refactor(skills): retrofit the corpus to the ADR-0020 context contract (#129)

Retrofits all 39 skills to ADR-0020's description/body context contract, then fixes what six rounds of independent review found in that retrofit — including four ways the hot gate itself failed open.

Closes #99, #107, #108, #110, #111, #114, #115, #120.

## The retrofit (waves 1-5)

| | Start | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Description FAILs (>400 chars) | 26 | **0** |
| Body FAILs (>900 words, body-only) | 9 | **0** |
| Dangling routing targets | 2 | **0** |
| `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` | 10 | **0** |
| Preload tax | 21,005 chars | **~10,500** |

Under the 12,000-char success criterion. Per-wave detail is on #99.

## The review fixes

**The gate failed open four ways, three of them found after the retrofit shipped.** An unrecognised follower token made a dangling target vanish. A skill directory with no `SKILL.md` resolved as a valid target, so a commit could be green locally and red in a fresh clone — three existing fixtures were relying on that, one of which made the install-leak A/B pass vacuously. Then the free-standing `/name` sweep turned out to be gated on the sentence carrying a boundary marker, so route notation in any other sentence was invisible — not an ERROR, not a SUGGESTION, not an INFO — which left the documented "`/name` always blocks" promise false from a second direction. All four fixed and pinned.

**Two checks were silently not running.** `validate-provenance.sh` checks 7-8 were dead across nine skills. Waking them exposed a deeper problem: they assume `Research doc:` names a source index, but 30 of 121 entries point at topic content documents, so every new check-7 INFO was a false positive and check 8 was saved from a false-FAIL flood only by an *unannounced* skip. Checks 7/8 are now scoped to source indexes and every skip announces itself (#121).

**The retrofit's own anti-goal, four times.** ADR-0020 warns that a blunt gate gets satisfied by deleting content rather than relocating it. `diagnose` and `skill-audit` relocated prose and then read it unconditionally; `prototype` and `vale-config` deleted rules outright that survived nowhere. All four addressed.

## Verification

- `bash tests/run-tests.sh --strict` — 24 suites, 0 skipped, 0 failed
- `bash tests/run-bats.sh` — 325 tests, 0 failures
- `pre-commit run --all-files` — 17/17
- `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` — 16/16, with `apm marketplace check` and `apm pack --check-clean` run against the remote, not skipped
- `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` over all 39 skills — rc 0, 0 ERROR/FAIL, SUGGESTION-only
- Preload tax measured at **10,498 chars**, max description 390 — both inside budget
- Every new test proven non-vacuous by a deliberate mutation of the behaviour it covers

**Per-commit sync, stated accurately:** the ten commits from the latest review round each pass `check-plugin-content-sync` in isolation, verified by checking each out in a detached worktree with a clean between. The earlier gitea window (`dfacf05..bedbd1d`, nine commits) does **not** — its mirror was regenerated in one batch at `bbc7300`. An earlier revision of this description claimed the property held for every commit; it does not, and a bisect through that window lands on a red commit. **Squash-merge** to collapse it, or accept that this range is not bisectable.

## Version bump

Six plugins and the catalog take a **patch**, not a minor. The branch is **89 commits — 40 `fix` / 30 `refactor` / 12 `docs` / 5 `chore` / 2 `test` — zero `feat`, zero `!`, zero `BREAKING CHANGE`** — and adds no skill, agent, command or hook. (Two earlier revisions of this section cited a stale histogram, most recently 78 commits; the figures above are measured at HEAD.) Both rules this repo ships (`forge/references/version-bump.md`, landing in this PR, and `git-commits/references/conventional-commits-spec.md`) make that a patch, and the catalog set is unchanged at 7 entries.

Not settled by that: four published files were removed from the installed tree, three moved, and `caveman` gained `disable-model-invocation`, retiring its old triggers. Under a strict reading those are major-class and currently ship under `refactor:` with no marker. Whether the deployed skill surface is a public contract is written down nowhere — worth deciding, but it outlives this PR.

## Deliberately not in scope

#112 (cherry-pick ownership, now resolved in favour of `git-commits`), #113 (`rtk git` normalisation), #116 (research fan-out), #101 (audit-skill merge), #122 (non-spec skill-root files), #123 (no PRD producer) stay open. #117 is the one worth reading: the contract's remedy is to move prose into `references/`, which is exactly where neither the size gate nor Vale looks — and the blind spot is wider than #117 currently records, since there is no root `.vale.ini` at all, so every ADR, `CONTEXT.md` and `README.md` is unlinted too.

That blind spot let this branch carry two `level: error` `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` violations into `references/` files it created — `provider-adapter-author/references/provider-matrix.md:31` and `agent-audit/references/finding-criteria.md:95`. Both are reworded in `afadaae`, confirmed by routing each file through the audit's own `vale-wrap.sh` (1 error each before, 0 after). Five further occurrences sit in `references/` files already on `main`; those are the pre-existing corpus and stay with #117, which is the real fix.

