docs(agents-md): shrink AGENTS.md and prefer plugin skills over shell
AGENTS.md had grown to duplicate content owned elsewhere: behavioral rules already active globally via ~/.agents/AGENTS.md, a VISION.md read-on-demand entry CONTEXT.md already covers at session start, and setup/testing/commit instructions that explained hook mechanics the git plugin's pc-run/git-commits skills already own. It also gave no explicit steer toward using installed plugin skills over raw shell commands, so agents defaulted to shelling out to git directly. - Added a "Prefer plugin skills over raw shell" section mapping operations (commits, branches, hooks, issues/PRs, linting, AGENTS.md itself) to the skill that owns them. - Collapsed Setup/Testing/Commit-conventions into one section, keeping only the two genuinely non-obvious gotchas (missing default_install_hook_types, bats submodule auto-init). - Removed the "Subagent orchestration" section: its content was mostly universal Agent/Task/worktree-tool facts, not specific to working in this repo, so it moves to core/instructions/subagent-orchestration.md (deployed globally via install.sh, referenced from core/AGENTS.md's content index) rather than staying repo-local. - Removed agentsmd-author's "not this repo's own" scope exclusion in CONTEXT.md (ADR-0012 never mandated it) so this task could route through it, and folded the forge-routing rule it left behind into CONTEXT.md's existing Skill composition entry. AGENTS.md: 50 -> 40 lines. Full test suite and manifest check pass.
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Contains always-on rules in plain markdown with no provider-specific syntax (no `@import`). Provider-specific files (`CLAUDE.md`) are thin adapters that import the relevant `AGENTS.md` and add only Claude Code-specific syntax. This pattern means a single source of truth can serve multiple providers without duplication. See ADR-0003.
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### Skill composition
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A skill calling another skill by name to delegate a sub-task. The calling skill focuses on the orchestration decision ("when to do X"); the called skill owns the mechanics ("how to do X"). Established compositions: `grill-me` calls `write-adr` when a decision crystallises; `implement-feature` calls `tdd` as its implementation methodology; `forge` calls `grill-with-docs` to refine intent, classifies the target artifact type (skill / agent / plugin / marketplace entry), then routes to the matching `*-author` skill — which owns its own create/improve logic and, where applicable, its own inline audit closeout (`skill-author` runs `/skill-audit`, `agent-author` runs `kyberforge:agent-audit`, both in the same context as the authoring work). `forge` additionally runs its own independent recheck after a skill/agent route finishes: a clean-context subagent (not forked, no inherited context) re-runs the same audit skill against the finished artifact, as a distinct verification layer from the author skill's inline audit — the two can share blind spots since the inline audit runs in the same context as the work it checks. If the clean audit surfaces any unresolved finding, `forge` loops — re-invoke the author skill to resolve it, re-run the clean audit — until the clean audit comes back with nothing unresolved; only then is the route done. `plugin-author` and `marketplace-author` have no audit counterpart and get no recheck; their terminal check is `claude plugin validate`.
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A skill calling another skill by name to delegate a sub-task. The calling skill focuses on the orchestration decision ("when to do X"); the called skill owns the mechanics ("how to do X"). Established compositions: `grill-me` calls `write-adr` when a decision crystallises; `implement-feature` calls `tdd` as its implementation methodology; `forge` calls `grill-with-docs` to refine intent, classifies the target artifact type (skill / agent / plugin / marketplace entry), then routes to the matching `*-author` skill — which owns its own create/improve logic and, where applicable, its own inline audit closeout (`skill-author` runs `/skill-audit`, `agent-author` runs `kyberforge:agent-audit`, both in the same context as the authoring work). Reserve `forge` for genuinely undecided "which artifact type is this" questions — an already-fully-specified corrective edit (exact file, line, and fix already known) should call the target author skill directly instead (`skill-author`, `plugin-author`, `agentsmd-author`, etc.); routing a known fix through `forge`'s grill-and-classify layer adds unnecessary indirection and, in practice, has been observed to lose track of hard constraints handed down the chain (e.g. "don't commit yet," "edit in this worktree") because each hop re-derives instructions from a shorter brief. `forge` additionally runs its own independent recheck after a skill/agent route finishes: a clean-context subagent (not forked, no inherited context) re-runs the same audit skill against the finished artifact, as a distinct verification layer from the author skill's inline audit — the two can share blind spots since the inline audit runs in the same context as the work it checks. If the clean audit surfaces any unresolved finding, `forge` loops — re-invoke the author skill to resolve it, re-run the clean audit — until the clean audit comes back with nothing unresolved; only then is the route done. `plugin-author` and `marketplace-author` have no audit counterpart and get no recheck; their terminal check is `claude plugin validate`.
