Why: the always-on governance.md told agents to read
docs/ai-constitution.md when a decision is not covered, a path that
exists only in this repo, so the fallback failed in every other project.
(Simplification audit finding 27, second defect.)
Implementation Notes:
- Move docs/ai-constitution.md to core/ai-constitution.md; the existing
core deploy step now ships it to ~/.claude/core/.
- governance.md line 4 and line 73 name ~/.claude/core/ai-constitution.md;
the HUMANS.md and CONTROLS.md pointers now say they live in the
holocron repo.
- Repoint path-qualified citations in AGENTS.md, architecture.md,
skill-implementation-workflow.md and CONTROLS.md. The vendored
write-skill example and the audit's historical notes are left as
records.
- The docs/wiki gitlink is not bumped here; the wiki commit awaits push.
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Why: three governance documents cited `docs/HUMANS.md`, which has never existed -- the human
practitioner rules live at `docs/wiki/HUMANS.md`. One of the three is
`core/instructions/governance.md`, which is `@`-imported into every session in every project,
so an agent following its "read it when making decisions not covered here" pointer hit a dead
path. That file was self-inconsistent: line 73 already cited the correct path while line 82 did
not.
Implementation notes: five occurrences corrected across three files --
`core/instructions/governance.md:82`, `docs/research/governance_principles/CONTROLS.md:5,101,106`,
and `docs/ai-constitution.md:238`. Text is otherwise untouched; this is a path correction only,
not a change to any governance rule. Marked the defect fixed in SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md, which
recorded it in two places as outstanding.
Impact: no rule, gate or behaviour changes. The deployed copy at
`~/.claude/core/instructions/governance.md` no longer matches the repo and stays stale until
`scripts/install.sh` re-runs; it was byte-identical before this commit.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
A review of PR #85's last two commits (1164f3a, 4d018af) found the new
release-gate script fails open in four separate ways, and the new drift
check for the duplicated Vale styles only ever detects drift after a
human already hand-edited both copies out of sync.
check-release-needed.sh:
- The `-e` existence filter dropped a RELEASE_PATHS entry from the diff
pathspec once it was deleted from the tree, so deleting a path exposed
via .pre-commit-hooks.yaml since the last tag passed the gate clean —
exactly the breakage the gate exists to catch. git diff reports
deletions fine without an existence check; the filter is gone.
- `git diff ... 2>/dev/null || true` turned any git failure (a shallow
clone missing the tag's objects, a corrupted ref) into an empty,
falsely-clean diff. The diff result is no longer swallowed: a failure
now hard-fails with the underlying git error visible.
- RELEASE_PATHS was a hand-maintained array duplicating
.pre-commit-hooks.yaml's entry: paths with only a comment holding them
in sync, and was already over-broad (it swept in validate.sh /
validate-provenance.sh, which no hook entry references). It's now
parsed straight from .pre-commit-hooks.yaml's entry: lines at
runtime, so it can't drift from the manifest and only tracks what a
hook actually exposes.
- `git describe --tags --abbrev=0` accepted any tag reachable from HEAD
as the diff baseline, not just release tags. Added
`--match 'v[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*'` so an incidental checkpoint tag
can't shift the baseline and mask a real release-relevant change.
check-vale-style-sync.sh still only detects drift between skill-audit's
and agent-audit's duplicated vale-wrap.sh/styles/Kyberforge copies
(both copies must exist independently per the plugin's no-cross-skill-
path packaging rule — a symlink would break at install time). Added
scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh to regenerate skill-audit's copy from
agent-audit's canonical one on demand, and pointed the sync check's
failure message at it, so fixing drift is one command instead of a
hand diff across two files.
Also recorded, rather than silently left unfixed: check-release-needed.sh
only fires on a local `git push` through pre-commit's pre-push hook — a
PR merged via Gitea's merge button, or CI invoking
`pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push` directly, never sets
PRE_COMMIT_REMOTE_BRANCH and skips the gate entirely. Closing that needs
a server-side CI job this repo doesn't have yet; documented as a known
limitation in ADR-0014 rather than papered over.
