G Doctor

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name: g-doctor
description: Read-only health diagnostics for G-Forge projects — 25 checks including hook registration, installed-copy drift, Check 23 plugin-version-lag, Check 24 CLAUDE.md injection-rule compliance, and Check 25 integration-tier guard. Recommends `/plugins` or `/g-update` by direction. Never writes.
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**Announce:** "Using g-doctor to check project health."

## Step 1 — Run the checks

(a) Locate this skill's `scripts/checks.sh` (Glob `~/.claude/plugins/cache/g-forge/g-forge/*/skills/g-doctor/scripts/checks.sh`; in self-host mode the repo's own copy) and run it from the project root. It executes Checks 1–23 and 25 deterministically, printing `CHECK:` / `LINE:` / `FIX:` rows (contract in its header). Transcribe LINE rows verbatim into the Step 2 report, each FIX row beneath its LINE — never re-derive a verdict the script already printed.
(b) Check 24 is model-executed by contract (its security rules forbid shelling untrusted CLAUDE.md content): load `references/check-24-injection.md` and run the classification pass in-model.
(c) If the script is missing or errors, load `references/check-catalog.md` and run all checks manually per that catalog.

### Checks

**1. commit hook** — `.claude/hooks/check-commit.sh` exists.
**2. workflow hook** — `.claude/hooks/workflow-checkpoint.sh` exists.
**3. post-commit hook** — `.claude/hooks/post-commit-cleanup.sh` exists.
**4. PreToolUse registered** — `.claude/settings.json` has a `PreToolUse` entry pointing at `check-commit.sh`.
**5. UserPromptSubmit registered** — settings.json has a `UserPromptSubmit` entry pointing at `workflow-checkpoint.sh`.
**6. G-Forge Rules block** — `CLAUDE.md` contains `<!-- G-Forge Rules`.
**7. G-RULES.md present** — `G-RULES.md` exists at the project root.
**8. @G-RULES.md referenced in CLAUDE.md** — `CLAUDE.md` contains `@G-RULES.md`.
**9. No stale sentinel** — `.claude/g-forge-approved` must be absent (auto-cleared after each commit).
**10. No stale doc-approval sentinel** — `.claude/g-forge-docs-approved` must be absent; a leftover means the doc gate is stuck open.
**11. PreCompact hook installed and registered** — `pre-compact.sh` exists AND is registered in settings.json.
**12. SessionStart hook installed and registered** — `session-start.sh` exists AND is registered in settings.json.
**13. observer hooks installed and registered** — `observe.sh` exists AND has `PostToolUse` + `SessionStart` entries.
**14. agent lifecycle hooks installed and registered** — `agent-lifecycle.sh` exists AND has `SubagentStart` + `SubagentStop` entries.
**15. No duplicate / double-firing hook registration** — each script at most once per event in settings.json; the plugin manifest `hooks/hooks.json` registers nothing (settings.json is the single registrar).
**16. Installed-copy drift** — hash-compare every installed copy against its canonical plugin source (mechanics in checks.sh; rationale essays in `references/check-16-drift.md`), using this portable cascade:
```bash
hash_file() {
  if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    sha256sum "$1" | awk '{print $1}'
  elif command -v shasum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    shasum -a 256 "$1" | awk '{print $1}'
  else
    cksum "$1" | awk '{print $1, $2}'
  fi
}
```
Surfaces:
- The 7 top-level hook scripts in `.claude/hooks/` vs plugin `hooks/`.
- **`hooks/lib/` drift.** Enumerate the canonical lib set from disk — `ls [plugin-root]/hooks/lib/*.sh` — never from a list written here; hash-compare each `.sh` found against its `.claude/hooks/lib/` counterpart.
- **Sourced-but-uninstalled libs (install-list completeness).** Derive the required set from the installed hooks' own `lib/` references; zero references is inconclusive ⚠, never Pass; one report line per missing lib — mechanics in checks.sh, rationale in `references/check-16-drift.md`.
- Native `pre-commit` — resolve the dir with `git rev-parse --git-path hooks`; a G-Forge copy carries the `G-Forge commit gate` marker (a foreign one is advisory-only) — and, beside it, `<hooks-dir>/lib/*.sh` drift.
- The 10 g-rules section files (flat rename: `rules/g-rules/X-name.md` → `.claude/rules/g-rules-X-name.md`).
- Installed agents, by provenance class: profile-copied fail on drift / template-instantiated advisory-only / `*-dev.md` excluded.
- Installed `.claude/skills/architecture-*/SKILL.md` bodies (frontmatter stripped) vs `profiles/<stack>/rules/architecture.md`.

