Alignment Review: repo

Review Metadata

Review Date: 2026-03-27 Scope: repo Status: complete Review Epic: hx-5ce2023f Primary Governing Artifact: workflows/README.md

Scope and Governing Artifacts

Scope

• planning stack and workflow contract
• helix wrapper CLI and run-loop behavior
• built-in tracker implementation and queue hygiene
• HELIX skill packaging, installer, and demo surfaces

Governing Artifacts

• docs/helix/00-discover/product-vision.md
• docs/helix/01-frame/prd.md
• docs/helix/01-frame/features/FEAT-001-helix-supervisory-control.md
• docs/helix/01-frame/features/FEAT-002-helix-cli.md
• docs/helix/02-design/adr/ADR-001-supervisory-control-model.md
• docs/helix/02-design/adr/ADR-002-tracker-write-safety-model.md
• docs/helix/02-design/solution-designs/SD-001-helix-supervisory-control.md
• docs/helix/02-design/technical-designs/TD-002-helix-cli.md
• docs/helix/02-design/contracts/API-001-helix-tracker-mutation.md
• docs/helix/02-design/plan-2026-03-27-supervisory-concurrency.md
• docs/helix/03-test/test-plans/TP-002-helix-cli.md
• docs/helix/04-build/implementation-plan.md
• workflows/README.md
• workflows/EXECUTION.md
• workflows/TRACKER.md
• workflows/actions/check.md
• workflows/actions/reconcile-alignment.md
• workflows/templates/alignment-review.md

Intent Summary

• Vision: HELIX should act as a supervised autopilot that advances the weakest ready layer of work while preserving authority order, bounded execution, and tracker-first discipline (docs/helix/00-discover/product-vision.md:5-11, docs/helix/00-discover/product-vision.md:44-69).
• Requirements: helix-run should choose the least-power next bounded action, react to downstream implications of changed artifacts, preserve tracker-backed execution, and keep package-level skill installation coherent (docs/helix/01-frame/prd.md:40-46, docs/helix/01-frame/prd.md:82-130, docs/helix/01-frame/prd.md:151-183).
• Features / Stories: FEAT-001 defines supervisory control and direct intervention points; FEAT-002 defines the wrapper CLI, built-in tracker, installer, and deterministic verification contract (docs/helix/01-frame/features/FEAT-001-helix-supervisory-control.md:35-47, docs/helix/01-frame/features/FEAT-001-helix-supervisory-control.md:60-90, docs/helix/01-frame/features/FEAT-002-helix-cli.md:23-115).
• Architecture / ADRs: ADR-001 chooses the supervisory control model; ADR-002 chooses conservative file-backed tracker semantics with explicit write safety and concurrency visibility (docs/helix/02-design/adr/ADR-001-supervisory-control-model.md:23-39, docs/helix/02-design/adr/ADR-002-tracker-write-safety-model.md:24-41).
• Technical Design: SD-001 and TD-002 require bounded queue-drain routing, queue-drift revalidation, machine-readable review handling, and a coherent skill package surface (docs/helix/02-design/solution-designs/SD-001-helix-supervisory-control.md:16-31, docs/helix/02-design/solution-designs/SD-001-helix-supervisory-control.md:67-103, docs/helix/02-design/technical-designs/TD-002-helix-cli.md:26-40, docs/helix/02-design/technical-designs/TD-002-helix-cli.md:73-92, docs/helix/02-design/technical-designs/TD-002-helix-cli.md:182-191).
• Test Plans: TP-002 defines bash tests/helix-cli.sh as the primary deterministic proof lane for wrapper and tracker behavior (docs/helix/03-test/test-plans/TP-002-helix-cli.md:6-16, docs/helix/03-test/test-plans/TP-002-helix-cli.md:18-79).
• Implementation Plans: docs/helix/04-build/implementation-plan.md is supposed to sequence the current execution slices, but it still cites superseded predecessor issues rather than the live follow-up set (docs/helix/04-build/implementation-plan.md:13-16, docs/helix/04-build/implementation-plan.md:46-52, docs/helix/04-build/implementation-plan.md:70-74).

Planning Stack Findings

Implementation Map

• Topology: workflows/ holds the normative HELIX contract and shared assets; skills/ holds published skill definitions; .agents/skills/ is the project-level package surface; scripts/helix is the wrapper CLI; scripts/tracker.sh is the file-backed tracker; tests/helix-cli.sh and tests/validate-skills.sh are the deterministic verification surfaces.
• Entry Points: scripts/helix:886-990 exposes run, implement, check, align, backfill, plan, polish, next, review, experiment, and tracker; scripts/install-local-skills.sh remains the installer entrypoint; demo setup still flows through docs/demos/helix-quickstart/demo.sh.
• Test Surfaces: this rerun executed bash tests/helix-cli.sh, bash tests/validate-skills.sh, and git diff --check successfully. The wrapper harness passed all 77 deterministic cases, covering tracker operations, queue-drain routing, review parsing, installer behavior, quickstart setup, execution-safe ready filtering, and Claude/Codex wrapper paths.
• Unplanned Areas: none found in the reviewed repo surface.

