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afadaae793 fix(lint): reword the two Vale errors this branch put where nothing lints
`Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` is `level: error`, but `.vale.ini` scopes the
style to `[**/SKILL.md]`, so no hook can see a violation in `references/`. This
branch's own remedy — move prose out of the body into `references/` — is what
carried these two there:

- `provider-adapter-author/references/provider-matrix.md:31`
- `agent-audit/references/finding-criteria.md:95`

Both confirmed by copying the file to `SKILL.md` and running the audit's own
`vale-wrap.sh`: 1 error each before, 0 after. Reworded to name the subject
directly, which is what the rule asks for.

Five further occurrences exist in `references/` files already on `main`. Those
are the pre-existing corpus, not this branch's regression, and stay with #117 —
which is the real fix: widen the Vale scope so the gate can see this class at
all, and make the wrapper distinguish "0 alerts in 1 file" from "0 files
matched".

Source and generated mirror move together so the commit passes
`check-plugin-content-sync` standalone.

Refs: #117

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ktx4QJzTXZtw35m6T9WhcK
2026-09-01 13:32:31 +00:00
fc305ba7d9 fix(kyberforge): correct the routing-tier contract and make agent-audit rubrics conditional
Five documents told authors that a prose-form dangling routing target blocks. The
gate reports it as a SUGGESTION and exits 0. Verified on fixtures: `-> name` and
`/name` are blocking ERRORs, the prose form is SUGGESTION-tier unless a second
resolving target in the same sentence corroborates it. ADR-0020 and gates.md were
right; contract.md, retrofit.md, description-quality.md, finding-criteria.md and
agent-author's contract.md were wrong — and they are what an author and an auditor
actually read. The whole 39-skill corpus was retrofitted against them.

skill-audit was also self-contradictory: it imports validate.sh's SUGGESTIONs into
the Structure dimension verbatim while its own rubric grades the same target a FAIL,
so one target got reported twice at two tiers. The script owns the grade; the rubric
now says so.

The YAML-fold trap that broke gitea-labels-milestones (#100) was warned about only
in retrofit.md, reachable only from the improve flow when a budget is exceeded. It
is now in both contract.md files, which SKILL.md mandates on the create flow too.

agent-audit loaded both rubrics unconditionally on every run — 3,323 words for a
clean audit against skill-audit's 1,636. dac9cad fixed exactly this in skill-audit
and edited agent-audit in the same commit without applying it. Same treatment: the
criteria move to a new finding-criteria.md and load per dimension. Clean run now
2,083 words, a 37% cut.

Routing: apm-workflow's description shed dependency installation while still owning
the flow, and apm-install's boundary did not exclude it, so "install my apm
dependencies" matched the CLI-binary skill with no route back. Fixed on both sides.
forge regains two of the three phrasings the retrofit deleted.

forge Step 1 called grill-with-docs unconditionally — a skill in plugins/bin, which
kyberforge does not declare as a dependency. It resolves here only because the
walk-up sweeps sibling plugins; a standalone install dead-ends. Step 1 now names
the cross-plugin dependency and gives an inline fallback. Declaring it properly in
apm.yml remains the better fix.

Also: both audit SKILL.md files now grade exit 2 as "did not run, dimension
unverified" rather than as findings; skill-audit's README row described content that
moved, which its own finding-criteria.md grades a FAIL; and body-discipline.md's
`git show <sha>:plugins/...` command is fenced, since an installed plugin cache has
no repo and file-structure.md makes a bare repo path a FAIL.

Refs: #100, #101, #125
ADR: 0020
2026-09-01 12:38:22 +00:00
88866b81a3 fix(kyberforge): announce every provenance skip and scope checks 7-8 to source indexes
The clean provenance bill was an artifact. Checks 7 and 8 assume `Research doc:`
names a source index whose H2s are slugs, but 30 of 121 corpus entries point at
topic content documents whose H2s are topics. Those 30 produced every new check-7
INFO — all false positives. Check 8 aimed at the same documents, which carry no
`Status:` line at all, would have emitted a large false-FAIL flood; the only thing
preventing it was an unannounced `rd_status != extracted` skip. So "0 new FAILs"
rested on exactly the fail-open class this branch exists to remove, and naively
fixing the skip would have turned the branch red.

Checks 7/8 now run only when the research doc's basename is `sources.md`, and every
other case emits a visible INFO naming the slug. The dangling-path INFO stays ahead
of the basename gate, because a path that does not resolve is rot whatever it is
named. `parse_status` accepts the bullet form and a trailing note after the
backticked value, so a status it cannot read no longer reads as "nothing to check".

Corpus: 36 INFOs of which 30 were false, to 56 of which none are. FAIL stays 0, and
no Status line flipped to `extracted` under the new parser, so no FAIL was
suppressed by luck.

Also closed, each a silent pass: a nonexistent directory, a directory with no
SKILL.md, and extra arguments now exit 2; a UTF-8 BOM no longer defeats frontmatter
parsing; the bare `except Exception: return False` that turned an unreadable file
into a clean pass is gone, with all reads pinned to UTF-8; check 3 walks nested
`references/` subdirectories; `FILL IN:` at end of line no longer escapes checks 1
and 6; duplicate `## slug` blocks and repeated `Research doc:` lines are announced
rather than half-read.

The agent-audit copy carried all of the above unfixed and is now ported, minus the
four fixes that are genuinely N/A at agent scope — it reads a plugin-root
`sources.md` and has no checks 7/8 and no `references/` tree. Its silent exit 0 for
a file outside plugin scope is preserved deliberately: that is a verdict about a
valid file, not a skip, and `check-scope-walkup-sync.sh` pins it. Every exit-2 gate
therefore decides from the argument alone, before the walk-up runs.

`validation-scripts.md` said flatly that silence from the validator is a pass, not
a skip. That sentence is what made a typo'd path dangerous, and both copies are
corrected here. The matching SKILL.md exit-code guidance lands with the audit
rubric change, which touches the same files.

Tests: skill-audit 45 to 65, agent-audit 24 to 43, every new case proven by mutation.

Refs: #111, #118, #121
2026-09-01 12:37:50 +00:00
9fe734573d fix(gates): close the /name fail-open and stop the path guard inventing targets
Two defects in the routing-target resolver, both latent in the corpus but hot for
anything written next.

The free-standing `/name` sweep sat inside `if boundary:`, so route notation in a
sentence carrying no boundary marker was never extracted at all — not an ERROR, not
a SUGGESTION, not an INFO. That contradicted ADR-0020's amendment and gates.md,
which both promise `/name` blocks unconditionally. The sweep now runs over every
sentence. `-> name` and backticked forms stay gated deliberately: an arrow also
writes a process chain and a code span cites tools, files and skills alike, so
ungating either fires on ordinary prose.

The path guard used `\b`, which still holds after a hyphen, so the engine
backtracked to a shorter hyphen-terminated prefix whenever the lookahead rejected
the full segment. `/api-docs/v2.md` in a boundary clause raised blocking ERRORs for
'api' and 'api-docs' — names no author wrote, with no corroboration escape.
`(?![\w-])` forbids the shortened prefix outright; MARKED_TARGET, which had no
trailing guard at all, gained one.

Zero arguments now exits 2 rather than 0, so a mis-scoped `files:` pattern is no
longer indistinguishable from a clean corpus. Both hook manifests pass filenames
and pre-commit skips a filename-passing hook when nothing matches, so the hook
never sees an empty argv — that contract is now asserted by a test rather than
left in prose.

Deleting the sweep entirely used to leave every suite green. It now kills eight
assertions. The suite also gains its first slash-path and URL fixtures, in both
directions.

Refs: #107, #110, #124
ADR: 0020
2026-09-01 12:37:12 +00:00
00daf285ec fix(kyberforge): tell an unparsable Contributing-files block from an explicit (none)
parse_contributing_files documented that callers depend on None vs [], because a
parse failure returning [] would silently disable the check. Only check 8
honoured it; checks 4/5 (skill-audit) and 3/4 (agent-audit) used a truthiness
test, so an unreadable block disabled them without a word.

Two live corpus entries were skipping this way. A sweep of all 32 sources.md
found 134 entries, exactly 2 parsing to None, both in gitea-files: one heading
carried an inline parenthetical that defeated both regexes, and one (none) was
written without its leading bullet. Also pins EMPTY_SOURCE_KEYS_RE to the two
indents parse_source_keys actually reads.

agent-audit had no INFO tier at all, so it gains one rather than reporting a
check that could not run as a FAIL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
2026-08-31 19:46:05 +00:00
c232e69645 fix(gates): block a dangling /name route with no preceding verb
The header promised explicit route notation always blocks. It did not: /name
reached extraction only behind a ROUTE_VERB, so a target with no verb before it
was never extracted at all -- exit 0, no output. Taking the SUGGESTION's own
advice ('write it as /name and it will be checked properly') was the one edit
that blinded the gate.

