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Health: Vault Health Dashboard

Overview

Quick-check command that surfaces vault hygiene issues: ghost duplicates, near-duplicate pairs, orphan notes, stale inbox entries, embedding gaps, and broken wikilinks. Fast by default, deep on demand, with optional auto-fix for safe operations.

When to Use

• /health or /health --light: quick vault status check (default)
• /health --deep: full diagnostic with note-scorer analysis
• /health --auto: auto-fix safe issues (combinable with either mode)
• After a burst of /reflect sessions
• Before /inbox to see what needs attention
• Periodic maintenance

Argument Parsing

Input	Mode	Auto-fix
/health	light	no
/health --light	light	no
/health --deep	deep	no
/health --auto	light	yes
/health --deep --auto	deep	yes
/health --provenance	provenance	no
/health --librarian	librarian	no

Process

Step 0: Parameter Resolution

Use AskUserQuestion when no arguments are provided to help users discover modes.

No arguments (/health): Run light mode immediately (fast, no prompting needed: it's the default and completes in seconds).

But after presenting results, if issues were found, mention available modes:

Found N issues. Options:

• /health --deep: full analysis with note scoring
• /health --auto: auto-fix safe issues (ghost dupes, broken links)
• /health --provenance: pipeline observability (fabrication rates, agent stats)
• /health --deep --auto: both

This teaches the modes through use rather than upfront prompting.

Step 0.5: Provenance Mode

If --provenance flag is present, skip all vault health checks and run:

node PLUGIN/scripts/provenance-report.mjs

Display the output directly.

If the report includes a Recommendations section, present each recommendation and ask:

Which of these would you like to act on? Options:

• "N" to act on recommendation N
• "pattern N" to create a learned pattern from recommendation N
• "all" to review all recommendations
• "done" to finish

When user selects "pattern N", draft a positive behavior-based pattern following the format in PLUGIN_DATA/provenance/learned-patterns.md (where PLUGIN_DATA = CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA env or ~/.claude/plugins/data/learning-loop) and present for approval before writing.

After the local report, check for peer provenance data:

1. Read PLUGIN_DATA/federation/provenance-peers.json (where PLUGIN_DATA = CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA env or ~/.claude/plugins/data/learning-loop)
2. If exists and has peer entries, display a Network section:

Network (last 7 days):
  peer-a:   12 sessions, 47 notes, 3 fixes
  peer-b:   5 sessions, 12 notes, 1 fix

3. If no peer data exists, show: "No peer provenance data. Run vault-search.mjs sync to fetch."

Then stop (do not proceed to Step 1).

Step 0.6: Librarian Review Mode (--librarian)

If --librarian flag is present, skip all vault health checks and enter librarian review mode.

Step L1: Load Queue

Read PLUGIN_DATA/librarian/queue.jsonl. Parse all lines. Filter to status === 'pending'. If no pending items, report "No pending librarian observations." and stop.

Step L2: Phase 1: Advisory Review

Group pending items into link suggestions, tag suggestions, voice flags, and duplicate flags. Each subsection is independent: present and resolve one at a time.

Link suggestions: Present in a table grouped by confidence:

High confidence (N):
  Orphan                                    → Suggested link                           Reason
  3-permanent/cadences-are-harmonic...      → 3-permanent/chord-progressions-are...    Both discuss harmonic function
  ...

Review (N):
  Orphan                                    → Suggested link                           Reason
  ...

Ask user: "Apply approved links? Enter numbers to approve (e.g., '1,3,5'), 'all-high' for all high-confidence, or 'skip'."

For each approved link suggestion:

1. Read the target (orphan) note
2. Append \n\n[[suggested-note-slug]] to the note body using Edit tool
3. Update queue item status to approved

For rejected items, update status to rejected.

Tag suggestions: Present as a table:

Tag suggestions (N):
  Target                                    Existing tags    Suggested tags
  3-permanent/ginkgo-biloba-acute-pk...     nootropic        pharmacology, neuroscience
  ...

Ask user: "Apply tag suggestions? Enter numbers, 'all', or 'skip'."

For each approved tag suggestion:

1. Read the target's frontmatter
2. Merge suggested_tags into the existing tags: list (dedupe)
3. Write the updated frontmatter back via Edit
4. Update queue item status to approved

For rejected items, update status to rejected.

Voice flags: Present as a list:

Voice flags (N):
  0-inbox/gmail-multi-daemon-pull-dedup...  "gmail multi daemon pull deduplication": Names a topic without stating a claim
  ...

These are advisory: present them for awareness. Ask: "Acknowledge voice flags? (y/n)": on yes, update all to acknowledged.

Duplicate flags: Present as a list:

Duplicate flags (N):
  1. 0-inbox/foo-claim.md  ↔  3-permanent/foo-claim-original.md  (similarity 0.93)
  ...

