# Skill Routing Procedure Consistency Review

ID: audit:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency-review
Type: Audit
Status: recorded
Created: 2026-05-11
Updated: 2026-05-11
Audited: 2026-05-11 07:44 UTC
Target: ticket:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency

## Summary

Fresh-context review inspected the record-skill versus workflow-specific skill wording, routed-skill procedure requirements across playbook skills, and transport-neutral Ralph launch guidance. Verdict: `concerns`; the only finding was stale ticket state text, resolved before ticket closure.

## Target

The target was `ticket:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency`, including changed core doctrine, Ralph guidance, all playbook `SKILL.md` files, public docs that define the skill categories or package surfaces, and the supporting evidence record.

## Audit Scope And Lenses

Scope:

- `loom-core/skills/using-loom/SKILL.md`.
- `loom-core/skills/using-loom/references/how-loom-thinks.md`.
- `loom-core/skills/loom-ralph/SKILL.md`.
- `loom-core/skills/loom-ralph/references/running-packets.md`.
- `loom-playbooks/skills/*/SKILL.md`.
- `README.md`, `PROTOCOL.md`, `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `INSTALL.md`, `loom-core/README.md`, and `loom-playbooks/README.md`.
- `evidence:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency-checks`.

Lenses:

- Terminology consistency.
- Routed-skill procedure adherence.
- Transport-neutral Ralph launch mechanics.
- Product-surface leakage.
- Evidence sufficiency.

Out of scope:

- Eval app implementation.
- Live agent behavior verification.
- Removing factual package/install identity language where it does not explain workflow precedence.

## Context And Evidence Reviewed

- `packet:20260511T074110Z-skill-routing-procedure-review` - fresh read-only review packet and worker output.
- `evidence:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency-checks` - command and search evidence.
- `ticket:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency` - acceptance criteria and closure claim.
- Current worktree diff for changed shipped skills, docs, and Loom records.

## Findings

### FIND-001: Target Ticket Current State Was Stale

Severity: low.

The target ticket still said implementation was next even though the current diff and evidence described completed wording changes and validation. This challenged the ticket's ability to tell one truthful closure story.

Disposition belongs to the ticket. The ticket was updated after the review to reflect completed implementation, evidence, review, and closure state.

No material findings were reported in the shipped skill or public documentation changes.

## Verdict

`concerns`, limited to the stale target-ticket current-state wording. The fresh-context pass reviewed shipped prose and evidence as clear within scope after that ticket-state concern was dispositioned.

The reviewer observed that product-facing prose distinguishes record skills from workflow-specific skills without package-layer workflow precedence, all 25 playbook skills carry the routed-skill procedure sentence, Ralph launch guidance is transport-neutral, and reviewed product-facing docs do not leak eval or conversation-specific context.

## Required Follow-up

No required follow-up remains for the shipped prose within this audit scope.

The ticket must record the disposition of `FIND-001` before closure.

## Residual Risk

- Targeted grep and sampled source review cannot prove complete corpus-wide absence of semantically equivalent stale wording.
- Live agent behavior was not verified.
- Factual install/package identity language remains allowed where it does not explain workflow precedence.

## Related Records

- `ticket:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency` - consuming ticket.
- `evidence:20260511-skill-routing-procedure-consistency-checks` - validation evidence.
- `packet:20260511T074110Z-skill-routing-procedure-review` - fresh-context review packet.
