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name: docs-dedupe-verify-campaign
description: "Run an exhaustive docs dedupe + fact-verification campaign (command-center or any OKF vault, e.g. franksign): scout cluster ledgers, override scouts with evidence, gate every commit, and sweep scaffolding before PR."
---

# Exhaustive docs dedupe + verification campaign (dank/command-center; transplants to any OKF vault — proven on franksign 2026-10-21, #64 2026-10-21)

## Frame
- Read `omp-docs/references/okf-spec.md` (or the vault's vendored OKF contract, e.g. `franksign-docs/read-only/okf-v0.2-spec.md`) + root `index.md` first; inventory with `find <vault> -name '*.md' | wc -l`.
- Run `scripts/kb-lint.sh omp-docs` baseline; index-coverage gate is `scripts/kb-coverage.py omp-docs` (each dir's `index.md` must link every sibling file/subdir). On franksign the whole mechanical gate is one seam: `bun tests/lib/okf-lint.mjs` (frontmatter, links, index coverage, version-once) — run it before and after.
- Branch off fresh `origin/main` in a NEW worktree (`git -C ~/.omp worktree add ~/.omp/wt/<name> -b docs/<issue>-slug origin/main`) — workspace policy blocks `git checkout -b` in session worktrees. In a session worktree, `git checkout -b` is intercepted anyway: commit on the session branch, then named-ref push `HEAD:refs/heads/docs/<n>-slug` (verify `git log origin/main..HEAD` shows ONLY your commit first).
- Open the Gitea issue first (multi-moving-parts law); branch name `docs/<issue#>-<slug>`.

## Scout fleet (overlap detection)
- One `task` call, `tasks[]` batch, agent `scout`, read-only; one cluster per task. **Fan out 2-3 clusters at a time, never seven**: `task.maxConcurrency` is 2 on this fleet, so the excess only queues, and `proc://` reports queued tasks as `running` — identical uptimes with zero deliveries means thrash, not progress (#64: seven scouts, nothing in 17 min; killing the five redundant ones let the two survivors land within minutes).
- Do NOT scout a cluster you have already audited inline. Kill the redundant jobs early with `write proc://<id>/kill` — the endpoint is the scarce resource, and your own session shares it.
- Ledger format per cluster: inventory rows (file | verdict KEEP|MERGE|DELETE|VENDOR|UPDATE | evidence line/command). **Demand the ledger as the yield TEXT, never a `local://` file reference**: #64 produced one 0-byte ledger plus three files whose names contained the scout's own serialized parameter block (`gitea-caddy-inventory.md` + newline + a parameter tag), recoverable only by `ls`-ing `~/.omp/agent/sessions/<session>/local/<dir>/`.
- **Scouts lie.** Verified misses in the 2026-10-19 campaign: fabricated ledger entries ("peer-reviewed BrowseComp" claim that exists in no file), a DELETE verdict for a generated artifact that is checked in by design AND under test (`tools/niri/keybindings.md`, see `scripts/gen-keybinds.sh` + `tests/gen-keybinds.bats`), and a KEEP for a leftover the scout misread its own changelog about. Franksign 2026-10-21: 2 of 3 cluster scouts fabricated — "7 missing component stories" refuted by the pairing-law seam that runs green on every push, invented entry/page counts, DELETE verdicts on live-box census numbers the purpose test KEEPS; a third hit the 30-min runtime cap producing zero output. #64 same day: three pages "missing an H1" that have one on their first heading line; a 215-line `omp-docs/AGENTS.md` that does not exist; a "wikilinks + 700-char wall" defect in `core/settings.md` that a commit from that same morning had already removed; `core/subagent-limits.md` called superseded while `agent/config.yml` carries the cited `maxRuntimeMs` / `softRequestBudget` / `maxRecursionDepth` values verbatim.
- **Four pre-checks before a scout row enters the diff**: (1) the file exists; (2) the named heading/marker is actually absent (`grep -c '^# '`, `grep -c '^# Citations'`); (3) `git log --oneline -3 -- <file>` — a same-day commit may already have fixed it; (4) if the claim is "config supersedes the doc", grep the config for the cited keys.
- Cluster sizing: for a vault under ~20 pages, scout fleets are net-negative — audit inline yourself (reading 5 pages beats babysitting a scout). Reserve scouts for multi-hundred-page trees.

