validation-task-artifacts

Cross-artifact validation ensures stories map to cycles and every cycle has concrete, traceable tasks. By cross-referencing mapping.md with tasks.md, it identifies alignment gaps and enforces TDD discipline across the development workflow.

Artifact readiness issues are classified into Critical, Important, and Minor categories. This advocate-style classification provides actionable remediation guidance to fix traceability gaps and mapping misalignments efficiently.

Validation checks evaluate mapping, cycle quality, and task readiness against defined criteria. These phase-specific checks identify gaps in vertical slicing and TDD discipline, generating advocate reports for structured remediation.

The best way to audit clean cycles is to run a structured validation pass on task artifacts. This enforces vertical slicing and TDD discipline by validating cross-artifact alignment and generating reports that classify issues for immediate remediation.