# code-sync

Reconciles project specifications and backlog records with actual repository code after merges, updating statuses only on hard evidence.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 34
- Author: awrshift
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/code-sync

## What it does

The skill inspects `projects/*/README.md` or the documentation map declared in the root `CLAUDE.md`. For every spec inside `plans/*.md` marked as `building`, it verifies acceptance criteria by inspecting QA run files, checking tests, and executing gate commands directly from the repository root. If source code contradicts the spec via missing files or altered signatures, it marks the document as `stale` with an exact file reference.

Overridden items marked as `assumed` are gathered into an agenda table for review rather than modified automatically. In `BACKLOG.md`, tasks shift to `Done` only after all acceptance checkboxes are ticked and the parent spec reaches `done`. Without existing project documentation on disk, the skill halts immediately because it refuses to scaffold missing folders. Passing `--dry-run` outputs the planned diff without modifying any files.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill code-sync -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/code-sync/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill code-sync -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill code-sync -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install awrshift/agent-memory-kit code-sync
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill code-sync -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit --path plugins/memory-kit/skills/code-sync
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill code-sync -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/code-sync/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- reconcile project plans with repository changes after merging a branch
- detect outdated specifications broken by renamed functions or deleted files
- assemble unconfirmed architectural assumptions into a review agenda
- transfer verified tasks to the finished section in BACKLOG.md

## Example prompts
- /memory-kit:code-sync
- sync specs with code
- /memory-kit:code-sync --dry-run

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: code-sync
description: >
  Reconcile the project's documents with what the code now shows, after a merge or at the end of
  a build: spec statuses (building → done only with a named gate, or → stale with the reason),
  assumed specs owed ratification, the project README map and its Last verified date. Surgical
  edits only. Use when the user says "/memory-kit:code-sync", "sync the docs", "sync specs with
  code", "синхронизируй доки с кодом", "что устарело в спеках", or right after merging an
  executor branch.
allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit(projects/**)
---

# /code-sync — documents reconciled against the repository

`close-session` reconciles the SESSION with memory. This reconciles a PROJECT's documents with
the CODE: every claim a spec still makes is checked against what is in the tree right now.

Two rails hold the whole skill up. **Evidence, never a claim** — a spec becomes `done` only from
a gate YOU ran in this session or a `Verified` cell someone already filled. **Surgical edits
only** — the only things you write are a status value, a `Verified` cell, one `Stale since:`
line, a map row, `Last verified:`, and a BACKLOG Done line. Everything else keeps its bytes.

## Step 0 — locate the projects

- `Glob projects/*/README.md`. If the repo keeps its documents elsewhere, read the root
  `CLAUDE.md` / `README.md` for the docs home and use the map it names. Nothing found → say so
  and stop. This skill never scaffolds.
- From each project README read two things: the map table ("Where this project's documents
  live") — the SSOT for where plans, QA records and the backlog actually are — and the
  `**Workflow tier:**` line, which sets how much evidence a `done` needs:

| Tier | Evidence a `done` needs |
|---|---|
| `prototype` | the gate output, run by you |
| `alpha` | + an integrator acceptance walk named in the `Verified` cell |
| `beta` | + a `qa/qa-run-*.md` record and tests naming each `AC-n` |
| `ga` | + a review pass and a `document` entry for the change |

- The user named one project → sweep only that one. Otherwise sweep all of them.

## Step 1 — inventory the specs

Read the header of every `plans/*.md` (`**Created:** YYYY-MM-DD · **Status:** …`; one grep over
the folder is enough). A plain `Status: …` line counts too, and a spec with no `Created:` takes its
date from a `YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md` file name — the SessionStart spec flags read them the same way.
A spec with no status line at all is counted as `no status` in the table, never guessed. Statuses are `draft · decided · building · done · superseded · assumed ·
stale`. Build the working table: spec · status · created · age in days.

`building` goes to step 2, `assumed` to step 3. `draft`, `decided`, `done`, `superseded` and
`stale` are counted and left untouched.

## Step 2 — every `building` spec against the code
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