Why: CONTEXT.md is an instructed every-session read at 33,799 bytes (~8,450
tokens), and CONTEXT.md:17 layered docs/VISION.md on top. After the AGENTS.md
trim, that left ~9,650 tokens of instructed reads sitting behind a file whose
own format contract — grill-with-docs/CONTEXT-FORMAT.md:43, "Keep definitions
tight. One sentence max." — it was not following. 22 glossary entries averaged
190 words; the top four were 55% of the file, and one ("Vale audit prefilter")
was 1,444 words of pre-commit forensics filed as a definition.
Implementation notes:
- CONTEXT.md rewritten to CONTEXT-FORMAT.md's prescribed template: ## Language
(five clusters, 22 terms with _Avoid_ aliases), ## Relationships,
## Example dialogue, ## Flagged ambiguities. 33,799 -> 9,762 bytes.
- Vale prefilter forensics moved to docs/spec/gates.md under nine subsections:
the two-copy style layout, vale-wrap.sh and the Vale 3.15.2
text.frontmatter.description limitation, the --config argv defect (E100),
glob scoping, the rule inventory, and 0-files-means-NOT-RUN.
- Instruction-file format and the bidirectional-reference principle moved to
docs/spec/architecture.md, the latter flagged as aspirational: no instruction
file carries a `when:` field, only 2 of 39 skills do, and the reference
scanner script it names does not exist.
- Added a per-plugin scope table to architecture.md so "which plugin owns this
skill" survives the trim, and corrected its claim that the content index
lives in providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md — that file is now two import lines
and the index sits in core/AGENTS.md.
- "Repo and Gitea are the only source of truth" moved from CONTEXT.md's
Principles into AGENTS.md session rules; it was operative guidance in a
glossary. docs/VISION.md and LESSONS.md added to the on-demand list.
- The apm-consumed install entry (432 words) was deleted outright: all four
consequences are already carried by README.md, ADR-0018, gates.md and
AGENTS.md.
- ADR-0013, ADR-0015 and ADR-0017 each pointed at CONTEXT.md sections that
moved; amended with dated supersession notes rather than left dangling.
Impact: the every-session set drops from ~15,700 to ~4,140 tokens across both
passes (-74%). The deleted "lint plugin" entry was also stale on a safety
claim — it said lint-runner inherits Edit, but ADR-0016 restored
`disallowedTools: Edit, Write, NotebookEdit` and CONTEXT.md was never updated.
Refs: #99
Why: AGENTS.md is preloaded into every session via CLAUDE.md's @AGENTS.md
import, so every word is a tax paid whether or not it is relevant. It had
grown to 3,371 words (~4,550 tokens), 75% of it a single "Setup and testing"
section that was mostly neither: roughly 1,600 words were gate forensics —
why a hook is shaped the way it is, what was tried and rejected, verification
numbers — and only ~390 words were genuine one-time setup.
Implementation notes: split three ways by audience rather than by heading.
One-time setup, prerequisites and test commands move to a new root README.md,
which did not previously exist. The gate forensics move to a new
docs/spec/gates.md, preserving every constant, hook ID, error string and
tried-and-rejected note (policy.fetch_failure_default, the removed fallback
frontmatter reader, extending skill-size-check's files: pattern to agents,
tidying .claude/settings.json out of the pretty-format-json exclude list) —
these exist to stop settled decisions being re-litigated, so none were
dropped. AGENTS.md keeps only what applies every session, at one clause of
rationale per rule. The .apm/-mirror section collapses to a pointer because
docs/spec/architecture.md already covers it in full. The hot ADR-0020 gate
counts stay in AGENTS.md deliberately: they block any skill edit today.
Also corrects docs/spec/architecture.md's stale claim of 19 ADRs; ADR-0020
landed without updating the count.
Impact: per-session preload drops from ~4,550 to ~1,116 tokens, a 75% cut.
agentsmd-audit passes: secrets clean, drift clean, 4 informational findings
for sections deliberately relocated to the README.
Why
---
ADR-0018 left deployed skills tracking the remote default branch with nothing
watching for drift. The mechanism that was supposed to cover this,
scripts/git-hooks/post-push, could never have worked: git has no client-side
post-push hook. install.sh copied it into .git/hooks/ so it looked installed,
and it had never once fired. Issue #78 reported it as skipping the gitea
plugin; it was skipping everything.
Refreshing on push was also the wrong shape. Your install goes stale when
someone else merges, so a push of your own is neither necessary nor sufficient
for staleness to have occurred.
Implementation notes
--------------------
kyberforge ships a SessionStart hook (startup matcher only) that runs
`apm outdated`, and when anything is behind runs `apm update --yes` and returns
reloadSkills:true so the running session picks up redeployed content. It exits
silently with no apm.lock.yaml present, which keeps it inert for hosts that
installed this plugin natively rather than through apm.
