Live Star Verification (ev-star-verification)

Phase 2 verifies live GitHub stargazer counts and records discrepancies. It no longer owns semantic partitioning.

Type-First Evidence Lake Contract (#1148)

The evidence lake is type-first. The primary working set is evidence/by-type/<canonical-evidence-type>.md. Legacy evidence/tier_*.md files may still exist as coexistence artifacts, but they are not the semantic routing key.

Required Behavior

• Read the current by-type working set and named-skill metadata.
• Query GitHub for live stargazer counts where star evidence is relevant.
• Flag stale, inflated, missing, or unreachable star metrics in the source report/audit notes.
• Preserve evidence/by-type/ as the primary routing surface.
• Do not repartition evidence by star rank. tier_*.md files are coexistence-only and must not drive Phase 3 routing.

Preflight

gh auth status

If GitHub auth is missing or rate-limited, stop or run deterministic validation rather than recording zero/placeholder star counts as truth.

Handoff

After star verification, hand Phase 3 the by-type files. Mention any stale star findings in the report so adversarial reviewers can inspect the affected rows.