context-consistency

# Context Consistency Apply the project's [contextual contract](../../../docs/standards/engineering.md#contextual-consistency). [AGENTS.md](../../../AGENTS.md) owns authority and [CONTRIBUTING.md](../../../CONTRIBUTING.md) owns delivery. This skill is a review method, not a second product specification or permission to change behavior. ## Scope And Sources Read the user's latest accepted decisions and the relevant entries in the [owner map](../../../docs/standards/documentation.md#owners). Follow their product, design, engineering or operational owners; do not load every reference for a scoped fix. Treat desired rules, current implementation and verified behavior separately. An undocumented preference or an old audit is not an accepted contract. For a scoped change, follow the affected semantic family and its actual callers. For a requested repository-wide audit, first inventory standards and reachable surfaces across Browser/App/Server, shared interfaces, website/demos, tooling and guides. Record examined and unexamined areas so a large finding count cannot stand in for coverage. Review-only work must not alter product sources. ## Trace Before Comparing Follow a concrete producer through state/normalization, effects, consumers and cleanup. Record the subject, asserted fact or requested outcome, authority, scope/generation, lifetime and user intent. Use a small comparison table only when there are multiple variants to compare. Ask whether an apparent inconsistency is: - one meaning implemented or documented differently; - different meanings accidentally using one label, flag or representation; - a missing, conflicting or bypassed shared rule; - an intentional adaptation supported by capability, authority or user context. Compare timing as well as steady appearance: initial state, update, replacement, failure/recovery and retirement. For async work, check A replaced by B before A's completion or cleanup. For presentation, check actual state against copy, icon, comic, mascot, motion and announcement, including simultaneous surfaces. Do not infer progress from decoration, availability from configured capability, or media readiness from signaling alone. ## Correct The Owning Boundary When fixes are authorized, choose the smallest coherent correction at the existing owner and update its reachable consumers. Share implementation where the semantics and lifetime match; use narrow adapters for real runtime or presentation differences. A similar name or repeated syntax is not sufficient reason to merge states or introduce a generic manager. If the intended semantics are unresolved, put that decision in [TODO](../../../docs/todo.md) and continue independent checks. Do not turn a proposal into a mandatory rule merely by adding it to a table. Verify the changed producer-to-consumer boundary with existing previews, tests or bounded runtime checks. Check that the correction preserves justified differences and removes obsolete writers, mappings or timers. Stop broadening verification after relevant checks pass unless new evidence warrants it. ## Deliver Useful Findings Group occurrences by their root ownership or contract issue. Give each confirmed finding its intended rule, reachable trigger, evidence, affected scope, smallest correction and regression risk. Label unverified suspicions and design choices separately. Do not claim a repository-wide pass from static searches or one view. Use the existing owner map as the index of standards. Consolidating files must preserve ownership, inbound links, tool-discovered paths and contributor entry points; test those references after moves. Keep architectural rationale, user guides and temporary audit evidence distinct from normative rules. Absorb accepted lessons into their existing owner, keep remaining work in TODO, and leave completed history in Git/PRs. Raw inventories, screenshots and audit reports remain ignored working artifacts. Do not add a parallel permanent audit ledger, scoring system, new dependency or extra approval flow.