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4aab9d327c refactor(kyberforge): retrofit forge to the ADR-0020 contract
Description 648 -> 387 chars, body 1093 -> 541 words. This was the last
body FAIL in the 39-skill corpus.

The body was not trimmed to fit. forge routes four artifact types that a
single invocation classifies between, so the contract requires a dispatch
table plus the gates common to every route, with each route self-contained
in references/. Adds references/author-routes.md (skill and agent),
references/apm-routes.md (plugin and marketplace entry) and
references/version-bump.md. Skill and agent share one file: they differ on
one axis only, which audit skill verifies the result.

Fixes three defects the first pass introduced or relocated:

- references/apm-routes.md claimed `apm audit` "already runs inside
  apm-workflow's own flow" and told the agent to confirm it ran clean.
  apm-workflow dispatches audit as its own row; the configure and
  marketplace rows never reach it. That was the only completion check
  these routes had, and it could never be satisfied. Replaced with a
  manual read-back the agent performs itself.
- "Read only the reference file" forbade the multi-artifact case the same
  body documents two lines later, and ADR-0011 records eight artifacts
  authored in one pass.
- The announce gate became a closing gate, reachable only after the
  invocation it was meant to precede. Moved to the end of Step 2.

Also restores the artifact enumeration to the plugin row, normalises to
bare unnamespaced skill names per AGENTS.md, adds a dispatch fallback for
artifacts matching no row, and corrects three provenance entries -- one
asserted a contribution that did not happen.

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
2026-08-30 16:31:23 +00:00
1e4aab53a7 refactor(kyberforge): retrofit apm-workflow to the ADR-0020 contract
Description 817 -> 324 chars, body 421 -> 237 words, Gotchas 6 -> 2.

The five capability clauses, the second trigger register and the prose
boundary form go; one trigger clause, the indirect trigger and one
boundary clause remain. Four of six Gotchas move into the flow file that
every branch needing them already loads.

Two stay in the always-loaded body because a dispatch body must carry the
gates common to every branch, not just the dispatch table: the MCP secret
indirection rule, and the `apm experimental enable registries`
precondition. The first pass moved registries into references/configure.md
alone, which stranded it -- references/compile.md documents publishing to a
registry and references/install.md resolves dependencies through one, and
neither points at configure.md. Declaring a registry without the
precondition is a silent no-op, so the failure had no signal.

Also drops an unsourced claim the compression pass introduced (that apm
checks `type:` going forward -- no source supports it), corrects the MCP
rationale to install *or* runtime per configuration.md:98, and repoints
two apm-orchestrate back-references that pointed at body Gotchas which had
moved.

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
2026-08-30 16:31:11 +00:00
915eb09ae2 docs(scripts): record that the bare-arrow carve-out is now unexercised
The comment justified the ADR-0020 compressed-form gate with diagnose's
process chain 'fix -> regression-test', which without the gate read as a
route to a non-existent regression-test skill. Issue #99 cut that chain
when it retrofitted the description, so the gate now produces an
identical verdict corpus-wide whether it is applied or not.

Keeping the branch. It guards against prose no one has written yet, any
new process chain re-arms it, and the bare-arrow rule it sits on is the
sole extractor for three real targets in kyberforge's audit skills, all
written unbackticked. Unexercised is not the same as unnecessary — the
comment just needed to stop citing evidence that no longer exists.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:51:43 +00:00
d8dfba958c docs(agents): correct the ADR-0020 gate counts after wave 3
Three skills still exceed a FAIL tier, all in kyberforge, down from ten
descriptions and two bodies. No routing target dangles any more, and the
test suite now pins that set as empty rather than tracking a backlog.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:07:17 +00:00
7e80c09b13 fix(kyberforge): a dispatch table satisfies the reference-wiring rule
body-discipline.md required every reference load to use the literal
'If X, read references/file.md' form and called anything else a generic
pointer. ADR-0020's own cited dispatch exemplar, apm-workflow, uses a
bare table plus one closing line, so an author could not satisfy both --
and the rule reliably produced duplication in exactly the bodies the
contract exists to keep short.

Resolves #109 with its option 1: a table row already pairs a condition
with a target, so where a body dispatches, the table is the wiring. The
literal form is what a body needs when it loads a reference without a
table.

Two corrections to the issue as filed. There is no Vale conflict --
PaddingPhrase.yml only matches 'see references/ for more info' and never
fired on the exemplar, so this is a one-file prose fix and no rule
changes. And gitea-workflow carried the predicted duplication: a
three-row table restated underneath as three conditionals. Removed, body
227 -> 148 words.

Closes #109
2026-08-30 15:07:16 +00:00
ff187ef9fc refactor(lint): retrofit vale-run to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 654 -> 294 chars, Gotchas 36% -> 19%. Body 698 -> 642 words:
up from the first pass, because a clean-context audit found four defects
whose fixes are net-additive text.

The suppression-markup warning covered only one of the two paths that
write it -- the list is case-based, so a recurring false positive goes
straight to step 3 and never read step 2's warning. Hoisted above both.

The CI-failure trigger, which the description advertises, had no path to
the file holding its answer: the negative diagnosis 'if the alerts are
warnings, Vale is not what failed the build' survived only in
troubleshooting.md, which no CI-entered invocation loads. An agent would
confidently prescribe --no-exit for a failure Vale never caused.

The description had lost every prose-domain word -- no 'prose', no
'linter' -- while vale-config kept all of them, so 'check prose style'
routed to the wrong skill of the pair.

Accepts two soft SUGGESTIONs rather than dropping restored content;
neither fails the gate.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:07:16 +00:00
45cd26045a refactor(lint): retrofit vale-config to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 657 -> 244 chars, body 504 -> 342 words, Gotchas 50% -> 24%.
The 50% was the worst ratio in the corpus and a real inverted body, not
the denominator artefact the ratio usually flags: half the body was a
Gotchas section doing duty as reference material.

A clean-context audit caught the split leaving a false statement behind.
Gotcha 1's kernel lost the qualifier that only package styles need
fetching, so it asserted that any style vale sync has not fetched fails
-- contradicting the same file twice, since the built-in Vale style and
any committed custom style are never fetched. An agent adding a custom
style would have added a spurious Packages entry and broken vale sync
outright. The qualifier is restored in the body rather than behind a
fourth reference pointer.

Also corrects the moved fixture's framing, which tabulated a control row
under a heading claiming it came from a multi-line fixture.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:07:15 +00:00
c59e4bf0c5 refactor(core): retrofit provider-adapter-author to the ADR-0020 contract
Description 833 -> 239 chars, body 370 -> 387 words, Gotchas 41% -> 20%.
The file-type enumeration moves to a new references/provider-matrix.md;
the composition note was already in README.md.

Three defects a clean-context audit found, all fixed:

The 'never edits AGENTS.md' prohibition had become a justification clause
on the false branch of a conditional, so the common path never read a
sentence binding it. That matters because the bundled validator's own
remediation text tells the agent to move content into AGENTS.md, so a
size FAIL actively invited the prohibited edit. Restored as a standing
imperative, plus a counter at the step where the trap fires.

A Gotcha asserted that validate-adapter.sh fails without
--no-import-syntax. The flag is a no-op -- both branches reduce to the
same expression. Reverted to an instruction; the script defect is #115.

The boundary clauses used pronouns to dodge the #110 regex, and 'Not
auditing it' resolved to CLAUDE.md as readily as to AGENTS.md -- routing
'audit my CLAUDE.md' to a skill whose own description declines it.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:06:50 +00:00
f0526b310d refactor(core): retrofit agentsmd-audit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 944 -> 322 chars, Gotchas 36% -> 22%. The composition note
moves to README.md.

Restores the hand-edit trigger, which a clean-context audit found had no
other caller: agentsmd-author owns the post-authoring invocation, but a
hand-edit has no author skill in the loop, so nothing invoked the audit
at all. It survived only in README.md, which neither the router nor the
invoked agent loads. That is the path on which a human pastes a
credential into AGENTS.md.

The first pass dropped it against a measured budget of '~9 spare chars'.
The real cost was ~49, and 250 is the SUGGESTION tier, not a ceiling --
the gate fails at 400. Ships at 322 with one advisory line.

Names the three audit dimensions in the capability clause, recovering
routing for 'does my AGENTS.md leak credentials', and qualifies the
'is this AGENTS.md safe to commit' phrasing, whose pronoun had no
antecedent inside the quoted string.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:06:49 +00:00
e42c055294 refactor(core): retrofit agentsmd-author to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 960 -> 244 chars, body 470 -> 452 words, Gotchas 36% -> 22%.
Both composition notes move to README.md, which already carried them.

Four of five Gotchas were paraphrases of the step below them and were
deleted with their force folded back into that step. A clean-context
audit overturned the fifth deletion: the provider-file prohibition was
strictly broader than Step 4, so it was never a paraphrase, and Step 4's
'don't rewrite it yourself' is attached to the if-duplicates branch. With
Write and Edit granted, a provider file that was merely stale had nothing
forbidding an edit. Restored as an unconditional Gotcha, read before any
step writes.

Also restores a concrete indirect trigger. The retrofit had replaced two
with the meta-statement 'even when they don't name the file', which
claims an indirect trigger exists rather than being one -- and users
asking to document a repo for AI tools have no reason to know the
filename.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:06:48 +00:00
00c1e6b305 refactor(bin): retrofit diagnose to the ADR-0020 context contract
Body 1126 -> 808 words, clearing the FAIL tier, and description 290 ->
220 chars. Phase 1's depth moves to references/feedback-loops.md; the
six-phase spine stays in the body, since a linear procedure is not a
dispatch case.

The description rewrite was not originally in scope, which was an error:
adding a mandatory boundary clause to a 290-char description cannot land
under 400. The dropped capability chain was also inaccurate -- it named
'minimise' as a phase that does not exist while omitting the one phase
the body calls 'This is the skill'.

A clean-context audit found no text lost but three reachability defects,
all fixed: content stranded behind an inverted trigger, Phase 2's
reproduction-rate threshold defined only in a file that path never
loaded, and a script path that did not resolve from the file carrying it.
The two reference files are merged into one, since the split is what
created the first two.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:06:26 +00:00
f03bfa8d24 refactor(bin): retrofit prototype to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 426 -> 286 chars, with a boundary clause added. The body was
already compliant at 467 words and is untouched.

A clean-context audit caught the first pass trading away the LOGIC
branch's routing vocabulary for characters it did not need to save: both
'data model' and 'business logic' had gone, though LOGIC.md defines its
own scope with exactly those words. Restored, so 'does this data model
feel right?' routes here again.

Accepts 286 over the 250 target -- the hard tier is 400, and the
alternative was leaving half the dispatch reachable by one phrase.

Leaves LOGIC.md and UI.md at the skill root; moving them into references/
is tracked as #114.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:06:25 +00:00
ee6b04061a refactor(bin): retrofit research to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 583 -> 231 chars and body 854 -> 519 words. Deletes the
neuledge-context boundary clause outright: commit 6146120 deleted that
skill and no skill has owned MCP-server installation since. That was the
last dangling routing target in the corpus.

Removes META.md, which file-structure.md:20 forbids at a skill root. Its
when: field duplicated the description and its references: entry pointed
at .agents/skills/context7-mcp/SKILL.md, which does not exist.

Restores two rules a clean-context audit found had lost their force: the
starting-URLs branch in step 3, which the retrofit had reduced to a
condition with no behaviour, and the references/file-format.md pointer at
step 6. The second matters downstream -- validate-provenance.sh parses
sources.md with anchored regexes and check 8 short-circuits silently when
the Status field is absent, so a sources.md written from step 6 alone
broke the provenance chain with no error anywhere.

Rewrites steps 4-5 as serial WebFetch reads. They mandated spawning
subagents that allowed-tools never granted; no tool was added because the
name differs across the three compile targets. Tracked as #116.

Updates the two test pins and the eval case that asserted the dead route.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 15:06:23 +00:00
a2ebdafc5e fix(skill-audit): pin the stale worked example and state its reachability precondition
The body-discipline rubric cited git-commits as it stood before the ADR-0020
retrofit -- twelve Gotchas, 387/1102 words, line numbers :31-:52. Every
figure was correct for that version and none survives in the current file,
so the example is now anchored to commit 5e23250 and marked not to be
refreshed against HEAD.

More than staleness: row four called the secrets Gotcha a paraphrase FAIL
because step 2 restated it. Wave 2 followed that reasoning, deleted the
always-loaded copy, and left the amend branch able to commit a credential
unchecked -- dispatch loads exactly one flow file. The paraphrase rule now
carries its missing precondition: delete a restating Gotcha only when the
surviving copy is reachable from every branch that needs it, and relocate
a multi-branch safety gate into the body rather than dropping it.
2026-08-30 13:22:55 +00:00
afbeaff56b docs(agents): correct the ADR-0020 gate counts after the git retrofit
Descriptions over the FAIL tier 19 -> 10, bodies 7 -> 2. This line is
always-loaded context, so a stale count misleads every session.
2026-08-30 13:14:00 +00:00
3cd3f33706 refactor(pc-author): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 475 -> 213 chars, body 680 -> 212 words. Create and modify
become self-contained flow files behind a dispatch table, since the two are
mutually exclusive on whether the config already exists.

Passed its clean-context audit with no must-fix findings.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
15ff7417b9 refactor(pc-run): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 477 -> 211 chars, body 736 -> 367 words. Install, autoupdate,
and clean become flow files behind the Route table.

The audit found no route for 'hooks aren't running': the only pointer to
failure-patterns.md sat inside the failure path, but when hooks never fire
the manual run succeeds, so the request fell to the ambiguity default and
was masked. Restores the disclosure that install -f is not reversible by
uninstall.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
7cb8e95379 refactor(git-history): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 450 -> 266 chars, body 1044 -> 462 words. The bisect procedure
moves to references/bisect.md.

The boundary clause read 'not writing or rewriting commits', which
disclaimed the cherry-pick and revert this skill's own Step 3 executes; it
now excludes authoring and rebasing only. Adds 'backport' so cherry-pick is
reachable by natural language at all, accepting 266 chars against a 250
soft target and a 400 ceiling.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
261e5b5491 refactor(git-submodules): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 480 -> 248 chars, body 1011 -> 347 words. The single
submodules.md splits into setup-and-update, urls-and-config, and removal.

Restores three regressions the first pass introduced: 'repointing' as the
trigger for the URL branch, which had none while the boundary clause
steered those queries to git-remotes; clone and absorbgitdirs in the output
enum, which dispatch still routed to; and status --cached, the flag that
makes the pre-commit pointer gate verifiable.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
3c74beb280 refactor(git-workflow): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 566 -> 249 chars, body 644 -> 398 words, Gotchas 12 -> 2. The
eight organisational hard rules move to references/hard-rules.md.

Its load trigger enumerates operations rather than rule topics: the first
draft keyed on 'commit message form', which left the atomicity and
working-state rules unreachable when a caller supplied a conventional
message. Also promotes the destructive-op confirmation ahead of the
orchestrator invocation, which it previously followed.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
38eb0745b7 refactor(git-remotes): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 582 -> 237 chars, body 1217 -> 290 words. The single remotes.md
splits into config, fetch, push, and pull flow files.

Restores the confirm: true token to the force-push gate -- it is the git
plugin's cross-skill contract, gated on by git-orchestrate and git-branches.
Moves push.md's worked example off main, which the skill's own Step 1
refuses, and restores the never-bare---force directive.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
3dd5387671 refactor(git-worktrees): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 592 -> 248 chars, body 756 -> 515 words, Gotchas 8 -> 4.

The audit found the dispatch table had no row for a worktree on an
existing local branch, so that request fell to the adjacent -B row, which
resets the branch to HEAD and discards its commits. Non-destructive create
is now the first row and -B names its own destructiveness. Adds the missing
lock/unlock row and repair's run-from constraint.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
0fde892f20 refactor(git-branches): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 612 -> 273 chars, body 1124 -> 457 words. Branch patterns,
operations, merging, comparison, and the orchestrator contract move to
references/.

Corrects rebase routing in four places: this skill sent rebase to
git-history, which carries no rebase content and disclaims it. Rebase is
git-commits'; cherry-pick and revert stay git-history's. Drops a Step 3
gate on a rebase flow this skill does not have.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
f3b4860e14 refactor(git-commits): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 724 -> 214 chars, body 1102 -> 343 words, Gotchas 12 -> 3.
Create, rewrite, and cherry-pick flows move to self-contained references/
files behind a dispatch table.

The audit caught that moving the secret scan into the create flow left the
amend/squash path with no check in its loaded context; it is now a gate
common to every flow. Also re-homes the interactive-rebase reflog warning
git-history dropped, since this skill owns rebase.
2026-08-30 13:10:53 +00:00
bbc73008a3 chore(gitea): regenerate the flat content mirror after the ADR-0020 retrofit
Generated output, not authored content: scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh --all.
Claude Code has no .apm/ awareness, so this compiled mirror must track .apm/ or
the check-plugin-content-sync pre-push hook reports drift.

Deferred to a single commit at the end of the wave on purpose. sync_dir runs
rm -rf before every copy, so running it while seven agents were editing the
same plugin would have raced them; agents were told not to sync for that reason.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:42:20 +00:00
bedbd1d872 refactor(gitea-workflow): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 1012 -> 347 chars, body 582 -> 170 words, Gotchas 3 entries -> 1 at
22.9% of body. Clears the description FAIL and all four Vale CompositionNote
errors -- the last carriers in the corpus, so that rule now fires nowhere.

Cut the 'human-facing entry point and router' architecture note, the /gitea
migration history and the six-skill composition list; all were already in the
README or the routing table.

Split three mutually exclusive flows into a dispatch table keyed on invocation
shape, each branch self-contained in references/: status-checkin.md,
number-resolution.md, skill-index.md. Report stays in the body as the gate
common to every branch; each branch's own format moved to its file. The old
Step 1-4 numbering presented three alternatives as a sequence.

The description grew from an intermediate 283 chars on purpose: that draft had
dropped flow 3's trigger entirely, leaving the domain-routing index -- a third
of the skill -- reachable only through a tail clause whose grammatical subject
was the request rather than the skill. Both gates were green over that.

Boundary clauses are one arrow per target, so both resolve (#107: the resolver
extracts only the first target per clause and reports 1 of 1 on a clause naming
two). The local-git exclusion keeps its wording but drops the route to
git-workflow, which would not resolve in a gitea-only install.

Known residual: the dispatch conditions are stated twice, as a table and as
literal conditionals. That is #109 -- body-discipline.md mandates the literal
form while the ADR's cited exemplar, apm-workflow, uses a bare table plus one
summary line. Fixing it here would settle that contradiction in a skill rather
than in the spec, so it rides with #109.

Refs #99, #107, #109
2026-08-30 12:42:04 +00:00
b8c36c36f6 docs(agents): correct the ADR-0020 gate counts to measured state
The bullet is always-loaded context, and all three of its numbers had gone
stale as the issue #99 retrofit landed. Measured now: 19 of 39 descriptions and
7 of 39 bodies over their FAIL tier, down from 26 and 9; one dangling routing
target left (research -> neuledge-context), down from two.

Kyberforge.CompositionNote fired 10 errors across four gitea-* skills and now
fires nowhere -- those four were the only carriers and all four have been
retrofitted. The 'check both gates' advice stays: skill-size-check still does
not cover the Vale half, and any new description can reintroduce the rule.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:35:48 +00:00
23b843a311 test: drop the gitea-labels pin now the retrofit removed that target
tests/test-adr0020-targets.sh pinned the corpus dangling set as exactly
{gitea-labels, neuledge-context} and tests/test-skill-size-check.sh probed both
individually. The gitea-issues retrofit cut the composition sentence whose
'>'-folded scalar produced 'gitea-labels- milestones', so that target no longer
exists and both suites went red.

EXPECTED_DANGLING is now {neuledge-context} and the gitea-issues probe is
removed rather than skipped, per the rule the probe file states about itself: a
probe whose fixture has been retrofitted is a pin that needs updating, not an
assertion-free pass counted in the totals.

The exact-set assertion stays. An empty expected set is still valid and still
pins that no new dangling target appeared -- which is what it becomes once
research is retrofitted. Both loops carry a shellcheck SC2043 waiver for the
same reason: one entry is the expected steady state, not bad quoting.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:34:24 +00:00
37382cb72a refactor(gitea-labels-milestones): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 835 -> 214 chars, body 669 -> 426 words, Gotchas 8 entries/63% of
body -> 3/20.4%. Clears the description FAIL, all three Vale CompositionNote
errors and both Gotchas suggestions. 63% was the worst Gotchas ratio in the
corpus.

Cut the composition sentence to README -- it changes no routing decision and an
agent picks this skill because the user asked about labels, not because two
other skills call it. Cut the capability enumeration; 'list, create, edit,
delete' decompose 'reading or writing' and add no trigger.

Boundary clauses are now one arrow per target. The resolver extracts only the
first name per arrow clause, so the previous '-> gitea-issues / gitea-prs' left
gitea-prs neither dangling nor checked while validate.sh reported 1 of 1. Now
2 of 2.

Makes org-scoped label resolution executable. The org label pool was reachable
in principle -- four *_org_label* methods, and a claim to own name-to-ID
resolution -- but list_org_labels takes org, and Step 1 derived only owner and
repo, so both resolution procedures stalled at the fallback. Fixed once at the
identity step rather than per-procedure. get_user_orgs is outside allowed-tools,
so the failing call is the discriminator: a failure means the owner is a user
account with no org pool, which is an answer, not an error.

Corrects a Gotcha that was false for create_repo_label/create_org_label and
collided with the literal tool name label_write. Same false claim removed from
README.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:29:18 +00:00
78015893d4 refactor(gitea-issues): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 827 -> 182 chars, body 902 -> 584 words, Gotchas 7 entries/43% of
body -> 4/23.1%. Clears both size FAILs, the dangling-target FAIL and the Vale
CompositionNote error.

The dangling 'gitea-labels' target is gone with the composition sentence that
carried it -- a YAML fold artifact, not a typo: the '>'-folded scalar joined
'gitea-labels-' and 'milestones' across a line break, leaving the name terminal
and danglable. Both boundary names now sit whole on one source line each, and
both resolve.

Cut the second trigger register, the seven-verb capability enumeration, the
issue_write implementation detail and a gitea-branches boundary that defended
nothing. Two Gotchas deleted as spec restatement carried in references/, one as
a paraphrase of the step below it.

Closes a capability hole rather than papering over it: gitea-labels-milestones
routes label application here and has no issue_write, but no dispatch row
existed for add/replace/remove/clear_labels or get_labels. Both rows added.
The label ID/name Gotcha is now stated per method -- issue_write takes IDs,
list_issues and search_issues filter by name, issue_read 'get' returns names
but 'get_labels' returns full objects with IDs.

Drops a stale quotation of gitea-labels-milestones' description from
references/enrichments.md; that string went with its composition note.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:28:54 +00:00
0079f3508c fix(gitea-prs): correct reference drift against gitea-mcp v1.7.0
The reference files were last verified against v1.3.0 -- references/sources.md
still said so. PR #106 re-verified the write side only, so three defects had
accumulated on the read/review side. All three reproduced against the deployed
server before being fixed; get_gitea_mcp_server_version reports v1.7.0.

- reviews.md forbade review_comments on the "get" response and directed callers
  to review_scomments, which does not exist. The upstream slim.go typo was
  corrected; a live pull_request_read on PR #106 returns "review_comments":1 and
  no review_scomments key. review_comments is an integer count, not comment
  objects -- distinct from the get_review_comments method. Also fixed in
  pull-requests.md's response-shape list.
- pull_request_review_write grants seven methods; only four were documented.
  reply_comment, resolve_thread, unresolve_thread and the comment_id parameter
  had zero mentions anywhere in the skill. Documented from the schema, in a
  Comment threads section kept outside the numbered review state machine --
  they are not lifecycle states.
- review_id was documented as required for get_review_comments. It is optional;
  omitting it lists every inline comment on the PR. Confirmed behaviourally:
  get_review without it errors, get_review_comments without it returns [].

sources.md now records v1.7.0 as the last-verified version, so the next reader
knows what these files were checked against.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:21:11 +00:00
d578d6b2f2 refactor(gitea-prs): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 709 -> 161 chars, body 683 -> 353 words, Gotchas 8 entries/56% of
body -> 2/24.9%. Clears the description FAIL and both Vale CompositionNote
errors.

Fixes the three stale claims recorded on issue #99, all re-verified against the
deployed gitea-mcp schema during review:

- The description no longer advertises 'reviewers' as an update capability.
  editPullRequestFn never reads reviewers or team_reviewers; only
  add_reviewers/remove_reviewers do.
- milestone is now marked honoured on "update" only, in the Gotcha, the body
  and the dispatch table's create row. On "create" the server discards it and
  omits the key from the response, so the drop is indistinguishable from never
  passing it -- and labels DOES apply on create, so labels landing is no
  evidence the milestone did. The old text told callers to resolve a milestone
  before any write, wasting the lookup on create.
- The superseded un-draft workaround is gone. "update" with draft:false and no
  title makes the server strip the prefix itself, including [WIP],
  case-insensitively -- carried by references/pull-requests.md, corrected in
  PR #106.

The 22-row tool/method table becomes a 5-row dispatch table; all 20 operations
it named remain reachable, including update_branch and the reviewer methods.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:10:21 +00:00
d5954d3d99 refactor(gitea-files): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 787 -> 263 chars, body 922 -> 302 words, Gotchas 9 entries/69% of
body -> 3/24.8%. Clears both size FAILs and both Gotchas suggestions.

Deleted the second trigger register outright -- ~300 chars re-quoting the same
six verbs as user phrasings, which ADR-0020 names this skill for specifically.

Split the body on the read/write boundary: one invocation cannot both read and
write, so a dispatch table is mandatory. Six operations collapse into two flow
files rather than six -- create/update/delete share one tool pair and one
SHA-first lifecycle whose preamble would otherwise be triplicated, and the three
read tools share ref selection plus a 'neither listing is a SHA source'
comparison that only exists between them.

references/examples.md removed; all eight of its content blocks and all nine
named parameters carry into references/writing.md, verified against git HEAD.
Two deltas are corrections: the repo tree is now ruled out as a SHA source, and
reusing a SHA captured earlier in the conversation is now forbidden.

Four Gotchas relocated to the flow file that needs them; two promoted to gates
(SHA-as-concurrency-token opens writing.md; owner/repo became ## Inputs).

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:09:52 +00:00
ee812699a4 refactor(gitea-branches): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 688 -> 282 chars, body 435 -> 293 words, Gotchas 5 entries/54% of
body -> 3/23.5%. Clears the description FAIL and the Gotchas suggestion.

Cut the second trigger register (six re-quoted user phrasings) and the capability
enumeration; both moved to a new Boundaries section in the skill's own README.
Kept all three boundary clauses -- git-branches, git-history and gitea-prs each
defend a real activation steal, and gitea-prs is now the only guard on the
branch/PR collision in either direction since gitea-prs's own retrofit narrowed
its boundary to issues. Written as one arrow per target: the resolver extracts
only the first name per arrow clause, so conjoined targets go unchecked.

Two Gotchas deleted -- one paraphrased the step below it (its non-obvious half,
the get_me/list_my_repos token-scope block, was folded into that step), the other
is carried in full by references/branches.md:40-52.

Repoint two reference pointers the rename broke: branches.md and commits.md named
Gotchas by titles this retrofit changed. Now named by stable descriptors.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:08:38 +00:00
dfacf051a8 refactor(gitea-releases): retrofit to the ADR-0020 context contract
Description 500 -> 211 chars, body 676 -> 462 words, Gotchas 5 entries/41% of
body -> 3/21%. Clears the description FAIL and both Gotchas suggestions.

Cut the second trigger register (the re-quoted user phrasings), the doubled
capability enumeration across releases and tags, and the gitea-issues/gitea-prs
boundary, which defended against nothing -- neither was going to win a release
request. Kept the indirect trigger and the one real near-miss, gitea-branches.

Releases and tags are one flow, not two: 'delete the release and its tag' is a
single invocation that takes both branches, which disqualifies mutual
exclusivity, so no dispatch split. Two Gotchas moved to references/ behind
explicit triggers; one deleted as a paraphrase of the step below it.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 12:06:37 +00:00
ef3e981eac docs(context): record that hand-invocation blocks skill-to-skill routing
The Hand-invoked skill entry covered listing visibility and preload tax but not
invocability. Measured: disable-model-invocation: true hard-blocks the Skill
tool, not just the model-visible listing, so a `Call `x`` step in another
skill's body stops working the moment x takes the flag.

ADR-0020's 'Invocation as a design axis' verified only the visibility and slash
directions. Without this half, marking grill-with-docs hand-invoked -- one of
issue #99's four named candidates -- would silently break forge Step 1, which
calls it, plus three other inbound routes.

Refs #99
2026-08-30 11:54:26 +00:00
5f984ce34a chore(apm): refresh lock after SessionStart update
The SessionStart hook found six packages behind the remote default branch and
ran apm update. Committing the resulting lock separately so it does not sit in
the ADR-0020 retrofit diff.
2026-08-30 11:54:18 +00:00
0e91a3ae66 Merge pull request 'fix(gitea): correct which pull_request_write params apply on create' (#106) from fix/gitea-prs-create-drops-params into main
Reviewed-on: https://git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/pulls/106
Reviewed-by: Defame1297 <gitea@rkdr.net>
2026-08-17 20:33:56 +00:00
967d3ade25 fix(gitea): document the remaining create/update parameter asymmetries
Follow-up to the review of #106, which found four parameter claims the
first pass left wrong or missing. All four verified against gitea-mcp
v1.6.0 source before changing anything.

`remove_deadline` is dropped on "create" like the others, but the new
Gotcha enumerated a closed list that omitted it — so the paragraph
contradicted its own opening sentence. The list is now open ("including")
and the parameter carries the same "update" only marker as its neighbours.

`base` is settable on "update": editPullRequestFn reads it and retargets
the PR onto a different base branch. The file documented it as required
for "create" and said nothing else, hiding a real capability. This one is
under-claiming rather than over-claiming, but a file whose subject is
which parameter applies to which method is the place to fix it.

applyDraftPrefix strips two prefixes, `WIP:` and `[WIP]`, matched with
strings.EqualFold, while only "WIP: " is ever added. The un-draft
correction said "the prefix" singular, which understates what a caller
can hand it.

README.md bundled `reviewers` and `milestone` into "creating and
updating". Capability prose rather than a parameter contract, so not
strictly false, but it is the same conflation that produced the original
bug and it is not behind any gate.

Not addressed here: SKILL.md's description still advertises updating
reviewers, its draft guidance still prescribes the manual workaround, and
its milestone-resolution instruction carries no method qualifier — so an
agent working from SKILL.md alone can still reach the failure mode. Those
edits trip skill-size-check and the Vale prefilter, pulling in the
ADR-0020 retrofit; tracked on #99 rather than done silently here.

Refs: #104
Refs: #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ETxbGFetkbJQBHsx442Brt
2026-08-17 17:29:06 +00:00
4c9d2d7751 fix(gitea): correct which pull_request_write params apply on create
The gitea-prs reference documented `milestone` as "settable on both
"create" and "update"". It is not: `pull_request_write method: "create"`
accepts the parameter, returns no error or warning, and discards it.

Verified against the gitea-mcp v1.6.0 source rather than by observation
alone. `createPullRequestFn` builds its `CreatePullRequestOption` from
owner, repo, title, body, head, base, draft, labels and deadline only —
so the drop is not limited to `milestone` as issue #104 supposed.
`assignee`, `assignees`, `reviewers` and `team_reviewers` are discarded
on create too, and `reviewers`/`team_reviewers` are discarded on
"update" as well; they are only ever read by "add_reviewers" and
"remove_reviewers".

Two properties made the original error easy to make and hard to catch,
so both are now written down next to the correction: `labels` sits
beside `milestone`, reads identically, and does apply on create; and
`issue_write method: "create"` honours `assignees` and `milestone`, so
the asymmetry is specific to pull requests.

While in the file, corrected the adjacent draft gotcha. It prescribed
reconstructing the un-prefixed title by hand to un-draft a PR;
`applyDraftPrefix` shows "update" with `draft: false` and no `title`
fetches the stored title and strips the prefix server-side.

Impact: documentation only, no behaviour change. Callers following the
old text silently created PRs with no milestone, assignee or reviewer.
Confined to references/pull-requests.md, so the ADR-0020 skill gates do
not apply and gitea-prs needs no #99 retrofit first.

Fixes: #104
Refs: #99

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ETxbGFetkbJQBHsx442Brt
2026-08-17 16:58:56 +00:00
68e08c2413 Merge pull request 'docs: cut the every-session context set by 74%, and fix what the cut broke' (#105) from docs/slim-agents-md into main
Reviewed-on: https://git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/pulls/105
Reviewed-by: Defame1297 <gitea@rkdr.net>
2026-08-17 14:08:23 +00:00
d42f6368fe fix(docs): correct claims the first fix round asserted without measuring
Why: two blind verifiers re-ran the five preceding commits and found four
defects of the same class this branch exists to close -- a confidently stated
measured claim that does not survive re-measurement -- this time inside the
fixes themselves.

- AGENTS.md:41 still carried both phrasings c68e864 reports having corrected.
  `grep -rn repo-defined` returned exactly one hit repo-wide: that line, in the
  file every session preloads. 4d336bb edited the line directly above it.
- ADR-0021 asserted twice, in the section justifying that no gate is added,
  that the ADR-0020 validators "never open an apm.yml". All three open and
  yaml.safe_load it (skill-size-check.sh:342, both validate.sh). The conclusion
  survives -- none reads the description: key, and their globs are SKILL.md and
  *.agent.md only -- but the stated mechanism is falsified by one grep.
- architecture.md said the ADR directory holds 20 numbered ADRs; c7ba3d2 made
  it 21, and c68e864 audited that file for exactly this class of stale count.
  The number is dropped rather than corrected: `ls docs/adr/` is already the
  index, so a count in prose is a second thing to maintain.
- gates.md's new three-verdict table said `-> name` promotes an unresolved
  target to ERROR. Reproduced with fixtures: NAME_HYPH (skill-size-check.sh:543)
  requires a hyphen, so `-> gitea-prs` is checked and `-> triage` is not
  extracted at all, and the unicode arrow is never recognised. The SUGGESTION
  text advises that spelling, so taking its advice can silence the finding. The
  gap is now documented as a defect; nothing covers it, since the one arrow case
  in test-adr0020-targets.sh happens to use a hyphenated target.

Implementation notes:
- AGENTS.md:48's coverage claim is shrunk rather than chased. Restoring six
  glossary entries did not make it true: 12 more sampled terms are undefined,
  three of them (trigger/capability/boundary clause) used inside CONTEXT.md
  itself. It now says CONTEXT.md is the glossary and is not exhaustive.
- CONTEXT.md's output profile and near-miss entries are corrected against their
  sources. The first stated a false exclusion -- .github/plugin/plugin.json IS
  apm-generated; only the marketplace mirror has no profile. The second
  inverted its source's referent: description-quality.md defines a near-miss as
  a query, not a sibling skill.
- The strict-mode message named jq, which no suite guards on (`command -v jq`
  appears nowhere in tests/), while omitting python3/PyYAML, which three do.
- README's git and gitea bullets now name git-workflow and gitea-workflow.
  ADR-0021 leaves README the only inventory and architecture.md now points at
  it, so the two bullets that were short had to be completed.
- ADR-0018's 2026-08-14 correction is marked superseded in place. It asserted
  machine state in the present tense that its own 2026-08-17 note retracts.
- ADR-0021's remaining errors: six files -> four (measured from de84d1b), the
  wiki description's length 114 -> 96 chars, the codex self-contradiction, the
  cost argument overstating bumps already owed for any skill addition, and two
  claims about files this branch went on to edit.
- The "15 of 17 suites" figure is restored where I had removed it: it is a dated
  record of one incident, not a live count, and four sites now describe it the
  same way.

Impact: 16/16 pre-push hooks pass, suite 24 passed 0 skipped 0 failed. No
behaviour change; every edit is prose or a comment.

Refs: #105

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmFqzpuExLJv3m114XVE9w
2026-08-17 13:18:55 +00:00
c68e864159 docs(spec): correct eight claims the trim carried into the new files
Why: the relocation into gates.md and architecture.md moved text faster than it
verified it, and a review found eight assertions that do not survive contact
with the repo.

- gates.md cited docs/research/examples/, which does not exist; the tree is at
  plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/examples/. The same wrong string survives at
  ADR-0013:98, where it originated, and is tracked separately.
- gates.md's description-budget arithmetic was built on 23,427, a figure
  ADR-0020 measured at f9b919d and pins there, and compared a name-inclusive
  total against a description-only ceiling. Dropped rather than re-measured,
  following the precedent this branch set for CONTEXT.md's token figure: a
  second live copy is a second thing to go stale.
- gates.md listed "every boundary-clause routing target must resolve" as a hard
  FAIL. skill-size-check.sh emits unresolved targets as SUGGESTION by default,
  promotes to ERROR only when terminal and either route-notated or corroborated
  by a resolving target in the same sentence, and reports INFO DID NOT RUN when
  no universe resolves. Verified with five fixtures; replaced with a
  three-verdict table.
- gates.md and README called `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files`
  the whole push gate. check-release-needed.sh exits 0 unless
  PRE_COMMIT_REMOTE_BRANCH is refs/heads/main, which only the real git hook
  exports -- its own header comment titles this a "Known gap".
- "repo-defined" was loose: the two meta hooks are also declared here, and what
  separates them is repo: meta from repo: local.
- architecture.md claimed `when:` appears in two of 39 skill sources. Exactly
  one SKILL.md carries it; the second hit is a META.md. The likely origin is
  skill-implementation-workflow.md:233, which claims META.md sits alongside
  every skill when one exists in the whole tree.
- architecture.md said core/AGENTS.md is "deployed beside" CLAUDE.md.
  deploy-manifest.sh sends them to ~/.claude/ and ~/.agents/ respectively; the
  relation is import, not adjacency.
- gates.md's see-also cited ADRs as bare stems where its neighbours use paths.

Implementation notes: architecture.md's closing pointer sent readers to the
published description "for what a consumer actually gets", which was true
against an enumeration and is not after ADR-0021. It now names the boundary
relationship and points at the skills tree and README for an inventory. README's
bin bullet gains caveman and zoom-out, since ADR-0021 leaves it the only place
an inventory lives.

Impact: 16/16 pre-push hooks pass. Deliberately not fixed here and tracked
separately: the 12 pre-commit-stage hooks gates.md does not document, its own
SentenceOpenerThereIs violation, and README's missing scripts/install.sh step.

Refs: #105

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmFqzpuExLJv3m114XVE9w
2026-08-17 12:29:16 +00:00
c7ba3d2ccf chore(apm): retire skill enumeration from published descriptions
Why: enumerating a plugin's skills in its published description has now failed
three times in four days, the third time inside the correction for the second.

bb9158d (Aug 14) fixed core's description, which described bin's skills. That
failure was wrong content, not an incomplete list -- a syntactically perfect
four-item enumeration that belonged to a different plugin -- so enumerating
harder could not have caught it, and bb9158d's own fix replaced the enumeration
with a domain boundary. 65bac15 and de84d1b then cited that precedent while
doing the opposite, and the re-enumeration is itself incomplete: caveman and
zoom-out are unnamed in bin, git-workflow is unnamed in git despite 65bac15's
message claiming it was added, and gitea-workflow is unnamed in gitea. 23 of 27
skills named at the third attempt.

Nothing checks any of this. check-manifests.sh does not contain the string
"description"; apm audit --ci, apm pack --check-clean and
sync-plugin-content.sh --check all compare compiled output against apm.yml, so
their job is to propagate whatever it says byte-for-byte. The wiki claim passed
all fourteen pre-push hooks every day it was published. Enumeration also makes a
marketplace release the consequence of a directory appearing.

Implementation notes:
- ADR-0021 records the decision, the three failures, and why no gate is added:
  the check is one-directional, cannot see an invented capability, and a
  correspondence map would relocate the same per-skill maintenance one file over.
- bin 1.1.4 -> 1.1.5, git 1.3.4 -> 1.3.5, gitea 1.3.5 -> 1.3.6,
  marketplace.version 0.4.4 -> 0.4.5, all PATCH under per_package.
- apm.yml's top-level version: is restored to lockstep at 0.4.5. It has moved
  with marketplace.version in all eleven commits that ever touched the file
  until this branch left it at 0.4.2, and apm.yml's own comment records it as
  live and consumed by apm audit.
- git's boundary names the pre-commit hooks explicitly: pc-author and pc-run are
  not git operations, and a boundary drawn narrower than the contents is the
  same defect one level up.
- Regenerated with apm pack for the marketplace manifests and
  sync-plugin-content.sh --all for the per-plugin ones; both mirrors verified
  byte-identical.

Impact: consumer-facing. 16/16 pre-push hooks pass, suite green, generated diff
is 26 insertions and 26 deletions across 8 files with no incidental churn.

Refs: #105
ADR: 0021

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmFqzpuExLJv3m114XVE9w
2026-08-17 12:28:55 +00:00
4d336bbf35 docs: stop the preloaded instruction set asserting machine state
Why: four defects in the files every session pays for, all introduced or left
behind by the trim.

AGENTS.md told agents the `<plugin>:` form still resolves "because user-scope
native installs were left enabled on purpose", and that a working namespaced
call "is not something to fix". That premise is false on this machine:
installed_plugins.json is empty, no enabledPlugins key exists in ~/.claude.json,
and ~/.apm/marketplaces.json is empty. ADR-0018 already reversed itself once on
this exact claim (Correction 2026-08-14) using that same enablement as its
evidence, so flipping the assertion again would be the third revision in three.
Both files now assert nothing about install state at all, which removes the
flip-flop surface instead of re-aiming it.

The other three are guard-rails whose instruction survived the trim while the
caveat that made it safe did not:
- The run-tests.sh line omitted --strict, so it named the one invocation that
  reports SKIPPED rather than failed when a dependency is missing. gates.md
  records this gate going green having verified 15 of 17 suites on a vale-less
  PATH. .pre-commit-config.yaml:70 already uses --strict for that reason.
- The .claude/settings.json prohibition lost its ADR-0019 exception, so an agent
  applying it literally would strip apm's own merged SessionStart entry and
  create the drift the rule exists to prevent.
- LESSONS.md still routed graduated rules to CONTEXT.md's Principles section,
  which this branch deleted.

Implementation notes: the six terms the trim dropped while AGENTS.md still
claimed CONTEXT.md glosses everything -- authoring root, content mirror, apm
package, output profile, near-miss, vacuous green -- are restored as one-line
entries per CONTEXT-FORMAT.md, sourced from architecture.md, gates.md and
skill-audit's description-quality.md rather than reworded. ADR-0018 gets a third
dated note recording the observation and the fact that the state has now been
described two ways, and its stale user-scope inventory is replaced by a pointer
to it; the decision it records is untouched. LESSONS.md:3 carried the identical
stale claim as :5 and is fixed with it.

Impact: preloaded context is now free of assertions about machine state.

Refs: #105

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmFqzpuExLJv3m114XVE9w
2026-08-17 12:28:30 +00:00
36596598ef fix(tests): point the strict-mode dependency citation at README.md
Why: this branch moved the prerequisites list out of AGENTS.md into README.md
but left three references behind. The worst is run-tests.sh's --strict failure
message, which a developer is handed at the exact moment a push gate fails and
they need the dependency list: it named AGENTS.md, which no longer documents
vale, apm or jq anywhere. 56cc173 re-anchored this same class of citation in
.pre-commit-config.yaml, scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh,
scripts/sync-marketplace-mirror.sh and tests/test-check-vale-style-sync.sh --
tests/run-tests.sh was missed, and it is the only one a human actually reads.

Implementation notes:
- run-tests.sh:262 (user-visible), run-tests.sh:16 (header rationale) and
  test-run-tests.sh:395 all now cite README.md's Prerequisites table, verified
  to name vale, apm, jq, python3/PyYAML and the claude CLI.
- Every assertion on this message greps for "a skip is a SETUP ERROR", which
  sits before the changed clause, so no test needed updating.
- test-vale-wrap.sh's bash 3.2 citation is corrected in the same pass: it
  credited LESSONS.md and the script headers, but LESSONS.md's only mention of
  3.2 is an aside inside an unrelated lesson, not a target declaration. It now
  cites scripts/lib/batch-run.sh and providers/claude-code/statusline-command.sh,
  which do declare it. The citation 56cc173 replaced was already false, so this
  finishes a half-fix rather than correcting a regression.

Impact: forced the strict-failure path with vale removed from PATH and confirmed
the corrected message printing -- 21 passed, 3 skipped, exit 1. Full suite with
vale present: 24 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed.

Refs: #105

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmFqzpuExLJv3m114XVE9w
2026-08-17 12:28:11 +00:00
b1ea14df3e fix(scripts): make the mirror DRIFT fix line safe to copy-paste
Why: bd2bf66 restored the `apm pack` guard-rail by appending it to the `Fix:`
command after `--`, which made the printed line stop being runnable. Pasting it
ran the script with ~24 stray argv entries: `${1:-}` became `--`, so CHECK
stayed 0, no shift occurred, and `[[ $# -eq 0 ]] || usage` printed usage and
exited 1. The user got a usage error from the tool meant to fix their problem,
and the mirror stayed stale.

