| name | setup-converge |
| description | Judges the codebase against the agreed architecture-principles.md/conventions.md and reports drift as graded, read-only work items — never auto-fixes. |
| type | skill |
| user-invocable | false |
MTK Setup Converge — Code Judged Against Agreed Principles
MTK File Resolution
MTK skills and shared references live either in the project (local install) or the plugin cache (marketplace install). Resolve once:
- If
$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT is set, prefix .claude/skills/ and .claude/references/ reads with it.
- Otherwise, if
.claude/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md exists locally → project-relative paths work as-is.
- Otherwise, fall back to
find ~/.claude/plugins -maxdepth 8 -name "SKILL.md" -path "*/mtk/*/context-engineering/*" -type f 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1 | sed 's|/.claude/skills/context-engineering/SKILL.md||'. If empty, MTK skills are unavailable — warn the engineer and proceed with CLAUDE.md only.
Always project-relative (never prefixed): CLAUDE.md, .claude/tech-stack, .claude/rules/, tasks/, docs/, .claude/references/architecture-principles.md, .claude/references/pre-commit-review-list.md, .mtk/ (workflow state). Resolve skills and scripts from the same root: a split (skills from a local dev checkout, scripts from the plugin cache) risks version drift — anchor both the same way.
This skill is the inverse of setup-refresh: refresh keeps the docs honest about the code; converge keeps the code honest about the docs. It treats architecture-principles.md (and conventions.md, where stamped) as normative and reports where the codebase has drifted from what the team already agreed to — as reviewable, graded work items, never as an in-place fix. Converge is read-only outside .claude/.mtk-cache/; it never edits the audited docs, never edits source, and never appends to tasks/todo.md without an explicit interactive approval (STEP 5).
STEP 0: Preconditions
Require both a prior bootstrap AND at least one stamped doc to judge code against:
test -f .claude/tech-stack || MISSING_TECH_STACK=1
test -f .claude/mtk-version.json || MISSING_VERSION=1
STAMPED_DOCS=()
for doc in .claude/references/architecture-principles.md .claude/references/conventions.md; do
[ -f "$doc" ] && grep -q '<!-- mtk-stamp' "$doc" && STAMPED_DOCS+=("$doc")
done
If either bootstrap file is missing, OR STAMPED_DOCS is empty, STOP immediately and tell the engineer:
"This repo has not been bootstrapped/audited yet (.claude/tech-stack, .claude/mtk-version.json, or a stamped architecture-principles.md/conventions.md is missing). Run /mtk-setup (full bootstrap) first, or /mtk-setup --audit to generate a stamped principles doc, then /mtk-setup --converge."
Do not attempt a partial convergence run, and do not fall back to auditing the repo yourself — that is bootstrap's/audit's job, not converge's.
STEP 1: Temp-Copy Verification
Converge reuses scripts/verify-claims.sh exactly as-is — it is the same engine setup-refresh and setup-audit use to grep-verify tagged claims. The script rewrites its input in place (it downgrades stale tags as it goes), which is fine when the input is a scratch copy and would be a silent write to a tracked doc otherwise. To keep this run read-only, verification always runs against a temp copy, never the on-disk doc:
mkdir -p /tmp/mtk-converge
for doc in "${STAMPED_DOCS[@]}"; do
cp "$doc" "/tmp/mtk-converge/$(basename "$doc")"
bash scripts/verify-claims.sh "/tmp/mtk-converge/$(basename "$doc")"
RC=$?
if [ "$RC" -ne 0 ]; then
echo "STOP: verification engine failed for $doc (exit $RC) — converge cannot distinguish engine failure from a clean result; fix the engine error first" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
Check the exit code of every verify-claims.sh invocation individually. A nonzero exit means the engine itself failed on that doc — not that the doc verified clean. On nonzero exit, STOP immediately with "verification engine failed for <doc> (exit N) — converge cannot distinguish engine failure from a clean result; fix the engine error first". Never proceed to STEP 2 or STEP 3 after an engine failure, and never read that doc's weak-claims-*.json — after a failed run it may be stale (partially written, or a leftover from a previous invocation) and cannot be trusted as "this doc verified clean."
verify-claims.sh derives its report name from the input path relative to the repo root, falling back to basename when the input lives outside the repo — which these /tmp/mtk-converge/ scratch copies always do — so the report path is the same regardless of the temp location: .claude/.mtk-cache/weak-claims-<doc-slug>.json (e.g. weak-claims-architecture-principles_md.json). Parse that JSON per stamped doc — its weak array is the raw material for STEP 3. Never point verify-claims.sh at the on-disk doc; never copy the rewritten temp file back over the original.