Adds two notation sweeps gated on BOUNDARY_MARKER and routed through _add, plus
a path guard so file paths and URLs are not read as routes. Also excises the
matched pointer span before the REFERENCE_PAST sweep, so a reference file can no
longer exempt itself by its own filename, and guards the agent branch with the
isfile test the skills branch already had.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
2026-08-31 19:45:45 +00:00
dac9cad912 refactor(kyberforge): move audit guidance out of the per-run rubric load
skill-audit loaded roughly 4,268 words of rubric on every run, most of it
criteria for findings a clean skill never triggers. The auditing guidance moves
into finding-criteria.md, read only when a finding is actually raised, cutting
a clean audit to about 999 words. The named-skill exemption is replaced with
properties, so the rubric stops carrying a list that ages the moment a skill
is renamed.

apm-workflow's `type:` trap sat in one flow while biting several, so it is
promoted to a common gate reachable from all of them; its claim to be
self-contained was untrue once it started routing to apm-install. skill-author's
contract had drifted from body-discipline.md and is realigned, and agent-audit's
field inventory is brought in line with the same split.
2026-08-31 08:02:19 +00:00
27a76692b0 fix(kyberforge): stop the provenance checker skipping check 8 on unparsed input
484357a taught the Contributing parser the bullet form, but a block it still
could not parse returned the same empty result as an explicit "(none)", so the
checker read "no contributing files" and skipped check 8 rather than reporting
that it could not tell. Checks 7 and 8 were consequently dead across the whole
git plugin without anything failing.

The parser now distinguishes "declared none" from "could not parse", which
wakes both checks. Because the parser is duplicated between the skill-audit and
agent-audit copies, it is fenced with BEGIN/END markers and a test hashes the
two regions so the copies cannot drift apart again silently.

Addresses #111.
2026-08-31 08:01:18 +00:00
db5a426416 fix(gates): make the ADR-0020 boundary check parse what skills actually write
The routing-target check understood only a single-arrow clause naming a bare
skill, so most real boundary prose was silently skipped rather than verified.
Two of those silences were fail-open: an unrecognised token following a target
dropped that target from the check entirely, and a skill directory with no
SKILL.md still resolved as a valid routing target, so a broken route passed.

Multi-target arrow clauses now draw a SUGGESTION instead of being ignored,
hand-invocation phrasing is carved out so it is not read as a route, and a
dotted filename parses into a new `unparsed` status rather than disappearing.
Three test fixtures had been relying on the SKILL.md-less directory resolving
as a target; they are corrected alongside the check.

Addresses #107, #108, #110.
2026-08-31 08:01:07 +00:00
484357a3b9 fix(gates): parse the bullet form of Contributing files
validate-provenance.sh matched Contributing files only as a single inline
line beginning "- **Contributing files:**". Seven skills write it as a
bare "**Contributing files:**" heading above a bullet list, so
parse_contributing_files returned None and checks 4 (contributing file
exists) and 5 (bidirectional source_keys) silently verified nothing on
git-branches, git-remotes, git-submodules, git-workflow, git-worktrees,
gitea-files and gitea-releases.

Those are among the skills this branch changed most — git-branches alone
gained five reference files — and the retrofit's mandatory sources.md
collateral went in unchecked. Demonstrated rather than argued: planting a
nonexistent contributing path in git-remotes yields 0 findings under the
old parser and 1 FAIL under the new one.

Both forms are now accepted. The bullet form is parsed per bullet rather
than by splitting a joined value, because its per-file notes contain
commas that would otherwise be read as path separators. The return type
becomes a list of note-stripped paths, with "(none)" as an empty list and
an absent entry as None, so the two callers no longer re-split a string.

Applied to agent-audit's copy as well. No agent ships a sources.md today,
so it is latent there, but it is the same defect.

This is a third gate blind spot alongside #117 and #118, and was unfiled.
One real defect surfaced immediately and is fixed separately.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 20:51:56 +00:00
79c60715dc fix(gates): restore byte-identity of the shared ADR-0020 boundary resolver
915eb09 rewrote the bare-arrow carve-out comment in scripts/skill-size-check.sh
without pasting the block over the two other copies, so the resolver stood at
764 lines in the hook and 755 in both audit validators.
tests/test-adr0020-contract.sh exists to catch exactly this and did -- it was
the regression behind that suite's failure, and I reported the suite green
after 915eb09 without re-running it.

No behaviour changes: the drift was comment-only. Restoring identity keeps the
invariant the test enforces, which matters because the three copies are the
only thing making the hook and the two validators agree on what a boundary
target is.

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
2026-08-30 16:42:51 +00:00
75a13c82f6 fix(kyberforge): scope corroboration to a real sentence boundary
A prose-form routing target blocks a commit only when its own sentence names
another target that resolves. That makes the sentence splitter part of the
ADR-0020 contract rather than an implementation detail, and the naive
"period, space, capital" rule got it wrong in both directions:

- OVER-SPLIT: `e.g. "..."` is not a sentence end, but the quote looks like a
  start. The clause was cut in half and the corroborator stranded on the far
  side, so a genuinely dangling target silently demoted to SUGGESTION — a
  measurement taken and then discarded, the vacuous-green shape this gate
  exists to prevent. Seven such splits are live in the current corpus.
- UNDER-SPLIT: a sentence opening with a code span or a lowercase skill name
  was not seen as a start, so two sentences merged and a resolving target
  vouched for an unresolvable one it never stood beside — a hard FAIL with no
  escape hatch, which is the exact failure corroboration was added to prevent.

The splitter now excludes the five abbreviations that occur in routing prose
and admits a backtick or lowercase letter as a sentence opener. Applied
byte-identically to all three copies of the shared resolver.

Verified zero-delta against the corpus: 37 ERROR / 58 SUGGESTION / 2 dangling
before and after, findings byte-identical. The exposure this closes is to the
descriptions #99 is about to rewrite, not to the ones already measured — which
is why the deferral reason recorded on PR #103 ("can move the documented corpus
counts") does not hold and the fix lands here rather than after the retrofit.

Three regression tests, one per direction plus the backtick opener, each proven
non-vacuous by reverting the splitter alone and watching it go red.

Refs: #99
ADR: 0020

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-16 20:44:58 +00:00
ede3f06689 fix(kyberforge): restore the authoring rules the ADR-0020 trim dropped
Diffing each retrofitted SKILL.md against its replacement references/ files found
rules that existed on main and now existed nowhere — relocated in intent, deleted in
fact. A trim that loses a rule is not progressive disclosure, it is data loss with a
smaller word count.

Three had no survivor. The least-privilege guidance for `tools` kept its mechanics
and lost the "restrict to what the agent needs" half, so the remaining text read as
encouragement to omit the field. The improve flow lost its regression check, so
nothing compared the closing audit against the pre-edit state and a PASS quietly
becoming a SUGGESTION went unnoticed — restored on both halves of the author pair,
since agent-author had dropped its equivalent too. And agent bodies lost "would the
agent get this wrong without it?", which mattered more than it looks: ADR-0020
deliberately sets no body word gate for agents, three of the four already sit
between 933 and 1,199 words, and the delegation check only fires on procedure a
skill already owns. That heuristic was the only brake left.

Two more were reachable only from the wrong scope. agent-author tells the reader to
load only the file for the resolved scope, but the mcp__ glob syntax for
disallowedTools and the five tools no subagent ever receives had both landed in
project-user-scope.md. disallowedTools is the ONLY permitted fence at plugin/APM
scope, so the scope that needs the syntax most could not reach it, and a plugin-scope
run could write a body telling the agent to ask the user a question.

Two documents were actively wrong rather than merely thin. agent-audit told auditors
that validate.sh resolves boundary targets for skills only; it runs at both scopes,
so the auditor was hand-resolving what the script had already decided and could
contradict it. And skill-audit routed to its script-troubleshooting reference
whenever validate.sh "fails" — but it exits 1 on ordinary content FAILs, the normal
outcome for the whole #99 population, so 1,302 words loaded on nearly every audit.
A context-budget regression inside the skill that enforces the context budget.

Finally, two illustrations taught the shape the gate ERRORs on, unfenced, while an
adjacent rubric called it a hard ERROR.

LESSONS.md records the reference-chain depth rule flipping from "one level deep" to
"two hops, never three". ADR-0020 is silent on it and the reversal rode entirely on
the diff; the looser rule is what mandatory dispatch requires.

Refs: #99
ADR: 0020

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015W3iwF9ncfRZddGBxsMCYi
2026-08-16 19:49:38 +00:00
b0d6d08239 test: pin the nine ADR-0020 gate defects that shipped untested
Every defect fixed in f7cc279 was reachable because nothing asserted against it.
The gate had 43 assertions and none of them covered a consumer repo, a non-string
description, an unclosed fence, or the two spec ceilings. Each case below fails
against the pre-fix code and passes against the current one; every one was proved
non-vacuous by mutating a scratch copy of the script and watching the test go red,
independently twice.