The unquoted backticks around `apm pack` were a second hazard in the same line:
the paste command-substituted a real `apm pack` run before this script was ever
reached, so the first error a user saw came from apm, not from here.

Implementation notes:
- The runnable command now stands alone on its own line, and the rationale
  follows as a separate `Note:` echo.
- Backticks downgraded to single quotes; a line printed next to a
  copy-pasteable command must not contain shell metacharacters.
- The guard-rail text is otherwise preserved verbatim. It exists because apm
  ships no output profile targeting this path, so `apm pack` does not refresh
  it, and expecting it to is the drift this hook prevents.

Impact: reproduced the break on a scratch copy, then verified the fix by pasting
the printed command verbatim — exit 0, mirror synced, re-check clean.
tests/test-sync-marketplace-mirror.sh asserts only exit codes and file contents,
so nothing pins this message and it could regress silently; tracked separately.

Refs: #105

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TmFqzpuExLJv3m114XVE9w
2026-08-17 12:27:56 +00:00
de84d1b677 chore(apm): give bin a published description that describes it
Why: bin's marketplace description read "A place for things to be binned" — a
routing boundary sitting in the enumeration slot, phrased as a joke. It is what
a consumer sees in the marketplace listing for a plugin shipping eleven
substantive skills: research, write-docs, tdd, prototype, triage, diagnose,
improve-codebase-architecture, grill-me, grill-with-docs, zoom-out and caveman.

This is the same category error b0ef503 fixed for git and gitea, and the same
text bb9158d moved out of core's description in August — "triage, diagnosis,
architecture review" left core precisely because those skills live in bin, so
bin is where it should have landed.

Implementation notes: bin 1.1.3 -> 1.1.4, marketplace 0.4.3 -> 0.4.4, PATCH for
metadata under the per_package strategy. README's bin line mirrors the new
description. architecture.md's routing boundary is deliberately left as
"unsorted skills that have not earned a home yet" — that is still true, and it
answers a different question than the listing does.

Impact: consumer-facing. apm-pack-check-clean, check-plugin-content-sync,
check-marketplace-mirror-sync, validate-marketplace, validate-plugins and
apm-audit-ci all pass.
2026-08-17 10:33:25 +00:00
65bac15257 chore(apm): correct git and gitea published descriptions and regenerate
Why: both plugins' published descriptions named capabilities that do not exist
and omitted ones that do. `gitea` advertised wikis — no wiki skill exists and
`grep -ri wiki plugins/gitea/.apm/` is empty — while omitting gitea-branches and
gitea-files. `git` advertised pull requests, which are gitea's, while omitting
pc-author/pc-run, git-submodules and git-workflow. These are compiled into
plugin.json and both marketplace.json files, so they are published metadata, not
internal notes.

This is the same defect bb9158d fixed on `core` in August, so the fix follows
that precedent exactly: correct the package apm.yml and the root marketplace
entry together — fixing only the package manifest leaves it half-propagated,
since the root entry is what reaches the compiled marketplace.

Implementation notes:
- git 1.3.3 -> 1.3.4, gitea 1.3.4 -> 1.3.5, marketplace 0.4.2 -> 0.4.3, all
  PATCH for metadata under the per_package strategy at apm.yml:76.
- Regenerated with `apm pack` for the two marketplace manifests and
  `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh --all` for the four per-plugin plugin.json
  files; `apm pack` alone does not touch those. `scripts/sync-marketplace-mirror.sh`
  refreshed the Copilot legacy mirror, which no apm profile targets.
- README's gitea line mirrors the new published description. The routing
  boundaries in architecture.md deliberately do not, since they answer a
  different question.

Impact: consumer-facing. Anyone reading the marketplace now sees what these
plugins ship. apm-pack-check-clean, check-plugin-content-sync,
check-marketplace-mirror-sync, validate-marketplace and apm-audit-ci all pass.
2026-08-17 10:13:31 +00:00
b0ef503485 docs: correct plugin scope, hook ordering and the setup gap
Why: the review found architecture.md's plugin table and README's plugin list
were both written by enumerating what happened to be in each plugin, so both
went stale immediately — README credited `git` with pull requests it has no
skill for, and both omitted `pc-author`/`pc-run`. bb9158d fixed this same class
on `core` in August and it recurred here, so the fix is to stop enumerating in
the place whose job is routing.

Implementation notes:
- architecture.md's table now states routing boundaries only, with a note saying
  so and pointing at each plugin's published apm.yml description for the actual
  inventory. Two boundaries are named explicitly: `core` vs `kyberforge` (kept),
  and `git` vs `gitea` — wire protocol against a local clone versus the forge's
  HTTP API, which is why git-branches and gitea-branches are not duplicates.
- The `git` row is widened to cover git hook tooling rather than moving
  pc-author/pc-run elsewhere. pre-commit manages .git/hooks/, so the placement
  was always right and the row was simply under-described.
- README's setup block had a comment where step 2's command should be. It now
  carries `pre-commit install -t pre-commit -t commit-msg -t pre-push`, verified
  against the three stages in .pre-commit-config.yaml and the three hooks in
  .git/hooks/. pc-run is still named, as the option rather than the only path.
- README:11 said each plugin carries agents, hooks and MCP servers. Only
  kyberforge ships hooks and only bin ships an MCP server.
- gates.md:30 claimed its hook list was in config order; it is grouped by
  concern, which is the better layout, so the claim is corrected to match.

Impact: docs-only. gitea's published description is corrected separately, since
that regenerates consumer-facing manifests.
2026-08-17 10:11:59 +00:00
bd2bf667c5 docs: restore two guard-rails the trim dropped
Why: 1929ffd and b9c7762 preserved every constant, hook ID and error string,
but two don't-re-litigate notes were lost. Both were guard-rails — they fired
from preloaded context, before the mistake. Restoring the sentence to an
on-demand spec doc restores the text without restoring the function, since an
on-demand file is opened after a plan is formed, not before.

Implementation notes: placed by when each note must fire, not by what it is
about.
- "Do not expect `apm pack` to refresh the .github/plugin/marketplace.json
  mirror" now lives in the DRIFT failure message of the script and hook that
  already catch that exact mistake. It costs no preloaded tokens, fires at the
  moment of the error, and cannot be missed. No test asserts on that message;
  --check and shellcheck both pass.
- Plugin self-containment has no gate that fires on it, so it goes in
  architecture.md's Plugin model beside "self-contained plugin units", stated as
  the constraint it is rather than a description, with the two consequences that
  make it load-bearing: the duplicated Vale styles (ADR-0014) and ADR-0020's
  constants copied into three validators.

Impact: the every-session set is unchanged — neither note returns to AGENTS.md.
2026-08-17 10:10:55 +00:00
ba7cec7672 docs(adr): amend ADR-0007 and ADR-0015 for the CONTEXT.md trim
Why: b9c7762 gave dated amendments to ADR-0013, ADR-0015 and ADR-0017, but two
pointers were missed. ADR-0007 cited the "Provider-agnostic issue tracker"
glossary entry, which the trim renamed to "Issue". ADR-0015 cited the "lint
plugin" entry, which the trim deleted outright — and ADR-0015 was amended for
its other CONTEXT.md pointer in the same commit, so this one was missed inside
an already-edited file.

Implementation notes: ADR-0007 gets a dated parenthetical matching the pattern
the other three carry, confirming the entry survived under a new name rather
than being dropped. ADR-0015's Considered-options parenthetical is re-pointed
at docs/spec/architecture.md's plugin scope table, which now carries the
repo-agnostic-versus-marketplace-specific argument the deleted entry held, and
its existing 2026-08-17 supersession note is extended to record that second
redirect in one place.

Impact: all four ADRs that referenced moved CONTEXT.md content now say where the
content went. No decision is altered.
2026-08-17 10:10:24 +00:00
56cc173f65 fix: re-anchor doc citations that the CONTEXT.md trim broke
Why: eight comments and one status note cited CONTEXT.md or AGENTS.md text that
b9c7762 and 1929ffd moved or deleted. All are inert at runtime, but they are the
rationale comments that tell the next maintainer why an assertion exists, and
they now name a file that no longer explains it.

Implementation notes: re-anchored by what the citation is for, not uniformly.
- Four sites quoted facts ADR-0013 owns — every rule is `level: error` with no
  ignorable tier (ADR-0013:59-70), and KyberforgeCopilot's `.agent.md`-only
  scope (ADR-0013:43-46). These now cite ADR-0013. ADRs are append-only here;
  the spec docs are refactored, which is what caused this rot.
- Two sites quoted the glob location-independence property, which no ADR owns.
  The quote was already inline and carried the full rationale, so the citation
  added a rot surface and no information — dropped, statement kept.
- sync-marketplace-mirror.sh's header attributed the mirror-not-a-profile fact
  to CONTEXT.md; the parenthetical beside it already carries the evidence, so
  the attribution is dropped rather than re-pointed.
- .pre-commit-config.yaml cited an AGENTS.md instruction that no longer exists;
  generalised to "the documented instruction".
- LESSONS.md:29 misquoted AGENTS.md's current session-start line.

Also corrects a pre-existing misattribution at tests/test-vale-wrap.sh:454:
AGENTS.md has never named bash 3.2 as a repo target (`git log -S'3.2'` on it is
empty). LESSONS.md and the script headers do.

Impact: no behaviour change. test-check-vale-style-sync.sh and test-vale-wrap.sh
both pass (42 passed, 0 failed).
2026-08-17 10:09:51 +00:00
b93af30750 docs: fix a wrong pointer and two stale claims in CONTEXT.md
Why: CONTEXT.md is an instructed every-session read, so a wrong assertion in it
is cited downstream without being checked. The b9c7762 rewrite introduced one
broken pointer and carried over two claims that were already false.

Implementation notes:
- The Preload tax entry pointed at docs/spec/gates.md for the measurement
  method. gates.md has no such method — it uses the 23,427-char figure once, in
  passing, without deriving it. The method and the current figure both live in
  ADR-0020, which is where a dated measurement belongs: it is superseded there
  deliberately, and issue #99 tracks its drift.
- Dropped the "~5,900 tokens across 39 skills" measurement rather than
  re-measuring it. It was already wrong three days after being written (~5,340
  today) and it was the only live number in the file. Every sibling entry is one
  definitional sentence plus a pointer fragment; this one now matches, and
  CONTEXT-FORMAT.md:43 asks for exactly that.
- Dropped "Written by the session-handoff skill or directly by the human" from
  the LESSONS.md entry. No session-handoff skill exists — LESSONS.md:7 records
  it as planned work. Who writes a file is not its definition.

Impact: removes the only rot surface in the file and the only assertion in it
that names an artifact the repo does not have.

Refs: #99
2026-08-17 10:06:26 +00:00
b9c7762463 docs: trim CONTEXT.md to a glossary and demote VISION.md
Why: CONTEXT.md is an instructed every-session read at 33,799 bytes (~8,450
tokens), and CONTEXT.md:17 layered docs/VISION.md on top. After the AGENTS.md
trim, that left ~9,650 tokens of instructed reads sitting behind a file whose
own format contract — grill-with-docs/CONTEXT-FORMAT.md:43, "Keep definitions
tight. One sentence max." — it was not following. 22 glossary entries averaged
190 words; the top four were 55% of the file, and one ("Vale audit prefilter")
was 1,444 words of pre-commit forensics filed as a definition.

Implementation notes:
- CONTEXT.md rewritten to CONTEXT-FORMAT.md's prescribed template: ## Language
  (five clusters, 22 terms with _Avoid_ aliases), ## Relationships,
  ## Example dialogue, ## Flagged ambiguities. 33,799 -> 9,762 bytes.
- Vale prefilter forensics moved to docs/spec/gates.md under nine subsections:
  the two-copy style layout, vale-wrap.sh and the Vale 3.15.2
  text.frontmatter.description limitation, the --config argv defect (E100),
  glob scoping, the rule inventory, and 0-files-means-NOT-RUN.
- Instruction-file format and the bidirectional-reference principle moved to
  docs/spec/architecture.md, the latter flagged as aspirational: no instruction
  file carries a `when:` field, only 2 of 39 skills do, and the reference
  scanner script it names does not exist.
- Added a per-plugin scope table to architecture.md so "which plugin owns this
  skill" survives the trim, and corrected its claim that the content index
  lives in providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md — that file is now two import lines
  and the index sits in core/AGENTS.md.
- "Repo and Gitea are the only source of truth" moved from CONTEXT.md's
  Principles into AGENTS.md session rules; it was operative guidance in a
  glossary. docs/VISION.md and LESSONS.md added to the on-demand list.
- The apm-consumed install entry (432 words) was deleted outright: all four
  consequences are already carried by README.md, ADR-0018, gates.md and
  AGENTS.md.
- ADR-0013, ADR-0015 and ADR-0017 each pointed at CONTEXT.md sections that
  moved; amended with dated supersession notes rather than left dangling.

Impact: the every-session set drops from ~15,700 to ~4,140 tokens across both
passes (-74%). The deleted "lint plugin" entry was also stale on a safety
claim — it said lint-runner inherits Edit, but ADR-0016 restored
`disallowedTools: Edit, Write, NotebookEdit` and CONTEXT.md was never updated.

Refs: #99
2026-08-17 09:28:01 +00:00
1929ffd2da docs: slim AGENTS.md to per-session context only
Why: AGENTS.md is preloaded into every session via CLAUDE.md's @AGENTS.md
import, so every word is a tax paid whether or not it is relevant. It had
grown to 3,371 words (~4,550 tokens), 75% of it a single "Setup and testing"
section that was mostly neither: roughly 1,600 words were gate forensics —
why a hook is shaped the way it is, what was tried and rejected, verification
numbers — and only ~390 words were genuine one-time setup.

Implementation notes: split three ways by audience rather than by heading.
One-time setup, prerequisites and test commands move to a new root README.md,
which did not previously exist. The gate forensics move to a new
docs/spec/gates.md, preserving every constant, hook ID, error string and
tried-and-rejected note (policy.fetch_failure_default, the removed fallback
frontmatter reader, extending skill-size-check's files: pattern to agents,
tidying .claude/settings.json out of the pretty-format-json exclude list) —
these exist to stop settled decisions being re-litigated, so none were
dropped. AGENTS.md keeps only what applies every session, at one clause of
rationale per rule. The .apm/-mirror section collapses to a pointer because
docs/spec/architecture.md already covers it in full. The hot ADR-0020 gate
counts stay in AGENTS.md deliberately: they block any skill edit today.

Also corrects docs/spec/architecture.md's stale claim of 19 ADRs; ADR-0020
landed without updating the count.

Impact: per-session preload drops from ~4,550 to ~1,116 tokens, a 75% cut.
agentsmd-audit passes: secrets clean, drift clean, 4 informational findings
for sections deliberately relocated to the README.
2026-08-17 08:56:37 +00:00
123ece2fb3 chore(apm): refresh lock after SessionStart auto-update
Why: kyberforge's SessionStart hook found six packages behind the holocron
default branch and ran `apm update --yes`, which re-resolved every unpinned
dependency ref and rewrote the lock. The dependencies are declared unpinned
against the default branch, so this churn is expected rather than a defect.

Impact: pins the deployed skill and agent set to the refs resolved this
session. No manifest or plugin content changed.
2026-08-17 08:56:22 +00:00
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{
"name": "holocron",
"description": "AI development skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI — factory, design, implement, review, and cross-cutting workflows.",
"version": "0.4.2",
"version": "0.4.5",
"owner": {
"name": "Defame1297",
"email": "defame1297@rkdr.net",
@@ -17,22 +17,22 @@
},
{
"name": "bin",
"description": "A place for things to be binned",
"version": "1.1.3",
"description": "Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin.",
"version": "1.1.5",
"category": "Utilities",
"source": "./plugins/bin"
},
{
"name": "git",
"description": "Skills for working with Git — conventional commits, branch management, pull requests, and feature flow.",
"version": "1.3.3",
"description": "Skills and agents for working with a local Git clone over the git wire protocol, and for authoring and running the pre-commit hooks that guard it.",
"version": "1.3.5",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/git"
},
{
"name": "gitea",
"description": "Skills for managing Gitea repositories — issues, pull requests, milestones, releases, and wikis.",
"version": "1.3.4",
"description": "Skills and agents for working with a Gitea forge through its HTTP API — the forge's own objects, as distinct from the local git clone.",
"version": "1.3.6",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/gitea"
},

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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"name": "holocron",
"description": "AI development skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI — factory, design, implement, review, and cross-cutting workflows.",
"version": "0.4.2",
"version": "0.4.5",
"owner": {
"name": "Defame1297",
"email": "defame1297@rkdr.net",
@@ -17,22 +17,22 @@
},
{
"name": "bin",
"description": "A place for things to be binned",
"version": "1.1.3",
"description": "Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin.",
"version": "1.1.5",
"category": "Utilities",
"source": "./plugins/bin"
},
{
"name": "git",
"description": "Skills for working with Git — conventional commits, branch management, pull requests, and feature flow.",
"version": "1.3.3",
"description": "Skills and agents for working with a local Git clone over the git wire protocol, and for authoring and running the pre-commit hooks that guard it.",
"version": "1.3.5",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/git"
},
{
"name": "gitea",
"description": "Skills for managing Gitea repositories — issues, pull requests, milestones, releases, and wikis.",
"version": "1.3.4",
"description": "Skills and agents for working with a Gitea forge through its HTTP API — the forge's own objects, as distinct from the local git clone.",
"version": "1.3.6",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/gitea"
},

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# pre-commit prints nothing at all for a passing hook, so without this
# the opt-out reinstated exactly the silent vacuous pass the script was
# written to kill, one level up -- the run showed a bare `Passed` and
# AGENTS.md's instruction to read that summary line was impossible to
# the documented instruction to read that summary line was impossible to
# follow in the one situation the opt-out exists for. The script's clean
# output is a single line, so this costs one line per push.

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# Working in this repo
This repo is the global AI development configuration repository — the authoritative source for agent definitions, skills, workflows, and prompts across all projects. Built as a homelab tool intended to scale to professional environments.
The global AI development configuration repository — the authoritative source for agent definitions, skills, workflows, and prompts across all projects.
This file carries only what applies to **every** session. Setup, prerequisites, and test commands are in `README.md`; the reasoning behind each enforcement gate is in `docs/spec/gates.md`.
## Structure
- `plugins/` — installable plugin units; each is an apm package (`apm.yml` + `.apm/`) carrying skills, agents, hooks, MCP servers, and bundled assets. This repo consumes them through **apm**, not Claude Code's native plugin install: root `apm.yml` declares all six as `dependencies.apm` git+path entries against the holocron remote, and `apm install` deploys them into `.claude/skills/` and `.claude/agents/` (both gitignored). External consumers can still install natively via `claude plugin install <name>@holocron` — the marketplace manifests are unchanged
- `providers/claude-code/` — Claude Code adapter (deployed to `~/.claude/` via `install.sh`)
- `plugins/` — six installable plugin units, each an apm package (`apm.yml` + `.apm/`). Root `apm.yml` declares all six as `dependencies.apm`; `apm install` deploys them into `.claude/skills/` and `.claude/agents/`, both gitignored install output.
- `providers/claude-code/` — Claude Code adapter, deployed to `~/.claude/` via `scripts/install.sh`.
## Edit `.apm/`, never the flat mirror
Inside a plugin, `plugins/<name>/.apm/` is the **only** hand-edited source for **plugin content** — the skills, agents, commands, instructions, extensions and hooks a host discovers. Everything in a plugin root that mirrors an `.apm/` primitive, plus both `plugin.json` manifests, is generated:
`plugins/<name>/.apm/` is the only hand-edited source for plugin content. The flat `plugins/<name>/{skills,agents,commands,instructions,extensions}/` directories, the merged `plugins/<name>/hooks/hooks.json`, and both `plugin.json` manifests are generated — nothing marks them as generated, so check the path before you edit. An edit to the mirror is discarded by the next sync and reported as drift by the `check-plugin-content-sync` pre-push hook.
- `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` generates the flat `plugins/<name>/{skills,agents,commands,instructions,extensions}/` directories and the merged `plugins/<name>/hooks/hooks.json` (ADR-0017)
- `apm pack` generates both per-plugin manifests — `plugins/<name>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and `plugins/<name>/.github/plugin/plugin.json` — and **two of the three** root marketplace manifests: `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` (apm's `claude` output profile) and `.agents/plugins/marketplace.json` (its `codex` profile, a differently-shaped file) (ADR-0015)
- `scripts/sync-marketplace-mirror.sh` generates the third, `.github/plugin/marketplace.json` — Copilot CLI's legacy manifest path. **No apm output profile targets it**: apm ships exactly two marketplace output profiles, `claude` and `codex` (documented in `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/apm-workflow/references/marketplace.md`). The mirror is a byte-identical copy of `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`, gated by the `check-marketplace-mirror-sync` pre-push hook. Do not expect `apm pack` to refresh it — that assumption is exactly the drift this pair exists to prevent
Not everything in a plugin root is generated. `README.md`, `docs/`, `bin/`, `sources.md`, `.mcp.json` and per-plugin extras are hand-authored there with no `.apm/` source — edit those in place. The rule is per-path, not per-directory. But a file placed *inside* a mirrored directory is deleted on the next sync (`sync_dir` runs `rm -rf` before every copy), so plugin-root documentation goes in `docs/`, never in `hooks/` or `skills/`.
**A plugin root is not wholly generated.** Material that is not an `.apm/` primitive is hand-authored there and no compiler touches it: `README.md`, `docs/`, `bin/`, `sources.md`, `.mcp.json`, plus per-plugin extras like `plugins/git/config.example.json`, `plugins/gitea/references/` and `plugins/bin/evals/`. Edit those in place — they have no `.apm/` source, and looking for one wastes a search. The rule is per-path, not per-directory: `plugins/<name>/skills/` is generated, `plugins/<name>/docs/` is not. `docs/spec/architecture.md` carries the same carve-out.
One qualification: "hand-authored, untouched" holds only at the plugin *root*. A file placed **inside** a mirrored directory is destroyed — `sync_dir` runs `rm -rf "$dst"` before every copy, so a `README.md` under `plugins/<name>/hooks/` or `plugins/<name>/skills/` is deleted on the next sync whether or not `.apm/` has a counterpart. Put root-level plugin documentation in `docs/`, never in a mirrored directory.
Nothing labels a generated file as generated — `plugins/kyberforge/skills/forge/SKILL.md` is byte-identical to its `.apm/` original, with no marker in either. Check the path before you edit. An edit to the mirror is discarded by the next sync and is reported as drift by the `check-plugin-content-sync` pre-push hook, which is the earliest anyone finds out. Details in `docs/spec/architecture.md`.
Full model: `docs/spec/architecture.md`.
## Prefer plugin skills over raw shell
This repo dogfoods its own plugins. Before shelling out to git, gitea, or lint tooling directly, check whether an installed skill already owns the operation — it usually does:
This repo dogfoods its own plugins. Before shelling out, check whether a skill already owns the operation — it usually does:
- Commits, branches, history, worktrees, remotes → `git-commits`, `git-branches`, `git-history`, `git-worktrees`, `git-remotes`
- Pre-commit hook install/config/troubleshooting → `pc-run` / `pc-author`
@@ -31,40 +27,33 @@ This repo dogfoods its own plugins. Before shelling out to git, gitea, or lint t
- Vale prose linting → `vale-config` / `vale-run`
- This repo's own AGENTS.md → `agentsmd-author` / `agentsmd-audit`
Use the bare, **unnamespaced** names above. Under the old `claude plugin install` these were `git:git-commits`, `kyberforge:skill-audit`, and so on; `apm install` deploys each skill to `.claude/skills/<name>/` as a plain project skill, which has no plugin prefix to carry. The `<plugin>:` form has not stopped resolving here, though — `~/.claude.json` still enables `core`, `git`, `gitea`, `kyberforge`, and `lint` at **user** scope, and ADR-0018 left those native installs in place on purpose, converting them being a separate decision with a blast radius beyond this repo. Every skill is therefore live under both names right now, and a working `gitea:gitea-prs` is the user-scope copy answering — not evidence that the apm install or this file is broken, and not something to "fix". Prefer the bare name anyway: apm deploys it, an external consumer installing holocron through apm gets it, and it is the form that survives those user-scope installs eventually being converted. The namespaced form also still resolves in any project that installs holocron natively, so a skill body written for both audiences should name the bare skill. Same for agents: `git-orchestrate`, not `git:git-orchestrate`.
Use the bare, **unnamespaced** names. That is what `apm install` deploys and the only form this repo's own install produces — a project skill has no plugin to prefix (ADR-0018). Whether the `<plugin>:` form (`gitea:gitea-prs`) also resolves depends on native plugin installs at user scope, outside this repo; write the bare name either way.
Fall back to raw shell only when no skill covers it.
## Setup and testing
## Session rules
- Run `apm install` to deploy this repo's own skills and agents into `.claude/skills/` and `.claude/agents/`. Both are gitignored install output, not authoring source — `plugins/<name>/.apm/` remains the only place to edit. The six dependencies in root `apm.yml` resolve from the holocron **remote**, unpinned against the default branch, so a `.apm/` edit is not visible to the running session until it is pushed and `apm update` re-runs (`apm install` deploys from `apm.lock.yaml` and does not re-resolve refs). Needs the network, and needs `apm_modules/` (which it materializes) left gitignored. `apm install` also configures the `obsidian` MCP server into the repo's `.mcp.json`, carried over from `plugins/bin/.mcp.json`.
- Do not add repo-owned keys to `.claude/settings.json`. apm treats that file as its own deployed artifact: `apm audit --ci` replays the install into a scratch tree and diffs, so anything apm would not have written there — an `enabledPlugins` block, a real `hooks` entry — is permanent drift that fails the `apm-audit-ci` pre-push hook. Its committed content is whatever apm last wrote, which today is the merged `SessionStart` entry for kyberforge's `check-apm-current.sh` — apm's own output, and it belongs in the commit (ADR-0019). What does not change is that nothing repo-authored goes in the file. A hook you want in this repo is authored in `plugins/<name>/.apm/hooks/` and deployed by apm, never hand-written here. The file is also **excluded from `pretty-format-json`** in `.pre-commit-config.yaml` — the sixth and last alternation in that `exclude:` pattern, and the only one there for a reason other than "generated manifest". Mind which number you are quoting: six alternations, expanding to sixteen real files (3 root marketplace manifests, 2 per plugin × 6 plugins, plus this one). `pretty-format-json --autofix` sorts object keys while apm emits insertion order, so leaving the file in that hook's scope rewrites apm's output on the way into every commit and `apm audit --ci` then reports permanent drift on a file with an empty `git diff`. Do not tidy it out of that list; it is load-bearing (see `LESSONS.md`, 2026-08-14). Machine-specific settings go in the gitignored `.claude/settings.local.json`, which apm does not deploy and the replay does not compare; shared enforcement belongs in `.pre-commit-config.yaml`.
- Keeping the install current is automatic but not free. Because the six dependencies are unpinned, deployed skills go stale whenever anyone merges. kyberforge ships a `SessionStart` hook that runs `apm outdated` at startup (~0.7s) and, when something is behind, runs `apm update --yes` and asks the host to re-scan skills (~10.4s). That rewrites `apm.lock.yaml`, so an unexplained modification to it after opening a session is expected, not a bug — commit or discard it deliberately. Note `apm install` alone will **not** pick up remote changes; it deploys from the lock. `apm update` is the command that re-resolves refs.
- Install git hooks via `pc-run`, wiring all three stages — this repo's `.pre-commit-config.yaml` has no `default_install_hook_types`, so a plain install silently skips `commit-msg` (Conventional Commits) and `pre-push` (the 14-hook gate described below).
- Install the `apm` CLI — four pre-push hooks shell out to it: `apm-marketplace-check`, `apm-audit-ci`, `apm-pack-check-clean`, and `check-plugin-content-sync` (via `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh`, which wraps `apm pack`). `apm-marketplace-check` and `apm-pack-check-clean` are bare `apm …` hook entries and `apm-audit-ci` is a `bash -c` loop calling `apm` once per package, so without it the push dies with an unhelpful "command not found". Use `apm-install`, or `curl -sSL https://aka.ms/apm-unix | sh`; verify with `apm --version`.
- 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 `python3` — required by `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`, the `skill-size-check` pre-commit hook. It measures the *folded* `description` value: most descriptions here are `>`-block scalars, so a regex over the raw lines measures indentation and newlines instead of the value. Missing it fails the hook with an install pointer rather than skipping the ADR-0020 checks, which would be a vacuous green. In practice it is already present — pre-commit is itself a Python application. **PyYAML is a hard requirement too**, not an optional accelerator: the hand-rolled fallback frontmatter reader has been removed, because a reader that mis-parses an unfamiliar scalar shape reports a clean pass on a file it never measured, which is the exact vacuous-green failure the `python3` check exists to avoid. `pip install pyyaml` if the hook reports it missing.
- That hook enforces **two independent gate families** over `plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md`, and neither replaced the other. The agentskills.io spec backstop is unchanged: 500 lines and 2,770 words, counted over the **whole file including frontmatter**. ADR-0020 adds a context budget measured differently — `description` 250 chars SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL (it is preloaded into every session whether the skill fires or not), **body-only** word count 600 SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL (everything after the frontmatter's closing `---`), a missing, valueless or `null` `description:` (a hard FAIL, not a skip — a gate that declines to measure the one preloaded field reports green), every boundary-clause routing target resolving to a real skill or agent, and every `references/<file>.md` a body names actually existing. Target resolution walks up **from the file being checked** to an authoring root — the nearest ancestor holding `plugins/*/.apm/{skills,agents}`, falling back to the nearest `.git`, in two passes so a nested `.git` cannot beat a real monorepo root. The universe is then every skill and agent under `<root>/plugins/*/`, plus the checked file's own apm package and whatever that package declares in its own `apm.yml` `dependencies.apm`; the **root** manifest's `dependencies:` block is not read, and no plugin here declares a cross-plugin apm dependency. Deployed `.claude/`/`.agents/` trees are consulted only when the walk found no plugin monorepo root — whether it landed on a bare `.git` ancestor or on nothing at all (the consumer case). The gate keys on which of the two passes matched, not on whether the root contributed any new name: a single-plugin monorepo re-collects its own package and adds nothing, so a name-count test reads zero there and would drag the deployed trees back into the universe. That matters because those trees are gitignored `apm install` output: resolution used to reach the four cross-plugin `gitea-*` → `git-*` targets through `.claude/skills/` alone, so the same commit measured 2 dangling targets on a developer machine and 6 on a fresh clone. It no longer does — verified by running the hook over a tree holding only `plugins/` and the root `apm.yml`, which reports findings identical to the working tree (26 description / 9 body / 2 dangling / 0 missing references / 58 SUGGESTIONs). Three further checks are SUGGESTION-only: a description with no boundary clause at all, a `## Gotchas` section with more than five entries, and a `## Gotchas` section over 25% of the body. A file can sit well inside one family and fail the other. The hook is `verbose: true` so the SUGGESTION tier is audible — pre-commit prints nothing at all for a passing hook, and a SUGGESTION deliberately does not fail. `skill-audit`'s `validate.sh` holds a second copy of the four ADR-0020 constants; `tests/test-skill-size-check.sh` asserts the copies agree.
- **Those ADR-0020 gates ship hot, with no baseline file.** 26 of 39 descriptions and 9 of 39 bodies currently exceed their FAIL tier, so editing one of those skills *for any reason* means retrofitting it to the contract first — a one-line fix to `gitea-prs` cannot be committed until that skill complies. This is deliberate, and the retrofit is tracked as Gitea issue #99. Check where a skill stands before starting: `pre-commit run skill-size-check --all-files`.
- **A second gate ships hot alongside it, and `skill-size-check` will not warn you about it.** `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` — the ADR-0020 Vale rule banning composition and architecture prose from a description — currently fires **10 errors across four skills**: `gitea-issues`, `gitea-labels-milestones`, `gitea-prs` and `gitea-workflow`. Every Vale rule here is `level: error` with no ignorable tier, so touching any of those four means fixing its prose findings as well as its size findings. Scoping a retrofit off `skill-size-check` output alone will leave you blocked at the second gate. Check both: `pre-commit run --all-files`.
- 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).
- `vale` is also a **pre-push** dependency, not only pre-commit. `check-vale-style-sync` runs six glob-coverage probes by invoking `vale --config` — they are the only assertions in it that catch a `.vale.ini` glob typo, the failure mode where every text-level check stays clean while vale lints zero files. Missing `vale` is therefore a hard failure there. The opt-out is `CHECK_VALE_STYLE_SYNC_ALLOW_MISSING_VALE=1`, and it is **not** `SKIP=`: the hook still runs and still asserts everything verifiable from file text, but the six probes do not, and its summary says so explicitly — `Vale style sync check passed (text-level only, vale unavailable): … 0 glob probe(s) verified`. Use it only on a machine that genuinely cannot install `vale`, and read that summary line as "the glob axis was not checked", not as a pass.
- 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.
- A suite that exits 77 because a dependency is missing is reported as SKIPPED, and does **not** fail an ad-hoc run. The pre-push hook invokes the same script as `--strict` (`RUN_TESTS_STRICT=1` is equivalent), where a skip **does** fail the push: at pre-push a skip means one of the dependencies above is absent on this machine, so the gate would otherwise report success having run fewer suites than it appears to. Without vale, for instance, three suites skip (`test-check-vale-style-sync.sh`, `test-vale-hooks-consumer.sh`, `test-vale-wrap.sh`) and the strict failure names each one and what to install.
- `tests/run-bats.sh` derives the set of `.bats` files it expects from `git ls-files`, so a `.bats` file deleted from the worktree but still tracked in the index fails the run rather than silently shrinking the suite. Remove one with `git rm` (or stage the deletion) when the removal is intentional; an untracked new `.bats` file is picked up and needs no ceremony. Both discovery walks (`tests/run-bats.sh` and `tests/run-tests.sh`) exclude `apm_modules/`: `apm install` materializes a full copy of every plugin there, and running a dependency's copy of a `.bats` file breaks its relative path to the bats helpers — 167 spurious failures before the exclusion landed.
- Pushing runs 14 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`, `check-executables-allow-sync`), artifact validators (`check-apm-agents-valid`, which runs agent-audit's `validate.sh` over every real `plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md`), 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`. `check-executables-allow-sync` is the odd one in that first group — it guards a silent failure rather than drift in generated text. apm gates a package's `hooks/` and `bin/` on an exact `<package>#<version>` lookup in root `apm.yml`'s `executables.allow`, with no wildcard and no version-less form, so bumping `plugins/kyberforge/apm.yml`'s `version:` without bumping the key errors nowhere: the entry simply stops matching, kyberforge's `SessionStart` hook stops deploying, and the install goes quietly stale — the failure ADR-0019 records as live. Run `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` locally — one command, the whole gate. That command reports **16**, not 14: 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-audit-ci` runs `apm audit --ci` once per manifest — the root one and each of the six plugin packages — because the root-only invocation audits the marketplace manifest and **nothing else**, and `apm-pack-check-clean` does not parse plugin `dependencies:` blocks either (verified: a malformed one passes `apm pack --check-versions --check-clean --dry-run` and fails `apm audit --ci` in that package's directory). It verifies two things and claims no more: each `apm.yml` parses as a valid APM manifest, and any package declaring dependencies has a consistent `apm.lock.yaml`. It does **not** enforce an org policy — apm discovers one from the git remote and only understands github.com and Azure DevOps, so against this repo's self-hosted Gitea remote it prints `No org policy found at unknown; enforcement skipped`. Do **not** "fix" that with `policy.fetch_failure_default: block` in `apm.yml`: it was tested and rejected, because with no reachable policy source it makes the hook exit 1 on every push forever.
- `check-apm-agents-valid` derives its expected agent-file set from `git ls-files` (same pattern as `tests/run-bats.sh`), so an agent file deleted from the worktree but still tracked fails the run, and discovering zero agent files is an error rather than a pass. An untracked new agent file is still validated — the derivation is one-directional on purpose, so uncommitted work is not blocked but also cannot bypass the gate. Agents take the ADR-0020 description gates (`agent-audit`'s `validate.sh` holds its own copy of those two constants) and, deliberately, **no** body word gate: an agent body becomes the system prompt of a fresh context rather than competing with the caller's live conversation, so the 900-word FAIL does not transfer. A bats test pins that absence in `agent-audit`'s validator — adding a body gate there contradicts the ADR rather than fixing an inconsistency. Be precise about the scope of that guarantee, though: it holds for the **validator**, not for the shared script. `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` applies its body gate to whatever path it is handed, and `bash scripts/skill-size-check.sh plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md` exits 1 today with 900-word body FAILs on `git-orchestrate` (933), `gitea-orchestrate` (1,199) and `apm-orchestrate` (1,080). Agent files escape only because the hook definitions filter on `SKILL.md` — a file-pattern accident that happens to implement the design, not the design itself. Do not "extend" that hook's `files:` pattern to cover agents on the assumption that the script already knows the difference.
- **Two** pre-push hooks need the network, for one shared reason: root `apm.yml`'s `marketplace.packages[]` contains exactly one remote entry (`mattpocock-skills`, `source: mattpocock/skills`), and resolving it needs a `git ls-remote`. `apm-marketplace-check` resolves every entry and is `always_run`, so it fails with `No cached refs (offline)`. `apm-pack-check-clean` (`apm pack --check-versions --check-clean --dry-run`) re-resolves the same entry and fails with `Error: Git network timeout during ls-remote`. Pinning the entry to an exact version does **not** remove the call — an exact pin still ls-remotes. `--offline` rescues neither. To push without a network, skip both using pre-commit's own mechanism: `SKIP=apm-marketplace-check,apm-pack-check-clean git push`. Skip those two alone — verified under `unshare -rn`, the other twelve pre-push hooks pass offline because they are real local checks (`check-executables-allow-sync` landed after that run, but reads two local manifests and makes no network call), and adding one of them to `SKIP` disarms it silently. `apm-audit-ci` calls `apm` too but stays local: its org-policy discovery resolves nothing on this remote before any network call, so it does not join the pair above.
- Author commits with `git-commits` — it validates Conventional Commits (enforced at `commit-msg`) for you.
- **Do not add repo-owned keys to `.claude/settings.json`.** apm treats it as its own deployed artifact and `apm audit --ci` replays the install and diffs, so anything apm would not have written is permanent drift that fails the `apm-audit-ci` pre-push hook. A hook you want here is authored in `plugins/<name>/.apm/hooks/` and deployed by apm, never hand-written into that file. The `SessionStart` entry already in it is exactly that: kyberforge authors it in `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/hooks/hooks.json` and apm merges it in, so it is apm's own output, it is what the replay expects, and it belongs in the commit — do not strip it (ADR-0019). Machine-specific settings go in the gitignored `.claude/settings.local.json`; shared enforcement goes in `.pre-commit-config.yaml`.
- **`apm.lock.yaml` turning up modified is expected, not a bug.** kyberforge's `SessionStart` hook runs `apm outdated` at startup and `apm update --yes` when something is behind, which rewrites the lock. Commit or discard it deliberately.
- **A `.apm/` edit is not live in this session until it is pushed.** The six dependencies resolve from the holocron remote, unpinned against the default branch. `apm install` deploys from the lock; `apm update` is what re-resolves refs.
- **The ADR-0020 skill gates ship hot, with no baseline.** Three skills still exceed a FAIL tier, all in `kyberforge`: `apm-workflow` (817-char description), `forge` (648 chars, 1,093-word body) and `apm-install` (514 chars). Editing any of those three *for any reason* means retrofitting it to the contract first — a one-line fix cannot be committed until the skill complies. Deliberate; tracked as Gitea issue #99, which is retrofitting the corpus plugin by plugin and has `kyberforge` left. **No routing target dangles any more**, and `tests/test-adr0020-targets.sh` now pins that set as empty, so a new boundary clause naming a non-existent skill fails the suite rather than joining a backlog. The `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` Vale rule fires nowhere, but `skill-size-check` does not cover the Vale half and any new description can reintroduce it, so check both: `pre-commit run --all-files`.
- **Run `bash tests/run-tests.sh --strict` before considering any change done.** Keep the flag: without it a suite whose dependency is missing exits 77 and is counted SKIPPED rather than failed, so the run goes green having verified less than it claims.
- **Before pushing, rehearse the gate locally:** `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files`. It runs the 14 pre-push hooks this repo authors itself plus pre-commit's 2 `meta` hooks, so it prints 16; `check-release-needed` passes without checking anything, because it needs a real push to `main`. `docs/spec/gates.md` reconciles both.
- **Pushing without a network** needs `SKIP=apm-marketplace-check,apm-pack-check-clean git push` — those two resolve a remote marketplace entry via `git ls-remote`. Skip only those two; the rest are real local checks, and adding one to `SKIP` disarms it silently.
- **Author commits with `git-commits`** — it validates Conventional Commits, which `commit-msg` enforces.
- **This repo and Gitea are the only source of truth.** All project state, decisions, and working conventions live here. Do not use an external memory system for this project — cached state diverges from the repo and you get a split brain. Before answering any design or architecture question, check `docs/adr/` for an existing decision.
## Key documents
Read CONTEXT.md at the start of every session in this repo.
Read `CONTEXT.md` at the start of every session — it is this repo's domain glossary, and the terms it defines are used unglossed everywhere else. It is not exhaustive: terms it does not carry are defined at their point of use, mostly in `docs/spec/`.
Read these on demand:
- `docs/spec/architecture.md` — current directory structure, install pipeline, provider model
- `README.md` — prerequisites, install, and test commands
- `docs/VISION.md` — the phased roadmap and where this is going; read when a decision turns on product direction
- `LESSONS.md` — patterns that went wrong once; read before repeating a class of change that has burned the repo before
- `docs/spec/gates.md` — what each pre-commit and pre-push hook enforces and why; read when a gate fails or before changing hook config
- `docs/spec/architecture.md` — directory structure, install pipeline, provider model
- `docs/adr/` — architectural decisions; read before answering design questions or proposing structural changes
- `docs/ai-constitution.md` — full governance evidence base; read when a governance decision needs justification
- `docs/research/ai-coding-factory/ai-coding-factory-principles.md` — factory design rationale; read when implementing, auditing, or reviewing skills or factory structure