Also unfixed and not this PR's: `apm install` appends a duplicate `SessionStart` entry to `.claude/settings.json`, so a fresh clone cannot get pre-push green without an edit AGENTS.md warns against. Reproduces identically on `main`.

Co-authored-by: Defame1297 <gitea@rkdr.net>
Reviewed-on: https://git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/pulls/129
Co-authored-by: Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP <claude@noreply.git.dev.rkdr.net>
Co-committed-by: Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP <claude@noreply.git.dev.rkdr.net>
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@@ -70,13 +70,23 @@ PY
# this repo's live skills. Echoes the subject skill's directory.
#
# <root>/plugins/fixture-plugin/.apm/skills/<subject>/SKILL.md
# <root>/plugins/fixture-plugin/.apm/skills/fixture-sibling-skill/
# <root>/plugins/fixture-plugin/.apm/skills/fixture-sibling-skill/SKILL.md
# <root>/plugins/fixture-plugin/.apm/agents/fixture-sibling-agent.agent.md
#
# The sibling gets a real SKILL.md, and that is load-bearing rather than
# tidiness: a directory under skills/ is a resolvable name only when it
# HOLDS one. An empty leftover directory is untracked by git, so counting
# one made a target resolve on the machine that made it and dangle in a
# fresh clone. This helper used to mkdir the sibling and write nothing into
# it, so the corroborator every blocking-tier test depends on silently
# stopped resolving the moment that rule was enforced.
make_fixture_tree() {
local root="$1" subject="$2"
local apm="$root/plugins/fixture-plugin/.apm"
mkdir -p "$apm/skills/$subject" "$apm/skills/fixture-sibling-skill" "$apm/agents"
touch "$apm/agents/fixture-sibling-agent.agent.md"
make_sized_skill "$apm/skills/fixture-sibling-skill" \
"Use when doing the other thing. Do not use for anything else." 10
echo "$apm/skills/$subject"
}
}
@@ -568,3 +578,198 @@ EOF
assert_output --partial "boundary-target resolution DID NOT RUN"
assert_output --partial "Unchecked target(s): some-other-skill"
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ADR-0020 — the hand-invocation carve-out (issue #108)
#
# A skill carrying `disable-model-invocation: true` is absent from the
# model-visible listing entirely: not preloaded, and the Skill tool refuses to
# call it. Its description is never matched against user intent, so
# references/description-quality.md Step 0 gives it ONE plain human-facing
# sentence — no trigger list, no boundary clause — and calls a
# missing-boundary-clause finding on such a skill "a wrong finding, not a strict
# one". Until this ran, nothing here knew the field existed, so the audit
# reported exactly the shape its own rubric mandates, with advice naming a
# router that cannot see the skill.
#
# The carve-out is narrow. Both size gates are unaffected and both are pinned
# below: the body is loaded on invocation like any other body, and the
# 400-character ceiling is an outlier stop rather than a routing budget.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Helper: a skill directory carrying `disable-model-invocation: true`.
make_hand_invoked_skill() {
local dir="$1" desc="$2" body_words="$3"
local name
name="$(basename "$dir")"
mkdir -p "$dir"
{
echo "---"
echo "name: $name"
echo "description: $desc"
echo "disable-model-invocation: true"
echo "---"
echo ""
python3 -c "print(' '.join(['word'] * $body_words))"
} > "$dir/SKILL.md"
}
@test "ADR-0020: a hand-invoked skill is not asked for a boundary clause" {
local skill="$TMPDIR/my-skill"
make_hand_invoked_skill "$skill" \
"Tell the agent to zoom out and give broader context or a higher level perspective." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
refute_output --partial "has no boundary clause"
assert_output --partial "hand-invoked"
}
@test "ADR-0020: the SAME description without the flag IS asked for a boundary clause" {
# The control. Without it the case above is satisfied by an audit that
# stopped checking boundary clauses altogether.
local skill="$TMPDIR/my-skill"
make_sized_skill "$skill" \
"Tell the agent to zoom out and give broader context or a higher level perspective." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
assert_output --partial "has no boundary clause"
}
@test "ADR-0020: a hand-invoked skill is exempt from the 250-character description target" {
local skill="$TMPDIR/my-skill"
make_hand_invoked_skill "$skill" \
"$(python3 -c "print('Tell the agent to zoom out. ' + 'x' * 273)")" 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
refute_output --partial "over the 250-character"
}
@test "ADR-0020: a hand-invoked description over 400 chars still FAILS" {
# The half the carve-out does NOT lift. 400 is an outlier stop, not a
# routing-quality target: a hand-invoked description is still the one line
# the user reads when choosing from the `/` menu.
local skill="$TMPDIR/my-skill"
make_hand_invoked_skill "$skill" \
"$(python3 -c "print('Tell the agent to zoom out. ' + 'x' * 374)")" 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_failure
assert_output --partial "400-character"
}
@test "ADR-0020: a hand-invoked body over 900 words still FAILS" {
