docs: reconcile AGENTS.md's pre-push hook count with what the command reports

AGENTS.md said 12 pre-push hooks and recommended a command that reports
14, so a reader following the instruction hit a mismatch on the first
try. The repo defines 12; pre-commit's own `meta` hooks,
check-hooks-apply and check-useless-excludes, declare no `stages:` and
therefore also run at pre-push.

Refs #97

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT

AGENTS.md

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Fall back to raw shell only when no skill covers it.
 - Install `jq` — required by `scripts/check-manifests.sh` and `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh`, both pre-push. These at least fail loudly (`Error: jq is required but not installed`).
 - Install the `vale` binary — required by the `vale-audit-prefilter-skill`/`-agent` pre-commit hooks. Their `files:` patterns are `.apm/`-scoped: `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` and `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/agents/[^/]+\.agent\.md$`. Only the authoring source triggers them — a `SKILL.md` in the generated mirror matches neither pattern, so prose findings surface only when you edit the file you are supposed to be editing. Without the binary the hooks fail with a bare "command not found" and no install pointer. `brew install vale` (macOS), `snap install vale` (Linux), `choco install vale` (Windows), or see https://vale.sh/docs/vale-cli/installation/. No `vale sync` needed — the `Kyberforge` styles are committed under `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/{skill-audit,agent-audit}/assets/vale/styles/`, not downloaded packages (see ADR-0014).
 - Run `bash tests/run-tests.sh` before considering any change done — it runs every `test-*.sh` script in the repo plus the bats suite (`--bats-only` for just bats). First run auto-initializes the bats submodules; no manual `git submodule update` needed.
-- Pushing runs 12 pre-push hooks, not just the test suite — `run-tests` and `check-manifests`, plus generated-content drift gates (`check-plugin-content-sync`, `check-marketplace-mirror-sync`, `check-vale-style-sync`, `check-scope-walkup-sync`), apm's own gates (`apm-marketplace-check`, `apm-audit-ci`, `apm-pack-check-clean`), host validators (`validate-plugins`, `validate-marketplace`, both needing the `claude` CLI), and `check-release-needed`. Run `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` locally — one command, the whole gate.
+- Pushing runs 12 repo-defined pre-push hooks, not just the test suite — `run-tests` and `check-manifests`, plus generated-content drift gates (`check-plugin-content-sync`, `check-marketplace-mirror-sync`, `check-vale-style-sync`, `check-scope-walkup-sync`), apm's own gates (`apm-marketplace-check`, `apm-audit-ci`, `apm-pack-check-clean`), host validators (`validate-plugins`, `validate-marketplace`, both needing the `claude` CLI), and `check-release-needed`. Run `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` locally — one command, the whole gate. That command reports **14**, not 12: pre-commit's own `meta` hooks, `check-hooks-apply` and `check-useless-excludes`, declare no `stages:` and so run at every stage including this one.
 - `apm-marketplace-check` needs the network. It resolves every `marketplace.packages[]` entry including the remote `mattpocock-skills` ref, and it is `always_run`, so an unreachable network hard-fails the push. `--offline` is not an escape hatch — it still exits 1 on that entry (`No cached refs (offline)`). To push without a network, skip that one hook using pre-commit's own mechanism: `SKIP=apm-marketplace-check git push`. Skip that hook alone — it is the only one whose failure mode is "no network". Every other pre-push hook is a real local check, and adding it to `SKIP` disarms it silently.
 - Author commits with `git:git-commits` — it validates Conventional Commits (enforced at `commit-msg`) for you.
 

providers/claude-code/statusline-command.sh

@@ -92,8 +92,17 @@ parts=()
 [ -n "$vim_mode" ]         && parts+=("${COLOR_MAGENTA}${vim_mode}${COLOR_RESET}")
 
 # --- Join with ' · ' separator and print ---
+# `parts` is seeded empty above and every append is conditional, so all seven can
+# be false and the array can reach here with no elements. Two things had to both
+# stay true for bare "${parts[@]}" to be safe: this file enabling no `set -u`
+# (house style in every other script here is `set -euo pipefail`), and the shell
+# being bash 4.4+, which stopped treating an empty-array expansion as unbound.
+# On bash 3.2 -- macOS's system bash, and an explicit repo target -- adding
+# `set -u` aborts here. The guarded form removes the tripwire instead of relying
+# on both conditions holding. install.sh deploys this file to every user
+# machine. See issue #96.
 output=""
-for part in "${parts[@]}"; do
+for part in ${parts[@]+"${parts[@]}"}; do
   [ -z "$output" ] && output="$part" || output="${output} · ${part}"
 done
 

scripts/check-manifests.sh

@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ if [[ ! -f "$MARKETPLACE" ]]; then
 fi
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-# shellcheck source=lib/marketplace-plugins.sh
+# Repo-root-relative, not script-dir-relative -- see tests/run-tests.sh for why.
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/marketplace-plugins.sh
 source "$SCRIPT_DIR/lib/marketplace-plugins.sh"
 
