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name: chief-of-staff-detect
description: Identify verified changes from named, approved sources without acting.
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# Detect

## Purpose and approved evidence
Run only when a person authorizes specific sources, owners, review window, and question. Confirm the source exists, access is supported, evidence is current, and the existing owner is identifiable.

## Procedure
1. Read only the named records; never scan private messages, unrelated files, or an entire workspace.
2. Compare the current evidence with the last approved checkpoint.
3. Identify new requests, changed commitments, deadlines, or missing information. Preserve the existing project owner; do not infer completion.

## Receipt and failure
Return `state=detected|no_change|blocked; source=[approved record]; checked_at=[time]; owner=[verified role]; evidence=[fact]; next_decision=[question]`. No supported access, stale evidence, or unknown ownership means `blocked`; no verified change means `no_change`.

## Approval boundary
Remain read-only. Never message, update a task, create a project, activate a schedule, change access, or take another action without separate explicit human approval.