MercuryToolbox/docs/templates/daily-maintenance-template.md

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.

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