Maintain Skill

Periodic brain health checks and cleanup.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

• All health dimensions are checked (stale, orphan, dead links, cross-refs, backlinks, citations, filing, tags)
• Each issue found has a specific fix action
• Back-link iron law is enforced
• Citation format is validated against the standard
• Results are reported with counts per dimension

Phases

Ownership failures are an inspection boundary

Routine maintenance, startup checks, doctor --fix, and a request to "fix what's broken" do not authorize writer topology changes. On owner_unavailable or a writer coordination refusal, inspect gbrain sources writer status --brain <id> --json on the selected host first and report the owner, epoch, enabled state and blocked recovery to the operator. Do not claim a checkout, activate managed mode, transfer an owner, replace identities, or remove ownership markers as a repair. When the status reads enabled: false and the refusal says unbound_source, the brain is in classic mode on purpose: report that writes go through the checkout (file, commit, gbrain sync) and leave it classic. Deliberate administration requires a separately approved topology change and the action-specific intent plus reviewed state precondition described in docs/architecture/topologies.md. Neither a TTY nor --yes nor --confirm-quiesced substitutes for that decision. Remote credentials remain ineligible for local writer administration.

Autonomous path (v0.36.4.0), when you want to reach a target score

If the user asks "get my brain to 90/100" or "fix what's broken", preview first and ask before applying anything: