Brigade Simplification Audit Plan

This is the next-phase scope for checking whether Brigade has overlapping tools, duplicated commands, or workflows that can be safely collapsed.

The first audit result is captured in docs/simplification-audit-report.md.

Goal

Reduce command and implementation overlap without weakening Brigade's operator, memory, security, release, or harness contracts.

Run the audit before any automated code simplifier.
Preserve public CLI behavior unless a deprecation path is documented.
Keep security, handoff, release, and doctor evidence contracts stable.
Prefer shared helpers for duplicated validation logic.
Do not remove commands only because they are narrow; remove or merge them only when their user job is genuinely duplicated.

Build a command inventory from the parser and compare it to docs/command-inventory.md.
Group commands by user job: init, status, doctor, scan, review, report, import, closeout, archive, compare, schema, and repair.
Flag command pairs with overlapping inputs and outputs, especially across daily, center, work, release, security, handoff, and operator.
Search for duplicated constants, path maps, schema snippets, validation helpers, and output adapters.
Identify stale docs or commands whose behavior is now handled by a newer station.
Produce a reviewed candidate list with one of: keep, merge, extract helper, deprecate, or remove.

doctor and operator verify-harness checks that validate the same harness contract.
Security, release, work, and center health summaries that reformat the same evidence.
Handoff inbox path maps and skip lists.
Report, closeout, archive, and compare flows that share receipt structure.
Docs command inventory drift.

Full test suite before and after each simplification slice.
brigade roadmap commands --check if command docs are touched.
brigade security scan --policy strict --fail-on none --target . after code movement.
Manual diff review for public CLI output changes.