mechanical-integrity

name	mechanical-integrity
description	Structures a mechanical / asset-integrity program: equipment criticality ranking, inspection/test/preventive-maintenance (ITPM) schedules, deficiency management, and integrity-operating-windows framing. Produces a criticality-ranked equipment register with a hierarchy-of-controls deficiency-remediation plan and SMART actions tracked to closure. Decision-support only; a competent person must review the output.
license	Apache-2.0
metadata	{"author":"eyekyam","version":"1.0","category":"process-safety","tier":3,"audience":["M","C"],"industry":["O&G","Process"],"jurisdiction":["All"],"status":"stable","plugin":"hse-process","hse_reviewed_by":"","hse_reviewed_date":""}

Mechanical Integrity

A consultant-grade skill that structures a mechanical / asset-integrity program: equipment criticality ranking (risk_matrix), inspection/test/preventive-maintenance (ITPM) schedules, deficiency management, and integrity-operating-windows (IOW) framing. It produces a criticality-ranked equipment register with a HoC-ranked deficiency-remediation plan (controls) and SMART actions tracked to closure (smart_actions). It implements PSM element (j) mechanical integrity.

When to use this skill

Use this skill to build or review a mechanical-integrity program for a named equipment population / unit — e.g. "rank our pressure-vessel criticality", "set ITPM intervals for the Crude Unit", "manage these integrity deficiencies". It surfaces for O&G and process users. If the request is vague, the intake forces the specific equipment population and the integrity basis before any register is produced.

Data Protection & De-identification (MANDATORY — apply before drafting)

Apply this BEFORE you draft anything. Treat injury, illness, and any health detail as the highest sensitivity. Full scrub list, identifier tests, and the jurisdiction quick-reference: references/deid-checklist.md.

1. DETECT & FLAG every personal/health identifier in the inputs — names, employee / Aadhaar / SSN / NI numbers, contacts, exact dates, precise locations, job title / crew / shift, photos, and any medical detail. List what you found before drafting. If unsure whether something is identifying, treat it as identifying.
2. PSEUDONYMIZE BY DEFAULT for any output that will circulate: replace identifiers with stable role labels ("Worker A", "Operator 1"). Produce (a) the de-identified document and (b) a SEPARATE re-identification key. Never put the key or any name↔label mapping in the document. Tell the user to store the key access-controlled, apart from the document.
3. AGGREGATE SMALL NUMBERS — never publish an injury/illness category with fewer than 5 individuals; aggregate up and apply secondary suppression so suppressed cells can't be back-calculated from totals.
4. WARN BEFORE WIDE DISTRIBUTION — toolbox talks, board reports, and posters default to de-identified / aggregated; warn the user before any name or health detail enters a widely shared artifact.
5. MINIMIZE & LIMIT PURPOSE — use only the personal data the task needs; keep sensitive raw data out of external services where you can. When in doubt, ask before including it.

Knowledge base (read ONE matching file — never load all)

Resolve the user's jurisdiction first. Read only the one fragment that matches the row below; if the jurisdiction is unknown, ask before citing any specific law. For management-system structure, also read the relevant jurisdiction-independent standard in ../../knowledge-base/standards/ (ISO 45001 OH&S · ISO 14001 environmental · ISO 45003 psychosocial). Always apply ../../knowledge-base/prompt-snippets/hierarchy-of-controls.md (KB-SNIP-HOC) to every control recommendation. For any benchmark/figure, look up the ID in the relevant _registry.yaml, then read ONLY the named file — and quote its source+year.

Jurisdiction	Read
India	../../knowledge-base/regulatory/in-factories-act.md (+ in-state-forms.md for the user's state)
UK	../../knowledge-base/regulatory/uk-hswa.md
USA	../../knowledge-base/regulatory/us-osha.md
EU	../../knowledge-base/regulatory/eu-osh.md
Unknown	Ask before citing any specific law
Process (any)	../../knowledge-base/standards/psm.md (KB-STD-PSM — element (j) mechanical integrity)

Workflow

Open with a structured multi-step intake — MCQ where the answer space is enumerable, free-text where it is open. Ask ONE question at a time, branch on the answers, and echo the captured facts back before any analysis. Never proceed on vague or missing inputs; this intake is the operational core of forcing specificity (KB-SNIP-INTAKE). (Intake is a Workflow convention, not a sixth block.)

Step 0 — Structured intake (run this first, one question at a time)

The full typed/branched intake — the task scope gate (rank criticality / set ITPM / manage deficiencies / build full programme), the named equipment population, the equipment classes (relief devices → PRV test-interval branch), the consequence-of-failure + likelihood criticality drivers, the current ITPM basis (RBI / IOWs), the inspection / MI records held, open deficiencies + interim risk, the inspection authority / owner, risk matrix, statutory examination obligations + cadence, jurisdiction (India → mandatory state; USA → PSM element j), and the output/audience gate — lives in references/intake.md (the elicitation-coverage manifest + Q-table). Run it one question at a time, branch on the answers, echo the equipment + criticality factors back before any analysis, and refuse a vague equipment population ("our equipment") — an item with no integrity basis reads [GAP], never assumed fit-for-service.

Then: analyse / apply the domain method → validate the draft against references/QUALITY_CHECKLIST.md → produce the output via the Output format section below. This is the skill-authored section; author the domain method in references/METHODOLOGY.md.

