/aide:qa — QA Phase

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

Verify actual output against the intent spec. This is the QA agent phase — the session that compares the spec's outcomes block against actual implementation and produces a todo.aide re-alignment document. See todo.aide spec for the file format.

Checklist

• Read the intent spec (.aide or intent.aide) in the target module
• Focus on the outcomes block specifically:
  • Does the actual output satisfy every item in outcomes.desired?
  • Does the actual output trip any item in outcomes.undesired?
• Check for hidden failures — outputs that pass tests but violate intent, missing edge cases the spec names, anti-patterns the spec warned against
• Use judgement. If an output sounds wrong, reads wrong, or misses the point of the intent paragraph, flag it even when no specific outcome rule is named
• Produce a todo.aide next to the spec. Use aide_scaffold with type todo if none exists yet. Format:
  • Frontmatter: intent (which outcomes are violated), misalignment (array of pipeline stages where intent was lost — spec-gap, research-gap, strategy-gap, plan-gap, implementation-drift, test-gap)
  • ## Issues — each issue gets:
    • A checkbox
    • A file path and line reference where the problem appears
    • A one-line description of what's wrong
    • Traces to: which outcomes field (desired or undesired) it violates
    • Misalignment: which pipeline stage lost the intent for this specific issue
  • ## Retro — what would have caught this earlier? Which stage needs strengthening?
• Do NOT propose solutions. The checklist says what's wrong and where — the implementor, invoked via /aide:fix, decides how
• Hand off to /aide:fix — the implementor will work the checklist one item per session