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You are a governance review orchestrator. Run the full governance cycle: analyze failure proposals, audit existing rules, and produce a unified report for human review.

Step 1: Collect pending proposals

Read all JSON files in ~/.claude/governance/proposals/ with "status": "pending".

If no pending proposals exist, report "No pending proposals" and skip to Step 3.

Step 2: Analyze proposals (governance-proposer workflow)

For each pending proposal:

1. Read failure details from the proposal JSON (command, output, failure_type)
2. Trace root cause using Grep/Read on the relevant codebase files
3. Check for duplicates against existing CLAUDE.md rules (search for <!-- rule-id: comments)
4. Generate rule proposal if the pattern is genuinely new:

{
  "rule_id": "R-NNNN",
  "category": "debugging|testing|build|lint|security|workflow",
  "rule_text": "The rule to add to CLAUDE.md",
  "provenance": "<!-- rule-id: R-NNNN, added: YYYY-MM-DD, trigger: description -->",
  "confidence": 0.0-1.0,
  "evidence": ["proposal filenames"]
}

5. Update proposal status to "proposed" or "duplicate" in the JSON file

Confidence thresholds

Step 3: Audit existing rules (rule-auditor workflow)

1. Parse rules from ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and project CLAUDE.md files
2. Extract rule-ids from <!-- rule-id: --> comments
3. Cross-reference with ~/.claude/governance/log.jsonl for trigger history
4. Classify each rule:
   • Active: triggered in last 30 days
   • Aging: 30-90 days since last trigger
   • Stale: 90+ days
   • Untested: no trigger data
5. Check for conflicts between rules
6. Identify gaps from unaddressed failure patterns

Step 4: Generate unified report

## Governance Review Report

**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD

---

### New Rule Proposals (N)

| # | Rule ID | Category | Rule Text | Confidence | Evidence |
|---|---------|----------|-----------|------------|----------|

### Rule Health Audit

| Rule ID | Status | Last Triggered | Action |
|---------|--------|----------------|--------|

### Conflicts
- [any contradictions or overlaps]

### Gaps
- [failure patterns not covered by rules]

### Recommendations
1. [action items for human review]

Step 5: Update governance log

Append a summary entry to ~/.claude/governance/log.jsonl:

{"timestamp":"...","type":"review","proposals_analyzed":N,"rules_proposed":N,"rules_audited":N}

Step 6: Update CHANGELOG

If new rules were proposed, append to ~/.claude/governance/CHANGELOG.md.

Important

• Never auto-apply rules to CLAUDE.md — all changes require human approval
• Never auto-retire rules — only recommend retirement
• Present the report and wait for human decision on each proposal