docs: retire the META.md guidance ADR-0022 overruled, bump touched plugins

Why: ADR-0022 made `metadata.version` mandatory in SKILL.md frontmatter, but three documents still
instructed the opposite — that `version:`, `source:`, `references:` and `when:` belong in a separate
META.md. That recommendation was never implemented: META.md exists exactly once in this repo, inside
a vendored third-party research example, and all 39 skills now contradict it. A stale instruction
that outranks nothing is worse than no instruction, because an author following it undoes the ADR.

Implementation notes:
- Two LESSONS.md entries deleted outright — their entire payload was the rejected fix. Two kept and
  rewritten: the copy-fill entry loses only its META-TEMPLATE clause, and the `model:` entry keeps
  the provider-extension fact and the invocation-time boundary rule, which stand on their own.
- One factual error corrected in passing: the `extracted` slug entry claimed provenance is recorded
  in META.md. It lives in `references/sources.md` keyed by `source_keys:`, verified against
  validate-provenance.sh.
- Both docs/notes files gain `metadata.version` in their required-field lists. Deleting the stale
  paragraph while leaving those lists silent would have re-created the gap.
- `bin/write-docs` carried `metadata.version: "1.0"` — the only non-semver value in the corpus, and
  the result of relocating its old top-level `version:` without normalising it. Now `1.0.0`.
  ADR-0022 records the relocation it previously omitted, which issue #127 had asked it to decide.

Impact: patch bumps for the four plugins whose `.apm/` content changed — bin, git, gitea,
kyberforge. core and lint are untouched and stay put. Root apm.yml's `executables.allow` key and
marketplace package versions move in lockstep; the marketplace release version is unchanged.

Refs: #127
ADR: 0022
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EeH8SCbcrCAQrtymkNuhKP
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@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ per-plugin choice.
- **The one outlier in the other direction, `git-commits`, keeps its existing value** (`0.1.3`) —
it already had real tracked history under the old conditional rule, and this decision does not
reset skills that were already compliant.
- **`bin/write-docs`'s top-level `version:` moves into `metadata:`, normalized to `1.0.0`.** It is
the one skill that carried a version outside the `metadata:` block, which is why the table above
counts `bin` as 0 — a top-level `version:` is not `metadata.version`, and nothing reads it. #127
raised it alongside the split because "does a skill carry a version" and "where does it live" are
the same question. Its value (`1.0`) is not semver and carries no more real history than the 27
unversioned skills, so it is relocated and reset to the same `1.0.0` seed rather than preserved
like `git-commits`'s tracked `0.1.3`.
- **`skill-frontmatter`'s pre-commit hook gains the check.** It already fails a SKILL.md missing
`name:` or `description:`; a missing `metadata.version` is now the same class of failure, not a
style nit an audit might or might not catch.
@@ -62,9 +69,10 @@ it discards real revision signal for no gain.
## Consequences
27 SKILL.md files gain `metadata.version: "1.0.0"`. `skill-author`'s `create.md` moves the field from
"Optional frontmatter" to the required list, citing this ADR. `skill-author`'s own SKILL.md drops the
"with `metadata.version` present" conditional in its bump-rule line, since presence is no longer in
question. `.pre-commit-config.yaml`'s `skill-frontmatter` hook is extended to require the field,
closing the gap #113 and #118 both named in the same audit pass: a stated rule with nothing enforcing
it drifts the same way an unstated one does.
27 SKILL.md files gain `metadata.version: "1.0.0"`, and a 28th — `bin/write-docs` — reaches the same
value by relocating its top-level `version: "1.0"` into `metadata:`. `skill-author`'s `create.md`
moves the field from "Optional frontmatter" to the required list, citing this ADR. `skill-author`'s
own SKILL.md drops the "with `metadata.version` present" conditional in its bump-rule line, since
presence is no longer in question. `.pre-commit-config.yaml`'s `skill-frontmatter` hook is extended
to require the field, closing the gap #113 and #118 both named in the same audit pass: a stated rule
with nothing enforcing it drifts the same way an unstated one does.