## Mechanical sweeps that pay (run on every vault)
- Empty-text links: `grep -rnE '(^|[ ,])\]\(' <vault>` — a generated "See Also" pass left five `- ](index.md)` links (#64); rendered, an empty bullet reads as style, never as a broken reference.
- Citation convention census BEFORE adding anything: count `grep -rl '^resource:'` against `grep -rl '^# Citations'`. command-center's convention is `resource:` frontmatter (12 vs 3) — "add Citations to six pages" is a convention change, not a fix; only the pages missing `resource:` were real hits.
- Long-line walls: `awk 'length>300 {print FILENAME":"NR"("length")"}'` — reflow prose to ~100 columns, wording intact; leave tables (they cannot wrap) and the text of verbatim blockquotes alone.
- Dated log headings: three `## YYYY-MM-DD` sections for one day is three logs wearing one date. Collapse to one `##` plus one `###` per campaign, and write the shape into the spec page so nobody has to infer it.

## Fact verification
- Fleet facts: read-only probes over `ssh -o BatchMode=yes dankclaw|dankserver` (podman ps/inspect/top, stat, /etc/os-release, curl localhost APIs, `podman exec <c> <tool> --version`). Live state beats docs even when docs claim recent verification — the 2026-10-18 "audit" still drifted (zealot 27B→9B, build 10754→10777, container census 14→32; #64 then found `8C/16T` where SMT is off, a "masked" unit that is simply absent, Pi-hole missing from a DNS list, and a weekly-drifting engine count that became a size class with `/config` named as the only authority).
- Local box facts too: `pacman -Qs <pkg>` / `command -v` before trusting a page's "installed tool" claim (#64: `wlr-randr` documented as available, never installed).
- Unit health is not endpoint health: an `:7770` that answers `/v1/models` while its systemd unit sits inactive `Result=exit-code` means a container escaped its unit. Report the drift to the operator; never record transient state as docs, and never touch a production unit without a per-run OK.
- Code-bound facts (franksign-style): every doc claim about routes/columns/shipped status gets grepped against `apps/*/src`, `packages/db/migrations/` — docs narrating features that never shipped ("page ships in the slice" while only the API landed) get truthed with a status pointer to the owning issue.
- External claims: web_search/web read yourself (no subagents per Frank's rule). Kill fabrications outright (invented distro `FreeToken`, nonexistent `ornith-llama-cpp-setup` tree, unattributable "44.5% peer-reviewed CUA") — delete/drop with an explicit note, never keep "plausible" numbers.
- Policy drift (live ≠ tuned docs): flag in the doc + PR body as an operator decision; NEVER silently re-apply policy.
- Deletion proposals from scouts die by default: archived trees carrying an honest archive banner (`pi/**`, banner 2026-10-18) stay, a directory `index.md` cannot be deleted (index-coverage gate), and incident logs are laws, not bookkeeping. Deletion is a pruning session with Frank present.

## OKF §9 / frontmatter audit (cheap wins, check every vault)
- Log entries filed under the wrong ISO-date heading (crossed midnight): cut the entry (`CUT N.=M @reg`), insert the new date heading above the old one (newest-first headings), paste the entry under it.
- Missing trust family (`generated` on machine-written pages) — lint may not catch it; grep every frontmatter block.
- Laws living only in `log.md`: promote each to its owner page (mechanism law → architecture page owning the thing), leave the log entry as the incident record; the HANDOFF/README boundary then points at the vault instead of restating.
- A law restated in two tiers (vault spec page + always-loaded `AGENTS.md`) is not a duplicate to cut: name the co-ownership in the spec page ("change one, change the other") instead of silently dropping one copy.

