Raise the PATCH version of each skill whose references/sources.md,
references, or validator changed in the Research registry migration, as
ADR-0022 requires. factory-audit and skill-author changed behaviour and
docs; the rest changed provenance metadata only.
Refs: #121
ADR: 0022
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EGHFJextYtVQseaHPDDhxB
boundary_clause_status() ran BOUNDARY_ARROW.search() and _arrow_targets()
over the whole description, so one arrow clause that parsed suppressed the
diagnostic for every other clause in it. A backticked hyphenated routing
target wrapped across lines in a folded scalar was therefore silently
unchecked -- no error, no suggestion, exit 0 -- whenever the description
carried one other clause that parsed. Written bare, the same wrap errors
correctly. That is the shape #100 regressed on.
The check is now per clause. Nothing that passed starts failing: all 68
routing targets across the 38 SKILL.md files resolved before and still do.
26 of those descriptions carry more than one arrow clause, so the
suppression was live across two thirds of the corpus, not an edge case.
validate-skill.bats pins the shape. test-adr0020-targets.sh's comment
described the #100 regression as a backticked wrap; the historical text was
unbackticked, which is precisely the shape the gate did not catch.
Also closes three README misroutes the branch left in the enforcement
layer: CompositionNote.yml's message, agent-description-quality.md:58 and
vale-wrap.sh's header still sent overflow to a skill-root README.md and
named the two skills ADR-0025 merged away. 1ec3e8a fixed the prose and
missed the rules that enforce it.
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skill-author still told authors to move description overflow "to the
body or to README.md" while this branch deleted every per-skill
README.md, every references/README.md and the README scaffold template.
factory-audit's skill-file-structure.md bans non-spec files at the
skill root, and the line that used to carve README out of that rule
went with them. So skill-author created the file, factory-audit failed
it, and nothing read it. 8ce5392 fixed the two scripts and missed the
reference prose.
The two contract.md files now differ deliberately: a skill's overflow
goes to the body or a references/ file, an agent's to the body alone,
because an agent is a single file with no references/ directory to
disclose to. agent-description-quality.md's "the plugin's README.md" is
left alone, plugin READMEs being the ones that survive.
Deleting retrofit.md also dropped three instructions baa2f5d did not
restore with the cut list, two of which retrofit.md itself recorded as
having no validator behind them: re-cite sources.md's Contributing
files after content moves, since validate-provenance exits 0 on exactly
that drift, and re-check a relocated gate's reachability, since a
Gotcha moved into one flow's file is invisible to the others and the
word counts improve either way. The third is that boundary clauses are
plural — contract.md read as a cap where git-remotes carries four.
Also: contract.md named an unqualified scripts/validate.sh that does
not exist in skill-author, which skill-file-structure.md calls a hard
error; and agent-body-and-delegation.md's simile pointed at a stale
README row as the characteristic skill defect, a defect class that can
no longer occur, replaced with a SKILL.md naming a references/ file
that is not there.
skill-author 1.0.4, agent-author 1.0.3, factory-audit 1.0.2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
The two audit skills carried 1,724 lines of byte-identical duplication: the ADR-0020 boundary
resolver (1,061), vale-wrap.sh (526), the Vale style rules (44) and the Contributing-files parser
(93). Nothing shared them — they were held in sync by a 413-line pre-push gate and its 797-line
test suite. Sync-by-gate had already failed once: at 484357a the two parser copies drifted into
different spellings of the bullet loop while a docstring asserted they were identical. That drift
was behaviour-neutral and was re-unified by hand at 598a7c3, so the copies were identical at merge
time — but nothing had caught it, and the next drift need not be neutral.
Implementation Notes
Self-containment binds BETWEEN skills, not within one. The agentskills.io spec forbids reaching
across skill directories, which is why two separate skills needed embedded copies; two files inside
ONE skill may source a third. That is the whole reason the merge removes duplication rather than
relocating it.
The union of both bodies measured 1,532 words against BODY_MAX_WORDS=900, and only 211 of those
words were shared, so SKILL.md is a dispatch body. Step 0 resolves the flow from the target path
before any validation, and its table mirrors validate.sh's detection exactly: a directory holding
SKILL.md or a SKILL.md file (skill); a *.agent.md, or a .md directly under an agents/ directory
(agent); anything else stops without running a validator. Steps 1-3 live in
references/skill-flow.md and references/agent-flow.md, and gotchas that apply to one flow live in
that flow's file, since it is loaded on every invocation anyway. If validate.sh reports on the
other artifact type, the body restarts at Step 0.
