hannsxpeter · hannsxpeter · Aug 19, 2026 · Aug 19, 2026
diff --git a/.godpowers/CHECKPOINT.mdx b/.godpowers/CHECKPOINT.mdx
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-id: CHECKPOINT-2026-08-18T04-06-56-142Z
+id: CHECKPOINT-2026-08-19T06-45-56-035Z
 project: godpowers
 mode: B
 mode-d-suite: false
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ progress-total: 19
 current-step: 19
 last-action: tier-0.sync done
 last-actor: unknown
-last-update: 2026-08-18T04:06:56.142Z
+last-update: 2026-08-19T06:45:56.035Z
 facts-hash: sha256:6bae3971008651bba3c5c4943ef21f4acfe4d2a17ac57b165f4c03bf8682d9d9
 ---
 # Checkpoint
@@ -28,20 +28,20 @@ facts-hash: sha256:6bae3971008651bba3c5c4943ef21f4acfe4d2a17ac57b165f4c03bf8682d
 - Lifecycle phase: **steady-state-active**
 - Progress: **100%** (19 of 19 steps complete; current step 19 of 19)
 - Current tier: **tier-3** / **launch**
-- Last action: `tier-0.sync done` by unknown at 2026-08-18T04:06:56.142Z
+- Last action: `tier-0.sync done` by unknown at 2026-08-19T06:45:56.035Z
 
 ## What happened recently
 
 _(no recent actions recorded yet)_
 
 ## What happens next
 
-- /god-feature
-- The 6.0.0 release is complete and the project has returned to steady-state feature work.
+- /god-ship
+- The reviewed 31-test evidence correction is synchronized for the 6.1.0 source candidate; publication remains pending.
 
 ## Next suggested command
 
-`/god-feature` - The 6.0.0 release is complete and the project has returned to steady-state feature work.
+`/god-ship` - The reviewed 31-test evidence correction is synchronized for the 6.1.0 source candidate; publication remains pending.
 
 ## Last actions (most recent first, max 20)
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ _(no actions recorded yet)_
 
 ## Provenance
 
-- Generated: 2026-08-18T04:06:56.142Z
+- Generated: 2026-08-19T06:45:56.035Z
 - Schema version: 1.0
 - Authoritative state: `.godpowers/state.json`
 - Authoritative history: `.godpowers/runs/<id>/events.jsonl` + `.godpowers/log`
diff --git a/.godpowers/PROGRESS.mdx b/.godpowers/PROGRESS.mdx
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 - [DECISION] PRD and ROADMAP were reconstructed from the shipped v2.1.1 codebase with stable requirement ids, and the linkage map was populated via `scripts/reconstruct-self-ledger.js`. Deliverable status lives in `.godpowers/REQUIREMENTS.mdx`: 32 of 33 requirements done, 1 in progress (deliverable-progress, unreleased), 100% requirement-to-code coverage.
 
 <!-- godpowers:state-view:begin -->
-<!-- godpowers:checksum sha256:aa342dce75202a050663cc261d7dc88943f7c379d3d27905b985d670199d3167 -->
+<!-- godpowers:checksum sha256:6d1b624aacc2f408ae362d260f2a10da4c3d89a37977d6add87a0fdffb45cff1 -->
 # Godpowers Progress
 
 - [DECISION] This file is a generated human-readable view of `.godpowers/state.json`.
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@
 | 4 | Orchestration | Tech Debt | done | tech-debt/ASSESSMENT.mdx | 2026-07-13T05:12:51.236Z |
 | 5 | Orchestration | Greenfield Simulation | done | audit/GREENFIELD-SIMULATION.mdx | 2026-07-13T05:12:51.236Z |
 | 6 | Orchestration | Greenfieldify | done | audit/GREENFIELDIFY-PLAN.mdx | 2026-07-13T05:45:00.000Z |
-| 7 | Orchestration | Sync | done | SYNC-LOG.mdx | 2026-08-18T04:04:11.227Z |
-| 8 | Planning | PRD | done | prd/PRD.mdx | 2026-08-18T03:37:48.425Z |
+| 7 | Orchestration | Sync | done | SYNC-LOG.mdx | 2026-08-19T06:45:56.026Z |
+| 8 | Planning | PRD | done | prd/PRD.mdx | 2026-08-19T06:45:56.026Z |
 | 9 | Planning | Design | not-required | - | 2026-07-13T05:12:51.236Z |
 | 10 | Planning | Product | not-required | - | 2026-07-13T05:12:51.236Z |
-| 11 | Planning | Architecture | done | arch/ARCH.mdx | 2026-08-18T03:37:48.425Z |
-| 12 | Planning | Roadmap | done | roadmap/ROADMAP.mdx | 2026-08-18T03:37:48.425Z |
+| 11 | Planning | Architecture | done | arch/ARCH.mdx | 2026-08-19T06:24:23.963Z |
+| 12 | Planning | Roadmap | done | roadmap/ROADMAP.mdx | 2026-08-19T06:45:56.026Z |
 | 13 | Planning | Stack | done | stack/DECISION.mdx | 2026-08-18T03:37:48.425Z |
 | 14 | Building | Repo | done | repo/AUDIT.mdx | 2026-07-13T05:57:20.000Z |
 | 15 | Building | Build | done | build/STATE.mdx | 2026-08-18T03:46:06.501Z |

