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Pre-ship traceability audit - every requirement traced to a phase, plan and verification, orphan detection both directions, a FAIL gate before shipping

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cad-audit.SKILL.md
name: cad-audit
description: "Pre-ship traceability audit - every requirement traced to a phase, plan and verification, orphan detection both directions, a FAIL gate before shipping"
argument-hint: "[milestone | defaults to all active requirements]"
allowed-tools:
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  - AskUserQuestion

<objective> Before a milestone ships, prove that nothing was silently dropped. Cross- reference every requirement against the phases, plans, and verifications that were supposed to deliver it, and detect orphans in both directions. Produce a PASS/FAIL verdict: FAIL if any requirement is untraced, unverified, or lost.

This is the check that catches the quiet failure a per-phase flow can miss - a requirement that no phase ever picked up (an `unpicked` break counted in `counts.broken`, not a note beside a PASS), or one marked done while its phase never verified. It reads the authoritative status - the REQUIREMENTS traceability table (Requirement | Phase | Status) and the ROADMAP `## Phases` checkbox, the only persisted status. `/cad-plan` creates a table row (always at Pending); no writer but cad-verify ever sets a Status beyond it, and the ROADMAP checkbox is cad-verify's alone. It does not write status itself. </objective>

<execution_context> @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/workflows/audit.md </execution_context>

<process> Run the audit workflow end-to-end and return a clear PASS or FAIL with the evidence. A FAIL is a real gate - report exactly which requirements are untraced, unverified, or orphaned; do not soften it. Read-only: never edit status to make the audit pass. </process>

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