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@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ All skills — new and rebuilt — must follow this standard:
- `name:` — matches directory name
- `description:` — trigger-tested before writing the body (explicit, implicit, negative cases)
- `metadata: category:` — from the category table above
`version:`, `updated:`, `when:`, `source:`, and `references:` are provenance/audit fields — they live in `META.md` alongside the SKILL.md (not in frontmatter). See `META-TEMPLATE.md` in `.agents/skills/write-skill/` for the META.md schema.
- `metadata: version:` — mandatory for every skill (ADR-0022)
**Body required sections:**
- Constraints (highest-ROI element — prevents overengineering)

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@@ -103,21 +103,21 @@ Do not write the SKILL.md until the human has confirmed every section. The synth
**c. SKILL.md** (sub-agent)
Once all sections are confirmed, spawn a write agent to produce the SKILL.md using `write-skill` (or hand-write for bootstrap skills). The agent receives: trigger description, per-section decisions from step b, upstream content to incorporate, authoring standard (see below).
**c. META.md — `source:` and `references:` fields**
Populate `META.md` after upstream review. Two distinct fields:
- `source:` — upstream provenance tracking (repo slug, commit SHA, files adopted with inline comments, updated date). Present only if content was adopted. Absence = self-authored.
- `references:` — general citations (research papers, documentation, standard specifications). Present only if the skill cites external research.
**d. Provenance — source and reference records**
Record provenance after upstream review. Two distinct kinds:
- Upstream provenance (repo slug, commit SHA, files adopted with inline comments, updated date). Present only if content was adopted. Absence = self-authored.
- General citations (research papers, documentation, standard specifications). Present only if the skill cites external research.
Both fields live in `META.md` alongside the SKILL.md — not in frontmatter. See `META-TEMPLATE.md` in `.agents/skills/write-skill/` for the full schema.
Both are recorded in the skill's own `references/sources.md`, keyed by the `source_keys:` its SKILL.md and reference files declare. `validate-provenance.sh` checks that chain.
**d. eval.yaml** (sub-agent)
**e. eval.yaml** (sub-agent)
Invoke `write-eval` in two steps to preserve its confirmation gate:
1. Sub-agent proposes test cases and returns the plan to the main conversation.
2. Human confirms the plan; then sub-agent writes the file.
Do not pass pre-designed test cases directly to a write agent — that collapses the plan-then-confirm gate into a single step, bypassing write-eval's own constraint. Co-located at `.agents/evals/<category>/<skill-name>/eval.yaml`. Must contain all five required test types (see Eval schema below).
**e. HITL behavioral test**
**f. HITL behavioral test**
Human opens a fresh Claude session, invokes the skill with its trigger phrase, and verifies output. Do not batch more than 2–3 skills before running behavioral tests — output volume must stay within genuine human review capacity. An approval that cannot be meaningfully evaluated is not an approval.
### Step 6 — Session handoff
@@ -157,12 +157,11 @@ name: skill-name
description: <trigger description — routing only; written and tested first; max 1024 chars>
metadata:
category: <design|factory|implement|test|review|deploy|operate|cross-cutting|iac>
version: <semver — mandatory for every skill; see ADR-0022>
# allowed-tools: <add only when the skill has a narrow, well-defined tool surface; omit otherwise>
---
```
Frontmatter contains only these fields. `version`, `updated`, `when`, `source`, and `references` are provenance/audit fields — they are not used for routing or runtime execution. They live in `META.md` alongside the SKILL.md, loaded only when needed. See `META-TEMPLATE.md` in `.agents/skills/write-skill/` for the META.md schema.
### Body sections
Use `.agents/skills/write-skill/SKILL-TEMPLATE.md` as the authoritative structure reference. The template defines the required sections, correct order, XML grouping, and placeholder comments for each section.
@@ -230,6 +229,6 @@ Upstream review happens per-skill during step 2, not once at chunk start.
## Open decisions carried forward
- **Bidirectional reference convention** — Chunk 4 (reference scanner tooling; reverse map "what files point to X?"). The `when:` field itself is resolved — it lives in `META.md` alongside every skill.
- **Bidirectional reference convention** — Chunk 4 (reference scanner tooling; reverse map "what files point to X?").
- **PRD/issue template scope** — refined during `write-prd` (0020) and `write-issue-spec` (0019) implementation
- **Merging `zoom-out` into architect role** — revisit at Chunk 5 grill