/aide:align — Alignment Phase

Agent: This command is executed by the aide-aligner agent.

Verify spec-vs-spec alignment across the intent tree. This is NOT QA — QA checks code against a spec; alignment checks whether a spec's outcomes are consistent with every ancestor spec's outcomes. When a child spec contradicts, undermines, or silently omits an ancestor outcome, the aligner detects the drift and produces a todo.aide at the misaligned node with concrete realignment items. It never rewrites spec outcomes — it flags only.

Checklist

• Call aide_discover on the target path to get the full ancestor chain
• Read each spec in the ancestor chain top-down via aide_read — load intent and outcomes at every level
• Compare each child's outcomes.desired and outcomes.undesired against every ancestor's outcomes — look for contradictions, undermining, and critical omissions
• For misaligned specs: set status: misaligned on the leaf spec's frontmatter and produce todo.aide at the leaf with items naming the specific conflict (e.g., "Leaf desired outcome #N conflicts with ancestor [path] undesired outcome #M")
• For aligned specs: set status: aligned on the spec's frontmatter
• Report results with verdict (ALIGNED/MISALIGNED), count of specs checked, count of misalignments found, paths of any todo.aide files created, and recommended next step (/aide:spec to revise misaligned specs)
• Do NOT rewrite spec outcomes — flag only