gsd-audit-milestone

To verify a project milestone is truly complete before archiving, you must audit its completion against the original definition of done, aggregating cross-phase verification data from VERIFICATION.md and SUMMARY.md files to confirm all requirements are covered.

Milestone audit governance in project management is the process of orchestrating cross-phase checks to ensure alignment and traceability, verifying that executed milestones match their original intent and identifying gaps before archiving results.

To detect gaps in requirements coverage across project phases, you run an audit workflow that reads completed VERIFICATION.md files and cross-phase SUMMARY data, automatically identifying uncovered requirements and mismatches between planned and executed milestones.

Yes, this milestone audit workflow requires specific documentation formats. It reads completed VERIFICATION.md files and cross-phase SUMMARY.md data to aggregate verification results and determine the true completion status of the milestone.

You need to run a cross-phase integrity check for archiving when a milestone is marked as complete and you want to reduce the risk of premature or incorrect archiving by confirming it meets its original definition of done.