Context Health

Overview

Provide a consistent diagnostic workflow for cortex environments: verify config integrity, detect duplicates, surface redundancies, and report actionable issues.

When to Use

• Checking system health after changes to agents, modes, or rules

• Troubleshooting unexpected cortex behavior

• Performing periodic maintenance checks

Avoid when:

• The task is unrelated to cortex configuration or context

Quick Reference

Task Load reference

Environment diagnostics skills/context-health/references/doctor.md

Workflow

• Confirm target scope and environment.

• Load the diagnostics reference.

• Run checks and gather findings.

• Summarize issues by severity.

• Recommend fixes and next steps.

Output

• Diagnostic report with severity levels

• Recommended fixes or follow-up actions

Common Mistakes

• Running fixes without reviewing findings

• Skipping context scope verification