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+name: factory-hygiene-audit-cadence
+
+# Daily cadence for the two factory-hygiene audit tools:
+#
+#   - tools/hygiene/audit-rule-cross-refs.ts (.claude/rules/ cross-ref audit)
+#   - tools/hygiene/audit-user-scope-memory-index.ts (MEMORY.md bloat audit)
+#
+# Per the session's razor-cadence item 4 + item 5 mechanization work
+# (PRs #3202 + #3208). Without an external trigger, the audits depend on
+# agent-remembering-to-run-them, which `encoding-rules-without-mechanizing.md`
+# explicitly flags as the failure mode this workflow prevents.
+#
+# Why daily: rule cross-refs drift slowly (~1 new rule per few days) but
+# MEMORY.md bloat compounds with every memory-file landing. Daily is the
+# coarsest cadence that still surfaces drift inside one work-window.
+#
+# What this workflow does:
+#   - Runs the rule-cross-refs audit + uploads report as workflow artifact
+#   - Runs the memory-index audit unit tests (the tool runs against user-
+#     scope memory, not available in CI)
+#   - Detect-only (exit 0 always); the maintainer / future-Otto reviews
+#     the artifacts. No auto-file backlog rows.
+#
+# Composes with:
+#   - tools/hygiene/audit-rule-cross-refs.ts (PR #3202)
+#   - tools/hygiene/audit-user-scope-memory-index.ts (PR #3208)
+#   - .github/workflows/razor-cadence.yml (the issue-tracker cadence)
+#   - .github/workflows/git-hotspot-cadence.yml (template shape)
+#
+# Safe-pattern compliance: SHA-pinned actions, explicit minimum
+# permissions (contents: read only), concurrency group, pinned runs-on,
+# path-filter for self-test trigger. This workflow uses only
+# github.run_id and github.ref in template expressions — no untrusted
+# user-authored inputs.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Daily 14:37 UTC — off-the-hour to avoid GHA cron thundering-herd.
+    - cron: "37 14 * * *"
+  workflow_dispatch: {}
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "tools/hygiene/audit-rule-cross-refs.ts"
+      - "tools/hygiene/audit-user-scope-memory-index.ts"
+      - ".github/workflows/factory-hygiene-audit-cadence.yml"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+env:
+  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+concurrency:
+  group: factory-hygiene-audit-cadence-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  rule-cross-refs-audit:
+    name: audit .claude/rules/ cross-references
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Setup Bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@0c5077e51419868618aeaa5fe8019c62421857d6 # v2.2.0
+        with:
+          bun-version: latest
+
+      - name: Run rule-cross-refs audit
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p audit-reports
+          bun tools/hygiene/audit-rule-cross-refs.ts \
+            --report audit-reports/rule-cross-refs.md
+
+      - name: Upload audit report
+        if: always()
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@043fb46d1a93c77aae656e7c1c64a875d1fc6a0a # v7.0.1
+        with:
+          name: rule-cross-refs-audit-${{ github.run_id }}
+          path: audit-reports/
+          if-no-files-found: warn
+          retention-days: 90
+
+  memory-index-self-test:
+    name: self-test memory-index audit tool
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Setup Bun
+        uses: oven-sh/setup-bun@0c5077e51419868618aeaa5fe8019c62421857d6 # v2.2.0
+        with:
+          bun-version: latest
+
+      - name: Run memory-index audit tests
+        # Self-test only: MEMORY.md is user-scope and not available in CI.
+        # The unit-test suite verifies the tool itself hasn't regressed.
+        run: bun test tools/hygiene/audit-user-scope-memory-index.test.ts