Acceptance Criteria Status

Gap Register

Quality Findings

Traceability Matrix

Review Issue Summary

This rerun reused and refreshed the canonical repo alignment artifact set above instead of creating another duplicate epic/task family. Prior report-only follow-up issues hx-a082bd6a, hx-6d25bc96, hx-9a92c808, and hx-d7b5ac0b remain resolved; hx-2002d8cb remains the canonical closed follow-up for the hx-650ab26b report-evidence drift, hx-b52ee2ac is now explicitly marked superseded-by hx-2002d8cb, and tracker cleanup issue hx-fa548473 is closed after reconciling that overlap.

Execution Issues Generated

This rerun created no additional execution issues. The existing six open follow-up issues above continue to provide complete non-duplicate coverage for the remaining functional and quality gaps; hx-650ab26b remains part of that set as the tracker help-safety execution issue first added during the latest 2026-03-27 repo rerun and is still pending code and harness changes, while hx-bf99e0ee stays reclassified as iterate/backlog quality work.

Issue Coverage Verification

Execution Order

1. hx-e7324e4f to restore feature-spec authority before more wrapper/runtime drift accumulates.
2. hx-c2dd330a to complete the remaining review-handling behavior required by TD-002.
3. hx-650ab26b to make tracker help requests non-mutating and bring the tracker command surface back into a safe state.
4. hx-8447a41c to refresh the 04-build layer so it cites the live queue accurately.
5. hx-4e5451cd to repair the stale TP-002 evidence references.
6. hx-bf99e0ee as backlog quality work on tracker-note hygiene.

Critical Path: hx-e7324e4f then hx-c2dd330a Execution-safe Ready Queue: hx-c2dd330a, hx-650ab26b Parallel: hx-650ab26b, hx-8447a41c, hx-4e5451cd, hx-bf99e0ee Blockers: none First Recommended Execution Set: hx-c2dd330a and hx-650ab26b are the current execution-safe items; hx-e7324e4f remains the higher-order next action but is intentionally design-phase, not execution-eligible.

Open Decisions

Queue Health and Exhaustion Assessment

• Actionable follow-up work remains for repo scope; the queue is not exhausted.
• Latest rerun evidence was recorded at 2026-03-28T04:13:00Z in the canonical review epic hx-5ce2023f and area review tasks hx-945d8bf2, hx-4d9c584c, hx-5c606696, and hx-049d46e1.
• This rerun reused the canonical review artifact set hx-5ce2023f / hx-945d8bf2 / hx-4d9c584c / hx-5c606696 / hx-049d46e1 and refreshed those tracker records with current evidence instead of creating another repo-scope review epic/task set.
• Fresh verification in this rerun passed: bash tests/helix-cli.sh (PASS: 77 helix wrapper tests), bash tests/validate-skills.sh (validated 10 HELIX skills), and git diff --check.
• Final tracker validation in this rerun reported 139 total / 6 open / 0 in-progress / 132 closed, and ddx bead list --status deferred separately reported deferred issue hx-e4d48132.
• The report-only review issues resolved by the repo alignment reruns are hx-a082bd6a, hx-6d25bc96, hx-9a92c808, hx-d7b5ac0b, hx-2002d8cb, and hx-fa548473; hx-b52ee2ac is retained only as superseded tracker history beneath hx-2002d8cb.
• The live worktree was already dirty in AGENTS.md, .helix/issues.jsonl, and this report from ongoing alignment/report maintenance; revalidation against the current planning stack, runtime, tracker, and harnesses found no additional repo-scope gaps beyond the six open follow-up issues listed here.
• The remaining open execution or refinement issues are hx-e7324e4f, hx-c2dd330a, hx-650ab26b, hx-8447a41c, hx-4e5451cd, and hx-bf99e0ee.
• hx-bf99e0ee is now classified as phase:iterate / kind:backlog quality-improvement work and is no longer part of the immediate execution-safe build queue.
• ddx bead ready --json --execution returned hx-c2dd330a and hx-650ab26b.
• Revalidation against the current planning stack, scripts/helix, scripts/tracker.sh, the deterministic harnesses, and live tracker queries found no additional repo-scope gaps beyond the six issues above.