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description: Reconcile the docs against the actual code and report drift
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Reconcile documentation with reality. The code is the truth; the docs are the suspects.

1. Inventory the actual Go files, their line counts, and the non-stdlib dependencies in `go.mod`.
2. Compare against `docs/state.md`: inventory rows, counters, latent items, `verified against`.
   Recount the counters **from the code** — number of render transforms, routing cases, views,
   output formats, extensions — rather than trusting the recorded numbers.
3. Check `docs/architecture.md` STATUS lines: has a primitive become real, or is one described
   as live when it is not built?
4. Check `docs/content-model.md` `[spec]` versus `[live]` markers against what the parser
   actually accepts. Frontmatter fields the code reads but the doc omits are drift; fields the
   doc promises but the code ignores are worse drift.
5. Check `scripts/allowed-deps.txt` against `go.mod`.
6. Look for facts stated in two docs. Delete one, link to the other.
7. Run `./scripts/verify.sh --list` and check every doc sentence claiming a gate against it. A doc that
   says "`verify.sh` fails on X" where no such gate exists is the most damaging drift there is: it reads
   as enforcement and is decoration.
8. Check the reverse too — a gate in the list that no doc explains. Either document it or delete it.
9. Follow every cross-doc citation of a *section* ("see `roadmap.md` Governors", "`CLAUDE.md` §6") and
   confirm the heading exists. Whole sections have gone missing while another doc still cited them.

Scope: the docs listed above and nothing else. **Do not open `ideas/` or `reference/`** —
they describe proposals and facts, never the state of the code, so they cannot be drifted against
it. `verify.sh` already checks their indexes mechanically.

Then:
- Fix the docs. Doc-only diff; no code changes in this pass, no matter what you find.
- Anything in the code that contradicts an ADR: report it, do not silently document it as
  correct. A drifted invariant is a bug, not a new decision.
- Report drift found, drift fixed, and anything that needs a human decision.