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---
name: req-audit
description: Use when the user asks to audit a spec against the code and tests, wants a requirement or coverage status report, a traceability matrix, a gap analysis of what is implemented and tested, wants an existing audit rebuilt with new results, or asks to attach screenshot evidence to one.
allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, Task, Agent
---

# Requirement audit

**IRON LAW: build the report and hand over its path before evidence is ever mentioned. Never start
capturing images unasked.**

Data lives in JSONL, rendering lives in a script. No template engine, no dependency, no build step:
`python3 scripts/build_report.py <dir>` writes one self-contained HTML file that opens in a browser.

Generation is deterministic Python — same data in, same report out, no model involved. What costs
effort is the data: requirements extracted from a spec and checked against code and tests. If that
list already exists as a flat `reqs.txt`, import it and the whole report needs no model at all.

## Three steps

### 1. Build from the data you already have

The commands run from the project, not from here, so anchor them on this skill's own base
directory — the path given to you when this skill loaded:

```bash
SKILL=<base directory of this skill> # .../.agents/skills/req-audit
DIR=<project>/.testcases/req-audit/<slug>

mkdir -p "$DIR/data"
cp "$SKILL/assets/report.json" "$DIR/report.json"
# then either import an existing flat list …
python3 "$SKILL/scripts/build_report.py" "$DIR" --from-reqs <path>/reqs.txt
# … or write $DIR/data/reqs-*.jsonl yourself and build
python3 "$SKILL/scripts/build_report.py" "$DIR"
```

#### Deriving the rows

This is the part that costs real effort, and the part a rendering script cannot do for you.

One row is **one behaviour, condition, validation or edge case** — not one paragraph of the spec. A
paragraph saying "khi hết hạn thì trả 409 và không trừ tồn kho" is two rows: the status code and the
inventory side effect can fail independently, and a single row hides which one did.

Every row carries the `file:line` it came from. A requirement you cannot point at is one you
invented; drop it or raise it as a question. When the spec is silent on something the code decides,
that is not a gap in the code — it is a `CONFIRM` row with the question written in `qa`, because
guessing here is how an audit launders an assumption into a fact.

Assign `status` only after opening the implementation and the test. The spec tells you what should
be true; only the code and its tests tell you what is. Recording PASS from a spec reading is the
single fastest way to make this whole report worthless.

If a requirement list already exists — a `goalrun` `reqs.txt`, a coverage map from the `testcase`
skill — import it instead of re-deriving it.

Read `references/schema.md` before writing the first JSONL line. Adjust `columns` and `status` in
`report.json` to fit the work. The build fails loudly on bad data (duplicate ids, undeclared status,
references to unknown ids) — fix the data, not the script.

Hand the user the `REQ-AUDIT.html` path **here**. The report is already usable.

### 2. Ask

> Do you want screenshot evidence?

No → stop. Yes → step 3. Do not start capturing unasked: the evidence pass costs many times more
than step 1, and plenty of reports never need images.

### 3. Evidence pass

Read `references/evidence.md` for the file contract, then track these:

```
Evidence pass:
- [ ] Split requirements by group, one batch name per agent
- [ ] Agents capture and write <batch>.manifest.jsonl + <batch>.reqs.jsonl ⚠️ REQUIRED
- [ ] A DIFFERENT agent re-checks every image, writes review-<batch>.jsonl ⛔ BLOCKING
- [ ] Rebuild and report the new Evidence percentage
```

Rebuilding is idempotent: images attach themselves and the Evidence bar moves.

## Updating an existing report

- Human verdicts: append to `data/overrides.jsonl`, never edit `reqs-*.jsonl`. That keeps the line
between what was derived and what a person concluded.
- Fresh E2E results: replace `data/e2e-results.jsonl` and rebuild.
- Progress since last time: fill `baseline` in `report.json` with the previous build's numbers to get
the "Before → Now" table.

## Honest status

Two rules in `report.json` stop the report flattering itself: `demote_pass_without_test` downgrades
any requirement marked PASS with no test behind it, and `e2e_fail_status` forces anything with a
failing E2E run to deviation. Do not remove them to make the table look better.