The two that mattered most had no fixture anywhere. A consumer repo WITH .git is
the shape the resolver exists to serve, and only the no-.git case had ever been
tested, which is exactly why the blocker was invisible. And ADR-0020 says the
walk-up runs in two passes specifically so a nested .git cannot beat a plugins/
root further up — no fixture had ever placed a .git inside a plugin.

test-adr0020-differential.sh loses _non_adr_hook_error(). It excluded MAX_LINES and
MAX_WORDS from the cross-script comparison on the untested assumption that awk and
splitlines() agree. They do not, and the divergence stayed invisible for exactly as
long as the exclusion stood. The ceilings are now compared like any other rule.

Two existing assertions were repairs, not additions. The skill-improve probe had
been fixed by this very branch, so its iteration permanently took an
assertion-free SKIP that still counted as a pass; both branches now fail loudly and
each names the other file's pin so the two stay in step. And the yaml-none fixture
emitted `---/---`, which never matched the frontmatter pattern at all — it passed on
the bare word "frontmatter", present in both messages, while never reaching the
branch it was named for. Needles throughout that file now name their branch.

Refs: #99
ADR: 0020

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015W3iwF9ncfRZddGBxsMCYi
2026-08-16 19:49:15 +00:00
f7cc27908c fix(kyberforge): close the vacuous-green and consumer-resolution defects
Review of the ADR-0020 gate found four ways it could exit 0 without measuring, and
one way it hard-failed a repo it had no business failing. On a gate shipping hot
with no baseline, a silent pass is the worst outcome available and a false block is
the second worst.

Consumer resolution was the blocker. _authoring_root() fell back to the nearest
.git, so it returned truthy in ANY git repo; _collect_authoring_root() then
contributed nothing and the deployed-tree branch was dead code in precisely the
consumer case it exists for. A consumer repo routing to an installed sibling got an
unblockable ERROR, and deleting .git "fixed" it. It now keys on which of the two
walk-up passes matched. A name-count delta was tried first and is wrong: a
single-plugin monorepo re-collects its own package and adds no new name, so the
delta reads zero and drags the deployed trees — including a global ~/.claude — back
into the universe. That reintroduces the install-dependence ADR-0020 forbids, one
layer down.

The three silent passes: an indented `---` inside a block scalar truncated the
frontmatter and reclassified the rest of the description as body; a non-string
description was str()-coerced, so `description: true` measured as the four-character
"True"; and an unterminated fence blanked the rest of the body, disabling the
ERROR-tier references/ check and the gotcha counts.

Two measurement defects came with them. The awk line/word counts discarded awk's
exit status, so an unreadable file passed both spec ceilings in total silence, and
awk NR/NF disagreed with the audit script's splitlines()/split() on Unicode
whitespace — the "fix one gate, get blocked by the other" bug, on the two axes the
differential test deliberately excluded. Both counts now run in the Python block
that already reads the file. A type error also no longer reports itself as a syntax
error.

Also: glob metacharacters in the checkout path silently disabled the resolver;
re.I was applied to some extraction patterns and not others; agent-audit missed
`tools:` written as a YAML block sequence, the shape Copilot files use; and a
nonexistent agent file raised a bare FileNotFoundError instead of a diagnostic.

The shared resolver block stays byte-identical across all three scripts. Corpus
output is unchanged — 26 description FAIL, 9 body FAIL, 2 dangling, 0 missing
references, 58 SUGGESTIONs — so no documented count moves.

Refs: #99
ADR: 0020

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015W3iwF9ncfRZddGBxsMCYi
2026-08-16 19:48:56 +00:00
311e7cd22c fix(kyberforge): reconcile the authoring rules the ADR-0020 trim left disagreeing
Six defects, each one a place where two files that an author reads in the same
sitting told them different things — or where the trim dropped a rule and nothing
noticed because no gate covers prose.

**"Use proactively" contradicted itself across the pair.** All three agent
templates said to add it where the runtime should delegate unprompted, while
`agent-audit`'s `KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase` rule grades it a hard FAIL in
any `*.agent.md` — which is the Copilot half of every project/user pair *and* the
vendor-neutral plugin-scope file, since that compiles to a real Copilot agent
downstream. Following the template produced a file the repo's own gate rejects.
The phrase is now permitted in exactly one place, the Claude Code `.md`, and
`references/contract.md` carries the per-file table plus the consequence authors
ask about next: a pair whose CC half has it and whose Copilot half does not is
correct, because `agent-audit` checks that both halves describe the same job, not
that they match word for word.

**The output-schema rule contradicted itself inside one file.** `contract.md`
said any content only one branch reaches moves to `references/`, and then offered
an "Output format template" body pattern with no qualification. Stated once now,
so it is not re-litigated: an output schema stays in the body only when every flow
produces it and it is roughly 50 words or less. No third option.