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name: AI Development Repo
description: Domain language and decisions for the global AI development config repository
description: The domain language of the global AI development config repository
---
# Context
# AI Development Repo
## Principles
The bounded context of this repo is **how agent instructions are authored, packaged, distributed, and
kept small**. Terms here name concepts specific to that problem. Mechanics live elsewhere:
`docs/spec/architecture.md` for structure, `docs/spec/gates.md` for enforcement, `docs/adr/` for
decisions.
### CLAUDE.md index model
`AGENTS.md` is the source of always-on universal rules (provider-agnostic). `providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md` is a thin adapter: it imports `~/.agents/AGENTS.md` via `@~/.agents/AGENTS.md` and appends Claude Code-specific additions (`@import` for governance.md, content index). Deployed to `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` via `install.sh`. Context size is kept minimal — only what is needed every session is loaded upfront; detailed content is pulled on demand. See ADR-0003.
## Language
### Instruction file format
`core/instructions/<topic>.md` files are plain markdown — no frontmatter, no schema. The agent decides when to read each file based on task context and the content index label in `providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md`. Frontmatter is deferred until there is evidence that agents are loading the wrong files in practice.
### Context cost
### Repo/gitea as source of truth
All project state, decisions, context, and working conventions live in this repo or Gitea. External memory systems should not be used for this project — they create a split-brain risk where cached state diverges from the repo. At the start of every session, read `CLAUDE.md`, `CONTEXT.md`, and `docs/VISION.md`. Everything needed to orient is here.
**Preload tax**:
The always-on context cost of every installed skill's `name` and `description`, charged from the
first token of every session whether the skill is invoked or not. Measurement method and current
figure: ADR-0020.
_Avoid_: context cost, token overhead
Before answering any design or architecture question, check for existing decisions: `docs/adr/` (hard architectural decisions).
**Skill context contract**:
The ADR-0020 authoring rules that hold the preload tax and body size down — a description carries a
trigger clause, at most one capability clause, and a boundary clause, and nothing else. Thresholds
and the target-resolution walk: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
_Avoid_: skill budget, size limit
## Glossary
**Dispatch body**:
The body pattern a skill with two or more mutually exclusive flows must use — the body carries only
the dispatch table and the gates common to every branch, and each flow lives in its own
self-contained `references/` file. Exemplar: `apm-workflow`.
_Avoid_: router body, thin body
### Management Application
A separate product (separate repo) for browsing, editing, and configuring AI development configs through a proper product UI. Git is the persistence layer, invisible to the user. The app is repo-agnostic — it works with any git repo that follows these conventions. This repo is the canonical default content (the official starter). See `docs/VISION.md` for the phased roadmap.
**Hand-invoked skill**:
A skill reached only by typing its slash command, declared `disable-model-invocation: true`. The host
withholds it from the model-visible listing entirely, so it pays no preload tax and its description
becomes human-facing text. The flag also hard-blocks the Skill tool, so **no other skill can route to
a hand-invoked skill** — a `Call \`x\`` step in another skill's body stops working the moment `x`
takes the flag. Check inbound routes before declaring one. Exemplar: `zoom-out`.
_Avoid_: manual skill, disabled skill
### Skills
Reusable slash commands for AI coding tools, defined as `SKILL.md` files following the [Agent Skills open standard](https://agentskills.io). Authored at `plugins/<plugin-name>/.apm/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md` and reaching a host by one of two install paths: `apm install`, which deploys the skill directory to `.claude/skills/<skill-name>/` (this repo's own path — see "apm-consumed install"), or `claude plugin install <name>@<marketplace>`, which caches the whole plugin (still supported for external consumers). Skills are self-contained — they cannot reference files outside the plugin directory after install-time caching. The two paths name skills differently: apm deploys a plain project skill (`skill-audit`), a plugin install namespaces it (`kyberforge:skill-audit`).
**Delegation discipline**:
The agent-side counterpart to the dispatch body. A plugin-scope agent is a single `.agent.md` file
with no sibling `references/` directory, so it cannot disclose to itself — it can only delegate to
skills. Its characteristic defect is therefore restatement, not length.
_Avoid_: agent hygiene
### Preload tax
The always-on context cost of every installed skill's `name` + `description`, which sit in the agent's context from the first token of every session whether or not the skill is invoked. Measured 2026-08-14 against base commit `f9b919d` at 23,427 chars (~5,900 tokens) across 39 skills, plus 1,325 chars for 4 agents. Method, so it can be re-run: sum `len(name) + len(description)` over each `plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md` frontmatter with `>` block scalars folded to the value the host loads, at ~4 characters per token. Non-routing frontmatter (`metadata.source_keys`, `category`, `version`) is **not** part of it — the model-visible skill listing carries only `name` and `description`, which supersedes `LESSONS.md:63` on this host. Bodies are not part of it either; they are charged on invocation.
### Distribution
### Skill context contract
The authoring rules that hold the preload tax and body size down, set by ADR-0020. A description carries a trigger clause, at most one capability clause, and a boundary clause of the form `Not <thing> → <skill-name>` naming a resolvable target — nothing else. "Resolvable" is decided by walking up *from the file being checked* to an **authoring root** — the nearest ancestor holding `plugins/*/.apm/{skills,agents}`, falling back to the nearest `.git`, in two passes so a nested `.git` cannot outrank a real monorepo root. The universe is then every skill and agent under `<root>/plugins/*/` (sibling plugins resolve against each other, which is what a monorepo means), plus the checked file's own apm package and that package's own declared `dependencies.apm`. The **root** manifest's dependency list is never consulted, and no plugin here declares a cross-plugin apm dependency. Deployed `.claude/`/`.agents/` trees count only when there is no authoring root at all — the consumer case. The property this buys is that one commit gets one verdict: those trees are gitignored `apm install` output, so resolving through them made the same commit report 2 dangling targets on a developer machine and 6 on a fresh clone, which a gate shipping hot with no baseline cannot do. A `${BASH_SOURCE}`-relative repo root is the other half of the same defect and is gone — it leaked this repo's 39-skill universe into consumer repos running the hook through pre-commit. A *missing* boundary clause is a SUGGESTION rather than a failure, for skills and agents alike — some skills genuinely have no near-miss sibling. A *missing or empty description* is the opposite: a hard FAIL in all three validators, because a gate that merely declines to measure the one preloaded field reports green. Capability enumeration, output formats, and composition notes ("composes X rather than duplicating Y") belong in the body or `README.md`; a description that summarises workflow is a correctness hazard, not just a cost, because agents act on it instead of reading the body. Sizes are two-tier and sit *below* the agentskills.io spec limits, which stay unchanged as conformance backstops: description 250 SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL (spec 1,024); body 600 SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL (spec 2,770 words / 500 lines). Conflating the quality gate with the spec ceiling is what let `skill-author` and `agent-author` grow to within twelve words of 2,770.
**Skill**:
A reusable slash command defined as a `SKILL.md` file following the
[Agent Skills open standard](https://agentskills.io), authored at
`plugins/<plugin>/.apm/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md`.
_Avoid_: command, prompt, macro
### Dispatch body
The body pattern a skill with two or more mutually exclusive flows must use: the body carries only the dispatch table and the gates common to every branch, and each flow lives in its own self-contained `references/` file. Named for `apm-workflow` (421-word body, 3,006 words of references), which arrived at it independently and is the repo's exemplar. Its absence was the characteristic defect at the time ADR-0020 was written: `skill-author` inlined both its create and improve flows, and `agent-author` carried 50-60 lines marked inapplicable by their own headers on any single run. Both were retrofitted to dispatch tables in the change that carries the ADR — `skill-author` went 2,623 body words to 595 and `agent-author` 2,582 to 616 — so they are now worked examples of the pattern rather than counter-examples of it. The 39-skill corpus at large is not: 9 bodies still exceed the 900-word FAIL (issue #99).
**Plugin**:
The deployable unit — one or more skills, agents, hooks, commands, and MCP servers bundled into a
single installable directory under `plugins/<name>/`, compiled from that plugin's `.apm/` source.
_Avoid_: package, bundle, module
### Hand-invoked skill
A skill reached only by typing its slash command, declared with `disable-model-invocation: true`. The host withholds it from the model-visible skill listing entirely, so it pays no preload tax and its `description` becomes human-facing text rather than a trigger list. `zoom-out` is the worked example: apm passes the flag through verbatim to both install paths, and the skill is absent from the router while `/zoom-out` still works. Choosing model-invoked vs. hand-invoked is the first question `skill-author` asks, because it determines whether a description needs triggers at all.
**apm package**:
The unit apm builds and installs — `plugins/<name>/apm.yml` plus the hand-authored
`plugins/<name>/.apm/` tree it compiles from (ADR-0015).
_Avoid_: plugin directory, source tree
### Delegation discipline
The agent-side counterpart to the dispatch body. A plugin-scope agent is a single `.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md` file with no sibling `references/` directory, so it cannot disclose to itself — it can only delegate to skills. Its characteristic defect is therefore restatement, not length: an agent body that spells out a procedure a skill it can invoke already owns creates a second copy that drifts. `agent-audit` fails that, with the fix being "invoke `<skill>` instead". Agents take the same description gates as skills but no body word gate — a skill body competes with the caller's live conversation, an agent body becomes the system prompt of a fresh context.
**Content mirror**:
The generated flat `skills/`, `agents/`, `commands/`, `instructions/`, `extensions/` directories and
merged `hooks/hooks.json` at a plugin root — also called the flat mirror — compiled from that
plugin's `.apm/` tree so hosts that convention-scan those paths discover the content (ADR-0017).
_Avoid_: generated copy, duplicate tree
### Plugin
The deployable unit in the plugin marketplace. A plugin bundles one or more skills, agents, hooks, prompts, MCP servers, and optionally a `bin/` directory into a single installable directory. In this repo, plugins live under `plugins/<name>/`, each with its own `apm.yml` + `.apm/{skills,agents,hooks,...}` — this is the authoring source of truth for the plugin's content (ADR-0015). Two categories of tracked output are compiled from that source, never hand-edited: `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` (Claude Code) and `.github/plugin/plugin.json` (Copilot CLI) via `apm pack`/`apm compile`; and, alongside them, a flat `agents/`, `skills/`, `commands/`, `instructions/`, `extensions/` directory mirror at the plugin root plus a merged hooks file at `hooks/hooks.json`, generated by `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` — Claude Code's and Copilot's installers convention-scan only these flat paths (`hooks/hooks.json` is the convention path for hooks specifically; a root-level `hooks.json` is scanned by nothing and is deleted as stale by a sync — see ADR-0017's 2026-08-14 amendment) and have no awareness of `.apm/` nesting at all, so this mirror is what actually makes `.apm/` content discoverable at install time (ADR-0017). Plugins are copied to a cache on install — they cannot reference files outside their own directory. Install a plugin with `claude plugin install <name>@<marketplace>`, or consume it as an apm dependency (see "apm-consumed install").
**Output profile**:
An `apm pack` target format for a generated *marketplace* manifest; apm has `claude`
(`.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`) and `codex` (the differently-shaped
`.agents/plugins/marketplace.json`), and none for `.github/plugin/marketplace.json` (Copilot CLI's
legacy path), which a sync script mirrors instead. Mechanics: `docs/spec/architecture.md`.
_Avoid_: build target, export format
### Plugin marketplace
A Git repository with a `marketplace.json` manifest listing installable plugins. No backend, registry, or SaaS required — the Git repo is the marketplace. This repo is the `holocron` marketplace. The manifest at `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` (read by both Claude Code and Copilot CLI) is **compiled output** of `apm pack`, generated from the root `apm.yml`'s `marketplace:` block (owner, build/output config, versioning strategy, and the `packages:` list of installable plugins) — it is not hand-edited. See ADR-0015. `.github/plugin/marketplace.json` is Copilot CLI's legacy manifest path; apm has no output profile for it (only `claude` and `codex`, and `codex`'s is a differently-shaped file at `.agents/plugins/marketplace.json`), so `scripts/sync-marketplace-mirror.sh` keeps it byte-identical to `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`, checked at pre-push. Each listed package's `source:` still points at that plugin's own `plugins/<name>/` root, not at an `apm pack` build artifact — which is why that root also carries the flat `agents/`/`skills/`/`commands/`/`hooks/hooks.json` content mirror described under "Plugin" (ADR-0017): without it, an install from this marketplace finds a valid manifest but no discoverable content.
**Plugin marketplace**:
A Git repository carrying a `marketplace.json` manifest that lists installable plugins. There is no
backend, registry, or SaaS — the Git repo is the marketplace.
_Avoid_: registry, store, catalogue
### apm-consumed install
How this repo installs its own plugins, as of 2026-08-14: not `claude plugin install <name>@holocron`, but six `dependencies.apm` entries in the root `apm.yml`, each a `git:`/`path:` object against the holocron remote, deployed by `apm install` into `.claude/skills/` and `.claude/agents/`. Project scope only — apm installs nothing at user scope, so the switch is contained to this repo and any other repo opts in by declaring its own dependencies. The git+path object form is deliberate over the shorter `<name>@holocron` marketplace alias: an alias must first be registered with `apm marketplace add`, which writes to `~/.apm/marketplaces.json` (user scope, outside the repo), whereas the object form needs nothing beyond the committed manifest and so survives a fresh clone.
**holocron**:
This repository, in its role as a plugin marketplace and as the remote the six plugin dependencies
resolve against.
_Avoid_: the marketplace, upstream
Four consequences, each load-bearing:
- **Skills gain an unnamespaced name.** apm deploys plain project skills, so `git:git-commits` also answers to `git-commits`. The `<plugin>:` form has not stopped resolving here: `~/.claude.json` still enables `core`, `git`, `gitea`, `kyberforge`, and `lint` at user scope, which ADR-0018 left in place deliberately — converting them is a separate decision with a blast radius beyond this repo. Until it is taken, every skill is live under two names, which is the same "present twice under two names" outcome ADR-0018's own "Alternatives considered" rejected for *keeping both install paths* — reached here by leaving user scope alone rather than by adopting it as the install model. Write the bare name regardless: apm deploys it, and a repo consuming holocron through apm gets only that form. The namespaced form still resolves wherever holocron is installed natively, so cross-audience skill bodies should use the bare name.
- **apm owns `.claude/settings.json`.** `apm audit --ci` (an `apm-audit-ci` pre-push hook) replays the install into a scratch tree and diffs it against the worktree, so any key apm would not have written is permanent drift. Committed content is exactly `{"hooks": {}}`; repo-owned settings have nowhere to live in that file.
- **Install output is gitignored.** `.claude/skills/`, `.claude/agents/`, and `apm_modules/` are all regenerated by `apm install`. `apm.lock.yaml` and the generated `.mcp.json` are committed. Committing the deployed skills would add a third mirror of the same content to the two ADR-0017 already governs.
- **Test discovery must skip `apm_modules/`.** It holds a full copy of every plugin, `.bats` files included; both `tests/run-bats.sh` and `tests/run-tests.sh` exclude it.
**apm-consumed install**:
How this repo installs its own plugins as of 2026-08-14 — six `dependencies.apm` entries in the root
`apm.yml` deployed by `apm install`, rather than `claude plugin install <name>@holocron`. Its
consequences: ADR-0018.
_Avoid_: apm install, dependency install
Dependencies are unpinned against the default branch, matching the `autoUpdate: true` the native marketplace install had. The practical cost is a round trip: an edit to `plugins/<name>/.apm/` is invisible locally until it is pushed and `apm install` re-runs, because the dependency resolves from the remote rather than from the working tree beside it.
**Provenance chain**:
The three-stage traceability record linking a skill back to its research inputs: `/research` produces
topic docs and a `sources.md`; the author skill records which sources informed which files in
`references/sources.md` and `source_keys` frontmatter; `skill-audit` validates the chain is complete
and internally consistent.
_Avoid_: sources, citations, attribution
### HITL (human-in-the-loop)
Agent pauses before a consequential action; human approves before execution. Required for irreversible or high-stakes actions (architecture changes, production deployments, security configuration). The agent drafts the change plan and waits — it does not proceed autonomously. Contrast with HOTL.
### Governance
### HOTL (human-on-the-loop)
Agent acts; human monitors and can intervene after the fact. Acceptable for low-stakes, bounded, reversible actions where the cost of pausing for approval exceeds the blast radius of an error. The distinction between HITL and HOTL must be explicit and documented — defaulting to HOTL for convenience is not acceptable.
**HITL** (human-in-the-loop):
The agent pauses before a consequential action and a human approves before execution. Required for
irreversible or high-stakes actions — architecture changes, production deployments, security
configuration.
_Avoid_: manual approval, gated action
### Sycophancy
The failure mode where RLHF-trained models prioritise approval over accuracy. Treated as a first-class reliability risk: models change correct answers to wrong ones under user pressure in a majority of observed cases, then persist in the wrong answer. Designing against sycophancy is an explicit obligation, not a quality-of-life concern. Countermeasures: explicit pushback resistance instructions, prompting for dissent, cross-validating against independent sources. Never interpret AI agreement as AI accuracy.
**HOTL** (human-on-the-loop):
The agent acts and a human monitors, able to intervene after the fact. Acceptable only for
low-stakes, bounded, reversible actions where the cost of pausing exceeds the blast radius of an
error.
_Avoid_: autonomous, unsupervised
### AGENTS.md
The provider-agnostic always-on instruction entry point. Two files:
- **Repo-level `AGENTS.md`** — instructions for agents working inside this repo (structure, key rules); imported by repo `CLAUDE.md` via `@AGENTS.md`.
- **Global `core/AGENTS.md`** — Communication and Behavior rules that apply across all projects; deployed to `~/.agents/AGENTS.md`; imported by `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` via `@~/.agents/AGENTS.md`.
**Sycophancy**:
The failure mode where an RLHF-trained model prioritises approval over accuracy — changing a correct
answer to a wrong one under user pressure, then persisting in the wrong answer. Treated here as a
first-class reliability risk, not a quality-of-life concern.
_Avoid_: agreeableness, people-pleasing
Contains always-on rules in plain markdown with no provider-specific syntax (no `@import`). Provider-specific files (`CLAUDE.md`) are thin adapters that import the relevant `AGENTS.md` and add only Claude Code-specific syntax. This pattern means a single source of truth can serve multiple providers without duplication. See ADR-0003.
### Documents
### Skill composition
A skill calling another skill by name to delegate a sub-task. The calling skill focuses on the orchestration decision ("when to do X"); the called skill owns the mechanics ("how to do X"). Established compositions: `grill-me` calls `write-adr` when a decision crystallises; `implement-feature` calls `tdd` as its implementation methodology; `forge` calls `grill-with-docs` to refine intent, classifies the target artifact type (skill / agent / plugin / marketplace entry), then routes to the matching `*-author` skill — which owns its own create/improve logic and, where applicable, its own inline audit closeout (`skill-author` runs `/skill-audit`, `agent-author` runs `kyberforge:agent-audit`, both in the same context as the authoring work). Reserve `forge` for genuinely undecided "which artifact type is this" questions — an already-fully-specified corrective edit (exact file, line, and fix already known) should call the target author skill directly instead (`skill-author`, `apm-workflow`, `agentsmd-author`, etc.); routing a known fix through `forge`'s grill-and-classify layer adds unnecessary indirection and, in practice, has been observed to lose track of hard constraints handed down the chain (e.g. "don't commit yet," "edit in this worktree") because each hop re-derives instructions from a shorter brief. `forge` additionally runs its own independent recheck after a skill/agent route finishes: a clean-context subagent (not forked, no inherited context) re-runs the same audit skill against the finished artifact, as a distinct verification layer from the author skill's inline audit — the two can share blind spots since the inline audit runs in the same context as the work it checks. If the clean audit surfaces any unresolved finding, `forge` loops — re-invoke the author skill to resolve it, re-run the clean audit — until the clean audit comes back with nothing unresolved; only then is the route done. `plugin-author` and `marketplace-author` had no audit counterpart and got no recheck; their terminal check was `claude plugin validate`. Both were deprecated per ADR-0015, superseded by `apm-workflow`, and deleted entirely once issue #90 landed.
**AGENTS.md**:
The provider-agnostic always-on instruction file, in plain markdown with no provider-specific syntax
(ADR-0003). Two exist: repo-level, and the global `core/AGENTS.md` deployed to `~/.agents/AGENTS.md`.
_Avoid_: instructions file, system prompt
### Provider-agnostic issue tracker
Skills and workflows reference "linked issue" generically rather than a specific provider. Gitea is the canonical issue tracker for this repo (see ADR-0007). "Issue" is the cross-provider term (GitHub, GitLab, Gitea all use it).
**Thin adapter**:
A provider-specific instruction file (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`)
that imports its `AGENTS.md` and adds only that provider's syntax, carrying no original always-on
content of its own (ADR-0002, ADR-0003).
_Avoid_: wrapper, shim, provider file
### Provenance chain
The three-stage traceability record linking a skill back to its research inputs: (1) `/research` produces topic docs and a `sources.md` in `plugins/<plugin>/docs/research/docs/<topic>/`; (2) `/skill-author` reads those docs and records which sources informed which skill files in `references/sources.md` (including a `Research doc:` back-pointer to the upstream research file) and `source_keys` frontmatter on `SKILL.md` and `references/*.md`; (3) `skill-audit` validates the chain is complete and internally consistent via `validate-provenance.sh`. A skill with research input but no `references/sources.md`, or with `source_keys` that don't match `references/sources.md` slugs, has a broken provenance chain.
**LESSONS.md**:
The long-loop feedback log for patterns observed across sessions, at the repo root.
_Avoid_: changelog, retro, postmortem
### Bidirectional reference principle
Files that reference other files should declare those references explicitly. The referencing file carries the forward reference (e.g. content index in `CLAUDE.md`, `references:` in frontmatter). The referenced file carries a `when:` field describing when it is loaded. Both sides should agree — divergence signals staleness. The reverse map ("what files reference this file?") is derived by a reference scanner script, not maintained manually. This principle applies to instruction files, skills, and workflow documents.
**Management Application**:
A separate product in a separate repo for browsing, editing, and configuring AI development configs
through a product UI, with Git as an invisible persistence layer. Repo-agnostic; this repo is its
canonical default content. Roadmap: `docs/VISION.md`.
_Avoid_: the UI, the dashboard, the app
### agentsmd-author / agentsmd-audit
A skill pair in the `core` plugin for writing, updating, and reviewing a repo's `AGENTS.md` file(s) — the generic open-standard file (see the `AGENTS.md` entry above), including this repo's own. `agentsmd-author` creates/updates AGENTS.md content, supports nested monorepo placement (per the standard's nearest-file-wins precedence), and closes out by invoking `agentsmd-audit` inline. `agentsmd-audit` runs a single combined pass checking three mandatory baselines: secrets/credentials (governance.md hard prohibition — AGENTS.md is committed content), structural completeness (common-sections checklist from the agents.md spec), and accuracy/drift (do referenced commands and paths actually resolve against the repo). `agentsmd-audit` never inspects provider adapter files (see `provider-adapter-author`) — its scope is AGENTS.md content only. Chosen over folding this into `kyberforge` because kyberforge's scope is meta-tooling for the holocron marketplace itself, not generic target-repo documentation; `core` is the intended home for cross-cutting, repo-agnostic utility skills.
### Quality
### provider-adapter-author
A companion skill (`core` plugin) that detects a target repo's provider-specific instruction file (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, etc.) and, where it duplicates content AGENTS.md should own, converts it into a thin adapter that imports AGENTS.md — mirroring this repo's own ADR-0002/ADR-0003 two-tier adapter pattern. Self-validates via its own bundled deterministic script (`scripts/validate-adapter.sh`: checks for an import reference, no duplicated headings, size threshold) rather than a separate paired audit skill — the check is mechanical, so a script suffices per governance.md's "prefer deterministic code for repeatable tasks." `agentsmd-author` calls this skill via skill composition when it detects an existing provider file with overlapping content.
**Skill composition**:
A skill calling another skill by name to delegate a sub-task — the caller owns the orchestration
decision ("when to do X"), the callee owns the mechanics ("how to do X").
_Avoid_: chaining, nesting, sub-skill
### lint plugin
A standalone, repo-agnostic plugin (`plugins/lint/`) for configuring and running linters — not scoped to kyberforge's own meta-tooling. First linter is Vale (prose style linting), split into two skills per the git/gitea per-concern pattern: `vale-config` (setup — `.vale.ini`, `StylesPath`, styles) and `vale-run` (invoke Vale, interpret/report findings). A `lint-runner` agent composes these for isolated-context lint sweeps; it is report-only **by instruction, not by capability** — its body states "You never edit files" and "Do not edit, fix, or rewrite any flagged content", but nothing enforces that. It previously carried `tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob`, which withheld `Edit` outright; plugin-scope APM agents cannot express a `tools:` field at all (ADR-0016 — `apm compile` copies frontmatter verbatim to both Claude Code and Copilot, whose `tools:` vocabularies are incompatible, so a value correct for one harness is wrong for the other), so `plugins/lint/.apm/agents/lint-runner.agent.md` now declares only `name`/`description`/`source_keys` and inherits every tool, `Edit` included. ADR-0016 accepted this loss of enforcement knowingly; the restriction survives as prose the agent is expected to follow. Vale's research docs (`docs/research/docs/vale/`) moved from `plugins/kyberforge/` to `plugins/lint/` to keep the provenance chain same-plugin.
**Vale audit prefilter**:
The deterministic Vale pass that runs ahead of `skill-audit`/`agent-audit`'s Description dimension,
so LLM judgment is spent only on what a pattern cannot catch. Mechanics: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
_Avoid_: linting, style check
### Vale audit prefilter (skill-audit / agent-audit)
Wiring Vale as a deterministic prefilter for `skill-audit`/`agent-audit`'s Description dimension (ADR motivation: issue #84) is repo-specific, not part of the generic `lint` plugin, so it doesn't live in `plugins/lint/` — but per ADR-0014 it also doesn't live at the repo root anymore. Two copies live inside `plugins/kyberforge/`, one per skill, since a plugin's cache-install only copies each skill's own files (no cross-skill sharing): `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/` is canonical (`.vale.ini` plus a custom `Kyberforge` style covering description-opener banning ("This skill/agent..."), vague-capability wording ("helps with", "utilize", ...), and generic "see references/ for details" padding — and a `KyberforgeCopilot` style scoped only to `.agent.md` files for the Copilot-only "Use proactively has no effect" check), and `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-audit/assets/vale/` is a smaller duplicate (`Kyberforge` only, scoped to `SKILL.md`) kept in sync by `scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh` (pre-push). A root-level `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` exposes both copies (plus `skill-size-check`) so any external repo can enforce the same rules via `repo: <this-repo-url>, rev: <tag>` in its own `.pre-commit-config.yaml` — pre-commit clones the pinned rev into its own cache, independent of whether Claude Code or the `kyberforge` plugin is installed at all, and the same mechanism covers CI (`pre-commit run --all-files`). This repo's own `vale-audit-prefilter-skill`/`-agent` pre-commit hooks consume the identical plugin-bundled copies via `repo: local` (not a third root copy, and not a pinned self-reference — a pinned self-reference would lint working-tree edits against the last tagged release rather than the change being made). Every rule is `level: error` and every alert is a FAIL — no ignorable tier, same as shellcheck, the test suite, and conventional-pre-commit. Graded severities do not work here: Vale's exit code keys on `error` alerts alone, so `warning`/`suggestion` rules exit 0 and pre-commit swallows the output of a passing hook, leaving them invisible and blocking nothing. `MinAlertLevel` and `--minAlertLevel` are correspondingly absent from `.vale.ini` and the hook, being no-ops under this model. Vale covers the pattern-matchable sub-checks named in issue #84 (imperative opener, vague filler, `Use proactively`, generic reference-pointer padding) plus, per ADR-0013, one body-wide prose-pattern check ("There is/are" sentence openers) — everything else about body discipline (defaults-vs-menus, why-rationale, non-pattern-matchable judgment calls), near-miss exclusion strength, and control calibration stays LLM judgment.
**Authoring root**:
The directory a gate resolves against — the nearest ancestor of the file being checked holding
`plugins/*/.apm/skills` or `plugins/*/.apm/agents`, falling back to the nearest ancestor holding
`.git`. The walk: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
_Avoid_: repo root, project root
Both skills' Step 1, and the `vale-audit-prefilter-skill`/`-agent` pre-commit hooks, call each copy's own `scripts/vale-wrap.sh` rather than `vale` directly — a workaround for a confirmed Vale 3.15.2 limitation (see `vale-config`'s Gotchas): `text.frontmatter.description` silently stops matching on most — not all — multi-line descriptions. Verified by reproduction, not assumed: `>` folded scalars, plain (unquoted) continuation lines, and single- or double-quoted multi-line scalars all yield 0 alerts and exit 0 on a deliberately-bad fixture, while a `|` literal block spanning the same 2+ lines lints normally (alerts fire, exit 1). The wrapper flattens those three broken forms to one physical line in a scratch copy (padding with blank lines so every other line number is unchanged) before handing off to real `vale`; `|` literal blocks and single-line descriptions pass through untouched, already linting correctly. The plain and quoted forms previously passed silently — unflattened and unmatched — so a bad description in either sailed through the prefilter. Handed no `--config` at all, the wrapper falls back to its own sibling `assets/vale/.vale.ini`, located from `${BASH_SOURCE[0]}` rather than from the cwd — which is why both manifests' `entry:` is now the bare script path with no argument after it. pre-commit prefixes only `entry[0]` with the hook-repo clone path (`cmd = (prefix.path(cmd[0]), *cmd[1:])`), so every later argument resolves against the *consuming* repo's root: a `--config` in `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` pointed at a path no consumer has and hard-failed every external run with `E100 [--config] Runtime error`. `.pre-commit-config.yaml` drops the argument too, deliberately keeping the two entries identical — the local `repo: local` hook resolved its `--config` correctly only because the consuming repo *was* this repo, and that divergence is why three review rounds exercised a path no external consumer takes and missed the defect. An explicit `--config` still wins, in all three argv forms (`--config X`, `--config=/abs`, `--config=rel`), and a relative one still resolves against the caller's cwd, matching bare `vale`, not the repo root. Both audit skills' Step 1 now passes no `--config` either: it resolves the script relative to the skill's own directory so the call works from an installed plugin cache, but a relative `--config` alongside it would still resolve against the cwd, yielding `E100 Runtime error ... does not exist` and exit 2 — which both skills' fallback misreads as "vale unavailable" and silently downgrades to full LLM judgment. `tests/test-vale-wrap.sh` regression-tests this against skill-audit's copy specifically (its fixtures are all `SKILL.md`-shaped, and only skill-audit's `.vale.ini` has that glob section). Each `.vale.ini`'s section globs are path-agnostic (`[**/SKILL.md]` for skill-audit's copy; `[**/agents/*.md]`/`[**/*.agent.md]` for agent-audit's) and do no scoping on their own: Vale's `*` crosses `/`. Scoping comes from each pre-commit hook's own `files:` regex and from the audit skills passing one explicit file per invocation. The two manifests scope differently on purpose: this repo's `.pre-commit-config.yaml` pins its own layout — `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` for `-skill`, `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/agents/[^/]+\.agent\.md$` for `-agent` — while the shipped `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` stays layout-agnostic for external consumers whose skills live anywhere, using `(^|/)SKILL\.md$` and `(^|/)agents/[^/]+\.md$|\.agent\.md$`. Both manifests split the prefilter into two hooks precisely because one combined hook pointed at only one copy would silently 0-file-skip the other file type. A `SKILL.md` outside `plugins/` (e.g. project-scope `.claude/skills/foo/SKILL.md`) still matches `[**/SKILL.md]` and gets linted normally — the globs constrain filename shape, not location. Vale reports 0 files only when the path it is handed matches no glob section at all: a differently-named file, or a directory argument holding nothing that matches. That run prints `✔ 0 errors ... in 0 files.` and exits 0, indistinguishable from a clean pass, so both audits treat a 0-file Vale run as NOT RUN and fall back to full LLM judgment.
**Near-miss**:
A query that shares keywords with this skill but needs a different one — and, by extension, the
sibling that would wrongly answer it; boundary clauses exist to exclude genuine near-misses rather
than to enumerate siblings. Detail: `skill-audit/references/description-quality.md`.
_Avoid_: overlap, similar skill
This scope expands per ADR-0013: one cherry-picked low-noise `write-good`/`alex` rule landed in `styles/Kyberforge`, `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` (22 held-out hits, both in-corpus hits clean rewrites, zero suppressions). A second, `Kyberforge.VagueQualifier`, was cherry-picked and then deleted: 2 hits across the skill/agent corpus as it stood at the time of that measurement (2026-08-08, before the `.apm/` restructure), one marginal and one an unfixable false positive (`caveman/SKILL.md` quotes `of course` as an example of filler — a mention, not a use) that forced the repo's only Vale suppression comments. A third, `Kyberforge.CompositionNote`, landed with ADR-0020 and bans architecture and composition prose from a description; it is `level: error` like the rest, and it currently fires 10 times across `gitea-issues`, `gitea-labels-milestones`, `gitea-prs` and `gitea-workflow`, so `pre-commit run --all-files` is red on prose as well as on size until issue #99 lands. Also new is a sibling pre-commit hook, `skill-size-check` (`scripts/skill-size-check.sh`), which carries **two independent gate families that must not be conflated** (see "Skill context contract"). The agentskills.io spec backstop is `MAX_LINES=500` and `MAX_WORDS=2770`, both inclusive and both counting the **whole file including frontmatter** (2,770 is a word-count proxy for the 5,000-token limit, calibrated to the densest prose measured in this repo — 1.81 tokens per word — so even a worst-case `SKILL.md` at the ceiling stays under 5,000 tokens; it is not a percentile of the corpus). ADR-0020 adds a context budget measured differently: description characters 250 SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL, **body-only** words 600 SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL, plus deterministic checks that every boundary routing target resolves, that a body's named `references/<file>.md` all exist, and — SUGGESTION-tier — that a boundary clause is present at all, that `## Gotchas` holds at most five entries, and that it stays under 25% of the body. `skill-audit/scripts/validate.sh` and `agent-audit/scripts/validate.sh` hold their own copies of the shared constants and `tests/test-skill-size-check.sh` asserts the copies agree, so a `SKILL.md` can no longer pass its own audit yet be blocked by the commit hook. Agents take the description gates and no body word gate. `python3` **and PyYAML** are hard requirements — the earlier hand-rolled frontmatter fallback is gone, because a fallback that silently mis-parses a scalar shape reports a vacuous pass. Scoped to `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` only, same as `vale-audit-prefilter-skill`, so it never lints `docs/research/examples/` reference skills. It's also exposed in the root-level `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` as `kyberforge-skill-size-check` — it has no external asset dependency, so it needed no relocation, only exposure to external consumers. File scope (`SKILL.md` + agent files) and enforcement model (rules land directly in `styles/Kyberforge`, blocking immediately, no trial tier) stay unchanged; governance.md/CONTROLS.md were evaluated and excluded as rule sources (nothing prose-pattern-matchable to mine). House convention: banned phrasing that must be mentioned rather than used goes in backticks or a fenced code block — Vale skips code spans and fences, so no suppression is needed; inline `<!-- vale Rule = NO -->` (HTML-comment form; the MDX `{/* */}` form does not work in plain Markdown) is the fallback only where backticking is impossible.
**Vacuous green**:
A check that reports success because it measured nothing — zero files scanned, an unparsed value read
as empty, a conditional branch that never armed.
_Avoid_: false pass, clean run
### LESSONS.md
Long-loop feedback log for patterns observed across sessions. Three or more entries on the same pattern graduate to the relevant standing file (e.g. a coding convention, a governance rule). Updated by the session-handoff skill or directly by the human. Lives at the repo root.
**Issue**:
The cross-provider term for a tracked unit of work. Gitea is this repo's canonical tracker
(ADR-0007), but skills say "linked issue" generically rather than naming a provider.
_Avoid_: ticket, card, task
## Relationships
- A **Plugin** bundles one or more **Skills** and agents; a **Plugin marketplace** lists **Plugins**;
**holocron** is this repo wearing that hat.
- Every model-invocable **Skill** pays the **Preload tax**. A **Hand-invoked skill** does not — which
is the first question to settle when authoring one.
- The **Skill context contract** bounds both the **Preload tax** (description) and the body.
A **Dispatch body** is how a skill stays inside it; **Delegation discipline** is how an agent does.
- **AGENTS.md** is the source of always-on rules; a **Thin adapter** imports it and originates
nothing.
- **Skill composition** is the caller/callee split. `forge` routes a genuinely *undecided* artifact
type to the matching author skill — an already-specified fix (file, line, and change known) calls
that author skill directly, because each routing hop re-derives instructions from a shorter brief
and has been observed to drop hard constraints handed down the chain.
- **HITL** and **HOTL** are exclusive per action class, and the choice must be explicit and
documented. **Sycophancy** is why HOTL is not the safe default.
- A **Skill** built on research carries a **Provenance chain**; `skill-audit` fails it when broken.
- **LESSONS.md** feeds the standing files: three or more entries on one pattern graduate the pattern
into the relevant standing document.
## Example dialogue
> **Dev:** "This one only fires when someone types the slash command. Does its description still need
> trigger words?"
> **Maintainer:** "No — that's a **hand-invoked skill**. The host withholds it from the model-visible
> listing, so it pays no **preload tax** at all and the description is human-facing text."
> **Dev:** "Then the body can be as long as it needs to be?"
> **Maintainer:** "Different budget. The **skill context contract** gates the body whether or not the
> skill is model-invoked — the description competes with every other skill's description, the body
> competes with the caller's live conversation. Four mutually exclusive flows means a **dispatch
> body**: table in `SKILL.md`, one `references/` file per flow."
> **Dev:** "And if I split it into an agent instead?"
> **Maintainer:** "Then you're in **delegation discipline** territory. An agent has no `references/`
> to disclose to, so the failure mode flips — it stops being length and starts being restatement of
> a procedure some skill already owns."
## Flagged ambiguities
- "skill" was used for both the authored `SKILL.md` under `plugins/<name>/.apm/skills/` and the
deployed copy under `.claude/skills/` — resolved: the authoring source is the **Skill**; the
deployed copy is gitignored `apm install` output and is never edited.
- Skills can answer to two names, bare (`gitea-prs`) and namespaced (`gitea:gitea-prs`), depending on
whether a native install exists at user scope alongside the apm one (ADR-0018) — resolved: write
the bare name, which is the only form `apm install` produces.
- "context" means both the model's live token window (the **Preload tax** sense) and the bounded
domain this file describes — resolved: unqualified "context" in this repo means the token window.
- "audit" was used for both an author skill's inline closeout and `forge`'s independent
clean-context recheck — resolved: these are two distinct layers, kept separate precisely because
an audit running in the same context as the work it checks shares that work's blind spots.

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# Lessons
Patterns observed during development of this repo. Three or more entries on the same pattern → promote to CONTEXT.md (or the relevant instruction file) as a standing rule.
Patterns observed during development of this repo. Three or more entries on the same pattern → promote to `docs/spec/architecture.md` (or the relevant instruction file) as a standing rule.
**Graduation rule:** When three or more entries cover the same pattern, the human reviews and promotes it to the appropriate standing location: `CONTEXT.md` for domain-level principles, `core/instructions/coding.md` for coding conventions, `core/instructions/testing.md` for testing conventions, or `core/instructions/subagent-orchestration.md` for delegation conventions. Those four are the whole set — `core/instructions/` holds `coding.md`, `governance.md`, `subagent-orchestration.md` and `testing.md`, and nothing else. Git conventions have no standing file of their own: promote them to `core/instructions/coding.md`, or create a new instruction file deliberately rather than assuming one exists. The graduated entries are marked `[graduated → target file]` rather than deleted (audit trail).
**Graduation rule:** When three or more entries cover the same pattern, the human reviews and promotes it to the appropriate standing location: `docs/spec/architecture.md` for structural and domain-level principles — `CONTEXT.md` is not a destination, its `## Principles` section was deleted and what was there now sits under that file's "AGENTS.md pattern" and "Reference conventions" headings — `core/instructions/coding.md` for coding conventions, `core/instructions/testing.md` for testing conventions, or `core/instructions/subagent-orchestration.md` for delegation conventions. Those four are the whole set — `core/instructions/` holds `coding.md`, `governance.md`, `subagent-orchestration.md` and `testing.md`, and nothing else. Git conventions have no standing file of their own: promote them to `core/instructions/coding.md`, or create a new instruction file deliberately rather than assuming one exists. The graduated entries are marked `[graduated → target file]` rather than deleted (audit trail).
**Who writes here:** The session-handoff skill (Chunk 3) prompts LESSONS.md extraction before closing a session. The human may also write directly.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Issue files frequently referenced "the workflow defined in `docs/notes/skill-imp
The repo CLAUDE.md instructs agents to read CONTEXT.md at session start, but agents skip this in practice — defaulting to reading only what's directly relevant to the immediate prompt (e.g. the skills folder). The governance.md works because `@import` is technically enforced by Claude Code. Fix: (1) add `@CONTEXT.md` to repo CLAUDE.md using `@import` to make it always-loaded; (2) add a "Key decisions" section to CONTEXT.md with one-line resolved-ADR summaries so locked choices are always in context.
**Status (2026-08-14): neither part landed.** Root `CLAUDE.md` imports `@AGENTS.md` only — no `@CONTEXT.md` — and `CONTEXT.md` has no "Key decisions" section. The behavioral hope this entry diagnosed is still the only mechanism in place: `AGENTS.md` carries the line "Read CONTEXT.md at the start of every session in this repo," which is loaded but is itself an instruction, not an import. The proposal above is open work, not a record of a completed change.
**Status (2026-08-14): neither part landed.** Root `CLAUDE.md` imports `@AGENTS.md` only — no `@CONTEXT.md` — and `CONTEXT.md` has no "Key decisions" section. The behavioral hope this entry diagnosed is still the only mechanism in place: `AGENTS.md` carries the line "Read `CONTEXT.md` at the start of every session," which is loaded but is itself an instruction, not an import. The proposal above is open work, not a record of a completed change.
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# holocron
The global AI development configuration repository — the authoritative source for agent definitions, skills, workflows, and prompts across all projects. Built as a homelab tool intended to scale to professional environments.
Content ships as six installable plugins, each an apm (Agent Package Manager) package. This repo consumes its own plugins through apm, so the working copy runs the same released content every other consumer gets.
## Repo layout
| Path | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| `plugins/` | Six apm packages — `bin`, `core`, `git`, `gitea`, `kyberforge`, `lint` — each carrying skills, and where relevant agents, hooks, MCP servers, and bundled assets |
| `providers/claude-code/` | Claude Code adapter, deployed to `~/.claude/` via `scripts/install.sh` |
| `core/` | Provider-agnostic always-on content — `core/AGENTS.md` and `core/instructions/` |
| `docs/` | Specs (`docs/spec/`), architectural decisions (`docs/adr/`), governance, research, and notes |
| `scripts/` | Install, sync, and check scripts used by the git hooks |
| `tests/` | `run-tests.sh`, `run-bats.sh`, the `test-*.sh` suites, and the bats submodules |
The six plugins:
- **kyberforge** — skills and agents for creating, maintaining, and managing a Claude Code / Copilot CLI plugin marketplace
- **git** — conventional commits, branches, history, submodules, worktrees, remotes, pre-commit hook authoring and running (`pc-author` / `pc-run`), and an interactive router (`git-workflow`)
- **gitea** — issues, pull requests, labels, milestones, releases, branches, files, and an interactive router (`gitea-workflow`)
- **core** — authoring and auditing a repo's `AGENTS.md` and the provider adapter files that defer to it
- **lint** — configuring and running linters
- **bin** — cross-cutting workflow skills not yet split into a focused plugin: research, documentation, TDD, prototyping, triage, diagnosis, architecture review, requirement grilling, compressed output (`caveman`), and re-orienting mid-task (`zoom-out`)
## Prerequisites
Install all of these before setting up. Each one is a hard dependency of a git hook or a script — several fail with an unhelpful "command not found" if missing.
| Tool | Why | Install |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `apm` CLI | Four pre-push hooks shell out to it (`apm-marketplace-check`, `apm-audit-ci`, `apm-pack-check-clean`, and `check-plugin-content-sync` via `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh`) | The `apm-install` skill, or `curl -sSL https://aka.ms/apm-unix \| sh`. Verify with `apm --version` |
| `jq` | Required by `scripts/check-manifests.sh` and `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh`, both pre-push | Your package manager |
| `python3` + PyYAML | Required by `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` (the `skill-size-check` pre-commit hook), which reads folded YAML frontmatter | `python3` is usually present — pre-commit is itself a Python application. `pip install pyyaml` if the hook reports PyYAML missing |
| `vale` | Required by the `vale-audit-prefilter-skill` / `-agent` pre-commit hooks and the `check-vale-style-sync` pre-push hook | `brew install vale` (macOS), `snap install vale` (Linux), `choco install vale` (Windows), or https://vale.sh/docs/vale-cli/installation/ |
| `claude` CLI | Required by the `validate-plugins` and `validate-marketplace` pre-push hooks | Claude Code |
Two notes worth reading before you skip one:
- **PyYAML is a hard requirement, not an optional accelerator.** The hand-rolled fallback frontmatter reader was removed deliberately: a reader that mis-parses an unfamiliar scalar shape reports a clean pass on a file it never measured.
- **No `vale sync` is needed.** The `Kyberforge` styles are committed under `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/{skill-audit,agent-audit}/assets/vale/styles/`, not downloaded packages (ADR-0014).
## Setup
Run these in order, from the repo root.
```bash
# 1. Deploy this repo's own skills and agents
apm install
# 2. Install the git hooks — all three stages
pre-commit install -t pre-commit -t commit-msg -t pre-push
```
**`apm install`** deploys the six plugins into `.claude/skills/` and `.claude/agents/`. Both are gitignored install output, *not* authoring source — `plugins/<name>/.apm/` remains the only place to edit. It needs the network, materializes `apm_modules/` (which stays gitignored), and also configures the `obsidian` MCP server into the repo's `.mcp.json`.
**Git hooks** must be wired for **all three stages**. This repo's `.pre-commit-config.yaml` has no `default_install_hook_types`, so a plain `pre-commit install` silently skips `commit-msg` (Conventional Commits) and `pre-push` (the full gate) — the `-t` flags above are not optional. The `pc-run` skill handles this and the troubleshooting around it, if you would rather not remember the flags.
## Keeping the install current
The six dependencies in root `apm.yml` are unpinned against the default branch, so deployed skills go stale whenever anyone merges. kyberforge ships a `SessionStart` hook that runs `apm outdated` at startup (~0.7s) and, when something is behind, runs `apm update --yes` and asks the host to re-scan skills (~10.4s).
That rewrites `apm.lock.yaml` — an unexplained modification to it after opening a session is expected, not a bug. Commit or discard it deliberately.
Note the difference between the two commands:
- `apm install` deploys from `apm.lock.yaml`. It does **not** pick up remote changes.
- `apm update` re-resolves refs. This is the command that pulls in a merged `.apm/` edit.
## Running tests
```bash
bash tests/run-tests.sh # every test-*.sh script plus the bats suite
bash tests/run-tests.sh --bats-only # just bats
```
The first run auto-initializes the bats submodules; no manual `git submodule update` needed.
A suite that exits 77 because a dependency is missing is reported as SKIPPED and does **not** fail an ad-hoc run. It *does* fail under `--strict` (equivalently `RUN_TESTS_STRICT=1`), which is how the pre-push hook invokes it — at pre-push, a skip means one of the prerequisites above is absent on this machine, and the gate would otherwise report success having run fewer suites than it appears to. The strict failure names each skipped suite and what to install.
## Before pushing
Run the pre-push gate locally in one command:
```bash
pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files
```
One caveat: `check-release-needed` is a silent no-op under this invocation. It exits 0 unless
`PRE_COMMIT_REMOTE_BRANCH` is `refs/heads/main`, and pre-commit exports that only from the real
pre-push git hook during an actual `git push` — so the hook reports `Passed` having checked nothing.
Every other pre-push hook does run.
See [`docs/spec/gates.md`](docs/spec/gates.md) for what each hook enforces and why.
**Offline?** Exactly two pre-push hooks need the network, because root `apm.yml`'s marketplace contains one remote package entry that must be resolved with `git ls-remote`:
```bash
SKIP=apm-marketplace-check,apm-pack-check-clean git push
```
Skip **only** those two. The remaining pre-push hooks are real local checks and pass offline; adding one of them to `SKIP` disarms it silently.
## Editing plugin content
`plugins/<name>/.apm/` is the only hand-edited source for plugin content — skills, agents, commands, instructions, extensions, and hooks. The flat `plugins/<name>/{skills,agents,commands,instructions,extensions}/` directories, the merged `hooks/hooks.json`, and every `plugin.json` / `marketplace.json` manifest are generated. Nothing labels a generated file as generated, so check the path before you edit; an edit to the mirror is discarded by the next sync and reported as drift by the `check-plugin-content-sync` pre-push hook.
Hand-authored material that is *not* an `.apm/` primitive — `README.md`, `docs/`, `bin/`, `sources.md`, `.mcp.json` — lives at the plugin **root** and is untouched. Never place such a file inside a mirrored directory: the sync removes the destination before every copy, so it is deleted with no drift report.
Full detail in [`docs/spec/architecture.md`](docs/spec/architecture.md).
## For external consumers
Install a plugin natively from the marketplace manifests:
```bash
claude plugin install <name>@holocron
```
Or consume the packages through apm, the way this repo does — declare them as `dependencies.apm` git+path entries against the holocron remote and run `apm install`.
## Where to go next
- [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) — the rules for AI agents working in this repo
- [`CONTEXT.md`](CONTEXT.md) — domain language; read at the start of every session here
- [`docs/spec/architecture.md`](docs/spec/architecture.md) — directory structure, install pipeline, provider model
- [`docs/spec/gates.md`](docs/spec/gates.md) — the enforcement gates in depth
- [`docs/adr/`](docs/adr/) — architectural decisions; read before proposing structural changes
- [`docs/VISION.md`](docs/VISION.md) — where this is going
- [`LESSONS.md`](LESSONS.md) — things that went wrong once and should not again

