docs: correct the claims this review found false

AGENTS.md told an offline agent to push with SKIP=apm-marketplace-check and
asserted that hook was "the only one whose failure mode is 'no network'".
Running all 12 pre-push hooks under a network namespace shows two fail, for
one shared cause: apm-pack-check-clean resolves the same remote entry. An
exact pin does not remove the ls-remote, so both hooks are named now.

AGENTS.md also said everything in a plugin root except .apm/ is generated.
Plugin roots carry hand-authored README.md, docs/, bin/, sources.md and
.mcp.json, so an agent would hunt for an .apm/ source that does not exist or
refuse the edit. The rule is positional: immunity belongs to the plugin root,
and anything inside a mirrored directory is still rm -rf'd.

ADR-0017 said apm strips a hooks field. The real loop is (agents, skills,
commands, instructions) -- hooks absent, instructions never mentioned -- and
it can never fire, because synthesize_plugin_json_from_apm_yml only emits the
eight identity fields. The decision stands; the mechanism was overstated. Its
mcpServers amendment is rewritten for the pointer payload and now records the
real reason: inlining bypassed apm's credential sanitizer.

ADR-0015's owner.email and version-pin passages are corrected against the apm
source, and ADR-0016 gains the disallowedTools amendment. agent-audit's
allowlist is data, so it gains disallowedTools too -- the ADR and the
validator that enforces it had come apart.

architecture.md described a root CLAUDE.md that imports two files (it imports
one, plus an RTK block) and pointed at an ADR index that does not exist.
Seven skill READMEs listed tests/ files the mirror strips, promising installed
users files their install lacks; those rows are marked source-only, with the
depth-4 template tests explicitly called out as surviving. And
plugins/kyberforge/hooks/README.md, deleted during the conversion and
preserved nowhere, is restored to a path the mirror does not own -- verified
by running a sync against a scratch copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
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@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ At **plugin scope only** (destination package has an `apm.yml` at its root — a
package compiled via `apm compile`), `.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md` carries only `name`,
`description`, `model`, and the prose body. No `tools:` field, no Claude-only fields, at all.
*(Narrowed by the 2026-08-14 amendment below: `disallowedTools` is admitted as a fifth allowed
field. `tools:` and every other Claude-only knob remain excluded on the reasoning given here.)*
Absent `tools:` means inherit-all-tools on both harnesses — the one value that is never wrong
on either target, unlike a present, harness-specific value that is guaranteed wrong on at least
one of them.
@@ -70,11 +73,48 @@ harness. Tracking the breakage doesn't prevent it, and the chosen decision alrea
equivalent visibility (a SUGGESTION finding) without ever shipping the wrong value in the first
place.
## Amendment (2026-08-14): the write fence comes back as a denylist
The decision above generalised from `tools:` to "no tool restriction at all". That over-reached.
The unportability argument is specific to the **allowlist**: Claude Code reads `tools:` as a
delimited string of its own tool names, Copilot CLI reads it as a list drawn from its
alias vocabulary (`execute`/`read`/`edit`/`search`/`agent`/`web`), so one value is wrong on one
harness. That reasoning stands, and `tools:` stays out of every plugin-scope agent.
A **denylist** has no such conflict.
`plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/claude-code-plugins/agent-definition.md:39` documents
`disallowedTools` as a "Denylist applied before `tools`… Takes precedence over `tools`", and — the
part that matters here — it is **not** in that document's plugin-subagent ignore list. Line 99
names exactly three fields plugin agents silently ignore: `hooks`, `mcpServers`, `permissionMode`.
`disallowedTools` is absent from that list, so it is honoured for plugin agents. On the Copilot
side, the same verbatim-copy behaviour that makes `tools:` dangerous makes `disallowedTools`
harmless: an unrecognised frontmatter key is inert, and unlike a wrong `tools:` value it cannot
grant or misroute anything — the worst case is that the fence is absent on that harness, which is
the status quo the decision above already accepted.
So the read-only orchestrator agents regain their write fence: `gitea-orchestrate`,
`apm-orchestrate` and `lint-runner` each carry `disallowedTools: Edit, Write, NotebookEdit` plus
explicit prose in the body stating the agent does not edit files. `git-orchestrate` is deliberately
excluded — it legitimately declared `edit` before the conversion and still needs to write.
Net position: the allowlist stays dropped for the reason originally given; the specific capability
that mattered (preventing a read-only orchestrator from writing) is restored by the one mechanism
that is portable by construction. The consequence below is narrowed accordingly.
Enforcement follows the decision: `agent-audit`'s plugin-scope validator reads its allowlist as
data from the `apm-agent-allowlist` section of
`plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/references/field-inventory.md`, and that line now reads
`name description model source_keys disallowedTools`. `disallowedTools` also stays in that file's
`claude-code-only-fields` list, which is not a contradiction — that list governs whether a field
may cross the CC/Copilot boundary in a real project/user-scope *pair*, a different question from
whether a field is safe under verbatim copy in a single vendor-neutral file.
## Consequences
- Every plugin-scope APM agent loses per-agent tool restriction and any Claude-only capability
- Every plugin-scope APM agent loses per-agent tool *allowlisting* and any Claude-only capability
(isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory, permissionMode) until APM ships a real per-target
integrator for the agent primitive. This is a known, accepted regression, not an oversight.
Tool **denial** is not part of that loss — see the 2026-08-14 amendment above.
- **ADR-0005 is partially superseded** — its plugin-scope clause ("directory containing
`plugin.json` is plugin scope → both files land in `<root>/agents/`") no longer applies.
Plugin scope is now "directory containing `apm.yml` → single vendor-neutral file lands in