check-vale-style-sync.sh used `declare -A` for a per-skill regex cache.
Associative arrays are bash 4.0+; this script runs as an always-run
pre-push hook with `language: system`, so it inherits whatever bash is
first on the invoking user's PATH. On macOS's stock bash 3.2, `declare -A`
at top level aborts immediately under `set -euo pipefail` — every push
would hard-fail before the sync check ran anything.
Replaced with two parallel indexed arrays (HOOK_REGEX_CACHE_KEYS/_VALS),
linear-scanned by index — same caching behavior (avoids re-parsing both
pre-commit manifests when agent-audit is probed twice), but only ever
uses ${#arr[@]} and index access, never a bare ${arr[@]} expansion.
Extended test-vale-wrap.sh's existing bash-3.2 hazard sweep to scan this
file too, and added a check for `declare -A` itself — it previously only
caught unguarded ${arr[@]} expansions and mapfile/readarray, so this
exact regression had no test that would have caught it.
Refs: #85
The flattener's last-resort branch rewrote ASCII ' to U+2019, justified as the
one combination no YAML scalar can carry verbatim. That claim was false: a |-
literal block with a single indented content line carries ', ", \ and ": "
verbatim and keeps text.frontmatter.description matching — as the wrapper's own
docstring already said of literal blocks. The rewrite fired on 12 of 54
in-scope files, silently disabling every rule whose token contains an
apostrophe. Case 20 pinned only that the scope stayed alive, so it passed
either way.
The emission site now splits the emitted scalar on its first newline so a
carried-over trailing comment stays on the "description: |-" header line rather
than becoming part of the value, and pads by span_lines - 1 - newlines. The pad
stays non-negative because the branch is only reachable when the original span
is at least two lines. Verified across all 73 in-scope files: no line-count
changes, and exactly the 12 expected files take the new branch.
One reported position moves: an alert on a description that is itself flagged
shifts from the key line to the block's content line, both inside the original
span. YAML cannot put a literal block's content on the key's own line, so this
is unavoidable; no line at or after the end of any description span moves.
Also: --output no longer absolutises the built-in style names line, JSON and
CLI, which a same-named file or directory in cwd turned into a template path
(exit 2, E100 Runtime error). And case 19's empty-baseline guard no longer
lets five dependent comparisons print vacuous passes — while fixing it the
guard turned out to be unreachable, since under pipefail an alert-free report
aborted the script at the assignment.
Refs: #85
ADR: 0014
Vale locates a frontmatter description by matching the parsed YAML value back
against the source text, so any scalar whose value is not spelled out verbatim
loses the `text.frontmatter.description` scope entirely. The wrapper only
flattened `>` folded scalars, so plain, double-quoted and single-quoted
multi-line descriptions silently reported zero alerts and exit 0 — a clean pass
indistinguishable from a real one, in a prefilter whose callers are instructed
not to re-derive its verdict by judgment.
Implementation notes:
- Classify the scalar kind after `^description:[ \t]*` and reuse one shared
continuation-line generator for every form; `|` literal blocks keep their
line breaks, stay verbatim-matchable, and are still left untouched.
- Emit the flattened value in whichever scalar form needs no escape at all
(plain, then single-quoted, then double-quoted), because any escape breaks
the verbatim match. The old blanket `'` -> U+2019 substitution silently made
apostrophe-bearing rule tokens unmatchable across 63% of the corpus; it now
survives only for the one combination no YAML scalar can carry verbatim.
- Terminate continuations at a line flush with the key, not only on a shallower
indent — a `description:` followed by a flush-left line previously swallowed
the rest of the frontmatter.
- Route vale's value-taking flags explicitly instead of inferring targets by
file existence, and absolutize relative `--output`/`--path` values the way
`--config` already was, since the run `cd`s into the scratch mirror.
- Fail loudly on a nonexistent path instead of inheriting bare vale's fallback
to stdin, which rendered a typo'd path as `0 errors ... in stdin`, exit 0 —
a form the callers' `0 files` NOT-RUN guard cannot match.
- Follow symlinks when walking a directory argument, matching bare vale.
Refs: #85
Under set -u, "${arr[@]}" on an empty array aborts on bash before 4.4,
which is what macOS ships as /bin/bash. Three expansion sites now use
${arr[@]+"${arr[@]}"} consistently.
The hazard is not currently reachable: verified on a bash 3.2.57 built
from source that all seven invocation shapes succeed against the
previous code, including zero args, flags-only and an empty directory.
vale_args is provably non-empty at every site because the default
--config branch always appends first. The guard is kept because that
invariant is non-local and untested, so an edit to the default-config
branch would reintroduce a macOS-only crash silently.
Test fidelity is deliberately mixed. Case 16 is static and is the only
one that fails against the previous code, since no bash 5 host can
reproduce the abort at runtime. Case 17 runs the emptiest invocations
under the oldest bash it can find and names that shell in its output
so it cannot overclaim. Case 18 guards against the tempting wrong fix
of dropping the quotes, which also silences the abort but word-splits
a path containing a space.
