ADR-0020's stated anti-goal is satisfying the size gate by deleting content rather
than relocating it. prototype's logic.md lost three anti-patterns, including
"Don't generalise" — the one with a distinct failure mode, a throwaway growing
abstractions for hypothetical futures, and the one the logic branch is most exposed
to. It survived nowhere in the repo.
The deletion bought nothing measurable: references/ sits outside the body FAIL,
outside the 600-word suggestion and outside the Vale gate, and prototype's body is
483 words. 4011d14 restored the byte-identical defect in the sibling ui.md with
exactly that reasoning in its message and left this file alone. Restored verbatim
from main.
improve-codebase-architecture had dropped "refactoring" from its description
entirely, so "find refactoring opportunities in this repo" had no lexical match,
while spending characters on a boundary against tdd — which cannot plausibly steal
an architecture request. retrofit.md names that exact failure: an invented boundary
costs characters and buys no routing accuracy.
write-docs had dropped all four literal trigger phrasings, leaving them only in the
body and a `when:` field, neither visible to the router at routing time. Its
boundary also sent PRDs to grill-with-docs, which has no PRD flow, and the body
repeated that at two more places. Per #123 nothing in the corpus produces a PRD, so
no target was invented — the boundary is now honest about the ADR case only.
Two READMEs added by this branch contradicted the SKILL.md they document: triage's
label resolution, and grill-with-docs' fifth during-session behaviour. Unconditional
reference pointers in tdd and improve-codebase-architecture are now conditional; the
files stay at the skill root, which is #122's scope.
Refs: #114, #122, #123
ADR: 0020
grill-me, grill-with-docs, improve-codebase-architecture, tdd and triage each had
their routing boundary written into README.md, which nothing loads at runtime,
while the gate still reported all five descriptions as boundary-less. The
boundaries move into the descriptions; write-docs' clause, which said 'those have
dedicated skills' without naming one, now names them.
research had moved its body out and then read both references unconditionally --
the anti-goal ADR-0020 names, where the word count moves and the per-run context
does not. Both loads are genuinely conditional now, with the topic list and the
four literal sources.md field names inlined, since the provenance validator
matches those literally.
Also restores the promote-the-prototype anti-pattern to prototype's ui.md, which
the gate does not measure, so deleting it bought nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
The bin skills were the only plugin without per-skill READMEs, so a reader
had to open SKILL.md — an agent-facing contract, not an explainer — to learn
what a skill does and when it fires. Each README states purpose, triggers and
boundaries for a human audience, leaving SKILL.md free to stay terse.
Skills and evals migrated from .agents/ to plugins/bin/ plugin directory.
Remove .mcp.json, provider-manifest.sh, and skills-lock.json legacy artifacts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
