OpenAgentsControl/.opencode/command/openagents/check-context-deps.md

---

description: Validate context file dependencies across agents and registry tags:

• registry
• validation
• context
• dependencies
• openagents dependencies:
• command:analyze-patterns ---

Check Context Dependencies

Purpose: Ensure agents properly declare their context file dependencies in frontmatter and registry.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

---

What It Does

Validates consistency between:

1. Actual usage - Context files referenced in agent prompts
2. Declared dependencies - Dependencies in agent frontmatter
3. Registry entries - Dependencies in registry.json

Identifies:

• ✅ Missing dependency declarations (agents use context but don't declare it)
• ✅ Unused context files (exist but no agent references them)
• ✅ Broken references (referenced but don't exist)
• ✅ Format inconsistencies (wrong dependency format)

---

Usage

# Analyze all agents
/check-context-deps

# Analyze specific agent
/check-context-deps contextscout

# Auto-fix missing dependencies
/check-context-deps --fix

# Verbose output (show all reference locations)
/check-context-deps --verbose

# Combine flags
/check-context-deps contextscout --verbose

---

Workflow

Scan agent files for context references:

**Search patterns**:
- `.opencode/context/` (direct path references)
- `@.opencode/context/` (@ symbol references)
- `context:` (dependency declarations in frontmatter)

**Locations**:
- `.opencode/agent/**/*.md` (all agents and subagents)
- `.opencode/command/**/*.md` (commands that use context)

**Extract**:
- Agent/command ID
- Context file path
- Line number
- Reference type (path, @-reference, dependency)

For each agent found, check registry.json:

```bash
jq '.components.agents[] | select(.id == "AGENT_ID") | .dependencies' registry.json
jq '.components.subagents[] | select(.id == "AGENT_ID") | .dependencies' registry.json
```

**Verify**:
- Does the agent have a dependencies array?
- Are context file references declared as `context:core/standards/code`?
- Are the dependency formats correct (`context:path/to/file`)?

For each context file referenced:

**Check existence**:
```bash
test -f .opencode/context/core/standards/code-quality.md
```

**Check registry**:
```bash
jq '.components.contexts[] | select(.id == "core/standards/code")' registry.json
```

**Identify issues**:
- Context file referenced but doesn't exist
- Context file exists but not in registry
- Context file in registry but never used

Generate comprehensive report:

```markdown
# Context Dependency Analysis Report

## Summary
- Agents scanned: 25
- Context files referenced: 12
- Missing dependencies: 8
- Unused context files: 2
- Missing context files: 0

## Missing Dependencies (agents using context but not declaring)

### opencoder
**Uses but not declared**:
- context:core/standards/code (referenced 3 times)
  - Line 64: "Code tasks → .opencode/context/core/standards/code-quality.md (MANDATORY)"
  - Line 170: "Read .opencode/context/core/standards/code-quality.md NOW"
  - Line 229: "NEVER execute write/edit without loading required context first"

**Current dependencies**: subagent:task-manager, subagent:coder-agent
**Recommended fix**: Add to frontmatter:
```yaml
dependencies:
  - subagent:task-manager
  - subagent:coder-agent
  - context:core/standards/code  # ADD THIS
```

### openagent
**Uses but not declared**:
- context:core/standards/code (referenced 5 times)
- context:core/standards/docs (referenced 3 times)
- context:core/standards/tests (referenced 3 times)
- context:core/workflows/review (referenced 2 times)
- context:core/workflows/delegation (referenced 4 times)

**Recommended fix**: Add to frontmatter:
```yaml
dependencies:
  - subagent:task-manager
  - subagent:documentation
  - context:core/standards/code
  - context:core/standards/docs
  - context:core/standards/tests
  - context:core/workflows/review
  - context:core/workflows/delegation
```

## Unused Context Files (exist but no agent references them)

- context:core/standards/analysis (0 references)
- context:core/workflows/sessions (0 references)

**Recommendation**: Consider removing or documenting intended use

## Missing Context Files (referenced but don't exist)

None found ✅

## Context File Usage Map

| Context File | Used By | Reference Count |
|--------------|---------|-----------------|
| core/standards/code | opencoder, openagent, frontend-specialist, reviewer | 15 |
| core/standards/docs | openagent, documentation, technical-writer | 8 |
| core/standards/tests | openagent, tester | 6 |
| core/workflows/delegation | openagent, task-manager | 5 |
| core/workflows/review | openagent, reviewer | 4 |

---

## Next Steps

1. Review missing dependencies above
2. Run `/check-context-deps --fix` to auto-update frontmatter
3. Run `./scripts/registry/auto-detect-components.sh` to update registry
4. Verify with `./scripts/registry/validate-registry.sh`
```

For each agent with missing context dependencies:

1. Read the agent file
2. Parse frontmatter YAML
3. Add missing context dependencies to dependencies array
4. Preserve existing dependencies
5. Write updated file
6. Report what was changed

**Example**:
```diff
---
id: opencoder
dependencies:
  - subagent:task-manager
  - subagent:coder-agent
+ - context:core/standards/code
---
```

**Safety**:
- Only add dependencies that are actually referenced in the file
- Don't remove existing dependencies
- Preserve frontmatter formatting
- Show diff before applying (if interactive)