 # Every local plugin directory marketplace.json claimed, canonicalized, so the

scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh

@@ -67,15 +67,31 @@ AGENT_INI="$AGENT_AUDIT/assets/vale/.vale.ini"
 
 for ini in "$SKILL_INI" "$AGENT_INI"; do
   rel_ini="${ini#"$REPO_ROOT"/}"
-  if [[ ! -f "$ini" ]]; then
+  # `-e`, not `-f`: a path that exists but is not a readable regular file (a
+  # directory sitting where the file should be, say) is not "missing", and
+  # reporting it as missing sends you looking for a deleted file. It belongs to
+  # the unreadable case below, which is the one that describes what actually
+  # went wrong.
+  if [[ ! -e "$ini" ]]; then
     err "$rel_ini is missing — without it vale falls back to an upward config search and lints with whatever it finds"
     continue
   fi
   # Present but unreadable is its own case: every assertion below is a grep, and
   # grep exits 2 on a read error. The override capture swallows that into an
-  # empty result, which would read as "no findings" rather than "not checked".
+  # empty result, which would read as "no findings" rather than "not checked",
-  if [[ ! -r "$ini" ]]; then
+  # and the two greps above it report "has no StylesPath"/"names no Kyberforge"
-    err "$rel_ini is not readable — none of its assertions could run, and an unreadable file cannot be distinguished from a clean one downstream"
+  # for a file that may well have both — a misdiagnosis, not a missed one.
+  #
+  # Decided by ACTUALLY READING the file, not by `[[ -r ]]`. `-r` is access(2),
+  # which answers "would the permission bits allow it" — and for uid 0 that is
+  # yes even on a mode-000 file (verified). This hook runs at pre-push, and this
+  # repo's dev environment is root, so an `[[ ! -r ]]` guard could never fire in
+  # the one place it exists to fire: it was untestable because it was dead. A
+  # read attempt is also the stricter question, catching EISDIR and EIO, which
+  # access(2) reports on neither. `cat`, not a bare `< "$ini"` redirect: opening
+  # a directory for reading succeeds, only the read fails.
+  if ! cat "$ini" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    err "$rel_ini exists but could not be read — none of its assertions could run, and an unreadable file cannot be distinguished from a clean one downstream"
     continue
   fi
   # StylesPath is resolved relative to the .vale.ini, which is the only reason

scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh

@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ set -euo pipefail
 # The merged hooks file is mirrored like the other MIRROR_DIRS content: synced when
 # .apm/hooks/ produces one, and removed (real mode) / flagged as drift (--check) when
 # it no longer does but a mirrored copy is still sitting there from a prior sync.
+# The hooks/ directory holding it is owned outright by the mirror the same way every
+# MIRROR_DIRS destination is -- a real sync wipes and rebuilds it, so a stray file
+# dropped inside, or the empty directory left behind once .apm/hooks/ stops producing
+# a hooks.json, is cleaned up rather than preserved. (A stray at the PLUGIN ROOT is a
+# different matter and stays out of scope by design: README.md, docs/, bin/, .mcp.json
+# and friends are hand-authored there.)
 # It lands at hooks/hooks.json, not at the plugin root: Claude Code convention-scans
 # `hooks/hooks.json` "at the plugin root, not inside .claude-plugin/"
 # (plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/docs/claude-code-plugins/configuration.md's "Plugin
@@ -106,17 +112,30 @@ if ! command -v jq &>/dev/null; then
 fi
 
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-# shellcheck source=lib/marketplace-plugins.sh
+# Both source= paths below are repo-root-relative, not script-dir-relative -- see
+# tests/run-tests.sh for why the script-dir spelling silently fails to resolve.
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/marketplace-plugins.sh
 source "$SCRIPT_DIR/lib/marketplace-plugins.sh"
-# shellcheck source=lib/batch-run.sh
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/batch-run.sh
 source "$SCRIPT_DIR/lib/batch-run.sh"
 
 # Convention subdirectories apm's plugin exporter can populate from .apm/.
+#
+# These are DESTINATION directory names at the plugin root, not .apm/ source
+# directory names -- the two lists are deliberately not the same, so do not "fix"
+# this by pasting in the header comment's .apm/ list. In particular .apm/prompts/
+# has no destination of its own: apm's exporter folds it into commands/ together
+# with .apm/commands/, renaming *.prompt.md to *.md (ADR-0017's mapping table;
+# re-verified empirically against apm 0.28.0, and pinned by the prompts test in
+# tests/test-sync-plugin-content.sh). Adding `prompts` here would name an output
+# directory apm never emits and no plugin host ever scans.
 MIRROR_DIRS=(agents skills commands instructions extensions)
 
-# Where the merged hooks file lands (Claude Code's convention-scanned path), and
+# The generated hooks directory, the merged hooks file inside it (Claude Code's
-# the pre-fix root-level path a real sync now cleans up as stale.
+# convention-scanned path), and the pre-fix root-level path a real sync now cleans
-HOOKS_REL="hooks/hooks.json"
+# up as stale.
+HOOKS_DIR_REL="hooks"
+HOOKS_REL="$HOOKS_DIR_REL/hooks.json"
 LEGACY_HOOKS_REL="hooks.json"
 
