lisa-doctor

name	lisa-doctor
description	Audit whether the current repository is ready to use Lisa. Runs grouped read-only checks across project detection, Lisa config, runtime distribution surfaces, tracker/source preflight access, automation prerequisites, optional GitHub Project coordination, and optional wiki delegation, then reports PASS/WARN/FAIL/SKIP results plus an overall readiness verdict (`READY`, `READY_WITH_WARNINGS`, or `NOT_READY`).
allowed-tools	["Skill","Bash","Read","Glob","Grep"]

Doctor: $ARGUMENTS

Run a read-only Lisa readiness audit for the current repository.

Purpose

/lisa:doctor is the deterministic answer to "is this repo actually ready to use Lisa?" It audits the repository in grouped sections, reports each check as PASS, WARN, FAIL, or SKIP, and emits one overall verdict: READY, READY_WITH_WARNINGS, or NOT_READY.

The command is repository-scoped. It validates only what can be observed from the current repo, current machine, and current runtime. It does not create automations, labels, tracker items, or other external state as part of the default audit path.

Inputs

• Optional flags in $ARGUMENTS that narrow or tune read-only validation.
• The current repository root and its Lisa config files (.lisa.config.json, .lisa.config.local.json) when present.

Confirmation policy

Do not ask whether to proceed. Once invoked, run the read-only audit, print the grouped results, emit the overall verdict, and stop.

Specifically forbidden:

• Previewing the number of checks and asking whether to continue.
• Offering "run a few checks first" or "dry-run vs real run" choices. This skill is already the read-only path.
• Performing setup mutations just because a failing check discovered something missing.

The only legitimate reasons to stop early are:

• The current working directory cannot be resolved to a repository/root the audit can inspect.
• The runtime blocks all required local reads needed to even classify the repo.

Audit contract

Doctor reports grouped checks in a stable, human-readable structure. The grouped sections include, as applicable to the current repo:

1. Project detection and runtime basics — detect the project root, package/runtime surface, and whether Lisa is installed where the repo expects it.
2. Lisa config readiness — read .lisa.config.json and .lisa.config.local.json using the same local-overrides-global semantics defined by config-resolution; report missing required keys, incompatible combinations, and committed-vs-local locality problems as findings rather than mutating config.
3. Tracker/source preflight — perform read-only readiness checks for the configured tracker and source only. If a required CLI, MCP surface, or auth context is unavailable in the current runtime, report that explicitly instead of pretending the repo is ready.
4. Runtime distribution surfaces — confirm the command, skill, hook, and related distribution surfaces relevant to this repo are present where Lisa expects them on the active runtime.
5. Automation readiness — inspect whether the configured queue source/tracker and scheduling prerequisites are observable, but do not create, edit, or delete automations during doctor.
6. Optional GitHub Project coordination — when github.projects.v2 is configured, delegate the shared validation read to github-project-v2 instead of reimplementing ad-hoc GraphQL checks. Honor the required=false vs required=true semantics documented by config-resolution: best-effort failures are WARN, required-mode failures are FAIL.
7. Optional wiki delegation — when a repo-local wiki/ exists, either summarize the specialized lisa-wiki-doctor verdict or explicitly report that deeper wiki checks are available there. The base doctor stays narrower than full wiki migration enforcement.

If a check family is not applicable to the current repo, report SKIP with the reason.

Minimum config-readiness checks

The Lisa config group is not just "does a file exist?" Doctor must audit the config contract in this order:

1. Presence + parseability

   • FAIL when .lisa.config.json is missing, empty, or invalid JSON.
   • Read .lisa.config.local.json only when present; if present but invalid JSON, FAIL.

2. Merged effective config

   • Resolve every key with the same per-key local-overrides-global semantics documented by config-resolution. Doctor must describe findings against the effective merged value, not by pretending one file fully replaces the other.

3. Required top-level dispatch keys

   • FAIL when merged tracker is missing or is not one of jira, github, or linear.
   • FAIL when merged source is present but is not one of notion, confluence, linear, github, or jira.

4. Vendor required-key audit

   • FAIL when the configured tracker/source points at a vendor whose required keys are absent after merge. Examples: tracker=github requires github.org + github.repo; tracker=jira requires atlassian.cloudId + jira.project; source=notion requires notion.workspaceId + notion.prdDatabaseId.
   • Reuse the config-resolution vendor tables rather than inventing a second required-key list.

5. Local-vs-committed locality audit

   • WARN when developer-specific fields appear in committed config. At minimum enforce the documented local-only examples: atlassian.email, intake.assignee, and jira.verified_workflow_hash.
   • WARN when project-wide shared fields exist only in .lisa.config.local.json and are absent from .lisa.config.json, because the current machine may work while the repository remains under-configured for teammates and automations. Examples include , , , , , , , , , and .

