/doctor

name: doctor
license: MIT
compatibility: "Claude Code 2.1.277+ for xhigh effort warning (Category 14); earlier versions skip that check."
description: "Diagnoses OrchestKit and project health: manifests, hooks, skills, agents, MCP servers, CC version and permissions, with severity and remedies. Use to run doctor checks, diagnose issues or check project health before a release."
argument-hint: "[--verbose]"
context: inherit
user-invocable: true
disable-model-invocation: false
allowed-tools: "Bash Read Grep Glob AskUserQuestion Write"
skills: [configure]
effort: low
model: haiku
hooks:
  PreToolUse:
    - matcher: "Bash"
      hooks:
        - type: command
          command: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/bin/run-hook.mjs skill/doctor-env-snapshot"
          once: true
metadata:
  category: document-asset-creation
  version: "3.3.0"
  author: "OrchestKit"
  complexity: "low"
  tags: "health-check, diagnostics, validation, permissions, hooks, skills, agents, memory"
triggers:
  keywords: [doctor, diagnose, "health check", healthy, "hooks configured", "skills showing", "plugin setup", "something broken", troubleshoot, "installation is"]
  examples:
    - "run orchestkit doctor"
    - "are my hooks configured correctly"
    - "something feels broken with ork"
  anti-triggers: [help, setup, configure, explore, implement]

OrchestKit Health Diagnostics

Host-neutral workflow. Invoke by skill name (`doctor`). Claude Code slash routing, YAML hook loaders, and `.claude/chain` live in `references/claude-code.md`.

Argument Resolution

FLAGS = "$ARGUMENTS"         # Full argument string, e.g., "--verbose" or "--json"
FLAG = "$ARGUMENTS[0]"       # First token: -v, --verbose, --json, --category=X
# $ARGUMENTS[0], $ARGUMENTS[1] for indexed access (CC 2.1.59)

STEP 0: Choose Scope (AskUserQuestion — M118 #1464)

A full doctor run takes ~20s. Most invocations only need one slice. Ask the user up-front so voice-flow shortcuts ("just the MCPs") map cleanly:

# Skip the prompt when an explicit scope arg or env override is present:
#   doctor cc      → skip, use cc-only
#   doctor mcp     → skip, use mcp-only
#   doctor plugin  → skip, use plugin-only
#   ORK_DOCTOR_SCOPE=all (or any of the above) → skip, use the env value
#
# Otherwise, ask:
AskUserQuestion(questions=[{
  "question": "What should doctor check?",
  "header": "Scope",
  "options": [
    {"label": "Everything (default)", "description": "Full system health — ~20s; runs all 15 categories"},
    {"label": "CC version & features only", "description": "Categories 10 + 13 + 14; ~3s — for 'is my CC up to date?'"},
    {"label": "MCP servers only", "description": "Category 12 (incl. pinning sub-check); ~5s — for 'are MCPs working?'"},
    {"label": "Plugin health only", "description": "Categories 0-3 + 5 (skills, agents, hooks, build); ~8s — for 'after npm run build'"}
  ]
}])

Skip the prompt entirely when the scope is unambiguous from the invocation. The fast scopes (3-8s) are 3-7× faster than the full run — voice users say "just the MCPs" and get a 5s answer.

Overview

The `doctor` command performs comprehensive health checks on your OrchestKit installation. It auto-detects installed plugins and validates 16 categories:

1. **Installed Plugins** - Detects ork plugin 2. **Skills Validation** - Frontmatter, references, token budget (dynamic count) 3. **Agents Validation** - Frontmatter, tool refs, skill refs (dynamic count) 4. **Hook Health** - Registration, bundles, async patterns 5. **Permission Rules** - Detects unreachable rules 6. **Schema Compliance** - Validates JSON files against schemas 7. **Coordination System** - Checks lock health and registry integrity 8. **Context Budget** - Monitors token usage against budget 9. **Memory System** - Graph memory health 10. **Claude Code Version** - Validates CC >= the `supported_floor` in `shared/cc-support.json` (read it; it is the single source). Everything the old "recommends 2.1.154+" note gated (`xhigh` effort, `/ultrareview`, stream-json `plugin_errors`) is floor-guaranteed now, so there is nothing left to recommend 11. **External Dependencies** - Checks optional tool availability (agent-browser), plus one line per peer skill installed from another marketplace: `typesafe@typesafe-ai` installed version against the marketplace's, via `scripts/check-peer-skill.py` (missing marketplace and missing plugin are separate verdicts, the vendor's update commands are the fix text; #4233) 12. **MCP Status** - Active vs disabled vs misconfigured, API key presence for paid MCPs. CC 2.1.110: detects duplicate definitions across config scopes. Sub-check warns when HIGH-tier servers resolve to `@latest` in `.mcp.json` (closes #1462) 13. **Plugin Validate** - Runs `claude plugin validate` for official CC frontmatter + hooks.json validation (CC >= 2.1.77) 14. **Effort/Model Compatibility** - Warns only when `xhigh` effort is configured AND the active model is provably unable to run it. Silent otherwise, because the fallback itself is silent 15. **Sandbox Posture** - CC Bash-sandbox on/off across all four settings scopes (incl. `~/.claude/settings.json`, where real configs usually live), with a `/sandbox` nudge; sub-check 15b queries the macOS unified log for recent sandbox deny events (fail-closed: a denied log query reports UNOBSERVABLE, never zero) 16. **Operator Settings Posture** - Detects security controls that a plugin bundle **cannot** carry (credential-read deny rules, the `sandbox` block, `CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS`) and are therefore missing unless the operator wrote them into their own settings

When to Use

• After installing or updating OrchestKit
• When hooks aren't firing as expected
• Before deploying to a team environment
• When debugging coordination issues
• After running `npm run build`

Quick Start

doctor           # Standard health check
doctor -v        # Verbose output
doctor --json    # Machine-readable for CI

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