RepoChicken / Repository intelligenceDEMONSTRATION AUDIT
CO-001 / SEPTEMBER 2026
OUR REPOSITORY. REAL EVIDENCE.
Clear instructions.
Three gaps worth closing.
Our repository already routes agents into a focused knowledge bundle. Inspection found a publishing-boundary issue, an unsafe operational instruction, and an untested assumption about agent discovery.
- INSPECTED SNAPSHOT
- First-party repo /
3b2678d - METHOD
- File review + local image inspection
- RESULT
- 2 confirmed issues / 1 validation gap
MEDIUM PRIORITYCTX-01 / CONFIRMED
Internal knowledge ships with the public site.
Dockerfile:3 COPY . /usr/share/nginx/html
.dockerignore No exclusion for AGENTS.md or knowledge/
Local image check Both exist under the nginx document root
WHY IT MATTERS
Internal instructions and future operational notes become web-accessible. No secret or customer-data exposure was established.
RECOMMENDED CORRECTION
Copy only explicit public assets. Rebuild and verify that internal guidance returns 404.
This is a first-party demonstration on a small static website, not a customer engagement or representative benchmark. Findings describe snapshot 3b2678d, when this repository was named ContextOps. RepoChicken is the current service brand. CTX-01 and CTX-02 have been addressed in the redesigned prototype; CTX-03 remains unvalidated.
What we inspected
Root instructions, all six knowledge documents, site code, container configuration, and repository history. The running local container was confirmed to belong to this repository. Checks inspected file presence without running a coding agent against implementation tasks.
Snapshot inventory, measured before redesign| Surface | Measured baseline | Interpretation |
|---|
| Root AGENTS.md | 33 lines / 321 words / 2,333 bytes | Instruction-file size, not measured token consumption |
| Knowledge bundle | 6 Markdown files / 12,126 bytes | Available context, not proof it was loaded |
| Tracked repository | 15 files | Small first-party demonstration scope |
| Agent environment | Not exercised | No cross-agent compatibility or behavioral result established |
MEDIUM PRIORITYCTX-02 / CONFIRMED
Port troubleshooting grants too much authority.
knowledge/operations/local-preview.md:41
"If startup reports that port 8080 is already allocated,
stop the process currently using that port before retrying."
EVIDENCE & CONSEQUENCE
The playbook does not require identifying the port owner. An agent following it could stop an unrelated service. No interruption was observed or deliberately induced.
CORRECTION & ACCEPTANCE
Identify the owner first. Reuse this project's container, or select an explicit alternate port. Verify the playbook never directs an agent to stop an unrelated process.
Confidence: high in the instruction defect; downstream agent behavior was not tested.
VALIDATION GAPCTX-03 / NOT YET TESTED
The knowledge routes exist. Their use is unproven.
AGENTS.md:8 Routes readers to knowledge/index.md
knowledge/index.md Links the current architecture and operations concepts
Tracked snapshot No recorded task trials, agent setup, or run outcomes
WHAT WE CAN CONCLUDE
The files provide an explicit discovery path. The reviewed snapshot contains no evidence that a particular agent consistently follows it. This does not establish that discovery fails.
HOW TO VALIDATE
Select an agent version and configuration. Repeat three representative tasks in fresh sessions on fixed snapshots. Record discovery, command selection, task checks, and failures before drawing a comparison.
Proposed trial tasks: change the email recipient; preview the site with an occupied port; update operational documentation after a simulated runtime change. Any commands must run in an agreed isolated environment.
A correction already visible in history
At 96446db, root AGENTS.md contained Compose commands. Commit 3b2678d replaced those with routing to the current playbook and added a maintenance trigger. This demonstrates a structural correction, not measured improvement in agent performance.
A sequenced remediation plan
| Order | Action | Acceptance check | Prototype status |
|---|
| 1 / CTX-01 | Allowlist public image contents | Site and report return 200; AGENTS.md and knowledge/index.md return 404 | Implemented |
| 2 / CTX-02 | Replace port-owner stop instruction | Owner identification and alternate-port path documented | Implemented |
| 3 / CTX-03 | Run controlled agent trials | Versioned setup, fixed tasks, repeated runs, recorded outcomes | Not performed |
What this report does not claim
No customer code was reviewed. No token savings, productivity gain, task-success improvement, security assurance, or complete instruction-loading behavior was measured. The byte counts are filesystem measurements. This small repository does not establish delivery effort for a large monorepo.
The public audit proposal includes evidence review and recommendations. Remediation shown here is work on our own prototype, not an included customer implementation promise.
Could your team act on this?
That is the standard for the audit: a supported finding, a reason to care, and a correction with an acceptance check.
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