kata-artifact-self-review

To run a self-review on a technical spec, you need an automated pre-check that evaluates completeness, internal consistency, and submission readiness. This process detects placeholders, contradictions, and scope drift, returning an APPROVED or RETURNED decision with categorized findings.

Artifact self-review is an automated pre-human audit for PRD, ADR, or Lexis-style documents. You need it to prevent submitting incomplete artifacts by detecting placeholders, vague quantifiers, and structural gaps before a human evaluator reviews the content.

To check multilingual consistency in a technical document, verify that section order, numbered rules, tables, and code tags remain equivalent across languages. An automated self-review confirms this equivalence while detecting tone, terminology issues, and multilingual mismatches.

Yes, self-review software detects placeholders like TBD or TODO and checks for scope drift in release plans. It scans for unfinished markers, template bracket text, and empty headings, verifying that the artifact stays within the expected document scope.

You can use artifact auditing for Kata-style templates with numbered criteria. The self-review evaluates internal alignment between stated objectives, rules, declared inputs, and produced outputs, returning an explicit decision for submission readiness.

Automated consistency checks for technical writing are limited to detecting quantifiable ambiguity, structural gaps, and template mismatches. They cannot replace human evaluation but instead produce a structured report returning an APPROVED or RETURNED decision to guide the human reviewer.