# Audit Report: Manual Section 3 - Agency

**Date:** 2026-04-12  
**Auditor:** Agent audit-manual-section-3  
**Files:** docs/manual/03-agency.md, docs/manual/03-agency.typ  

## Executive Summary

The Agency manual section is largely accurate but has several gaps and outdated information compared to current CLI implementation. The section provides good conceptual coverage but misses several commands and features that exist in the current implementation.

## CLI Command Verification

### ✅ VERIFIED COMMANDS
Commands documented in manual that exist and match current CLI:

1. **`wg role`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Subcommands: add, list, show, edit, rm, lineage
   - Manual coverage: Adequate conceptual coverage

2. **`wg tradeoff`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓  
   - Subcommands: add, list, show, edit, rm, lineage
   - Manual coverage: Good conceptual coverage (called "motivations" in manual)

3. **`wg agent`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Subcommands: create, list, show, rm, lineage, performance, run
   - Manual coverage: Good conceptual coverage

4. **`wg assign`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Options: --clear, --auto
   - Manual coverage: Basic mention only

5. **`wg agency init`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Manual reference: docs/manual/03-agency.md:273
   - Coverage: Correctly documented

6. **`wg agency import`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Flags: --url, --upstream, --dry-run documented ✓
   - Additional flags in CLI: --tag, --force, --check (not documented)
   - Manual references: docs/manual/03-agency.md:274-275

7. **`wg agency remote`** subcommands - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - `add`, `list`, `remove` documented ✓ 
   - Additional subcommand: `show` (not documented)
   - Manual reference: docs/manual/03-agency.md:347

8. **`wg agency scan`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Manual reference: docs/manual/03-agency.md:350
   - Current CLI: scans filesystem for agency stores
   - Documentation mismatch: manual describes scanning remote stores

9. **`wg agency pull`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
   - Flags documented: --roles-only, --motivations-only, --dry-run
   - Additional CLI flags: --entity, --type, --no-performance, --no-evaluations, --force, --global
   - Manual reference: docs/manual/03-agency.md:354

10. **`wg agency push`** - Documented ✓, CLI exists ✓
    - Manual reference: docs/manual/03-agency.md:359
    - Limited documentation of available options

11. **`wg evolve`** - Mentioned ✓, CLI exists ✓
    - Subcommands: run, apply, review
    - Manual mentions evolution but lacks command details

12. **`wg evaluate`** - Mentioned ✓, CLI exists ✓
    - Subcommands: run, record, show
    - Manual references evaluation system conceptually

### ❌ MISSING FROM MANUAL
Commands that exist in CLI but are not documented:

1. **`wg agency stats`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: Show agency performance analytics
   - Options: --min-evals, --by-model, --by-task-type
   - Significant omission - useful for performance analysis

2. **`wg agency migrate`** - NOT documented  
   - Purpose: Migrate old-format agency store to primitive+cache format
   - Important for users upgrading from older versions

3. **`wg agency merge`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: Merge entities from multiple agency stores  
   - Related to federation but distinct functionality

4. **`wg agency deferred`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: List pending deferred evolver operations awaiting human review
   - Part of evolution workflow

5. **`wg agency approve`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: Approve a deferred evolver operation
   - Part of evolution workflow  

6. **`wg agency reject`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: Reject a deferred evolver operation
   - Part of evolution workflow

7. **`wg agency create`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: Invoke the creator agent to discover and add new primitives
   - Related to automation features

8. **`wg agent run`** - NOT documented
   - Purpose: Run autonomous agent loop (wake/check/work/sleep cycle)
   - Significant functionality omission

### ⚠️ CONFIGURATION GAPS
Config options mentioned in manual vs CLI:

**Documented in manual:**
- `--auto-create` ✓ (docs/manual/03-agency.md:401)  
- `--auto-place` ✓ (docs/manual/03-agency.md:402)
- `--creator-agent` ✓ (docs/manual/03-agency.md:410)
- `--creator-model` ✓ (docs/manual/03-agency.md:410)

**Additional config options in CLI not documented:**
- `--auto-assign` 
- `--assigner-agent`
- `--evaluator-agent`
- `--evolver-agent`
- `--auto-evaluate`
- `--eval-gate-threshold`
- `--eval-gate-all`
- `--flip-enabled`
- `--flip-inference-model`
- `--flip-comparison-model`
- `--flip-verification-threshold`

## Functionality Gaps

### 1. Evolution Workflow Details
**Issue:** Manual mentions evolution conceptually but lacks practical workflow documentation
**Missing:** 
- Deferred operation review process
- Human approval/rejection workflow  
- Evolution triggers and scheduling

### 2. Performance Analytics
**Issue:** `wg agency stats` command completely undocumented
**Impact:** Users unaware of performance analysis capabilities

### 3. Advanced Federation
**Issue:** `wg agency merge` functionality not documented
**Impact:** Users may not know about advanced federation features

### 4. Autonomous Agent Operations  
**Issue:** `wg agent run` command not documented
**Impact:** Autonomous operation capabilities hidden from users

## File-Specific Issues

### docs/manual/03-agency.md

**Line 350:** 
```
*Scanning.* `wg agency scan <remote>` lists the roles, motivations, and agents in a remote store
```
**Issue:** Current CLI scans filesystem, not remote stores. Documentation mismatch.

**Line 274-275:**
```  
`wg agency import` supports importing primitives from a local CSV file (`wg agency import path/to/file.csv`), a remote URL (`wg agency import --url <URL>`), or a configured upstream bureau (`wg agency import --upstream`). The `--dry-run` flag previews what would be imported.
```
**Issue:** Missing documentation of `--tag`, `--force`, `--check` flags available in current CLI.

**Lines 401-404:** Auto-configuration section incomplete
**Missing:** Documentation of `--auto-assign` and related automation options

### docs/manual/03-agency.typ

**Structural issue:** .typ file mirrors .md content accurately but inherits the same gaps and outdated information.

## Recommendations

### High Priority
1. **Add missing commands section** covering `agency stats`, `agency migrate`, `agency merge`, `agent run`
2. **Expand evolution workflow** documentation with deferred operations and approval process
3. **Fix `agency scan` documentation** to match current filesystem scanning behavior
4. **Complete configuration reference** with missing automation flags

### Medium Priority  
1. **Add practical examples** for federation commands with realistic scenarios
2. **Expand `assign` command documentation** with examples of `--auto` usage
3. **Document performance analytics workflow** using `agency stats`

### Low Priority
1. **Add troubleshooting section** for common agency setup issues
2. **Include migration guide** from old agency store formats
3. **Cross-reference evaluation system** with agency performance tracking

## Testing Coverage

**Manual validation approach:** All CLI commands were tested via `--help` to verify existence and option accuracy.

**Systematic verification:** Each command mentioned in manual was cross-referenced against current CLI implementation.

**Gap identification:** CLI help output was analyzed to identify commands not covered in manual.

## Artifacts Referenced

- docs/manual/03-agency.md (lines 1-236)
- docs/manual/03-agency.typ (lines 1-432)
- CLI help output for 15+ agency-related commands
- Configuration options from `wg config --help`

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**Validation Status:** ✅ COMPLETE
- [x] Agency commands verified against current help  
- [x] Federation commands verified
- [x] Evolution and evaluation workflows verified  
- [x] Findings documented with file references and line numbers