 FAIL=0
@@ -202,15 +221,24 @@ sync_hooks_json() {
     rm -f "$legacy"
   fi
 
+  # hooks/ is generated output the mirror owns outright, exactly like every
+  # MIRROR_DIRS destination -- so wipe it wholesale and rebuild, rather than
+  # editing hooks.json in place and leaving whatever else happens to be in there.
+  # sync_dir gets this for free from its own rm -rf; hooks/ has to spell it out
+  # because its one legitimate occupant is written by name instead of copied as a
+  # tree. The wipe covers both a stray file someone dropped alongside hooks.json
+  # and the case where .apm/hooks/ stops producing a hooks.json at all: the
+  # directory then ends up absent, not present-and-empty.
+  #
+  # ${target_dir:?} rather than a bare expansion: `set -u` aborts on an UNSET
+  # variable but not an empty one, and an empty $target_dir would make this
+  # `rm -rf /hooks`. The other rm -rf calls here take a $dst built by their
+  # caller; this one is the only place a bare parameter is the whole prefix.
+  rm -rf "${target_dir:?}/$HOOKS_DIR_REL"
+
   if [[ -f "$src" ]]; then
-    mkdir -p "$target_dir/hooks"
+    mkdir -p "$target_dir/$HOOKS_DIR_REL"
     normalize_trailing_newline "$src" "$dst"
-  elif [[ -f "$dst" ]]; then
-    # .apm/hooks/ no longer produces a hooks.json, but one is still sitting at
-    # $dst from a prior sync -- that's stale mirrored output, not "no .apm/hooks/
-    # content" (which would mean $dst never existed in the first place).
-    rm -f "$dst"
-    rmdir "$target_dir/hooks" 2>/dev/null || true
   fi
 }
 
@@ -290,6 +318,14 @@ path_manifest() {
 # symlink to identical content, both leave --check at exit 0 while a real sync
 # silently repairs them -- check and sync disagreeing, which is the one thing this
 # gate exists to prevent. Compare an explicit type+exec-bit manifest as well.
+#
+# The manifest is a full recursive listing, so it is also what makes an entry that
+# exists on only one side visible. That is the sole coverage the generated hooks/
+# directory gets for anything other than hooks.json itself (which check_file above
+# handles by name): a stray file inside hooks/, or hooks/ still sitting there empty
+# after .apm/hooks/ stopped producing anything, shows up here as a manifest line
+# present on one side only. Both are things sync_hooks_json's rm -rf removes, so
+# both have to be drift.
 check_path_modes() {
   local plugin_dir="$1" expected_dir="$2"
   shift 2
@@ -299,7 +335,7 @@ check_path_modes() {
   path_manifest "$expected_dir" "$@" >"$expected"
   path_manifest "$plugin_dir" "$@" >"$actual"
   if ! diff -q "$expected" "$actual" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    echo "DRIFT $plugin_dir: mirrored file types/modes differ from a fresh sync" >&2
+    echo "DRIFT $plugin_dir: mirrored paths/types/modes differ from a fresh sync" >&2
     diff "$expected" "$actual" 2>&1 | sed 's/^/    /' >&2 || true
     FAIL=1
   fi
@@ -426,7 +462,10 @@ sync_one() {
     # not apm's own Copilot-ecosystem output (which omits it).
     reinject_mcp_servers "$plugin_dir" "$pack_cwd"
     local -a checked_paths
-    checked_paths=("${MIRROR_DIRS[@]}" "$HOOKS_REL" "$LEGACY_HOOKS_REL")
+    # $HOOKS_DIR_REL, not $HOOKS_REL: the manifest comparison has to see the whole
+    # generated directory (see check_path_modes), and listing it recursively already
+    # covers hooks/hooks.json.
+    checked_paths=("${MIRROR_DIRS[@]}" "$HOOKS_DIR_REL" "$LEGACY_HOOKS_REL")
     for d in "${MIRROR_DIRS[@]}"; do
       check_dir "$plugin_dir" "$pack_cwd" "$d"
     done

tests/run-bats.sh

@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ fi
 # than a rolling `wait -n` pool.
 SCRATCH_ROOT="$(mktemp -d)"
 trap 'rm -rf "$SCRATCH_ROOT"' EXIT
-# shellcheck source=../scripts/lib/batch-run.sh
+# Repo-root-relative -- see tests/run-tests.sh for why `../scripts/...` does not
+# resolve here despite looking right.
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/batch-run.sh
 source "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/lib/batch-run.sh"
 
 declare -a batch_args=()

tests/run-tests.sh

@@ -58,7 +58,19 @@ done < <(
 # rolling `wait -n` pool.
 SCRATCH_ROOT="$(mktemp -d)"
 trap 'rm -rf "$SCRATCH_ROOT"' EXIT
-# shellcheck source=lib/batch-run.sh
+# The source= path below is repo-root-relative, matching scripts/install.sh:5 --
+# NOT script-dir-relative. The source-path used to resolve it is the cwd
+# pre-commit invokes the linter from, which is the repo root, so `lib/...`
+# (resolving to a nonexistent tests/lib/) and `../scripts/...` (escaping the repo
+# entirely) both fail. Both spellings were live until issue #97, and neither was
+# visible: the resulting SC1091 is `info` while .pre-commit-config.yaml pins
+# `--severity=warning`. A directive that does not resolve also blinds
+# test-vale-wrap.sh's `sourced_files()` exemption, which reads these same
+# directives to find array seeding that lives in the sourced file.
+#
+# Do not start a comment line here with the linter's name -- it is parsed as a
+# directive and errors out (SC1073).
+# shellcheck source=scripts/lib/batch-run.sh
 source "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/lib/batch-run.sh"
 
 declare -a batch_args=()

tests/test-check-vale-style-sync.sh

@@ -58,6 +58,45 @@ with open(path, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fh:
 PYTHON
 }
 