No other bash 4.x construct is present; swept for mapfile, declare -A,
case modification, negative indices, globstar, wait -n and namerefs.
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pre-commit prefixes only entry[0] with the hook-repo clone path
(cmd = (prefix.path(cmd[0]), *cmd[1:])), so the --config argument in
.pre-commit-hooks.yaml resolved against the *consuming* repo's root
and hard-failed every external run with E100. Two of the three hooks
ADR-0014 promises were unusable.
vale-wrap.sh now self-locates its config from BASH_SOURCE when no
--config is supplied; an explicit --config still wins in all three
argv forms and stays cwd-relative. Both manifests drop the argument
and are kept byte-identical: the local repo: local config resolved
--config correctly only because the consuming repo *was* this repo,
and that divergence is why three review rounds missed the defect.
Also in the wrapper:
- replace GNU-only `realpath -m` with a portable abspath helper; -m is
load-bearing (dest does not exist yet), so BSD realpath aborted the
script under set -e on macOS
- walk directory arguments instead of passing them through unflattened,
which reported a clean 0-error run for files that fail when named
explicitly
- read/write with errors='surrogateescape' so one non-UTF-8 .md under a
directory argument cannot abort the hook
New test-vale-hooks-consumer.sh builds the hook repo from the working
tree and points a file:// consumer at it, covering the manifest as a
hook repo for the first time.
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skill-audit/agent-audit's Step 1 resolved vale-wrap.sh/.vale.ini via
`git rev-parse --show-toplevel`, which returns whichever repo the skill
happens to run in. Inside ai-development that works; in any external repo
that installs kyberforge@holocron as a plugin, it resolves to that repo's
own root, which has no .vale.ini — the prefilter silently fell back to
full LLM judgment. ADR-0013 named this as a deliberately deferred gap.
Vale's config/styles/wrapper now ship inside the plugin itself: a
canonical copy in agent-audit/assets/vale/ (Kyberforge + KyberforgeCopilot,
the superset agent-audit needs) and a smaller duplicate in
skill-audit/assets/vale/ (Kyberforge only) — per the no-cross-skill-path
rule already established for plugin cache-installs. Both skills resolve
these relative to their own directory, same as scripts/validate.sh
already does.
A new root .pre-commit-hooks.yaml exposes both copies plus
skill-size-check so any external repo can enforce the same rules via
`repo: <this-repo-url>, rev: <tag>` in its own pre-commit config,
independent of Claude Code entirely — the same mechanism covers CI. This
repo's own pre-commit hook now consumes the identical plugin-bundled
copies via repo: local (not a third root copy, and not a pinned
self-reference, which would lint working-tree edits against the last
tagged release instead of the change being made). Split into
vale-audit-prefilter-skill/-agent hooks after confirming, by diffing the
full corpus against both old and new config before deleting the old
files, that one combined hook pointed at only one copy silently 0-file-
skips the other file type.
scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh guards the two copies against drift,
wired at pre-push alongside check-manifests.
ADR: 0014
Round-3 review of PR #85 found the "enforcing" pre-commit hook enforced
nothing. Vale's exit code keys on error-level alerts alone: five of the
six rules were level: warning, so they exited 0, and pre-commit hides
output from a passing hook — the alerts were invisible and blocked
nothing. ADR-0013 rejected a report-only trial tier and then shipped one
by accident.
Flatten every rule to level: error. Vale's own exit code is then correct,
so the hook entry drops to a bare vale-wrap.sh call and the graded
error->FAIL / warning->SUGGESTION mapping disappears from both audit
skills: every alert is a FAIL, in the gate and the audit alike. No
ignorable tier, matching shellcheck, the test suite and
conventional-pre-commit.
Delete Kyberforge.VagueQualifier. Measured against the 41 skill/agent
files as they stood before the rule ever ran: 2 hits. One marginal
("very different" -> "fundamentally different"), one an unfixable false
positive — caveman/SKILL.md quotes "of course" as an example of filler,
a mention not a use — which forced the only Vale suppression comments in
the repo. Those four lines go with it; two of them were dead anyway,
suppressing a frontmatter-scoped rule on a body line. Held-out prose (273
files) fired 15 times, 9 inside out-of-scope research examples and the
rest one word in two idioms in a single doc. SentenceOpenerThereIs
survives: 22 held-out hits, both in-corpus hits clean rewrites, zero
suppressions.
Widen .vale.ini's globs to [**/SKILL.md], [**/agents/*.md] and
[**/*.agent.md]. The plugins/*/-prefixed globs scoped nothing — Vale's *
crosses /, so they already matched docs/research/examples/**/agents/*.md
and assets/templates/SKILL.md, the two paths CONTEXT.md claimed they
excluded. Scoping is and was the hook's files: regex. The old globs also
hid a silent false negative: a skill outside plugins/ matched no section,
so Vale reported 0 files and exited 0, which both audits read as clean.
They now treat a 0-file run as NOT RUN and fall back to full judgment.