Two findings drove the wiring, both verified rather than assumed:
- apm resolves ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} against the installed package root, and
`apm pack` keeps only *.json from .apm/hooks/. A .../hooks/<script> reference
therefore points into the generated mirror where the script does not exist —
apm reports "Hook script not found" and deploys a hook aimed at nothing. The
reference must be .apm/-relative, and a test pins it.
- apm's executable-trust gate is OFF unless apm.yml carries an `executables:`
block; until now every hook, bin and MCP primitive a dependency shipped would
have deployed unprompted. Root apm.yml now enables it. The allow key is
version-pinned by apm's design, so a kyberforge version bump silently blocks
the hook until the key is bumped too — called out in the block and the ADR.
Also corrects ADR-0018 and AGENTS.md, which named `apm install` as the refresh
command. It is not: `apm install` deploys from apm.lock.yaml's pinned commit
and does not re-resolve refs. `apm update` does.
Impact
------
Session startup costs ~0.7s when current and ~10.4s when six packages are
behind. Auto-refresh rewrites apm.lock.yaml, so an unexplained modification to
it after opening a session is expected; the emitted notice says so.
.claude/settings.json stops being exactly {"hooks": {}} once the hook lands
there — the merged entry is apm's own output, and the rule that nothing
repo-authored goes in that file is unchanged. .claude/hooks/ and the
.claude/apm-hooks.json sidecar are gitignored install output.
The hook cannot install itself: dependencies resolve from the remote, so it
takes effect only after this merges and `apm update` runs once against the new
default branch.
scripts/git-hooks/ is now empty. install.sh's copy block is kept and
test-git-hooks-install.sh synthesizes its own fixture, so the mechanism stays
tested without requiring a dead hook to exist.
ADR: 0019
Refs: #78
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Why:
The repo published apm packages but consumed them the old way — `claude plugin install
<name>@holocron`, six plugins enabled per project. Dogfooding stopped one layer short of the
install tooling kyberforge itself ships.
Implementation notes:
- Root apm.yml declares the six packages as dependencies.apm git+path objects against the
holocron remote. Object form over `<name>@holocron` aliases on purpose: an alias first needs
`apm marketplace add`, which writes to ~/.apm/marketplaces.json — user scope, absent on a fresh
clone. Unpinned against the default branch, matching the autoUpdate the native install had.
- apm.lock.yaml is committed; .claude/skills/, .claude/agents/ and apm_modules/ are gitignored
regenerable install output. Committing the deployed skills would add a third mirror of content
ADR-0017 already governs two copies of.
- .mcp.json is generated by apm from plugins/bin/.mcp.json, so the obsidian MCP server survives
the switch.
- .claude/settings.json is reduced to {"hooks": {}}. apm replays the install into a scratch tree
and diffs, so any repo-owned key there is permanent drift that fails apm-audit-ci. Nothing was
lost: enabledPlugins was empty after the uninstall and the only hooks entry was PreToolUse: [].
- tests/run-bats.sh and tests/run-tests.sh exclude apm_modules/. It holds a full copy of every
plugin, and a copied .bats file resolves its helpers against the dependency root rather than
this repo — 334 tests, 167 failures before the exclusion.
Impact:
Skills are now unnamespaced — `git-commits`, not `git:git-commits` — because apm deploys plain
project skills with no plugin to prefix. AGENTS.md, CONTEXT.md and docs/spec/architecture.md are
updated accordingly. Root apm.yml now declares dependencies, which arms apm-audit-ci's
lockfile-exists check for the root manifest. External consumers are unaffected: the marketplace
manifests are untouched and `apm pack --check-clean` stays clean. Project scope only.
ADR: 0018
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
AGENTS.md told an offline agent to push with SKIP=apm-marketplace-check and
asserted that hook was "the only one whose failure mode is 'no network'".
Running all 12 pre-push hooks under a network namespace shows two fail, for
one shared cause: apm-pack-check-clean resolves the same remote entry. An
exact pin does not remove the ls-remote, so both hooks are named now.
AGENTS.md also said everything in a plugin root except .apm/ is generated.
Plugin roots carry hand-authored README.md, docs/, bin/, sources.md and
.mcp.json, so an agent would hunt for an .apm/ source that does not exist or
refuse the edit. The rule is positional: immunity belongs to the plugin root,
and anything inside a mirrored directory is still rm -rf'd.
ADR-0017 said apm strips a hooks field. The real loop is (agents, skills,
commands, instructions) -- hooks absent, instructions never mentioned -- and
it can never fire, because synthesize_plugin_json_from_apm_yml only emits the
eight identity fields. The decision stands; the mechanism was overstated. Its
mcpServers amendment is rewritten for the pointer payload and now records the
real reason: inlining bypassed apm's credential sanitizer.
ADR-0015's owner.email and version-pin passages are corrected against the apm
source, and ADR-0016 gains the disallowedTools amendment. agent-audit's
allowlist is data, so it gains disallowedTools too -- the ADR and the
validator that enforces it had come apart.
architecture.md described a root CLAUDE.md that imports two files (it imports
one, plus an RTK block) and pointed at an ADR index that does not exist.
