Analyze — the pre-implementation consistency gate

You have a constitution, a spec, a plan and a task list. Four artifacts written at four different moments, by a mind that drifted a little each time. analyze reads all four against each other and surfaces where they disagree. It is the cheapest place in the whole chain to catch a problem — a contradiction found here costs a sentence; the same contradiction found mid-implement costs a rewrite.

Sixth phase of the rsc-sdd chain (constitution → specify → clarify → plan → tasks → analyze → implement); the method itself lives in ../sdd/SKILL.md. It is a gate, not a worker: it produces a report and stops. The user reads the findings and decides what to fix, and which phase to send each fix back to.

Report only. Resolve nothing. Never edit the constitution, spec, plan or tasks; never open a code file to "just fix it"; never silently reconcile a contradiction by picking a side. This one is absolute because a gate that quietly fixes things stops being a gate: the user never learns the spec was wrong, the plan built on the old assumption stays stale, and the "consistency check" has manufactured a new inconsistency. Name the conflict, show both sides with locations, propose where it should be resolved, hand the decision back.

Model tier: heavy (adversarial cross-reading). Resolve and apply it per ../sdd/references/model-routing.md; routing is off unless models.enabled: true in 02-DOCS/wiki/sdd/config.yaml.

Register. Read technical_level in 02-DOCS/wiki/harness/user-profile.md before reporting; with no profile, use analogies and say the harness has not set the register yet. The register changes how the report reads, never what gets checked; the six analyses always run in full.

The report is the same for every reader: a finding table (severity, the two artifacts, the conflict in one line), a one-line why it matters per CRITICAL/HIGH finding, and per finding the recommended resolution phase and the trade-off of leaving it. For a non-technical reader, explain the consequence at implement time with an everyday analogy so they can choose.

Inputs — locate the four artifacts

Read all four before analyzing. The rsc-sdd artifacts live under 02-DOCS/wiki/sdd/, indexed from 02-DOCS/wiki/index.md (the Knowledge map; root CLAUDE.md keeps only a short pointer to it):