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tool_id: WACK-TOOL-0006
concept_id: WACK-CONCEPT-0011
playbook_content_id: WACK-CONTENT-0055
status: draft
technical_review: pending
artifact_type: working_worksheet
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# Diagram Reconciliation Log

> Verify one important path against live facts and route every discrepancy to a decision.

**Expected output:** A corrected architecture path with sources, discrepancies, owners, and verification dates.  
**Working time:** 60 minutes  
**Derived from:** WACK-CONTENT-0055

## Working context

Organization / environment: __________________________________________  
Facilitator / owner: __________________________________________________  
Participants: _________________________________________________________  
Date: ____________________  Review trigger or next date: ______________

## 01 / Find — Select the path and sources

Bound the drill to one meaningful origin-to-destination path.

- [ ] **Which business, data, administrative, deployment, or monitoring path will be reconciled?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **Which diagram, inventory, configuration, telemetry, and owner knowledge describe it?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 02 / Map — Walk every hop

Compare identifiers, boundaries, and direction at each relationship.

- [ ] **What are the source, destination, protocol or mechanism, purpose, owner, and last verification for each hop?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **Which control-plane or security-service path is missing from the visible data path?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 03 / Explain — Log the discrepancies

Do not silently edit away uncertainty.

- [ ] **Which fact conflicts across sources, and what is the leading hypothesis?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **What evidence and owner will resolve each unknown or disagreement?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 04 / Reduce — Correct and simplify

Update the maintained source and retire avoidable drift.

- [ ] **Which obsolete relationship, duplicate label, or unnecessary path can be removed?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **Which duplicate diagram should be retired or explicitly assigned a narrower purpose?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## 05 / Prove — Verify the correction

Confirm that the maintained representation now matches the tested path.

- [ ] **Who independently verifies the corrected path and when?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

- [ ] **What change trigger or recurring event requires the next reconciliation?**

  Notes: ________________________________________________

## Completion check

- [ ] Every path discrepancy has a disposition.
- [ ] The maintained diagram was updated at its source.
- [ ] Verification evidence and the next trigger are recorded.

## Decision and next action

Decision: _____________________________________________________________  
Owner: __________________________  Due date: ___________________________  
Evidence or artifact location: ________________________________________

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