**17. CLAUDE.md architecture rules format** (advisory) — any `<!-- G-Forge [stack] Architecture Rules` block with more than 3 content lines is legacy inline format.
**18. CLAUDE.md total size** (advisory) — more than 150 lines suggests inline rules content.
**19. No leftover legacy `g-team` plugin** (advisory) — an old-name cache or config entry duplicates every /g-* command.
**20. `.gitignore` vets G-Forge artifacts** (advisory) — runtime artifacts (sentinels, journal, agent-output) ignored; the tracked-by-design g-docs//g-wiki/ record never ignored (rationale: `references/check-rationale.md`).
**21. No stray G-Forge documents** (advisory) — inverted scan: root tracking files, plus any dir sharing a top-level `g-docs/` name outside g-docs//g-wiki/ whose contents look like docs (≥1 `.md`, no source file); rationale: `references/check-rationale.md`.
**22. Roundtable security** (advisory — only when a Roundtable is bound) — bind record gitignored, never committed, credential-free; skipped when `.claude/roundtable` is absent (rationale: `references/check-rationale.md`).
**23. Plugin version lag** (advisory) — resolve the GitHub-latest / cache / project-installed triple read-only; compare every pair via `hooks/lib/semver-compare.sh`'s `gf_semver_compare`; Pass only when every resolvable comparison returns 0; ℹ when the cache is ahead of the release or the project ahead of the cache; degrade gracefully offline or on malformed input.
**24. CLAUDE.md injection-rule compliance** (advisory) — in-model classification of every load-bearing CLAUDE.md line into MARKER-FED / IMPORT / DECLARED-LOCAL / BARE-PROSE per `references/check-24-injection.md` (riders (i)–(v), report-laundering guard, unconditional summary count line).
**25. Integration-tier guard file** (advisory) — the governing `integration-tier` (local `.claude/` if present, else the ADR-005 primary tree's) holds exactly one of `full`, `balanced`, `light`; all 8 hooks self-guard on it, so a missing or corrupt governing file leaves the hook system silently inert (rationale: `references/check-rationale.md`).

## Step 2 — Output the report

One LINE row per check in order 1–25, each indented two spaces; its FIX rows beneath it, indented four spaces and prefixed `→ ` (only failing/advisory checks carry them); the `Advisory` header before check 17:

```
G-Forge Doctor ─────────────────────────────────
  [LINE rows for checks 1–16, each followed by its → fix rows]

  Advisory
  [LINE rows for checks 17–25, each followed by its → fix rows]
────────────────────────────────────────────────
[N/16 required checks passed]
```

After the summary count line, add one blank line, then:
- If all 16 required checks passed and no advisories: `All checks passed. Project is healthy.`
- If all 16 required checks passed but advisories exist: `Required checks passed. Address the advisories above — they range from CLAUDE.md/document hygiene to conditions that leave the hook system inert (Check 25).`
- If any required check failed: `Fix the issues above, then re-run /g-doctor.`

## Rules

- Checks 1–16 are required (✓/✗) and count toward the pass/fail total; checks 17–25 are the 9 advisory checks (✓/⚠; check 23 also ℹ) and never count (16 required + 9 advisory = 25 total); check 22 runs only when `.claude/roundtable` exists.
- Doctor is read-only: it never writes a file and never invokes `/g-update` or `/plugins` itself — it only diagnoses and recommends the right one by direction.
- Every failing or advisory line carries a `→ ` fix instruction indented four spaces — never leave a fail/advisory line unexplained.
- Hash comparisons use the portable `hash_file` cascade above (`sha256sum` → `shasum -a 256` → `cksum`); the Check 16 fenced block is canonical, checks.sh mirrors it — keep both in sync.
- Installed-agent drift (Check 16) classifies each `.claude/agents/` file's provenance before applying that class's rule — never one rule for all three classes.
- Check 24 is in-model only — untrusted CLAUDE.md content never reaches a shell, a hash, or a verbatim echo; the full gates (escape classification, charset gates, report-laundering guard) live in `references/check-24-injection.md` and are never relaxed.
- Print the report exactly in the specified format — no extra commentary beyond the closing summary line.
- Milestone alignment is not a numbered check here — it's covered by `/g-status` instead.