Locality findings are advisory unless the merged config is unusable. Missing shared keys after the merge are FAIL; shared keys that exist only locally are WARN.

Minimum tracker/source preflight checks

After config readiness passes far enough to resolve the merged tracker and optional source, doctor must perform read-only preflight checks for the configured vendors only. It does not probe every vendor Lisa supports.

1. Scope the audit to configured vendors
   • Audit the merged tracker.
   • Audit the merged source only when present and distinct from the tracker.
   • Report every non-configured vendor as SKIP rather than pretending it was checked.
2. Prove a readable substrate exists
   • tracker=github or source=github: require gh CLI availability, a passing gh auth status, and a read probe against the configured repo such as gh repo view <org>/<repo>.
   • tracker=jira, source=jira, or source=confluence: follow the atlassian-access substrate ladder and prove at least one read-capable path can see the configured atlassian.cloudId and vendor scope. Acceptable substrates are acli, Atlassian MCP, or the validated API-token/curl path documented by config-resolution.
   • tracker=linear or source=linear: require either readable Linear MCP access or a valid personal API-key probe against the configured workspace. When Linear is the tracker, doctor must also prove the configured linear.teamKey is visible.
   • source=notion: require either a Notion MCP identity match for notion.workspaceId or a valid internal-integration token probe, plus read visibility to notion.prdDatabaseId.
3. Separate missing tooling from missing auth or scope
   • Missing executable / MCP substrate availability is a distinct observed fact, not the same as "auth failed."
   • When a probe runs and fails, preserve the exact read-only failure text or HTTP/GraphQL status in the observed output so the operator can distinguish wrong workspace/site/repo from missing credentials.
4. Severity ladder
   • PASS when at least one supported read-only substrate proves the configured vendor is reachable with the required scope.
   • WARN when the configured vendor is reachable, but an additional optional substrate is unavailable and later Lisa flows would need to fall back.
   • FAIL when no supported substrate can prove read access for the configured tracker/source, or when the configured vendor target is unreadable from the current runtime.

Minimum GitHub Project coordination checks

When github.projects.v2 is configured, doctor must run one additional read-only coordination check instead of treating the config block as implicitly ready.

1. Delegate through the shared chokepoint

   • Call lisa-github-project-v2 in read-only resolution mode:

     operation: resolve-project
     

   • Do not inline ad-hoc Project GraphQL in doctor. Setup, doctor, writers, and linked-PR flows must all read the same owner/access contract from the shared utility.

2. Preserve exact namespace + access failures

   • Enforce the v1 namespace rule exactly as documented by the shared utility. If github.projects.v2.owner.slug does not match github.org, report:

     code: project_namespace_mismatch
     message: "github.projects.v2.owner.slug must match github.org in v1"
     remediation: "Use a Project owned by <github.org> or remove github.projects.v2."
     

   • For owner-access or GraphQL failures, preserve the exact GitHub / GraphQL failure text in the observed output. Examples include missing Project, Resource not accessible by integration, unsupported owner kind, or a wrong owner/number pair.

3. Report exact remediation paths
   • Doctor must make the next operator action explicit. At minimum, say whether they need to:
     1. choose a Project owned by the tracked repo namespace,
     2. grant the token Project read/write access,
     3. correct the configured Project number/owner, or
     4. remove github.projects.v2 when coordination is not required.
4. Map shared utility outcomes into doctor severity
   • required: false => doctor WARN. Repository-local GitHub issue/PR flows remain usable while Project coordination is degraded.
   • required: true => doctor FAIL. The same Project validation failure blocks Lisa readiness because coordination was configured as required.

Good output examples:

WARN github.projects.v2: Resource not accessible by integration
Observed: exact GitHub / GraphQL failure text preserved from resolve-project.
Remediation: grant the token Project read/write access or remove github.projects.v2.required.
Repository-local GitHub issue/PR flows remain usable; Project coordination is disabled.

FAIL github.projects.v2: github.projects.v2.owner.slug must match github.org in v1
Remediation: use a Project owned by CodySwannGT or remove github.projects.v2.

Minimum automation-readiness checks

Doctor's automation-readiness group stays read-only: it audits whether this repo and runtime could support /lisa:setup-automations and the resulting recurring jobs, but it does not create, edit, delete, or reconcile automations on the default doctor path.