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### Provider-agnostic issue tracker
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Skills and workflows reference "linked issue" generically rather than a specific provider. Gitea is the canonical issue tracker for this repo (see ADR-0017). "Issue" is the cross-provider term (GitHub, GitLab, Gitea all use it).
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Files that reference other files should declare those references explicitly. The referencing file carries the forward reference (e.g. content index in `CLAUDE.md`, `references:` in frontmatter). The referenced file carries a `when:` field describing when it is loaded. Both sides should agree — divergence signals staleness. The reverse map ("what files reference this file?") is derived by a reference scanner script, not maintained manually. This principle applies to instruction files, skills, and workflow documents.
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### agentsmd-author / agentsmd-audit
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A skill pair in the `core` plugin for writing, updating, and reviewing a target repo's `AGENTS.md` file(s) (the generic open-standard file — see the `AGENTS.md` entry above — not this repo's own). `agentsmd-author` creates/updates AGENTS.md content, supports nested monorepo placement (per the standard's nearest-file-wins precedence), and closes out by invoking `agentsmd-audit` inline. `agentsmd-audit` runs a single combined pass checking three mandatory baselines: secrets/credentials (governance.md hard prohibition — AGENTS.md is committed content), structural completeness (common-sections checklist from the agents.md spec), and accuracy/drift (do referenced commands and paths actually resolve against the repo). `agentsmd-audit` never inspects provider adapter files (see `provider-adapter-author`) — its scope is AGENTS.md content only. Chosen over folding this into `kyberforge` because kyberforge's scope is meta-tooling for the holocron marketplace itself, not generic target-repo documentation; `core` is the intended home for cross-cutting, repo-agnostic utility skills.
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A skill pair in the `core` plugin for writing, updating, and reviewing a repo's `AGENTS.md` file(s) — the generic open-standard file (see the `AGENTS.md` entry above), including this repo's own. `agentsmd-author` creates/updates AGENTS.md content, supports nested monorepo placement (per the standard's nearest-file-wins precedence), and closes out by invoking `agentsmd-audit` inline. `agentsmd-audit` runs a single combined pass checking three mandatory baselines: secrets/credentials (governance.md hard prohibition — AGENTS.md is committed content), structural completeness (common-sections checklist from the agents.md spec), and accuracy/drift (do referenced commands and paths actually resolve against the repo). `agentsmd-audit` never inspects provider adapter files (see `provider-adapter-author`) — its scope is AGENTS.md content only. Chosen over folding this into `kyberforge` because kyberforge's scope is meta-tooling for the holocron marketplace itself, not generic target-repo documentation; `core` is the intended home for cross-cutting, repo-agnostic utility skills.
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### provider-adapter-author
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A companion skill (`core` plugin) that detects a target repo's provider-specific instruction file (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, etc.) and, where it duplicates content AGENTS.md should own, converts it into a thin adapter that imports AGENTS.md — mirroring this repo's own ADR-0002/ADR-0003 two-tier adapter pattern. Self-validates via its own bundled deterministic script (`scripts/validate-adapter.sh`: checks for an import reference, no duplicated headings, size threshold) rather than a separate paired audit skill — the check is mechanical, so a script suffices per governance.md's "prefer deterministic code for repeatable tasks." `agentsmd-author` calls this skill via skill composition when it detects an existing provider file with overlapping content.
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