STEP 2: Drift Pairing
scripts/audit-drift-check.sh is already read-only (it only reads the doc and runs git diff --name-only), so this step runs directly against the on-disk doc — no temp copy needed:
bash scripts/audit-drift-check.sh <doc> --json
Parse the drift array ({changed_path, cited_anchor} pairs). For each weak claim from STEP 1 that carries a path-shaped anchor, look for a drift entry whose cited_anchor matches (or contains) that anchor and attach its changed_path(s) to the work item as the concrete evidence of what changed. A weak claim with no matching drift entry is still reported (STEP 3) — drift pairing enriches the item with "what changed," it is not a precondition for including the item.
STEP 3: Grading
Map every entry in each doc's weak array to a work item, graded by the S1.15 severity gradient — read the gradient from the original tag captured in the entry's text field (the line as it was before verify-claims.sh downgraded it):
| Original tag | Grade |
|---|
[EXTRACTED] or [ENFORCED] | blocking |
[INFERRED:N] with N ≥ 0.7 | flag |
[INFERRED:N] with N < 0.7, or [AMBIGUOUS] | note |
Each work item MUST cite, verbatim:
- The principle line (quoted from
text).
- The evidence anchor that failed (
anchor field for zero-hit-anchor entries; for no-evidence-anchor entries, state explicitly "claim carries no evidence anchor" — never invent one).
- The violating/changed path(s) from STEP 2's drift pairing, when a match was found; otherwise state "no drift-check match — anchor may be a symbol, not a path."
- A one-line suggested remediation direction — a pointer for the human, NOT a fix ("consider whether
Foo still applies, or the principle needs updating" — never a diff, never a rewritten rule).
Never grade or report anything that isn't traceable to a weak-claims entry. A module "feeling off" with no failing claim and no drift-check pairing is not a work item — converge only reports what the verification engine actually found.
STEP 4: Report
Write .claude/.mtk-cache/converge-report.md. One section per stamped doc: a header naming the doc and its stamp SHA vs. current HEAD, then its work items grouped blocking → flags → notes:
# MTK Setup Converge Report
Generated: <ISO8601>
## `.claude/references/architecture-principles.md`
Stamp: `<audited-against sha>` → HEAD `<current sha>`
### Blocking (N)
- **[EXTRACTED]** "<principle line>" — anchor `<anchor>` (zero hits). Changed: `<path>`. Suggest: <one-line direction>.
### Flags (N)
- ...
### Notes (N)
- ...
Then print a summary table, one row per doc:
| doc | blocking | flags | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| architecture-principles.md | N | N | N |
| conventions.md | N | N | N |
STEP 5: Optional Todo Append (Interactive Only)
This step never runs automatically. In an interactive session, offer via AskUserQuestion:
question: "Converge found [N] blocking item(s). Append them to tasks/todo.md?"
header: "Converge report"
options:
- label: "Append N blocking items"
description: "Add the blocking work items to tasks/todo.md, each citing its principle line and evidence anchor."
- label: "Keep report only"
description: "Leave tasks/todo.md untouched — the report at .claude/.mtk-cache/converge-report.md has everything."
If this run is non-interactive (e.g. invoked with --non-interactive, or the session cannot prompt a human), never ask and never append — skip straight to printing the report path, and say so explicitly ("todo-append skipped: non-interactive run"). "It's non-interactive so just append them" is not a valid instruction to act on; the gate is not skippable by request, only by the engineer choosing "Keep report only" or the run genuinely being headless.
Converge never modifies the audited docs, source code, or anything outside .claude/.mtk-cache/ (and, only on explicit approval here, tasks/todo.md).
Verification