Separately, LESSONS.md's "a clean check can mean nothing ran" entry was
marked **Graduated** without ever being promoted per the repo's own
graduation rule (3+ instances → a standing doc, marked
`[graduated → target file]`). Actually promoted it into
core/instructions/testing.md and fixed the marker.
tests/test-check-release-needed.sh gained 4 regression tests, one per
check-release-needed.sh fix above, each verified to fail against the
pre-fix script and pass against the current one.
Verification: bash tests/run-tests.sh (11 scripts + 125 bats, all
passing), pre-commit run --all-files, and
pre-commit run --all-files --hook-stage pre-push all clean.
ADR: 0014
AGENTS.md had grown to duplicate content owned elsewhere: behavioral
rules already active globally via ~/.agents/AGENTS.md, a VISION.md
read-on-demand entry CONTEXT.md already covers at session start, and
setup/testing/commit instructions that explained hook mechanics the
git plugin's pc-run/git-commits skills already own. It also gave no
explicit steer toward using installed plugin skills over raw shell
commands, so agents defaulted to shelling out to git directly.
- Added a "Prefer plugin skills over raw shell" section mapping
operations (commits, branches, hooks, issues/PRs, linting, AGENTS.md
itself) to the skill that owns them.
- Collapsed Setup/Testing/Commit-conventions into one section, keeping
only the two genuinely non-obvious gotchas (missing
default_install_hook_types, bats submodule auto-init).
- Removed the "Subagent orchestration" section: its content was mostly
universal Agent/Task/worktree-tool facts, not specific to working in
this repo, so it moves to core/instructions/subagent-orchestration.md
(deployed globally via install.sh, referenced from core/AGENTS.md's
content index) rather than staying repo-local.
- Removed agentsmd-author's "not this repo's own" scope exclusion in
CONTEXT.md (ADR-0012 never mandated it) so this task could route
through it, and folded the forge-routing rule it left behind into
CONTEXT.md's existing Skill composition entry.
AGENTS.md: 50 -> 40 lines. Full test suite and manifest check pass.
## 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
## Why
`core/AGENTS.md` referenced a non-existent path (`~/.claude/core/commits.md`)
instead of the correct `~/.claude/core/instructions/commits.md`, and contained a
typo ("commiting" → "committing"). `core/instructions/commits.md` was wrapped in
an erroneous markdown code fence that caused agents reading the file to see it as
a raw text block rather than a live template with usable HTML comment sections.
## Impact
Agents following the content index in AGENTS.md will now resolve the correct path
for commit conventions. The commits template is now properly structured so its
comment-gated sections render as intended.
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## Why
The existing git.md was thin — missing atomicity, working-state, and
trailer guidance that belong in any professional git workflow. No commit
message template existed, making the expected format implicit and
inconsistent across sessions.
## Impact
- git.md is now the canonical reference for commit hygiene rules
- commits.md provides a structured template (Why / Implementation Notes /
Impact / Git Trailers) that agents and humans can follow
- AGENTS.md cross-references commits.md so it is discoverable at session
start
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Push submodule before parent, check for -dirty flag, use rtk git
only for parent repo operations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
13 manual scenarios run across instructions and governance layers (two
rounds for failures). Fixed four rules that lost to RLHF defaults:
- Exploratory question format: tightened with boundary framing; added
@import CONTEXT.md to repo CLAUDE.md and a standing rule to check
docs/adr/ and ROADMAP resolved entries before answering design questions
(3-round iteration to resolve)
- File-edit intent: added counter-example to stop clarification-seeking
- Push confirmation: reframed as "do not call the tool" not "ask first"
- Secrets rule: extended to cover credential reproduction in response
text and usage examples, with explicit placeholder requirement
Scenario 4 (push confirmation) inconclusive — no remote configured.
Governance scenario 3 (HITL on real infra) untestable — Nginx not installed.
Both share the same root cause: agent delegates to permission system.
Also corrects stale skill list in docs/spec/overview.md (12 actual
deployed skills vs 16 names previously listed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Establishes the global AI development config repo from scratch:
- Chunk 1: repo skeleton, install.sh, statusline, deploy manifest
- Chunk 2: core instructions (coding/git/testing), CLAUDE.md rewrite
(always-on + content index two-tier model), docs restructure,
6 ADRs, ROADMAP.md, .gitkeep placeholders
- Bootstrap skills in .claude/skills/ (to be catalogued and migrated
to .agents/skills/ in Chunk 3)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