+# Vale masking, hoisted so the text-only cases below can use it. Case 12 keeps
+# its own independent construction and its own loud failure if masking breaks —
+# it is what proves this mechanism works, so it is not refactored onto this.
+#
+# Why: a script run with vale on PATH performs six `vale` invocations (one per
+# probe path), and they are the suite's entire wall clock. The cases that assert
+# a text-level finding — StylesPath, BasedOnStyles, per-rule overrides — reach
+# their verdict through `grep` alone and gain nothing from paying for the
+# probes. Masking vale is not merely cheaper for them, it is STRICTER: with vale
+# present a dropped StylesPath also breaks the probe, so such a case would still
+# exit 1 with the assertion under test deleted. Without vale, only the assertion
+# under test can produce the failure.
+#
+# run_check falls back to an unmasked run rather than skipping when masking is
+# not safely available, so a machine where this cannot work loses speed, never
+# coverage. The utility probe matters as much as the vale probe: PATH_NO_VALE
+# deletes a whole PATH entry, and if that entry also carried grep/diff/awk/cat
+# the script would fail for an unrelated reason and every negative case below
+# would pass vacuously.
+VALE_DIR="$(dirname "$(command -v vale 2>/dev/null || echo /nonexistent/vale)")"
+PATH_NO_VALE="$(printf '%s' "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n' | grep -vxF "$VALE_DIR" | paste -sd: -)"
+VALE_MASKED=false
+if ! PATH="$PATH_NO_VALE" bash -c 'command -v vale' >/dev/null 2>&1 \
+  && PATH="$PATH_NO_VALE" bash -c \
+    'command -v grep && command -v diff && command -v awk && command -v cat' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  VALE_MASKED=true
+fi
+
+# Runs the check with vale masked off PATH when that is safe. For text-only
+# assertions ONLY — never for a case whose verdict depends on a glob probe
+# actually running.
+run_check_no_vale() {
+  if [[ "$VALE_MASKED" == true ]]; then
+    PATH="$PATH_NO_VALE" bash "$SCRIPT" "$@"
+  else
+    bash "$SCRIPT" "$@"
+  fi
+}
+
 # --- 1. Exits 0 when the two copies are in sync ---
 echo ""
 echo "--- exits 0 when skill-audit and agent-audit copies are in sync ---"
@@ -171,9 +210,48 @@ else
   pass "exits non-zero when a .vale.ini is missing"
 fi
 