**Gotchas tiers disagreed with the script.** `validate.sh` emits the entry count
through `suggest()` and exits 0, while `skill-author` and `skill-audit` both
called more than five entries a FAIL. Whether a given gotcha earns its place is
judgment, so the prose moves to the script's tier rather than the reverse. The
paraphrase rule stays a FAIL and is explicitly marked as the auditor's call — no
script detects it.

**The dispatch exemplar was cited at the wrong number.** `apm-workflow`'s body is
421 words; 554 is its whole-file count. Both `contract.md` and `body-discipline.md`
cited 554 while describing a body budget, so an author calibrating against the
exemplar overshot by ~30% — the exact whole-file/body-only conflation those two
sections exist to warn against, reproduced inside the warning.

**"Error handling" came back as a required body element.** It was one of four and
is the one that gets dropped, and dropping it is not neutral: an agent handed
malformed input with no instruction invents a recovery, and a subagent's invented
recovery is invisible to its caller until the output is wrong. Restored in
`agent-audit`'s rubric as a SUGGESTION, in `agent-author`'s contract and both
scope checklists as a required element, and as an `## Errors` section in all three
templates.

**`skill-author` Step 4 gains the one check the audit misses.** An empty body
reports `PASS SKILL.md body word count 0` — a word gate cannot tell "concise"
from "absent". Step 4 now hand-checks for a non-empty section, and its commit
verification is conditioned on actually being inside a git worktree, which a skill
under `~/.claude/skills/` is not.

Also here: absolute repo paths removed from `skill-author`'s SKILL.md and
contract.md in favour of naming the skill (`zoom-out`'s description is quoted
inline instead of pointed at), the boundary-target universe documented to match
the resolver, a two-hops-from-SKILL.md limit on reference chains, and
`new-agent.sh`'s next-steps output naming the description budget and the
deliberate absence of an agent body gate.

Refs: ADR-0020
2026-08-16 16:40:51 +00:00
b6e68e9a2b fix(kyberforge): close the vacuous-pass paths in the ADR-0020 gate scripts
Three ways the gates could report green having measured nothing. All three were
invisible to a passing test suite, because pre-commit prints nothing at all for a
hook that exits 0 — a gate that declines to check and a gate that checked and
passed produce the identical signal.

- A UTF-8 BOM, a leading blank line, a trailing space after a `---` marker or
  CRLF line endings defeated the `^---\n` frontmatter matcher. Every ADR-0020
  check was then skipped and the file passed: measured at the time, a
  550-character description with a 1,000-word body exited 0 behind a BOM.
  All four shapes are now tolerated, and frontmatter that genuinely cannot be
  parsed is a hard ERROR rather than a silent skip.
- An agent file with a valueless `description:` followed by another key let a
  line regex capture the *next* key, which looked non-empty, so the
  missing-or-empty branch never fired and every gate below it early-returned on
  the empty folded value — zero output, exit 0, on a blocking gate. The one
  field this contract is entirely about was the one field a gate could fail to
  notice was absent. Presence is now decided on the YAML-folded value and
  nowhere else, and a missing or empty description is a hard FAIL in all three
  validators.
- The hand-rolled frontmatter fallback disagreed with PyYAML across the FAIL
  boundary on folded scalars, so which reader happened to be available decided
  the verdict. A fallback that mis-parses a scalar shape reports a vacuous pass,
  which is worse than not running, so it is deleted: python3 and PyYAML are hard
  requirements that fail loudly with an install pointer.

Boundary-target resolution no longer derives its universe from its own location.
A `${BASH_SOURCE}`-relative repo root leaked this repo's 39-skill universe into
every consumer repo running the hook through pre-commit, so a consumer skill
routing to `skill-audit` resolved against a plugin it had never installed. The
interim form resolved through `.claude/` and `.agents/`, which are gitignored
`apm install` output — the same commit reported 2 dangling targets on a machine
that had run the install and 6 on a fresh clone. Resolution now walks up from the
file being checked to an authoring root (nearest ancestor holding
`plugins/*/.apm/{skills,agents}`, else the nearest `.git`, in two passes so a
nested `.git` cannot outrank a real monorepo root); the universe is every skill
and agent under `<root>/plugins/*/` plus the file's own apm package and that
package's declared `dependencies.apm`. Deployed trees are consulted only when no
authoring root exists at all — the consumer case. One commit now gets one verdict,
which a gate shipping hot with no baseline file has to.