diff --git a/.godpowers/REQUIREMENTS.mdx b/.godpowers/REQUIREMENTS.mdx
@@ -5,19 +5,19 @@
 > `/god-progress`, `/god-status`, or `/god-sync`. Do not hand-edit statuses;
 > they are recomputed from disk.
 
-Updated: 2026-08-18T03:04:41.200Z
+Updated: 2026-08-19T06:21:23.536Z
 Source: PRD + ROADMAP + linkage forward map + build state
-Progress: [####################] 41/41 done (100%) | 0 in progress | 0 not started
+Progress: [####################] 47/47 done (100%) | 0 in progress | 0 not started
 
 ## By priority
 
 | Priority | Done | In progress | Not started | Total |
 |----------|------|-------------|-------------|-------|
-| MUST | 29 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
+| MUST | 35 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
 | SHOULD | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
 | COULD | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
 
-## Done (41)
+## Done (47)
 
 - [x] **P-MUST-01** Run a full idea-to-production project autonomously through tiered specialist agents _(increment: M-orchestration)_ - agents/god-orchestrator.md, docs/change-propagation.md, docs/linkage.md, lib/code-scanner.js, +9 more
 - [x] **P-MUST-02** Hold project state on disk and re-derive it every turn, never from agent memory _(increment: M-orchestration)_ - lib/state.js, scripts/test-linkage.js, specialists/god-executor.md
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Progress: [####################] 41/41 done (100%) | 0 in progress | 0 not start
 - [x] **P-MUST-27** Derive a compact structured slice handoff from authoritative disk evidence on completion, pause, or ownership change _(increment: M-harness-quality-hardening)_ - lib/slice-handoff.js
 - [x] **P-MUST-28** Capture deterministic before-and-after maintainability evidence with signed deltas and sample counts for independent quality review _(increment: M-harness-quality-hardening)_ - lib/maintainability-trajectory.js, lib/style-stats.js
 - [x] **P-MUST-29** Run a deterministic six-checkpoint evolution benchmark that reveals requirements one at a time and measures continued correctness and changeability _(increment: M-harness-quality-hardening)_ - lib/evolution-benchmark.js
+- [x] **P-MUST-30** Extend the shared voice contract with plain and concrete prose guidance plus a separate post-draft audit _(increment: M-prose-quality-hardening)_ - SKILL.md, references/shared/VOICE.md, scripts/test-prose-lint.js
+- [x] **P-MUST-31** Provide a dependency-free deterministic advisory prose scanner _(increment: M-prose-quality-hardening)_ - lib/prose-lint.js, scripts/test-prose-lint.js
+- [x] **P-MUST-32** Integrate prose findings into universal artifact validation as U-12 warnings _(increment: M-prose-quality-hardening)_ - lib/have-nots-validator.js, references/HAVE-NOTS.md, scripts/test-artifact-linter.js, scripts/test-prose-lint.js
+- [x] **P-MUST-33** Verify prose lint behavior, precision, performance, integration, and shipped-framework self-dogfood _(increment: M-prose-quality-hardening)_ - lib/prose-lint.js, scripts/run-tests.js, scripts/static-check.js, scripts/test-prose-lint.js
+- [x] **P-MUST-34** Apply the shared prose contract through the documentation and launch specialists according to output type _(increment: M-prose-quality-hardening)_ - scripts/test-prose-lint.js, specialists/god-docs-writer.md, specialists/god-launch-strategist.md
+- [x] **P-MUST-35** Preserve independent authorship and release discipline for the pstack `unslop`-inspired prose-quality feature _(increment: M-prose-quality-hardening)_ - scripts/check-package-contents.js, scripts/test-prose-lint.js
 - [x] **P-SHOULD-01** Set up a deploy pipeline that promotes the same artifact with tested rollback _(increment: M-shipping)_ - agents/god-deploy-engineer.md
 - [x] **P-SHOULD-02** Wire observability with SLOs tied to product success metrics _(increment: M-shipping)_ - agents/god-observability-engineer.md
 - [x] **P-SHOULD-03** Produce launch readiness: landing copy, Open Graph cards, and a launch runbook _(increment: M-shipping)_ - agents/god-launch-strategist.md
@@ -85,4 +91,5 @@ Progress: [####################] 41/41 done (100%) | 0 in progress | 0 not start
 - [x] **M-advanced**: Advanced capabilities _[next]_ - done - 4/4 requirements done
 - [x] **M-authorized-ai-provenance-cleaning**: Authorized AI provenance cleaning _[next]_ - done - 2/2 requirements done
 - [x] **M-harness-quality-hardening**: Harness quality hardening _[next]_ - done - 6/6 requirements done