Seven skill READMEs listed tests/ files the mirror strips, promising installed
users files their install lacks; those rows are marked source-only, with the
depth-4 template tests explicitly called out as surviving. And
plugins/kyberforge/hooks/README.md, deleted during the conversion and
preserved nowhere, is restored to a path the mirror does not own -- verified
by running a sync against a scratch copy.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
Documentation asserted things the code no longer did, which is how several of this
round's defects survived three review passes.
- `docs/spec/architecture.md` still described the pre-APM model — "each plugin has a
`plugin.json` manifest" — when no such file exists. AGENTS.md routes agents here
for the current structure, so it was live drift, not archive. Also cited ADR-0012
where ADR-0003 is meant.
- AGENTS.md never said `.apm/` is the sole hand-edited source, while the generated
mirror is byte-identical with no marker — an agent reading only AGENTS.md would
edit the mirror and find out at pre-push. It also omitted that `apm` and `jq` are
now required to push, unlike the `vale` bullet that exists for exactly that reason,
and understated the pre-push gate. `apm marketplace check` hard-fails offline and
`--offline` does not help, so the `SKIP=` escape hatch is documented rather than
new machinery built.
- ADR-0017 carried hardcoded line numbers that drifted twice within one PR, and said
`mcpServers` reinjection was real-syncs-only where the script's own header says
both modes. Line numbers dropped rather than corrected.
- ADR-0015 asserted issue #90 was closed. It is open. Reworded to defer to the
issue's own state rather than depend on someone remembering to close it.
- ADR-0014 said both audit skills pass `--config`; both SKILL.md files say pass none,
and passing one fails with E100. The ADR was wrong.
- ADR-0007 cross-referenced an archived ADR-0011 whose number was later reused.
Disambiguated with a note — renumbering a published ADR rewrites an immutable
record and breaks every existing citation.
- CONTEXT.md claimed `lint-runner` is report-only via a missing `Edit` tool.
Plugin-scope APM agents cannot express `tools:` (ADR-0016), so it is report-only by
instruction now; ADR-0016 accepted that regression but CONTEXT.md was not updated.
- Recorded two undocumented consequences of the conversion: `displayName` dropped
from all six compiled manifests and `owner.email` from the marketplace, and
`mattpocock-skills` silently version-pinned and manually maintained.
- Wrote the version-bump policy issue #90 specified but never delivered. Its previous
carrier, `marketplace-author`, was deleted in this PR, leaving the per-package rule
documented nowhere.
- README fixes: kyberforge listed skills belonging to the `git` plugin and a deleted
hooks path, `bin` advertised an agents directory it never had, and the docs index
listed files that do not exist.
Refs: #90
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
## Why
overview.md described the chunk-based delivery model, which is superseded
by the marketplace/plugin pivot. architecture.md was equally stale: it
described .agents/skills/ as the canonical skills source (directory does not
exist), a provider-manifest.sh symlink mechanism (never built), and sync.sh /
init-project.sh as existing scripts (Chunk 6, not yet built).
## Implementation Notes
- overview.md deleted; all cross-references scrubbed from AGENTS.md, CONTEXT.md,
and three notes/research files
- architecture.md fully rewritten: content deployment model reflects actual
install.sh behaviour (DEPLOY_FILES / DEPLOY_EXECUTABLES / DEPLOY_DIRS);
plugin model section added listing all 5 plugins; directory structure section
removed (was describing a layout that no longer exists)
- "Chunk 6" phase label → "planned"; "chunk workflow" removed from AGENTS.md
description
- Fixed broken path docs/HUMANS.md → docs/wiki/HUMANS.md in governance layer
and core/instructions/governance.md
Refs: #15
No longer needed — kyberforge plugin-create provides a bundled template that
serves as the canonical scaffold reference. Remove hello-world from marketplace
manifests and update docs accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Updates overview.md and architecture.md to document the kyberforge plugin,
the moved skills and evals, the removal of templates/, and the new plugins/
directory in the repo structure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Create AGENTS.md at repo root and core/AGENTS.md as provider-agnostic
sources of always-on rules. Slim both CLAUDE.md files to thin adapters.
Deploy core/AGENTS.md → ~/.agents/AGENTS.md via deploy-manifest.sh.
Update three test suites to check correct locations post-refactor.
All automated tests pass (57 instructions, 106 install, 25 governance).
HITL behavioral test plan in test-instructions-and-docs.sh scenarios 9–12.
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Add LESSONS.md as the long-loop feedback log at repo root. Patterns
observed during development graduate to standing rules when three or
more entries appear.
Introduce docs/spec/ as the living spec layer: overview.md (deployed
state) and architecture.md (directory structure, install pipeline,
provider model, governance layer). Refactor docs/VISION.md to goals
and intent only — architecture content moved to docs/spec/architecture.md.
Update CLAUDE.md and CONTEXT.md to reference the new spec files.
Close issues 0013 and 0014. Update ROADMAP and factory integration
note to reflect completion.
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