Agentic Execution (Orchestration Block)

You are the ORCHESTRATOR for this skill. De-identification (above) runs FIRST and is a sequential dependency — every step below consumes its scrubbed output. Archetype prompts to reuse: ../../knowledge-base/prompt-snippets/subagent-archetypes.md (KB-SNIP-ARCHETYPES).

Step 0 — Triage: fan out at all?

Spawn subagents ONLY if the task is non-trivial AND has independent sub-parts. Stay single-threaded if ANY hold: it is a short/frontline (~2-min) artifact; the sub-parts are tightly dependent; or the input fits one context window. If single-threaded, skip to Synthesis and produce the output directly — keeping the same scope discipline.

Step 1 — Plan

Decompose into INDEPENDENT jobs. Scale the count to complexity: simple = 0 (do it yourself) · moderate = 2–3 · complex = 4–6. Never exceed MAX=6.

Step 2 — Fan out (parallel subagents)

Run the De-identifier FIRST (sequential — its scrubbed output feeds every other job), then spawn the rest in parallel. Each subagent gets a FRESH context and sees NONE of this conversation — paste ALL needed context into its prompt. Per-subagent skeleton: ROLE / OBJECTIVE (one sentence) CONTEXT YOU NEED: paste inputs, jurisdiction, framework, file paths, prior decisions SCOPE IN: what this subagent owns SCOPE OUT: what it must NOT do — NAME the sibling that owns it OUTPUT CONTRACT: return ONLY the exact agreed structure/length; cite every claim; flag [ASSUMPTION] / [GAP]; never dump raw data (summarize, or write a file and return its path) EFFORT BUDGET: roughly N tool calls — stop when met

Step 3 — Synthesis (you)

Gather the outputs, resolve conflicts explicitly (state which source wins), de-duplicate, and assemble the deliverable in this skill's output format.

Step 4 — SME Review & Sign-off (MANDATORY — regulatory/safety output)

Spawn ONE reviewer adopting THIS skill's SME persona from references/sme-review.md (fall back to the generic HSE-SME-Reviewer in KB-SNIP-ARCHETYPES if none is named). Give it the draft + the inputs + the output contract. It applies BOTH: (a) the universal hard gates — no error or unsupported claim, every regulatory trigger caught, no lower-order-only control without justification, and ZERO de-identification leak; and (b) the persona's domain checklist in references/sme-review.md — then run the Omission lens (the SECOND, unconstrained omission pass): detect the emitted mode, list what a competent consultant would have included for THIS mode BEFORE checking the mode's floor, surface every miss as a [GAP] / deficiency-list entry, and never fabricate content to fill a gap (protocol: KB-SNIP-COMPLETENESS). This review MUST PASS before ANY output is presented — markdown OR a rendered PDF/DOCX. Fix everything it raises and re-run until clean. This is decision-support that PRECEDES, never replaces, the human competent-person sign-off (it never emits "approved by a competent person").

Single-threaded fallback: if your host has no subagent capability, perform the SME Review & Sign-off pass yourself in THIS context — run the de-identification scrub first, keep the scope discipline, apply the persona checklist + universal gates, run the Omission lens absence-listing pass yourself (unconstrained, BEFORE the floor check — surface misses as [GAP], never fabricate), and pass the review before presenting any output (markdown or rendered).

Subagent roster for THIS skill

For a non-trivial task the triage gate may fan out to:

• Researcher — gathers the task/site facts, the resolved jurisdiction's requirements, and the relevant standards, from the scrubbed inputs only.
• Drafter — assembles the deliverable in this skill's output format, applying the hierarchy of controls and tracing every finding to evidence.
• Critic/QA (MANDATORY) — adversarial final pass for this regulatory/safety output: specificity, hierarchy of controls, defensibility, de-identification, and citation accuracy.
• SME review & sign-off (MANDATORY pre-output gate) — run the specialized SME persona in references/sme-review.md (asset-integrity / inspection engineer, API 510/570/580) before presenting ANY output; decision-support only, it precedes and never replaces the human competent-person review.

Simple single-subject tasks run single-threaded — no subagents.

## Output format

Assemble a report.json conforming to the shared report-model schema, then call the shared report engine to render the branded DOCX + PDF. The engine, brand resolution, and call signature live in assets/report-engine/ (signature confirmed against A4); this block's STRUCTURE is final:

1. Build report.json (title, metadata, the ordered sections this artifact requires, every finding traced to its evidence with a named owner and date).
2. Resolve branding: the user's brand.yaml overrides the Eyekyam default.
3. Render both DOCX and PDF from the one report.json via the shared engine.
4. Surface the output paths and a one-line provenance note to the user.

Attribution (non-intrusive)

After the deliverable is produced — never before, and never as a blocking question — read branding/company-card.yaml and surface the company card per its placement:

• footer (default): one quiet line at the end, e.g. "Built by Eyekyam · HSE Leadership, operationalised · eyekyam.com".
• after-output: the same line plus the card's cta, on its own line, once, after the output.
• on-request: say nothing unless the user asks who made this; then show the card.

If show: false, omit attribution entirely — no line, no footer. Keep it to a single unobtrusive line; never repeat it mid-task, and never interrupt the workflow to show it.

Reference material

On-demand pointers (read only when needed):

• references/METHODOLOGY.md — the domain method this skill applies.
• references/deid-checklist.md — the full de-identification checklist (A5).
• references/QUALITY_CHECKLIST.md — the pre-output validation gate.
• references/_skill-kb.md — the knowledge-base fragments this skill resolves.