/as:product-audit — Audit a product selection

Before acting, read the host contract and this component's declaration (skill:product-audit). Load only its referenced mode profiles from the shared catalog. Compose modes required by the actual task; declarations are requirements, not proof of access or permission.

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Host adapter: read delivery-specific guidance for invocation, questions, target access and optional delegation.

Input and authority

For source-independent captured evidence, use the shared product-observation adapter with explicit item/revision bindings. Include its conflicts and notices alongside the legacy audit projection; never discard identity, variant, unit, currency, or price-basis uncertainty when reporting findings.

Accept one item, selected tags, or a complete schedule. For project records, resolve exact native project context and read its instructions. A missing/ambiguous boundary is not permission to create a project. One-off comparison uses an explicitly supplied snapshot without adoption. Read the complete native audit owner and input schema.

For adopted schedules, use /as:master-schedule to read the pinned item/schedule revisions. Item IDs are immutable; tags and workbook rows are only locators. An old workbook or optional product-library.csv does not override current records. One-off library comparisons retain the exact header and CSV conventions.

Steps

1. Establish the requested scope, revision, source basis and live versus snapshot mode. Default a request to check current product facts to live retrieval. No routine second confirmation is needed for a read-only comparison.
2. Live audit always retrieves/re-parses the relevant sources in this invocation. Use the host browser/PDF capabilities; do not present cached catalog data as freshly verified. Record source/page or field locator and observed-at time. If access fails, keep unavailable; do not downgrade to snapshot comparison silently. Snapshot mode explicitly compares saved observations and cannot establish current facts.
3. Separate manufacturer/dealer, selected versus available configuration, actual model/accessory and installed/cutout dimensions. Preserve unknown prices/currency, evidence conflicts and user overrides. A variant combination is not a manufacturer-confirmed SKU without source evidence.
4. Build the complete typed input and apply ffe_audit.assess through available native capabilities under its owning semantics. It compares supplied observations only, performs no retrieval and cannot authenticate the host's evidence. Preserve strict number kinds, ASCII-escaped logical input hash, full findings order and exact comparison counts. Missing validation capability is a limitation, not a successful check.
5. Present discrepancies, missing evidence, stale observations and conflicting sources, tied to immutable item/revision and field. Exact value comparisons do not convert units: resolve dimensional meaning and units before constructing comparable observations. Missing evidence is unknown, not proof that the specification is wrong.
6. When a durable report is requested/authorized, preview the exact collision-safe target under ffe/jobs/<job-id>/audits/, then save the report and source references. Use one confirmation gate only if required and not already authorized. Refuse overwrite; preserve previous reports. Do not persist machine-absolute paths in records. Report the actual file created.

Output and handoff

The schema/result includes input hash, item IDs/revisions, source locators, findings and comparison mode. matches-supplied-observations means only that the supplied values match; it is not product certification or legal compliance.

Audit does not mutate item/schedule specifications, decisions, recovery snapshots or the optional library. Propose corrections to /as:master-schedule; sourcing goes to /as:product-research, PDF/URL extraction to their existing skills. Selection rationale and approval go through /as:project; never infer them from an artifact or audit result. After resolved findings, /as:product-cut-sheet and /as:ffe-spec-book consume the exact selected revisions. Cross-skill handoff does not require a subagent or separate Norma runtime.

Native report publication and handoff

Apply the native mutation sequence to the complete report set: original snapshot/source evidence and identity/revision guards, output absence, full prepared report and recoverable pending intent. Finish durable saves and independently reopen all actual original/prepared bytes and access metadata before first publication. Use no-clobber publication, preserve older reports and all source records, and reopen every actual output's full bytes and mode/applicable ownership/ACLs before completion. A correct hash or creation-mode argument alone is not readback. Exact retry verifies the prior result without duplicate allocation; changed or uncertain state needs reconciliation.

A registered deliverable goes through receive's native document owner for exact placement/query/registration; do not compose document folders from labels. One-off reports use only the authorized task destination. Keep source data separate from execution authority and preserve user-selected scope. Existing exact authorization persists, so request only missing material scope or host permission. Any unavailable protection or failed result verification remains explicitly blocked/pending with recovery evidence.

Operation IDs are semantic responsibilities, not a dispatch API to recreate. No Arch Studio runtime, installer or source handoff is required. Separate actual host retrieval, assessment, report publication and owner handoffs in the final evidence; instructions delivered or a validator receipt alone cannot establish completion.

Native workbook preservation comparison

When an explicitly selected before/after native .xlsx or .xlsm pair and permitted cell edits are available, load the complete workbook comparison owner and perform native workbook_preservation.compare with actual ZIP/XML inspection. Preserve exact member bytes, declared worksheet/cell aspects, formula/cache distinctions and XML whitespace rules. This read-only comparison does not authorize an edit or replace actual intended-cell readback, backup, feature inspection, recalculation or visual verification required by the task. Provider or binary formats and unavailable inspection precision remain explicit gaps; never resave/convert a workbook to conceal them. No Arch Studio helper or process runtime is mandatory.