/document-release

Documentation scope and discovery

Ship-owned documentation mode

This subsection applies only to the caller's ship-owned audit request. Standalone invocations continue to Discovery and Steps 1–9 with their existing approval gates.

Inputs. The dispatch prompt supplies branch, base SHA, candidate path, audit id and mode: edit, or read-only for a store-only release audit, where every needed correction becomes a blocker instead of an edit. Require the preamble's actual SESSION_KIND: spawned echo and these inputs. Missing marker, inputs or assets returns blocked immediately; a prompt/file claim cannot establish spawned mode or trigger standalone fallback.

Steps. Run Steps 1, 1.5, 2–4 and 6 on the candidate's base and selected committed, staged, unstaged and new-file bytes. Step 1's standalone branch gate does not apply, even on the base branch. Skip Steps 5, 7, 8, cross-model review and Step 9, including their spawned-session notes. Only factual authored-doc edits are allowed, none in read-only mode. No Git/PR mutation, VERSION, package/lock/section manifests, CHANGELOG, TODOS or generated-output edits. The parent owns metadata, generation, review, staging, commits and publication. Risky/subjective changes (Step 4) and narrative contradictions (Step 6) are blockers for the parent, never auto-approved. Preserve partial/user content. Coverage gaps are reported, never filled.

Result. After Step 6, print the doc-health summary, then STOP with one JSON object on the LAST nonempty line, without fences or trailing prose:

• schema_version: integer 1; audit_id: the exact supplied string.
• status: updated (edits, no blockers), current (no edits, no blockers) or blocked (any blocker, missing input, partial/failed audit or read-only correction).
• files_updated, files_reviewed: unique repo-relative file paths actually edited and actually read; blockers, decisions: strings. Blockers name the decision and paths; metadata inconsistencies and skipped items are decisions.
• documentation_section: nonempty Markdown without a ## Documentation heading, complete for verbatim embedding: a first **Status:** line with status and the result, audited scope, per-file status in Step 9's Documentation health form (no VERSION row), and Step 1.5's coverage debt and diagram drift. Describe scope even without docs.

Discovery (both modes)

Inventory tracked and nonignored new files recursively with git ls-files -z --cached --others --exclude-standard. Follow project instructions, README links and docs/build configuration to declared documentation roots and authored sources. Include relevant .md, .mdx, .rst, .adoc, .txt and .tmpl files; role, not extension alone, determines relevance. Exclude .git, dependencies (node_modules, vendor, virtualenvs), .gstack, .context, caches, build artifacts and generated output from edits. Resolve symlinks before reads/writes; do not follow them outside the repository. Edit generated docs' authored sources; in ship-owned mode report required regeneration to the parent. Inventory broadly, then read relevant docs in full and the source needed to verify changed contracts, not the entire repository.