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Implementation Details

Search Patterns

Find direct path references:

grep -rn "\.opencode/context/" .opencode/agent/ .opencode/command/

Find @ references:

grep -rn "@\.opencode/context/" .opencode/agent/ .opencode/command/

Find dependency declarations:

grep -rn "^\s*-\s*context:" .opencode/agent/ .opencode/command/

Path Normalization

Convert to dependency format:

• .opencode/context/core/standards/code-quality.md → context:core/standards/code
• @.opencode/context/openagents-repo/quick-start.md → context:openagents-repo/quick-start
• context/core/standards/code → context:core/standards/code

Rules:

1. Strip .opencode/ prefix
2. Strip .md extension
3. Add context: prefix for dependencies

Registry Lookup

Check if context file is in registry:

jq '.components.contexts[] | select(.id == "core/standards/code")' registry.json

Get agent dependencies:

jq '.components.agents[] | select(.id == "opencoder") | .dependencies[]?' registry.json

---

Delegation

This command delegates to an analysis agent to perform the work:

task(
  subagent_type="PatternAnalyst",
  description="Analyze context dependencies",
  prompt=`
    Analyze context file usage across all agents in this repository.
    
    TASK:
    1. Use grep to find all references to context files in:
       - .opencode/agent/**/*.md
       - .opencode/prompts/**/*.md
    
    2. Search for these patterns:
       - ".opencode/context/core/" (direct paths)
       - "@.opencode/context/" (@ references)
       - "context:" in frontmatter (dependency declarations)
    
    3. For each agent file found:
       - Extract agent ID from frontmatter
       - List all context files it references
       - Check registry.json for declared dependencies
       - Identify missing dependency declarations
    
    4. For each context file in .opencode/context/core/:
       - Count how many agents reference it
       - Check if it exists in registry.json
       - Identify unused context files
    
    5. Generate a comprehensive report showing:
       - Agents with missing context dependencies
       - Unused context files
       - Missing context files (referenced but don't exist)
       - Context file usage map (which agents use which files)
    
    ${ARGUMENTS.includes('--fix') ? `
    6. AUTO-FIX MODE:
       - Update agent frontmatter to add missing context dependencies
       - Use format: context:core/standards/code
       - Preserve existing dependencies
       - Show what was changed
    ` : ''}
    
    ${ARGUMENTS.includes('--verbose') ? `
    VERBOSE MODE: Include all reference locations (file:line) in report
    ` : ''}
    
    ${ARGUMENTS.length > 0 && !ARGUMENTS.includes('--') ? `
    FILTER: Only analyze agent: ${ARGUMENTS[0]}
    ` : ''}
    
    REPORT FORMAT:
    - Summary statistics
    - Missing dependencies by agent (with recommended fixes)
    - Unused context files
    - Context file usage map
    - Next steps
    
    DO NOT make changes without --fix flag.
    ALWAYS show what would be changed before applying fixes.
  `
)

---

Examples

Example 1: Basic Analysis

/check-context-deps

Output:

Analyzing context file usage across 25 agents...

Found 8 agents with missing context dependencies:
- opencoder: missing context:core/standards/code
- openagent: missing 5 context dependencies
- frontend-specialist: missing context:core/standards/code
...

Run /check-context-deps --fix to auto-update frontmatter

Example 2: Analyze Specific Agent

/check-context-deps contextscout

Output:

Analyzing agent: contextscout

Context files referenced:
✓ .opencode/context/core/context-system.md (1 reference)
  - Line 15: "Load: context:core/context-system"
✓ .opencode/context/core/context-system/standards/mvi.md (2 references)
  - Line 16: "Load: context:core/context-system/standards/mvi"
  - Line 89: "MVI-aware prioritization"

Registry dependencies:
✓ context:core/context-system DECLARED
✓ context:core/context-system/standards/mvi DECLARED

All dependencies properly declared ✅

Example 3: Auto-Fix

/check-context-deps --fix

Output:

Analyzing and fixing context dependencies...

Updated opencoder:
+ Added: context:core/standards/code

Updated openagent:
+ Added: context:core/standards/code
+ Added: context:core/standards/docs
+ Added: context:core/standards/tests
+ Added: context:core/workflows/review
+ Added: context:core/workflows/delegation

Total: 2 agents updated, 6 dependencies added

Next: Run ./scripts/registry/auto-detect-components.sh to update registry

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Success Criteria

✅ All agents that reference context files have them declared in dependencies ✅ All context files in registry are actually used by at least one agent ✅ No broken references (context files referenced but don't exist) ✅ Dependency format is consistent (context:path/to/file)

---

Notes

• Read-only by default - Only reports findings, doesn't modify files
• Use --fix to update - Auto-adds missing dependencies to frontmatter
• After fixing - Run ./scripts/registry/auto-detect-components.sh --auto-add to sync registry
• Dependency format - context:path/to/file (no .opencode/ prefix, no .md extension)
• Scans both - Direct path references and @ references

Related

• Registry validation: ./scripts/registry/validate-registry.sh
• Auto-detect components: ./scripts/registry/auto-detect-components.sh
• Context guide: .opencode/context/openagents-repo/quality/registry-dependencies.md