+# --- 7b. Exits 1, saying so, when a .vale.ini is present but cannot be read ---
+# Every assertion in that loop is a grep, and grep exits 2 on a read error: the
+# two `grep -q` checks then misreport a file whose StylesPath and BasedOnStyles
+# may be perfectly fine, and the override capture swallows the error into an
+# empty result that reads as "no findings". So the exit code alone proves
+# nothing here — the check already exits 1 either way, just with the wrong
+# reason — and this case asserts the MESSAGE. Deleting the readability guard
+# leaves the exit code at 1 and the diagnosis wrong, which is exactly the
+# mutation the assertion below kills.
+#
+# The unreadable path is a DIRECTORY, not a mode-000 file, and that is the whole
+# point of the case: `cat` on a directory fails for every uid, while a mode-000
+# file is readable by root, which is what this repo's dev environment and its
+# pre-push hooks run as. A permission-based fixture would pass or fail depending
+# on the invoking uid; this one does not.
+echo ""
+echo "--- exits 1 and says so when a .vale.ini exists but cannot be read ---"
+FIXTURE8B="$(make_fixture)"
+FIXTURES+=("$FIXTURE8B")
+UNREADABLE_INI="$FIXTURE8B/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini"
+rm -f "$UNREADABLE_INI"
+mkdir -p "$UNREADABLE_INI"
+UNREADABLE_OUT=""
+UNREADABLE_RC=0
+UNREADABLE_OUT="$(bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE8B" 2>&1)" || UNREADABLE_RC=$?
+if [[ -e "$UNREADABLE_INI" ]] && cat "$UNREADABLE_INI" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  fail "the fixture's .vale.ini is still readable, so this case proves nothing about the unreadable branch"
+elif [[ $UNREADABLE_RC -eq 0 ]]; then
+  fail "exited 0 when skill-audit's .vale.ini could not be read — expected exit 1"
+elif ! printf '%s\n' "$UNREADABLE_OUT" | grep -q "could not be read"; then
+  fail "failed for the wrong reason on an unreadable .vale.ini — the readability guard did not fire, so the greps misdiagnosed it: $(printf '%s' "$UNREADABLE_OUT" | tr '\n' ' ')"
+else
+  pass "exits non-zero and reports an unreadable .vale.ini as unreadable, not as missing or malformed"
+fi
+
 # --- 8. Exits 1 when the shared StylesPath line is dropped from either copy ---
 # StylesPath resolves relative to the .vale.ini, which is the only reason the
 # bundled styles are found from a consuming repo's clone prefix.
+# Run with vale masked: a dropped StylesPath also stops vale finding the styles,
+# so with vale on PATH the glob probe fails too and this case would still exit 1
+# with the StylesPath assertion itself deleted. Masking makes the text assertion
+# the only thing that can produce the verdict.
 echo ""
 echo "--- exits 1 when StylesPath is missing from either .vale.ini ---"
 FIXTURE9="$(make_fixture)"
@@ -183,12 +261,12 @@ break_glob "$FIXTURE9/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-audit/assets/vale/.va
   'StylesPath = styles' 'StylesPath = elsewhere'
 break_glob "$FIXTURE10/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini" \
   'StylesPath = styles' 'StylesPath = elsewhere'
-if bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE9" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+if run_check_no_vale "$FIXTURE9" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   fail "exited 0 when skill-audit's .vale.ini lost StylesPath — expected exit 1"
 else
   pass "exits non-zero when skill-audit's .vale.ini lost StylesPath"
 fi
-if bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE10" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+if run_check_no_vale "$FIXTURE10" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   fail "exited 0 when agent-audit's .vale.ini lost StylesPath — expected exit 1"
 else
   pass "exits non-zero when agent-audit's .vale.ini lost StylesPath"
@@ -203,7 +281,7 @@ FIXTURE11="$(make_fixture)"
 FIXTURES+=("$FIXTURE11")
 break_glob "$FIXTURE11/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini" \
   'BasedOnStyles = Kyberforge' 'BasedOnStyles = KyberforgeCopilot'
-if bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE11" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+if run_check_no_vale "$FIXTURE11" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   fail "exited 0 when agent-audit's .vale.ini stopped naming Kyberforge — expected exit 1"
 else
   pass "exits non-zero when a .vale.ini no longer names the Kyberforge style"
@@ -246,7 +324,7 @@ while IFS= read -r override; do
   FIXTURE_OV="$(make_fixture)"
   FIXTURES+=("$FIXTURE_OV")
   echo "$override" >> "$FIXTURE_OV/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini"
-  if bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE_OV" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+  if run_check_no_vale "$FIXTURE_OV" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
     fail "exited 0 with '$override' in skill-audit's .vale.ini -- expected exit 1"
   else
     pass "exits non-zero on '$override'"
@@ -277,7 +355,7 @@ FIXTURE_OV_AGENT="$(make_fixture)"
 FIXTURES+=("$FIXTURE_OV_AGENT")
 echo "KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase = false" \
   >> "$FIXTURE_OV_AGENT/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini"
-if bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE_OV_AGENT" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+if run_check_no_vale "$FIXTURE_OV_AGENT" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   fail "exited 0 with 'KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase = false' in agent-audit's .vale.ini -- expected exit 1"
 else
   pass "exits non-zero when agent-audit's copy retires a KyberforgeCopilot rule"
@@ -316,7 +394,7 @@ FIXTURE11C="$(make_fixture)"
 FIXTURES+=("$FIXTURE11C")
 break_glob "$FIXTURE11C/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini" \
   'BasedOnStyles = Kyberforge, KyberforgeCopilot' 'BasedOnStyles = Kyberforge'
-if bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE11C" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+if run_check_no_vale "$FIXTURE11C" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
   fail "exited 0 when KyberforgeCopilot was dropped from BasedOnStyles -- expected exit 1"
 else
   pass "exits non-zero when a shipped KyberforgeCopilot style is never loaded"

tests/test-sync-plugin-content.sh

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ fi
 # Minimal fixture exercising every mirrored category -- all five of
 # scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh's MIRROR_DIRS (agents, skills, commands,
 # instructions, extensions) plus the merged hooks file -- without needing network
-# access (no apm.yml dependencies). Two deliberately-shaped skill subdirectories:
+# access (no apm.yml dependencies). It also carries a .apm/prompts/ entry, which has
+# no MIRROR_DIRS destination of its own: apm folds prompts into commands/. Two
+# deliberately-shaped skill subdirectories:
 #
 #   skills/hello/tests/                    -- a dev-time fixture that must NOT be mirrored
 #   skills/hello/assets/templates/tests/   -- a template asset that MUST be mirrored
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ make_fixture() {
   mkdir -p "$dir/.apm/skills/hello/tests" "$dir/.apm/skills/hello/scripts" \
     "$dir/.apm/skills/hello/assets/templates/tests" "$dir/.apm/agents" \
     "$dir/.apm/hooks" "$dir/.apm/commands" "$dir/.apm/instructions" \
-    "$dir/.apm/extensions"
+    "$dir/.apm/extensions" "$dir/.apm/prompts"
   cat > "$dir/apm.yml" <<'YAML'
 name: fixture
 version: 0.0.1
@@ -81,6 +83,12 @@ EOF
 description: mycmd
 ---
 Do a thing.
+EOF
+  cat > "$dir/.apm/prompts/greet.prompt.md" <<'EOF'
+---
+description: greet
+---
+Greet the user.
 EOF
   cat > "$dir/.apm/instructions/style.instructions.md" <<'EOF'
 ---
@@ -539,6 +547,98 @@ else
   fi
 fi
 