Narrowed in the same pass: a routing target inferred from the prose boundary form
and corroborated by nothing else reports at SUGGESTION instead of blocking. A
blocking check with no escape hatch is the wrong trade when the inference from
prose is the weak part of it.

New deterministic checks, all previously untested or absent: every
`references/<file>.md` a body names must exist (ERROR — a broken pointer is not a
style opinion); a description with no boundary clause at all, a Gotchas section
over five entries, and a Gotchas section over 25% of the body are SUGGESTIONs.
Where no universe can be determined the target check prints `INFO ... DID NOT
RUN` rather than passing quietly. Each prose-scanning check needed its own
false-positive fix — a fenced example of a Gotchas section was being read as the
section itself — and those fixes are pinned rather than assumed.

The resolver is one block copied verbatim into all three scripts between
BEGIN/END markers, because a cache-installed plugin's scripts cannot read outside
their own plugin directory. Nothing asserted the copies were still identical; a
one-line edit to a single copy passed every constant-agreement assertion, since
constants are not what drifts.

Tests land here rather than in a later commit. The existing suites assert the old
behaviour and go red against these scripts, so splitting them would leave a commit
whose own `run-tests` pre-push gate fails in isolation.

Refs: ADR-0020
2026-08-16 16:39:29 +00:00
4a5c3c0cff feat(kyberforge): enforce the ADR-0020 context contract for skills and agents
Skill name+description pairs are preloaded into every session, costing
~6,200 tokens across 39 skills before any skill is invoked. The authoring
rules mandated that growth: skill-author:104 and description-quality.md:21
both required padding, while skill-author:102 (the deflating rule) had no
FAIL condition behind it.

Gates (blocking, no baseline file):
- description 250 chars SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL, measured on the folded
  YAML value
- body-only 600 words SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL, independent of the unchanged
  whole-file 2770-word / 500-line spec backstop
- every boundary-clause routing target must resolve to a real skill or
  agent; catches skill-improve, neuledge-context and gitea-labels
- agents take the description gates but deliberately no body gate; a test
  pins that absence

Vale: DescriptionOpener widened to ^This\b, new CompositionNote rule
banning architecture notes from descriptions. 10 hits, 0 false positives.

Kyberforge's own four skills retrofitted: descriptions 3,364 -> 938 chars
(-72%), bodies 8,306 -> 2,487 words (-70%), all via the apm-workflow
dispatch pattern. Fixes the skill-improve dangling route and the
agent-author misroute to manual review.

Also fixes a pre-existing false positive where any line-initial 'read '
was flagged as interactive input, which had already caused two scripts to
be rewritten around it.

Refs: ADR-0020
2026-08-14 21:13:13 +00:00
f4bb1cf4e5 docs: finish reconciling the agent write fence across the toolchain
The previous round taught agent-audit's validator to permit disallowedTools but
left the skill that writes agents still forbidding it, in six places. Running
agent-author on any of the three fenced orchestrators would have stripped the
fence, and nothing would have caught it: the validator's allowlist is a permit
list, so an absent field passes. The template was the worst of them, since its
comment is copied verbatim into every new plugin-scope agent.

Where a list had to be restated it is now a pointer to field-inventory.md's
apm-agent-allowlist instead -- the same data validate.sh reads -- because a
roster copied into a template goes stale one step further out than the roster
itself. Where the text has to teach something it teaches the shape rule rather
than the exception: tools is an allowlist whose vocabulary differs per harness,
so verbatim copy makes one value wrong on one target; disallowedTools is a
denylist, where an unrecognised name denies nothing, so the worst case is a
missing fence rather than a wrongly granted capability.

ADR-0016's amendment claimed an unrecognised key is inert on Copilot while the
same ADR's Context says that behaviour is unconfirmed by research -- asserting
as settled the exact thing it flags as unknown, and justifying it with apm's
compile-time behaviour, which says nothing about Copilot's runtime. It is
rewritten into labelled tiers: confirmed for Claude Code with citations,
inferred by analogy for Copilot with the analogy's limits stated, unverified
where it is unverified, and the residual risk accepted explicitly with its
blast radius. It also no longer claims to restore a write sandbox: the denylist
does not deny Bash, which these agents inherit and legitimately need.

docs/hooks.md called the old root hooks.json a stale sync artifact -- it was
added in the plugin's creating commit and pointed at by main's Copilot manifest
-- and claimed both ecosystems now resolve hooks/hooks.json. Copilot does not:
its hooks field has no default and no compiled manifest declares one, so it
resolves nothing. Recorded as the gap it is, with re-injection noted as a
follow-up rather than asserted away. Its event list is marked partial.