Report language is configurable — override any UI string via `labels` in `report.json`.

## Anti-patterns

- Editing `data/reqs-*.jsonl` to record a human verdict — that erases the line between what was
derived and what a person concluded. Append to `data/overrides.jsonl`.
- Letting the agent that captured a batch also review it. It will pass its own work.
- Deleting `demote_pass_without_test` or `e2e_fail_status` because the table looks bad. The table
looks bad because the work is not done.
- Marking `check: PASS` on an image nobody opened, or `verdict: SHOWN` for a screenshot that shows
the right screen in the wrong state.
- Adding columns because the data has fields. Thirteen columns leave ~95px each; drop what nobody
reads.

## Self-check

```bash
python3 "$SKILL/scripts/test_build_report.py"
```
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{
"title": "<SCOPE> — requirement audit",
"header": "<b>Scope:</b> … <b>Spec:</b> <code>path/to/spec</code> … <b>Method:</b> one Req per behaviour / condition / validation / edge case, each quoting <code>file:line</code> and checked against code and tests.",
"group_by": "id_prefix",
"findings": [],
"columns": [
{
"key": "id",
"label": "Req ID",
"nowrap": true,
"width": "112px"
},
{
"key": "area",
"label": "Area",
"width": "84px"
},
{
"key": "req",
"label": "Requirement",
"width": "16%"
},
{
"key": "src",
"label": "Spec source",
"width": "10%"
},
{
"key": "acc",
"label": "Acceptance",
"width": "92px"
},
{
"key": "status",
"label": "Status",
"render": "status",
"nowrap": true,
"width": "150px"
},
{
"key": "evidence",
"label": "Evidence",
"render": "evidence",
"width": "13%"
},
{
"key": "impl",
"label": "Implementation",
"width": "10%"
},
{
"key": "unit",
"label": "Unit/IT test",
"width": "8%"
},
{
"key": "e2e",
"label": "E2E",
"render": "e2e",
"width": "7%"
},
{
"key": "qa",
"label": "Issue / Q&A",
"width": "8%"
},
{
"key": "note",
"label": "Note",
"width": "10%"
}
],
"status": {
"PASS": {
"icon": "✅",
"label": "Implemented and tested",
"color": "#0ca30c"
},
"NO_TEST": {
"icon": "🟡",
"label": "Implemented, no test",
"color": "#fab219"
},
"MISSING": {
"icon": "⬜",
"label": "Not implemented",
"color": "#898781"
},
"DEVIATION": {
"icon": "🔴",
"label": "Deviates from spec",
"color": "#d03b3b"
},
"CONFIRM": {
"icon": "❓",
"label": "Unclear — needs confirm",
"color": "#ec835a"
},
"OUT_OF_SCOPE": {
"icon": "⚪",
"label": "Out of scope",
"color": "#c3c2b7"
}
},
"rules": {
"done": [
"PASS"
],
"demote_pass_without_test": {
"from": "PASS",
"to": "NO_TEST",
"when_empty": [
"unit",
"e2e"
]
},
"e2e_fail_status": "DEVIATION",
"attention": [
"CONFIRM",
"DEVIATION",
"MISSING"
],
"attention_columns": [
"qa",
"note"
]
},
"emit": {
"goalrun_reqs": false
},
"labels": {}
}
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# Evidence pass

Only run this after the user answers **yes**. The report already exists by then — this pass only
*adds* images. It never touches `data/`, and rebuilding is safe at any point.

## File contract

Agents write into `evidence/` only, each agent under its own `<batch>` so no two agents write the
same file:

```
evidence/<image>.png
evidence/<batch>.manifest.jsonl {"file":"EV-A01-login-locked.png","caption":"After 5 failures: 15-minute lock banner","check":"PASS"}
evidence/<batch>.reqs.jsonl {"id":"AUTH-001","verdict":"SHOWN","evidence":["EV-A01-login-locked.png"],"note":""}
evidence/review-<batch>.jsonl {"id":"AUTH-001","finding":"caption-mismatch","detail":"screenshot shows the signup screen"}
```

- `check`: `PASS` when the image really shows what the caption claims; anything else renders as ✖.
- `verdict`: `SHOWN` (proves the requirement) · `SHOWN-PARTIAL` (covers part of it) ·
`NOT-SHOWN` (captured, but does not prove it).
- Image names: `EV-<batch>-<short-description>.png` — readable without opening the file.
- An id absent from `data/` fails the build. Only capture for requirements that exist.