+- [x] **M-prose-quality-hardening**: Prose quality hardening _[next]_ - done - 6/6 requirements done
 - [ ] **M-deeper-traceability-and-ecosystem**: Deeper traceability and ecosystem _[later]_ - pending - 0/0 requirements done
diff --git a/.godpowers/SYNC-LOG.mdx b/.godpowers/SYNC-LOG.mdx
@@ -50,3 +50,20 @@
 - [DECISION] Isolated exact-version root installation and published MCP executable verification pass.
 - [DECISION] GitHub Release `v6.0.0` is published at `https://github.com/hannsxpeter/godpowers/releases/tag/v6.0.0` with notes and no duplicate package assets; npm is the authoritative artifact source.
 - [DECISION] The publication workflow now retries exact-version registry reads for up to 120 seconds before stopping pair verification, preventing the observed propagation race from failing immediately.
+
+## 2026-08-19: Prose Quality Hardening Source Closeout
+
+- [DECISION] Reverse sync scanned 840 eligible files, found 132 current annotation and filename links, added 18 code-scanner-owned links, removed none, refreshed the PRD, architecture, roadmap, and stack linkage footers, and reported zero drift findings or review items.
+- [DECISION] P-MUST-30 through P-MUST-35 now link to the scanner, U-12 integration, focused tests, shared voice contract, documentation and launch specialists, self-dogfood, and package guard that implement them.
+- [DECISION] The generated requirements ledger records 47 of 47 requirements complete with 100 percent linkage coverage, zero gaps, 15 completed increments, and one empty later-horizon theme still pending.
+- [DECISION] The root PRD, architecture, and deliberately reviewed roadmap remain complete with exact hashes recorded in authoritative state, and M-prose-quality-hardening is complete in source while publication evidence remains pending.
+- [DECISION] Independent Stage 1 specification review, Stage 2 quality review, and scoped hardening review passed for the prose-quality feature; the current focused evidence records 31 prose tests, 73 artifact-linter tests, 35 static checks, 11 voice tests, and zero prose warnings across 233 shipped Markdown and MDX files.
+- [DECISION] Pillars synchronization refreshed context, architecture, quality, deploy, and observe projections from the current PRD, architecture, roadmap, state, and 6.1.0 release candidate; context and deploy now record 113 runtime modules and 111 focused test scripts instead of the prior 112 and 110 counts.
+- [DECISION] Source-system sync was skipped because authoritative state has no enabled source systems, and repository documentation and repository surface evidence were already refreshed by the feature workflow.
+- [DECISION] Full release-gate evidence, pull-request CI, merge identity, merged-main CI, annotated tag, GitHub Release, npm publication, registry integrity, and isolated published-install verification remain pending and are not marked complete by this sync.
+
+- 2026-08-19T06:22:48.602Z roadmap hash re-blessed deliberately via version-sync --bless-roadmap: Reviewed the completed prose-quality increment, 47 linked requirements, reverse-synced footers, and final PRD, ARCH, and stack provenance for the 6.1.0 release candidate
+
+- 2026-08-19T06:23:01.251Z roadmap hash re-blessed deliberately via version-sync --bless-roadmap: Corrected the prose-quality roadmap evidence timestamp to the actual closeout time after reviewing the same approved 6.1.0 content
+
+- 2026-08-19T06:45:55.998Z roadmap hash re-blessed deliberately via version-sync --bless-roadmap: Reviewed the focused prose evidence correction from 30 to 31 tests and refreshed the exact PRD provenance for the 6.1.0 release candidate
diff --git a/.godpowers/arch/ARCH.mdx b/.godpowers/arch/ARCH.mdx
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 | C-slice-handoff | [DECISION] Project authoritative plan, state, event, linkage, and verification facts into one bounded resume record. | [DECISION] Dependency-free Node.js CommonJS and JSON. |
 | C-maintainability-trajectory | [DECISION] Capture stable code-shape snapshots and signed deltas without executing repository imports. | [DECISION] Dependency-free Node.js CommonJS. |
 | C-evolution-benchmark | [DECISION] Reveal six ordered requirements to a temporary repository and retain deterministic correctness and changeability evidence. | [DECISION] Dependency-free Node.js CommonJS plus packaged fixtures. |
+| C-prose-lint within the Artifact layer | [DECISION] Scan caller-supplied Markdown as inert text and return ordered advisory U-12 prose findings. | [DECISION] Dependency-free Node.js CommonJS. |
 