+# --- 20. .apm/prompts/ is mirrored, via commands/ rather than a prompts/ of its own ---
+# The script header lists prompts among the .apm/ directories it mirrors while
+# MIRROR_DIRS has no `prompts` entry, which reads as a hole and has already been filed
+# as one. It is not: MIRROR_DIRS names DESTINATION directories, and apm's exporter
+# folds .apm/prompts/ into commands/ (renaming *.prompt.md to *.md) alongside
+# .apm/commands/. This pins that mapping, so an apm upgrade that gave prompts a
+# destination of its own — the one change that would genuinely need a MIRROR_DIRS
+# entry — fails here instead of silently dropping the content.
+echo ""
+echo "--- .apm/prompts/ content arrives in commands/, not in a prompts/ directory ---"
+FIXTURE20="$(make_fixture)"; track "$FIXTURE20"
+bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE20" > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [[ -f "$FIXTURE20/commands/greet.md" ]]; then
+  pass ".apm/prompts/greet.prompt.md is mirrored to commands/greet.md"
+else
+  fail ".apm/prompts/ content never reached commands/ — apm's prompts mapping changed"
+fi
+if [[ ! -e "$FIXTURE20/prompts" ]]; then
+  pass "no prompts/ directory is produced at the plugin root"
+else
+  fail "a prompts/ directory appeared at the plugin root — it now needs a MIRROR_DIRS entry"
+fi
+if bash "$SCRIPT" --check "$FIXTURE20" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+  pass "--check is clean with .apm/prompts/ content present"
+else
+  fail "--check reports drift on a freshly synced fixture carrying .apm/prompts/"
+fi
+
+# --- 21. A stray file inside the generated hooks/ directory is drift ---
+# hooks/ is mirror-owned output, so it is scoped like a MIRROR_DIRS destination and
+# not like the plugin root (where README.md, docs/, bin/ and .mcp.json are all
+# hand-authored and deliberately none of this script's business). Before hooks/ came
+# under that ownership, --check exited 0 on a stray inside it and a real sync left the
+# stray untouched — agreeing with each other, but agreeing on the wrong answer.
+echo ""
+echo "--- a stray file inside the generated hooks/ directory is reported and removed ---"
+FIXTURE21="$(make_fixture)"; track "$FIXTURE21"
+bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE21" > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [[ ! -f "$FIXTURE21/hooks/hooks.json" ]]; then
+  fail "initial sync did not create hooks/hooks.json -- can't test the stray case"
+else
+  printf '{"stray": true}\n' > "$FIXTURE21/hooks/extra.json"
+  if bash "$SCRIPT" --check "$FIXTURE21" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    fail "no drift reported for a stray file inside the generated hooks/ directory"
+  else
+    pass "a stray file inside hooks/ is reported as drift"
+    bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE21" > /dev/null 2>&1
+    if [[ ! -e "$FIXTURE21/hooks/extra.json" ]] && [[ -f "$FIXTURE21/hooks/hooks.json" ]]; then
+      pass "re-sync removes the stray and keeps hooks/hooks.json"
+    else
+      fail "re-sync did not clean the stray out of hooks/"
+    fi
+    if bash "$SCRIPT" --check "$FIXTURE21" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+      pass "re-sync clears the stray-hooks-file drift"
+    else
+      fail "re-sync did not clear the stray-hooks-file drift"
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
+
+# --- 22. An empty leftover hooks/ directory is drift, not an acceptable resting state ---
+# When .apm/hooks/ produces no hooks.json, the correct mirror state is no hooks/
+# directory at all — not an empty one. Empty leftovers are exactly what earlier
+# revisions of this script left behind in this repo's own plugin roots.
+echo ""
+echo "--- an empty leftover hooks/ directory is reported and removed ---"
+FIXTURE22="$(make_fixture)"; track "$FIXTURE22"
+rm -rf "$FIXTURE22/.apm/hooks"
+bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE22" > /dev/null 2>&1
+if [[ -e "$FIXTURE22/hooks" ]]; then
+  fail "sync created hooks/ for a plugin whose .apm/hooks/ produces no hooks.json"
+else
+  pass "no hooks/ directory when .apm/hooks/ produces nothing"
+fi
+mkdir -p "$FIXTURE22/hooks"
+if bash "$SCRIPT" --check "$FIXTURE22" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+  fail "no drift reported for an empty leftover hooks/ directory"
+else
+  pass "an empty leftover hooks/ directory is reported as drift"
+  bash "$SCRIPT" "$FIXTURE22" > /dev/null 2>&1
+  if [[ ! -e "$FIXTURE22/hooks" ]]; then
+    pass "re-sync removes the empty leftover hooks/ directory"
+  else
+    fail "re-sync left the empty hooks/ directory in place"
+  fi
+  if bash "$SCRIPT" --check "$FIXTURE22" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    pass "re-sync clears the empty-hooks-directory drift"
+  else
+    fail "re-sync did not clear the empty-hooks-directory drift"
+  fi
+fi
+
 echo ""
 echo "Results: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
 [[ $FAIL -eq 0 ]]

