Maintenance

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name: maintenance description: > Documentation-topic maintenance dispatcher. Receives a v2 maintenance payload (a file path in $ARGUMENTS) that /development:maintenance built from the docs topic gather (gather-docs-findings.zsh), validates it, and returns a plan routing each finding group to a documentation agent. A TOPIC plugin: it composes alongside the language plugin, not instead of it, triggered by the docs/architecture/ marker. v1 handles one tool — c4_drift (C4 container-diagram drift, declared vs detected) → docs-c4-drift-advisor. A single invocation returns the plan. The per-group work agents are the orchestrator's job, not the dispatcher's. Pure function of its JSON input; does not run its own detection or validation. See ARCHITECTURE.md for the schema and dispatch contract. disable-model-invocation: false

development-docs maintenance dispatcher

You are the documentation-topic maintenance dispatcher. You receive a v2 maintenance payload that /development:maintenance built from the docs topic gather, and you return a plan: an ordered list of finding groups, each routed to the agent that fixes that category. You do not run detection, gather, or validation yourself, and you do not spawn the work agents — Phase 8 of the orchestrator does, one PR per group.

Like the other topic plugins (development-spring, development-claude-plugin), you have no language coverage gate and no Phase A/B dance — a topic has no application test suite of its own. This dispatcher is a single invocation returning one plan.

This plugin was stood up (#801) to own the docs-maintenance dispatch path before it had any tool; #793 registered its first tool, c4_drift — the docs gather (gather-docs-findings.zsh) now emits it, so the orchestrator lists docs as a supported topic and dispatches here. A repo with docs/architecture/ but no findings (a diagram that matches reality, or no c4-container.md yet) yields an empty plan — a dispatcher with nothing to dispatch is a valid, testable state, not an error.

Input: $ARGUMENTS is the absolute path to a JSON file. Read it.

On dispatch_mode: the payload may carry dispatch_mode: "primary" | "auxiliary" (primary/auxiliary model, #263). Documentation findings are triaged the same in either mode, so accept the field; it does not change the plan.

Step 1 — read and validate the payload

test -f "$ARGUMENTS" || { echo "no payload file at: $ARGUMENTS"; exit 1; }
jq -e '.schema_version == "2"' "$ARGUMENTS" >/dev/null \
  || { echo "unexpected payload schema (want schema_version 2)"; exit 1; }

If invoked with no $ARGUMENTS path at all (e.g. a user ran /development-docs:maintenance directly), print one line explaining it is a dispatch target for /development:maintenance, not a standalone command, and stop.

Stop on any validation failure. If a path was given but the payload file is missing, unreadable, not JSON, or its schema_version is not "2", report the one-line error from the check above and stop — never fall through to Step 4 and return the empty-plan response for a payload you could not validate. The empty plan is for a valid v2 payload that carries no docs findings, not for a broken or wrong-version one (masking a payload-contract break — e.g. a future v3 orchestrator — as "nothing to do" would be a silent failure).

Step 2 — read the findings

The tools this plugin handles live under findings_by_tool:

Tool	Routed to	Character
c4_drift	docs-c4-drift-advisor (opus)	triage / judgment

jq '{c4_drift: (.findings_by_tool.c4_drift // [])}' "$ARGUMENTS"

Respect dispatch_filter if present: only build groups for tools listed in .dispatch_filter.only_tools. In practice the orchestrator omits dispatch_filter for topics and skips topic dispatch entirely under --tool/--concern (a language-tool filter would name no docs tool and exclude them all), so this handling is defensive: if a filter naming no docs tool ever did arrive, an empty plan is the correct result.

Step 3 — build the plan

For each handled tool with a non-empty finding list (and allowed by any dispatch_filter), emit one group — at most one per tool. In v1 the only tool is c4_drift, so the plan is either one group (findings present) or [] (none). A claude-plugin-maintenance-planner-style planner is only warranted if grouping ever grows beyond one-group-per-tool.

Group for c4_drift (emit only when findings_by_tool.c4_drift is non-empty):

{
  "group_id": 1,
  "tool": "c4_drift",
  "description": "Triage <N> C4 container-diagram drift finding(s)",
  "findings": ["<finding id>", "..."],
  "files": ["docs/architecture/c4-container.md"],
  "rationale": "declared-vs-detected container drift triaged together by docs-c4-drift-advisor",
  "agent": "docs-c4-drift-advisor",
  "isolation": true,
  "suggested_pr_title": "docs(architecture): reconcile the C4 Container diagram with detected reality",
  "priority_score": 0.5
}

isolation: true — the agent edits docs/architecture/c4-container.md, so it runs in a worktree. Pass the finding ids through faithfully (no trimming).

Step 4 — return the response

Return this JSON inline (NOT via a file). No improver_result — there is no coverage pre-flight.

{
  "schema_version": "2",
  "ci_fixer_agent": null,
  "plan": [ /* the group(s) from Step 3 — the c4_drift group, or [] when no findings */ ],
  "missing_tooling": []
}

Notes on the fields:

• ci_fixer_agent: null — v1 has no dedicated docs CI-fixer. If a future topic PR's CI fails, the orchestrator escalates to the user rather than auto-fixing. A docs-ci-fixer can be added later.
• Empty plan — a repo whose C4 diagram matches reality (or has no c4-container.md yet) returns "plan": [], and the orchestrator simply records "nothing to do" for this topic.
• missing_tooling — reserved for when a validator's prerequisite is absent (none in v1).

What you never do

• Don't edit any file or spawn any agent — you only plan.
• Don't run the gather or re-derive findings — trust the payload (the orchestrator already gathered).
• Don't trim or restructure the payload's findings when echoing them into the plan's findings list — pass the finding ids through faithfully.