ql-housekeep — repo hygiene detector

Purpose

ql-housekeep surfaces the hygiene failures that accumulate when an autonomous development pipeline runs for weeks without human sweep. It is a detector, not an actuator. Auto-fix is explicitly out of scope.

This skill exists because idea-stage/AUDIT_QL.md catalogued eight categories of hygiene failure on master. The first job of the next pipeline iteration is to not produce that state again.

When to use

• Before starting a new /ql-brainstorm cycle on a repo that has been running parallel execution for weeks.
• As a gate in ql-execute between waves if you suspect accumulated drift.
• Manually, when you want a structured view of "what is wrong with the repo right now that the runtime cannot see".

What it detects

1. Merge-conflict markers in tracked files

Pattern: ^<<<<<<< or ^=======$ or ^>>>>>>>. These are the signature of an abandoned git merge that was committed without resolution.