Lint Report — Full Wiki (2026-07-18)

#lint-report

Scope

Full-wiki health check of all 40 pages (1 overview · 13 sources · 17 concepts · 6 entities · 1 comparison · 1 query · 1 lint report), the follow-up to the sources-only lint (2026-07-18-lint). Every concept, entity, comparison, and query page was read in full; link health was checked against a deduped inventory of all [[…]] targets across the vault.

Checks: page-type tags · template-section completeness · broken links · orphans / weak linking · cross-page contradiction coverage · stale claims superseded by newer sources · missing evidence links · high-mention concepts lacking pages.

Verdict

The wiki is in good structural health. Tags, templates, links, and orphan-coverage all pass cleanly. The only real findings are staleness introduced by today's adversarial-source ingest — three pages still say "the vault has no adversarial source," which is no longer true. Two fixes + one clarification applied; one structural gap (a missing referrals page) flagged.

Passing Checks

Page-type tags: 100%. All 40 pages lead with the correct folder-matching type tag (#source/#concept/#entity/#comparison/#query/#overview/#lint-report), topical tags after. No mismatch.
Template sections: complete. All 17 concepts and 6 entities carry the required Summary / Current Understanding / Evidence / Related Pages / Contradictions-Uncertainty / Next Questions. The query matches the Query template; sources verified in the prior lint.
No broken links. Every [[…]] target resolves to an existing page. (Two [[…]] hits are illustrative text inside code spans; one [[wiki/overview|Overview]] is a path-style link — resolvable but inconsistent, fixed below.)
No orphans; linking is strong. Every page has ≥7 inbound references (busiest: client-acquisition-channels 46, methodology-as-moat 43, 2026-07-17-design-the-perfect-offer 42; lowest are the query at 7 and this-day's lint at 4 — both expected for their type). The new ai-productivity-evidence already has 26 references — well-integrated on arrival.
Evidence links present on every concept/entity page.
Contradiction coverage is thorough. Every live tension is recorded on the relevant page(s): productize-immediately-vs-after-2–3 (productized-service), one-package-vs-price-ladder (offer-ladder), cloning-vs-moat (cloning-over-originality), online-vs-in-person (client-acquisition-channels), two-moats (methodology-as-moat/relationships-as-moat), and now the foundational AI-capability contradiction (ai-productivity-evidence). No unrecorded contradiction found.

Findings

F1 — `productized-service` still says the vault has no adversarial source (Medium) — ✅ fixed

The page's Contradictions and Next Questions read "still no true adversarial view" / "the vault needs an adversarial source," now contradicted by the day's ingest of ai-productivity-evidence. It also leans on the "~$200/mo AI substitute" premise that the new evidence contests. Fix: updated both sections to acknowledge the adversarial source exists and to sharpen the remaining gap — the new source tests the AI-capability premise, not the productization model itself, so a productization-failure source is still genuinely missing. Added a "now contested" pointer on the substitution bullet and ai-productivity-evidence to Related Pages.

F2 — Query snapshot's "no adversarial source" caveat is now imprecise (Low) — ✅ fixed (dated note)

2026-07-17-best-method-first-client states "the vault also has no adversarial or failure-case source on any of this." True for its channel/sales topic, but the blanket phrasing is now misleading. Fix: appended a dated lint note (preserving the original per the Update Policy) clarifying that the new adversarial source addresses the AI-capability premise, not these channel claims — which remain un-countered.

F3 — Inconsistent path-style link in `index.md` (Low) — ✅ fixed

index.md used [[wiki/overview|Overview]] (path-style) where the vault everywhere else uses the bare [[overview]]. Resolvable but inconsistent. Fix: changed to [[overview|Overview]].

F4 — High-mention concept with no page: referrals (Medium) — flagged

Referrals appear as a distinct, high-value channel with their own statistics and mechanics across 2026-06-15-17-ways-first-client (91% would refer / 11% asked; highest-converting; ~0 cost; ask-immediately-after-delivery), sales-discipline, client-acquisition-channels, and the query — but have no dedicated concept page. This is the clearest structural gap. Recommend creating wiki/concepts/referrals.md (inbound from client-acquisition-channels, sales-discipline; the "can't bootstrap client #1" sequencing constraint is its key nuance). Not created in this lint pass (a lint reports; it doesn't author content).

F5 — Secondary concept candidate: guarantee / risk-reversal (Low) — flagged

The guarantee mechanic recurs with an explicit open question across pricing-from-value (the guarantee test) and outcome-based-selling ("guarantee mechanics are undefined"). Currently well-covered within those two pages; a dedicated page is optional, lower priority than referrals.

F6 — Optional enrichment links to the new evidence page (Low) — flagged

niche-selection ("'go where AI is powerless' assumes LLM capability is static") and solution-vs-staff-augmentation ("directly substituted by the ~$200/mo alternative") both make claims the new ai-productivity-evidence speaks to. Not errors — optional cross-links that would tighten the web. Left for a future pass to avoid over-editing during a lint.

Note — a nuance worth recording (not a defect)

The adversarial ingest was appropriately surgical: it added counter-evidence only to the three pages it genuinely contradicts (ai-market-shift, seniority-and-ai, future-of-engineering-work). It did not touch relationships-as-moat or product-ownership, which rest on the "AI levels skill" premise — correctly, because "novices gain most" corroborates leveling rather than contradicting it. So the same source contradicts one Sebastian claim (juniors irrelevant) while supporting another (skill is leveled); the vault currently records the contradiction but not the corroboration. Optional future touch.

Changes Made This Pass

productized-service — F1: adversarial-source acknowledgement + substitution-premise pointer + Related-Pages link.
2026-07-17-best-method-first-client — F2: dated clarifying note.
index.md — F3: path-style link normalized (plus this report added to the Lint Reports table and counts updated).

Recommended Next Operations

Create the referrals concept page (F4) — the one real structural gap.
Ingest a productization-failure-case source — still the highest-value content gap (the AI-capability premise now has a counter; the selling model does not).
Optional tidy: F5 (guarantee page), F6 (enrichment links), the corroboration note above.

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