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Automated documentation audit found 6 gap(s) across 85 commits.

Gaps Addressed

1. Session Adoption API

  • Location: docs/src/content/docs/concepts/sessions.md
  • What: Documented session adoption API (adoptSession, adoptSessionsFrom, unadoptSession, listAdoptableSessions)
  • Note: Clarified that this is library-only (no CLI command yet)
  • Priority: Medium

2. Job Usage/Token Accounting Persistence

  • Location: docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md
  • What: Added comprehensive "Usage and Cost Tracking" section documenting the persisted usage field on job records
  • Details: Per-model token counts, cache classes, turn count, SDK cost
  • Priority: Medium

3. Inline Images in Agent Output

  • Locations:
    • docs/src/content/docs/integrations/web-dashboard.md
    • docs/src/content/docs/configuration/mcp-servers.md
  • What: Documented how agents can emit inline images and how MCP tools can return images
  • Details: Workspace file serving, markdown syntax, security guards
  • Priority: Medium

4. Runtime Schedule Mutation API

  • Location: docs/src/content/docs/guides/recipes.mdx
  • What: Added "Programmatic Schedule Management" recipe with complete worked example
  • Details: setAgentSchedule, removeAgentSchedule, when to use vs config files
  • Priority: Medium

5. Spawned Trigger Type

  • Location: docs/src/content/docs/concepts/triggers.md
  • What: Added spawned trigger type to the triggers table and concept documentation
  • Details: For sub-agent jobs created via Task tool
  • Priority: Low

6. Index-Backed Job Listings Performance

  • Status: Intentionally skipped (low priority)
  • Reason: Already mentioned in job-system.md; implementation detail better suited for API reference comments

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eed88a1..0c0a1b3 (85 commits since last audit on 2026-07-10)

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded job-system guidance with token usage and cost information, including compatibility with records that lack usage data.
    • Added instructions for adopting and releasing existing sessions, and clarified how spawned jobs are identified.
    • Documented inline images from MCP tools and agent workspaces in the web dashboard.
    • Added a guide to adding, replacing, listing, and removing runtime schedules, including restart behavior.
    • Updated the audit history with the latest run details.

Addresses 6 documentation gap(s) identified by automated audit.

Commits analyzed: eed88a1..0c0a1b3 (85 commits)
Gaps found: 6
Audit date: 2026-10-26

Documentation updates:
- Session adoption API (library-only, no CLI command)
- Job usage/token accounting persistence
- Inline images in agent output and MCP tools
- Runtime schedule mutation recipe
- Spawned trigger type

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The documentation now describes job usage data, session adoption, spawned triggers, runtime schedule mutation, and inline images. The audit state records the October 26, 2026 run.

Changes: Job usage data

Layer / File(s) Summary
Usage metadata and retrieval
docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md
The job metadata reference and new section describe optional token counts, turn count, SDK-reported cost, API access, compatibility with older records, and token price handling.

Session adoption

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session adoption lifecycle
docs/src/content/docs/concepts/sessions.md
The attribution table adds the adopted origin. The guide describes eligible transcripts, single and bulk adoption, placement options, dry runs, and releasing an adoption record.

Spawned job trigger

Layer / File(s) Summary
Spawned trigger metadata
docs/src/content/docs/concepts/triggers.md
The trigger overview and new section describe the spawned metadata for Task-tool-created sub-agent jobs and state that it has no scheduling logic.

Runtime schedule management

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mutating runtime schedules
docs/src/content/docs/guides/recipes.mdx
The guide covers enabling runtime schedule mutation, adding and replacing interval or cron schedules, removing schedules, memory-only persistence, and a ScheduleManager example.

Inline images

Layer / File(s) Summary
MCP and dashboard image display
docs/src/content/docs/configuration/mcp-servers.md, docs/src/content/docs/integrations/web-dashboard.md
The documentation describes MCP tool images and workspace images referenced in chat, including inline dashboard display and the protected workspace-file route.

Documentation audit state

Layer / File(s) Summary
October 26 audit record
agents/docs/state.md
The audit metadata, current-position table, and run history now record the October 26, 2026 audit details.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 01c5b

The schedule example cannot be used as written, and several API and metadata descriptions could mislead users. Correct those examples and claims before merging.

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Actionable comments posted: 4

🔇 Additional comments: 7
agents/docs/state.md: 1

2-5: LGTM!

Also applies to: 11-11, 22-25, 33-33

docs/src/content/docs/configuration/mcp-servers.md: 1

90-103: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality

The build reminder is not an evidence-based finding.

The documentation guideline requires pnpm build in docs/, but the supplied evidence does not show that the command was skipped or failed. A missing build result alone does not establish a violation.

docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md: 1

98-98: LGTM!

docs/src/content/docs/concepts/sessions.md: 3

468-468: LGTM!


473-552: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality

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521-525: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

The documented FleetManager signatures are correct.

adoptSessionsFrom(name, opts?) accepts the documented options object, and unadoptSession(name, sessionId) accepts the documented session ID. The examples do not require changes.

docs/src/content/docs/integrations/web-dashboard.md-170-170: 1

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Capitalize Markdown.

Change markdown syntax to Markdown syntax. The static analysis hint identifies this as a proper-noun capitalization issue.

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Review comments at @docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md:
- Line 381: Qualify the usage description in the job-system documentation: state
that completed jobs persist the `usage` field only when usage data is available,
and update later availability wording to preserve that conditional behavior. The
`job-executor.ts` flow adds `usage` only when `runUsage` exists, and
`extractRunUsage` may return no data.
- Line 431: Update the `JobManager.getJob` signature in the architecture
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Review comments at @docs/src/content/docs/concepts/triggers.md:
- Line 18: Update the “Spawned” row and related section in the trigger
documentation to avoid claiming that Task-tool sub-agent jobs automatically
receive the spawned trigger type; keep the documentation consistent with the
current behavior, where no producer sets that type.

