Launch names its docs-lint gate row the documentation audit; the intent chapter keeps audit and lint as separate verbs, the conformance check being lint

Launch names its docs-lint gate row the documentation audit; the intent chapter keeps audit and lint as separate verbs, the conformance check being lint

A terminology drift (severity nitpick) found by the cross-document consistency pass.

• End A: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/04-launch.md:329 — "The documentation audit is the docs-lint engine over the repository's configured doc roots"
• End B: .abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/05-intent.md:534 — "The top-level conformance check is abcd lint, with /abcd:audit reserved for itd-16's hash-chain fidelity checks"

The intent chapter's statement of the verb register says the top-level conformance check is abcd lint, the audit name is reserved for other checks, and each verb means one thing. Launch calls its docs-lint engine row the documentation audit, and its acceptance speaks of a documentation-auditor warning, using audit for a lint-bucket conformance check.

Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 267.

Grounds

• declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): the two ends do not conflict when read in full. End B constrains which verb carries which name; End A names a gate row that internal/core/launch/gates.go and commands/launch.md already call the documentation audit, so no verb register is broken.