diff --git a/docker/sweepers_driver.py b/docker/sweepers_driver.py
index 01c249b..b7cb602 100755
--- a/docker/sweepers_driver.py
+++ b/docker/sweepers_driver.py
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from typing import Callable
 
-from pds.registrysweepers import provenance, ancestry
+from pds.registrysweepers import provenance, ancestry, repairkit
 from pds.registrysweepers.utils import configure_logging, get_human_readable_elapsed_since, parse_log_level
 
 configure_logging(filepath=None, log_level=logging.INFO)
@@ -108,10 +108,12 @@ def run_factory(sweeper_f: Callable) -> Callable:
 
 run_provenance = run_factory(provenance.run)
 run_ancestry = run_factory(ancestry.run)
+run_repairkit = run_factory(repairkit.run)
 
 log.info('Running sweepers')
 execution_begin = datetime.now()
 
+run_repairkit()
 run_provenance()
 run_ancestry()
 
diff --git a/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__init__.py b/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38243bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+"""repairkit is an executable package
+
+The reason repairkit is an executable package is for extension as new repairs
+are needed in the future. They can be added by updating the REPAIR_TOOLS mapping
+with the new field name and functional requirements. All the additions can then
+be modules with this executable package.
+"""
+import logging
+import re
+from typing import Union
+
+from pds.registrysweepers.utils import configure_logging
+from pds.registrysweepers.utils import Host
+from pds.registrysweepers.utils import query_registry_db
+from pds.registrysweepers.utils import write_updated_docs
+
+from . import allarrays
+
+"""
+dictionary repair tools is {field_name:[funcs]} where field_name can be:
+  1: re.compile().fullmatch for the equivalent of "fred" == "fred"
+  2: re.compile().match for more complex matching of subparts of the string
+
+and funcs are:
+def function_name (document:{}, fieldname:str)->{}
+
+and the return an empty {} if no changes and {fieldname:new_value} for repairs
+
+Examples
+
+re.compile("^ops:Info/.+").match("ops:Info/ops:filesize")->match object
+re.compile("^ops:Info/.+").fullmatch("ops:Info/ops:filesize")->match object
+re.compile("^ops:Info/").match("ops:Info/ops:filesize")->match object
+re.compile("^ops:Info/").fullmatch("ops:Info/ops:filesize")->None
+
+To get str_a == str_b, re.compile(str_a).fullmatch
+
+"""
+
+REPAIR_TOOLS = {
+    re.compile("^ops:Data_File_Info/").match: [allarrays.repair],
+    re.compile("^ops:Label_File_Info/").match: [allarrays.repair],
+}
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def run(
+    base_url: str,
+    username: str,
+    password: str,
+    verify_host_certs: bool = True,
+    log_filepath: Union[str, None] = None,
+    log_level: int = logging.INFO,
+):
+    configure_logging(filepath=log_filepath, log_level=log_level)
+    log.info("starting CLI processing")
+    host = Host(password, base_url, username, verify_host_certs)
+    for document in query_registry_db(host, {"match_all": {}}, {}):
+        id = document["_id"]
+        src = document["_source"]
+        repairs = {}
+        log.debug(f"working on document: {id}")
+        for fieldname, data in src.items():
+            for regex, funcs in REPAIR_TOOLS.items():
+                if regex(fieldname):
+                    for func in funcs:
+                        repairs.update(func(src, fieldname))
+        if repairs:
+            log.info(f"Writing repairs to document: {id}")
+            write_updated_docs(host, {id: repairs})
+    return
diff --git a/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__main__.py b/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3105049
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+from pds.registrysweepers.repairkit import run
+from pds.registrysweepers.utils import parse_args
+
+args = parse_args(description="sweep through the registry documents and fix common errors")
+
+run(
+    base_url=args.base_URL,
+    username=args.username,
+    password=args.password,
+    verify_host_certs=not args.insecure,
+    log_level=args.log_level,
+    log_filepath=args.log_file,
+)
diff --git a/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/allarrays.py b/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/allarrays.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f15bb92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/allarrays.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+"""change single strings to array of strings"""
+import logging
+from typing import Dict
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def repair(document: Dict, fieldname: str) -> Dict:
+    log.debug(f"checking {fieldname}")
+    if isinstance(document[fieldname], str):
+        log.info(f"found string for {fieldname} where it should be an array")
+        return {fieldname: [document[fieldname]]}
+    return {}
diff --git a/tests/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__init__.py b/tests/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/tests/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/test_allarrays.py b/tests/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/test_allarrays.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..850f9be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pds/registrysweepers/repairkit/test_allarrays.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import unittest
+
+from pds.registrysweepers.repairkit import allarrays
+
+
+class AllArrays(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_valid_field(self):
+        src = {"apple": ["orange"]}
+        repair = allarrays.repair(src, "apple")
+        self.assertEqual({}, repair)
+
+    def test_invalid_field(self):
+        src = {"apple": "orange"}
+        repair = allarrays.repair(src, "apple")
+        self.assertEqual({"apple": ["orange"]}, repair)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()