Also:
- vale-wrap.sh resolves relative --config values and file arguments
against the caller's cwd, as vale does, instead of the repo root, which
hard-errored from a subdirectory and silently skipped flattening for
file args that did not resolve from the root. Absolute paths inside the
cwd are relativized so reports cite resolvable paths, not scratch ones.
- vale-run's exit-code model was documented backwards ("exits non-zero
whenever it finds an alert at or above MinAlertLevel") and would have
led anyone following it to build a gate that passes everything. Its
Markdown suppression syntax was MDX-only and does not suppress in .md;
corrected in the skill and its troubleshooting reference, with
backtick/fence exemption documented as the first resort.
- skill-size-check.sh fails only above 500 lines, agreeing with
skill-audit's validate.sh <= 500 pass.
- ADR-0013 and CONTEXT.md amended to match, recording why graded
severities cannot gate.
Verified: 9 test scripts / 15 vale-wrap cases pass; vale-audit-prefilter,
skill-size-check and shellcheck pass --all-files; check-manifests and
claude plugin validate --strict clean. New tests fail against the old
script (3 of them) and pass against the new one.
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Addresses PR #85's outstanding review items after grilling the open
questions against ADR-0013/CONTEXT.md/ADR-0010:
Blocking fixes:
- vale-wrap.sh: replace json.dumps() escaping (which silently defeated
Vale's frontmatter scope on any description containing a quote,
backslash, or non-ASCII char — ~58% of the corpus) with a single-quoted
YAML scalar, substituting a Unicode right single quote for embedded
apostrophes rather than '' doubling (Vale's frontmatter scanner isn't a
full YAML parser and silently truncates on '' too).
- vale-wrap.sh: fix a blank-line-inside-a-folded-description truncation
bug via indentation-based, blank-line-tolerant body capture; narrow
flattening to `>`-style scalars only (`|` already works unflattened).
- skill-audit/agent-audit Step 1: make the vale-wrap.sh invocation
cwd-independent via git rev-parse --show-toplevel, fixing a bug where
no single cwd satisfied all three Step 1 commands.
- styles/Kyberforge/VagueQualifier.yml: prune 17 tokens verified
false-positive-dominated on this repo's own voice via a real corpus
sweep (obvious, clearly, usually, several, simple, easy, completely,
simply, tiny, etc.), keep 13 with real or unattested noise. Revert the
28 prose "fixes" those tokens drove across 14 skill files back to their
original, correct wording, including a functional regression to
caveman/SKILL.md's own filler-word list (a mention, not a use) — now
guarded with vale-off comments against recurrence.
Gaps:
- --minAlertLevel=warning on the pre-commit hook and Step 1 invocation
so warning-level rules actually surface, without collapsing the
FAIL/SUGGESTION severity mapping skill-audit/agent-audit rely on.
- vale-wrap.sh: fix --config=<path> equals-form, absolute-path silent
no-op, and a zero-file-argument stdin hang.
- Route vale-run and lint-runner through a documented wrapper script
when a target repo has one, instead of unconditionally recommending
bare `vale`.
- Wire Kyberforge.VagueQualifier/SentenceOpenerThereIs into skill-audit/
agent-audit's dimension-mapping prose (Body discipline).
- Add plugins/lint/sources.md provenance for lint-runner (ADR-0010).
- Sync both marketplace.json lint-entry descriptions with plugin.json.
- Retune skill-size-check.sh's MAX_WORDS 5000->2900 (measured ~1.6-1.7
tokens/word on this repo's corpus, the old value gated at ~8,500
tokens against a stated 5,000 ceiling); fix the >/>= line-count
boundary and wc -l undercount on files with no trailing newline.
- Document the vale binary as a Setup prerequisite in AGENTS.md.
- Fix SentenceOpenerThereIs's dead regex alternative and add a real
sentence-start anchor/scope.
- Fix a stale docs/research/docs/vale/ index pointer in kyberforge's
docs README (moved to plugins/lint/ in e1a5403).
- Rewrite ADR-0013's Consequences section past-tense to describe what
actually landed, and record the styles-portability limitation
(repo-root placement stays intentional; deferred to a separate
session per this PR's review).
Test coverage: 9 new vale-wrap.sh fixtures (quotes, backslash/unicode,
blank-line paragraphs, --config= form, zero-arg/absolute-path handling,
literal-block no-regression) and boundary-pair tests for
skill-size-check.sh's line/word ceilings.
bash tests/run-tests.sh: 9 scripts + 125 bats assertions, all passing.
scripts/check-manifests.sh and claude plugin validate --strict: clean.
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Vale's text.frontmatter.description scope silently stops matching once
the description is a YAML block scalar spanning 2+ physical lines —
the style used by most skills/agents in this repo. scripts/vale-wrap.sh
flattens the description to one line in a scratch copy (preserving the
repo-relative path and total line count) before invoking real vale, and
both audit skills plus the pre-commit hook now call it instead of vale
directly. Also tightens the pre-commit hook's file glob to single path
segments so it can't cross into docs/research examples or asset
templates the way the audit skills' scoped invocations already avoid.
Addresses PR #85 review feedback.
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