Intent: Determine whether the working tree is understood and ready for handoff.
- Confirm Git root, worktree, remote, branch, and HEAD.
- Inventory staged, unstaged, untracked, and conflicted files.
- Compare file scope with the declared task.
- Check patch whitespace.
- Report readiness without changing Git state.
git status --short --branch
git diff --check
git diff --stat
git diff --cached --name-onlyUnsafe and denied: staging, commits, history rewriting, worktree cleanup, synchronization, and publication.