Also: new-agent.bats asserted a hardcoded four-field allowlist and would have
rejected a scaffolded agent carrying the field the ADR now blesses; it reads
field-inventory.md too. And ADR-0016's premise that Claude's tools: is
space-separated was wrong -- it takes a comma-separated string or a YAML list.
The incompatibility with Copilot is the vocabulary, not the punctuation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
2026-08-14 12:30:30 +00:00
430f46b8e8 docs: correct the claims this review found false
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
2026-08-14 11:04:56 +00:00
5e232503c4 feat(kyberforge): execute plugin-to-apm marketplace conversion
Why:
ADR-0015 established that Microsoft APM (apm.yml + .apm/) should replace
this repo's hand-authored plugin.json/marketplace.json model, with those
files becoming compiled output of `apm pack` instead of files edited by
hand via the (now-retired) plugin-author/marketplace-author skills.
Issue #90 was the deferred execution of that decision, gated on #88
(apm tooling) and #89 (apm-native agent-author/skill-author routing).

Implementation notes:
- All six plugins (bin, core, git, gitea, kyberforge, lint) now carry
  apm.yml + .apm/{skills,agents,hooks} as their authoring source. Skills
  moved with a plain git mv (content-identical across targets). Agents
  were re-authored, not moved: per ADR-0016, .apm/agents/*.agent.md
  compiles verbatim to both Claude and Copilot, so plugin-scope agents
  now carry only name/description/model/source_keys -- no tools: field,
  no Claude-only knobs (isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory,
  permissionMode).
- Root apm.yml registers all 7 marketplace packages (6 local plus
  mattpocock-skills as a remote entry) under versioning: per_package,
  matching this repo's existing independent-plugin-versioning practice.
- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and every plugin's plugin.json are now
  apm-pack-compiled output, verified against the prior hand-maintained
  content: same names/descriptions/versions/licenses/authors, only
  cosmetic serialization differences (JSON key order, owner email vs.
  url, Unicode escaping).
- plugin-author and marketplace-author are retired now that apm-based
  authoring fully replaces their job; kyberforge bumped 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0
  for that removal, and the root marketplace catalog bumped
  0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 to match, per the version-bump convention now
  documented in apm-workflow's reference docs instead of a dedicated
  script (apm has no native version-bump automation).
- Fixed hardcoded pre-.apm/ path assumptions across
  .pre-commit-config.yaml, .pre-commit-hooks.yaml,
  scripts/check-scope-walkup-sync.sh, scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh,
  scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh, six plugins' root plugin.json
  (stale skills/hooks/agents pointer fields that check-manifests.sh
  validates), and several tests/*.bats and tests/*.sh fixtures --
  including a bats REPO_ROOT relative-path depth bug (10 files, one
  extra .apm/ directory level to walk up) and a vale probe-path
  isolation regression introduced mid-fix.
- Corrected empirically-wrong assumptions surfaced this session in
  apm-workflow/apm-install's own reference docs: `apm marketplace
  package add` does not accept local paths (only owner/repo remote
  shorthand -- local packages are registered by editing apm.yml's
  marketplace.packages[] directly); `apm compile` is a consumer-side
  AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md generator, not the plugin.json producer, and
  hard-fails on skill/agent-only packages without --clean; `apm plugin
  init <name>` nests a stray subdirectory when run with a positional
  name arg from inside a same-named directory; no native Copilot
  marketplace output profile exists; .mcp.json is merged into the
  compiled plugin.json content-aware and target-scoped, with no
  dependencies.mcp entry needed for simple passthrough; pipx is the
  correct pip fallback on externally-managed Python environments.
- Renamed agent-author's copilot.agent.md template asset to
  copilot.agent.md.template so apm compile's recursive *.agent.md glob
  stops misparsing the placeholder template as a real agent primitive.

Impact:
plugin.json and marketplace.json are compiled artifacts from here on --
editing them by hand is no longer the workflow; edit apm.yml/.apm/ and
run apm pack. CONTEXT.md's Plugin/Plugin marketplace glossary entries
reflect this. ADR-0001 is marked superseded, ADR-0006 moot, and
ADR-0010 updated for the new .apm/agents/ path (project/user scope
unaffected, per ADR-0016). Full local verification: claude plugin
validate --strict on all 6 plugins, apm audit --ci, apm marketplace
check, check-manifests.sh, and the full test suite (165/165 bats,
13/13 shell scripts) all pass clean.

Fixes: #90
Refs: #88, #89
ADR: 0015
ADR: 0016

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub96PyaSRD9BHPktotj1pC
2026-08-12 18:21:24 +00:00