openplan-garden

OpenPlan Garden

Use this after $openplan-core for document quality, periodic documentation maintenance, and semantic drift inspection. Garden is about preserving the clarity of human goal/intent over time.

Core Rule

Garden first reports. It does not rewrite durable docs or memory unless the user explicitly asks for a cleanup/edit pass.

What Garden Checks

1. Goal/intent clarity: can a future human or agent tell why this exists?
2. Authority clarity: is this source of truth, draft, handoff, review, or temporary brief?
3. Layer clarity: does it mix goal/intent, design, spec, implementation, and review without labels?
4. Rationale: are decisions explained, not just stated?
5. Staleness: are time-sensitive or superseded claims marked?
6. Duplication: is content copied where a reference would work?
7. Traceability: are important claims tied to sources or evidence?
8. Zero-context readability: can a competent reader understand it without the chat?
9. Human-decision boundary: does it record human decisions separately from agent suggestions?
10. Next-action clarity: does it say what should happen next, if anything?

Periodic Garden Pass

Use garden as the periodic documentation cleanup workflow. A periodic pass checks:

• stale or superseded documents;
• duplicated rationale that should become references;
• missing or unclear authority labels;
• memory/docs conflicts;
• abandoned TODOs or unresolved questions;
• research/review/handoff artifacts that should be archived, promoted, or left alone;
• docs that no longer pass zero-context comprehension.

Garden first reports proposed cleanup. It may edit only when the user explicitly asks for a cleanup pass, and durable goal/intent changes still require $openplan-record and human confirmation through the human-facing coordinator.

Workflow

1. Identify document type: memory, design, decision, spec, handoff, review, tutorial, temporary brief.
2. Identify the docs root when a whole documentation surface is being reviewed.
3. Load only the document and directly referenced context needed to judge it.
4. Run optional deterministic checks if available and safe.
5. Apply references/checklist.md.
6. Report findings using references/report-contract.md.
7. If the user requests cleanup, use $openplan-record before editing durable memory/docs.
8. For periodic maintenance, separate safe mechanical cleanup from human-owned meaning changes.