Documentation Maintenance

Scheduling

Goal

Keep documentation aligned with repository behavior and report verification limits.

Intent signature

Check references, update docs for a code diff, identify translation drift, or lint localized prose.

When to use

Repository documentation verification, diff-based synchronization, and translation maintenance.

When NOT to use

• General source research -> oma-search.
• Application implementation -> the owning specialist.
• Translating known text -> oma-translation.

Expected inputs

Mode (verify, sync, i18n, or lint), target paths or diff range, and authorized edit scope. Use verify when no mode is specified.

Expected outputs

Findings with paths and evidence, authorized patches when requested, and unresolved checks. CLI reports remain distinct from host-authored interpretation.

Dependencies

The oma docs CLI, Git for diff-based work, and repository docs. lychee is optional for URL verification. Read resources/commands.md for flags and output files of the selected mode.

Structural Flow

Transitions

• verify: extract and resolve references, then summarize the report.
• sync: obtain candidates, read relevant docs and diffs, and apply only authorized corrections.
• i18n / lint: report drift or style issues; use oma-translation for authorized corrections.
• Review-only requests produce proposals. Existing scoped edit requests authorize applying those corrections without another per-file approval.

Failure and recovery

Failure	Recovery
Missing CLI	State up front that the automated check is unavailable, then inspect manually anyway: list the target markdown files, extract [text](path), , and href/src targets, resolve each relative to its containing file, and report which resolved paths are missing. Skip http(s) URLs and note them as unverified scope. Label the result "manual inspection — oma docs verify did not run"; never present it as CLI output and never make installing the CLI a prerequisite
Missing lychee or incomplete URL scan	Report core results and the unverified URL scope
One document cannot be parsed	Record the skipped file and continue other documents
Patch does not apply	Re-read the affected current content and make the equivalent authorized correction
Index write fails	Report the failure; do not claim the index or check is complete

Exit

Report verified findings, edits made, and remaining gaps. A clean reference scan does not establish semantic correctness or complete translation quality.

Logical Operations

Canonical command path

1. Select mode, paths/diff, and authorization from the request. Read only the matching section of resources/commands.md.
2. Run oma docs verify --json, oma docs sync <range> --json, oma docs i18n --json, or oma docs lint --json as appropriate. For sync, use the requested range; otherwise staged changes, then HEAD~1..HEAD.
3. Inspect the structured results. Verify each proposed correction against current code and document context. Exclude secret-bearing files and values from patches and reports.
4. Apply corrections already authorized by the user or assigned task. In an active OMA docs-sync workflow, first record each patch's actual apply/skip action, rationale, and evidence with docs.sync-patch-approval; bind instanceId and verification --instance to the doc path plus current patch revision (workflow Step 4 owns the command template). Existing authorization remains sufficient. Ask only about material missing decisions or new scope; continue independent work while waiting.
5. Re-run affected checks after edits and record remaining failures. Regenerate the reference index once after a patch batch when needed.

Resource scope and effects

Verification regenerates docs/generated/doc-refs.json; optional URL results go to docs/generated/url-drift.json. Sync's CLI emits candidate data; the host drafts and applies patches. i18n/lint commands report only. A workflow hook runs only when docs.auto_verify is enabled and is warn-only.

Guardrails

• Follow ../_shared/core/execution-policy.md for authorization and completion.
• Keep review-only requests read-only and changes within the assigned diff or acceptance criteria.
• Do not expose secret-bearing files (.env*, private keys, credentials) in diff reports.
• The CLI produces structured data; the host performs natural-language synthesis. Do not invent CLI findings or call a vendor LLM API from the docs CLI.
• Honor ignore blocks, oma-docs: skip, and configured exclusions. Missing gitignored runtime outputs are skipped, not broken references.
• Preserve language, terminology, and placeholders when applying localized corrections.

References

• Mode commands, flags, and outputs: resources/commands.md (selected operation only).
• Translation: ../oma-translation/SKILL.md (localized correction).
• Authorization: ../_shared/core/execution-policy.md (when not already provided).