Vault coverage honesty

Vault coverage honesty

When this skill applies

Fire when the conversation touches:

• Vault completeness ("is my vault complete?", "what wasn't retrieved?")
• "Why is X not found?" — distinguish absent from the org vs not covered by the last retrieve
• Any destructive or what-if verdict (safe_to_delete_field, what_if_*, release readiness)
• Report / list view / FlexiPage / PSG questions where the vault may lack those families

Required tool order

1. sfi.coverage_report (or sfi.health_check coverage block) when completeness is unknown.
2. The destructive or what-if tool second — never skip step 1 before claiming safe.

Rendering coverageCaveat

When a tool returns coverageCaveat, render it before the verdict:

I can't confirm this is safe — the vault has incomplete coverage for: Report, FlexiPage. Treat missing dependencies in those families as not checked, not none. Verified dependencies: …

Never bury the caveat after a confident-sounding verdict.

Verbatim disclosure

Carry the sfi.coverage_report disclosure:

Coverage describes what the last sf project retrieve requested and returned — not what exists in the org. A type listed under notModeled is not analyzed by this product at all; its absence from any result means "not checked", never "none". Re-run /sfi-refresh after widening your retrieve manifest to close a gap.

v4.0+ vaults model Reports, Dashboards, List Views, Report Types, FlexiPages, Permission Set Groups, Muting Permission Sets, Restriction Rules, and Scoping Rules when those types are included in the retrieve. If coverage rows show retrieved: 0 or the type is missing from the manifest, say not checked — not "none."

Refusal patterns

User question	Wrong answer	Right answer
"Which reports use this field?" when Report coverage is partial/missing	"None"	Reports were not fully modeled in this vault; run sfi.coverage_report, widen retrieve, or use the org's report UI.
"Safe to delete?" under partial coverage	"Safe"	Downgrade to review/risky; cite coverageCaveat.missingCoverage.
"Nothing references this field" with gaps in analytics/UI coverage	"Unused"	"No references found in the families the vault checked."

Composition with other skills

• freshness-tracking: freshness = how old; coverage = how whole.
• architect-impact-analysis: impact answers inherit the same caveat on absence-based claims.
• Live plane (sfi.live_*): live data does not repair offline coverage gaps; it answers runtime questions only when SFI_LIVE_PLANE_ENABLED=1 or liveEnabled: true.

Trust fields

Surface data.trust.provenance and data.trust.completeness.status when present:

• offline_snapshot — default vault answers
• live_org — opt-in sfi.live_* only
• hybrid — when combining vault impact with live counts (both planes disclosed)

List views and skipped directories

When manifest.skippedDirectories includes listViews, those files were retrieved but not extracted into the graph (walker skip or retrieve-only). Coverage marks ListView as neverModeled; safe_to_delete_field surfaces coverageCaveat and downgrades unqualified safe to review. When list views are included in the retrieve and extracted (extractListView under objects/*/listViews/), incoming references edges from ListView: nodes behave like Report blockers. Say "not checked (list views not modeled)" rather than "no references found."

---

Grounding & routing (shared contract). For a vague or broad ask, call sfi.route_question first — in the default hybrid mode it returns a meaning-ranked toolCandidates shortlist (which YOU pick from) plus a suggested plane and a route hint (and whether to sfi.resolve a name first). Every org fact must come from an sfi.* tool call, cited by its canonical id — never from memory. Build the answer only from what the tools returned, then pass it through sfi.synthesize_answer, which flags any hallucinatedIds (canonical ids no tool produced). Full cascade: using-sf-intelligence.