Claude Code's (and Copilot's) native plugin installer has zero awareness of
.apm/ nesting -- it convention-scans only flat skills/, agents/, commands/,
hooks.json at each plugin's root. Confirmed via strings on the installed
claude binary and live installs of git@holocron/gitea@holocron/kyberforge@
holocron, all reporting Skills(0) Agents(0) Hooks(0) post ADR-0015's apm
conversion. Root cause (apm_cli/core/plugin_manifest.py): apm's plugin.json
compiler deliberately strips skills/agents/commands keys, assuming the host
already auto-discovers those convention directories -- it has no model of
.apm/ being host-visible at all. Separately, apm's own bundle exporter
(apm_cli/bundle/plugin_exporter.py, behind `apm pack --format plugin`)
implements the correct .apm/ -> flat mapping, but only ever targeted
build/<name>-<version>/, a path nothing in marketplace.json's source: points
at.
scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh wraps that bundle exporter and copies its
agents/, skills/, commands/, instructions/, extensions/, and merged
hooks.json back into each plugin's own root as a second tracked
compiled-output category -- same governance status as
.claude-plugin/plugin.json: generated from .apm/, never hand-edited. tests/
subdirectories are excluded from the mirror (dev fixtures, not host-visible
runtime content; several hardcode a relative repo-root walk-up sized for the
.apm/-nested depth, which breaks when duplicated one level shallower).
Applied for real across all 6 plugins and verified two ways: `claude plugin
validate --strict` passes on every real plugin directory, and a live
`claude --plugin-dir <path> -p "list skills/agents"` behavioral test
confirms content is now actually discovered.
Also, from the same issue #90 review round:
- scripts/check-manifests.sh pointed at each plugin's root-level plugin.json
(checking skills/hooks/mcpServers/agents pointer fields) -- that file was a
stale near-duplicate of .claude-plugin/plugin.json nothing else read or
wrote, now deleted across all 6 plugins. check-manifests.sh is rewritten to
validate .claude-plugin/plugin.json instead, and drops the pointer-field
checks entirely (nothing to check -- those fields are correctly absent by
design). Content-presence drift is now check-plugin-content-sync's job, a
new pre-push hook wired in .pre-commit-config.yaml.
docs/adr/0017 records the root cause and decision in full, including two
rejected alternatives (patching plugin.json's path fields directly -- apm's
compiler strips them on every run; pointing marketplace.json at apm pack's
build/ output -- a version-suffixed non-source directory nothing can install
from without an extra build step). ADR-0015 and CONTEXT.md are updated to
point at it.
Refs: #90
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
Skills now migrate from hand-authored plugin.json to Microsoft APM
(apm.yml + .apm/) per ADR-0015/issue #89. skill-author's write location
switches accordingly: walk up from the destination to the nearest
ancestor apm.yml declaring a type: field (skipping type:-less
marketplace-only manifests) and scaffold into <package-root>/.apm/skills/
<name>/. Standalone authoring (no apm.yml/.git anywhere, e.g.
~/.agents/skills/) is unchanged — only the old plugin.json-based path is
replaced, not standalone mode.
Refs: #89
Independent /skill-audit recheck flagged the git-log-capture instructions
as discoverable only at close-out (Step 6/Step 5), long after the step
where the hash should actually be snapshotted. Adds the capture checklist
item to Prerequisites (create flow) and Step 1 (improve flow) instead of
leaving it as a retrospective-only note. Also drops a sentence in the
improve flow's Step 4 that duplicated the preceding one on editing
scripts/reference files directly.
Refs #69
Prior sessions had authoring subagents report completion after only
staging changes (git diff --stat showing output, but no git commit),
and one run self-spawned its own audit/recheck subagent instead of
leaving that to forge's outer loop, losing an uncommitted draft when
the stray subagent's worktree was torn down.
Refs #69, #71
## Why
The git plugin only covered a partial slice of common git workflows.
This adds the remaining skill set (branches, commits, history, remotes,
submodules, workflow, worktrees) plus a git-orchestrate agent so the
plugin can handle end-to-end git automation instead of a handful of
commands.