 ## Architecture Decision Records
 
@@ -93,6 +94,14 @@
 - [DECISION] Flip point: advisory maintainability thresholds may be considered after three release-candidate datasets, but state authority remains fixed by ADR-001.
 - [DECISION] Consequence: slice transitions remain resumable and measurable without promoting one metric or summary to source-of-truth status.
 
+### ADR-009: Keep prose-quality detection advisory and local
+
+- [DECISION] Context: labeled Godpowers prose can still hide actors, mechanisms, evidence, effects, or reader actions behind polished wording.
+- [DECISION] Decision: C-prose-lint stays inside the existing Artifact layer, treats input as inert text, returns bounded sanitized findings, and enters universal validation only as U-12 warnings.
+- [DECISION] Rationale: local structured warnings support human review without automatic rewriting, a model call, persistence, or a new external trust boundary.
+- [DECISION] Flip point: reconsider a rule's advisory severity only after two release candidates provide reviewed precision evidence and a maintainer-approved override design.
+- [DECISION] Consequence: existing artifact errors keep their severity, while maintainers receive deterministic prose findings that cannot block a gate by themselves.
+
 ## Critical Flows
 
 ### Authorized provenance inspection and cleaning
@@ -112,6 +121,13 @@
 5. [DECISION] C-slice-handoff writes a bounded projection for resume, with current state winning every conflict.
 6. [DECISION] C-evolution-benchmark repeats behavior and maintainability evidence across six isolated checkpoint reveals and retains JSON plus Markdown summaries after temporary cleanup.
 
+### Advisory prose-quality flow
+
+1. [DECISION] The Artifact layer passes caller-owned Markdown or MDX text to C-prose-lint without granting filesystem, network, model, or mutation authority.
+2. [DECISION] C-prose-lint masks frontmatter, fenced code, inline code, link destinations, and clearly quoted bad examples before matching high-confidence sentence patterns.
+3. [DECISION] C-prose-lint returns ordered findings with bounded excerpts after terminal control bytes are removed.
+4. [DECISION] The universal have-nots wrapper maps each finding to a U-12 warning, while the existing artifact linter preserves every blocking error and aggregate warning count.
+
 ## Capacity Envelope
 
 | Input | Supported envelope | Source |
@@ -125,6 +141,7 @@
 | Slice handoff | [DECISION] One canonical JSON record at or below 8 KiB, with mandatory recovery fields protected from trimming. | [DECISION] P-MUST-27 serialization fixtures. |
 | Evolution checkpoints | [DECISION] Exactly six sequential checkpoints with no parallel project mutation or future-checkpoint reads. | [DECISION] P-MUST-29 packaged scenario and isolation fixtures. |
 | Evolution input and output | [DECISION] Manifests and checkpoints are each capped at 16 KiB, scalar fields at 4 KiB, baselines at 64 MiB, 5,000 entries, and depth 48, machine evidence at 256 KiB, and human summaries at 128 KiB. | [DECISION] P-MUST-29 adversarial boundary fixtures. |
+| Prose scan | [DECISION] At least 1 MiB or 10,000 lines per invocation, excerpts capped at 160 characters, and a 1 MiB fixture completing within 250 milliseconds at p95 across 20 runs. | [DECISION] P-MUST-31 focused performance and boundary fixtures. |
 
