criteria progress, and recommended next actions for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>.
Generates a brief, time-scoped standup summary for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>: recent activity (last 24 hours of git history + working-memory decisions), current focus, plan for next…
Validates the project-embedded skill collection integrity for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Checks SKILL.md frontmatter, INTENT-MAP.md sync, cross-skill reference integrity, and…
Verifies that <<PROJECT_TITLE>> conforms to all 15 ASCENT invariants. The umbrella audit — delegates to ascent-layering-check, ascent-env-audit, and ascent-observability-check for…
Runs the delivery-lead intake protocol for new features in <<PROJECT_TITLE>>: decomposes a request into acceptance criteria, identifies cross-role dependencies, estimates scope,…
End-of-session capture for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Interviews the developer for current focus, decisions made, blockers, and next actions, then writes to session-state.md (overwrite)…
Guides writing a new Architectural Decision Record in the canonical ASCENT format: Context, Decision, Alternatives considered, Consequences (Easier/Harder/Neutral), and Cost…
ASCENT engineering framework. Use to scaffold new projects, enhance existing ASCENT projects, migrate non-ASCENT projects to ASCENT standards, or answer questions about ASCENT's…
Documents <<PROJECT_TITLE>>'s current state for another developer or session takeover. Produces a progressive-depth HANDOFF.md artifact at docs/delivery/HANDOFF.md covering…
Guides a new developer through <<PROJECT_TITLE>> with a structured "first hour" walkthrough. Read-only synthesis — detects project maturity from state and adapts depth…
Surface-level quality gate for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Runs lightweight checks across structural integrity, ADR discipline, dependency health, documentation freshness, and skill…
Verifies that <<PROJECT_TITLE>>'s backend follows strict layering: routes → controllers → services → storage.
Validates dependency discipline for <<PROJECT_TITLE>> via static package.json analysis. Checks pinned versions, engine constraints, framework traceability, and unused dependencies…
Generates persona-targeted documentation skeletons for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Each generated doc has a named audience, a clear navigation path from the persona's entry point, and…
Verifies that <<PROJECT_TITLE>> follows ENV-DISCIPLINE: .env is gitignored and dockerignored, .env.example has empty defaults only (no REPLACE_ME), every environment variable read…
Pre-release validation gate for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Checks CHANGELOG entry, version consistency, clean working tree, release branch, and tag uniqueness.
Proposes and creates new make targets for <<PROJECT_TITLE>> following the MAKE-NAMING convention (<area>-<sub-area>-<action>), places them in the correct SDLC-sectioned .mk file,…
Validates ADR structural conformance for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>: every ADR has the 5 required sections, every ADR is listed in INDEX.md, no orphaned ADRs exist, supersession links are…
Validates documentation freshness and consistency for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Checks persona provenance comments, orphaned references, stale TODO/TBD markers (30-day threshold), and…
Validates SQLite-WAL database configuration and migration discipline for <<PROJECT_TITLE>>. Checks WAL mode, foreign-key enforcement, migration tracking, and migration file…
Verifies that <<PROJECT_TITLE>>'s backend services emit observability data per the observability contract: structured JSON logs with the required fields, /healthz and /readyz…