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Description

Fixes #5418.

Document the condition argument for built-in audits: SQL syntax, default TRUE, NULL handling, aggregate and window filtering, incremental intervals, and independent invocation scope. Add copyable model and minimum-count examples.

Test Plan

• Parsed, rendered, and executed the actual documentation examples against disposable DuckDB data, including NULLs, empty populations, duplicates, and incremental intervals.
• python -m pytest tests/core/test_audit.py -v: 50 passed.
• mkdocs build, make style, and the full make fast-test: passed.

Checklist

• I have run make style and fixed any issues.
• Validation covers this documentation-only change; no permanent runtime tests added.
• All existing tests pass (make fast-test).
• My commits are signed off (git commit -s) per the DCO.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Documented an optional condition for filtering rows evaluated by built-in audits. Explained how SQL predicate results, including NULL, affect selection, and how compound conditions are evaluated.
  • Clarified that aggregate and window audits use the selected rows, with different outcomes possible for empty selections. Conditions further restrict incremental audit intervals without adding historical intervals, and do not affect model materialization, other audits, or downstream models.
  • Noted that non-blocking variants accept the condition, while user-defined audits apply it only when their query uses it.

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Walkthrough

The auditing concepts page documents the optional condition argument for built-in audits, including its SQL syntax, effects on selected rows and audit results, and differences from user-defined audit conditions.

Changes: Audit condition documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document condition behavior docs/concepts/audits.md	The page documents the default condition, SQL predicate syntax, row selection, and empty-selection outcomes. It also describes effects on incremental audit intervals, non-blocking variants, and user-defined audits.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Possibly related PRs

• SQLMesh/sqlmesh#6156: This PR applies condition to rows checked by two built-in audits.
• SQLMesh/sqlmesh#6199: This PR fixes at_least_one behavior when condition selects no rows with a non-NULL value.

Suggested reviewers: dg47, mday-io

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to cd3de

The documentation advises against literal NULL and provides a safe alternative. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly summarizes the main change: documenting condition filters for built-in audits.
Description check		The description includes the required Description, Test Plan, and Checklist sections. It explains the change, reports validation, and completes the checklist.
Linked Issues check		Issue #5418 asks whether built-in audits support condition and requests documentation if they do. The PR documents condition for all built-in audits, including SQL syntax, the default, NULL behavi…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR diff changes only docs/concepts/audits.md. The added behavior notes and examples support the documentation requested by issue #5418. No unrelated changes appear in the diff.
Docstring Coverage		No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…

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Explanation

Issue #5418 asks whether built-in audits support condition and requests documentation if they do. The PR documents condition for all built-in audits, including SQL syntax, the default, NULL behavior, and its effect on audit row selection. It includes a model example and a minimum-count example. This meets the issue's coding requirement.

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Review comments at @docs/concepts/audits.md:
- Line 220: Update the predicate documentation to explain that literal NULL
passed to not_null(condition := NULL) is removed by @AND, so the audit checks
all rows rather than excluding them; distinguish this from runtime NULL results
of column predicates, which remain excluded, and recommend FALSE when the
intended population is empty.

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