 ## Failure and Degradation
 
@@ -137,6 +154,7 @@
 | Guarded publication | [DECISION] Reject parent or destination identity changes and attempt one local restoration when replacement publication fails. | [DECISION] Preserve the competing file, restore the prior destination when possible, and report any retained recovery path. |
 | Context or plan validation | [DECISION] Complete each local validation within a 30 second harness deadline, reject missing, escaped, contradictory, oversized, or negatively approved evidence, and never retry; the read-only validation is idempotent by input-byte digest. | [DECISION] Return bounded findings and leave authoritative state unchanged. |
 | Trajectory or benchmark input | [DECISION] Complete each fixture checkpoint within a 30 second behavior deadline, reject incompatible snapshots, malformed manifests, future-checkpoint access, or incomplete evidence, and never retry a mutation; snapshot reads are idempotent by repository-byte digest. | [DECISION] Stop at the first invalid checkpoint, retain partial evidence, and remove the temporary repository. |
+| Advisory prose scan | [DECISION] Complete one local pass without retry, execute no input content, make no I/O request, and leave caller bytes unchanged; identical input and options are idempotent by returned finding bytes. | [DECISION] Return bounded sanitized U-12 warnings, or a scanner error that leaves existing artifact state and severity unchanged. |
 
 ## NFR-to-Architecture Map
 
@@ -155,6 +173,8 @@
 | Deterministic resume | State-authoritative structured handoffs capped at 8 KiB | ADR-008 |
 | Changeability evidence | Report-only maintainability deltas plus isolated sequential benchmark checkpoints | ADR-008 |
 | Harness isolation | Dependency-free local helpers, inert source parsing, and an offline temporary-repository benchmark | ADR-007 and ADR-008 |
+| Advisory prose quality | Local inert-text scanning, bounded sanitized findings, and warning-only U-12 integration | ADR-002 and ADR-009 |
+| Prose scan isolation | No filesystem, network, model, persistence, or mutation authority for caller-owned text | ADR-002 and ADR-009 |
 
 ## Trust Boundaries
 
@@ -167,6 +187,7 @@
 - [DECISION] Provenance filesystem boundary: the bundled client pins input, parent, and destination identities, rejects unsafe links and concurrent changes, and retains a named recovery path when guarded restoration cannot complete.
 - [DECISION] Harness path boundary: context files reject symlinks and retain pinned bytes, program-design approval binds to an exact path and digest, and handoff plus benchmark paths resolve within their declared roots before reads or writes.
 - [DECISION] Harness content boundary: repository source and imports are inert measurement input, loadout events omit contents, and compact logs never add environment dumps or credentials.
+- [DECISION] Artifact-quality boundary: prose input remains inert caller-owned text, C-prose-lint performs no I/O, terminal control bytes are removed from excerpts, findings are capped at 160 characters, and U-12 remains advisory; this local path adds no external trust boundary.
 
 ## Data Ownership
 
@@ -188,6 +209,7 @@
 | Slice handoff projection | `lib/slice-handoff.js`, with workflow authority retained by `.godpowers/state.json` |
 | Maintainability snapshots and deltas | `lib/maintainability-trajectory.js` plus the independent quality reviewer |
 | Evolution checkpoint evidence | `lib/evolution-benchmark.js` and `fixtures/evolution/maintainability-sequence/` |
+| Advisory prose findings | `lib/prose-lint.js`, with universal warning integration owned by `lib/have-nots-validator.js` |
 
 ## Have-Nots Checklist
 
@@ -199,6 +221,7 @@
 
 ## Architecture Changelog
 
+- [DECISION] 2026-08-19: Added ADR-009 and C-prose-lint inside the existing Artifact layer because deterministic inert-text scanning, bounded sanitized findings, and warning-only U-12 integration now participate in artifact validation without a new service or production dependency.
 - [DECISION] 2026-08-17: Added ADR-007, ADR-008, and six harness-quality containers because verified pre-spawn context, program design, compact verification, handoffs, trajectory measures, and evolution evidence now participate in the Build and release paths.
 - [DECISION] 2026-08-17: Added ADR-004 through ADR-006 and the five provenance containers because the completed extension introduced a lazy package boundary, a deterministic upstream client, a visible external transfer gate, and guarded local publication.