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# Hope Sweep Use the active host session to find and apply evidence-backed maintenance changes to operating code and its directly supporting material without changing customer-observed behavior. Read `../../references/code-maintenance.md` before judging code, tests, configuration, build logic, documentation, or other support material. Read `../write/references/writing-standard.md` before drafting user-facing language. Apply it without changing evidence, uncertainty, or the required result. ## Confirm explicit invocation Start Sweep only when the person explicitly invokes it through the active host: - `$hope:sweep` in Codex; - `/hope:sweep` in Claude Code; or - Hope Sweep's namespaced, explicit Skill command in another host. Do not infer Sweep from a request to inspect a project, suggest improvements, choose the next task, review work, fix a bug, or clean up code. A follow-up such as “do that” is not an explicit invocation. If an implicit selection reaches this Skill, stop before inspecting or editing the target and continue the underlying request through the ordinary workflow. ## Bind the maintenance target Use the repository named by the person. Otherwise use the current repository. The entire repository is the default target. Narrow it only when the person names a smaller scope inside that repository. The target includes operating code and the tests, configuration, build logic, documentation, comments, examples, generation, and assets that directly support it. Do