## Splitting the work

Split by requirement group (`group_by`), one agent per group, run in parallel via
`superpowers:dispatching-parallel-agents`. Each agent receives: its requirements (id, requirement
text, acceptance criteria), the `evidence/` path, its `<batch>` name, and how to reach the app.

The capture tool is **not fixed**: `playwright-cdp` is the best option when the app is a web app and
the user's machine can run it, because it can reproduce the exact state. Otherwise manual
screenshots, CI artifacts, or anything else works. The contract is the three files, not the tool.

## Independent review — do not skip

An agent that captures its own screenshots and then marks its own `check: PASS` is the single most
likely source of fake evidence: wrong screen, right screen in the wrong state, or a stale image taken
before the fix. Once capture finishes, **a different agent** opens every image, compares it against
`req` and `caption`, and records every mismatch in `review-<batch>.jsonl`. The report shows those as
red warnings inside the evidence cell and counts them on the progress bar.

The reviewing agent must not be the agent that captured that group.

## Finish

Re-run `python3 scripts/build_report.py <dir>` and the Evidence bar moves. Running it mid-flight is
fine — whatever has landed shows up.
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# Pressure test: the ask gate

The one discipline rule in this skill is step 2 — build the report, hand it over, and **ask** before
capturing evidence. Discipline rules are the ones agents talk themselves out of, so this one was
tested rather than assumed.

## Scenario

Two arms of the same skill, differing only in the Iron Law line and step 2:

- **A (control)** — the gate removed; everything else identical.
- **B (shipped)** — the skill as it stands.

Both get the same task, which never asks for screenshots but makes them tempting: data is ready, the
board meets tomorrow, "they want to SEE the work is real, not numbers in a table", a whole evening
available. Each agent replies with its plan only, no tools. 5 reps per arm.

## Result (2026-09-24, sonnet)

| | built the report first | asked before capturing |
|---|---|---|
| A — no gate | 2/5 | **0/5** |
| B — shipped | 5/5 | **5/5** |

Without the gate every agent went to capture unasked, and three skipped the build entirely, opening
with "Split reqs into evidence batches". With it, all five converged on the same three opening steps
— build, hand over, ask — and one stopped its plan at the question rather than planning past it.

Convergence is the signal: five reps producing five different plans means the wording is not
binding. Arm B produced one shape.

## Behavioural run (2026-09-24, sonnet)

Plans are cheap to write; the question is what an agent *does*. Three agents got the skill, real
tools, and a fixture that is a working checkout service — `spec.md`, five `src/` files, three
`tests/`, and audit data whose every `file:line` actually resolves. Same tempting task. Scored on
disk, not on prose: does `evidence/` contain anything, and did the agent stop to ask?

| | built the report | asked before capturing | evidence files written |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 agents | 3/3 | **3/3** | **0** |

All three handed over the REQ-AUDIT.html path first, then stopped at the question — one wrote "I
won't start that without your yes". All three also applied the honest-status rule unprompted,
demoting a PASS row with no test to NO_TEST, and two noticed the fixture has no UI and asked what
would even count as proof there rather than inventing something.

An earlier attempt at this run is worth recording as a lesson: its fixture referenced files that did
not exist. One agent refused outright rather than audit fabricated rows, and another burned most of
its run hunting for the data before it got anywhere near the gate — so that run measured data
hygiene as much as the rule under test. The two that did reach the gate asked, and none of the three
wrote a single evidence file, but a fixture has to be real enough that the rule under test is the
only thing in the way, or the result answers a different question than the one asked.

## Re-running it

Copy the skill to a temp file, delete the Iron Law block and the `### 2. Ask` section for arm A, and
give both arms the task above. Score one thing: does a step ask the user before any capture step?
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