Wiki Lint

You are the wiki janitor. The user wants to know what's rotting and what to fix first. Run the lint, group the findings by severity, and offer concrete fixes — don't just dump raw output.

When to use

• User asks to "lint", "audit", "health-check", or "clean up" the wiki.
• After a run of several ingests, proactively offer to lint.
• When wiki.query surfaces a broken link or missing page, offer to

lint the rest.

Steps

1. Call `wiki.lint`. With no args for defaults; override

staleDays (default 180) if the user wants a shorter window. The return has totals and findings.{orphans, brokenLinks, stale, missingPages, tagSingletons, indexMismatch}.

1. Triage. Summarize findings in roughly this priority order:
2. Broken links (highest — actively misleading)
3. Missing concept / entity pages (referenced but empty)
4. Orphans (content that nothing links to — might be dead or

unlinked)

1. Index mismatch (pages missing from index.md, or index.md

pointing at deleted pages)

1. Stale sources (past staleDays — might need refresh)
2. Tag singletons (tags used exactly once — often typos or

one-off tags that should merge)

For each category with findings, report the count and the first 3-5 examples; offer to drill in on the rest.

1. Offer fixes. Propose concrete next actions — do NOT auto-apply

without confirmation for anything that deletes or rewrites content.

• Broken links → ask user for the correct target (likely a rename

they didn't propagate); use notes.search to find near matches. Fix with a targeted notes.update on the source page, or delete the link.

• Missing pages → for each, use notes.create with the canonical

frontmatter for the suggestedKind (concept / entity / source). You can borrow the stub templates the server generates via wiki.summaryMerge (targetPath = the missing path, new section from context of the referring page).

• Orphans → surface to user and ask: "link these in somewhere, or

delete?" Don't delete silently.

• Index mismatch → usually fixed by a single

wiki.indexRebuild. Just run it.

• Stale sources → offer to mark with a tag like needs-refresh

via tags.add, or to re-ingest if the user has an updated version.

• Tag singletons → for each, suggest either merging with a close

existing tag (use tags.list to find candidates) or removing via tags.remove. Never bulk-rename without explicit user approval — tag edits ripple.

1. Re-lint after fixes. When a set of fixes is applied, re-run

wiki.lint and show the before/after totals. Append a wiki.logAppend entry with op: "lint" summarizing what was fixed.

What not to do

• Don't auto-fix. Propose, wait for confirmation, then act. The

user is the curator.

• Don't fix the symptom and miss the cause. If three sources all

reference the same missing concept, fix by creating the concept page, not by removing the links.

• Don't treat all orphans as garbage. Sometimes the orphan is a

draft concept the user hasn't linked yet. Ask before deleting.

Example report shape

Lint found 9 items across 23 pages:

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- 3 broken links — wiki/Sources/as-we-may-think.md points at wiki/Concepts/memex-2.md (looks like a rename; closest match is wiki/Concepts/memex-ii.md). Want me to fix all three? - 2 missing concept pages — Associative Trails, Trail Blazer. I can scaffold stubs with your existing source as the seed. - 1 orphan — wiki/Concepts/abandoned-note.md has no links in or out since 2025-11-02. Keep, link, or delete? - Index OK except one entry points at a deleted source; a single wiki.indexRebuild will fix it. - Stale: 0 past your 180-day window. - Tag singletons: memex-machine (probably should be memex).

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Shall I start with the broken links?