maintain

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Use this to find out whether an existing dbt project or semantic layer (dbt, Ossie or SLayer) is correct against its warehouse, and if not, why. `maintain verify` checks the project as it stands; against a .dex/ snapshot, `maintain check` finds schema, volume, grain, and semantic drift and `maintain reconcile` proposes the fix. Reach for it whenever an existing project is suspected wrong, whether or not anything is known to have changed: "this model is wrong, work out why", "the numbers look too high", "some rows are missing", "this column is empty", "duplicates in my fact table", "the project is broken", "diagnose why this test fails", "a test fails and nobody changed the model", "the dashboard moved but the code did not", "did anything drift", "the row count dropped", "the metric definition changed". Read-only; fixes come back as reviewable diffs and never overwrite hand-written work. Writing the fix, or repairing a model you just edited, is transform's; a data question with no project is explore's.