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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
lockfile_version: '1'
generated_at: '2026-08-14T21:26:25.156410+00:00'
generated_at: '2026-08-30T11:38:46.419301+00:00'
apm_version: 0.28.0
dependencies:
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name: bin
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
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version: 1.1.3
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
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virtual_path: plugins/bin
is_virtual: true
package_type: marketplace_plugin
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ dependencies:
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.claude/skills/write-docs/SKILL.md: sha256:0d06d0f6836a67532497ea61bd5a1294a8d80f529bf1ffb5c4b1fdc72e9cb51a
.claude/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md: sha256:2a6894c7f9b1c9c55f451c625a834c4f377e217b623a85280e55db5fe9cacf48
content_hash: sha256:7acfaa806ae8379fe6351441ce8f973ac3ff8a02deb4a5e145968203d1176ef8
content_hash: sha256:d7cca4972651b241a5450679289fdb6f0e3a37aef9dff0498cb4b3340b048781
declared_license: MIT
exec_status: gated_pending_approval
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: core
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: f9b919d7e3bd5e6b51fbdf88b32ace0438b313e0
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.1.1
virtual_path: plugins/core
is_virtual: true
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ dependencies:
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: git
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: f9b919d7e3bd5e6b51fbdf88b32ace0438b313e0
version: 1.3.3
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.3.5
virtual_path: plugins/git
is_virtual: true
package_type: marketplace_plugin
@@ -236,13 +236,13 @@ dependencies:
.claude/skills/pc-run/references/README.md: sha256:ad42b9013dbd44b8c4515c15317c5e9e6b235bc656ad5a03e037eb4bc6f8782c
.claude/skills/pc-run/references/failure-patterns.md: sha256:59d913c001483c3770d269fdf5e83cf1d7578e0ae879928a1404bf93bb395994
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content_hash: sha256:8c47bd35572c331f1a1b61a8be159d9690a1bf286958a85826fde01939e3007b
declared_license: MIT
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: gitea
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: f9b919d7e3bd5e6b51fbdf88b32ace0438b313e0
version: 1.3.4
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.3.6
virtual_path: plugins/gitea
is_virtual: true
package_type: marketplace_plugin
@@ -313,10 +313,10 @@ dependencies:
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.claude/skills/gitea-prs/README.md: sha256:0346388f642641c56cef82ba1ee576a187d048eee66fab839a17417c81122cbc
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/README.md: sha256:31b6ad46379feee8ac7d837030f93ec04be20b7d11021b295dc6d27b4340a05b
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/SKILL.md: sha256:bf70832f3d97064c9816d680390da84c256a971d7804317e1814b4ee6a622b4d
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@@ -327,13 +327,13 @@ dependencies:
.claude/skills/gitea-workflow/README.md: sha256:338f79d0b3c25741848fce841a5094ef27cbc7e4a6228404557b2d9594df68fa
.claude/skills/gitea-workflow/SKILL.md: sha256:a8266ceb335c56eb68cc09b3f81690c52c4dada9f25b48c3a46ac46b0ad3b761
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content_hash: sha256:16d5b4462c3f4a506c1c74172d4d67bf0dacc4218676de4e8dfe551b2f31a3f8
declared_license: MIT
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: kyberforge
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: f9b919d7e3bd5e6b51fbdf88b32ace0438b313e0
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resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.6.0
virtual_path: plugins/kyberforge
is_virtual: true
package_type: marketplace_plugin
@@ -344,15 +344,20 @@ dependencies:
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/README.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/SKILL.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/CompositionNote.yml
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/DescriptionOpener.yml
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/PaddingPhrase.yml
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/SentenceOpenerThereIs.yml
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/styles/Kyberforge/VagueWording.yml
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/assets/vale/styles/KyberforgeCopilot/ProactivePhrase.yml
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/README.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/body-and-delegation.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/description-quality.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/field-inventory.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/scope-plugin-apm.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/scope-project-user.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/sources.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/references/validation-scripts.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/scripts/README.md
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/scripts/vale-wrap.sh
- .claude/skills/agent-audit/scripts/validate-provenance.sh
@@ -365,7 +370,12 @@ dependencies:
- .claude/skills/agent-author/assets/templates/claude-code.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/assets/templates/copilot.agent.md.template
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- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/contract.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/create.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/deployment-modes.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/improve.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/plugin-scope.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/project-user-scope.md
- .claude/skills/agent-author/references/scripts.md
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target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-audit/references/patterns.md
runtime: null
scope: project
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:4a942ab30b95dc0cbf0fbe7da3b91157f166bce80cbd17bcf60dc365ea9237af
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-audit/references/sources.md
@@ -2322,7 +2485,16 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:cb65dd3cc411d7b264fab24de5cd2353dec8fbb7bbcfe2388535d963be240280
content_hash: sha256:1db16ea23884ac2db799b42d1284daaab4b24eb94f184a95fb67ddc280385934
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-audit/references/validation-scripts.md
runtime: null
scope: project
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:44f3b82413b57f2b5671637bb449a4c01b6d5fcd9059245aaa38e45108adf480
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-audit/scripts/vale-wrap.sh
@@ -2349,7 +2521,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:ebbef859276135b7fe4189b31396fd98e5d4019685d7cb55e39a10fac8ca546d
content_hash: sha256:7ce27df82e4160c6296db6c8314865f022da5c4334151857570a86167c8d4e11
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author
@@ -2367,7 +2539,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:6c0b36f9b28a33de1646df45bd8e4d733ab3b26c0bdff49743962aa068085f6d
content_hash: sha256:d22035d302818e103486e447bd92d2da4c9b73da60f30157941710f32f400b89
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/SKILL.md
@@ -2376,7 +2548,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:7b82d16fe0d61a71c5b59a244cf92b9b5fc2635916ad1572f4f5f6e37172bf09
content_hash: sha256:615a936580f44dd8e523496aadf88df6d512ac58369190b90407e8fca86e8345
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/assets/templates/README.md
@@ -2394,7 +2566,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:f05a127963874bfbbe4333c42c5208736d84d5bf12dd8478351f6853304cc9d1
content_hash: sha256:b20c65bd185b300de7e65d16decdf0ab4aaf6c094822c1f798b3c278d52abbff
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/assets/templates/assets/README.md
@@ -2412,7 +2584,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:63754636f84a7841f31ab1f2854025ee449a29840ed6b9b51bcb1422ab5522d0
content_hash: sha256:e2ef117972ab2625a456ed80ff085859666d145de4e270f383cde7c8e84ad60a
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/assets/templates/references/sources.md
@@ -2440,6 +2612,24 @@ deployments:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:5d331de121105ca79b544b9d3779a316a64cee46fa8d51ba0ea789ab5c233442
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/references/contract.md
runtime: null
scope: project
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:d350721118a2bd57094fa9151f11b48a663a1c8a04e50fba71ff2baf64b7282f
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/references/create.md
runtime: null
scope: project
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:0837a77ad6da7ae9894134d15eebd57950b8505e8bd2b32ee69f281d65a6abcb
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/references/deployment-modes.md
@@ -2449,6 +2639,24 @@ deployments:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:ffe2d928f2b5ec90c509f4d4cc5bd33c71899852cb5cc5a31fe1513b707fb759
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/references/improve.md
runtime: null
scope: project
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:abe029587ce475fed165d8fcfa46ea1abe83f90727d093f8121a9a7a7daa5a3d
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/references/retrofit.md
runtime: null
scope: project
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:6c8336caa717f2abd38cb1f9c776479c0e908f7dbf577021d3689b375287dc77
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/references/scripts.md
@@ -2466,7 +2674,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:27637acad4c0cdc7f1db15bc9cab339ebdac643e084642c58945ac2f81020c75
content_hash: sha256:652f7ce26c0d68a3ed11db09206bff20ba230ca8ff1fe71ae45b6f4505979327
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/skill-author/scripts/new-skill.sh
@@ -2475,7 +2683,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/kyberforge
content_hash: sha256:46c6903404b9eabbd6c83892213fdabf9cad193be64613b8c1b84c8dc37e8eb2
content_hash: sha256:c788b56f73ed4fd03edb179159361fe16e3afbf528a9895e9251909c5aa40a7f
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/tdd

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apm.yml
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
name: holocron
version: 0.4.2
version: 0.4.5
description: AI development skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI — factory, design, implement, review, and cross-cutting workflows.
license: MIT
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ marketplace:
# top-level apm.yml description:/version: above are NOT inherited into the
# compiled output despite being used elsewhere (e.g. by `apm audit`).
description: AI development skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI — factory, design, implement, review, and cross-cutting workflows.
version: 0.4.2
version: 0.4.5
owner:
name: Defame1297
email: defame1297@rkdr.net
@@ -83,21 +83,21 @@ marketplace:
category: Developer Tools
- name: bin
description: A place for things to be binned
description: Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin.
source: ./plugins/bin
version: 1.1.3
version: 1.1.5
category: Utilities
- name: git
description: Skills for working with Git — conventional commits, branch management, pull requests, and feature flow.
description: Skills and agents for working with a local Git clone over the git wire protocol, and for authoring and running the pre-commit hooks that guard it.
source: ./plugins/git
version: 1.3.3
version: 1.3.5
category: Version Control
- name: gitea
description: Skills for managing Gitea repositories — issues, pull requests, milestones, releases, and wikis.
description: Skills and agents for working with a Gitea forge through its HTTP API — the forge's own objects, as distinct from the local git clone.
source: ./plugins/gitea
version: 1.3.4
version: 1.3.6
category: Version Control
- name: core

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@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ Three alternatives were rejected. Keeping the file-based fallback adds code comp
The file-based model also had a structural weakness: issues in `docs/issues/` were invisible from the Gitea UI, making it impossible to track work, assign milestones, or filter by label without opening the repo locally. Gitea provides all of that natively.
The "Provider-agnostic issue tracker" glossary entry in CONTEXT.md is updated in the same workstream to remove the file-based phase framing. The `providers/gitea/` adapter path described in ADR-0011 was never implemented — Gitea integration runs entirely via MCP, not a provider adapter.
The "Provider-agnostic issue tracker" glossary entry in CONTEXT.md is updated in the same workstream to remove the file-based phase framing. (Amended 2026-08-17: the CONTEXT.md trim renamed that entry to **Issue**; it still records Gitea as this repo's canonical tracker and still tells skills to say "linked issue" generically.) The `providers/gitea/` adapter path described in ADR-0011 was never implemented — Gitea integration runs entirely via MCP, not a provider adapter.

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@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ deferred PR #85 review item to broaden that coverage, retroactively captures #84
(since it was never recorded as a decision in its own right), and layers the expansion on top
without reversing or weakening the original four rules.
**2026-08-17 amendment.** The CONTEXT.md section named above no longer holds that documentation.
CONTEXT.md was cut back to a glossary and the prefilter's mechanics — the two-copy style layout,
`vale-wrap.sh`, the `--config` argv defect, the rule inventory, and the 0-files-means-NOT-RUN
fallback — moved to `docs/spec/gates.md`. Read that file, not CONTEXT.md, for the harness itself;
this ADR still owns the scope decision.
**File scope stays the same.** `SKILL.md` plus agent files (`**/agents/*.md`,
`**/*.agent.md`) only — matching the existing prefilter's globs. Skill-level
`README.md` files and `plugin.json` manifests are not added: README.md files are navigational, not

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@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ new hand-maintained manifest format.
that work through to merge.
- `CONTEXT.md`'s "Plugin"/"Plugin marketplace" glossary entries were rewritten in issue #90 to
describe the compiled-output model directly, rather than carrying a forward-pointer to this ADR.
Superseded 2026-08-17: CONTEXT.md was cut back to one-line definitions, and the compiled-output
model is now described in `docs/spec/architecture.md`. The same trim deleted the "lint plugin"
entry cited under Considered options below; that pointer now reads `docs/spec/architecture.md`'s
plugin scope table, which carries the repo-agnostic-versus-marketplace-specific argument.
## Considered options
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@ maintenance in place unchanged.
**New standalone `plugins/apm/` plugin (rejected).** `plugins/lint/` was split out of `kyberforge`
specifically because Vale tooling is generic and repo-agnostic, not holocron-marketplace-specific
(see `CONTEXT.md`'s "lint plugin" entry) — the same argument applies to a generic `apm` CLI
(see `docs/spec/architecture.md`'s plugin scope table) — the same argument applies to a generic `apm` CLI
wrapper. The shipped `apm-install`/`apm-workflow` skills are, in fact, generic, repo-agnostic APM
CLI documentation with no holocron-specific content, so a standalone `plugins/apm/` would have
been a defensible split on artifact content alone. Rejected anyway, in favor of `kyberforge`,

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@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ mirror does carry, and is reported.
stands; this ADR fixes the second, previously-unverified half.
- `CONTEXT.md`'s "Plugin" and "Plugin marketplace" glossary entries are updated to describe the
flat mirror as a second compiled-output category, alongside the existing
`.claude-plugin/plugin.json`/`marketplace.json` description.
`.claude-plugin/plugin.json`/`marketplace.json` description. Superseded 2026-08-17: CONTEXT.md was
cut back to one-line definitions and no longer describes either compiled-output category;
`docs/spec/architecture.md` is where the mirror is documented.
- A future apm release that ships a native `.apm/`-aware plugin.json compiler (closing this gap
upstream) would let `sync-plugin-content.sh` and its drift gate be deleted outright — nothing in
this ADR's decision depends on the flat mirror existing beyond satisfying the current installer's

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@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ answers to `git-commits` and `kyberforge:skill-audit` to `skill-audit`. This is
a project skill has no plugin to prefix. `AGENTS.md` and `CONTEXT.md` are updated to name the bare
form, which is what apm deploys and the only form a repo consuming holocron through apm gets.
**Correction (2026-08-14): the namespaced form did not stop resolving.** An earlier revision of
**Correction (2026-08-14): the namespaced form did not stop resolving.** *Superseded by the
2026-08-17 correction below: the machine state this cites is no longer present. Both are kept
because the pair is the finding — read neither as current.* An earlier revision of
this consequence said every `<plugin>:<skill>` reference "was stale the moment the switch landed",
and `AGENTS.md`/`CONTEXT.md` were written to match. That contradicts the "User scope is untouched,
deliberately" consequence below, and the contradiction resolves against it: `~/.claude.json` still
@@ -72,6 +74,20 @@ survives those user-scope installs eventually being converted, and the namespace
resolves for anyone installing holocron natively, so skill bodies written for both audiences
should name the bare skill.
**Correction (2026-08-17): the evidence under the correction above is gone, and the claim goes with
it — not to its opposite.** Observed on this machine: `~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json` is
`{"version": 2, "plugins": {}}`; there is no `enabledPlugins` key anywhere in `~/.claude.json`
(`grep -c enabledPlugins` returns 0); `~/.apm/marketplaces.json` is `{"marketplaces": []}`. The
`holocron` entry in `~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json` survives, but a registered
marketplace is not an installed plugin. So the user-scope installs the 2026-08-14 correction cited
are not there, and neither is the state the *original* consequence described before it. The claim
about the namespaced form has now been written twice off two different observations of the same
machine, and this ADR has already reversed itself once on it. That is the finding: the fact is
machine state, not a property of this decision, and it changes without any commit. No instruction
file — `AGENTS.md`, `CONTEXT.md`, or a skill body — should assert either way whether
`<plugin>:<skill>` resolves. The rule that survives every observation is the one that was always the
actionable half: write the bare name, because it is the only form `apm install` produces.
**apm owns `.claude/settings.json`.** (ADR-0019 supersedes the "exactly `{"hooks": {}}`" claim
below — once a package ships a hook, apm merges it into that file and the merged entry is apm's own
output. The rule that nothing repo-authored goes in the file is unchanged.) `apm audit --ci` replays the install into a scratch tree and
@@ -117,10 +133,11 @@ pinned `resolved_commit` in `apm.lock.yaml` and does not re-resolve refs (`apm i
documents this explicitly — "does NOT refresh refs; use 'apm update' for that"). Running it after a
merge redeploys the same content and reports success.
**User scope is untouched, deliberately.** `bin@holocron`, `gitea@holocron`, and a stale
`hello-world@holocron` remain natively installed at user scope, and every project other than this
one still resolves its skills that way. Converting them is a separate decision with a blast radius
beyond this repo.
**User scope is untouched, deliberately.** This decision changed project scope only; whatever is
natively installed at user scope was left alone, and converting it is a separate decision with a
blast radius beyond this repo. The specific inventory this paragraph used to name
(`bin@holocron`, `gitea@holocron`, a stale `hello-world@holocron`) is machine state and is stale —
see the 2026-08-17 correction above. The decision recorded here is unaffected by what that state is.
## Alternatives considered

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@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
# A plugin's published description states its domain boundary and never enumerates its skills
Three of this repo's six plugins publish a `description` that lists the skills they ship. That style
has now failed three times in four days, the third time inside the correction for the second. It is
enforced by nothing, it obliges a marketplace release on every skill addition, and it was never
applied to the other three plugins. This ADR retires it: a published description says what the
plugin is *for*, and the inventory lives where an inventory can be read off the tree.
**Status: accepted (2026-08-17).**
## Context
A plugin's published description is one string authored twice — in `plugins/<name>/apm.yml` and in
the matching `marketplace.packages[]` entry of the root `apm.yml` — and compiled into four generated
files per plugin edit: the plugin's `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and `.github/plugin/plugin.json`,
plus the repo-wide `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` and its `.github/plugin/marketplace.json`
mirror. (`.agents/plugins/marketplace.json`, apm's codex profile, carries no per-package
`description` or `version` at all and is unaffected.) It is the only text a consumer sees in a marketplace listing before
installing. It is **not** a SKILL.md `description`: it is never preloaded into an agent's context and
routes nothing at runtime. ADR-0020 governs that other artifact; this one governs this one. The
overlap is a finding, not a scope: ADR-0020 established that capability enumeration in a description
is "a correctness hazard, not only a token cost". The hazard at this layer is different — staleness
in published metadata rather than an agent shortcutting the body — but the enumeration is the same
construct and it fails the same way.
Measured at `de84d1b`, the branch tip before this change. Each figure is reproducible from the tree:
skill counts are `ls plugins/<name>/.apm/skills/ | wc -l`, description text is
`plugins/<name>/apm.yml`.
| Plugin | Style | Skills | Items enumerated | Skills named | Unnamed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `bin` | enumeration | 11 | 8 | 9 | `caveman`, `zoom-out` |
| `git` | enumeration | 9 | 8 | 8 | `git-workflow` |
| `gitea` | enumeration | 7 | 7 | 6 | `gitea-workflow` |
| `core` | boundary | 3 | — | — | — |
| `kyberforge` | boundary | 7 | — | — | — |
| `lint` | boundary | 2 | — | — | — |
Three failures, in order.
**`bb9158d` (2026-08-14) — `core`'s description described `bin`.** The text it deleted read
"Cross-cutting utility skills for everyday AI-assisted coding — triage, diagnosis, architecture
review, and session navigation." All four items are real skills and not one of them is `core`'s:
they are `bin`'s `triage`, `diagnose`, `improve-codebase-architecture` and `zoom-out`. `core` ships
`agentsmd-author`, `agentsmd-audit` and `provider-adapter-author`, and the published description
named none of them.
This is the failure the whole style was later adopted against, and it is worth being exact about
what it was, because the record has been read the other way twice since. It was **wrong content**,
not an incomplete list. The description was a syntactically perfect, complete, four-item enumeration
of a real skill set; it just belonged to a different plugin. Enumerating harder could not have caught
it, and a gate that asked "does every enumerated item exist as a skill?" would have passed it — all
four did exist. `bb9158d`'s own fix went the other direction: it replaced the enumeration with a
domain boundary, and `core` has needed no correction since. The precedent set by that commit was
therefore *boundary*, and the two commits below cite it while doing the opposite.
**`65bac15` (2026-08-17) — `git` advertised `gitea`'s domain, `gitea` advertised a skill that does
not exist.** `git` read "conventional commits, branch management, pull requests, and feature flow";
pull requests reach the forge over HTTP and are `gitea`'s, which is the exact boundary
`docs/spec/architecture.md` draws between the two plugins. `gitea` read "issues, pull requests,
milestones, releases, and wikis"; `grep -ri wiki plugins/gitea/.apm/` returns nothing and no wiki
skill has ever existed. Both were repaired by re-enumerating.
**`de84d1b` (2026-08-17) — the re-enumeration was itself incomplete.** `bin`'s "A place for things to
be binned" was replaced with an eight-item list over eleven skills; `caveman` and `zoom-out` are
absent. `zoom-out` is the same skill `bb9158d` had called "session navigation" three days earlier
while deleting it from the wrong plugin's description — named when it was in the wrong place,
unnamed once it was in the right one. And the miss is not confined to `bin`: `git-workflow` is
unnamed in `git`'s corrected description, though `65bac15`'s own commit message states it was added
("omitting pc-author/pc-run, git-submodules and git-workflow"), and `gitea-workflow` is unnamed in
`gitea`'s. Across the three plugins, 23 of 27 skills are named at the third attempt.
**Nothing checks any of this.** `scripts/check-manifests.sh` does not contain the string
`description`. The three ADR-0020 validators (`scripts/skill-size-check.sh` and skill-audit's and
agent-audit's `validate.sh`) gate on SKILL.md and agent frontmatter; they do open `apm.yml`, but only
to read `dependencies.apm` when resolving the boundary-target universe — none of them reads the
`description:` key, and their hook globs match `SKILL.md` and `*.agent.md` only. `apm audit --ci`,
`apm pack --check-clean` and `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh --check --all` all compare compiled
output against `apm.yml`, so their entire job is to propagate whatever the description says into
those four files byte-for-byte and confirm they match. The `wiki` claim passed every one of the fourteen pre-push hooks, every day it
was published.
**And the obligation is unbounded.** Under enumeration, adding one skill to `bin`, `git` or `gitea`
means editing two copies of a prose string on top of the version bumps and regeneration any skill
addition already owes under this repo's release policy
(`plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/apm-workflow/references/marketplace.md`). The bumps are not the
marginal cost — the prose edit is, and it is the half nothing checks. A skill *rename* triggers the
same, for a string no consumer can tell went stale. 27 of the repo's 39 skills sat behind
a description carrying that obligation; the other 12 did not, and their three plugins have generated
no defect of this class.
### Scope
This decision covers the six plugins this repo authors. The root marketplace also lists
`mattpocock-skills`, a third-party package whose description is not this repo's to write; its entry
is out of scope and is left as published upstream.
## Decision
**A plugin's published `description` states the plugin's domain boundary. It does not enumerate the
skills the plugin ships, by name or by paraphrase.**
- The boundary answers "what kind of work belongs to this plugin, and where is its edge against its
nearest sibling" — the question a consumer deciding whether to install is actually asking. It is
stable under skill addition, rename and removal, which is the entire point: an artifact that does
not change when the tree changes cannot go stale against it.
- **The boundary must cover everything the plugin actually ships.** A boundary drawn narrower than
the contents is the same defect as an incomplete enumeration, one level up, and it is the specific
risk in this change. `git` carries `pc-author` and `pc-run`, which are not git operations at all;
"Skills for working with Git" silently drops them, so the boundary names the pre-commit hooks
explicitly rather than trusting a reader to file them under Git.
- The two copies — package `apm.yml` and the root `marketplace.packages[]` entry — stay identical.
This is already the rule in practice and both prior corrections state why: the root entry is what
reaches the compiled marketplace, so fixing only the package manifest leaves it half-propagated.
- The three descriptions, rewritten here, with `core`/`kyberforge`/`lint` shown for register:
| Plugin | Published description | Chars |
|---|---|---|
| `bin` | Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin. | 152 |
| `git` | Skills and agents for working with a local Git clone over the git wire protocol, and for authoring and running the pre-commit hooks that guard it. | 146 |
| `gitea` | Skills and agents for working with a Gitea forge through its HTTP API — the forge's own objects, as distinct from the local git clone. | 134 |
| `core` | *(unchanged)* Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it. | 101 |
| `kyberforge` | *(unchanged)* Skills and agents for creating, maintaining, and managing a Claude Code / Copilot CLI plugin marketplace. | 105 |
| `lint` | *(unchanged)* Skills and agents for configuring and running linters. | 54 |
- **No gate is added.** This is a deliberate omission and the reasoning is below, not an item left
for later.
### Why no gate
The check enumeration would need — "every skill directory appears in the description" — was writable
in principle and was never written, including by the two commits that corrected an enumeration by
enumerating again and had every reason to. It is also only half a check: it
catches a skill missing from the list, and it cannot catch `wiki`, because "this noun does not name
any skill" requires a vocabulary of permissible non-skill nouns that no one is going to maintain.
Under a boundary there is no correspondence left to check, which is the property being bought.
What survives un-gated is `bb9158d`'s actual failure: a boundary that is simply wrong about its
plugin. That was never machine-checkable in either style — the text was a well-formed description of
a real plugin — and it is caught by the same review that has to happen when a published,
consumer-facing string is edited at all. A gate that would catch it needs a declared per-plugin
skill-to-boundary mapping for the description to be checked against, which is a second artifact
requiring exactly the per-skill maintenance this ADR exists to delete, relocated one file over.
Two cheap partial gates were considered and rejected in the same breath. Forbidding a comma-separated
run of three or more noun phrases is a prose heuristic that fires on `lint`'s perfectly good
"configuring and running linters" class of sentence. Forbidding any string matching a skill directory
name under `plugins/<name>/.apm/skills/` bans legitimate boundary vocabulary — `git-branches` exists,
and a `git` boundary has every right to say "branches". Both would be believed, and both would be
wrong, which ADR-0020 already records as worse than no gate.
## Considered options
**Keep enumeration and gate it.** The only option that makes the current style safe. Rejected on the
three grounds above: the check is one-directional, it cannot see an invented capability, and it makes
a marketplace release the consequence of adding a directory. It also hard-couples published consumer
copy to internal directory names, so a skill rename becomes a version bump on the plugin and on the
marketplace.
**Enumerate consistently across all six plugins**, on the grounds that the real defect is the split
style. Rejected: it takes an obligation that has produced three failures on three plugins and applies
it to six. The measured outcome of the most recent attempt to enumerate carefully, with the defect
fresh and two prior commits as precedent, is four skills unnamed.
**Cap the description length**, mirroring ADR-0020's 250/400-character tiers, on the theory that a
short description has no room to enumerate. Rejected because length does not measure correspondence:
`gitea`'s failing description was 96 characters and asserted a skill that has never existed, while
`bin`'s 176-character enumeration is under the same cap. All six descriptions here, before and after,
sit inside ADR-0020's tiers; the tier would have been silent through all three failures.
**Delete the description to a bare name.** Rejected: apm's Claude marketplace mapper emits
`description` into `marketplace.json`, and it is the only prose a consumer sees before installing.
**Point the description at the plugin's `README.md`.** Rejected: a marketplace listing renders a
string, not a link — and the README's own plugin list carries the same enumeration with the same
staleness, so this relocates the defect rather than fixing it.
## Consequences
**Three descriptions are rewritten and the compiled output regenerated.** Eight generated files
change: `plugins/{bin,git,gitea}/.claude-plugin/plugin.json`,
`plugins/{bin,git,gitea}/.github/plugin/plugin.json`, `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` and its
byte-identical `.github/plugin/marketplace.json` mirror. `.agents/plugins/marketplace.json` (the
codex profile) is unchanged and correctly so — it carries no per-package `description` or `version`
field at all, only `name`, `source`, `policy` and `category`.
**Version bumps, all PATCH under the `per_package` strategy:** `bin` 1.1.4 → 1.1.5, `git` 1.3.4 →
1.3.5, `gitea` 1.3.5 → 1.3.6, `marketplace.version` 0.4.4 → 0.4.5.
**The root `apm.yml` top-level `version:` is restored to lockstep with `marketplace.version`,
0.4.2 → 0.4.5.** These two fields have moved together in every commit that has ever touched root
`apm.yml` — 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.2 in both — until `65bac15` and
`de84d1b` on this branch bumped `marketplace.version` to 0.4.3 and then 0.4.4 while leaving the
top-level field at 0.4.2. Lockstep is not folklore: it is stated at
`plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/apm-workflow/references/marketplace.md`. This is a defect, not a
style: `apm.yml`'s comment inside the marketplace block records that the top-level `version:` is not inherited into the compiled output
"despite being used elsewhere (e.g. by `apm audit`)", so the field is live and was silently two
releases behind what the marketplace published. Closed here rather than tracked, because the
correction is one line and the drift is three days old.
**`docs/spec/architecture.md`'s plugin table is unchanged and stays a routing table.** It answers
"where does a new skill go" for someone working *inside* this repo; the published description answers
"should I install this" for someone outside it. The two now read similarly, and that is not
duplication to collapse — they have different readers and different lifecycles, and the table already
says so in its own preamble ("These are routing boundaries, not inventories"). One caveat for whoever
next edits that page: its closing sentence sends a reader to the published description "for what a
consumer actually gets", which was true against an enumeration and is now a pointer to a second
boundary statement. Neither artifact carries an inventory after this change, so that sentence was
rewritten in the same branch to point at `plugins/<name>/.apm/skills/` and `README.md` instead.
**`README.md`'s plugin bullet list becomes the only place an inventory lives, and it still
enumerates.** That is deliberate, but it makes the list load-bearing in a way it was not before, so
its `bin`, `git` and `gitea` bullets were completed in the same branch to name every skill those
plugins ship. This ADR does not otherwise extend to it: a README is a hand-read document where a
list of what you get is the useful thing, it is not compiled into four files, and a stale line in it
costs a reader a moment rather than misrepresenting a published package. The tradeoff that makes
enumeration wrong in a marketplace manifest is precisely the one that makes it fine there.
**Nothing in the ADR-0020 gate set changes.** Its character and word tiers, its Vale rules and its
three validators all read `SKILL.md` and `*.agent.md` frontmatter; none of them opens an `apm.yml`.
The two contracts are adjacent and independent, and a future author retrofitting a skill under
issue #99 is not touched by this ADR.
**The failure mode this leaves open is a wrong boundary, and it is un-gated by design.** If a fourth
failure of this class occurs it will be a description that describes the wrong plugin — `bb9158d`'s
shape, the one enumeration never addressed. That is the trigger to revisit, and the thing to build
then is a declared skill-to-boundary mapping, not a return to enumeration.

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Skills are **not** deployed by `install.sh`. They are distributed as plugins and installed separately — in this repo by `apm install` against the `dependencies.apm` entries in the root `apm.yml`, which lands them in `.claude/skills/` and `.claude/agents/` (ADR-0018); elsewhere by `claude plugin install <name>@holocron`.
`~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` is a thin adapter, not a content source. It imports `~/.agents/AGENTS.md` (always-on rules) and `governance.md` (always-on governance), then lists the content index. All always-on content lives in `AGENTS.md` files so other providers can import the same source without duplication.
`~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` is a thin adapter, not a content source. It imports `~/.agents/AGENTS.md` (always-on rules) and `governance.md` (always-on governance) and carries nothing else — the content index of on-demand instruction files sits in `core/AGENTS.md`, deployed to `~/.agents/AGENTS.md` and imported by it. All always-on content lives in `AGENTS.md` files so other providers can import the same source without duplication.
## Plugin model
Skills, agents, MCP servers, and hooks are distributed as self-contained plugin units under `plugins/`, installed independently — via `apm install` here, or `claude plugin install <name>@holocron` for a host consuming the marketplace natively (ADR-0018). Each plugin is an **apm package**: `plugins/<name>/apm.yml` plus a hand-authored `plugins/<name>/.apm/{skills,agents,hooks,commands,instructions,extensions}/` tree (ADR-0015). There is no hand-maintained `plugin.json` — every manifest and every host-visible content directory is compiled from that source.
Skills, agents, MCP servers, and hooks are distributed as self-contained plugin units under `plugins/`, installed independently — via `apm install` here, or `claude plugin install <name>@holocron` for a host consuming the marketplace natively (ADR-0018). Self-contained is a hard constraint, not a description: a plugin is copied to a cache on install, so nothing inside it may reference a file outside its own directory. That is why the Vale styles are duplicated across two skills rather than shared (ADR-0014), and why ADR-0020's constants are copied into three validators rather than sourced from one. Each plugin is an **apm package**: `plugins/<name>/apm.yml` plus a hand-authored `plugins/<name>/.apm/{skills,agents,hooks,commands,instructions,extensions}/` tree (ADR-0015). There is no hand-maintained `plugin.json` — every manifest and every host-visible content directory is compiled from that source.
Which plugin a new skill belongs in follows from what each one is scoped to. The boundary that matters most in practice is `core` vs `kyberforge`: `core` is the home for cross-cutting, repo-agnostic utility skills that a consumer would want against *their* repo, while `kyberforge` is meta-tooling for the holocron marketplace itself. A skill that authors a target repo's `AGENTS.md` is `core`; a skill that audits a `SKILL.md` against this marketplace's contract is `kyberforge`.
The second boundary worth stating is `git` vs `gitea`, because both own things called branches and both touch pull requests: `git` is whatever works over the git wire protocol against a local clone, `gitea` is whatever goes through the forge's HTTP API. That is why `git-branches` and `gitea-branches` both exist and are not duplicates.
These are routing boundaries, not inventories — they answer "where does a new skill go", so they deliberately do not enumerate what each plugin ships today. The plugin's published `description` in its `apm.yml` states the same boundary for a consumer deciding whether to install (ADR-0021); neither carries an inventory. For what a plugin ships today, read `plugins/<name>/.apm/skills/` or the plugin list in `README.md`.
| Plugin | Scope |
|---|---|
| `core` | Authoring and auditing a repo's `AGENTS.md` and the provider adapter files that defer to it |
| `git` | Git operations and git hook tooling — anything driven over the git wire protocol against a local clone, plus the pre-commit hooks that guard it |
| `gitea` | Anything reached through the Gitea HTTP API rather than the git wire protocol — the forge's own objects |
| `kyberforge` | Creating and maintaining a Claude Code / Copilot CLI plugin marketplace — this repo's own meta-tooling |
| `lint` | Configuring and running linters against a target repo; repo-agnostic, first linter is Vale |
| `bin` | Unsorted skills that have not earned a home yet |
Two compilers produce the plugin roots you see in the tree:
@@ -40,6 +55,8 @@ That immunity is positional, not by filename. Anything placed *inside* a mirrore
`core/instructions/governance.md` is the always-on governance instruction file. Unlike the on-demand instruction files in the content index, governance.md is loaded into every Claude session via `@import` in `providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md`. This is a technical guarantee, not a behavioural instruction — `@import` causes Claude Code to expand and load the file at launch, before any interaction begins.
Those on-demand files are plain markdown — no frontmatter, no schema. The agent decides when to read each one from task context and the content index label alone. Frontmatter is deferred until there is evidence that agents are loading the wrong files in practice; it is a deliberate deferral, not an oversight to close.
The governance layer has two phases:
- **Phase 1** (complete): instruction and documentation layer — `governance.md` loaded via `@import`; `docs/ai-constitution.md` and `docs/wiki/HUMANS.md` as human-facing reference; `CONTEXT.md` extended with governance domain language.
- **Phase 2** (planned): deterministic enforcement layer — pre-commit hooks, CI gates, secret scanning, licence scanning. Specified in `docs/research/governance_principles/CONTROLS.md`.
@@ -57,10 +74,14 @@ This repo also has a `CLAUDE.md` at its root — the Claude Code entry point for
`CONTEXT.md` is therefore **not** always-loaded. `AGENTS.md` instructs agents to read it at session start, which is a behavioural instruction, not an `@import` guarantee — `LESSONS.md`'s 2026-05-17 entry proposed adding the import and it was never applied. Treat that entry as open work rather than a record of a landed change.
## Reference conventions
The stated convention is that files referencing other files declare those references explicitly: the referencing file carries the forward reference (the content index in `core/AGENTS.md`, `references:` in frontmatter), the referenced file carries a `when:` field describing when it is loaded, and divergence between the two signals staleness. It is aspirational, not a description of the repo today — no file under `core/instructions/` carries frontmatter at all, `when:` appears in exactly one of the 39 `SKILL.md` sources under `plugins/*/.apm/skills/`, and the reference scanner script meant to derive the reverse map ("what files reference this file?") does not exist; `docs/notes/skill-implementation-workflow.md` still lists it as unbuilt work. Treat it as intent for instruction files, skills, and workflow documents, not as a rule the repo enforces.
## Provider model
`core/` is never tool-specific. `providers/` is never shared. When adding a new provider, write an adapter in `providers/<name>/` that translates core content into the tool's expected format and location. The core content itself does not change.
## Architectural decisions
Key hard-to-reverse decisions are recorded as ADRs in `docs/adr/`. There is no index file — the directory holds 19 numbered ADRs whose filenames state their decision, so `ls docs/adr/` is the index. Read a superseding ADR before the one it supersedes: ADR-0015 (apm as the authoring source of truth) supersedes ADR-0001 and moots ADR-0006, ADR-0017 corrects ADR-0015's host-discovery gap, and ADR-0019 supersedes one claim in ADR-0018 (that `.claude/settings.json`'s committed content is exactly `{"hooks": {}}`) while keeping the rule behind it. Entry points for the structure described on this page: ADR-0002 (two-tier CLAUDE.md), ADR-0003 (AGENTS.md as the provider-agnostic entry point), ADR-0015 and ADR-0017 (the two compilers behind the plugin roots).
Key hard-to-reverse decisions are recorded as ADRs in `docs/adr/`. There is no index file — the directory holds numbered ADRs whose filenames state their decision, so `ls docs/adr/` is the index. Read a superseding ADR before the one it supersedes: ADR-0015 (apm as the authoring source of truth) supersedes ADR-0001 and moots ADR-0006, ADR-0017 corrects ADR-0015's host-discovery gap, and ADR-0019 supersedes one claim in ADR-0018 (that `.claude/settings.json`'s committed content is exactly `{"hooks": {}}`) while keeping the rule behind it. Entry points for the structure described on this page: ADR-0002 (two-tier CLAUDE.md), ADR-0003 (AGENTS.md as the provider-agnostic entry point), ADR-0015 and ADR-0017 (the two compilers behind the plugin roots).

