posture

An ambient posture summary reads audit, generate, gate, and beacon data to surface testing health without performing actions. It operates in a read-only mode, providing classification, weighted score gaps, and pending items via future beacons without mutating state.

A posture banner is a compact at-a-glance summary displaying a repository's testing classification, weighted score versus tier target, and gap counts by level. It also surfaces last-audit and last-generate timestamps alongside pending queue items.

Emitting a posture.json sidecar exposes classification, score data, and next-action prompts for dashboards and automation. This machine-readable JSON sidecar satisfies the data contract while operating in a read-only ambient mode without state mutations.

The posture summary applies to projects containing a .vibe-test directory, pending queues, and last activity timestamps. It reads audit-state and ambient-summary data from this structure to generate the compact posture banner and sidecar output.

Security readiness and audit state are surfaced by reading existing audit, generate, gate, and beacon data without triggering executions. The read-only ambient mode never mutates state, instead suggesting next steps as questions rather than taking action.

The read-only ambient summary never mutates state, performs scans, or executes tests, meaning it cannot fix gaps or clear pending queues. It only surfaces existing audit-state data and suggests next-action prompts as questions without taking action.