compliance-verifier

Status: shipped-beta · Ships to: npm lane — delivered into the consumer's .claude/agents/ by the setup delivery loop (setup.d/20-agents.sh:24) · Fires at: dispatched as a Claude Code sub-agent (frontmatter name:; the session's agent list carries its one-line description)

What it is

"> Authoritative for: compliance-verifier sub-agent prompt — PR description §1.7 section" substance review; reporting-only (agents/compliance-verifier.md:9-10). It reviews PR §1.7 Forward-check/Backward-check evidence: file:line citations, sweep completeness, exemption quality (frontmatter description, line 3). Division of labour with the deterministic layer: "The point of this role: Wave 8.1's deterministic regex (.github/workflows/discipline-self-check.yml)" verifies sections exist; this agent verifies citations are real (agents/compliance-verifier.md:23-27). A plugin twin exists at plugin/agents/compliance-verifier.md — a generated byte-identical copy for the plugin marketplace channel (verified line-for-line against the agent file at authoring time).

How it works

• "## What you check" (line 39) — five YES/NO items over the PR body ("Work through the PR description in the open tab or from gh pr view <number> --json body. For", line 41).
• Forward-check per-layer coverage (line 44 heading): "For each applicable layer (R1-R20 code-level rules · Principles 01-N · Capability-commit gate ·" (line 47); theatre tell at line 54: "Theatre tell: «R1-R20 checked — all compliant» with no diff/file ref."
• Citation integrity: "Pick 2-3 of the file.ext:line citations; Read the cited locations. Does the cited line" (line 57) — REVISE if off by >±3 lines or misrepresenting.
• Backward-check sweep completeness: "The Backward-check must enumerate the complete set of existing artefacts under the new" (line 65); "Real sweep: concrete command + output count + line numbers (e.g." (line 68).
• Exemption mechanism needs a paired negative test (line 82: "without a paired negative test in the same diff."); trailer checks substance parity against the pre-push hook's presence check (lines 86-89).
• Anti-patterns (line 91 heading), including "- #discipline-theatre — §1.7 section contains ≥40 chars of fluent prose asserting" (line 93). "## Final verdict" (line 116); STOP is not used — "a present-but-hollow §1.7 is REVISE." (line 134, with line 133: "STOP-level (K1/K2/K5-class) is not used by this agent — a missing §1.7 section entirely is the").

Satellites & companions

• USES: reviewer-discipline clauses (line 33 heading) and the §1.7 discipline owned by .claude/rules/phase-research-coverage.md (lines 44, 91).
• ADAPTS: the dispatch-input-checker verdict vocabulary — line 16: "> Reach + restoration trigger in map §4.2. Verdict vocab GO/REVISE/STOP per".
• ADDS: the substance layer over the regex gate — "This is the two-AI review pattern: the implementing session wrote the §1.7 sections in the" same head that wrote the diff (line 29). Explicit non-claim: "- You do not make a judgment on the diff's correctness (that is review-sidecar's role)." (line 139).
• Census family satellites: C10 (review-sidecar — the diff-correctness peer this agent defers to); the plugin twin carries the same prompt on the marketplace channel.

Anchors

• agents/compliance-verifier.md:2 — name: compliance-verifier
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:3 — description: Reviews PR description §1.7 Forward-check and Backward-check sections for substantive evidence — file:line citations, sweep completeness, exemption quality. Reports; does not fix.
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:9 — > **Authoritative for:** compliance-verifier sub-agent prompt — PR description §1.7 section
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:39 — ## What you check
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:56 — ### 2. Forward-check: citation integrity (spot-check 2-3)
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:65 — The Backward-check must enumerate the **complete set** of existing artefacts under the new
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:102 — ## How to report (one block per issue, do not bundle)
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:116 — ## Final verdict
• agents/compliance-verifier.md:139 — - You do **not** make a judgment on the diff's _correctness_ (that is review-sidecar's role).
• plugin/agents/compliance-verifier.md:2 — name: compliance-verifier
• setup.d/20-agents.sh:24 — for f in "$PKG_ROOT"/agents/*.md; do

All anchors at framework pin b069c59328aa8e08671d3a19fd25efa618dfc1c5 (fetched 2026-09-11 from artyhoo/getff staging; ancestry of census pin a1337cb301 verified).