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# Enforcement gates
Reference for this repo's pre-commit and pre-push hooks: what each one guards, what its numbers
mean, and which shapes were tried and rejected. Read it when a gate fails, before changing anything
in `.pre-commit-config.yaml`, or before "fixing" something that looks like an inconsistency — several
of the oddities documented here are load-bearing and have already been re-litigated once.
`AGENTS.md` carries only the operative rules an agent needs in the moment. The reasoning lives here.
---
## Running the gates
| Command | Scope |
|---|---|
| `pre-commit run --all-files` | the commit-stage hooks |
| `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` | the push gate, one command — with one caveat below |
| `pre-commit run skill-size-check --all-files` | just the ADR-0020 size/context gates |
Install hooks via `pc-run`, wiring **all three stages**. This repo's `.pre-commit-config.yaml` has no
`default_install_hook_types`, so a plain install silently skips `commit-msg` (Conventional Commits)
and `pre-push` (everything below).
The pre-push command reports **16** hooks, not 14. The extra two are pre-commit's own `meta` hooks,
`check-hooks-apply` and `check-useless-excludes`: they declare no `stages:`, so they run at every
stage including this one. Both are declared in this repo's `.pre-commit-config.yaml` like everything
else — what separates them is `repo: meta` (pre-commit's own built-ins) from `repo: local`. Fourteen
is the count of hooks this repo authors itself.
**The caveat: one of those 14 is a silent no-op under that invocation.**
`check-release-needed` exits 0 immediately unless `PRE_COMMIT_REMOTE_BRANCH` equals
`refs/heads/main`, and pre-commit exports that variable only from the real pre-push git hook during
an actual `git push`. Running the stage by hand — or from a CI runner — therefore reports it
`Passed` having checked nothing. That is by design for feature branches — pushing WIP must not be
blocked on cutting a premature tag — but it means `--hook-stage pre-push --all-files` is a full
rehearsal of 13 hooks and a skip of the fourteenth. The script's own header records the same gap for
a PR merged through Gitea's merge button, where no local push happens at all.
## The pre-push gate
Fourteen hooks, grouped below by what they guard rather than by the order `.pre-commit-config.yaml` declares them in.
**Core checks**
| Hook | Guards |
|---|---|
| `run-tests` | `bash tests/run-tests.sh --strict` — the whole suite, skips fatal (see [Tests](#tests)) |
| `check-manifests` | `marketplace.json` and `plugin.json` paths resolve (needs `jq`) |
**Generated-content drift gates**
| Hook | Guards |
|---|---|
| `check-plugin-content-sync` | each plugin's flat `skills/agents/commands/hooks` mirror matches `.apm/` (issue #90) |
| `check-marketplace-mirror-sync` | `.github/plugin/marketplace.json` is byte-identical to `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` — no apm output profile targets that path |
| `check-vale-style-sync` | skill-audit's Vale copy matches agent-audit's canonical copy, plus six glob-coverage probes (see [Vale](#vale)) |
| `check-scope-walkup-sync` | `validate.sh`, `validate-provenance.sh`, `new-agent.sh` and `new-skill.sh`'s four independent `$HOME`/`.git`/`apm.yml` walk-up ports still agree behaviorally |
| `check-executables-allow-sync` | root `apm.yml`'s `executables.allow` key names kyberforge's actual version (see [apm gates](#apm-gates)) |
`check-executables-allow-sync` is the odd one in this group: it guards a *silent failure* rather than
drift in generated text.
**Artifact validators**
| Hook | Guards |
|---|---|
| `check-apm-agents-valid` | runs agent-audit's `validate.sh` over every real `plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md` (see [Agent files](#agent-files-take-the-description-gates-not-the-body-gate)) |
**apm's own gates**
| Hook | Guards |
|---|---|
| `apm-marketplace-check` | every `marketplace.packages[]` entry resolves, including network reachability of remote refs |
| `apm-audit-ci` | `apm audit --ci` once per manifest — root plus each of the six plugin packages |
| `apm-pack-check-clean` | `apm pack --check-versions --check-clean --dry-run` — the compiled marketplace still matches what `apm.yml` + `.apm/` would generate, and per-package versions agree with the `per_package` strategy |
**Host validators** (both need the `claude` CLI on PATH)
| Hook | Guards |
|---|---|
| `validate-plugins` | `claude plugin validate --strict` on every plugin directory |
| `validate-marketplace` | `claude plugin validate --strict` on the root marketplace manifest |
**Release**
| Hook | Guards |
|---|---|
| `check-release-needed` | on a real `git push` to `main` only — fails if files exposed via `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` changed since the last tag. A no-op everywhere else, including under `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push` (see [the caveat above](#running-the-gates)) |
Four of these shell out to `apm`: `apm-marketplace-check`, `apm-audit-ci`, `apm-pack-check-clean`,
and `check-plugin-content-sync` (via `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh`, which wraps `apm pack`). The
first and third are bare `apm …` entries and the second is a `bash -c` loop calling `apm` once per
package, so without the CLI the push dies with an unhelpful "command not found". Install with
`apm-install`, or `curl -sSL https://aka.ms/apm-unix | sh`; verify with `apm --version`. `jq` is
needed by `scripts/check-manifests.sh` and `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` — those at least fail
loudly (`Error: jq is required but not installed`).
## Skill and agent context gates (ADR-0020)
The `skill-size-check` pre-commit hook, scoped to `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$`,
runs `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`. That scope means it never lints the
`plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/examples/` reference skills. It is also shipped to external repos
as `kyberforge-skill-size-check` (see
[External consumers](#external-consumers-the-root-pre-commit-hooksyaml)).
### Two independent gate families, neither replaced the other
**Family 1 — agentskills.io spec backstop** (unchanged, conformance not quality):
| Constant | Value | Measured over |
|---|---|---|
| `MAX_LINES` | 500 | whole file, **frontmatter included** |
| `MAX_WORDS` | 2,770 | whole file, **frontmatter included** |
**Family 2 — ADR-0020 context budget** (measured differently, on purpose):
| Check | SUGGESTION | FAIL | Measured over |
|---|---|---|---|
| `description` characters | 250 | 400 | the YAML-**folded** value |
| body words | 600 | 900 | **body only** — everything after the frontmatter's closing `---` |
Plus two hard FAILs with no suggestion tier:
- **A missing, valueless or `null` `description:`.** Not a skip. The description is the one field
preloaded into every session, so a gate that declines to measure it reports green. (This is not
hypothetical: `description:` with no value followed by `model: sonnet` let a line regex capture the
*next* key, which looked non-empty, so the "missing or empty" branch never fired and every gate
below early-returned on the genuinely empty folded value — exit 0, zero output, on a blocking gate.)
- **Every `references/<file>.md` a body names must exist** on disk. A dispatch table pointing at a
file that was never written is a silently dead branch, and nothing else in the gate/audit/vale
stack notices it.
A file can sit well inside one family and fail the other. 2,770 whole-file words is a conformance
backstop; 900 body-only words is a quality gate. Conflating them is what produced the current state.
### An unresolved routing target is not automatically a FAIL
A boundary-clause target that resolves to no skill or agent has **three** possible verdicts, not one
(`unresolved_targets()` in `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`):
| Verdict | When |
|---|---|
| **SUGGESTION** — the default | the target does not resolve and neither promotion condition below holds |
| **blocking ERROR** | the target is **terminal** (not a compound modifier) **and** either written in route notation (`/name` for any name; `-> name` only when the name is hyphenated — see the gap below) **or** corroborated by another target in the same sentence that *does* resolve |
| **INFO, "DID NOT RUN"** | no skill universe could be determined for the path at all — the targets are named and left unchecked, exit 0 |
The default is deliberately soft because a hyphenated word in a boundary clause is as likely to be a
tool, a file format or an English compound as a route: "pre-commit hooks" is prose about a tool and
never reaches the check at all, being a compound modifier rather than a terminal name. The
SUGGESTION text says how to opt in — write it as `/name` or `-> name` and it gets checked properly.
**Known gap: the arrow form only works for hyphenated names.** Target extraction is built on
`NAME_HYPH` (`scripts/skill-size-check.sh:543`), which requires at least one hyphen, and
`ARROW_BOUNDARY` (`:561`) inherits that. So `-> gitea-prs` is extracted and checked, while
`-> triage` is not extracted at all — no ERROR, no SUGGESTION, exit 0. The unicode arrow `→` is not
recognised in either case. This makes the SUGGESTION's own advice unsafe for a single-word skill:
taking it silences the finding rather than checking it. `/name` has no such restriction and is the
form to prefer. Tracked as a defect; `tests/test-adr0020-targets.sh` has one arrow case and its
target happens to be hyphenated, so nothing currently covers this.
Corroboration is what makes the soft default safe: a sentence whose *other* target resolves is
demonstrably a routing sentence, so a sibling that does not resolve is a typo rather than a noun, and
gets promoted.
### Target resolution walk
Resolution walks up **from the file being checked** — never from the script's own location. Deriving
it from `${BASH_SOURCE}` leaked holocron'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 walk finds an **authoring root**: the nearest ancestor holding `plugins/*/.apm/skills` or
`plugins/*/.apm/agents`, falling back to the nearest ancestor holding `.git`. **Two passes, not one
interleaved walk**, so a nested `.git` (a submodule, a sub-package worktree) cannot beat a real
monorepo root further up.
The universe is then:
1. every skill and agent under `<root>/plugins/*/` — sibling plugins resolve, which is what a
monorepo means;
2. the checked file's own apm package;
3. the packages that package declares in **its own** `apm.yml` `dependencies.apm`.
The **root** manifest's `dependencies:` block is not read, and no plugin here declares a cross-plugin
apm dependency — none needs to.
Deployed `.claude/` / `.agents/` trees are consulted **only** when the walk found no plugin monorepo
root, whether it landed on a bare `.git` ancestor or on nothing at all. That is the consumer case.
**The gate keys on which of the two passes matched, never on whether the root contributed a new
name.** A name-count delta looks equivalent and is not: `_collect_authoring_root()` re-collects the
checked file's own plugin, whose names the earlier steps already added, so a single-plugin monorepo
shows a delta of zero and would wrongly reach for the deployed trees — including the user's global
`~/.claude/skills`, making the verdict depend on what happens to be installed.
Why it matters: those trees are gitignored `apm install` output, present only on a machine that has
run it. Four cross-plugin targets here (`gitea-branches` → `git-branches`, `gitea-branches` →
`git-history`, `gitea-issues` → `git-branches`, `gitea-workflow` → `git-workflow`) once resolved
through `.claude/skills/` alone, so **the same commit measured 2 dangling targets on a developer
machine and 6 on a fresh clone**. A gate shipping hot with no baseline cannot give two answers.
Verified fixed: running the hook over a tree holding only `plugins/` and the root `apm.yml`, with no
`.claude/` or `.agents/` anywhere, produces findings identical to the working tree — **26 description
FAILs, 9 body FAILs, 2 dangling targets, 0 missing references, 58 SUGGESTIONs**.
### SUGGESTION-only checks
Three more, deterministic to measure but judgment to act on:
- a description with **no boundary clause at all**;
- a `## Gotchas` section with **more than five entries**;
- a `## Gotchas` section over **25% of the body**.
### `verbose: true` is load-bearing
The hook is declared `verbose: true` so the SUGGESTION tier is audible. pre-commit prints nothing at
all for a passing hook, and a SUGGESTION deliberately does not fail — without verbose every
suggestion is swallowed, which is exactly the invisibility ADR-0013 records for Vale warnings.
ADR-0020's preload arithmetic depends on it: writing to the 400-char FAIL delivers roughly half the
cut that writing to the 250-char SUGGESTION does, so the intended saving depends entirely on that
tier being visible. The numbers, and the measurement method behind them, are not restated here —
they live in ADR-0020's Consequences section, under "A ceiling does not produce an average", whose
figures are pinned to the base commit the decision was taken on (`f9b919d`). Quoting them here would
just create a second copy to go stale. It costs nothing on a clean file — the script prints only
findings.
### Duplicated constants
`skill-audit`'s `validate.sh` holds a second copy of the four ADR-0020 constants
(`DESC_SUGGEST_CHARS` / `DESC_MAX_CHARS` / `BODY_SUGGEST_WORDS` / `BODY_MAX_WORDS`), and
`agent-audit`'s `validate.sh` holds a third copy of the two description constants. They are copied
rather than imported because a cache-installed plugin's scripts cannot read files outside their own
plugin directory. `tests/test-skill-size-check.sh` asserts the copies agree, so drift fails CI rather
than silently letting an audit bless a skill the commit hook then rejects. The shared boundary
resolver block is embedded verbatim in all three scripts between `BEGIN`/`END ADR-0020 SHARED
BOUNDARY RESOLVER` markers and must stay byte-identical.
### `python3` and PyYAML are hard requirements
Both, and neither is a best-effort accelerator.
`python3` because the script measures the **folded** `description` value. Most descriptions here are
`>`-block scalars, so a regex over the raw lines measures indentation and newlines instead of the
value. Missing it fails the hook with an install pointer rather than skipping the ADR-0020 checks,
which would be a vacuous green. In practice it is already present — pre-commit is itself a Python
application.
**PyYAML** because the hand-rolled fallback frontmatter reader has been **removed deliberately**. It
disagreed with a real parser across the FAIL boundary — one corpus description measured 270
characters parsed and 412 unparsed — and a quoted `"description"` key or an explicit
`description: null` returned empty from it, silently skipping the description *and* routing checks. A
reader that mis-parses an unfamiliar scalar shape reports a clean pass on a file it never measured,
which is the exact vacuous-green failure the `python3` check exists to avoid. `pip install pyyaml`
(or `python3 -m pip install PyYAML`, or the distro's `python3-yaml`) if the hook reports it missing.
## Agent files take the description gates, not the body gate
`check-apm-agents-valid` runs agent-audit's `validate.sh` over every real
`plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md`. It derives its expected file set from `git ls-files` — the pattern
`tests/run-bats.sh` established — so an agent file deleted from the worktree but still tracked fails
the run, and **discovering zero agent files is an error, not a pass**. An untracked *new* agent file
is still validated: the derivation is one-directional on purpose, so uncommitted work is not blocked
but also cannot bypass the gate.
The hook exists because `validate.sh` was previously exercised only by `check-scope-walkup-sync`,
against synthetic `mktemp` fixtures — it had never run against the agent files it governs. That is
how ADR-0016 could be amended to bless a `disallowedTools` frontmatter field while `validate.sh`'s
allowlist still rejected it: spec and enforcer disagreed and every gate stayed green.
Agents take the ADR-0020 **description** gates (agent-audit's `validate.sh` holds its own copy of
those two constants) and, deliberately, **no body word gate**. A skill body is loaded into the
caller's context and competes with the live conversation; an agent body becomes the system prompt of
a *fresh* context. The rationale for the 900-word FAIL does not transfer. A bats test pins that
absence in agent-audit's validator — adding a body gate there contradicts the ADR rather than fixing
an inconsistency.
**Be precise about the scope of that guarantee: it holds for the *validator*, not for the shared
script.** `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` applies its body gate to whatever path it is handed, and
```
bash scripts/skill-size-check.sh plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md
```
exits 1 today with 900-word body FAILs on `git-orchestrate` (933), `gitea-orchestrate` (1,199) and
`apm-orchestrate` (1,080). Agent files escape only because the hook definitions filter on `SKILL.md`
— a file-pattern accident that happens to implement the design, not the design itself. **Do not
"extend" that hook's `files:` pattern to cover agents** on the assumption that the script already
knows the difference; doing so silently enforces a gate ADR-0020 declines to set.
## Current retrofit status
**The ADR-0020 gates ship hot, with no baseline file.** A shrinking baseline recording each
non-compliant skill's current numbers was considered and rejected in favour of hot gates.
Two independent hot gates are currently red, and the first will not warn you about the second.
| Gate | Current findings |
|---|---|
| `skill-size-check` | **26 of 39** descriptions and **9 of 39** bodies exceed their FAIL tier; 2 dangling targets; 58 SUGGESTIONs |
| `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` (Vale) | **10 errors across four skills**: `gitea-issues`, `gitea-labels-milestones`, `gitea-prs`, `gitea-workflow` |
`Kyberforge.CompositionNote` is the ADR-0020 Vale rule banning composition and architecture prose
from a description. Every Vale rule here is `level: error` with no ignorable tier, so touching any of
those four skills means fixing its prose findings as well as its size findings.
Consequence: editing a non-compliant skill *for any reason* means retrofitting it to the contract
first — a one-line fix to `gitea-prs` cannot be committed until that skill complies. This is
deliberate; it guarantees convergence and avoids a half-state. Tracked as Gitea issue **#99**.
Check where a skill stands before starting, and check **both** gates:
```
pre-commit run skill-size-check --all-files # size/context only
pre-commit run --all-files # size AND Vale
```
Scoping a retrofit off `skill-size-check` output alone leaves you blocked at the second gate.
## Vale
Install the `vale` binary — `brew install vale` (macOS), `snap install vale` (Linux),
`choco install vale` (Windows), or see <https://vale.sh/docs/vale-cli/installation/>. No `vale sync`
is needed: the `Kyberforge` styles are **committed** under
`plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/{skill-audit,agent-audit}/assets/vale/styles/`, not downloaded
packages (ADR-0014).
### Two copies, one canonical
Wiring Vale as a deterministic prefilter for `skill-audit`/`agent-audit`'s Description dimension
(motivation: issue #84) is repo-specific, not part of the generic `lint` plugin, so it does not live
in `plugins/lint/` — and per ADR-0014 it no longer lives at the repo root either. It lives **twice**,
one copy per skill, both under `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/`:
| Copy | Styles | `.vale.ini` sections |
|---|---|---|
| `agent-audit/assets/vale/` — **canonical** | `Kyberforge`, `KyberforgeCopilot` | `[**/agents/*.md]`, `[**/*.agent.md]` |
| `skill-audit/assets/vale/` — smaller duplicate | `Kyberforge` | `[**/SKILL.md]` |
Duplicated rather than shared because a plugin's cache-install copies only each skill's own files —
there is no cross-skill sharing to point at. `check-vale-style-sync` at pre-push is what keeps them
from drifting; `KyberforgeCopilot` is the one deliberate inequality, being scoped only to `.agent.md`
files for the Copilot-only "`Use proactively` has no effect" check.
### What Vale owns, and what stays LLM judgment
Eleven rule files across the two copies, six distinct rules:
| Rule | Vale scope | Bans | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| `Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener` | `text.frontmatter.description` | non-imperative openers ("This skill/agent…") | issue #84 |
| `Kyberforge.VagueWording` | `text.frontmatter.description` | vague capability wording ("helps with", "utilize", …) | issue #84 |
| `Kyberforge.PaddingPhrase` | `text` | generic "see `references/` for details" padding | issue #84 |
| `KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase` | `text.frontmatter.description` | `Use proactively` (no effect in Copilot) | issue #84 |
| `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` | `sentence` | "There is/are" sentence openers | ADR-0013 |
| `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` | `text.frontmatter.description` | architecture and composition prose in a description | ADR-0020 |
Vale covers the **pattern-matchable** sub-checks named in issue #84 plus, per ADR-0013, one
cherry-picked body-wide prose-pattern rule. Everything else stays LLM judgment: defaults-vs-menus,
why-rationale, the non-pattern-matchable body-discipline calls, near-miss exclusion strength, and
control calibration. New rules land directly in `styles/Kyberforge` and block immediately — there is
no trial tier.
The cherry-pick record, so it is not re-litigated:
- `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` **landed** — 22 held-out hits, both in-corpus hits clean
rewrites, zero suppressions needed.
- `Kyberforge.VagueQualifier` was cherry-picked and then **deleted**. 2 hits across the corpus as it
stood on 2026-08-08 (before the `.apm/` restructure): one marginal, and one unfixable false
positive — `caveman/SKILL.md` quotes `of course` as an example of filler, a mention rather than a
use — which forced the repo's only Vale suppression comments.
- `governance.md` and `CONTROLS.md` were evaluated as rule sources and **excluded**: nothing
prose-pattern-matchable to mine.
### Why every rule is `level: error`
Every alert is a FAIL, with no ignorable tier — same all-or-nothing model as shellcheck, the test
suite, and conventional-pre-commit. Graded severities do not work here: **Vale's exit code keys on
`error` alerts alone**, so a `warning` or `suggestion` rule exits 0, and pre-commit swallows a
passing hook's output. Such a rule would be invisible and would block nothing.
`MinAlertLevel` and `--minAlertLevel` are correspondingly **absent** from both `.vale.ini` files and
from the hook definitions. Under this model they are no-ops; adding one is not a missing knob.
The `verbose: true` escape hatch that makes `skill-size-check`'s SUGGESTION tier audible has no
analogue here — Vale has no tier to make audible.
### External consumers: the root `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml`
The root `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` exposes both Vale copies (`kyberforge-vale-audit-skill`,
`kyberforge-vale-audit-agent`) plus `kyberforge-skill-size-check`, so any external repo can enforce
the same rules with `repo: <this-repo-url>, rev: <tag>` in its own `.pre-commit-config.yaml`.
pre-commit clones the pinned rev into its own cache, independent of whether Claude Code or the
`kyberforge` plugin is installed at all; the same mechanism covers CI via `pre-commit run
--all-files`. `skill-size-check` has no external asset dependency, so it needed no relocation under
ADR-0014 — only exposure.
This repo's own `vale-audit-prefilter-skill` / `-agent` hooks consume the **identical**
plugin-bundled copies via `repo: local`. Deliberately not a third root copy, and deliberately **not a
pinned self-reference** — a pinned self-reference would lint working-tree edits against the last
tagged release rather than against the change being made.
### Pre-commit
Two prefilter hooks, with `.apm/`-scoped `files:` patterns:
| Hook | Pattern |
|---|---|
| `vale-audit-prefilter-skill` | `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` |
| `vale-audit-prefilter-agent` | `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/agents/[^/]+\.agent\.md$` |
Only the **authoring source** triggers them. A `SKILL.md` in the generated flat mirror matches
neither pattern, so prose findings surface only when you edit the file you are supposed to be
editing. Without the binary the hooks fail with a bare "command not found" and no install pointer.
**Two hooks, not one combined hook.** Both manifests split the prefilter in two precisely because a
single hook can point at only one copy, and that copy would silently 0-file-skip the other file
shape (see [A 0-file Vale run is NOT RUN](#a-0-file-vale-run-is-not-run)).
### The `.vale.ini` globs do no scoping
Each `.vale.ini`'s section globs are **path-agnostic** — `[**/SKILL.md]` for skill-audit's copy,
`[**/agents/*.md]` and `[**/*.agent.md]` for agent-audit's — and constrain filename *shape*, not
location: Vale's `*` crosses `/`. A `SKILL.md` outside `plugins/` (a project-scope
`.claude/skills/foo/SKILL.md`, say) still matches `[**/SKILL.md]` and gets linted normally.
All scoping therefore comes from the pre-commit hook's own `files:` regex and from the audit skills
passing one explicit file per invocation. The two manifests scope **differently on purpose**:
| Manifest | `-skill` | `-agent` |
|---|---|---|
| `.pre-commit-config.yaml` (pins this repo's layout) | `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` | `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/agents/[^/]+\.agent\.md$` |
| `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` (layout-agnostic for consumers) | `(^\|/)SKILL\.md$` | `(^\|/)agents/[^/]+\.md$\|\.agent\.md$` |
Narrowing a `.vale.ini` glob to a `plugins/`-shaped path to "tighten" it breaks the consumer case,
and `check-vale-style-sync`'s probe set is built to catch exactly that.
### `vale-wrap.sh`, never bare `vale`
Both audit skills' Step 1 and both pre-commit hooks call **each copy's own**
`scripts/vale-wrap.sh`, not `vale`. It works around a confirmed **Vale 3.15.2** limitation:
`text.frontmatter.description` silently stops matching on most — not all — multi-line descriptions.
Verified by reproduction on a deliberately-bad fixture, not assumed:
| Description scalar spanning 2+ lines | Vale's behaviour |
|---|---|
| `>` folded block | 0 alerts, exit 0 — **broken** |
| plain (unquoted) continuation lines | 0 alerts, exit 0 — **broken** |
| single- or double-quoted, wrapped | 0 alerts, exit 0 — **broken** |
| `\|` literal block | alerts fire, exit 1 — lints normally |
The wrapper flattens the three broken forms to a single-line scalar in a scratch copy — or, for the
rare value no inline scalar can spell verbatim, a `|-` block with one content line — padding with
blank lines so **every other line number is unchanged**. `|` literal blocks and single-line
descriptions pass through untouched. Most descriptions in this repo are `>` blocks, so before the
wrapper a bad description in any of the three broken forms sailed straight through the prefilter.
### The `--config` argv defect
Handed **no `--config` at all**, the wrapper falls back to its own sibling `assets/vale/.vale.ini`,
located from `${BASH_SOURCE[0]}` rather than from the cwd. That is why both manifests' `entry:` is
now the bare script path with **no argument after it**.
pre-commit prefixes only `entry[0]` with the hook-repo clone path (`cmd = (prefix.path(cmd[0]),
*cmd[1:])`), so every later argument resolves against the **consuming** repo's root. A `--config` in
`.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` therefore pointed at a path no consumer has and hard-failed every external
run with `E100 [--config] Runtime error`.
`.pre-commit-config.yaml` drops the argument too, deliberately keeping the two entries identical.
The local `repo: local` hook resolved its `--config` correctly only because the consuming repo *was*
this repo — and that divergence is why three review rounds exercised a path no external consumer
takes and missed the defect. **Do not reintroduce a `--config` to either manifest to make the local
run "explicit".**
An explicit `--config` from any other caller still wins, in all three argv forms (`--config X`,
`--config=/abs`, `--config=rel`), and a relative one resolves against the caller's cwd — matching
bare `vale`, not the repo root.
Both audit skills' Step 1 passes no `--config` either. Step 1 resolves the script relative to the
skill's own directory so the call works from an installed plugin cache; a relative `--config`
alongside it would resolve against the cwd instead, yielding `E100 Runtime error … does not exist`
and exit 2 — which both skills' fallback misreads as "vale unavailable" and silently downgrades to
full LLM judgment.
`tests/test-vale-wrap.sh` regression-tests this against **skill-audit's** copy specifically: its
fixtures are all `SKILL.md`-shaped, and only skill-audit's `.vale.ini` carries that glob section.
### A 0-file Vale run is NOT RUN
Vale reports 0 files only when the path it is handed matches **no glob section at all** — a
differently-named file, or a directory argument holding nothing that matches. That run prints
```
✔ 0 errors ... in 0 files.
```
and exits 0, indistinguishable from a clean pass. Both audits therefore treat a 0-file Vale run as
**NOT RUN** and fall back to full LLM judgment rather than reporting the Description dimension
clean.
### Pre-push
`vale` is a **pre-push** dependency too, not only pre-commit. `check-vale-style-sync` runs **six
glob-coverage probes** by invoking `vale --config` — one representative path per file shape the
prefilter is supposed to cover. They are the only assertions in the script that catch a `.vale.ini`
glob typo (`[**/SKILL.md]` → `[**/SKILLS.md]`), the failure mode where every text-level check stays
clean while vale lints zero files. As a warning this self-disabled on exactly that mutation and
exited 0, and since pre-commit swallows a passing hook's output the stderr line was never seen — the
hook reported `Passed`. Missing `vale` is therefore a hard failure here.
The opt-out is `CHECK_VALE_STYLE_SYNC_ALLOW_MISSING_VALE=1`, and **it is not `SKIP=`**: the hook
still runs and still asserts everything verifiable from file text, but the six probes do not, and its
summary says so explicitly —
```
Vale style sync check passed (text-level only, vale unavailable): … 0 glob probe(s) verified.
```
Use it only on a machine that genuinely cannot install `vale`, and read that line as "the glob axis
was not checked", not as a pass. The hook is `verbose: true` for exactly that reason — its clean
output is a single line, so it costs one line per push.
### Mentioning banned phrasing without tripping the rule
House convention: banned phrasing that must be **mentioned** rather than used goes in backticks or a
fenced code block. Vale skips code spans and fences, so no suppression is needed — which is why this
document quotes `Use proactively` and "There is/are" the way it does.
Inline `<!-- vale Rule = NO -->` is the fallback **only** where backticking is impossible. Use the
HTML-comment form; the MDX `{/* */}` form does not work in plain Markdown. The one time a rule forced
suppression comments, the rule was deleted instead (see the `VagueQualifier` entry above).
## Tests
```
bash tests/run-tests.sh # every test-*.sh plus the bats suite
bash tests/run-tests.sh --bats-only # just bats
```
First run auto-initializes the bats submodules; no manual `git submodule update` needed.
**Exit 77 = SKIPPED.** A suite that skips because a dependency is missing does **not** fail an ad-hoc
run. The pre-push hook invokes the same script as `--strict` (`RUN_TESTS_STRICT=1` is equivalent),
where a skip **does** fail the push: at pre-push a skip means one of the documented dependencies is
absent on this machine, so the gate would otherwise report success having run fewer suites than it
appears to. Without `--strict` the gate once went green having verified 15 of 17 suites on a
vale-less PATH, with the skip list swallowed. Without vale, three suites skip —
`test-check-vale-style-sync.sh`, `test-vale-hooks-consumer.sh`, `test-vale-wrap.sh` — and the strict
failure names each one and what to install.
`tests/run-bats.sh` derives the set of `.bats` files it expects from `git ls-files`, so a `.bats`
file deleted from the worktree but still tracked in the index fails the run rather than silently
shrinking the suite. Remove one with `git rm` (or stage the deletion) when intentional; an untracked
new `.bats` file is picked up and needs no ceremony.
Both discovery walks (`tests/run-bats.sh` and `tests/run-tests.sh`) exclude `apm_modules/`:
`apm install` materializes a full copy of every plugin there, and running a dependency's copy of a
`.bats` file breaks its relative path to the bats helpers — **167 spurious failures** before the
exclusion landed.
## apm gates
### `apm-audit-ci`
Runs `apm audit --ci` **once per manifest** — the root one and each of the six plugin packages —
because the root-only invocation audits the marketplace manifest and **nothing else**, and
`apm-pack-check-clean` does not parse plugin `dependencies:` blocks either. Verified: a malformed
dependency entry passes `apm pack --check-versions --check-clean --dry-run` and fails
`apm audit --ci` in that package's directory. Costs ~0.5s per package.
It verifies **exactly two things** per manifest and claims no more:
- **manifest-parse** — each `apm.yml` parses as a valid APM manifest. Unconditional; verified to fire
on a dependency entry missing its `git`/`path`/`registry` field (`Cannot parse apm.yml`).
- **lockfile-exists** — any package declaring dependencies has a consistent `apm.lock.yaml`.
Conditional, and vacuous while every plugin `apm.yml` declares `dependencies: {apm: [], mcp: []}`;
it arms itself the moment one does not (verified by adding a git dependency to
`plugins/lint/apm.yml`).
It does **not** enforce an org policy. apm discovers one from the git remote and only understands
github.com and Azure DevOps, so against this repo's self-hosted Gitea remote it prints:
```
No org policy found at unknown; enforcement skipped
```
**Do not "fix" that with `policy.fetch_failure_default: block` in `apm.yml`.** apm's own message
suggests it; it was tried on a scratch copy and **rejected**. With no reachable policy source it does
not make the check meaningful, it makes it permanently red — `apm audit --ci` exits 1 with
`No org policy found at unknown (policy.fetch_failure_default=block)` on every push, forever. A gate
that can never go green is not a gate. Revisit only if this repo gains a policy source apm can reach.
It also does not scan for hidden Unicode: that scan is plain `apm audit`, a different mode (`--ci`
refuses to combine with `--file`/`--strip`/`--dry-run`/`PACKAGE`), and plain `apm audit` here reports
`No apm.lock.yaml found -- nothing to scan` and exits 0. Adding it would buy a second vacuous check.
### `check-executables-allow-sync`
apm gates a package's `hooks/` and `bin/` on an **exact `<package>#<version>` dictionary lookup** in
root `apm.yml`'s `executables.allow` (`apm_cli/security/executables.py`, `is_package_approved`).
There is no wildcard and no version-less form.
So bumping `plugins/kyberforge/apm.yml`'s `version:` without bumping the key **errors nowhere**: the
entry simply stops matching, the gate blocks the hook, kyberforge's `SessionStart` hook stops
deploying, and the apm install goes quietly stale — the exact failure ADR-0019 exists to end,
reintroduced through the mechanism meant to secure it. ADR-0019 records this as a live failure mode;
the release that shipped the hook hit it immediately.
`scripts/check-executables-allow-sync.sh` parses `version:` out of `plugins/kyberforge/apm.yml` and
asserts root `apm.yml` carries the matching `kyberforge#<version>` key. A comment in the
`executables:` block stays as the human-facing pointer; the hook is what actually holds. It parses
with PyYAML where importable and falls back to a two-shape scan otherwise, so a missing pip package
cannot become the thing that blocks every push.
## `.claude/settings.json`
**apm owns this file. Nothing repo-authored goes in it.**
`apm audit --ci` replays the install into a scratch tree and diffs the result byte-for-byte, so
anything apm would not have written there — an `enabledPlugins` block, a real `hooks` entry — is
permanent drift that fails `apm-audit-ci`. A hook you want in this repo is authored in
`plugins/<name>/.apm/hooks/` and deployed by apm, never hand-written here.
Its committed content is whatever apm last wrote, which today is the merged `SessionStart` entry for
kyberforge's `check-apm-current.sh`. That is apm's own output and it belongs in the commit (ADR-0019;
ADR-0018's statement that the committed content is exactly `{"hooks": {}}` is superseded on that
point only). Machine-specific settings go in the gitignored `.claude/settings.local.json`, which apm
does not deploy and the replay does not compare; shared enforcement belongs in
`.pre-commit-config.yaml`.
### Why it is excluded from `pretty-format-json`
It is the **sixth and last alternation** in that hook's `exclude:` pattern, and the only one there
for a reason other than "generated manifest". Mind which number you are quoting: **six alternations,
expanding to sixteen real files** — 3 root marketplace manifests, 2 per plugin × 6 plugins, plus this
one.
`pretty-format-json --autofix` sorts object keys unless `--no-sort-keys` is passed, while apm's hook
integrator emits insertion order (`matcher` before `hooks`, `type` before `command`). Leaving the
file in that hook's scope therefore rewrites apm's output into a form apm would never produce on the
way into **every** commit, and `apm-audit-ci` then reports permanent drift on a file with an empty
`git diff` — exactly what happened when the `SessionStart` hook first landed in `2e395a4`. Re-running
`apm install` fixes the file; leaving it in scope would re-break it on the very commit carrying the
fix.
**Load-bearing. Do not tidy it out of that list** (see `LESSONS.md`, 2026-08-14).
## Pushing without a network
Exactly **two** pre-push hooks need the network, for one shared reason: root `apm.yml`'s
`marketplace.packages[]` contains exactly one remote entry — `mattpocock-skills`,
`source: mattpocock/skills` — and resolving it needs a `git ls-remote`.
| Hook | Offline failure |
|---|---|
| `apm-marketplace-check` (`always_run`, resolves every entry) | `No cached refs (offline)` |
| `apm-pack-check-clean` (re-resolves the same entry) | `Error: Git network timeout during ls-remote` |
Pinning the entry to an exact version does **not** remove the call — an exact pin still ls-remotes.
`--offline` rescues neither.
To push without a network, skip both using pre-commit's own mechanism:
```
SKIP=apm-marketplace-check,apm-pack-check-clean git push
```
**Skip those two alone.** Verified under `unshare -rn`: the other twelve pre-push hooks pass offline
because they are real local checks. (`check-executables-allow-sync` landed after that run, but reads
two local manifests and makes no network call.) Adding any other hook to `SKIP` disarms it silently.
`apm-audit-ci` calls `apm` too but stays local: its org-policy discovery resolves nothing on this
remote *before* any network call, so it does not join the pair above.
---
## See also
- `docs/adr/0020-skill-description-and-body-context-contract.md` — the context contract, its
enforcement table (deterministic vs. auditor judgment), and every rejected alternative
- `docs/adr/0019-session-start-hook-keeps-the-apm-install-current.md` — the `SessionStart` hook, the
executable-trust gate, and the version-pinned allow key
- `docs/adr/0017-plugin-content-mirror-bridges-apm-to-host-discovery.md`,
`docs/adr/0015-apm-replaces-plugin-marketplace-authoring.md`,
`docs/adr/0014-vale-prefilter-ships-from-the-plugin.md` — plugin content sync, apm-generated
manifests, committed Vale styles
- `docs/spec/architecture.md` — directory structure, install pipeline, what is generated and what is
hand-authored
- `.pre-commit-config.yaml` — the hooks themselves, with inline rationale comments

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---
name: diagnose
description: Disciplined diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix → regression-test. Use when user says "diagnose this" / "debug this", reports a bug, says something is broken/throwing/failing, or describes a performance regression.
description: >
Use when the user says "diagnose this" or "debug this", reports something
broken, throwing, or failing, or says something got slow. Not filing or
triaging a reported bug -> `triage`. Not test-first feature work -> `tdd`.
---
# Diagnose
@@ -15,40 +18,9 @@ When exploring the codebase, use the project's domain glossary to get a clear me
Spend disproportionate effort here. **Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.**
### Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order
Read `references/feedback-loops.md` — even if you already have a signal. Ten ways to build a loop ordered by cost, how to sharpen the one you have, and what to do when the bug resists reproduction. An unsharpened loop is usually not good enough yet.
1. **Failing test** at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
2. **Curl / HTTP script** against a running dev server.
3. **CLI invocation** with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
4. **Headless browser script** (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
5. **Replay a captured trace.** Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
6. **Throwaway harness.** Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
7. **Property / fuzz loop.** If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
8. **Bisection harness.** If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can `git bisect run` it.
9. **Differential loop.** Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
10. **HITL bash script.** Last resort. If a human must click, drive _them_ with `scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.
Build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90% fixed.
### Iterate on the loop itself
Treat the loop as a product. Once you have _a_ loop, ask:
- Can I make it faster? (Cache setup, skip unrelated init, narrow the test scope.)
- Can I make the signal sharper? (Assert on the specific symptom, not "didn't crash".)
- Can I make it more deterministic? (Pin time, seed RNG, isolate filesystem, freeze network.)
A 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. A 2-second deterministic loop is a debugging superpower.
### Non-deterministic bugs
The goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigger 100×, parallelise, add stress, narrow timing windows, inject sleeps. A 50%-flake bug is debuggable; 1% is not — keep raising the rate until it's debuggable.
### When you genuinely cannot build a loop
Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for: (a) access to whatever environment reproduces it, (b) a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or (c) permission to add temporary production instrumentation. Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop.
Do not proceed to Phase 2 until you have a loop you believe in.
Do not proceed to Phase 2 until you have a loop you believe in. If you cannot build one, stop and say so explicitly, listing what you tried — never hypothesise without a signal.
## Phase 2 — Reproduce
@@ -57,7 +29,7 @@ Run the loop. Watch the bug appear.
Confirm:
- [ ] The loop produces the failure mode the **user** described — not a different failure that happens to be nearby. Wrong bug = wrong fix.
- [ ] The failure is reproducible across multiple runs (or, for non-deterministic bugs, reproducible at a high enough rate to debug against).
- [ ] The failure is reproducible across multiple runs. If it is intermittent, `references/feedback-loops.md` defines the rate high enough to debug against — go back to Phase 1 and raise it.
- [ ] You have captured the exact symptom (error message, wrong output, slow timing) so later phases can verify the fix actually addresses it.
Do not proceed until you reproduce the bug.
@@ -98,11 +70,11 @@ A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it oc
If a correct seam exists:
1. Turn the minimised repro into a failing test at that seam.
1. Turn the Phase 1 loop into a failing test at that seam, narrowed to the symptom captured in Phase 2.
2. Watch it fail.
3. Apply the fix.
4. Watch it pass.
5. Re-run the Phase 1 feedback loop against the original (un-minimised) scenario.
5. Re-run the Phase 1 feedback loop against the original, un-narrowed scenario.
## Phase 6 — Cleanup + post-mortem

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# Constructing and sharpening a feedback loop
A feedback loop is a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable pass/fail signal for the bug. Build the right one and the bug is 90% fixed. This file covers the whole arc: building a loop, sharpening one you already have, and escalating when the bug resists reproduction.
## Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order
1. **Failing test** at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
2. **Curl / HTTP script** against a running dev server.
3. **CLI invocation** with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
4. **Headless browser script** (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
5. **Replay a captured trace.** Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
6. **Throwaway harness.** Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
7. **Property / fuzz loop.** If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
8. **Bisection harness.** If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can `git bisect run` it.
9. **Differential loop.** Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
10. **HITL bash script.** Last resort. If a human must click, drive _them_ with `../scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.
## Iterate on the loop itself
Treat the loop as a product. Once you have _a_ loop, ask:
- Can I make it faster? (Cache setup, skip unrelated init, narrow the test scope.)
- Can I make the signal sharper? (Assert on the specific symptom, not "didn't crash".)
- Can I make it more deterministic? (Pin time, seed RNG, isolate filesystem, freeze network.)
A 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. A 2-second deterministic loop is a debugging superpower.
## Intermittent bugs — raise the reproduction rate
If the loop only sometimes fails, the goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigger 100×, parallelise, add stress, narrow timing windows, inject sleeps. A 50%-flake bug is debuggable; 1% is not — keep raising the rate until it's debuggable.
## When you genuinely cannot build a loop
Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for:
- access to whatever environment reproduces it,
- a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or
- permission to add temporary production instrumentation.
Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop. A hypothesis you cannot falsify against a signal is a guess, and the fix that follows it is unverifiable.

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---
name: prototype
description: Build a throwaway prototype to flush out a design before committing to it. Routes between two branches — a runnable terminal app for state/business-logic questions, or several radically different UI variations toggleable from one route. Use when the user wants to prototype, sanity-check a data model or state machine, mock up a UI, explore design options, or says "prototype this", "let me play with it", "try a few designs".
description: >
Use when the user wants a throwaway prototype to answer a design question about
a data model, state machine or business logic, or to mock up a UI in several
variations, as in "try a few designs". Not production code -> `tdd`. Not
talking a design through without building -> `grill-me`.
---
# Prototype

