Wire Check

A guardrail that contributors and CI do not reliably execute is not an effective ratchet.

Work

1. Map verification entry points. Inspect package/build scripts, CI workflows, hooks, task runners, monorepo affected commands, and documented contributor commands. Identify the command that should define repository health; reuse an existing check, ci, validate, or equivalent when possible.
2. Find unwired or divergent checks. Identify important checks that exist but are absent from the umbrella command or CI, and CI paths that run materially different verification from local contributors.
3. Compose, do not duplicate. Wire existing commands into one stable local entry point. Keep cheap feedback cheap; if the full suite is materially slow, preserve a fast check plus an exhaustive check:all/CI path rather than making agents avoid verification.
4. Make CI authoritative. Ensure merge-gating CI invokes the canonical exhaustive command or the same constituent checks. Hooks may improve latency but are not a substitute for CI because they are locally bypassable.
5. Prove execution. Demonstrate the umbrella command reaches the target check. When safe, use the check's known negative fixture/mutation and show the authoritative path fails because of it, then restore and pass.
6. Document one entry point. Keep agent/contributor guidance boring: name the authoritative command and any fast/full distinction. Do not copy every underlying rule into instructions.

Return

• Authoritative local command
• CI path
• Checks wired
• Fast/full split, if any
• Execution proof
• Remaining bypasses

Failure signals

Adding another parallel command instead of converging, relying only on pre-commit hooks, making the common check so slow it discourages iteration without justification, or claiming CI coverage without tracing the workflow to the actual command.

Done when

Important checks have an explicit, stable contributor entry point, CI executes the required authoritative verification, and execution has been demonstrated rather than inferred from configuration alone.