For each, ask the user to choose one of: merge (read both, decide which to keep, the user does the merge), link (add a wikilink between them: drop a [[other]] reference into the newer note's body), dismiss. Update queue item status to merged, linked, or dismissed.

Step L3: Phase 2: Staleness Suspects

Present staleness suspects:

Staleness suspects (N):
  3-permanent/react-compiler-memoizes...    90 days old, matched: v1.0, October 2025
  ...

Ask: "Investigate staleness suspects? Enter numbers (e.g., '1,2'), 'all', or 'skip'."

For each selected suspect, Claude (the active model) investigates using available tools:

• Read the note content
• Check if version references are still current (web search if needed)
• Check if specific claims are still accurate
• Report findings inline

After investigation, ask user what to do with each: "update", "dismiss", or "flag for /deepen".

Step L4: Cleanup

After both phases:

1. Expire processed/old items: node -e "import('./scripts/lib/librarian-queue.mjs').then(m => m.expireStaleItems('VAULT_PATH'))"
2. Reset librarian state to allow re-investigation: node -e "import('./scripts/lib/librarian-queue.mjs').then(m => m.resetState())"
3. Report summary: "Processed N items: X links applied, Y tags applied, V voice flags acknowledged, D duplicates resolved, Z suspects investigated."

Then stop (do not proceed to Step 1).

Step 1: Gather Vault State

Collect the raw data needed for all checks. Run these in parallel:

1. Inbox files: Glob pattern *.md in {{VAULT}}/0-inbox/
2. Fleeting files: Glob pattern *.md in {{VAULT}}/1-fleeting/
3. Permanent files: Glob pattern *.md in {{VAULT}}/3-permanent/
4. Literature files: Glob pattern *.md in {{VAULT}}/2-literature/
5. System files: Glob pattern *.md in {{VAULT}}/_system/
6. Near-duplicate clusters: node PLUGIN/scripts/vault-search.mjs cluster --threshold 0.85
7. Indexed notes: node PLUGIN/scripts/vault-search.mjs list
8. Plugin dependencies: node PLUGIN/scripts/check-deps.mjs
9. Binary version: Check ll-search binary via node -e "import { binaryVersion } from 'PLUGIN/scripts/lib/binary.mjs'; console.log(binaryVersion());" -- returns version string or null

Step 1.5: Check: Plugin Dependencies

Parse the check-deps output from Step 1.

For each dependency:

• installed: Show name, version, status
• missing: Show name, reason, install command
• outdated: Show name, installed version vs required, install command

This check runs in both light and deep modes -- there's no deeper analysis needed.

Step 2: Check: Ghost Duplicates

Compare inbox filenames against filenames in 1-fleeting/ and 3-permanent/. A ghost duplicate exists when the same filename appears in inbox AND a promoted folder.

Light: List each ghost duplicate with its promoted location. Deep: Read both versions of each ghost duplicate. If content is identical or the inbox version is a subset, confirm as true duplicate. If content has diverged, flag as "diverged copy: review before deleting".

Step 3: Check: Near-Duplicate Pairs

Parse the cluster output from Step 1. Filter to pairs with similarity > 0.85 that are NOT ghost duplicates (same filename in different folders: already caught in Step 2).

Light: List each pair with similarity score. Deep: Read both notes in each pair. Compare content. Recommend which to keep (prefer the more mature version) or merge.

Step 4: Check: Orphan Notes

For each note across all content folders (0-inbox, 1-fleeting, 3-permanent), grep for \[\[ outgoing wikilinks. Notes with zero outgoing links are orphans. Exclude _system/ and 2-literature/ from orphan checks (system docs and literature notes don't need outlinks).

Light: List orphan filenames with their folder. Deep: For each orphan, run node PLUGIN/scripts/vault-search.mjs similar "<note-path>" --top 3 to suggest link targets.

Step 5: Check: Stale Inbox

For each inbox note, check file modification time using Bash: node -e "console.log(require('fs').statSync('FILE').mtimeMs)". Flag notes older than 14 days.

Light: List stale notes with age in days. Deep: Launch note-scorer agent(s) with stale note paths. Report maturity tier and recommend action: promote (if deep/medium), /deepen (if shallow but promising), or delete candidate (if shallow and empty).

Batching: If > 10 stale notes, split into batches of ~10 and launch parallel note-scorer agents.

Step 6: Check: Embedding Staleness

Compare the full vault file list (all .md files in content folders) against the output of vault-search.mjs list. Notes present in the vault but missing from the embedding index are stale.

Light and Deep: List missing notes. No difference between modes: there's nothing deeper to analyze.

Step 7: Check: Broken Links

Grep all \[\[...\]\] wikilink references across all vault notes. For each unique link target, check if a matching .md file exists anywhere in the vault (case-insensitive filename match). Broken links are references to non-existent notes.

