rebuild-index

To rebuild a corrupted manifest.json, you can scan your artifact directories and extract metadata directly from their state files to generate a fresh manifest. This process restores missing or corrupted tracking data and ensures accurate artifact management across your project.

Restoring missing manifest files is best handled by scanning directories to detect all artifact types like work, brainstorms, proposals, refactoring, and requirements. The system extracts identifiers, titles, statuses, and timestamps to write updated manifests to disk automatically.

Yes, you can target a single artifact type to rebuild its index, such as specifying work or proposals, or you can choose to rebuild all artifact manifests simultaneously. This allows selective recovery without affecting other valid manifest files.

Yes, rebuilding manifests includes backing up existing manifest.json files before writing any updates to disk. This precaution allows you to recover previous manifest states if the rebuild process encounters errors or unexpected missing items.

Specialized artifact types like requirements or product knowledge are handled by delegating the rebuild task to other dedicated skills or agents. This ensures accurate metadata extraction for specialized directories while maintaining overall index consistency.

Missing items appear in an artifact manifest when the directory scan detects artifacts but cannot extract complete metadata from their state files. The rebuild process handles missing items gracefully while writing updated manifests derived from available data.