1. Resolve the queue inputs exactly as setup-automations would
   • Resolve the PRD queue from merged source.
   • Resolve the build queue from merged tracker.
   • Resolve the repair queue from the same queue-detection rules as lisa-repair-intake (identical source-dispatch contract to lisa-intake).
   • If any automation would require guessing because source, tracker, or their vendor keys are still unresolved after the config-readiness audit, report that automation as FAIL rather than pretending scheduling can proceed safely.
2. Audit the current runtime's native scheduler surface without mutating it
   • Codex: doctor should report whether the runtime exposes the native automations surface (automation_update) needed by /lisa:setup-automations.
   • Claude: doctor should report whether the runtime exposes /schedule.
   • Other runtimes: doctor should explicitly say that no native Lisa scheduler is known for the current runtime.
   • This is observability only. Never create a placeholder automation just to prove the scheduler works.
3. Check exploratory-automation support by shipped stack surface
   • exploratory-bugs is supported only when the project ships an exploratory-qa command surface (the expo, rails, or harper-fabric stacks today). Reuse the same stack/support rule documented by setup-automations; do not invent exploratory jobs for stacks that do not ship that command.
   • When the repo does not ship exploratory-qa, report exploratory-bugs as SKIP with the reason.
   • exploratory-prds remains applicable when the repo can run /lisa:project-ideation; if its queue/config prerequisites are unresolved, report the exact blocking config fact.
4. Severity ladder
   • PASS when an automation's queue inputs are resolvable and the runtime exposes the required native scheduler surface for that automation.
   • WARN when Lisa remains usable manually, but the current runtime has no native scheduler surface for unattended runs, so automation setup would be unavailable from here.

Minimum wiki-delegation checks

When a repo-local wiki/ directory exists, doctor must surface the specialized wiki-readiness path without turning the base doctor into a second lisa-wiki-doctor.

1. Detect whether wiki delegation applies
   • If no repo-local wiki/ directory exists, report the entire wiki group as SKIP with the reason that no wiki surface is present in this repository.
   • If wiki/ exists, keep the group present in the final report; do not silently omit it.
2. Prefer summary of an existing specialized verdict
   • If the repo already has a readable wiki/state/migration/doctor-report.json, doctor may summarize the specialized verdict (READY, READY_WITH_WARNINGS, or NOT_READY) plus the most relevant blocking/warning facts, clearly attributing them to lisa-wiki-doctor.
   • Preserve the base doctor's narrower scope: summarize or quote the specialized verdict, but do not inline the full migration/readiness checklist into the base doctor output.
3. Otherwise advertise the deeper follow-up explicitly

   • If wiki/ exists but no specialized report is available yet, doctor must still tell the operator that deeper wiki checks live behind lisa-wiki-doctor.

   • The report should make the next action explicit, for example:

     WARN wiki-follow-up: wiki/ detected; deeper wiki migration checks not yet summarized
     Observed: wiki/ exists, but no wiki/state/migration/doctor-report.json was found.
     Remediation: run lisa-wiki-doctor to produce the wiki-specific readiness verdict.
     

4. Severity ladder
   • SKIP when wiki/ is absent.
   • PASS when wiki/ exists and doctor successfully summarizes an existing lisa-wiki-doctor verdict.
   • WARN when wiki/ exists and doctor can only advertise the specialized follow-up because no persisted wiki verdict is available yet.
   • FAIL only when wiki/ exists but the repo cannot surface the specialized follow-up at all (for example, the required lisa-wiki-doctor distribution surface is missing or the existing report is unreadable/malformed enough that doctor cannot safely summarize it).
5. Keep wiki readiness optional for non-wiki repos
   • Never require a wiki plugin surface when is absent.

Output contract

The final report must:

• Separate observed facts from remediation advice.
• Print every check with one of PASS, WARN, FAIL, or SKIP.
• Emit exactly one overall verdict: READY, READY_WITH_WARNINGS, or NOT_READY.
• Stay read-only by default.

Render the report in grouped sections using the shared scripts/doctor-report.mjs contract:

• Start with Overall verdict: <VERDICT> and one Counts: line covering PASS, WARN, FAIL, and SKIP.
• Then print each group as <group-id>. <group-title>.
• Under each group, print one line per check as - <STATUS> <check-id>: <summary>.
• When available, print Observed: and Remediation: lines beneath the check so the report keeps facts separate from advice.
• If a group has no applicable checks yet, render it as a grouped SKIP with the reason instead of silently omitting the section.

The verdict ladder is:

• READY — no FAIL and no WARN.
• READY_WITH_WARNINGS — no FAIL, but one or more WARN.
• NOT_READY — one or more FAIL.

Delegation and reuse

• Reuse config-resolution for config and lifecycle role defaults instead of inventing a second schema.
• Reuse the existing github-project-v2 chokepoint for GitHub Project coordination checks instead of inlining bespoke access logic.
• Reuse ideas from lisa-wiki-doctor for grouped verdict rendering where they fit, while keeping the Lisa-wide doctor narrower than the wiki-specific migration/readiness workflow.

Rules

• Never mutate repository, tracker, or automation state on the default doctor path.
• Never hardcode tracker/source label names outside the documented defaults plus configured overrides from config-resolution.
• Never silently treat an unavailable check surface as success; report WARN, FAIL, or SKIP with the explicit missing dependency.
• Never turn wiki-specific checks into a requirement for non-wiki repos.