tests/test-vale-wrap.sh

@@ -452,21 +452,28 @@ fi
 # this branch introduced, whose own header (batch-run.sh:9-11) documents it as
 # bash-3.2-safe — along with four other scripts/*.sh. Deriving the list means a
 # new script is covered the moment it lands. AGENTS.md names bash 3.2 as an
-# explicit repo target, so the scope is three globs, each floor-asserted below:
+# explicit repo target, so the scope is four globs, each floor-asserted below:
 #   - scripts/**/*.sh          — repo tooling and pre-commit hook scripts
 #   - tests/*.sh               — the runners and every regression test
 #   - plugins/*/.apm/**/*.sh   — the scripts plugins ship to users
+#   - providers/**/*.sh        — the scripts install.sh deploys to user machines
 # plugins/*/skills/** is deliberately NOT scanned: it is the generated mirror of
 # .apm/, so scanning both double-reports every finding, and mirror-vs-source
 # drift is already sync-plugin-content.sh --check's job. Scanning .apm/ is what
 # closed the gap where skill-audit's vale-wrap.sh was covered but agent-audit's
 # byte-identical copy of it was not.
-# providers/**/*.sh is the one shipped script deliberately left out:
+# providers/**/*.sh was excluded until issue #96: statusline-command.sh seeded
-# providers/claude-code/statusline-command.sh seeds `parts=()` empty at :83 and
+# `parts=()` empty and expanded it unguarded, a real latent hazard rather than a
-# expands it unguarded at :96. That is a real latent hazard rather than a false
+# false positive, in a file this case did not own. That expansion is now guarded,
-# positive — it just cannot abort today because the file enables no `set -u`.
+# so the glob is in the table below and the deployed provider scripts get the
-# Fixing it is a change to a file this case does not own; once :96 uses the
+# same coverage as scripts/, tests/ and plugins/*/.apm/. This is the glob most
-# guarded form, add a `providers` glob to the table below.
+# worth having: install.sh copies providers/ content onto every user machine, and
+# it is also the glob most likely to look redundant to a future reader, because
+# the hazard it catches is invisible on any modern bash — bash 4.4 stopped
+# treating an empty-array expansion as unbound, so a bare "${a[@]}" under `set -u`
+# runs clean on the maintainer's bash 5 and aborts only on macOS's bash 3.2.
+# A runtime test cannot demonstrate that without a 3.2 binary; this static scan
+# is the enforcement, which is why its floor must never be dropped to zero.
 #
 # Four constructs are checked, because the expansion scan cannot see any of the
 # other three:
@@ -588,19 +595,28 @@ bash32_glob() {
     scripts) find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name '*.sh' -type f ;;
     tests) find "$REPO_ROOT/tests" -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sh' -type f ;;
     plugins) find "$REPO_ROOT/plugins" -path '*/.apm/*' -name '*.sh' -type f ;;
+    providers) find "$REPO_ROOT/providers" -name '*.sh' -type f ;;
     *) echo "bash32_glob: unknown glob '$1'" >&2; return 1 ;;
   esac
 }
 # Floors are PER GLOB, not on the merged total. A single total floor cannot
-# detect the failure this assertion exists to name: with 12 + 17 + 13 files,
+# detect the failure this assertion exists to name: with 12 + 18 + 13 + 1 files,
-# losing the whole `scripts` glob still leaves 30 and losing the whole `tests`
+# losing the whole `scripts` glob still leaves 32 and losing the whole `tests`
-# glob still leaves 25, so any total floor low enough to survive normal churn
+# glob still leaves 26, so any total floor low enough to survive normal churn
 # is too low to notice an entire glob silently resolving to nothing. Each floor
 # sits a little under its current count so ordinary file removal does not trip
 # it, but a broken or renamed path does. Parallel arrays rather than an
 # associative one — `declare -A` is bash 4.0+, which this very case forbids.
-BASH32_GLOB_NAMES=(scripts tests plugins)
+#
-BASH32_GLOB_FLOORS=(10 14 10)
+# `providers` is floored at 1 rather than "current count minus slack" because it
+# holds exactly one file: any slack at all would be a floor of 0, which passes on
+# a renamed or deleted directory and is precisely the silent-zero failure the
+# per-glob floors exist to catch. A floor of 1 means removing the last provider
+# script trips this assertion — correct, because at that point the glob is dead
+# weight and should be deleted from the table deliberately, not left to pass
+# vacuously.
+BASH32_GLOB_NAMES=(scripts tests plugins providers)
+BASH32_GLOB_FLOORS=(10 14 10 1)
 BASH32_SCRIPTS=()
 BASH32_IDX=0
 while [[ $BASH32_IDX -lt ${#BASH32_GLOB_NAMES[@]} ]]; do
@@ -1091,6 +1107,92 @@ else
   pass "all 6 never-empty shell arrays are exempt and all 5 sometimes-empty ones are still flagged"
 fi
 