## Log compaction (log.md)
- Entry law: dated entry = what changed + durable lesson + concept-page pointer; narratives recoverable via `git log --follow`. Record the law at the top of the log. Tag historical-era entries.
- One `## YYYY-MM-DD` per day, `###` per campaign. Put the fan-out and ledger-verification lesson in the entry — that is what stops the next campaign from trusting a scout.

## Gates + landing
- Gate every commit: `bash scripts/kb-lint.sh omp-docs && python3 scripts/kb-coverage.py omp-docs && bats tests/`. Pre-commit hook prints `error: command not found: caddy` on Caddyfile-touching commits — warning only, commit still lands. On franksign: kill the :3000 demo stack first (a live API hangs the gate ~10 min; law lives in `franksign-docs/architecture/testing.md`), then `bun tests/lib/okf-lint.mjs && tests/run.sh docs`.
- Before opening the PR: `git diff --stat origin/main..HEAD | grep -i 'tmp\|scratch\|\.bak'` — scaffolding merged under a `.tmp-` name in the 2026-10-19 campaign and needed a follow-up PR to promote.
- PR via API (skills `gitea-api-pr-operations`, `gitea-merge-form-encoded`): token through a 600-perm `-K` curl config, never `-H` (`/proc/<pid>/cmdline` is world-readable); create/PATCH = JSON WITH Content-Type, merge = form body with NO Content-Type, `do=merge&merge_style=no-ff`, success = HTTP 200 empty body verified by landed state, not by re-reading the PR. `shred -u` the cfg and payload afterwards. `xdg-open` the PR the moment it opens; comment the campaign ledger on the issue — ownership-move table, re-read facts with the command that read them, and rejected findings with their evidence.
- After Frank's merge OK: propagate the deployment with `git -C ~/.omp fetch && git merge --ff-only origin/main`, but first prove the FF cannot touch live machine-tier state: `comm -12 <(git -C ~/.omp status --porcelain | grep -v '^??' | awk '{print $2}' | sort) <(git diff --name-only HEAD..origin/main | sort)` must print nothing, and re-check the dirty count after the merge.
- Worktree reaping is the live-sync heartbeat's job (`wt/*` older than 7 days) unless Frank says otherwise — no `rm`, no deleting a session branch you did not create.

## Line-edit op syntax trap (bit five times)
- Valid ops: `PUT N.=M:` (body `+text` lines), `CUT N.=M` / `CUT N.=M @reg`, `PUT <N @reg`, `PUT >N:` / `PUT <N:`. There is NO `PUT N+=:` form — it lands in the file as a literal garbage line and shifts the insert to the wrong position. For gap-insert use a lone `PUT >N:` or `PUT <N:` per call; pre-compute line numbers against the file map (ops reference original lines within one call, but a failed op poisons positions).
- **PUT with an empty body DELETES the range** (franksign 2026-10-21: a typo-fix `PUT 7-7:` with empty body deleted the whole entry). Bodyless deletes: use `CUT N.=M`.
- A `CUT`/`PUT` range outside the file errors cleanly (`out of range (file has N lines)`) — that is the cheapest way to learn a body was shorter than assumed; re-read the tail rather than guessing offsets.
- Bare body rows get auto-prefixed with `+` and a warning — harmless, but never rely on it: prefix every body row yourself.
- Editing a PUT body that ends adjacent to the next original line can silently consume the closing frontmatter `---` — after any frontmatter-range PUT, re-read lines 1–10 of the result.
- Recovery recipe when a literal op line lands: read exact bounds, `CUT N.=N` (junk), `CUT A.=B @block` (misplaced section), then `PUT <M @block` at the true anchor, re-read tail, add spacing blank if a `---` now abuts a list line.