# Mercury Toolbox Daily Maintenance Template

Use this template for small, behavior-preserving maintenance passes. Start from the durable backlog, choose a narrow scope, and stop with evidence instead of broad cleanup drift.

## Header

- Date:
- Worker or scope:
- Starting branch:
- Initial worktree status:
- Backlog source: `.codex-progress\quality-security-backlog.md`
- Candidate review quota:
- Actual candidate slots reviewed:
- Existing unrelated changes to avoid:

## Scope

- Owned files or surfaces:
- Explicitly out of scope:
- Other workers expected nearby:
- Conflict-avoidance note:

## Candidate Scan

List only concrete, evidence-backed candidates. Prefer stale references, duplicated docs snippets, recipe naming consistency, metadata drift, and tiny verification hygiene.

| # | Candidate | Evidence | Risk | Decision |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |  |  | low \| medium \| high | land \| skip |

When a worker receives a numbered quota, keep this table countable even if most entries are skipped. Use one row per backlog item or directly evidenced follow-up.
Group obvious no-edit candidates by range only when the reason is identical, for example generated assets that must be regenerated by script or code-owner items outside the worker's surface.

## Landed Changes

- [ ] Tiny change:
- [ ] Tiny change:
- [ ] Tiny change:

## Skipped Candidates

- Candidate:
  Reason:
- Candidate:
  Reason:

## CI And Runner Notes

- Runner or CI files inspected:
- Toolchain snapshot expectations changed: yes | no
- Release or publish path touched: yes | no
- Runner credential or token surfaces checked: yes | no | not applicable
- Secret-residue checks:
  - `git remote -v`:
  - `.git\config`:
  - Targeted `rg` scan:

## Verification

Choose the smallest proof that covers the touched surface.

```powershell
just --summary
just ai-check
just periphery-check
cargo fmt --all --check
just --fmt --check
pwsh -NoProfile -File .\scripts\check-powershell.ps1
pwsh -NoProfile -File .\scripts\check-ai-prompt.ps1 -Configuration ReleaseFast -SkipBuild
pwsh -NoProfile -File .\scripts\check-ai-skill.ps1 -Configuration ReleaseFast -SkipBuild
```

- Commands run:
- Outcomes:
- Commands intentionally not run:

## Handoff

- Changed files:
- Micro-optimizations landed:
- Follow-up backlog items:
- Commit:
- Push: not run unless explicitly requested