Kb Lint

kb-lint — health-check the bundle

Keep a [bundle](../kb/SKILL.md) trustworthy as it compounds by catching drift — the decay a growing knowledge base accumulates. Two passes: a deterministic conformance check (mechanical, scripted) and a drift audit (fuzzy, judgment). Run both; report findings by severity. With fix, repair what is safe.

1. Conformance (deterministic)

Run the bundled checker against the target bundle (default knowledge/):

python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/conformance.py" 

It reports ERROR (a hard [SPEC](../kb/reference/SPEC.md) §9 failure — no parseable frontmatter, or a missing/empty type) and warn (soft: broken links, non-ISO log dates). Broken links are explicitly tolerated by the spec (§5.3) — never a conformance failure.

Completion criterion: the checker has run and every ERROR it reported is listed for the report (and fixed, if in fix mode).

2. Drift audit (judgment)

The checker can't see meaning. Audit the bundle for the ways a compounding artifact rots — this is the legwork that makes lint worth running. Cover every check:

• Contradictions — concepts asserting conflicting facts that aren't linked conflicts_with.
• Stale claims — statements a newer source has superseded but that were never marked

superseded_by; overviews behind their children.

• Orphans — concepts with zero inbound [cross-links](../kb/reference/glossary.md) (index/log

exempt; overviews exempt).

• Missing cross-references — concepts about the same entity/theme that don't link to each other.
• Coverage gaps — entities named repeatedly across concepts but lacking their own concept; data

gaps a source or web search could fill.

• Provenance gaps — concepts making external claims with no # Citations / Reference.

Completion criterion: every check above has been run across the whole bundle and its findings recorded — not a sample.

3. Report

Present findings grouped by check, each tagged:

• Error — §9 conformance failures. The bundle is non-conformant until fixed.
• Warning — drift that degrades trust (contradictions, stale claims, orphans, broken links).
• Info — suggestions (coverage gaps, new concepts or sources worth adding).

Turn coverage gaps into concrete next moves: questions to investigate, sources to [ingest](../kb-ingest/SKILL.md). Append a dated summary (counts + notable findings) to the bundle's log.md — append-only.

Completion criterion: a severity-grouped report is delivered and a log.md summary appended.

Fix mode

If invoked with fix, repair only what is safe and unambiguous, then re-report what was fixed vs. what needs a human:

• Safe to auto-fix: stale overviews (regenerate from children), missing cross-links, malformed

log dates, broken links with an obvious target, index entries out of sync with files.

• Never auto-fix: anything that changes a claim's meaning. A contradiction or a stale claim is

resolved by [ingest](../kb-ingest/SKILL.md) under the [trust model](../kb/reference/trust-model.md) (supersede/conflict) — never by editing meaning in place here. Flag these for the user.

Completion criterion: every safe issue is fixed and every meaning-level issue is flagged (not touched); the re-report distinguishes the two.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: stjbrown
• Source: stjbrown/agent-knowledge
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.