Named factory-audit rather than forge-audit because forge is a live skill, and a family prefix that
matches a live sibling reads as ownership rather than membership.
The description carries one arrow per boundary target, because ADR-0020 resolves only the first
target after an arrow. It drops the quoted "audit this skill"-style phrases, which restated
"audited" in a second register (ADR-0020's duplicate-register rule). 241 characters, Gotchas 16%
of the body: no size SUGGESTIONs.
The boundary resolver stays embedded in two files rather than imported: a cache-installed plugin
cannot read outside its own directory, and the repo-root hook resolves via .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
where entry[0] is the only token pre-commit rewrites, so no single file is reachable by both.
tests/test-adr0020-contract.sh hashes both copies for byte-identity, and asserts validate.sh sources
the resolver and that no third copy exists.
The entry scripts classify the target from its resolved parent directory, so a bare agent filename
typed inside agents/ works; resolve SCRIPT_DIR CDPATH-safely; and exit 2 when a lib-*.sh is
missing, rather than dying with exit 1, the tier the flows relay as real findings.
The provenance run functions stash their findings code in KYBERFORGE_PROV_RC and
return 0, so validate-provenance.sh calls them UNTESTED. Testing a function's
status (`f || RC=$?`) disables errexit for its entire body, and no subshell or
`set -e` inside can re-arm it once the call sits in a condition context
(measured, both spellings). Their error paths use `exit`, which is unaffected
either way; this keeps errexit armed for anything added later.
Case 0's readability guard reads the file instead of asking `[[ -r ]]`. `-r` is
access(2), which answers yes for uid 0 even on a mode-000 file, and this repo's
dev environment is root -- so the guard could never fire where it exists to fire.
A read attempt is also the stricter question, catching EIO. This is the reasoning
scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh carried before this commit deleted it; the
hazard did not go with it.
All three entry scripts are CDPATH-safe, vale-wrap.sh included: both of its cd sites are cleared,
the --config resolution and the directory-mirror walk, where an exported CDPATH would otherwise
print a decoy path into the -print0 stream and build the mirror from the decoy's files. The two
remaining bare cd calls take absolute paths, which CDPATH is never consulted for.
Impact
BREAKING: skill-audit and agent-audit no longer exist as invocable skills. kyberforge goes to
2.0.0 (catalog 0.4.7).
Check logic is unchanged: differential runs of the old and new validators across every skill and
agent produced byte-identical stdout, stderr and exit codes, and the reconstructed Python payloads
differ only in comments and the references/field-inventory.md -> agent-field-inventory.md rename.
One doctrine governs the tiers: exit 0 is audited and clean, exit 1 is audited with findings OR a
target present but unreadable, exit 2 is that nothing was audited at all. Edge paths DID change,
deliberately (full table in ADR-0025):
- a missing target exits 2 (never ran), not 1, under its own "does not exist" message; detection is
by path shape, so a shape-matching path that is simply absent used to reach the validator and come
back as a FAIL against a file that never existed;
- an unshaped target exits 2 under the generic "matches neither" message, and a directory with no
SKILL.md under a third, distinct one -- three exit-2 messages, not one;
- a dangling symlink or a symlink loop stays exit 1: it is present but broken, which is a finding
about the artifact rather than a usage error;
- a SKILL.md file path is audited as its skill directory instead of refused;
- a .md agent outside an agents/ directory is refused rather than audited;
- a missing script library, a missing python3, a missing PyYAML, and no argument at all each exit 2.
validate-provenance.sh already exited 2 for the last two; validate.sh now matches it.
.pre-commit-hooks.yaml is a published contract consumed by external repos. Both hook IDs and both
files: regexes are unchanged; only entry: and description: moved.
scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh (413), scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh (21),
tests/test-check-vale-style-sync.sh (797) and agent-audit/scripts/README.md (47) are deleted. The
checker made 17 assertions: 6 compared the two Vale copies and are moot; 10 are rehomed into
tests/test-vale-wrap.sh (case 0, cases 28-31, and the suite's Vale-absent skip); and the
cross-manifest files: agreement check, which selected hooks by entry: and so could not survive both
hooks sharing one, is ported as case 33 pairing hooks by id:. Cases 28, 30 and 33 carry mutation
self-tests; narrowing the local skill prefilter to 6 of 38 SKILL.md files now fails the suite.
Skills go 39 to 38. Pre-push goes 9 repo-authored hooks to 8.
ADR: 0025
BREAKING-CHANGE: the skill-audit and agent-audit skills are removed. Both flows are served by
factory-audit, which auto-detects whether it was handed a skill directory or an agent file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