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```yaml
version: "1.1"
updated: 2026-06-21
when: >-
Invoked when the user wants to gather structured reference documentation for a
tool, library, or API from MCP documentation indexes or web sources. Typically
run before writing a new skill that wraps an external tool, or any time
reference files are needed for a topic. Triggered explicitly
("/research <topic> <path>") or implicitly when the user asks to look up,
gather, or pull docs for a topic before implementing something.
references:
- .agents/skills/context7-mcp/SKILL.md # context7-mcp — MCP source channel integrated at step 2
```

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---
name: research
description: >-
Use when the user wants to research a topic and generate structured reference
markdown files. Handles: finding canonical docs for a tool/library/API via
Context7 MCP or web sources, reading and deepening into linked pages,
organizing extracted content into topic files (overview, installation,
configuration, cli-reference, api-reference, examples, troubleshooting). Do
NOT use when the user wants to write documentation from existing code or specs
(use write-docs), install or manage the neuledge-context MCP server (use
neuledge-context), or research a bug/incident (use diagnose).
Use when the user wants a tool, library, or API researched from canonical
documentation into structured per-topic reference markdown files. Not
documentation written from existing code or specs -> `write-docs`. Not a bug
or incident -> `diagnose`.
metadata:
category: research
allowed-tools:
@@ -21,77 +17,48 @@ allowed-tools:
model: sonnet
---
<requirements>
## Gotchas
## Required inputs
- Never infer the output path. A run writes a directory's worth of files, and a guessed destination scatters them through someone's source tree. If the user named no path, stop and ask.
- Write nothing outside the given output path. A file placed beside the agreed directory is one the user never asked for and will not think to look for.
- Never write an empty topic file. A stub `troubleshooting.md` reads downstream as researched and closed.
- A Context7 response that is a "no results" message, a redirect notice, or header-only boilerplate is not coverage. A topic area counts as covered only when the response carries at least one substantive paragraph.
- **Topic** — the subject to research (tool, library, API, concept); inferred from user description if clear, ask if ambiguous
- **Output path** — directory where reference files will be written; must be provided explicitly — do not infer or default
- **Starting URLs** — optional; if provided, skip discovery websearch and read these first
## Step 1 — Scope against the working directory
## Constraints
Search for existing use of the topic — imports, config files, version pins, reference files already written — and narrow the research to what is missing: the version actually in use, the topics not yet documented.
- Never write files outside the explicitly provided output path
- Skip any default topic file if no relevant content is found for it — do not create empty files
- Create additional topic files beyond the default list when content warrants it (e.g. `webhooks.md`, `rate-limits.md`)
- Subagents handle parallel source reading and link deepening — the orchestrator writes all files; subagents return summaries only, never write directly
- Context7 MCP calls (`resolve-library-id`, `query-docs`) are made only by the orchestrator at step 2 — subagents must not call them
- `sources.md` is always written, even if only one source was read
- Each topic file must have frontmatter with `topic` and `source_keys`; body is prose only — no inline URLs
- Source keys in `sources.md` must be kebab-case slugs: derived from the source domain or page title for web sources; for Context7 sources use `context7-<library-slug>` (e.g. `context7-vercel-next-js`)
- Default topic list and file format spec live in `references/` sub-files — read them at step 1
Read `references/topics.md` before narrowing, for the default topic list.
</requirements>
## Step 2 — Resolve against Context7
<steps>
If the topic is a library, framework, or API and the user gave no starting URLs, call `resolve-library-id` with the topic name and the user's full question — match quality depends on the question, not the bare name — then `query-docs` once per default topic area. Record each response as a source with slug `context7-<library-slug>`, and mark which topic areas it covered — those skip the web reads at step 4.
## Process
If the library does not resolve, or the user gave starting URLs, go to step 3. Explicit URLs are a source choice; do not second-guess them with a resolution attempt.
1. **Scan codebase.** Search the working directory for existing usage of the topic — imports, config files, version pins, existing reference files. Use findings to narrow research scope (e.g. target the version already in use, skip topics already documented). Read `references/topics.md` for the default topic list and `references/file-format.md` for the output file format spec.
## Step 3 — Discover sources
2. **Try Context7.** If the topic is a library, framework, or API and no starting URLs were provided, call `resolve-library-id` with the topic name and the user's question. If a match resolves, call `query-docs` once per default topic area (see `references/topics.md`). Treat each response as a source summary with slug `context7-<library-slug>` (e.g. `context7-vercel-next-js`). A topic area has sufficient content when the Context7 response contains at least one substantive paragraph — not a "no results" message, redirect notice, or header-only boilerplate. Mark covered topic areas — skip their subagent web reads in step 4. If the library does not resolve, or starting URLs were provided (explicit source choice by the user), skip this step entirely.
If the user gave starting URLs, skip discovery: those URLs are the source list and go straight to step 4.
3. **Discover sources.** For topics not covered by Context7 (or when no starting URLs were provided and Context7 did not resolve), websearch for canonical documentation (prefer `llms.txt`, developer docs, official API references over tutorials or blog posts). Collect 3–5 candidate URLs before reading any.
Otherwise, for every topic area Context7 did not cover, websearch for canonical documentation — `llms.txt`, official developer docs, and API references ahead of tutorials or blog posts. Collect three to five candidate URLs before reading any of them.
4. **Read sources in parallel.** Spawn one subagent per source URL. Each subagent fetches the page, extracts relevant content, identifies links worth deepening, and returns a structured summary (content by topic area + links to follow). Subagents do not write files.
If nothing usable comes back, stop and report what was searched, then ask for starting URLs rather than settling for tutorials.
5. **Deepen.** For each subagent that returned links worth following, spawn child subagents per branch. Continue until content becomes repetitive or out of scope. Cap at ~10 additional pages total across all branches.
## Step 4 — Read the sources
6. **Consolidate.** Merge all subagent summaries (Context7 and web) by topic area. Identify which default topics have sufficient content and which custom topics emerged.
`WebFetch` each URL in turn. No subagent tool is granted here, so the reads are serial and every fetched page lands in this context: reduce each page to notes by topic area, plus the links worth deepening, before fetching the next one.
7. **Write topic files.** For each topic with content, write `<output-path>/<topic>.md` using the format in `references/file-format.md`. Orchestrator writes all files — never delegate file writing to a subagent.
## Step 5 — Deepen
8. **Write `sources.md`.** Write `<output-path>/sources.md` mapping each source slug to its URL (use `context7:<library-id>` as the URL for Context7 sources), description, and list of topic files it contributed to. Include sources that yielded no content, marked `no content extracted`.
`WebFetch` the links worth following, still one at a time and still reducing each page to notes. Stop a branch once its content turns repetitive or leaves the topic, and cap the whole step at roughly ten additional pages — serial reads make that cap a real budget, not a formality.
## Output format
## Step 6 — Write
- `<output-path>/<topic>.md` per topic with content — formatted per `references/file-format.md`
- `<output-path>/sources.md` — always produced; maps slug → URL, description, contributing files
Merge every set of notes, Context7 and web alike, by topic area. Read `references/file-format.md`, then write, in the output path:
</steps>
- `<topic>.md` for each topic area that has content, default or custom
- `sources.md`, always, one section per source in the schema that file gives — URL, description, contributing files, and status — including sources that yielded nothing, marked `no content extracted`
<checks>
Spell the `sources.md` field names exactly as `references/file-format.md` gives them. The downstream provenance validator matches them literally; prose in their place parses as nothing, and the check passes having verified nothing.
## Failure handling
- Output path not provided — stop and ask; do not infer or default
- No sources found after websearch — report what was searched, ask user to provide starting URLs
- Subagent returns no usable content — skip that source, log in `sources.md` as `no content extracted`
- All topic files would be empty — stop, report what was searched, do not write any files
## Self-check
- [ ] Codebase scanned before any websearch was performed
- [ ] Output path was explicitly provided — not inferred
- [ ] `references/topics.md` and `references/file-format.md` read at step 1
- [ ] Context7 resolution attempted before websearch when topic is a library/framework/API
- [ ] Context7 calls made only at orchestrator step 2 — no subagent called `resolve-library-id` or `query-docs`
- [ ] Context7 sources recorded in `sources.md` with `context7:<library-id>` as URL
- [ ] No topic file written without content
- [ ] `sources.md` written with all sources read (including those with no content extracted)
- [ ] All file writes performed by the orchestrator, not subagents
- [ ] Each topic file has `topic` and `source_keys` frontmatter fields
- [ ] All source keys in topic files have a matching entry in `sources.md`
- [ ] No files written outside the provided output path
</checks>
If no topic area has content, write nothing at all, `sources.md` included, and report what was searched. A directory of empty files is worse than an honest miss.

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{
"name": "bin",
"version": "1.1.3",
"description": "A place for things to be binned",
"version": "1.1.5",
"description": "Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin.",
"author": {
"name": "Defame1297",
"email": "defame1297@rkdr.net",

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{
"name": "bin",
"version": "1.1.3",
"description": "A place for things to be binned",
"version": "1.1.5",
"description": "Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin.",
"author": {
"name": "Defame1297",
"email": "defame1297@rkdr.net",

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name: bin
version: 1.1.3
description: A place for things to be binned
version: 1.1.5
description: Skills for everyday AI-assisted development work that is not tied to a single tool, forge or language, and has not yet been split into a focused plugin.
author:
name: Defame1297
email: defame1297@rkdr.net

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query: "Research why these integration tests are failing"
should_trigger: false
- id: negative-neuledge
name: "Negative — MCP server setup goes to neuledge-context"
query: "Install the neuledge context server and set it up"
should_trigger: false
- id: negative-context7-direct-question
name: "Negative — direct doc question goes to context7-mcp, not research"
query: "What are the Next.js middleware options?"

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---
name: diagnose
description: Disciplined diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions. Reproduce → minimise → hypothesise → instrument → fix → regression-test. Use when user says "diagnose this" / "debug this", reports a bug, says something is broken/throwing/failing, or describes a performance regression.
description: >
Use when the user says "diagnose this" or "debug this", reports something
broken, throwing, or failing, or says something got slow. Not filing or
triaging a reported bug -> `triage`. Not test-first feature work -> `tdd`.
---
# Diagnose
@@ -15,40 +18,9 @@ When exploring the codebase, use the project's domain glossary to get a clear me
Spend disproportionate effort here. **Be aggressive. Be creative. Refuse to give up.**
### Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order
Read `references/feedback-loops.md` — even if you already have a signal. Ten ways to build a loop ordered by cost, how to sharpen the one you have, and what to do when the bug resists reproduction. An unsharpened loop is usually not good enough yet.
1. **Failing test** at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
2. **Curl / HTTP script** against a running dev server.
3. **CLI invocation** with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
4. **Headless browser script** (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
5. **Replay a captured trace.** Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
6. **Throwaway harness.** Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
7. **Property / fuzz loop.** If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
8. **Bisection harness.** If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can `git bisect run` it.
9. **Differential loop.** Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
10. **HITL bash script.** Last resort. If a human must click, drive _them_ with `scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.
Build the right feedback loop, and the bug is 90% fixed.
### Iterate on the loop itself
Treat the loop as a product. Once you have _a_ loop, ask:
- Can I make it faster? (Cache setup, skip unrelated init, narrow the test scope.)
- Can I make the signal sharper? (Assert on the specific symptom, not "didn't crash".)
- Can I make it more deterministic? (Pin time, seed RNG, isolate filesystem, freeze network.)
A 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. A 2-second deterministic loop is a debugging superpower.
### Non-deterministic bugs
The goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigger 100×, parallelise, add stress, narrow timing windows, inject sleeps. A 50%-flake bug is debuggable; 1% is not — keep raising the rate until it's debuggable.
### When you genuinely cannot build a loop
Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for: (a) access to whatever environment reproduces it, (b) a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or (c) permission to add temporary production instrumentation. Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop.
Do not proceed to Phase 2 until you have a loop you believe in.
Do not proceed to Phase 2 until you have a loop you believe in. If you cannot build one, stop and say so explicitly, listing what you tried — never hypothesise without a signal.
## Phase 2 — Reproduce
@@ -57,7 +29,7 @@ Run the loop. Watch the bug appear.
Confirm:
- [ ] The loop produces the failure mode the **user** described — not a different failure that happens to be nearby. Wrong bug = wrong fix.
- [ ] The failure is reproducible across multiple runs (or, for non-deterministic bugs, reproducible at a high enough rate to debug against).
- [ ] The failure is reproducible across multiple runs. If it is intermittent, `references/feedback-loops.md` defines the rate high enough to debug against — go back to Phase 1 and raise it.
- [ ] You have captured the exact symptom (error message, wrong output, slow timing) so later phases can verify the fix actually addresses it.
Do not proceed until you reproduce the bug.
@@ -98,11 +70,11 @@ A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it oc
If a correct seam exists:
1. Turn the minimised repro into a failing test at that seam.
1. Turn the Phase 1 loop into a failing test at that seam, narrowed to the symptom captured in Phase 2.
2. Watch it fail.
3. Apply the fix.
4. Watch it pass.
5. Re-run the Phase 1 feedback loop against the original (un-minimised) scenario.
5. Re-run the Phase 1 feedback loop against the original, un-narrowed scenario.
## Phase 6 — Cleanup + post-mortem

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# Constructing and sharpening a feedback loop
A feedback loop is a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable pass/fail signal for the bug. Build the right one and the bug is 90% fixed. This file covers the whole arc: building a loop, sharpening one you already have, and escalating when the bug resists reproduction.
## Ways to construct one — try them in roughly this order
1. **Failing test** at whatever seam reaches the bug — unit, integration, e2e.
2. **Curl / HTTP script** against a running dev server.
3. **CLI invocation** with a fixture input, diffing stdout against a known-good snapshot.
4. **Headless browser script** (Playwright / Puppeteer) — drives the UI, asserts on DOM/console/network.
5. **Replay a captured trace.** Save a real network request / payload / event log to disk; replay it through the code path in isolation.
6. **Throwaway harness.** Spin up a minimal subset of the system (one service, mocked deps) that exercises the bug code path with a single function call.
7. **Property / fuzz loop.** If the bug is "sometimes wrong output", run 1000 random inputs and look for the failure mode.
8. **Bisection harness.** If the bug appeared between two known states (commit, dataset, version), automate "boot at state X, check, repeat" so you can `git bisect run` it.
9. **Differential loop.** Run the same input through old-version vs new-version (or two configs) and diff outputs.
10. **HITL bash script.** Last resort. If a human must click, drive _them_ with `../scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` so the loop is still structured. Captured output feeds back to you.
## Iterate on the loop itself
Treat the loop as a product. Once you have _a_ loop, ask:
- Can I make it faster? (Cache setup, skip unrelated init, narrow the test scope.)
- Can I make the signal sharper? (Assert on the specific symptom, not "didn't crash".)
- Can I make it more deterministic? (Pin time, seed RNG, isolate filesystem, freeze network.)
A 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. A 2-second deterministic loop is a debugging superpower.
## Intermittent bugs — raise the reproduction rate
If the loop only sometimes fails, the goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigger 100×, parallelise, add stress, narrow timing windows, inject sleeps. A 50%-flake bug is debuggable; 1% is not — keep raising the rate until it's debuggable.
## When you genuinely cannot build a loop
Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for:
- access to whatever environment reproduces it,
- a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or
- permission to add temporary production instrumentation.
Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop. A hypothesis you cannot falsify against a signal is a guess, and the fix that follows it is unverifiable.

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---
name: prototype
description: Build a throwaway prototype to flush out a design before committing to it. Routes between two branches — a runnable terminal app for state/business-logic questions, or several radically different UI variations toggleable from one route. Use when the user wants to prototype, sanity-check a data model or state machine, mock up a UI, explore design options, or says "prototype this", "let me play with it", "try a few designs".
description: >
Use when the user wants a throwaway prototype to answer a design question about
a data model, state machine or business logic, or to mock up a UI in several
variations, as in "try a few designs". Not production code -> `tdd`. Not
talking a design through without building -> `grill-me`.
---
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```yaml
version: "1.1"
updated: 2026-06-21
when: >-
Invoked when the user wants to gather structured reference documentation for a
tool, library, or API from MCP documentation indexes or web sources. Typically
run before writing a new skill that wraps an external tool, or any time
reference files are needed for a topic. Triggered explicitly
("/research <topic> <path>") or implicitly when the user asks to look up,
gather, or pull docs for a topic before implementing something.
references:
- .agents/skills/context7-mcp/SKILL.md # context7-mcp — MCP source channel integrated at step 2
```

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---
name: research
description: >-
Use when the user wants to research a topic and generate structured reference
markdown files. Handles: finding canonical docs for a tool/library/API via
Context7 MCP or web sources, reading and deepening into linked pages,
organizing extracted content into topic files (overview, installation,
configuration, cli-reference, api-reference, examples, troubleshooting). Do
NOT use when the user wants to write documentation from existing code or specs
(use write-docs), install or manage the neuledge-context MCP server (use
neuledge-context), or research a bug/incident (use diagnose).
Use when the user wants a tool, library, or API researched from canonical
documentation into structured per-topic reference markdown files. Not
documentation written from existing code or specs -> `write-docs`. Not a bug
or incident -> `diagnose`.
metadata:
category: research
allowed-tools:
@@ -21,77 +17,48 @@ allowed-tools:
model: sonnet
---
<requirements>
## Gotchas
## Required inputs
- Never infer the output path. A run writes a directory's worth of files, and a guessed destination scatters them through someone's source tree. If the user named no path, stop and ask.
- Write nothing outside the given output path. A file placed beside the agreed directory is one the user never asked for and will not think to look for.
- Never write an empty topic file. A stub `troubleshooting.md` reads downstream as researched and closed.
- A Context7 response that is a "no results" message, a redirect notice, or header-only boilerplate is not coverage. A topic area counts as covered only when the response carries at least one substantive paragraph.
- **Topic** — the subject to research (tool, library, API, concept); inferred from user description if clear, ask if ambiguous
- **Output path** — directory where reference files will be written; must be provided explicitly — do not infer or default
- **Starting URLs** — optional; if provided, skip discovery websearch and read these first
## Step 1 — Scope against the working directory
## Constraints
Search for existing use of the topic — imports, config files, version pins, reference files already written — and narrow the research to what is missing: the version actually in use, the topics not yet documented.
- Never write files outside the explicitly provided output path
- Skip any default topic file if no relevant content is found for it — do not create empty files
- Create additional topic files beyond the default list when content warrants it (e.g. `webhooks.md`, `rate-limits.md`)
- Subagents handle parallel source reading and link deepening — the orchestrator writes all files; subagents return summaries only, never write directly
- Context7 MCP calls (`resolve-library-id`, `query-docs`) are made only by the orchestrator at step 2 — subagents must not call them
- `sources.md` is always written, even if only one source was read
- Each topic file must have frontmatter with `topic` and `source_keys`; body is prose only — no inline URLs
- Source keys in `sources.md` must be kebab-case slugs: derived from the source domain or page title for web sources; for Context7 sources use `context7-<library-slug>` (e.g. `context7-vercel-next-js`)
- Default topic list and file format spec live in `references/` sub-files — read them at step 1
Read `references/topics.md` before narrowing, for the default topic list.
</requirements>
## Step 2 — Resolve against Context7
<steps>
If the topic is a library, framework, or API and the user gave no starting URLs, call `resolve-library-id` with the topic name and the user's full question — match quality depends on the question, not the bare name — then `query-docs` once per default topic area. Record each response as a source with slug `context7-<library-slug>`, and mark which topic areas it covered — those skip the web reads at step 4.
## Process
If the library does not resolve, or the user gave starting URLs, go to step 3. Explicit URLs are a source choice; do not second-guess them with a resolution attempt.
1. **Scan codebase.** Search the working directory for existing usage of the topic — imports, config files, version pins, existing reference files. Use findings to narrow research scope (e.g. target the version already in use, skip topics already documented). Read `references/topics.md` for the default topic list and `references/file-format.md` for the output file format spec.
## Step 3 — Discover sources
2. **Try Context7.** If the topic is a library, framework, or API and no starting URLs were provided, call `resolve-library-id` with the topic name and the user's question. If a match resolves, call `query-docs` once per default topic area (see `references/topics.md`). Treat each response as a source summary with slug `context7-<library-slug>` (e.g. `context7-vercel-next-js`). A topic area has sufficient content when the Context7 response contains at least one substantive paragraph — not a "no results" message, redirect notice, or header-only boilerplate. Mark covered topic areas — skip their subagent web reads in step 4. If the library does not resolve, or starting URLs were provided (explicit source choice by the user), skip this step entirely.
If the user gave starting URLs, skip discovery: those URLs are the source list and go straight to step 4.
3. **Discover sources.** For topics not covered by Context7 (or when no starting URLs were provided and Context7 did not resolve), websearch for canonical documentation (prefer `llms.txt`, developer docs, official API references over tutorials or blog posts). Collect 3–5 candidate URLs before reading any.
Otherwise, for every topic area Context7 did not cover, websearch for canonical documentation — `llms.txt`, official developer docs, and API references ahead of tutorials or blog posts. Collect three to five candidate URLs before reading any of them.
4. **Read sources in parallel.** Spawn one subagent per source URL. Each subagent fetches the page, extracts relevant content, identifies links worth deepening, and returns a structured summary (content by topic area + links to follow). Subagents do not write files.
If nothing usable comes back, stop and report what was searched, then ask for starting URLs rather than settling for tutorials.
5. **Deepen.** For each subagent that returned links worth following, spawn child subagents per branch. Continue until content becomes repetitive or out of scope. Cap at ~10 additional pages total across all branches.
## Step 4 — Read the sources
6. **Consolidate.** Merge all subagent summaries (Context7 and web) by topic area. Identify which default topics have sufficient content and which custom topics emerged.
`WebFetch` each URL in turn. No subagent tool is granted here, so the reads are serial and every fetched page lands in this context: reduce each page to notes by topic area, plus the links worth deepening, before fetching the next one.
7. **Write topic files.** For each topic with content, write `<output-path>/<topic>.md` using the format in `references/file-format.md`. Orchestrator writes all files — never delegate file writing to a subagent.
## Step 5 — Deepen
8. **Write `sources.md`.** Write `<output-path>/sources.md` mapping each source slug to its URL (use `context7:<library-id>` as the URL for Context7 sources), description, and list of topic files it contributed to. Include sources that yielded no content, marked `no content extracted`.
`WebFetch` the links worth following, still one at a time and still reducing each page to notes. Stop a branch once its content turns repetitive or leaves the topic, and cap the whole step at roughly ten additional pages — serial reads make that cap a real budget, not a formality.
## Output format
## Step 6 — Write
- `<output-path>/<topic>.md` per topic with content — formatted per `references/file-format.md`
- `<output-path>/sources.md` — always produced; maps slug → URL, description, contributing files
Merge every set of notes, Context7 and web alike, by topic area. Read `references/file-format.md`, then write, in the output path:
</steps>
- `<topic>.md` for each topic area that has content, default or custom
- `sources.md`, always, one section per source in the schema that file gives — URL, description, contributing files, and status — including sources that yielded nothing, marked `no content extracted`
<checks>
Spell the `sources.md` field names exactly as `references/file-format.md` gives them. The downstream provenance validator matches them literally; prose in their place parses as nothing, and the check passes having verified nothing.
## Failure handling
- Output path not provided — stop and ask; do not infer or default
- No sources found after websearch — report what was searched, ask user to provide starting URLs
- Subagent returns no usable content — skip that source, log in `sources.md` as `no content extracted`
- All topic files would be empty — stop, report what was searched, do not write any files
## Self-check
- [ ] Codebase scanned before any websearch was performed
- [ ] Output path was explicitly provided — not inferred
- [ ] `references/topics.md` and `references/file-format.md` read at step 1
- [ ] Context7 resolution attempted before websearch when topic is a library/framework/API
- [ ] Context7 calls made only at orchestrator step 2 — no subagent called `resolve-library-id` or `query-docs`
- [ ] Context7 sources recorded in `sources.md` with `context7:<library-id>` as URL
- [ ] No topic file written without content
- [ ] `sources.md` written with all sources read (including those with no content extracted)
- [ ] All file writes performed by the orchestrator, not subagents
- [ ] Each topic file has `topic` and `source_keys` frontmatter fields
- [ ] All source keys in topic files have a matching entry in `sources.md`
- [ ] No files written outside the provided output path
</checks>
If no topic area has content, write nothing at all, `sources.md` included, and report what was searched. A directory of empty files is worse than an honest miss.

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Provide the path to the repo root to audit when invoking.
Also invoke it proactively after `agentsmd-author` creates or updates an AGENTS.md, or after a
hand-edit made outside `agentsmd-author` — the audit is what confirms the result is safe to commit.
## Files
| File | Purpose |

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---
name: agentsmd-audit
description: >
Use when the user wants to review a repo's AGENTS.md file, says "audit this
AGENTS.md", "check my AGENTS.md", "is this AGENTS.md any good", or wants to
know if AGENTS.md is safe to commit — even if they don't use the word
"audit". Also invoke proactively after agentsmd-author creates or updates
AGENTS.md, or after a hand-edit made outside agentsmd-author. Audits a
target repo's AGENTS.md file(s) — root and any nested monorepo files — for
embedded secrets/credentials, structural completeness against the
agents.md common-sections checklist, and drift (referenced commands or
paths that no longer resolve against the repo). Produces a compact
findings report (findings only, no PASS noise) with Why and Fix per
finding. Do not use to audit CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, or other
provider-specific adapter files — that's provider-adapter-author's
self-contained concern. Do not use to fix or write AGENTS.md content — use
agentsmd-author instead.
Use when the user wants a repo's AGENTS.md audited — "audit this AGENTS.md",
"is this AGENTS.md safe to commit" — or after a hand-edit outside
`agentsmd-author`. Reports secrets, structure and drift; never edits.
Not for CLAUDE.md or provider files -> `provider-adapter-author`.
Not writing AGENTS.md -> `agentsmd-author`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read
metadata:
category: docs
@@ -23,14 +14,13 @@ metadata:
- context7-websites-agents-md
- context7-agentsmd-agents-md
- governance-secrets-hard-prohibition
version: "0.1.1"
version: "0.1.2"
---
## Gotchas
- Always run all three checks — this skill does a single combined pass, not staged/gated passes. Don't skip structure or drift checks just because a secrets FAIL was found.
- Never inspect or mention provider-specific adapter files (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, etc.) — that's out of scope. If one exists and duplicates AGENTS.md content, that's `provider-adapter-author`'s concern, not this skill's.
- A missing common section (e.g. no "Security" heading) is informational, not a failure — not every repo needs every section from the checklist. Only flag a FAIL when the file is empty, entirely unfilled placeholder text, or contains a real embedded secret/stale reference.
- Never inspect or mention provider-specific adapter files (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, etc.) — that's out of scope.
- Gather findings internally; don't narrate PASS/FAIL per check as you go — surface them only in the final report.
## Step 1 — Run the validators
@@ -41,7 +31,7 @@ bash scripts/validate-structure.sh <repo-root>
bash scripts/validate-drift.sh <repo-root>
```
Each script walks the repo for every `AGENTS.md` file (root and nested, excluding `.git`, `node_modules`, `vendor`, and similar) and prints `FAIL`/`INFO`/`SUGGESTION` lines with `Why`/`Fix` (or `Note`) per finding. A nonzero exit means at least one FAIL was found in that dimension. If a script cannot execute (`python3` unavailable, Bash denied), fall back to manual review: scan for real-looking credentials, check common sections are present, and spot-check a few referenced commands/paths by hand.
Each script walks the repo for every `AGENTS.md` file (root and nested, excluding `.git`, `node_modules`, `vendor`, and similar) and prints `FAIL`/`INFO`/`SUGGESTION` lines with `Why`/`Fix` (or `Note`) per finding. A nonzero exit means at least one FAIL was found in that dimension. If a script cannot execute (`python3` unavailable, Bash denied), fall back to manual review: scan for real-looking credentials, check common sections are present, and spot-check a few referenced commands/paths by hand. Grade a manual finding the way the scripts grade theirs: a missing common section (e.g. no "Security" heading) is informational, not a failure — not every repo needs every section from the checklist. Only flag a FAIL when the file is empty, entirely unfilled placeholder text, or contains a real embedded secret/stale reference.
## Step 2 — Report

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---
name: agentsmd-author
description: >
Use when the user wants to create or update a repo's AGENTS.md file
("write an AGENTS.md for this repo", "add setup/test instructions for
agents", "update AGENTS.md", "give this package its own AGENTS.md") — even
if they don't name the file explicitly, e.g. "document this for AI coding
tools" or "make sure agents know how to run tests here". Writes/updates
AGENTS.md by exploring the target repo for real build, test, lint, and
style conventions — never invents commands. Supports nested monorepo
placement (a subdirectory can get its own AGENTS.md following
nearest-file-wins precedence). Closes every run by invoking agentsmd-audit
inline, and calls provider-adapter-author when an existing provider file
(CLAUDE.md, etc.) now duplicates what AGENTS.md owns. Do not use to review
an existing AGENTS.md without changing it — use agentsmd-audit instead. Do
not use to convert CLAUDE.md/.cursor/rules into a thin adapter — use
provider-adapter-author instead.
Use when the user wants a repo's AGENTS.md written or updated, root or
nested, including "document this for AI coding tools". Writes only verified
conventions. Not review-only -> `agentsmd-audit`. Not for CLAUDE.md ->
`provider-adapter-author`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit
metadata:
category: docs
@@ -22,16 +12,13 @@ metadata:
- agents-md-official
- context7-websites-agents-md
- context7-agentsmd-agents-md
version: "0.1.1"
version: "0.1.2"
---
## Gotchas
- Never invent a command. Every line under a setup/test/build section must come from something you actually found in the repo (`package.json` scripts, a `Makefile` target, a CI workflow step, a README). If you can't verify a command, don't include it.
- AGENTS.md has no required schema — don't force every common-sections-checklist heading into every repo. Include only sections that reflect something real about this repo; a thin, accurate file beats a padded, generic one.
- Nested placement is for genuinely different conventions, not convenience. Only create a subdirectory AGENTS.md when that subtree has its own build tool, stack, or conventions distinct from the root — otherwise you're duplicating content the root already covers, which the nearest-file-wins rule doesn't merge back together.
- This skill never touches CLAUDE.md, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, or similar provider files directly — that's `provider-adapter-author`'s job. Detect and hand off; don't reconcile it yourself.
- This skill never audits on its own judgment — the closing `agentsmd-audit` invocation is mandatory, not optional, even when the change looks trivial.
- Never write to a provider file yourself, in any circumstance: `CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md` and their equivalents are `provider-adapter-author`'s to own. That holds even when the user asks for one in the same breath as AGENTS.md, and even when the file is merely stale or missing a pointer rather than duplicating anything. Detect it and hand off.
## Step 1 — Explore the target repo
@@ -40,17 +27,17 @@ Before writing anything, gather real facts: package manager and scripts (`packag
## Step 2 — Decide placement
- No `AGENTS.md` at the repo root yet → create one there first, covering whole-repo conventions.
- A subdirectory has materially different build/test tooling or conventions than the root → create or update a nested `AGENTS.md` there, scoped to what's different. Don't repeat root-level content — the nearest-file-wins rule means the nested file is read alone, not merged with the root.
- A subdirectory has materially different build/test tooling or conventions than the root → create or update a nested `AGENTS.md` there, scoped to what's different. Convenience is not a reason to create one — without a distinct stack you are duplicating content the root already covers. **Don't repeat root-level content** in a nested file: the nearest-file-wins rule means it is read alone, never merged back with the root.
- Otherwise → update the existing file(s) in place.
## Step 3 — Write or update
Use only sections that reflect something real about the repo — never fill in every common-sections-checklist heading just because it exists. Read `references/content-guide.md` for section-by-section guidance, a worked example, and what separates useful content from generic padding, before writing.
AGENTS.md has no required schema. Use only sections that reflect something real about the repo — never fill in every common-sections-checklist heading just because it exists, because a thin accurate file beats a padded generic one. Read `references/content-guide.md` for section-by-section guidance, a worked example, and what separates useful content from generic padding, before writing.
## Step 4 — Check for an existing provider file
Look for `CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, or similar in the target repo. If one exists and now duplicates content the AGENTS.md you just wrote/updated already owns, invoke the `provider-adapter-author` skill on it to reconcile — don't rewrite it yourself.
Look for `CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, or similar in the target repo. If one exists and now duplicates content the AGENTS.md you just wrote/updated already owns, invoke the `provider-adapter-author` skill on it to reconcile.
## Step 5 — Audit and report
Invoke the `agentsmd-audit` skill directly on the AGENTS.md file(s) you just wrote or updated. Resolve any FAIL findings before considering the work done — re-invoke this skill's own writing steps to fix them, then re-run the audit, same as any other close-the-loop check. Report what was created/changed, whether a provider file was reconciled, and the audit's final result.
Invoke the `agentsmd-audit` skill directly on the AGENTS.md file(s) you just wrote or updated. This closeout is mandatory, not optional, even when the change looks trivial — never sign the work off on your own judgment. Resolve any FAIL findings before considering the work done — re-invoke this skill's own writing steps to fix them, then re-run the audit, same as any other close-the-loop check. Report what was created/changed, whether a provider file was reconciled, and the audit's final result.

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| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `references/provider-matrix.md` | Loaded at Step 1 before searching, unless the target is already a known root `CLAUDE.md`: known files per provider, which ones resolve a cross-file import, and the validator flag each needs |
| `references/sources.md` | Provenance record — the in-repo ADR precedent this skill's design is modeled on |
| `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` | Self-check gate: reference to AGENTS.md present, no excessive duplication, adapter stays thin |
| `scripts/README.md` | Directory documentation for `scripts/` |

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---
name: provider-adapter-author
description: >
Use when the user wants to convert a provider-specific AI instruction file
(CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules/*.mdc, copilot-instructions.md, etc.) into a
thin adapter that defers to a repo's AGENTS.md — e.g. "reduce duplication
between CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md", "make CLAUDE.md just import AGENTS.md"
— even if the pattern isn't named explicitly. Also invoke when
agentsmd-author detects an existing provider file overlapping with
AGENTS.md it just wrote. Detects redundant content in a provider file
relative to AGENTS.md and rewrites it down to a minimal reference (an
`@AGENTS.md`-style import where supported, or a text pointer otherwise)
plus genuinely provider-specific additions. Self-validates via a bundled
deterministic script before finishing. Do not use to write or audit
AGENTS.md itself — use agentsmd-author or agentsmd-audit.
Use when a provider file (CLAUDE.md, .cursor rules, copilot-instructions)
duplicating the repo's AGENTS.md should be cut to a thin adapter.
Not writing the AGENTS file -> `agentsmd-author`.
Not auditing the AGENTS file -> `agentsmd-audit`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read Edit Write
metadata:
category: docs
source_keys:
- adr-0002-0003-two-tier-claude-md
version: "0.1.0"
version: "0.1.1"
---
## Gotchas
- Not every provider supports cross-file imports. Claude Code does — a `CLAUDE.md` can consist of nothing but one or more `@path` lines (e.g. `@AGENTS.md`), with no other content required. Cursor's `.cursor/rules/*.mdc` and GitHub Copilot's `copilot-instructions.md` have no native import mechanism as of current tooling — for those, "thin" means a short text pointer to AGENTS.md plus only what that tool actually needs, not a literal import line. Pass `--no-import-syntax` to `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` for these providers.
- This skill never creates or edits `AGENTS.md` itself. If the target repo has no `AGENTS.md` yet, stop and point the user to `agentsmd-author` first — there's nothing to adapt to.
- Only strip content from the provider file that's genuinely redundant with AGENTS.md. Provider-specific material (IDE settings, tool-only syntax, model-specific instructions) stays — the goal is thin, not empty.
- Assume a provider has no cross-file import mechanism until you have confirmed it has one. Claude Code is the exception, not the rule: a `CLAUDE.md` may consist of nothing but `@path` lines, while the same `@AGENTS.md` line in a Cursor rule or a Copilot instructions file is inert text no tool resolves. Pass `--no-import-syntax` to `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` for those providers.
- Works standalone or composed-into by `agentsmd-author` — behave identically either way; don't assume a caller skill exists.
## Step 1 — Detect
Look for known provider instruction files in the target repo: `CLAUDE.md` (repo root, and any deployed copies), `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, and similar tool-specific files. Confirm `AGENTS.md` exists at the repo root — if not, stop and tell the user to run `agentsmd-author` first.
Find the provider instruction file to convert. Before searching, read `references/provider-matrix.md` — skip it only when the target is already a known root `CLAUDE.md`, which is the common case.
Then confirm `AGENTS.md` exists at the repo root. If it does not, stop and tell the user to run `agentsmd-author` first — there is nothing to adapt to.
## Step 2 — Diff and rewrite
@@ -39,6 +31,10 @@ Read the provider file and `AGENTS.md` side by side. Separate the provider file'
- **Providers with import syntax** (Claude Code): replace the redundant bucket with an `@AGENTS.md` (or correct relative path) import line, keep the provider-specific bucket below it.
- **Providers without import syntax** (Cursor, Copilot, etc.): replace the redundant bucket with a short pointer sentence mentioning `AGENTS.md`, keep the provider-specific bucket.
The provider file is the only file this skill ever writes. Never create or edit `AGENTS.md` — not in this step, not in any step, whatever the payoff looks like.
Strip only what is genuinely redundant. Provider-specific material stays even when it is short — the goal is thin, not empty.
## Step 3 — Self-validate
Run the bundled check before finishing — this is the skill's own closeout gate; there is no separate paired audit skill for this concern:
@@ -47,7 +43,7 @@ Run the bundled check before finishing — this is the skill's own closeout gate
bash scripts/validate-adapter.sh [--no-import-syntax] [--max-lines N] <adapter-file> <agents-md-file>
```
Fix any `FAIL` and re-run until it exits `0`.
Fix any `FAIL` by editing the provider file, and re-run until it exits `0`. The size `FAIL` advises moving provider-agnostic content into `AGENTS.md`; disregard that half of its wording and delete the redundant lines instead.
## Step 4 — Report

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---
source_keys:
- adr-0002-0003-two-tier-claude-md
---
# Known provider instruction files
Which files to look for when detecting a provider-specific instruction file, whether each provider
resolves a cross-file import, and what a thin adapter therefore looks like for it.
| Provider | File(s) | Import syntax | Thin adapter shape | Validator flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | `CLAUDE.md` at the repo root, plus any deployed copies | Yes — `@path` lines, e.g. `@AGENTS.md` | One or more `@` import lines; no other content is required | none |
| Cursor | `.cursor/rules/*.mdc` | No | A short sentence pointing at `AGENTS.md`, plus the rule's own frontmatter and provider-specific body | `--no-import-syntax` |
| GitHub Copilot | `.github/copilot-instructions.md` | No | A short sentence pointing at `AGENTS.md`, plus Copilot-only instructions | `--no-import-syntax` |
| Anything else | tool-specific instruction file at whatever path the tool documents | Assume no | Text pointer, as above | `--no-import-syntax` |
A provider not listed here is not evidence it has an import mechanism. Confirm against that tool's
own documentation before emitting an `@`-style line; an unresolved import reads as literal text and
silently drops every rule the adapter was supposed to defer to.
Detection is a search, not a lookup: a repo may hold more than one of these, and each one converts
independently against the same `AGENTS.md`.

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- **URL:** (in-repo precedent — not an external source or plugin research corpus entry)
- **Description:** This repo's own two-tier CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md pattern: AGENTS.md is the provider-agnostic source of always-on rules; provider-specific files (CLAUDE.md) become thin adapters that import it (`@AGENTS.md` plus provider-specific additions). Grounds this skill's entire adapter-conversion design — the "thin adapter" shape, the `@`-import convention, and the size/duplication expectations enforced by `scripts/validate-adapter.sh`.
- **Research doc:** docs/adr/0002-two-tier-claude-md.md, docs/adr/0003-agents-md-provider-agnostic-entry-point.md, providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md (in-repo ADRs and a live example, not a plugin research corpus entry; referenced here since this skill's design is modeled directly on an existing implementation rather than external research)
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/provider-matrix.md
- **Status:** `extracted`

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Provide the path to the repo root to audit when invoking.
Also invoke it proactively after `agentsmd-author` creates or updates an AGENTS.md, or after a
hand-edit made outside `agentsmd-author` — the audit is what confirms the result is safe to commit.
## Files
| File | Purpose |

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---
name: agentsmd-audit
description: >
Use when the user wants to review a repo's AGENTS.md file, says "audit this
AGENTS.md", "check my AGENTS.md", "is this AGENTS.md any good", or wants to
know if AGENTS.md is safe to commit — even if they don't use the word
"audit". Also invoke proactively after agentsmd-author creates or updates
AGENTS.md, or after a hand-edit made outside agentsmd-author. Audits a
target repo's AGENTS.md file(s) — root and any nested monorepo files — for
embedded secrets/credentials, structural completeness against the
agents.md common-sections checklist, and drift (referenced commands or
paths that no longer resolve against the repo). Produces a compact
findings report (findings only, no PASS noise) with Why and Fix per
finding. Do not use to audit CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, or other
provider-specific adapter files — that's provider-adapter-author's
self-contained concern. Do not use to fix or write AGENTS.md content — use
agentsmd-author instead.
Use when the user wants a repo's AGENTS.md audited — "audit this AGENTS.md",
"is this AGENTS.md safe to commit" — or after a hand-edit outside
`agentsmd-author`. Reports secrets, structure and drift; never edits.
Not for CLAUDE.md or provider files -> `provider-adapter-author`.
Not writing AGENTS.md -> `agentsmd-author`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read
metadata:
category: docs
@@ -23,14 +14,13 @@ metadata:
- context7-websites-agents-md
- context7-agentsmd-agents-md
- governance-secrets-hard-prohibition
version: "0.1.1"
version: "0.1.2"
---
## Gotchas
- Always run all three checks — this skill does a single combined pass, not staged/gated passes. Don't skip structure or drift checks just because a secrets FAIL was found.
- Never inspect or mention provider-specific adapter files (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, etc.) — that's out of scope. If one exists and duplicates AGENTS.md content, that's `provider-adapter-author`'s concern, not this skill's.
- A missing common section (e.g. no "Security" heading) is informational, not a failure — not every repo needs every section from the checklist. Only flag a FAIL when the file is empty, entirely unfilled placeholder text, or contains a real embedded secret/stale reference.
- Never inspect or mention provider-specific adapter files (`CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, etc.) — that's out of scope.
- Gather findings internally; don't narrate PASS/FAIL per check as you go — surface them only in the final report.
## Step 1 — Run the validators
@@ -41,7 +31,7 @@ bash scripts/validate-structure.sh <repo-root>
bash scripts/validate-drift.sh <repo-root>
```
Each script walks the repo for every `AGENTS.md` file (root and nested, excluding `.git`, `node_modules`, `vendor`, and similar) and prints `FAIL`/`INFO`/`SUGGESTION` lines with `Why`/`Fix` (or `Note`) per finding. A nonzero exit means at least one FAIL was found in that dimension. If a script cannot execute (`python3` unavailable, Bash denied), fall back to manual review: scan for real-looking credentials, check common sections are present, and spot-check a few referenced commands/paths by hand.
Each script walks the repo for every `AGENTS.md` file (root and nested, excluding `.git`, `node_modules`, `vendor`, and similar) and prints `FAIL`/`INFO`/`SUGGESTION` lines with `Why`/`Fix` (or `Note`) per finding. A nonzero exit means at least one FAIL was found in that dimension. If a script cannot execute (`python3` unavailable, Bash denied), fall back to manual review: scan for real-looking credentials, check common sections are present, and spot-check a few referenced commands/paths by hand. Grade a manual finding the way the scripts grade theirs: a missing common section (e.g. no "Security" heading) is informational, not a failure — not every repo needs every section from the checklist. Only flag a FAIL when the file is empty, entirely unfilled placeholder text, or contains a real embedded secret/stale reference.
## Step 2 — Report

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---
name: agentsmd-author
description: >
Use when the user wants to create or update a repo's AGENTS.md file
("write an AGENTS.md for this repo", "add setup/test instructions for
agents", "update AGENTS.md", "give this package its own AGENTS.md") — even
if they don't name the file explicitly, e.g. "document this for AI coding
tools" or "make sure agents know how to run tests here". Writes/updates
AGENTS.md by exploring the target repo for real build, test, lint, and
style conventions — never invents commands. Supports nested monorepo
placement (a subdirectory can get its own AGENTS.md following
nearest-file-wins precedence). Closes every run by invoking agentsmd-audit
inline, and calls provider-adapter-author when an existing provider file
(CLAUDE.md, etc.) now duplicates what AGENTS.md owns. Do not use to review
an existing AGENTS.md without changing it — use agentsmd-audit instead. Do
not use to convert CLAUDE.md/.cursor/rules into a thin adapter — use
provider-adapter-author instead.
Use when the user wants a repo's AGENTS.md written or updated, root or
nested, including "document this for AI coding tools". Writes only verified
conventions. Not review-only -> `agentsmd-audit`. Not for CLAUDE.md ->
`provider-adapter-author`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit
metadata:
category: docs
@@ -22,16 +12,13 @@ metadata:
- agents-md-official
- context7-websites-agents-md
- context7-agentsmd-agents-md
version: "0.1.1"
version: "0.1.2"
---
## Gotchas
- Never invent a command. Every line under a setup/test/build section must come from something you actually found in the repo (`package.json` scripts, a `Makefile` target, a CI workflow step, a README). If you can't verify a command, don't include it.
- AGENTS.md has no required schema — don't force every common-sections-checklist heading into every repo. Include only sections that reflect something real about this repo; a thin, accurate file beats a padded, generic one.
- Nested placement is for genuinely different conventions, not convenience. Only create a subdirectory AGENTS.md when that subtree has its own build tool, stack, or conventions distinct from the root — otherwise you're duplicating content the root already covers, which the nearest-file-wins rule doesn't merge back together.
- This skill never touches CLAUDE.md, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `copilot-instructions.md`, or similar provider files directly — that's `provider-adapter-author`'s job. Detect and hand off; don't reconcile it yourself.
- This skill never audits on its own judgment — the closing `agentsmd-audit` invocation is mandatory, not optional, even when the change looks trivial.
- Never write to a provider file yourself, in any circumstance: `CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md` and their equivalents are `provider-adapter-author`'s to own. That holds even when the user asks for one in the same breath as AGENTS.md, and even when the file is merely stale or missing a pointer rather than duplicating anything. Detect it and hand off.
## Step 1 — Explore the target repo
@@ -40,17 +27,17 @@ Before writing anything, gather real facts: package manager and scripts (`packag
## Step 2 — Decide placement
- No `AGENTS.md` at the repo root yet → create one there first, covering whole-repo conventions.
- A subdirectory has materially different build/test tooling or conventions than the root → create or update a nested `AGENTS.md` there, scoped to what's different. Don't repeat root-level content — the nearest-file-wins rule means the nested file is read alone, not merged with the root.
- A subdirectory has materially different build/test tooling or conventions than the root → create or update a nested `AGENTS.md` there, scoped to what's different. Convenience is not a reason to create one — without a distinct stack you are duplicating content the root already covers. **Don't repeat root-level content** in a nested file: the nearest-file-wins rule means it is read alone, never merged back with the root.
- Otherwise → update the existing file(s) in place.
## Step 3 — Write or update
Use only sections that reflect something real about the repo — never fill in every common-sections-checklist heading just because it exists. Read `references/content-guide.md` for section-by-section guidance, a worked example, and what separates useful content from generic padding, before writing.
AGENTS.md has no required schema. Use only sections that reflect something real about the repo — never fill in every common-sections-checklist heading just because it exists, because a thin accurate file beats a padded generic one. Read `references/content-guide.md` for section-by-section guidance, a worked example, and what separates useful content from generic padding, before writing.
## Step 4 — Check for an existing provider file
Look for `CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, or similar in the target repo. If one exists and now duplicates content the AGENTS.md you just wrote/updated already owns, invoke the `provider-adapter-author` skill on it to reconcile — don't rewrite it yourself.
Look for `CLAUDE.md`, `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, or similar in the target repo. If one exists and now duplicates content the AGENTS.md you just wrote/updated already owns, invoke the `provider-adapter-author` skill on it to reconcile.
## Step 5 — Audit and report
Invoke the `agentsmd-audit` skill directly on the AGENTS.md file(s) you just wrote or updated. Resolve any FAIL findings before considering the work done — re-invoke this skill's own writing steps to fix them, then re-run the audit, same as any other close-the-loop check. Report what was created/changed, whether a provider file was reconciled, and the audit's final result.
Invoke the `agentsmd-audit` skill directly on the AGENTS.md file(s) you just wrote or updated. This closeout is mandatory, not optional, even when the change looks trivial — never sign the work off on your own judgment. Resolve any FAIL findings before considering the work done — re-invoke this skill's own writing steps to fix them, then re-run the audit, same as any other close-the-loop check. Report what was created/changed, whether a provider file was reconciled, and the audit's final result.

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| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `references/provider-matrix.md` | Loaded at Step 1 before searching, unless the target is already a known root `CLAUDE.md`: known files per provider, which ones resolve a cross-file import, and the validator flag each needs |
| `references/sources.md` | Provenance record — the in-repo ADR precedent this skill's design is modeled on |
| `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` | Self-check gate: reference to AGENTS.md present, no excessive duplication, adapter stays thin |
| `scripts/README.md` | Directory documentation for `scripts/` |

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---
name: provider-adapter-author
description: >
Use when the user wants to convert a provider-specific AI instruction file
(CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules/*.mdc, copilot-instructions.md, etc.) into a
thin adapter that defers to a repo's AGENTS.md — e.g. "reduce duplication
between CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md", "make CLAUDE.md just import AGENTS.md"
— even if the pattern isn't named explicitly. Also invoke when
agentsmd-author detects an existing provider file overlapping with
AGENTS.md it just wrote. Detects redundant content in a provider file
relative to AGENTS.md and rewrites it down to a minimal reference (an
`@AGENTS.md`-style import where supported, or a text pointer otherwise)
plus genuinely provider-specific additions. Self-validates via a bundled
deterministic script before finishing. Do not use to write or audit
AGENTS.md itself — use agentsmd-author or agentsmd-audit.
Use when a provider file (CLAUDE.md, .cursor rules, copilot-instructions)
duplicating the repo's AGENTS.md should be cut to a thin adapter.
Not writing the AGENTS file -> `agentsmd-author`.
Not auditing the AGENTS file -> `agentsmd-audit`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read Edit Write
metadata:
category: docs
source_keys:
- adr-0002-0003-two-tier-claude-md
version: "0.1.0"
version: "0.1.1"
---
## Gotchas
- Not every provider supports cross-file imports. Claude Code does — a `CLAUDE.md` can consist of nothing but one or more `@path` lines (e.g. `@AGENTS.md`), with no other content required. Cursor's `.cursor/rules/*.mdc` and GitHub Copilot's `copilot-instructions.md` have no native import mechanism as of current tooling — for those, "thin" means a short text pointer to AGENTS.md plus only what that tool actually needs, not a literal import line. Pass `--no-import-syntax` to `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` for these providers.
- This skill never creates or edits `AGENTS.md` itself. If the target repo has no `AGENTS.md` yet, stop and point the user to `agentsmd-author` first — there's nothing to adapt to.
- Only strip content from the provider file that's genuinely redundant with AGENTS.md. Provider-specific material (IDE settings, tool-only syntax, model-specific instructions) stays — the goal is thin, not empty.
- Assume a provider has no cross-file import mechanism until you have confirmed it has one. Claude Code is the exception, not the rule: a `CLAUDE.md` may consist of nothing but `@path` lines, while the same `@AGENTS.md` line in a Cursor rule or a Copilot instructions file is inert text no tool resolves. Pass `--no-import-syntax` to `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` for those providers.
- Works standalone or composed-into by `agentsmd-author` — behave identically either way; don't assume a caller skill exists.
## Step 1 — Detect
Look for known provider instruction files in the target repo: `CLAUDE.md` (repo root, and any deployed copies), `.cursor/rules/*.mdc`, `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, and similar tool-specific files. Confirm `AGENTS.md` exists at the repo root — if not, stop and tell the user to run `agentsmd-author` first.
Find the provider instruction file to convert. Before searching, read `references/provider-matrix.md` — skip it only when the target is already a known root `CLAUDE.md`, which is the common case.
Then confirm `AGENTS.md` exists at the repo root. If it does not, stop and tell the user to run `agentsmd-author` first — there is nothing to adapt to.
## Step 2 — Diff and rewrite
@@ -39,6 +31,10 @@ Read the provider file and `AGENTS.md` side by side. Separate the provider file'
- **Providers with import syntax** (Claude Code): replace the redundant bucket with an `@AGENTS.md` (or correct relative path) import line, keep the provider-specific bucket below it.
- **Providers without import syntax** (Cursor, Copilot, etc.): replace the redundant bucket with a short pointer sentence mentioning `AGENTS.md`, keep the provider-specific bucket.
The provider file is the only file this skill ever writes. Never create or edit `AGENTS.md` — not in this step, not in any step, whatever the payoff looks like.
Strip only what is genuinely redundant. Provider-specific material stays even when it is short — the goal is thin, not empty.
## Step 3 — Self-validate
Run the bundled check before finishing — this is the skill's own closeout gate; there is no separate paired audit skill for this concern:
@@ -47,7 +43,7 @@ Run the bundled check before finishing — this is the skill's own closeout gate
bash scripts/validate-adapter.sh [--no-import-syntax] [--max-lines N] <adapter-file> <agents-md-file>
```
Fix any `FAIL` and re-run until it exits `0`.
Fix any `FAIL` by editing the provider file, and re-run until it exits `0`. The size `FAIL` advises moving provider-agnostic content into `AGENTS.md`; disregard that half of its wording and delete the redundant lines instead.
## Step 4 — Report

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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
---
source_keys:
- adr-0002-0003-two-tier-claude-md
---
# Known provider instruction files
Which files to look for when detecting a provider-specific instruction file, whether each provider
resolves a cross-file import, and what a thin adapter therefore looks like for it.
| Provider | File(s) | Import syntax | Thin adapter shape | Validator flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | `CLAUDE.md` at the repo root, plus any deployed copies | Yes — `@path` lines, e.g. `@AGENTS.md` | One or more `@` import lines; no other content is required | none |
| Cursor | `.cursor/rules/*.mdc` | No | A short sentence pointing at `AGENTS.md`, plus the rule's own frontmatter and provider-specific body | `--no-import-syntax` |
| GitHub Copilot | `.github/copilot-instructions.md` | No | A short sentence pointing at `AGENTS.md`, plus Copilot-only instructions | `--no-import-syntax` |
| Anything else | tool-specific instruction file at whatever path the tool documents | Assume no | Text pointer, as above | `--no-import-syntax` |
A provider not listed here is not evidence it has an import mechanism. Confirm against that tool's
own documentation before emitting an `@`-style line; an unresolved import reads as literal text and
silently drops every rule the adapter was supposed to defer to.
Detection is a search, not a lookup: a repo may hold more than one of these, and each one converts
independently against the same `AGENTS.md`.