Review comments at @docs/src/content/docs/guides/recipes.mdx:
- Line 1336: Update the query in listSchedules() to use
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## Usage and Cost Tracking

Every completed job now persists detailed token usage data in the `usage` field of its metadata file. This field captures per-model token counts, turn count, and the SDK's authoritative cost estimate, providing complete visibility into resource consumption for every agent run.

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Describe usage as conditional, not universal.

Line 381 claims that every completed job persists usage. job-executor.ts adds usage only when runUsage exists, and extractRunUsage returns undefined when no terminal result or usable accounting exists. A completed job can therefore omit usage. Qualify this sentence and the later availability wording to include runs without recorded usage.

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Review comment at @docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md at line 381:
Qualify the usage description in the job-system documentation: state that
completed jobs persist the `usage` field only when usage data is available, and
update later availability wording to preserve that conditional behavior. The
`job-executor.ts` flow adds `usage` only when `runUsage` exists, and
`extractRunUsage` may return no data.

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- `FleetManager.getJob(jobId)`
- `FleetManager.getJobs(filters)`
- `JobManager.getJob(jobsDir, jobId)`

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

rg -n -C 5 'class JobManager|async getJob|function getJob|listJobs|export .*JobManager' packages/core/src

Repository: edspencer/herdctl

Length of output: 41704


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# Locate the JobManager class and any getJob member in the fleet-manager and core index exports.
rg -n -F -e 'class JobManager' -e 'getJob(' -e 'JobManager' packages/core/src/fleet-manager packages/core/src/index.ts || test "$?" -eq 1

# Read the documented lines around the cited line for the exact claim.
sed -n '420,440p' docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md

Repository: edspencer/herdctl

Length of output: 9985


Document the JobManager.getJob(jobId, options?) signature.

JobManager takes its directory in the constructor and exposes getJob(jobId, options). The line at 431 lists JobManager.getJob(jobsDir, jobId), which does not match. A caller that follows the docs passes the jobs directory as the job ID.

📝 Suggested fix
--- "a/docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md"
+++ "b/docs/src/content/docs/architecture/job-system.md"
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
 
 - `FleetManager.getJob(jobId)`
 - `FleetManager.getJobs(filters)`
-- `JobManager.getJob(jobsDir, jobId)`
+- `JobManager.getJob(jobId, options?)`
 - `JobManager.listJobs(jobsDir, filters)`
 
 ```typescript
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Update the `JobManager.getJob` signature in the architecture documentation to
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| **Spawned** | Sub-agent jobs created via the Task tool | System-generated |

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

rg -n -C 10 --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}' '\bspawned\b|\btriggerType\b|\btrigger_type\b' packages
rg -n -C 10 --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}' '\bTask\b|Task tool' packages

Repository: edspencer/herdctl

Length of output: 45657


Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -uo pipefail

# Non-test producers of the literal "spawned" trigger value.
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}' --glob '!**/__tests__/**' --glob '!**/*.test.*' -e '"spawned"' -e "'spawned'" -- packages || test "$?" -eq 1

echo '--- triggerType assignments in non-test core source ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}' --glob '!**/__tests__/**' --glob '!**/*.test.*' -e 'triggerType' -- packages/core/src || test "$?" -eq 1

echo '--- Task tool sub-agent handling in non-test core source ---'
rg -n --glob '*.{ts,tsx,js,jsx}' --glob '!**/__tests__/**' --glob '!**/*.test.*' -e 'subagent|sub-agent|Task tool|name === "Task"' -- packages/core/src || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: edspencer/herdctl

Length of output: 5243


Remove the automatic spawned claim from the trigger docs, or add the producer that sets it.

No non-test code sets the trigger type to "spawned". The literal appears only in the job metadata schema enum and the web client type union. Sub-agent handling in core only filters sidechain transcripts. The documentation says herdctl sets trigger_type: spawned on Task-tool sub-agent jobs, and the code does not do that. A user who filters job metadata on spawned gets no matches.

Either revise the Spawned row and the new section in triggers.md so they do not claim automatic assignment, or add the job-creation path that sets trigger_type to spawned.

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Review comment at @docs/src/content/docs/concepts/triggers.md at line 18:
Update the “Spawned” row and related section in the trigger documentation to
avoid claiming that Task-tool sub-agent jobs automatically receive the spawned
trigger type; keep the documentation consistent with the current behavior, where
no producer sets that type.

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}

async listSchedules(agent: string) {
const agentInfo = await this.manager.getAgentInfo(agent);

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Use the single-agent query in listSchedules().

getAgentInfo() takes no agent name and returns AgentInfo[]. This call makes the complete example fail TypeScript checking, and the array has no schedules property. Use getAgentInfoByName(agent) so listSchedules() returns the requested agent’s schedules. (herdctl.dev)

Proposed fix
--- "a/docs/src/content/docs/guides/recipes.mdx"
+++ "b/docs/src/content/docs/guides/recipes.mdx"
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@
   }
 
   async listSchedules(agent: string) {
-    const agentInfo = await this.manager.getAgentInfo(agent);
+    const agentInfo = await this.manager.getAgentInfoByName(agent);
     return agentInfo.schedules;
   }
 }
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const agentInfo = await this.manager.getAgentInfo(agent);
const agentInfo = await this.manager.getAgentInfoByName(agent);
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Review comment at @docs/src/content/docs/guides/recipes.mdx at line 1336:
Update the query in listSchedules() to use getAgentInfoByName(agent) instead of
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