audit-artefact-grounding

A deterministic audit checks artefact grounding against first principles using a 6-axis rubric to identify silent drift from intended purpose. It generates a verdict to keep, refactor, or deprecate the artefact, ensuring quality and reliability before propagation to client repositories.

First-principles grounding is an audit mechanism verifying Claude Code artefacts remain anchored to their original design intent. It evaluates skills, rules, hooks, agents, and doctrine documents against a 6-axis rubric to confirm they have not drifted from their intended purpose.

Yes, the audit applies to individual artefact reviews across skills, rules, hooks, agents, and doctrine documents. Each artefact must have a well-defined purpose and procedure to evaluate grounding and drift effectively using the 6-axis rubric.

Run the audit command specifying the artefact path, skill type, repo context, and default action to propagate to client. The deterministic audit evaluates the artefact against a 6-axis rubric and returns a verdict to keep, refactor, or deprecate before propagation.

Deprecate a Claude Code skill when the audit verdict indicates irreversible drift from first principles that cannot be realigned. The 6-axis rubric determines whether to keep, refactor to restore grounding, or deprecate the artefact entirely based on drift severity.

The audit requires the artefact to be a Claude Code artefact with a well-defined purpose and procedure. Artefacts lacking a clear purpose or procedure cannot be effectively evaluated against the 6-axis rubric for grounding and drift detection.