Light: List each broken link with the source note that contains it. Deep: For each broken link, find the closest matching vault filename using fuzzy/substring match and suggest it as a correction.

Step 7.5: Check: Librarian Queue

Read PLUGIN_DATA/librarian/queue.jsonl (where PLUGIN_DATA = CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA env or ~/.claude/plugins/data/learning-loop). Parse each line as JSON. Filter to items where status === 'pending'. Also read PLUGIN_DATA/librarian/state.json for visited count.

If the queue file doesn't exist or is empty, skip this step silently.

Group pending items by task field:

• link_suggestion: link suggestions (orphan notes that should be linked)
• tag_suggestion: tag suggestions (under-tagged notes with proposed vocabulary tags)
• voice_flag: voice flags (topic-style titles)
• duplicate_flag: duplicate flags (notes that make the same claim as a near-neighbour)
• staleness_suspect: staleness suspects (Claude investigates)

Add to the dashboard output:

  Librarian:       N pending observations (visited M/T notes)
    Link suggestions:     N (X high, Y review)
    Tag suggestions:      N
    Voice flags:          N
    Duplicate flags:      N
    Staleness suspects:   N (for Claude to investigate)
    Queue:                P% full (N/CAP cap)

Where CAP is read from config.json's librarian.queue_cap (default 200).

If the queue has pending items, add recommendation:

Run /health --librarian to review and act on librarian suggestions.

Step 8: Present Dashboard

Output the summary dashboard:

Vault Health: YYYY-MM-DD

  Binary:        ll-search vX.Y.Z (installed) | not installed
  Dependencies:  N satisfied, M missing
  Ghost dupes:     N inbox notes already promoted
  Near-dupes:      N pairs (>0.85 similarity)
  Orphans:         N notes with no outlinks
  Stale inbox:     N notes older than 14 days
  Embeddings:      N notes not indexed
  Broken links:    N dead [[wikilinks]]

  Status: [total] issues [run /health --deep for full analysis]

The "run --deep" hint only appears in light mode. In deep mode, replace with a summary of findings.

Then output per-category details:

• In light mode: filenames only, grouped by category
• In deep mode: filenames + analysis + recommendations per note

Step 9: Offer Fixes

If --auto flag is set:

• Ghost dupes: Delete inbox copies silently using Bash: rm {{VAULT}}/0-inbox/<filename>
• Broken links: Strip the [[ and ]] brackets from broken wikilinks using Edit tool, leaving the display text as plain text (e.g., [[missing-note]] becomes missing-note, [[missing|displayed]] becomes displayed)
• Report what was fixed

If --auto flag is NOT set:

• Ghost dupes: Ask "Delete N ghost duplicates from inbox? (y/n)": wait for approval, then delete
• Broken links: Ask "Remove N broken wikilinks? (y/n)": wait for approval, then fix
• Near-dupes, orphans, stale, embeddings: Flag only with recommended next command (/inbox, /verify, /deepen, or "re-index in Obsidian")

Step 10: Summary

Output a one-line summary of actions taken:

Fixed: N ghost dupes removed, N broken links cleaned. Remaining: N issues: see recommendations above.

If nothing was fixed (no --auto, user declined, or nothing fixable):

No fixes applied. N issues found: see recommendations above.

Subagent Usage

note-scorer (deep mode only, Step 5)

Reuses the note-scorer agent. Only invoked for stale inbox notes in --deep mode.

Launch pattern:

Spawn note-scorer subagent(s) (subagent_type: learning-loop:note-scorer) with this prompt:

Score these notes for inbox staleness assessment.

notes: <file-path-1>, <file-path-2>, ...
vault_path: {{VAULT}}/
scope: stale inbox triage (health --deep)

Return per-note: dimension scores + maturity tier (shallow/medium/deep) + specific issues found.

Batching: One agent per ~10 notes. Parallel for larger sets.

Output contract: Each agent returns a list of objects:

- file: <path>
  tier: shallow | medium | deep
  issues: [<string>, ...]
  gate: N/6
  claim_specificity: 0-2
  source_grounded: 0-2

Mapping gate pass count to summary labels (for dashboard display):

• 0-2 pass = weak
• 3-4 pass = solid
• 5-6 pass = strong

Key Principles

• Fast by default. Light mode should complete in seconds: no agent launches, no note reading beyond filenames.
• Deep is thorough. When the user asks for --deep, give them the full picture. Use note-scorer, read content, diff duplicates.
• Safe fixes only. --auto only touches ghost dupes (inbox copy of promoted note) and broken links (references to nothing). Never auto-merge, auto-delete non-duplicate notes, or auto-promote.
• Route, don't replicate. Health diagnoses: it doesn't do the work of /verify, /inbox, or /deepen. Recommend the right tool for each issue.
• Respect vault boundaries. Never modify notes outside 0-inbox/ without asking. Broken link fixes edit the source note, which may be in any folder: always ask unless --auto.