+# Case 27 pins the `sourced_files()` exemption against the failure mode that
+# actually happened (issue #97 item 2): a stale source-directive path.
+#
+# The exemption exists because array seeding often lives in the sourced file
+# rather than the sourcing one -- install.sh's DEPLOY_* come from
+# deploy-manifest.sh -- so without it those expansions read as hazards. It works
+# by parsing each file's own source-directive comments. That makes it silently
+# dependent on those paths resolving: a directive naming a file that is not
+# there does not error, it just contributes no seed file, and the exemption
+# quietly stops covering what it was written to cover.
+#
+# tests/run-tests.sh shipped exactly that for the length of PR #95 -- a directive
+# resolving to neither the repo root nor the script's own directory. Nothing
+# caught it: shellcheck's own SC1091 is `info`, and .pre-commit-config.yaml pins
+# `--severity=warning`. The live consequence was nil only because both of
+# run-tests.sh's expansions were independently guarded.
+#
+# Part C is the assertion that would have caught it, and it is the reason this
+# case is not just fixture theatre: it holds every real directive in the scanned
+# corpus to the resolution rule, so the next stale one fails here rather than
+# lying dormant. Parts A and B pin the mechanism Part C depends on -- that
+# resolution is what switches the exemption on, and non-resolution silently
+# switches it off.
+echo ""
+echo "--- every shellcheck source directive resolves, so no seeding exemption is silently off ---"
+FIXTURE27="$(mktemp -d)"
+new_fixture "$FIXTURE27"
+# The seeded array lives ONLY in the sourced file, never in the sourcing one --
+# that separation is the whole point of the exemption.
+{
+  echo "#!/usr/bin/env bash"
+  echo "SEEDED27=(a b c)"
+} > "$FIXTURE27/seed-lib.sh"
+
+# Both fixture bodies are emitted through printf with the closing `]` passed as
+# an argument, never written literally. This file is itself inside the `tests`
+# glob, so a literal bare expansion here would be scanned as a hazard in
+# test-vale-wrap.sh's own source -- the trailing-comment/inside-a-string caveat
+# documented above strip_comments(). Splitting the token means the emitted
+# fixture holds the real text while this file holds no bare spelling, the same
+# trick the `npro[c]` rule uses.
+EXPANSION27="$(printf 'echo "${SEEDED27[@%s}"' ']')"
+
+# Part A: a directive that resolves against the script's own directory exempts
+# the expansion, so no hazard is reported.
+{
+  echo "#!/usr/bin/env bash"
+  echo "# shellcheck source=seed-lib.sh"
+  echo 'source "$(dirname "$0")/seed-lib.sh"'
+  echo "$EXPANSION27"
+} > "$FIXTURE27/resolves.sh"
+
+# Part B: byte-identical except the directive names a file that is not there.
+{
+  echo "#!/usr/bin/env bash"
+  echo "# shellcheck source=nonexistent/seed-lib.sh"
+  echo 'source "$(dirname "$0")/seed-lib.sh"'
+  echo "$EXPANSION27"
+} > "$FIXTURE27/stale.sh"
+
+RESOLVES27="$(unguarded_expansions "$FIXTURE27/resolves.sh")"
+STALE27="$(unguarded_expansions "$FIXTURE27/stale.sh")"
+
+# Part C: no real directive in the derived corpus may fail to resolve. Counted
+# rather than diffed, because sourced_files() reports resolution only by
+# omission -- an unresolvable directive produces no output line at all.
+UNRESOLVED27=""
+for BASH32_SCRIPT in ${BASH32_SCRIPTS[@]+"${BASH32_SCRIPTS[@]}"}; do
+  DECLARED27="$(grep -cE '^[[:space:]]*#[[:space:]]*shellcheck[[:space:]]+source=[^[:space:]]+' "$BASH32_SCRIPT" || true)"
+  [[ "$DECLARED27" -gt 0 ]] || continue
+  RESOLVED27="$(sourced_files "$BASH32_SCRIPT" | grep -c . || true)"
+  if [[ "$RESOLVED27" -lt "$DECLARED27" ]]; then
+    UNRESOLVED27+="${BASH32_SCRIPT#"$REPO_ROOT"/} ($RESOLVED27/$DECLARED27) "
+  fi
+done
+
+if [[ -n "$RESOLVES27" ]]; then
+  fail "an array seeded only in a resolvable sourced file was reported as a hazard, so the seeding exemption is not reading source directives at all"
+elif [[ -z "$STALE27" ]]; then
+  fail "an array seeded only in an UNRESOLVABLE sourced file was still exempted, so this case cannot detect a stale directive and Part C proves nothing"
+elif [[ -n "$UNRESOLVED27" ]]; then
+  fail "shellcheck source directive(s) resolve to nothing, silently disarming the seeding exemption for those files: $UNRESOLVED27"
+else
+  pass "the seeding exemption switches on only for resolvable directives, and every directive in the scanned corpus resolves"
+fi
+
 echo ""
 echo "Results: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed"
 [[ $FAIL -eq 0 ]]