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- **URL:** (in-repo precedent — not an external source or plugin research corpus entry)
- **Description:** This repo's own two-tier CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md pattern: AGENTS.md is the provider-agnostic source of always-on rules; provider-specific files (CLAUDE.md) become thin adapters that import it (`@AGENTS.md` plus provider-specific additions). Grounds this skill's entire adapter-conversion design — the "thin adapter" shape, the `@`-import convention, and the size/duplication expectations enforced by `scripts/validate-adapter.sh`.
- **Research doc:** docs/adr/0002-two-tier-claude-md.md, docs/adr/0003-agents-md-provider-agnostic-entry-point.md, providers/claude-code/CLAUDE.md (in-repo ADRs and a live example, not a plugin research corpus entry; referenced here since this skill's design is modeled directly on an existing implementation rather than external research)
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/provider-matrix.md
- **Status:** `extracted`

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# git-branches
Manage the full lifecycle of git branches — create, switch, delete, rename, and track feature/hotfix/release branches under GitHub Flow or Gitflow.
Manage the full lifecycle of git branches — create, switch, delete, rename, track, merge, and compare feature/hotfix/release branches under GitHub Flow or Gitflow.
## What it does
@@ -12,11 +12,22 @@ This skill handles branch operations within the git workflow suite. It creates b
/git-branches
```
Describe your branch task: create a feature/hotfix/release branch, switch, delete, rename, or track. The skill will determine the branching pattern (GitHub Flow or Gitflow) from config or repo state and handle safety checks for destructive operations.
Describe your branch task: create a feature/hotfix/release branch, switch, delete, rename, track, merge, or compare two branches. The skill will determine the branching pattern (GitHub Flow or Gitflow) from config or repo state and handle safety checks for destructive operations.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `references/branch-patterns.md` | Loaded when a branch's base, name prefix, or merge rule depends on GitHub Flow vs. Gitflow |
| `references/branch-operations.md` | Loaded when running a create/switch/delete/rename/track/list action, or resolving `get-intent` |
| `references/merging.md` | Loaded when merging one branch into another or resolving merge conflicts |
| `references/comparing-branches.md` | Loaded when comparing two branches or finding where they diverged |
| `references/orchestrator-contract.md` | Loaded when `git-orchestrate` or another calling agent supplies a structured request rather than prose |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources backing the branching/gitflow guidance |
## Composition
`git-orchestrate` calls this skill for the branch step of a multi-step workflow and parses its
structured result. Cherry-pick and revert are `git-history`'s; commit authoring and rebase are
`git-commits`'; branch operations against a Gitea-hosted remote are `gitea-branches`'.

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name: git-branches
description: >
Use when managing the full lifecycle of git branches: create feature/hotfix/release branches
(gitflow, GitHub Flow, or custom patterns from config), switch, delete, rename, and track branches,
or retrieve branch intent metadata. Handles branch protection safety checks and returns structured
results for agent composition. Use even if the user doesn't explicitly mention branch names — they
may be asking about "fixing something" or "shipping a feature", which implicitly requires branch
management. Do not use when the user needs only commit operations (use git-commits) or history
inspection (use git-history).
Use when creating, switching, deleting, renaming, tracking, merging, or comparing
local git branches under GitHub Flow or Gitflow.
Not writing or rewriting commits -> `git-commits`.
Not history inspection -> `git-history`.
Not a Gitea remote's branches -> `gitea-branches`.
metadata:
category: git
@@ -21,92 +19,57 @@ metadata:
## Gotchas
- **Branches are cheap; deletion is cheap but risky.** Deleting one requires checking if commits on it are reachable elsewhere; always confirm before deleting, as it may lose unmerged work.
- **Uncommitted changes can block branch switches.** `git switch` aborts if local modifications conflict with the target branch. Offer to stash changes before switching when this happens, don't force a checkout.
- **Tracking relationships matter for coordination.** Agents pushing on behalf of users should always set tracking (`-u origin <branch>`) so later pushes/pulls know the target. Without it, commands fail or target the wrong remote branch.
- **Gitflow vs. GitHub Flow are not compatible.** Gitflow requires `develop` and `release/*` branches with `--no-ff` merges; GitHub Flow uses only `main` and feature branches with fast-forward. Read the repo's config or ask the orchestrator which pattern to use — don't guess.
- **Naming collisions with tags.** A branch and tag can have the same name. Prefer `git switch` over `git checkout` for branch operations — verify which ref you're targeting with `git branch --list <name>` / `git tag --list <name>` if the name could be ambiguous, and disambiguate explicitly with `refs/heads/<name>` (branch) or `refs/tags/<name>` (tag) where a command accepts either.
- **Never force-push `main` or `master`.** This is a hard refusal, not a confirmation gate — it applies even if the caller passes `confirm: true`. Deleting or renaming `main`/`master` in a way that would require a force-push to reconcile the remote (e.g. force-deleting and recreating it, or renaming it out from under in-flight work) must be rejected outright; explain why and suggest a non-destructive alternative (e.g. a new branch) instead of proceeding.
- **Uncommitted changes abort a switch.** `git switch` refuses rather than clobbering conflicting local edits. Offer to stash and retry — forcing the checkout past it is how work disappears.
- **A branch and a tag can carry the same name.** Prefer `git switch` over `git checkout`, and where a command accepts either ref, disambiguate with `refs/heads/<name>` or `refs/tags/<name>`.
- **`main` and `master` are a refusal, not a gate.** Force-pushing, force-deleting, or renaming them is rejected even when the caller passes `confirm: true` — no flag makes the remote's history recoverable. Offer a new branch instead.
## Branch Patterns
## Step 1 — Determine the branching pattern
Default to **GitHub Flow** (simpler, modern, CI/CD-friendly). Fall back to **Gitflow** only if the repo's config specifies it or the branch structure shows it in use (presence of `develop` or release branches).
Read `branching_pattern` from the git plugin config (`.claude/plugins/git/config.json`; the plugin root's `config.example.json` shows the shape). Default: `github-flow`. With no config, infer Gitflow from the presence of a `develop` or `release/*` branch, and GitHub Flow otherwise.
**GitHub Flow:**
- Base: `main`
- Feature branches: `feature/<feature-name>` or `fix/<bug-name>`
- Merge: fast-forward when possible (preserves linear history)
- Delete after merge
The two patterns are not mixable, and the wrong merge rule silently damages history. If the action touches a base branch, a name prefix, or a merge rule, read `references/branch-patterns.md`.
**Gitflow:**
- Base: `main` (production) + `develop` (integration)
- Feature branches: `feature/<feature-name>` (from `develop`)
- Release branches: `release/X.Y.Z` (from `develop`, merged to `main` + `develop`)
- Hotfix branches: `hotfix/X.Y.Z` (from `main`, merged to `main` + `develop`)
- Merge: always use `--no-ff` to preserve branch structure
## Step 2 — Dispatch on the action
## Workflow
| Action | Reference |
|---|---|
| create, switch, delete, rename, track, list, get-intent | `references/branch-operations.md` |
| merge a branch, resolve merge conflicts | `references/merging.md` |
| compare two branches, find their divergence | `references/comparing-branches.md` |
- [ ] **Determine pattern:** Check git plugin config (`.claude/plugins/git/config.json`, if present — see `config.example.json` in the plugin root for the expected shape) for `branching_pattern` (default: `github-flow`). If not set, inspect repo for `develop` branch or `release/*` branches; if present, assume Gitflow.
- [ ] **Create branch:** Use `git switch -c <branch> <base>`. Base defaults to config's `base_branch` (usually `main` or `develop`). Include intent metadata in branch name or return as structured result (e.g., `{ "branch": "feature/x", "intent": "implement feature X" }`).
- [ ] **Track remote:** If pushing, always use `git push -u origin <branch>` to establish tracking.
- [ ] **Safety checks before destructive ops:** Before delete/force-push/rebase with history loss, check: (1) Is this branch tracking a remote? Warn if yes. (2) Are there unpushed commits? Warn if yes. (3) Does the orchestrator call include `confirm: true`? Fail if not. For humans, prompt interactively.
- [ ] **Return structured results:** Always return branch operations as JSON or structured text: `{ "action": "create", "branch": "feature/x", "base": "main", "tracking": "origin/feature/x", "intent": "implement feature X" }`. Agents need to parse this for subsequent operations.
- [ ] **Retrieve intent (`get-intent`):** Git has no native field for free-text branch metadata — this skill doesn't persist it. On `create`, the `intent` value is only ever returned in the structured result; the caller (orchestrator or agent) is responsible for storing it if it needs to be looked up later. On `get-intent`, either parse it back out of the branch name convention (`feature/<intent-slug>`) or return `{ "intent": null }` if the caller never persisted the original create-time value — don't fabricate an intent.
Load only the file the action needs. A destructive action still passes Step 3 first.
### Command mapping for each action
## Step 3 — Gate destructive operations
- **delete:** `git branch -d <branch>` refuses if the branch has unmerged commits — prefer this by default. `git branch -D <branch>` forces deletion and discards unmerged work; only use it after the safety checks above pass and `confirm: true` is set. For a remote branch: `git push origin --delete <branch>`.
- **rename:** `git branch -m <old> <new>`.
- **list:** `git branch` (local only), `git branch -a` (all local + remote-tracking), `git branch -r` (remote-tracking only), `git branch --merged`/`--no-merged` (filter by merge status into current branch).
- **get-intent:** No git command — see Workflow step "Retrieve intent" for how this is resolved.
- **track (existing branch):** `git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch>` sets tracking without a push; `git branch -vv` shows tracking state for all local branches.
- **switch (existing branch):** `git switch <branch>` — switches to an existing local branch (aborts on conflicting local changes, see Gotchas). `git switch -` switches back to the previously checked-out branch.
Before any delete or force-delete that loses history:
## Merging
- [ ] Does the branch track a remote? Warn if so.
- [ ] Are there unpushed commits on it? Warn if so.
- [ ] Did the caller pass `confirm: true`? Fail if not — for a human caller, prompt interactively instead of failing.
Scope: fast-forward/merge-commit mechanics and conflict resolution only. Rebase, cherry-pick, and revert belong to `git-history`.
These gates are passable. The `main`/`master` refusal in Gotchas is not.
- **Fast-forward:** `git merge <branch>` — advances the pointer with no merge commit if the target hasn't diverged.
- **True merge:** `git merge --no-ff <branch>` — forces a merge commit even when fast-forward is possible; required by Gitflow on all supporting-branch merges.
- **Squash merge:** `git merge --squash <branch>` stages the combined diff without committing; follow with a manual `git commit`.
- **Octopus merge:** `git merge branch-a branch-b branch-c` merges more than two branches at once; fails outright on any conflict, so use sequential two-way merges if conflicts are expected.
## Step 4 — Set tracking
**Conflict resolution:** when Git can't auto-merge, it inserts conflict markers and stops. Run `git status` to find conflicted files, edit them to resolve the markers, then `git add <file>` and `git merge --continue`. `git merge --abort` reverts to the pre-merge state. `git mergetool` opens the configured merge tool; `git diff --diff-filter=U` shows only conflicted files.
When pushing a branch for the first time, always `git push -u origin <branch>`. Without an upstream, later pushes and pulls either fail or silently target the wrong remote branch, and the caller has no way to tell which happened.
## Comparing Branches
## Step 5 — Return a structured result
- `git log main..feature` — commits in `feature` not in `main`.
- `git log feature..main` — commits in `main` not in `feature` (reverse direction).
- `git log --left-right main...feature` — both diverging sets (symmetric diff).
- `git diff main...feature` — diff from the common ancestor to `feature`'s tip.
- `git merge-base main feature` — print the common ancestor commit.
Return every operation in this shape rather than prose, including failures — a calling agent chains its next operation on the result and cannot parse a sentence.
## Integration with Orchestrator
When invoked by `git-orchestrate`, accept requests in the form:
```json
{
"action": "create|switch|delete|rename|track|list|get-intent",
"branch": "<branch-name>",
"base": "<base-branch (optional, defaults to config)>",
"intent": "<human-readable intent (optional)>",
"confirm": "<true for destructive ops, omit for read ops>"
}
```
Return results as:
```json
{
"success": true,
"action": "create|switch|...",
"action": "create|switch|delete|rename|track|list|get-intent",
"branch": "<name>",
"message": "descriptive message",
"intent": "<intent if tracked>",
"tracking": "origin/<branch (if set)>",
"tracking": "origin/<branch, if set>",
"error": "<error message if success=false>",
"suggestion": "<recovery suggestion if applicable>"
}
```
If error is due to uncommitted changes, include `{ "suggestion": "stash changes and retry" }` so the orchestrator can offer automatic recovery.
When the failure is uncommitted local changes, set `"suggestion": "stash changes and retry"` so the caller can offer recovery rather than surfacing a dead end.
When a calling agent supplies a structured request rather than prose, read `references/orchestrator-contract.md` for the request schema.

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---
source_keys:
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Per-action command mapping
One command per action. Where two forms exist, the first is the default and the second the escape
hatch.
- **create** — `git switch -c <branch> <base>`. Base comes from the config's `base_branch`
(`main` under GitHub Flow, usually `develop` under Gitflow).
- **switch** — `git switch <branch>` moves to an existing local branch; it aborts rather than
clobbering conflicting local changes. `git switch -` returns to the previous branch.
- **delete (local)** — `git branch -d <branch>` refuses when the branch holds unmerged commits,
which is why it is the default. `git branch -D <branch>` forces the deletion and discards that
work — only after the destructive-operation gates pass and `confirm: true` is set.
- **delete (remote)** — `git push origin --delete <branch>`.
- **rename** — `git branch -m <old> <new>`.
- **list** — `git branch` (local), `-a` (local plus remote-tracking), `-r` (remote-tracking only),
`--merged` / `--no-merged` (filter by merge status into the current branch).
- **track** — `git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch>` sets an upstream without pushing.
`git branch -vv` shows the tracking state of every local branch.
## get-intent
Git has no native field for free-text branch metadata, and this skill does not persist any. On
`create`, the `intent` value is only returned in the structured result — the caller decides
whether to store it.
On `get-intent`, either parse the intent back out of the branch-name convention
(`feature/<intent-slug>`) or return `{ "intent": null }` when the caller never persisted the
create-time value. Never fabricate an intent: a downstream commit message built on a guessed
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---
source_keys:
- nvie-gitflow-post
- atlassian-gitflow-tutorial
- gitflow-cheatsheet
---
# Branch patterns
Which pattern is in play decides the base branch, the branch name prefix, and whether merges are
allowed to fast-forward. Default to GitHub Flow — simpler, and what CI/CD-oriented repos expect.
Fall back to Gitflow only when the config says so or the repo already carries `develop` or
`release/*` branches.
## GitHub Flow
- Base: `main`
- Feature branches: `feature/<feature-name>` or `fix/<bug-name>`
- Merge: fast-forward where possible, to keep history linear
- Delete the branch after merge
## Gitflow
- Base: `main` (production) plus `develop` (integration)
- Feature branches: `feature/<feature-name>`, cut from `develop`
- Release branches: `release/X.Y.Z`, cut from `develop`, merged to both `main` and `develop`
- Hotfix branches: `hotfix/X.Y.Z`, cut from `main`, merged to both `main` and `develop`
- Merge: always `--no-ff`, so the branch structure survives in the history
The two are not mixable. A `--no-ff` merge into a GitHub Flow repo leaves merge commits nobody
expects; a fast-forward merge of a Gitflow release branch erases the release boundary.

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---
source_keys:
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Comparing two branches
The two-dot and three-dot forms mean different things and are easy to swap by accident — check the
direction before reporting a result.
- `git log main..feature` — commits on `feature` that are not on `main`.
- `git log feature..main` — the reverse direction: commits on `main` not on `feature`.
- `git log --left-right main...feature` — both diverging sets at once (symmetric difference).
- `git diff main...feature` — the diff from the common ancestor to `feature`'s tip, which is what
a reviewer sees, rather than the diff between the two tips.
- `git merge-base main feature` — print the common ancestor commit.

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---
source_keys:
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Merging one branch into another
Scope is fast-forward and merge-commit mechanics plus conflict resolution. Rebase belongs to
`git-commits`; cherry-pick and revert to `git-history`.
- **Fast-forward** — `git merge <branch>` advances the pointer with no merge commit when the
target has not diverged.
- **True merge** — `git merge --no-ff <branch>` forces a merge commit even when a fast-forward is
possible. Gitflow requires it on every supporting-branch merge.
- **Squash merge** — `git merge --squash <branch>` stages the combined diff without committing.
Follow it with a `git commit`.
- **Octopus merge** — `git merge branch-a branch-b branch-c` merges more than two branches at
once, but fails outright on any conflict. Use sequential two-way merges when conflicts are
likely.
## Conflict resolution
When Git cannot auto-merge it writes conflict markers and stops mid-merge. Run `git status` to
list the conflicted files, edit each to resolve its markers, then `git add <file>` and
`git merge --continue`.
- `git merge --abort` restores the pre-merge state.
- `git mergetool` opens the configured merge tool.
- `git diff --diff-filter=U` shows only the still-conflicted files.

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# Orchestrator request contract
`git-orchestrate` and other calling agents send this shape. The result shape they parse back is in
`SKILL.md` Step 5, because every run emits one.
Request:
```json
{
"action": "create|switch|delete|rename|track|list|get-intent",
"branch": "<branch-name>",
"base": "<base branch, optional, defaults to config>",
"intent": "<human-readable intent, optional>",
"confirm": "<true for destructive ops, omit for read ops>"
}
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- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/gitflow.md (whole-document reference)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Branch Patterns — Gitflow vs. GitHub Flow structure and defaults)
- SKILL.md (Gitflow vs. GitHub Flow inference and the not-mixable rule)
- references/branch-patterns.md (Gitflow vs. GitHub Flow structure, defaults, and why the two are not mixable)
## atlassian-gitflow-tutorial
@@ -23,7 +24,9 @@
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/gitflow.md (whole-document reference)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Branch Patterns — Gitflow branch types, base/merge targets, `--no-ff` requirement)
- SKILL.md (Gitflow vs. GitHub Flow inference and the not-mixable rule)
- references/branch-patterns.md (Gitflow branch types, base/merge targets, `--no-ff` requirement)
- references/merging.md (`--no-ff` requirement on Gitflow supporting-branch merges)
## gitflow-cheatsheet
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/gitflow.md (whole-document reference)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Branch Patterns — feature/release/hotfix naming conventions)
- references/branch-patterns.md (feature/release/hotfix naming conventions)
## context7-git-htmldocs
@@ -45,4 +48,7 @@
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/branching-merging.md (whole-document reference)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Command mapping, Merging, Comparing Branches — `git switch`/`git branch`/`git merge`/`git log`/`git diff`/`git merge-base` command vocabulary and flags)
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — `git switch` abort-on-conflict behaviour, branch/tag name ambiguity)
- references/branch-operations.md (`git switch`/`git branch` command vocabulary and flags)
- references/merging.md (`git merge` strategies and conflict-resolution commands)
- references/comparing-branches.md (`git log`/`git diff`/`git merge-base` range syntax)

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## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `references/conventional-commits-spec.md` | Full Conventional Commits specification |
| `references/commit-template.md` | Why / Implementation Notes / Impact body structure and full trailer list |
| File | Loaded when |
|------|-------------|
| `SKILL.md` | Always — gotchas, the flow dispatch table, the gates common to every flow, and the output shape |
| `references/create-commit.md` | Composing a new commit from staged changes |
| `references/rewrite-history.md` | Amending, squashing, or folding a `fixup!`/`squash!` commit into an earlier one |
| `references/cherry-pick.md` | Replaying an existing commit onto the current branch |
| `references/conventional-commits-spec.md` | A type, footer, or breaking-change edge case is not obvious — full spec, 11-type set, commitlint constraint table |
| `references/commit-template.md` | Writing a body for a non-trivial commit — Why / Implementation Notes / Impact structure and the full trailer list |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources and provenance |
## Composition
Part of the git plugin's domain suite. This skill owns commit authoring and history-rewriting operations only; `git-history` inspects history, `git-branches` owns branch lifecycle, and `git-workflow` is the conversational entry point that routes between them.

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name: git-commits
description: >
Use when creating, amending, squashing, or cherry-picking commits.
Generates well-formatted commit messages following Conventional Commits spec (type, scope, description, body, footers).
Validates against commitlint config-conventional constraints (header max 100 chars, lowercase subject, no trailing periods, type must be one of 11 standard types).
Communicates SemVer impact (MAJOR for breaking changes, MINOR for features, PATCH for fixes).
Handles confirmation gates for history-altering operations (amend, rebase, squash).
Provides interactive guidance for humans, structured JSON output for agents.
Do not use for: inspecting git history, branch management, or repository state inspection — those are separate skills.
Use when creating, amending, squashing, or cherry-picking commits, including
writing and validating the Conventional Commits message.
Not history inspection -> `git-history`.
Not branch lifecycle -> `git-branches`.
metadata:
version: "0.1.2"
version: "0.1.3"
category: git
source_keys:
- conventional-commits-spec
@@ -24,92 +21,45 @@ allowed-tools: Bash
## Gotchas
- **Type must be one of 11 standard types** — `feat`, `fix`, `perf`, `revert`, `docs`, `style`, `refactor`, `test`, `build`, `ci`, `chore`. Non-standard types will fail commitlint validation. Note: the Conventional Commits spec itself only mandates `feat`/`fix` — the 11-type set is a commitlint/Angular convention this skill validates against, not a spec requirement.
- **Scope is optional but should be used** — helps identify which part of the system changed. Examples: `api`, `db`, `cli`, `config`.
- **Header max 100 characters** — type + scope + colon + description must fit. If longer, move detail to body.
- **BREAKING CHANGE notation** — use `!` before the colon (`feat!: drop Node 6`) for visibility in `git log --oneline`. Footer notation (`BREAKING CHANGE: ...`) is machine-readable but hidden in log.
- **SemVer mapping is not optional** — agents must communicate: `feat` → MINOR bump, `fix`/`perf`/`revert` → PATCH, any with breaking change → MAJOR.
- **Confirmation gates are mandatory for destructive operations** — amend, rebase, squash require explicit user/agent approval before execution.
- **Never skip hooks with `--no-verify`** — hooks are the automated QA gate; bypassing them breaks the pipeline. Do not add this flag to any commit command unless the user explicitly demands it, and warn them if they do.
- **Never force-push `main`/`master`** — even after an amend or interactive rebase, refuse to force-push a protected branch (`main`, `master`) and explain why; force-push is only safe on branches no one else has based work on.
- **Command examples use the `rtk git` wrapper** — this org's convention routes all git invocations through `rtk git <subcommand>` instead of bare `git <subcommand>`. Follow this prefix in any command you actually run.
- **Never commit secrets, credentials, or environment-specific config** — if staged changes contain what looks like an API key, token, password, or connection string, stop and flag it before committing rather than committing it.
- **Commits must be atomic and leave the repo working** — each commit should be one logical, independently reviewable and reversible change, and should leave the repository in a buildable/testable state. If staged changes bundle unrelated work, suggest splitting before committing.
- **Commit messages explain why, not what** — the diff already shows what changed; the message's job is to capture context the diff can't (motivation, root cause, tradeoffs). See `references/commit-template.md` for the structure this maps to.
- **Run git as `rtk git <subcommand>`, never bare `git`** — org convention, in `&&` chains too.
- **Refuse to force-push `main`/`master`** — a rewrite leaves the branch diverged and the reflex is to force it back; safe only where nobody else has based work on it.
- **Never add `--no-verify`** — using it when a hook fails bypasses the QA gate the pipeline depends on. Only on the user's explicit demand, with a warning.
## Workflow
## Dispatch
### For creating a new commit:
Read exactly one flow file. Each is self-contained.
1. **Gather context** — what changed and why? (from staged changes, PR description, issue context). Verify the staged diff is one logical, atomic change and that the repo would still build/test at this commit — if not, suggest splitting before proceeding.
2. **Check for secrets** — scan the staged diff for anything that looks like a credential, API key, token, or environment-specific config. Stop and flag it rather than committing.
3. **Determine type** — is this a feature (`feat`), bug fix (`fix`), or other? Default: check the change itself.
4. **Determine scope** — which system/module? Use scope from plugin config if set, otherwise infer from files changed.
5. **Write description** — imperative mood, no period. Neither source spec sets a length target below the 100-char header max, but convention favors keeping it to ~50 characters where possible for `git log --oneline` readability. Examples: "add user authentication", "fix race condition in cache".
6. **Add body if needed** — explain why (not what). Blank line before body, wrap at 100 chars. For non-trivial changes, follow the Why / Implementation Notes / Impact structure in `references/commit-template.md`.
7. **Add footers if needed** — `Fixes: #123`, `Refs: #123`, `ADR: 0012`, `RFC: 0003`, `Design: <link>`, `Reviewed-by: Name`, `Co-authored-by: Name <email>`, `Signed-off-by: Name <email>`, `BREAKING CHANGE: description`. See `references/commit-template.md` for the full trailer list.
8. **Validate** — check header length, type correctness, no trailing periods, lowercase.
9. **Confirm and execute** — for agents, require explicit approval; for humans, show preview and ask. Never add `--no-verify` to skip hooks.
| Condition | Flow | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Composing a new commit from staged changes | create | `references/create-commit.md` |
| Amending, squashing, or folding a fixup into an earlier commit | rewrite | `references/rewrite-history.md` |
| Replaying an existing commit onto the current branch | cherry-pick | `references/cherry-pick.md` |
### For amending a commit:
## Gates on every flow
1. **Stage new changes** (or changes to undo)
2. **Run amend operation** — executes `rtk git commit --amend [--no-edit]` based on user intent
3. **Offer message edit** — if user wants to change commit message, show current message and prompt for new one
4. **Confirm before force-push** — amending is only safe on non-shared branches; if the current branch is `main`/`master`, refuse to force-push and explain why rather than warning and proceeding
1. **Confirmation.** No history rewrite executes without explicit approval from the user or the calling agent. Cherry-pick needs the destination branch confirmed first.
2. **Secrets.** Before any commit or amend, scan the staged diff for anything resembling an API key,
token, password, connection string, or environment-specific config. Stop and flag it rather than
committing it.
3. **Validation.** Check the message against commitlint `config-conventional` before committing. If a type, footer, or breaking-change edge case is not obvious, read `references/conventional-commits-spec.md` — it carries the constraint table, the 11-type set, and the footer token rules.
4. **SemVer impact.** Report the bump the commit implies: `feat` → MINOR, `fix`/`perf`/`revert` → PATCH, any breaking change → MAJOR, everything else → none. Callers decide releases from this, so never omit it.
5. **Conflicts.** If a rebase or cherry-pick halts, offer resolution or an abort. Do not resolve automatically without confirmation.
### For squashing commits (interactive rebase):
## Output
1. **Identify commits to squash** — typically the last N commits on current branch
2. **Confirm operation** — squashing rewrites history; get explicit approval
3. **Execute rebase** — `rtk git rebase -i HEAD~N`, mark older commits as `squash` or `fixup`
4. **Handle merge conflicts** — if rebase halts, offer conflict resolution options or abort; do not resolve automatically without confirmation
5. **Offer message composition** — if squashing interactive, allow message editing
### For squashing commits (autosquash — preferred when tagging at commit time):
Prefer this over manual interactive rebase when a commit is written to be folded into an earlier one, since it removes the manual "mark as squash/fixup" step and the risk of reordering the wrong line:
1. **Create the fixup/squash commit** — `rtk git commit --fixup=<commit>` (keeps target's message) or `rtk git commit --squash=<commit>` (lets you edit the combined message later). Both prefix the message with `fixup!`/`squash!` and target `<commit>`.
2. **Confirm operation** — rewriting history still requires explicit approval before the rebase runs.
3. **Execute** — `rtk git rebase --autosquash HEAD~N` (or `-i --autosquash` to review the plan first); git reorders and marks the `fixup!`/`squash!` commits against their targets automatically.
4. **Handle merge conflicts** — same as manual rebase: offer resolution or abort, never resolve automatically without confirmation.
### For cherry-picking:
1. **Identify source commit(s)** — hash or branch reference
2. **Confirm destination branch** — cherry-pick will replay commits on current branch
3. **Execute cherry-pick** — `rtk git cherry-pick <commit-hash>`
4. **Handle conflicts** — offer conflict resolution or abort
5. **Report outcome** — successful replays, conflicts, or rejected commits
## Output format (for agent consumption)
Return structured JSON:
For an agent caller, return:
```json
{
"operation": "create|amend|squash|cherry-pick",
"status": "success|conflict|rejected",
"message": "Commit message or error description",
"message": "commit message or error description",
"commit_hash": "abc1234",
"semver_impact": "MAJOR|MINOR|PATCH|none",
"breaking_change": true|false,
"confirmation_required": true|false,
"details": {
"type": "feat",
"scope": "api",
"description": "add user authentication",
"body": "optional body text",
"footers": ["Fixes: #123", "Refs: #456", "ADR: 0012", "Reviewed-by: Alice", "Co-authored-by: Bob <bob@example.com>", "Signed-off-by: Alice <alice@example.com>"]
}
"breaking_change": false,
"confirmation_required": false,
"details": { "type": "feat", "scope": "api", "description": "add user authentication" }
}
```
For interactive human use, format as readable prose with clear prompts and previews.
## Reference
If a footer or type/scope edge case isn't covered above, read `references/conventional-commits-spec.md` for the full specification.
For the Why / Implementation Notes / Impact body structure and the full trailer list, read `references/commit-template.md`.
For a human caller, show the same fields as a prose preview with a confirmation prompt.

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source_keys:
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Cherry-picking a commit
1. **Identify the source commit** — a hash or a branch reference.
2. **Confirm the destination** — cherry-pick replays onto the branch currently checked out, so verify that is the intended branch before running anything.
3. **Execute** — `rtk git cherry-pick <commit-hash>`. A range is `<a>..<b>` (exclusive of `<a>`) or `<a>^..<b>` (inclusive); `-n` stages without committing, for when the replay needs editing first.
4. **Handle conflicts** — if the replay halts, offer resolution or `rtk git cherry-pick --abort`. Never resolve automatically without confirmation.
5. **Report the outcome** — which commits replayed, which conflicted, and which were rejected.

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Use this structure for the body/footer of any non-trivial commit (skip sections that don't apply — do not leave placeholders in the actual commit).
```
```text
<type>(<scope>): <concise summary>
```
The header is required. Describe the intended outcome, not the implementation.
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Structured metadata for traceability and tooling. Use only the trailers that apply:
```
```text
Fixes:
Refs:
ADR:

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## Message Format
```
```text
<type>[optional scope]: <description>
[optional body]
@@ -58,20 +58,20 @@ A `BREAKING CHANGE` footer or `!` on **any** type always triggers a MAJOR bump.
Two equivalent notations:
**`!` in header** (preferred — visible in `git log --oneline`):
```
```text
feat!: drop support for Node 6
feat(api)!: remove deprecated endpoint
```
**`BREAKING CHANGE` footer** (machine-readable body):
```
```text
feat: allow config to extend other configs
BREAKING CHANGE: `extends` key now used for extending config files
```
**Both together** (most explicit):
```
```text
feat!: drop support for Node 6
BREAKING CHANGE: use JavaScript features not available in Node 6.
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Rules:
## Footer Token Rules
```
```text
<token>: <value>
<token> #<value> # for issue references
```
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Rules:
- Blank line required before the footer block.
Valid footer examples:
```
```text
Reviewed-by: Z
Refs: #123
Co-authored-by: Alice <alice@example.com>
@@ -106,29 +106,29 @@ BREAKING CHANGE: the `--format` flag now requires a value
## Examples
Minimal — no body, no footer:
```
```text
docs: correct spelling of CHANGELOG
```
With scope:
```
```text
feat(lang): add Polish language
```
Breaking change via `!`:
```
```text
feat!: send an email to the customer when a product is shipped
```
Breaking change via footer:
```
```text
feat: allow provided config object to extend other configs
BREAKING CHANGE: `extends` key in config file is now used for extending other config files
```
Multi-paragraph body with multiple footers:
```
```text
fix: prevent racing of requests
Introduce a request id and a reference to latest request. Dismiss
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Refs: #123
```
Revert:
```
```text
revert: let us never again speak of the noodle incident
Refs: 676104e, a215868

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---
source_keys:
- conventional-commits-spec
- commitlint-config-conventional
- org-commit-conventions
---
# Creating a new commit
1. **Gather context** — what changed and why, from the staged diff, the PR description, or the issue. Confirm the staged diff is one logical, independently reviewable and reversible change that leaves the repository buildable and testable. If it bundles unrelated work, suggest splitting it before going further.
2. **Determine the type** — read it off the change itself: a new user-visible feature is `feat`, a bug fix is `fix`. For the full 11-type set and each type's SemVer impact, read `references/conventional-commits-spec.md`.
3. **Determine the scope** — use the scope from plugin config where one is set, otherwise infer it from the files changed (`api`, `db`, `cli`, `config`). Scope is optional, but it identifies which part of the system moved and is worth setting.
4. **Write the description** — imperative mood, no trailing period: "add user authentication", "fix race condition in cache". Neither source spec sets a target below the 100-character header maximum, but convention favours roughly 50 characters so `git log --oneline` stays readable.
5. **Add a body when the change is non-trivial** — blank line first, wrapped at 100 characters. Explain *why*, not what: the diff already shows what changed, and the message's job is the context the diff cannot carry — motivation, root cause, tradeoffs. Follow the Why / Implementation Notes / Impact structure in `references/commit-template.md`.
6. **Add footers where they apply** — `Fixes: #123`, `Refs: #123`, `ADR: 0012`, `Co-authored-by: Name <email>`, `BREAKING CHANGE: description`. For the full trailer list, read `references/commit-template.md`.
7. **Signal a breaking change with `!` before the colon** — `feat!: drop Node 6` is visible in `git log --oneline`, where the `BREAKING CHANGE:` footer alone is machine-readable but hidden. Use both when the break needs describing.
8. **Validate, confirm, execute** — check header length, type, lowercase subject and trailing period against commitlint, show the message, and commit only once the caller has approved. Never add `--no-verify`.

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---
source_keys:
- org-commit-conventions
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Rewriting existing commits
Every flow on this page rewrites history. None of them runs before the caller has explicitly approved it, and none is followed by a force-push to `main`/`master` — refuse that and explain why instead.
## Amend the last commit
1. Stage the new changes, or the changes that undo something.
2. Run `rtk git commit --amend`, adding `--no-edit` when the message stays as it is.
3. If the message should change, show the current one and prompt for the replacement.
4. The branch has now diverged from its remote. Amending is safe only on a branch nobody else has based work on; on `main`/`master`, refuse the force-push and explain, rather than warning and proceeding.
## Fold a commit into an earlier one (autosquash — preferred)
Prefer this whenever a commit is written to be folded, because git does the marking:
1. `rtk git commit --fixup=<commit>` keeps the target's message; `rtk git commit --squash=<commit>` lets you edit the combined message later. Both prefix the message with `fixup!`/`squash!` and name the target commit.
2. Get explicit approval — the rebase still rewrites history.
3. Run `rtk git rebase --autosquash HEAD~N`, or `-i --autosquash` to review the plan first. Git reorders the tagged commits against their targets automatically.
## Squash by hand (interactive rebase)
Use this when the commits were not tagged at commit time. **Interactive rebase has no undo once `rebase -i` starts — `git reflog` is the recovery path.**
1. Identify the commits to squash — typically the last N on the current branch.
2. Get explicit approval.
3. Run `rtk git rebase -i HEAD~N`, marking the older commits `squash` to keep their messages for editing, or `fixup` to discard them.
4. Compose the combined message when the rebase stops to ask. For a non-trivial combined message, follow the structure in `references/commit-template.md`.
## When a rebase halts on a conflict
Offer conflict resolution or `rtk git rebase --abort`. Do not resolve conflicts automatically without confirmation.

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- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Research Sources for git:commits Skill
# Research Sources for git-commits Skill
Sources extracted from the git plugin research phase. Only sources that directly informed this skill are listed; sibling skills (git:branches, git:history, git:remotes, etc.) have their own sources.md.
Sources extracted from the git plugin research phase. Only sources that directly informed this skill are listed; sibling skills (git-branches, git-history, git-remotes, etc.) have their own sources.md.
## conventional-commits-spec
- **Description:** Conventional Commits Specification (v1.0.0) — message format, types, breaking changes, footer rules
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/commits.md § "Conventional Commits Specification (v1.0.0)"
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/conventional-commits-spec.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/conventional-commits-spec.md, references/create-commit.md
- **Status:** extracted
## commitlint-config-conventional
- **Description:** commitlint config-conventional preset — validation constraints (max 100 chars header, no trailing periods, lowercase type, 11-type set enforcement)
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/commits.md § "commitlint Constraints (`config-conventional`)"
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/conventional-commits-spec.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/conventional-commits-spec.md, references/create-commit.md
- **Status:** extracted
## org-commit-conventions
- **Description:** Organization commit message body template and git conventions (atomic commits, no `--no-verify`, no force-push main/master, `rtk git` wrapper) — content fully embedded in this skill; the org's `core/instructions/git.md` and `core/instructions/commits.md` are provenance only and are not a live dependency
- **Research doc:** core/instructions/commits.md, core/instructions/git.md (org convention, not part of the plugin's research corpus)
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/commit-template.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/commit-template.md, references/create-commit.md, references/rewrite-history.md
- **Status:** extracted
## context7-git-htmldocs
- **Description:** Official Git HTML documentation — `git commit --squash`/`--fixup` and `git rebase --autosquash` flag semantics
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/cli-reference.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md
- **Description:** Official Git HTML documentation — `git commit --squash`/`--fixup`, `git rebase --autosquash`, and `git cherry-pick` range and abort semantics
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/cli-reference.md § "Committing", § "Rebasing", § "Cherry-picking"
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/rewrite-history.md, references/cherry-pick.md
- **Status:** extracted

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This skill handles history inspection within the git workflow suite. It queries logs with pickaxe/line-range/custom formats, runs bisect to find bug-introducing commits, and locates commits for downstream cherry-picking or reverting. It returns structured results for agent composition. Rebase, squash, fixup, and other history-rewriting operations are owned by git-commits, not this skill.
## Composition
`git-branches` delegates cherry-pick and revert here (see `git-branches`'s `references/merging.md`), which is why this skill carries those two operations rather than treating them as out of scope. They are general git knowledge, not drawn from the `history-inspection.md` research corpus. Server-side commit history on a Gitea-hosted repository belongs to `gitea-branches`; this skill reads the local working copy.
## Usage
```
@@ -19,6 +23,7 @@ Describe your history task: search logs, bisect for a regression, or locate a sp
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `references/git-log-format.md` | Full log format placeholders, diff-filter letters, `-L` syntax, ancestry filters, diff output-control flags |
| `references/bisect.md` | Loaded when the entry procedure is bisect: manual and automated flows, exit codes, skip, replay, narrowing, custom terms |
| `references/git-log-format.md` | Loaded when a log or diff flag needs looking up: format placeholders, presets, diff-filter letters, `-L` syntax, ancestry filters, pickaxe binary-file behaviour, diff output-control flags |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources and provenance |
| `references/README.md` | Index of the references directory |

