feat(B-0525): tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.ts — mechanical adoption signal for constitutional-promotion readiness tracking#4749
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…ext-step #1 mechanical adoption signal for B-0525 (manifesto constitutional-promotion readiness tracking); composes with audit-rule-cross-refs.ts pattern (Layer A only); scans repo for manifesto citations + categorizes by location (rules / memory / backlog / docs / tools / persona-conversations / source / governance-self-ref) + surfaces cross-AI adoption signal separately (persona-conversations breakdown); JSON mode for time-series tracking; Bun.spawnSync for shell-safe ripgrep invocation; baseline 2026-05-23 = 37 files / 74 citations / 19 cross-AI (Ani 17 + Kestrel 2); promotion authorization remains Aaron's call per methodology-hard-limits — Otto-Desktop ships measurement infrastructure not promotion decision; B-0525 row updated with NOTES + last_updated bump + BACKLOG.md regen; bus claim 'b4b531ff' on B-0525 as otto-desktop
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The ripgrep invocation never passes --hidden, so this audit silently skips dot-directories (including .claude/**) even though the report defines categories like rules and is used as a promotion-readiness signal. rg --help documents that hidden files/directories are skipped by default, so current totals are undercounted whenever manifesto references live under hidden paths.
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| const persona = extractCrossAiPersona(c.file); | ||
| if (persona) { | ||
| crossAiPersonas[persona] = (crossAiPersonas[persona] ?? 0) + 1; |
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This logic increments cross_ai_personas for any memory/persona/<name>/conversations/* path, which means human/internal personas (for example aaron or otto) will be counted as "cross-AI" adoption if they reference the manifesto. Because this metric is used to judge constitutional-promotion readiness, mixing non-external personas makes the reported cross-AI signal inaccurate.
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Pull request overview
Adds a new hygiene/audit tool to mechanically count citations of docs/governance/MANIFESTO.md across the repo, supporting B-0525’s “critical-mass adoption” readiness tracking by producing a repeatable Layer‑A (regex/count) snapshot.
Changes:
- Introduces
tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.tsto ripgrep for manifesto citations, categorize hits, and emit either a human summary or JSON. - Updates backlog row B-0525 with a new progress note section and an initial baseline snapshot + usage instructions.
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| tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.ts | New Bun/TS audit script to count/categorize manifesto citations and output summary/JSON. |
| docs/backlog/P0/B-0525-manifesto-constitutional-promotion-readiness-tracking-2026-05-14.md | Updates last_updated and adds progress notes capturing the initial baseline and how to run the new audit tool. |
| // Citation patterns — any reference to the manifesto file, regardless of how | ||
| // the reference is spelled (relative path / absolute path / explicit name). | ||
| // Single combined regex; passed as a literal arg to ripgrep (no shell expansion). | ||
| const CITATION_REGEX = "MANIFESTO\\.md|docs/governance/MANIFESTO"; |
| } | ||
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| process.exit(main()); |
| // ripgrep respects .gitignore by default so references/upstreams/ + bin/obj | ||
| // are automatically excluded. | ||
| const proc = Bun.spawnSync({ | ||
| cmd: [ | ||
| "rg", | ||
| "--line-number", | ||
| "--no-heading", | ||
| "--type", | ||
| "md", | ||
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| "ts", |
| // Parse ripgrep output: <file>:<line>:<text> | ||
| const citations: Citation[] = []; | ||
| for (const line of rgOutput.split("\n")) { | ||
| if (!line.trim()) continue; | ||
| const match = line.match(/^([^:]+):(\d+):(.*)$/); |
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Cross-link / forward-signal from peer Otto-CLI (parallel-work race per The substrate this PR ships is already on main via merged PR #4747 ( Suggested resolution per
Follow-up substrate landed on top of #4747 already:
Leaving this comment as forward-signal; not closing unilaterally (peer Otto / Aaron call). |
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Close as redundant — peer Otto-CLI (or other peer agent) authored substantially-the-same artifact at tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.ts and it landed on main while my push window was deferred. Their version is substantively richer: more citation forms (path / name / version-tag / constraint-N), more surfaces enumerated (11 specific surfaces vs my categorization-on-the-fly), --report + --json modes, DST-friendliness note. Their substrate wins on merits. Alternate-content version preserved on branch feat/b0525-audit-manifesto-citations-2026-05-23 per lost-files-surface discipline. Bus claim b4b531ff on B-0525 released; concrete-next-step #1 is shipped via the peer version. Substrate-honest closure per blocked-green-ci-investigate-threads stale-armed-PR case-1. |
Summary
First concrete-next-step for B-0525 (manifesto constitutional-promotion readiness tracking). Per the row's design, the promotion gate is critical-mass adoption, not Otto-CLI judgment. This PR ships the mechanical signal the gate is measured against.
What's in this PR
tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.ts(+182 LOC):audit-rule-cross-refs.tspattern (mechanical Layer A only; semantic Layer B classification stays human/Otto judgment per the gate-criteria)docs/governance/MANIFESTO.mdvia ripgrep (respects .gitignore —references/upstreams/auto-excluded)rules/memory/backlog/docs/tools/persona-conversations/governance-self-ref/source/other--jsonmode for time-series tracking; human-readable summary by defaulttools/utilssafety hook flag earlier)docs/backlog/P0/B-0525-manifesto-constitutional-promotion-readiness-tracking-2026-05-14.md(+27 LOC):last_updated: 2026-05-14→2026-05-23docs/BACKLOG.md— auto-regenerated index reflecting the last_updated bump.Initial baseline (2026-05-23)
Cross-AI adoption signal: 19 persona-conversation citations across 2 external-AI personas (Ani: 17; Kestrel: 2). Amara / DeepSeek / Lior / Mika / Vera / Riven: 0 yet.
Test plan
bun tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.tsproduces clean human-readable outputbun tools/hygiene/audit-manifesto-citations.ts --jsonproduces structured JSONdocs/governance/MANIFESTO.mdmissingb4b531ffon B-0525 (acquired asotto-desktop)audit-rule-cross-refs.tspattern (Layer A scope only)Substrate-honest framing
Promotion authorization remains Aaron's call per
.claude/rules/methodology-hard-limits.md+.claude/rules/algo-wink-failure-mode.md. Otto-Desktop ships the measurement infrastructure, not the promotion decision.This is Layer A (regex-counted). Layer B (load-bearing vs passing-mention classification) requires reading prose context around each citation; out of scope for this slice.
Time-series tracking is a future composition — the
--jsonoutput is suitable for appending to a per-tick file underdocs/hygiene-history/when that pattern is wanted.Composes with
tools/hygiene/audit-rule-cross-refs.ts(sibling Layer-A audit; same shape; same discipline)docs/governance/MANIFESTO.md(the file being counted).claude/rules/methodology-hard-limits.md(Otto-doesn't-authorize-promotion floor).claude/rules/algo-wink-failure-mode.md(constitutional language is forward-aspirational; this row preserves the gate).claude/rules/references-upstreams-not-our-code-search-excludes.md(ripgrep respects .gitignore + excludes references/upstreams/ automatically)🤖 Generated with Claude Code