/ca-context-check
Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs, then per stale doc offer re-scout, re-baseline, or defer. Not the daily loop; commit-gate auto-heal owns routine maintenance.
$ npx -y skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-context-check --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/ca-context-check
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs, then per stale doc offer re-scout, re-baseline, or defer. Not the daily loop; commit-gate auto-heal owns routine maintenance.
SKILL.md
ca-context-check.SKILL.mdname: ca-context-check description: Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs, then per stale doc offer re-scout, re-baseline, or defer. Not the daily loop; commit-gate auto-heal owns routine maintenance. argument-hint: (none)
$ca-context-check — manual drift audit
An optional, on-demand audit for bypass cases: a merge or external edit changed a tracked source file you are not about to commit, so commit-gate's auto-heal did not fire. Routes to the `context-check` skill.
When to use
Use this only when you believe drift was introduced outside a commit (e.g. a direct push, a merge you did not author, a manual file edit while outside a normal commit workflow). The SessionStart drift line (backed by `startup_drift_line`) is the usual signal that this check is warranted.
When NOT to use
- **Routine maintenance** — commit-gate auto-heal runs automatically on every
commit that touches a `drift_trigger` source. No manual intervention needed for the common case.
- Full brownfield re-scan from scratch → `$ca-create-context`.
- Project state snapshot → `$ca-status`.
Hard gate
Read-only unless the user explicitly chooses re-scout (partial scout run) or re-baseline (hash update in `.codearbiter/.provenance/`). MUST NOT commit on its own. MUST NOT modify any derived doc without an explicit user selection.
When you can't trust yourself with your code base, trust Arbiter.
Repo: arbiterForge/codeArbiter
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Open skill - /commit-gate
The only path to a commit. Routed to when the user invokes /commit or otherwise instructs codeArbiter to persist staged changes. Nine gated phases — permission, branch, classification, verification (test/lint/secrets), behavioral proof, diff review, selective stage, message,
Open skill - /context-check
Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs (via _provenancelib drift detection across .codearbiter/.provenance/), then per stale doc offer re-scout / re-baseline / defer. Not the daily loop; commit-gate auto-heal owns routine maintenance.
Open skill - /context-creation
The brownfield back-fill. Routed to by /create-context, and by startup when .codearbiter/CONTEXT.md lacks the <!--INITIALIZED--> body marker but source code exists. Six gated phases — pre-flight, scout dispatch, synthesis, gap interview, write, lock. Reads the existing codebase
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The banned-primitive gate. Routed to when changed code hashes, signs, encrypts, derives keys, generates security-relevant randomness, configures TLS, or imports a crypto library. Rejects broken primitives, disabled TLS verification, and home-rolled crypto; the approved-primitive
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Investigate-then-decide root-cause analysis for a defect whose cause is unknown (distinct from /fix, which assumes a known bug). Five gated phases: capture, hypothesize, gather, decide, hand off. Investigation only, no code changes; exits to /fix, /adr, or a no-action close.
Open skill