## Implementation Notes
Each new skill was validated against its research docs and org
conventions after initial authoring, which surfaced hallucinated
version pins, factual errors, and completeness gaps that were
corrected in the same pass rather than left for follow-up.
## Impact
Bumps the git plugin to 1.3.0.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Why
The description sentence "Handles both the full create flow (scaffold → fill →
validate) and the improve flow (signals → root cause → edit → audit)." describes
internal mechanics rather than user intent. The surrounding trigger phrases already
cover both create and improve intents, so this sentence adds no triggering value
and violates the description principle of focusing on what the user is trying to
achieve.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0147vXtL5sP6vorDdqXGJJU9
- references/sources.md: add YAML frontmatter with source_keys to fix provenance chain break
- SKILL.md description: make create/improve duality explicit ("Handles both the full create flow ... and the improve flow ...")
- SKILL.md Step 2: add inline metadata.source_keys instruction — fill early, not deferred to Step 5
- SKILL.md Step 6 (create) / Step 5 (improve): add pre-audit manual checklists and version bump conventions (minor for create, patch for improve)
- README.md: correct false claim that the skill bumps plugin manifests; it bumps metadata.version only
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0147vXtL5sP6vorDdqXGJJU9
skill-audit description understated its coverage by omitting three audit
dimensions (patterns, scripts, provenance); README carried the same stale
list. skill-author had an unconditional reference trigger that should be
conditional on whether a script is being added.
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- Remove implementation-focused sentence from description (was not user-intent
language per agentskills.io spec)
- Move source_keys template comment under metadata: block to match Step 5's
instruction; contradicted agents scaffolding before reading Step 5
- Add Step 6 to new-skill.sh next-steps (populate references/sources.md);
renumber validate step to 7 — script was missing the sources step entirely
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Step 5 now records a Research doc: path per entry in references/sources.md,
pointing to the upstream plugin-level research file the slug was drawn from.
Updates the sources.md template to include the new required field, formalise
comma-separated Contributing files, and document the (none) convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- script: new-skill.sh now exits 0 when target already exists (idempotent
retry-safe) instead of exit 1; --help updated to reflect narrowed error cases
- test: updated bats test to assert success and "nothing to do" output
- body: removed speculative "Extract the skill from a real task" advice
(human-targeted, not agent-actionable)
- formatting: converted H4 headings in Step 2 to bold text (H2/H3 two-tier model)
- provenance: removed orphan agentskills-llms-txt entry from references/sources.md;
added discovery-only comment
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the upstream agentskills.io sources that informed skill-author,
completing the research → docs → skill provenance chain introduced in
the previous commit.
- New references/sources.md with all 7 extracted agentskillsio sources,
Contributing files attributed per-source to SKILL.md, references/deployment-modes.md,
and references/scripts.md
- source_keys frontmatter added to SKILL.md (all 7 slugs), references/deployment-modes.md
(agentskills-spec), and references/scripts.md (agentskills-using-scripts)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a sources provenance step to the skill creation workflow so the
chain from research output to skill content is traceable. Closes#4.
- New scaffold template `assets/templates/references/sources.md` mirroring
the research skill's sources.md format (slug → URL, description,
contributing files, status)
- `source_keys` commented-out optional field added to the SKILL.md
template, mirroring how research topic files link back to sources
- New Step 5 in the creation workflow: populate references/sources.md
from research input (attributing contributing skill files) or delete it
if no research was provided; add source_keys to SKILL.md and any
references/*.md files
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Body discipline: collapsed 4-bullet script rules to single critical callout
(no interactive prompts); full contract stays in references/scripts.md.
stderr discipline: redirect all confirmation/progress output in new-skill.sh
to stderr per scripts.md contract. Also expands references/scripts.md with
input validation and --help guidance.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016z2ZFYHQCex8yZAMVMTZzZ
Closes#5. Single authoring skill replaces the factory trio — one set of
standards, one script, one place for future governance rules. Routes to
create or improve flow based on context. Passes skill-audit with no findings.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016z2ZFYHQCex8yZAMVMTZzZ
