U Worker Compliance

SKILL: Worker Compliance Validator

Purpose

Static analysis tool that validates worker agent .md files for protocol compliance before promotion to dist/. Eliminates the manual review gap that causes repeated critical issues on every worker audit cycle.

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When to Use

• Before promoting any worker or orchestrator to dist/
• When a new worker is created or an existing one is modified
• As a gate in the review phase — run check_worker.py on every .claude/agents/**/*.md

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What It Checks

Rule W01 — Terminal event: task_completed

Every worker must contain a task_completed emit block with the required schema fields.

Required fields in --data: phase, artifacts

Detection: grep for --kind completed followed by --data containing "phase" and "artifacts".

Violation: worker emits completed but omits phase or artifacts.

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Rule W02 — Terminal event: task_failed

Every worker must contain a task_failed emit block with the required schema fields.

Required fields in --data: phase, reason, retryable

Detection: grep for --kind failed followed by --data containing "phase", "reason", and "retryable".

Violation: worker emits failed but omits any of the three required fields.

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Rule W03 — No terminal event

Worker contains no emit.py call with --kind completed or --kind failed.

Severity: CRITICAL — onsubagentstop.py will synthesize task_failed for every run, including successes.

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Rule W04 — Non-canonical phase value

Worker hardcodes "phase":"default" in any emit call.

Valid values: any string except "default" (which signals missing implementation). Canonical values: sdd, dev, review, test.

Detection: grep for "phase":"default" or "phase": "default" in any emit.py call.

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Rule W05 — register_worker missing phase argument

Orchestrator file calls register_worker(...) without phase= keyword argument.

Detection: grep for register_worker( lines that do not contain phase=.

Applies to: orchestrator files only (filename starts with orchestrator).

Violation: onsubagentstop.py falls back to full log replay to discover phase — unnecessary cost.

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Rule W06 — emit.py not in skills frontmatter

Worker YAML frontmatter skills: list does not include orch-report.

Detection: parse frontmatter block; check skills list for orch-report entry.

Violation: emit.py may not be available in the worker's context.

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Output Format

file: 
status: pass | fail
violations:
  - rule: W03
    severity: critical
    detail: "No --kind completed or --kind failed emit.py call found"
  - rule: W04
    severity: error
    detail: 'Hardcoded "phase":"default" in emit call at line 55'

Exit code: 0 = all pass, 1 = any violation found.

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Usage

Validate a single worker

python3 .claude/skills/u-worker-compliance/scripts/check_worker.py \
  --file .claude/agents/dev/u-be-developer.md

Validate all workers in a directory

python3 .claude/skills/u-worker-compliance/scripts/check_worker.py \
  --dir .claude/agents/

Validate and emit structured JSON report

python3 .claude/skills/u-worker-compliance/scripts/check_worker.py \
  --dir .claude/agents/ \
  --format json > compliance-report.json

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Integration Points

• Run before any git commit that touches .claude/agents/
• Can be wired as a Claude Code hook: UserPromptSubmit → run on changed .md files
• Orchestrator can call it as a pre-promotion gate before phase_transitioned

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Limitations

• Static analysis only — does not execute workers or simulate orchestration
• Cannot verify that task_id and attempt are correctly interpolated at runtime
• Does not validate the semantic correctness of artifacts paths

Source & license

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

• Author: zig999
• Source: zig999/siegard-code
• License: Apache-2.0

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