# The body is loaded on invocation exactly like any other body and competes
# with the caller's live conversation the same way, so no body tier moves.
local skill="$TMPDIR/my-skill"
make_hand_invoked_skill "$skill" "Tell the agent to zoom out." 901
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_failure
assert_output --partial "900-word"
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ADR-0020 — one arrow, one target (issue #107)
#
# Only the FIRST target after an arrow was resolved: the conjunction
# continuation is wired to the prose route verbs and never to arrows. So this
# script printed "1 of 1 boundary target(s) resolve" on a clause naming two,
# and the second was resolved by nothing and reported by nothing. A typo in it
# shipped through a green gate. The shape is now rejected rather than the
# extractor widened.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@test "ADR-0020: an arrow clause naming two targets is reported, not silently half-checked" {
local skill
skill="$(make_fixture_tree "$TMPDIR/tree" "my-skill")"
# A bare `Not ... ->` sentence carries no BOUNDARY_MARKER, so the backtick
# sweep does not run and the second target is invisible to every other rule
# in the resolver — this is the exact shape #107 measured.
make_sized_skill "$skill" "Use when doing the thing. Not the other thing -> \`fixture-sibling-skill\` or \`fixture-missing-second\`." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
assert_output --partial "names more than one target"
}
@test "ADR-0020: one arrow per target — the convention the suggestion asks for — is silent" {
local skill
skill="$(make_fixture_tree "$TMPDIR/tree" "my-skill")"
make_sized_skill "$skill" "Use when doing the thing. Not the other thing -> \`fixture-sibling-skill\`." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
refute_output --partial "names more than one target"
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# ADR-0020 — a dotted filename in a boundary clause (issue #110)
#
# `[^.;]` could not cross the `.` in `AGENTS.md`, so a clause naming a dotted
# file between "Not" and the arrow was invisible. With a backticked target that
# was a MISDIAGNOSIS — "no boundary clause" reported on a clause that was
# present and working. With a BARE target it was worse: the target was never
# extracted, so the dangling check silently did not run on it.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@test "ADR-0020: a boundary clause naming a dotted filename is not reported as missing" {
local skill
skill="$(make_fixture_tree "$TMPDIR/tree" "my-skill")"
make_sized_skill "$skill" "Use when doing the thing. Not AGENTS.md -> \`fixture-sibling-skill\`." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
refute_output --partial "has no boundary clause"
assert_output --partial "description has a boundary clause"
}
@test "ADR-0020: a BARE target after a dotted filename is extracted and checked" {
local skill
skill="$(make_fixture_tree "$TMPDIR/tree" "my-skill")"
# The silent half of #110: this clause produced no target at all, so it was
# neither resolved nor reported — a route to a non-existent skill shipping
# through a green gate with no finding of any kind.
make_sized_skill "$skill" "Use when doing the thing. Not AGENTS.md -> fixture-missing-dotted." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_failure
assert_output --partial "routes to 'fixture-missing-dotted'"
}
@test "ADR-0020: an arrow clause yielding no target is reported as unparsed, not as missing" {
local skill
skill="$(make_fixture_tree "$TMPDIR/tree" "my-skill")"
# A single-word target is deliberately not matchable bare, because
# `research`, `triage` and `forge` are all skill names AND ordinary English.
# The clause is present; saying it is missing sends the author to add a
# second copy of a clause that is already there.
make_sized_skill "$skill" "Use when doing the thing. Not the other thing -> forge." 10
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$skill"
assert_success
refute_output --partial "has no boundary clause"
assert_output --partial "no target could be read"
}
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Encoding, write side: sys.stdout/stderr.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8')
#
# read_text() in the shared resolver block pins the READS to UTF-8. That moved
# the LC_ALL=C crash to the WRITE: this script's own message text carries em
# dashes (the ADR-0020 boundary SUGGESTION is one), so the streams' ASCII
# default raised UnicodeEncodeError while PRINTING — after every check had
# already run, losing the whole report at the last step.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@test "under LC_ALL=C the report is printed, not lost to a UnicodeEncodeError" {
local dir="$TMPDIR/locale-skill"
mkdir -p "$dir"
cat > "$dir/SKILL.md" <<EOF
---
name: locale-skill
description: A valid skill description that is well within the limit.
---
## Step 1
Do the thing.
EOF
run env LC_ALL=C PYTHONUTF8=0 bash "$SCRIPT" "$dir"
assert_success
assert_output --partial "description has no boundary clause"
refute_output --partial "UnicodeEncodeError"
refute_output --partial "Traceback"
}