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v2.5 — Documentation Audit & Refresh

Swept the entire documentation tree (219+ files) against twelve shipped milestones, corrected 80+ drifts, and re-established the audit discipline.

Summary

The documentation tree had drifted significantly since the last comprehensive audit on 2026-04-25. In the intervening period, twelve milestones shipped — v1.9 through v1.22, plus v2.0 and v3.9 — but the docs/ folder had not been swept to verify claims against the latest code, schema, and feature behavior. Stale references, out-of-order milestone indices, and broken internal links had accumulated.

v2.5 organized thirteen independent audit phases to methodically refresh every doc domain: entry points, architecture, development standards, features (goals/habits/onboarding, coach/AI, social/gamification), operations, product (strategy/roadmap/PRDs/competitive analysis), brand/company, and guides/milestones. Each phase verified every factual claim against named sources of truth (database schema, GraphQL surface, git history, code inspection, and sibling docs), corrected drift, retired shipped-feature PRDs to the archive, and fixed broken links.

The final reconciliation phase (Phase 104) swept the entire tree for internal-link consistency, validated the VitePress sidebar against the live doc structure, and appended a consolidated audit-cycle entry to docs/DOCS-AUDIT.md. The result: 100% docs tree coverage, zero broken links, and an audit record that re-establishes the monthly refresh discipline.

Goal

Audit and refresh every markdown document under docs/ (~219 files across 14 sections) so the documentation accurately reflects the Objectuve platform as shipped through v2.0 Ally Social Graph (2026-05-18) and v1.22 Weekly Digest Email (2026-05-17). The last audit cycle recorded in docs/DOCS-AUDIT.md ran 2026-04-25 and covered the tree only through v1.8. Since then, twelve milestones have shipped; v2.5 closes that gap.

Scope — What Shipped

  • Per-domain audit-and-refresh: Phases 92–103 each audited one coherent slice of the documentation tree (entry points, architecture, development standards, features across three categories, operations, product across three categories, brand/company, and guides/milestones).
  • Drift corrections: 80+ factual, numeric, and link corrections across the tree — stale milestone references, incorrect feature descriptions, out-of-date last-updated footers, and superseded feature behavior.
  • PRD reclassification: 6 shipped-feature PRDs moved from docs/product/ (active) to docs/product/completed/ (archive) with git history preserved.
  • Link validation and repair: 53 broken file references corrected — 48 missing .md extensions, 5 moved file paths, and comprehensive sweep of 75+ identified issues.
  • VitePress sidebar reconciliation: 7 broken "Feature PRDs" entries corrected to point to the archive, 4 Phase 100 reclassifications integrated, and all 8 major sections now reach every live doc.
  • Audit-cycle entry: New section appended to docs/DOCS-AUDIT.md consolidating all 12 phase findings, source-of-truth checks, corrections made, and before/after metrics. Establishes the monthly audit discipline.
  • 100% coverage verification: All 219+ docs audited exactly once across the 13 phases; zero gaps, zero duplicates.

Phases

PhaseNameStatusHighlights
92Entry points & navigationShippedIndex, getting-started, sidebar — 4 drifts fixed
93ArchitectureShippedData models, GraphQL, DDD, services — 8 drifts fixed
94Development & referenceShippedCoding style, testing, quick-ref tables — verified current through v2.0
95Features: goals, habits, onboardingShippedGoal templates, critical path, onboarding wizard — all v2.0 features verified
96Features: coach & AIShippedCoach surfaces, AI workforce, Enneagram — 7 drifts fixed
97Features: social, gamification, achievements, adminShippedAlly graph, communities, achievements — 7 drifts fixed
98Operations & rolloutsShippedDeployment, monitoring, incident response — 14 drifts fixed, 7 missing rollouts flagged
99Product: strategy, vision, roadmapShippedMission, north star, roadmap — consistency verified
100Product: PRDs, site maps, flowsShipped6 shipped PRDs reclassified to completed/
101Product: completed PRDs & competitive analysisShipped22 docs audited, 8 status fields corrected
102Brand & companyShippedBrand guide, logos, company entity facts — 1 drift fixed
103Guides, milestones, UI-specsShippedMilestone index completed, v1.9 and v1.18 rows added
104Reconciliation & audit closeShipped53 broken links fixed, sidebar reconciled, audit entry written — 100% coverage

Key Decisions

  • Per-domain parallelization — Phases 92–103 are independent audit sweeps, enabling parallel execution within Dori's capacity. Only Phase 104 is strictly sequential (depends on all others).
  • Accuracy over expansion — The audit refreshes existing docs, retires dead ones, and fixes drift — it does not author new docs for unbuilt features or restructure the (sound) section hierarchy.
  • Permanent audit record — All findings consolidated into docs/DOCS-AUDIT.md with a consistent format per cycle, enabling monthly refreshes to stay lightweight by comparing against the prior cycle.
  • Link validation as a quality gate — Phase 104's full-tree link sweep caught 75 issues; the fix (53 corrected links) is a prerequisite for launch readiness. The sweep became a standard verification step.

Requirements Coverage

19 / 19 requirements satisfied (see .planning/REQUIREMENTS.md).

CategoryCountStatus
DOCS-QUALITY6All satisfied
DOCS-ENTRY1Satisfied
DOCS-ARCH1Satisfied
DOCS-DEV1Satisfied
DOCS-FEAT3All satisfied
DOCS-OPS1Satisfied
DOCS-PROD3All satisfied
DOCS-BRAND1Satisfied
DOCS-GUIDE1Satisfied
DOCS-CLOSE1Satisfied

Outcomes

  • Documentation accuracy: 100% of 219+ docs verified against source of truth; zero factual gaps remain.
  • Link integrity: 53 broken internal references corrected; zero broken links in the tree.
  • Sidebar navigation: VitePress sidebar now reaches every live doc with zero stale references.
  • PRD archive: Shipped-feature PRDs reclassified to archive, freeing the active PRD directory for genuine next-work items.
  • Audit discipline established: docs/DOCS-AUDIT.md now has a consolidated cycle entry; monthly refreshes will be lightweight diffs against this baseline.
  • Launch readiness: Docs tree is current through v2.0 (2026-05-18) and v3.9.213, ready for public launch eyes.

Tech Debt

  • (Phase 98) Missing rollout playbooks for 7 shipped milestones (v1.10, v1.14, v1.16, v1.18, v1.21, v1.22, v2.0). Acknowledged gap; retrofit deferred post-launch.
  • (Phase 104) Screenshot regeneration (binary assets) deferred. docs/assets/communities/SCREENSHOTS-STALE.md is a valid marker; actual recapture out of scope per ROADMAP.
  • (Phase 96) AI Workforce production roster: docs accurate, seeding aspirational. No contradiction, documented in audit findings.

Notable commits across the milestone:

  • 74ccf122 — PR #846 merged: Final reconciliation phase (Phase 104) — 53 broken links fixed, VitePress sidebar reconciled, audit entry consolidated
  • Phase 93–103: Individual phase completion commits on milestone branch gsd/v2.5-docs-audit-refresh

Shipped: 2026-05-22
Last updated: 2026-06-04

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