xmemo-audit-progress

name	xmemo-audit-progress
description	Audit implementation or project progress against an approved XMemo plan, checkpoint, decisions, and current evidence. Use when verifying another agent's completion report, reconciling multi-agent claims, identifying drift or blockers, or determining the exact next action. Never promote a claim to verified state without evidence.

Audit Progress with XMemo

Measure reality against the approved baseline. Follow baseline → claims → evidence → reconcile → verdict → checkpoint.

1. Recover the governing baseline

Use recall_context, get_project_summary, search_memory, and relevant todo reads to recover the approved plan, criteria, decisions, last verified checkpoint, and known blockers. Name the governing artifact or memory and flag ambiguity before auditing.

2. Normalize progress claims

Break the report into atomic claims: changed, tested, deployed, reviewed, documented, blocked, or deferred. Preserve source agent and artifact/version when known, but do not treat identity as evidence.

3. Verify current evidence

Inspect available files, diffs, commits, tests, logs, deployments, or explicit user confirmation. Classify each claim:

• verified — direct evidence satisfies the criterion;
• partial — some evidence exists, but the criterion is incomplete;
• claimed — asserted without adequate evidence;
• stale — superseded by newer state;
• conflicting — sources disagree and evidence does not resolve them;
• blocked — a named dependency prevents verification or completion.

Absence of evidence is not proof of failure. A local test is not deployment evidence; a commit is not proof of hosted behavior.

4. Return a formal audit

Use:

1. Audit scope and baseline
2. Verdict — on_track, at_risk, blocked, or not_verified
3. Claim matrix — claim, status, evidence, gap
4. Plan drift
5. Risks and blockers
6. Acceptance gaps
7. Exact next action

When requested, create a durable Markdown report using assets/progress-audit-template.md. Do not write a file for a report-only request.

5. Reconcile XMemo from verified truth

With authorization, replace the checkpoint via update_state, complete or update TODOs only when their conditions are met, record a milestone with record_event, correct durable claims with update_memory, and preserve new lessons with remember.

Never save the audit narrative as a transcript or mark completion from an agent's confidence alone. Read ../xmemo-memory-steward/references/review-playbooks.md, ../xmemo-memory-steward/references/workflows.md, and ../xmemo-memory-steward/references/tool-routing.md for detailed contracts.