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name: git-history
description: >
Inspect git history: query logs with pickaxe, line-range, or custom formats; find bug origins via bisect; locate problematic commits for cherry-picking or reverting. Use when investigating history, tracing when a change happened, or finding the commit that broke something. Return structured results for downstream agents. Do not use for authoring or formatting commit messages, or executing rebase/squash/fixup operations — use git-commits for that.
Use when investigating git history — querying logs, tracing when a change
landed, bisecting the commit that broke something, or locating one to
revert or backport. Not authoring or rebasing commits -> `git-commits`.
Not history on a Gitea server -> `gitea-branches`.
metadata:
category: git
@@ -16,81 +19,47 @@ allowed-tools: Bash
## Gotchas
- **Pickaxe searches (`-S` vs `-G`)**: `-S"string"` finds commits where string count changed; `-G"regex"` finds any line matching regex in diffs. They're not equivalent: a line replaced (one removal + one addition) matches `-G` but not `-S` if count is unchanged.
- **`--follow` only works for single files**: it traces renames but fails with multiple paths or directory globs. Use `git log -- <single-file>` or query without `--follow`.
- **Bisect with skips**: if bisect cannot pinpoint a commit because the culprit is adjacent to skipped commits, it reports "cannot find exact culprit" and lists candidates. This is not a failure — it's as precise as the skip range allows.
- **Interactive rebase is non-recoverable on mistake**: there's no undo once `rebase -i` starts. Suggest `git reflog` to recover if the user realizes mid-way they selected the wrong commits.
- **`-L` (line-range history) requires exact line numbers or regex patterns**: off-by-one errors omit the target range. Test the range with `git log -L` before offering it to users.
- `-S"string"` matches only where the string's *count* changed, so a line edited in place matches `-G"regex"` and not `-S`. Reach for `-G` whenever the string may have moved rather than appeared.
- `--follow` traces renames for exactly one path. Given several paths or a glob it fails instead of degrading, so run it once per file.
- Under `git bisect run`, exit `128` or above **aborts the session** rather than marking the commit bad, so a crashing test script ends the search silently.
- Bisect answering "cannot find exact culprit" beside skipped commits is a complete result: it is as precise as the skip range allows.
## Query Logs and Locate Commits
## Step 1 — Pick the entry procedure
Default to `git log --oneline` for quick inspection. For deeper queries:
| What is known | Procedure |
|---|---|
| Content, a file, or a line range to search for | Query the log — Step 2 |
| Nothing to search for — only that the behaviour changed between two points | Bisect — read `references/bisect.md` |
| The commit itself, already identified | Step 3 |
- **Find when a string appeared or disappeared**: Use `git log -S"string"` (count-sensitive, finds adds/removes). If you need any mention of the string in diffs, use `git log -G"regex"` instead. Add `--pickaxe-regex` to treat the `-S` string as a POSIX ERE, and `--pickaxe-all` to show every changed file in a matching changeset, not just the matching ones. Binary files are searched by `-S`; `-G` ignores them unless `--text` is also supplied.
- **Trace changes to a specific line or function**: Use `git log -L <start>,<end>:<file>` or `git log -L :<function>:<file>` (requires function name heuristic). This shows the evolution of that range across all commits.
- **Filter by change type**: Use `git log --diff-filter=<type>` (A=added, M=modified, D=deleted, R=renamed) to narrow to specific file operations.
- **Mainline-only history through merges**: Use `--first-parent` to follow only the integration branch and skip merged-in side-branch commits; combine with `--merges`/`--no-merges` or `--ancestry-path`/`--min-parents`/`--max-parents` for other ancestry-graph filtering — see `references/git-log-format.md` for the full set.
- **Custom format for structured output**: Construct format string with `%h` (hash), `%s` (subject), `%an` (author), `%ar` (relative date), `%b` (body). Example: `git log --format="%h | %s | %an (%ar)"`.
- **File-specific history with renames**: Use `git log --follow -- <file>` (single file only). Without `--follow`, log stops at the rename boundary.
## Step 2 — Query the log
## Bisect to Find Blame Commit
Default to `git log --oneline`, then narrow by whatever is known:
Use bisect when hunting for the commit that introduced a bug or behaviour change. Binary search reduces iterations from O(N) to O(log N).
- **Content**: `git log -S"string"`, or `-G"regex"` to match any diff line. `--pickaxe-regex` makes the `-S` argument a POSIX ERE; `--pickaxe-all` shows every file in a matching changeset.
- **A line or function**: `git log -L <start>,<end>:<file>` or `git log -L :<function>:<file>`. Confirm the range resolves before reporting on it — an off-by-one silently omits the target.
- **A file across renames**: `git log --follow -- <file>`. Without `--follow` the history stops at the rename boundary.
- **Mainline only**: `--first-parent` follows the integration branch and skips commits merged in from side branches.
- **Structured output**: `git log --format="%h | %s | %an (%ar)"`.
**Basic manual flow:**
```bash
git bisect start
git bisect bad [HEAD] # mark current (or specified) as broken
git bisect good <commit> # mark known-good baseline
# Git checks out midpoint; test it manually
git bisect good # if test passes
git bisect bad # if test fails
# Repeat until git reports "X is the first bad commit"
git bisect reset # return to original HEAD
If you need the placeholder catalogue, format presets, `--diff-filter` letters, full `-L` syntax, ancestry filters, pickaxe binary-file behaviour, or `git diff` output-control flags such as `--stat`, `--word-diff` and the whitespace options, read `references/git-log-format.md`.
## Step 3 — Act on a located commit
Offer the operation and its consequence; run it only once the user has chosen.
- `git cherry-pick <commit>` copies the commit's changes onto the current HEAD — for backporting a fix to another branch.
- `git revert <commit>` adds a new commit undoing it — for un-applying merged work without rewriting history.
- `git blame <file>` attributes each line to the commit that last touched it, when the question is which commit introduced one specific line.
For diff output control on the located commit, read `references/git-log-format.md`.
## Step 4 — Return the result
Report each located commit in this shape, so a calling agent can act on it without reparsing raw log output:
```text
<sha> — <subject>
<author> (<relative date>)
Recommendation: <action or "none">
```
**Automated with `git bisect run`:** if a test command exists, use `git bisect run <cmd>`. Git interprets the exit code: `0`=good, `1-124`=bad, `125`=skip (build broken), `126-127`=POSIX shell errors treated as bad, `128+`=**aborts the bisect session entirely** (not treated as bad — a crashed test script can silently end the search).
**With skip:** if a commit is untestable (broken build), use `git bisect skip` to exclude it without manually deciding good/bad. If the first-bad is adjacent to skips, bisect reports it cannot pinpoint but lists candidates.
**Undoing a wrong good/bad call:** `git bisect log` prints the session's decision history; save it (`git bisect log > bisect.log`), edit out the mistaken entry, then `git bisect reset && git bisect replay bisect.log` to resume from the corrected log instead of restarting the whole search.
**Narrowing and speeding up the search:** `git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- src/` limits bisection to a path, cutting the number of trials. `--no-checkout` updates the `BISECT_HEAD` ref instead of checking out a working tree (useful for tests that don't need one; automatic in bare repos). `--first-parent` follows only first parents at merges, finding the integration commit that introduced a regression while ignoring broken side branches.
**Inspecting remaining candidates visually:** `git bisect visualize` (alias `view`) opens the suspects in gitk; add `--stat` or `-p` to show diffstat or full patches instead. Falls back to `git log` when no graphical display is detected.
**For non-regression hunts:** use `git bisect start --term-new <new> --term-old <old>` to search for a property change instead of a bug (e.g., performance regression). Then use the custom terms instead of `good`/`bad`.
For rebase execution (interactive rebase, squash/fixup/reword, conflict handling) see git-commits — it owns history-rewriting operations. This skill only locates commits and reports on history; it does not execute rebases.
## Find and Manipulate Problematic Commits
Once a commit is identified (via log query or bisect), offer cherry-pick or revert. This section is general git knowledge, not sourced from `history-inspection.md` — `git-branches`'s SKILL.md explicitly delegates cherry-pick/revert here (see its Merging section), which is why this skill carries them rather than treating them as out of scope:
- **Cherry-pick**: `git cherry-pick <commit>` copies a commit's changes onto current HEAD. Use when backporting fixes to other branches.
- **Revert**: `git revert <commit>` creates a new commit that undoes the changes. Use when un-applying a merged commit without rewriting history.
- **Blame for context**: `git blame <file>` shows which commit last changed each line. Use to trace a specific line back to its introducing commit.
## Inspect Diffs
Diff-output tuning is in scope too: `--stat` for a diffstat summary, `--word-diff` for word-level (not line-level) changes, and whitespace flags (`-w`, `--ignore-blank-lines`) to suppress noise from reformatting. See `references/git-log-format.md` for the full flag set.
## Return Results Structured
For agent consumption, return:
- **Commit SHA** (full or abbreviated as appropriate)
- **Subject line** (from `%s`)
- **Author and date** (from `%an` and `%ar`)
- **Action taken or recommended** (e.g., "Found via bisect", "Offer cherry-pick to main", "Rebase conflicts detected")
Example for agent:
```
Found first bad commit: abc1234
Subject: fix null pointer in parser
Author: Alice (2 weeks ago)
Recommendation: Backport to release branch via cherry-pick
```
## Reference
For the full log format placeholder catalogue, named format presets, `--diff-filter` letters, `-L` range syntax, ancestry filters, and `git diff` output-control flags, read `references/git-log-format.md`.

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## Files
- `sources.md` — Extracted research sources and their contributing documents
- `git-log-format.md` — Full `git log` format placeholder catalogue, named format presets, `--diff-filter` letters, `-L` line-range syntax, ancestry filters, and `git diff` output-control flags
- `bisect.md` — The full `git bisect` procedure: manual and automated flows, exit-code semantics, skip and replay, narrowing options, and custom good/bad terms
- `git-log-format.md` — Full `git log` format placeholder catalogue, named format presets, `--diff-filter` letters, `-L` line-range syntax, ancestry filters, pickaxe binary-file behaviour, and `git diff` output-control flags

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---
topic: bisect
source_keys:
- git-scm-bisect-docs
---
# Finding a commit with `git bisect`
Read this when the question is *which commit changed the behaviour* and there is no string, file,
or line range to search the log for. Binary search reduces the trials from O(N) to O(log N).
## Manual flow
```bash
git bisect start
git bisect bad [HEAD] # mark current (or specified) as broken
git bisect good <commit> # mark known-good baseline
# Git checks out the midpoint; test it
git bisect good # test passes
git bisect bad # test fails
# Repeat until git reports "X is the first bad commit"
git bisect reset # return to the original HEAD
```
## Automated
With a test command available, use `git bisect run <cmd>`. Git reads the exit code: `0` good,
`1`–`124` bad, `125` skip (build broken), `126`–`127` POSIX shell errors, treated as bad, and
`128` or above aborts the session outright rather than marking the commit bad.
## Untestable commits
`git bisect skip` excludes a commit that cannot be built or tested without deciding good or bad
for it. When the first bad commit is adjacent to a skipped range, bisect reports that it cannot
pinpoint the culprit and lists the candidates — that is the precise answer the skip range allows,
not a failure.
## Undoing a wrong good/bad call
`git bisect log` prints the session's decision history. Save it, edit out the mistaken entry, and
resume from the corrected log rather than restarting the search:
```bash
git bisect log > bisect.log
# edit bisect.log, removing the wrong decision
git bisect reset && git bisect replay bisect.log
```
## Narrowing and speeding up
- `git bisect start HEAD v1.2 -- src/` restricts bisection to a path, cutting the trial count.
- `--no-checkout` updates the `BISECT_HEAD` ref instead of checking out a working tree — useful
for tests that do not need one, and automatic in bare repos.
- `--first-parent` follows only first parents at merges, finding the integration commit that
introduced a regression while ignoring broken side branches.
## Inspecting the remaining candidates
`git bisect visualize` (alias `view`) opens the suspects in gitk, falling back to `git log` when
no graphical display is detected. Add `--stat` or `-p` for a diffstat or full patches.
## Hunting a non-bug property change
`git bisect start --term-new <new> --term-old <old>` searches for any property change — a
performance regression, say — instead of a bug. Use the custom terms in place of `good` and `bad`
for the rest of the session.
Once the first bad commit is identified, return to Step 3 to act on it and Step 4 to report it.

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| `%GK` | signing key ID |
**Trailers:**
```
```text
%(trailers[:key=<k>][,only][,separator=<s>][,unfold][,keyonly][,valueonly])
```

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- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/history-inspection.md
- **Doc heading:** `## git bisect`
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/bisect.md
## git-scm-log-docs
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ Git diff documentation covering output control (--stat, --name-only, --name-stat
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/history-inspection.md
- **Doc heading:** `## git diff — Output Control`
- **Contributing files:** references/git-log-format.md
- **Contributing files:** SKILL.md, references/git-log-format.md

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| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents — force-push gate, dispatch table, return format |
| `references/README.md` | Describes the references directory contents |
| `references/remotes.md` | Full `set-url` variants, shallow-clone/fetch options, force-push mitigation detail, and pull config precedence |
| `references/remote-config.md` | Read when adding, removing, renaming, inspecting or re-pointing a remote, or configuring tracking, mirroring, or `set-url` |
| `references/fetch.md` | Read when fetching or pruning remote-tracking refs, or doing a shallow or partial fetch |
| `references/push.md` | Read when pushing branches or tags, writing refspecs, or force-pushing |
| `references/pull.md` | Read when integrating remote changes into the current branch, including the divergence rule |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources and provenance |
## Composition
Callers that need submodule initialization after a `--recurse-submodules` pull hand off to
`git-submodules`; local-only work (commits, branches, history) belongs to `git-commits`,
`git-branches`, and `git-history`. The `git-workflow` skill routes humans here for any
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name: git-remotes
description: >
Manage git remote repositories — add/remove/configure remotes, push/pull with safety checks,
handle fetch patterns and tracking branch updates, support multi-remote workflows.
Use when automating remote operations, pushing with force-push safety, fetching with pruning,
pulling with divergence resolution, or managing multi-remote tracking. Include indirect triggers:
any git operation that touches a remote, even if the user doesn't explicitly name the remote.
Do not use when working with local git history, commits, branches, or staging — use git-history
or git-branches instead.
Use when a git operation — remote config, fetch, push, or pull — touches a
remote, even when the user does not name it.
Not local commits -> `git-commits`.
Not local branches -> `git-branches`.
Not submodule pointers -> `git-submodules`.
metadata:
category: git-workflow
@@ -23,91 +21,29 @@ metadata:
## Gotchas
- **Never force-push `main` or `master`, under any circumstances** — this is a hard refusal, not a `confirm: true` gate. If a force-push targets one of these branches, decline and explain why, regardless of how the request is confirmed.
- **Force-push to any other branch requires explicit confirmation** — never execute `git push --force` or `git push -f` without user/agent approval. Always ask or require `confirm: true` flag first.
- **`--force-with-lease` alone is not safe** — background processes (IDE plugins, cron jobs) that run `git fetch` silently defeat the protection. Always combine with `--force-if-includes` or use explicit SHA form `--force-with-lease=<ref>:<sha>`.
- **Prune doesn't touch tags by default** — `git fetch --prune` leaves orphaned tags. Use `git fetch --prune --prune-tags` or configure `fetch.pruneTags true` globally.
- **Pull with rebase rewrites history** — only safe for unpublished work. Rebasing already-pushed commits breaks everyone downstream. Check what's been pushed before rebasing.
- **`git remote show` requires network access** — use `-n` flag for cached data if working offline. `git remote -v` lists URLs without network queries.
- **Pull behavior defaults shift between Git versions** — older versions default to merge, newer versions to `--ff-only`. Always set `pull.ff only` explicitly for deterministic behavior.
- **`--force-with-lease` alone is not safe** — background processes (IDE plugins, cron jobs) running `git fetch` silently defeat the protection. Combine it with `--force-if-includes`, or pin the explicit `--force-with-lease=<ref>:<sha>` form.
- **Prune does not touch tags by default** — `git fetch --prune` leaves orphaned tags behind. Use `--prune --prune-tags`, or set `fetch.pruneTags true`.
- **Pull defaults shift between Git versions** — older ones default to merge, newer to `--ff-only`. Set `pull.ff only` explicitly rather than trusting the installed default.
## Operations
## Step 1 — Clear the force-push gate
### Remote Management
`main` and `master` are a hard refusal: decline a force-push targeting either, whatever confirmation accompanies it, because no local approval can restore what the remote loses. On any other branch, `git push --force` and `-f` run only after the caller passes `confirm: true` for that specific push — for a human caller, prompt instead of failing.
Use these to configure which remotes you push to and pull from:
## Step 2 — Dispatch
- **Add a remote**: `git remote add <name> <url>` or `git remote add -f <name> <url>` to fetch immediately
- **Remove a remote**: `git remote remove <name>` (deletes remote + all tracking refs + config)
- **Rename a remote**: `git remote rename <old> <new>`
- **Inspect remotes**: `git remote -v` (show URLs) or `git remote show <name>` (live tracking status, requires network)
- **Set-url separately for fetch vs. push**: `git remote set-url --push <name> <url>` changes only where pushes go — but fetch and push URLs must still reference the same repository. For genuine fetch-from-A / push-to-B workflows, use two separate named remotes instead; `--push` cannot do this. Full `set-url` variants (regex-targeted replace, `--add`, `--delete`): `references/remotes.md`.
- **Remove a stale URL**: `git remote set-url --delete <name> <regex>`
- **Inspect effective URLs**: `git remote get-url <name>` (shows URL after `insteadOf` rewrites) or `git remote get-url --push --all <name>` (all push URLs)
- **Track only one branch**: `git remote add -t <branch> <name> <url>` (repeatable), or suppress tag import entirely with `git remote add --no-tags <name> <url>`
- **Mirror a remote**: `git remote add --mirror=fetch <name> <url>` mirrors all refs locally (bare repos only); `--mirror=push` makes every push behave like `--mirror`
- **Prune stale tracking refs without fetching**: `git remote prune <name>` (add `--dry-run` to preview first)
- **Set the remote's default branch pointer**: `git remote set-head <name> -a` (auto-detect, requires a prior fetch), `git remote set-head <name> <branch>` (explicit), or `git remote set-head <name> -d` (delete `refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD`)
Read the row matching the operation, and only that row — each file is self-contained. A task spanning two operations reads both.
### Fetch Operations
Use these to update your tracking branches without touching your local branches:
- **Fetch from one remote**: `git fetch <remote>` — fetches all branches
- **Fetch one branch only**: `git fetch <remote> <branch>` — stores the result in `FETCH_HEAD`, not a tracking ref
- **Fetch from all remotes**: `git fetch --all` with optional `--prune` to clean up stale tracking refs
- **Prune properly**: Use `git fetch --all --prune --prune-tags` to clean both branches and tags
- **Configure auto-prune**: Set `git config --global fetch.prune true` to auto-prune on every fetch across all remotes (or `remote.<name>.prune` to scope it to one remote)
- **Shallow clones**: `--depth=<n>` to deepen or create a shallow clone, `--unshallow` to convert to full history, `--update-shallow` to allow the shallow boundary to move. Details and the default fetch refspec: `references/remotes.md`.
Fetch never modifies your local branches — it only updates remote-tracking branches (`refs/remotes/origin/*`).
### Push Operations
Use these to send your commits upstream. Default: safe push to same-named branch on the remote.
- **Basic push**: `git push <remote> <branch>` — pushes to same-named remote branch
- **Set upstream**: `git push -u <remote> <branch>` — push and configure this branch to track the remote
- **Multi-remote push**: `git push origin develop` and `git push staging develop` sequentially, or use `git remote set-url --add <name> <url>` to push to multiple remotes with one command
- **Force-push safety**: Always use `git push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes <remote> <branch>` over bare `--force`. Require explicit confirmation first — and never for `main`/`master` (see Gotchas). `--force-if-includes` is a no-op without `--force-with-lease`. If background tools (IDE, cron) auto-fetch and could poison the lease check, use a dedicated push-only remote instead — see `references/remotes.md`.
- **Server-side enforcement**: `receive.denyDeletes`, `receive.denyDeleteCurrent`, and `receive.denyNonFastForwards` are enforced on the remote regardless of local flags — a hardened server rejects the push even with `--force`.
- **Delete remote branch**: `git push <remote> --delete <branch>` (not `:<branch>` syntax; clearer and cleaner)
- **Push everything**: `git push --all` (all local branches) or `git push --tags` (all tags)
- **Push a single tag**: `git push origin <tag>`
- **Delete remote branches with no local counterpart**: `git push --prune origin 'refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*'`
- **Force only part of a multi-ref push**: prefix the one refspec that needs it with `+`, e.g. `git push origin +main develop` forces `main` while safe-pushing `develop`
Refspec syntax is `[+]<src>[:<dst>]`:
| Pattern | Meaning |
| Operation | Read |
|---|---|
| `<branch>` | Push to same-named remote branch |
| `<src>:<dst>` | Push `<src>` local ref to `<dst>` remote ref |
| `+<src>:<dst>` | Force this refspec (non-fast-forward allowed) |
| `:<branch>` | Delete remote `<branch>` |
| `refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*` | Glob: push all matching branches |
| `^refs/heads/dev-*` | Negative: exclude matching refs |
| `tag <name>` | Sugar for `refs/tags/<name>:refs/tags/<name>` |
| Add, remove, rename, inspect, or re-point a remote; tracking, mirror, and `set-url` config | `references/remote-config.md` |
| Fetch or prune remote-tracking refs; shallow or partial fetch | `references/fetch.md` |
| Push branches or tags; refspecs; force-push | `references/push.md` |
| Pull — integrate remote changes into the current branch | `references/pull.md` |
### Pull Operations
## Step 3 — Return format
Use these to fetch and integrate remote changes. Default strategy: `--ff-only` (fail if diverged, forcing a conscious choice).
For agent callers, return:
- **Pull with fast-forward only**: `git pull --ff-only` (recommended default — fails if you've diverged, forcing a rebase/merge decision)
- **Pull with rebase**: `git pull --rebase` (replays your unpublished commits on top; linear history, but rewrites SHAs — only safe for unpublished work)
- **Pull with merge**: `git pull --no-rebase` (three-way merge commit; preserves original commits, non-linear)
- **Pull with rebase, preserving merges**: `git pull --rebase=merges` (like `--rebase`, but keeps intentional local merge commits during replay)
- **Pull without integrating**: `git pull --squash` collapses incoming commits into staged changes without committing — you write the commit message
- **Set pull strategy globally**: `git config pull.ff only` (or `pull.rebase true`; respects branch-specific overrides via `branch.<name>.rebase`). Full precedence order (CLI flag > `pull.rebase` > `branch.<name>.rebase` > `branch.autoSetupRebase`): `references/remotes.md`.
- **Check before rebasing**: Always verify your commits haven't been pushed before using `--rebase`. Rebasing published commits breaks everyone downstream.
- **Merge strategy default**: Git 2.34+ defaults to the `ort` merge strategy (`recursive` is now just an alias for it). Strategy options like `-X ours`, `-X theirs`, `-X ignore-space-change` still pass through unchanged.
- **Submodules on pull**: `--recurse-submodules` only fetches submodules that are already checked out — newly added submodules are not initialized automatically. Use the `git-submodules` skill to initialize new ones.
If pull diverges and you haven't set a strategy, the operation fails — this is good, forces a conscious choice. Never auto-merge diverged branches without asking.
### Return Format (for agents)
Return structured output:
```json
{
"success": true,
@@ -116,8 +52,8 @@ Return structured output:
"branch": "main",
"output": "...",
"warnings": ["force-with-lease not confirmed"],
"recommendations": ["set pull.ff=only globally"]
"recommendations": ["set `pull.ff only` so the default does not vary by Git version"]
}
```
On failure, include `error` field with root cause and recovery suggestion.
On failure, set `success: false` and add an `error` field holding the root cause and a recovery suggestion.

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## Files
- `sources.md` — Extracted research sources and their contributing documents
- `remotes.md` — Full `set-url` variants, shallow-clone/fetch options, default fetch refspec, force-push mitigation detail, server-side deny policies, and pull config precedence
- `remote-config.md` — Remote add/remove/rename/inspect, tracking and mirror options, housekeeping, and the full `set-url` form
- `fetch.md` — Fetch and prune options, shallow and partial fetch, the default fetch refspec
- `push.md` — Push options, refspec syntax, force-push safety in full, server-side deny policies
- `pull.md` — Pull strategies, submodule caveat, the divergence rule, and pull config precedence

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---
topic: fetch
source_keys:
- git-scm-fetch-docs
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Fetching
Fetch updates remote-tracking branches (`refs/remotes/<name>/*`) and never modifies a local branch, so it is always safe to run.
- **One remote**: `git fetch <remote>` — all branches
- **One branch**: `git fetch <remote> <branch>` — the result lands in `FETCH_HEAD`, not a tracking ref
- **All remotes**: `git fetch --all`
- **Prune properly**: `git fetch --all --prune --prune-tags` cleans stale branches *and* tags
- **Auto-prune**: `git config --global fetch.prune true` (or `remote.<name>.prune` to scope it to one remote), and `fetch.pruneTags true` for tags
## Shallow and partial fetch
```bash
git fetch --depth=<n> # deepen history, or create a shallow clone
git fetch --unshallow # convert a shallow clone to full history
git fetch --update-shallow # allow the fetch to update the shallow boundary
git fetch --refmap='' <remote> <branch> # fetch without updating any tracking ref (FETCH_HEAD only)
```
## Default fetch refspec
The default is `+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/<name>/*`. The leading `+` forces the update — remote-tracking branches always mirror the remote exactly and offer no protection for local history.

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---
topic: pull
source_keys:
- git-scm-pull-docs
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Pulling
Default strategy: `--ff-only`. It fails on divergence, which forces a conscious choice instead of an accidental merge commit.
- **Fast-forward only**: `git pull --ff-only` — the recommended default
- **Rebase**: `git pull --rebase` replays your commits on top for linear history, but rewrites SHAs. Verify nothing being replayed has been pushed: rebasing published commits breaks everyone downstream.
- **Merge**: `git pull --no-rebase` — three-way merge commit, preserves original commits, non-linear
- **Rebase preserving merges**: `git pull --rebase=merges` keeps intentional local merge commits during the replay
- **Stage without committing**: `git pull --squash` collapses incoming commits into staged changes; you write the message
- **Merge strategy**: Git 2.34+ defaults to `ort` (`recursive` is now an alias for it). Strategy options such as `-X ours`, `-X theirs`, `-X ignore-space-change` pass through unchanged.
- **Submodules**: `--recurse-submodules` only fetches submodules already checked out. Newly added ones are not initialized — use the `git-submodules` skill for those.
## On divergence
A pull that diverges with no strategy configured fails, and that failure is the useful outcome. Report the divergence and the three ways out — `--ff-only`, `--rebase`, `--no-rebase` — and let the caller choose. Auto-merging a diverged branch buries a decision that belongs to the human.
## Config precedence
Highest wins:
1. Command-line flag (`--ff-only` / `--rebase` / `--no-rebase`)
2. `pull.rebase` config (global or local)
3. `branch.<name>.rebase` (branch-specific override)
4. `branch.autoSetupRebase` (set automatically when the tracking branch was created)
```bash
git config pull.ff only # deterministic default across Git versions
git config --global pull.rebase true
git config branch.develop.rebase false # develop always merges, regardless of the global default
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---
topic: push
source_keys:
- git-scm-push-docs
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Pushing
Default: safe push to the same-named branch on the remote.
- **Force-push**: never bare `--force`. Use `git push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes <remote> <branch>`, after the SKILL.md Step 1 gate.
- **Basic**: `git push <remote> <branch>`
- **Set upstream**: `git push -u <remote> <branch>` — push and configure tracking
- **Multi-remote**: push sequentially (`git push origin develop`, `git push staging develop`), or add a second push URL with `git remote set-url --add <name> <url>` to reach both in one command
- **Delete a remote branch**: `git push <remote> --delete <branch>` — clearer than the `:<branch>` form
- **Bulk**: `git push --all` (all local branches), `git push --tags` (all tags), `git push origin <tag>` (one tag)
- **Delete remote branches with no local counterpart**: `git push --prune origin 'refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*'`
- **Force only part of a multi-ref push**: prefix the one refspec that needs it with `+` — `git push origin +release develop` forces `release` while safe-pushing `develop`. A `+` prefix is a force-push and passes the SKILL.md Step 1 gate like any other.
## Refspec syntax — `[+]<src>[:<dst>]`
| Pattern | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `<branch>` | Push to same-named remote branch |
| `<src>:<dst>` | Push `<src>` local ref to `<dst>` remote ref |
| `+<src>:<dst>` | Force this refspec (non-fast-forward allowed) — a force-push; passes the SKILL.md Step 1 gate |
| `:<branch>` | Delete remote `<branch>` |
| `refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*` | Glob: push all matching branches |
| `^refs/heads/dev-*` | Negative: exclude matching refs |
| `tag <name>` | Sugar for `refs/tags/<name>:refs/tags/<name>` |
## Force-push safety — full detail
`--force-with-lease` rejects the push if the remote ref moved since your last fetch. Three forms:
| Form | What it protects |
|---|---|
| `--force-with-lease` (bare) | All refs being pushed, checked against your remote-tracking branch |
| `--force-with-lease=<refname>` | Named ref only |
| `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<sha>` | Named ref must be at exact SHA — most stable |
**Caveat with the bare form:** any background process that runs `git fetch` (IDE plugin, cron job, editor auto-fetch) updates your remote-tracking branch, which can make the lease check pass even though someone else pushed in between. The protection is silently defeated.
Two mitigations:
```bash
# Option 1 — dedicated push-only remote: background tools fetch `origin`, you push
# through a separate remote that nothing else touches, so its tracking ref can't be
# poisoned by an unrelated fetch.
git remote add origin-push $(git config remote.origin.url)
git push --force-with-lease origin-push
# Option 2 — explicit SHA via a local tag, unaffected by tracking-branch state
git fetch
git tag base master
git rebase -i master
git push --force-with-lease=master:base master:master
```
`--force-if-includes` adds a second check on top of bare `--force-with-lease`: it verifies the remote-tracking tip actually appears in your local branch's reflog, i.e. you genuinely integrated it before rewriting. It is a no-op without `--force-with-lease`, and has no effect with the `--force-with-lease=<ref>:<sha>` form, which already pins an exact SHA.
Safest combination: `git push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes origin`.
## Server-side policy
`receive.denyDeletes`, `receive.denyDeleteCurrent` and `receive.denyNonFastForwards` are enforced on the remote regardless of any local flag — a hardened server rejects the push even with `--force`.

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---
topic: remote-config
source_keys:
- git-scm-remote-docs
- context7-git-htmldocs
---
# Remote configuration
Which remotes exist, where they point, and what they track.
`git remote show <name>` needs network access — use `-n` for cached data offline, or `git remote -v`, which lists URLs without querying.
## Add, remove, rename, inspect
- **Add**: `git remote add <name> <url>`, or `-f` to fetch immediately
- **Remove**: `git remote remove <name>` — deletes the remote, all its tracking refs, and its config
- **Rename**: `git remote rename <old> <new>`
- **Inspect**: `git remote -v` (URLs, offline) or `git remote show <name>` (live tracking status)
- **Effective URLs**: `git remote get-url <name>` shows the URL after `insteadOf` rewrites; `git remote get-url --push --all <name>` lists every push URL
## Tracking, mirroring, housekeeping
- **Track one branch**: `git remote add -t <branch> <name> <url>` (repeatable); `--no-tags` suppresses tag import entirely
- **Mirror**: `--mirror=fetch` mirrors all refs locally (bare repos only); `--mirror=push` makes every push behave like `--mirror`
- **Prune stale tracking refs without fetching**: `git remote prune <name>`, with `--dry-run` to preview
- **Default branch pointer**: `git remote set-head <name> -a` (auto-detect, needs a prior fetch), `... <branch>` (explicit), `... -d` (delete `refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD`)
## `set-url` — full form
```bash
git remote set-url <name> <newurl> # replace the first fetch URL
git remote set-url <name> <newurl> <oldurl-regex> # replace only the URL matching regex
git remote set-url --push <name> <url> # change push URL only (must point at same repo)
git remote set-url --add <name> <url> # add an extra push URL (push to multiple remotes)
git remote set-url --delete <name> <regex> # remove URLs matching regex
```
`--push` changes only where pushes go — fetch and push URLs must still reference the same repository. For genuine fetch-from-A / push-to-B workflows, use two separate named remotes instead; `--push` cannot do this.

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---
topic: remotes
source_keys:
- git-scm-remote-docs
- git-scm-fetch-docs
- git-scm-push-docs
- git-scm-pull-docs
---
## `set-url` — full form
```bash
git remote set-url <name> <newurl> # replace the first fetch URL
git remote set-url <name> <newurl> <oldurl-regex> # replace only the URL matching regex
git remote set-url --push <name> <url> # change push URL only (must point at same repo)
git remote set-url --add <name> <url> # add an extra push URL (push to multiple remotes)
git remote set-url --delete <name> <regex> # remove URLs matching regex
```
`--push` changes only where pushes go — fetch and push URLs must still reference the same repository. For genuine fetch-from-A / push-to-B workflows, use two separate named remotes instead.
## Shallow clones and partial fetch
```bash
git fetch <remote> <branch> # fetch one branch only, stored in FETCH_HEAD (not a local/tracking ref)
git fetch --depth=<n> # deepen history, or create a shallow clone
git fetch --unshallow # convert a shallow clone to full history
git fetch --update-shallow # allow the fetch to update the shallow boundary
git fetch --refmap='' <remote> <branch> # fetch without updating any tracking ref (FETCH_HEAD only)
```
## Default fetch refspec
The default fetch refspec is `+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/<name>/*`. The leading `+` forces the update — remote-tracking branches always mirror the remote exactly and provide no protection for local history. Fetch never touches your local branches, only remote-tracking refs.
## Force-push safety — full detail
`--force-with-lease` rejects the push if the remote ref moved since your last fetch. Three forms:
| Form | What it protects |
|---|---|
| `--force-with-lease` (bare) | All refs being pushed, checked against your remote-tracking branch |
| `--force-with-lease=<refname>` | Named ref only |
| `--force-with-lease=<refname>:<sha>` | Named ref must be at exact SHA — most stable |
**Caveat with the bare form:** any background process that runs `git fetch` (IDE plugin, cron job, editor auto-fetch) updates your remote-tracking branch, which can make the lease check pass even though someone else pushed in between. The protection is silently defeated.
Two mitigations:
```bash
# Option 1 — dedicated push-only remote: background tools fetch `origin`, you push
# through a separate remote that nothing else touches, so its tracking ref can't be
# poisoned by an unrelated fetch.
git remote add origin-push $(git config remote.origin.url)
git push --force-with-lease origin-push
# Option 2 — explicit SHA via a local tag, unaffected by tracking-branch state
git fetch
git tag base master
git rebase -i master
git push --force-with-lease=master:base master:master
```
`--force-if-includes` adds a second check on top of bare `--force-with-lease`: it verifies the remote-tracking tip actually appears in your local branch's reflog, i.e. you genuinely integrated it before rewriting. It is a no-op without `--force-with-lease`, and has no effect when the `--force-with-lease=<ref>:<sha>` form is used (that form already pins an exact SHA).
Safest combination: `git push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes origin`.
Remote-side policies (`receive.denyDeletes`, `receive.denyDeleteCurrent`, `receive.denyNonFastForwards`) are enforced server-side regardless of any local flag — a server configured this way rejects the push even with `--force`.
## Pull config precedence
Highest wins:
1. Command-line flag (`--ff-only` / `--rebase` / `--no-rebase`)
2. `pull.rebase` config (global or local)
3. `branch.<name>.rebase` (branch-specific override)
4. `branch.autoSetupRebase` (set automatically when the tracking branch was created)
```bash
git config --global pull.rebase true
git config branch.develop.rebase false # develop always merges, regardless of the global default
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- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/remotes.md → `## Remote Management (`git remote`)`
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Remote Management section)
- references/remotes.md (`set-url` full form)
- references/remote-config.md
---
@@ -26,8 +25,8 @@
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/remotes.md → `## Fetching (`git fetch`)`
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Fetch Operations section, Gotchas)
- references/remotes.md (shallow clones, default fetch refspec)
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — prune does not touch tags)
- references/fetch.md
---
@@ -40,8 +39,8 @@
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/remotes.md → `## Pushing (`git push`)`
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Push Operations section, Gotchas)
- references/remotes.md (force-push safety full detail, server-side deny policies)
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — `--force-with-lease` caveat; Step 1 force-push gate)
- references/push.md
---
@@ -54,8 +53,8 @@
- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/remotes.md → `## Pulling (`git pull`)`
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Pull Operations section, Gotchas)
- references/remotes.md (pull config precedence)
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — pull default drift)
- references/pull.md (divergence rule; strategies; config precedence)
---
@@ -69,3 +68,7 @@
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (all sections)
- references/remote-config.md
- references/fetch.md
- references/push.md
- references/pull.md

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# git-submodules
Initialize, clone, update, and manage git submodules for multi-repository projects.
Add, initialize, update, pin, inspect, and remove git submodules in multi-repository projects.
## What it does
This skill handles submodule operations within the git workflow suite. It initializes submodules, clones repositories with nested submodule dependencies, updates submodule pinning, and manages version control across multi-repo projects. The skill provides clean workflows for projects with complex dependency structures and returns structured results suitable for agent composition.
This skill handles submodule operations within the git workflow suite: cloning a superproject with
its nested repositories, adding a dependency as a submodule, initializing and updating with
pinning or branch tracking, parallel and recursive traversal, rebinding URLs and tracked branches,
and the full removal sequence including the `.git/modules/` cleanup git leaves behind. It returns
structured results suitable for agent composition.
It sits alongside the other git skills rather than duplicating them: `git-worktrees` covers
multiple checkouts of a single repository, and `git-remotes` covers the superproject's own remotes.
## Usage
@@ -12,13 +19,17 @@ This skill handles submodule operations within the git workflow suite. It initia
/git-submodules
```
Describe your submodule task: initialize, clone, update, or manage versions. The skill will handle the operation and return structured results (operation, status, per-submodule details, conflicts, and a recovery `next_step` when applicable) suitable for agent composition.
Describe the submodule task. The skill applies the shared working rules, dispatches to the
reference for that task, and returns structured results (operation, status, per-submodule details,
conflicts, and a recovery `next_step` when applicable).
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents — gotchas, shared working rules, and the task dispatch table |
| `references/README.md` | Describes contents of references/ |
| `references/submodules.md` | Deep-dive reference: full flag tables, workflow patterns, safe-removal sequence, `absorbgitdirs`, `foreach` variables |
| `references/setup-and-update.md` | Loaded when cloning a superproject, adding a submodule, or initializing, updating, or re-pinning one — includes the full `add` and `update` flag tables and the pinning workflows |
| `references/urls-and-config.md` | Loaded when changing where a submodule points or how it is configured — `.gitmodules` vs `.git/config` anatomy, both key tables, `sync`/`set-url`/`set-branch`, local mirror overrides, relative URLs, the custom-`update` security gate, and `absorbgitdirs` |
| `references/removal.md` | Loaded when removing or deinitializing a submodule — why `deinit` is not removal, and the four-step removal sequence |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources and provenance |

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name: git-submodules
description: >
Use when managing Git submodules: add dependencies as submodules, initialize and update nested repositories, sync URLs, inspect status (including detached HEAD and divergence), and safely remove submodules. Handles multi-repo projects with pinning, parallel operations, and recursive traversal. Use for both initial setup and ongoing maintenance workflows, even if the user doesn't explicitly say "submodule". Do not use for general git operations outside of submodule management.
Use when managing Git submodules — adding, updating, pinning, inspecting,
repointing, or removing a nested repository inside a superproject.
Not multiple checkouts of one repo -> `git-worktrees`.
Not the superproject's own remotes -> `git-remotes`.
metadata:
category: git
@@ -10,82 +13,50 @@ metadata:
- git-scm-submodule-docs
---
## Concept
A submodule is a full Git repository embedded as a subdirectory inside a parent repository (the superproject). The superproject doesn't store the submodule's files — it stores a pointer to a specific commit SHA in the submodule's own history, and the two repos keep fully independent commit histories.
Two files govern a submodule, and they serve different audiences:
- **`.gitmodules`** — version-controlled, shared with collaborators. Defines each submodule's name, path, and canonical URL.
- **`.git/config`** — local only, populated by `git submodule init`. This is where local URL overrides live (e.g. a private mirror) — they never propagate to other clones.
The submodule's own `.git` directory lives at `.git/modules/<name>/` in the superproject, linked to the submodule's working tree via a `.git` pointer file. After `git submodule update`, the working tree normally ends up in **detached HEAD state** — see Gotchas.
## Gotchas
- **Detached HEAD by default.** `git submodule update` checks out a specific commit, not a branch. Work on a branch first, then update the pointer in the superproject. Commits made in detached state are invisible until pinned.
- **Two pushes required, in order.** Always commit and push the submodule first, then update and push the superproject's pointer. The superproject only stores a commit SHA — if that SHA isn't reachable on the submodule's remote yet, `git submodule update` fails for anyone who pulls the superproject before the submodule push lands.
- **`--recursive` is not default.** Most commands operate one level deep. Pass `--recursive` explicitly for nested submodules.
- **`.git/modules/` persists after `git rm`.** Manual cleanup is needed: `rm -rf .git/modules/<name>/`.
- **Detached HEAD detection.** Status prefix `+` means the checked-out commit differs from the superproject's recorded commit — normal after `update --remote`, but should be re-pinned before committing.
- **Relative URLs resolve against the remote, not the filesystem.** A `../foo.git` entry in `.gitmodules` is relative to the superproject's default remote URL.
- **Custom `update` commands are security-gated.** A `.gitmodules` entry of `update = !some-command` is never copied to `.git/config` by `git submodule init` — this stops a clone from silently executing arbitrary code.
- **`update` leaves the submodule in detached HEAD.** Branch inside the submodule before editing, or the work is unreachable once the pointer moves.
- **Push the submodule before the superproject.** The superproject stores only a SHA, and one missing from the submodule's remote breaks every collaborator's `update`.
- **`--recursive` is never the default.** Subcommands stop one level deep, so nested submodules go stale silently.
- **`git rm` leaves `.git/modules/<name>/` behind.** Nothing cleans it up, and it blocks re-adding a submodule there.
## Conventions
## Working rules
- **Use `rtk git` for parent-repo operations.** Drop into the submodule directory only for submodule-specific git commands (committing/pushing inside the submodule itself) — mixing the two from the wrong working directory targets the wrong repo's history.
- **Check for a dirty submodule before committing the parent pointer.** After adding or updating a submodule, run `git status` in both the parent and the submodule. A `-dirty` suffix means the submodule has uncommitted local changes; committing the parent pointer now would pin a state no one else can reproduce, since those changes exist only in the local working tree.
Run `rtk git` from the superproject root. Enter the submodule directory only for commits and pushes
that belong to the submodule's own history — the two repositories have independent histories, and
the same command from the wrong directory writes to the wrong one.
## Operations
Before committing a superproject pointer, run `rtk git submodule status --recursive`. Prefixes: `-`
not initialized, `+` working tree differs from the recorded commit, `U` merge conflict. Add
`--cached` to read the SHAs the superproject index will record rather than the working-tree state.
A `-dirty` suffix means uncommitted changes inside the submodule, and committing the pointer over
them pins a state nobody else can reproduce.
- **Clone a repo that has submodules**: `rtk git clone --recurse-submodules <url>` (one step, Git 2.13+) or `rtk git clone <url>` followed by `rtk git submodule update --init --recursive`.
- **Add a submodule**: `rtk git submodule add <url> <path>` (`-b <branch>` to track a branch instead of a pinned commit, `--depth 1` for a shallow clone, `-f` to force past a gitignored path or name conflict, `--name <name>` when the logical name should differ from the path). Stages a `.gitmodules` entry and a gitlink — a commit is still required.
- **Initialize**: `rtk git submodule init [<path>...]` copies submodule URLs from `.gitmodules` to `.git/config`. This is the point at which local URL overrides can be edited before fetching. Does not clone — use `update` (or `update --init` to run both in one step).
- **Update (clone + checkout)**: `rtk git submodule update --init --recursive` is the common case — checks out the recorded commit in detached HEAD. Add `--remote --merge` (or `--remote --rebase`) to track the branch tip instead, `--jobs <n>` for parallel clones, `-f` to discard local changes. Full flag table: `references/submodules.md`.
- **Inspect status**: `rtk git submodule status --recursive` (add `--cached` to show SHAs in the superproject index instead of the working tree). Status prefixes: `-` not initialized, `+` diverged from the superproject's recorded commit, `U` merge conflict.
- **Sync and rebind URLs**: `rtk git submodule sync --recursive` after an upstream URL rename propagates `.gitmodules` changes into `.git/config`. `rtk git submodule set-url <path> <url>` changes a URL directly; `rtk git submodule set-branch -b <branch> <path>` sets the tracking branch used by `update --remote`.
- **Override a submodule URL locally (private mirror)**: local-only, doesn't propagate to collaborators, and gets overwritten by the next `sync`. Full steps: `references/submodules.md`.
- **Run a command across all submodules**: `rtk git submodule foreach --recursive '<command>'`. Shell variables available inside `<command>` (`$name`, `$sm_path`, `$displaypath`, `$sha1`, `$toplevel`): `references/submodules.md`.
- **Deinit (unregister without removing)**: `rtk git submodule deinit <path>` (`--all` for every submodule, `-f` if local modifications are present) clears the `.git/config` section and empties the working tree. **`deinit` is not removal** — the `.gitmodules` entry and the gitlink in the superproject's index are untouched.
- **Safe removal** (destructive; confirm before executing) — full three-step sequence including the manual `.git/modules/` cleanup: `references/submodules.md`.
- **Move an embedded `.git` into `.git/modules/`**: `rtk git submodule absorbgitdirs [<path>...]` — needed when a submodule was created or copied without going through `git submodule add`. Details: `references/submodules.md`.
To run one command across every submodule: `rtk git submodule foreach --recursive '<cmd>'`. Inside
`<cmd>`, Git sets `$name`, `$sm_path`, `$displaypath`, `$sha1` and `$toplevel`; append `|| :` to
continue past a failure instead of aborting the traversal.
## Configuration
## Dispatch
`.gitmodules` (version-controlled, shared with collaborators):
Read only the row that matches the request.
| Key | Purpose |
| Task | Reference |
|---|---|
| `submodule.<name>.path` | Working tree path |
| `submodule.<name>.url` | Remote URL |
| `submodule.<name>.branch` | Branch used by `update --remote` |
| `submodule.<name>.update` | Default update procedure |
| `submodule.<name>.shallow` | Recommend shallow clone |
| Clone a superproject with submodules, or add, initialize, update or re-pin one | `references/setup-and-update.md` |
| Change where a submodule points — `sync`, `set-url`, `set-branch`, a local mirror override, `absorbgitdirs`, or any `.gitmodules` / `.git/config` key | `references/urls-and-config.md` |
| Remove a submodule, or `deinit` one without removing it | `references/removal.md` |
`.git/config` (local only, populated by `init`):
Removal and `deinit` are destructive: state what will be deleted and get confirmation before
executing.
| Key | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `submodule.<name>.url` | Local URL override |
| `submodule.<name>.update` | Local procedure override |
| `submodule.fetchJobs` | Default parallelism for `update --jobs` |
| `submodule.recurse` | Auto-recurse submodule updates on `pull`/`push`/etc. |
## Output format
```bash
rtk git config submodule.recurse true # keep submodules pinned automatically after every pull
```
## Agent output format
Return results as structured data:
```
operation: <clone|add|init|update|sync|set-url|set-branch|status|summary|absorbgitdirs|remove>
operation: <clone|add|init|update|status|sync|set-url|set-branch|absorbgitdirs|deinit|remove>
status: <success|error|partial>
message: <human-readable summary>
message: <one line; include git's own output on error>
details:
- <submodule-path>: <state>
conflicts: [<submodule-path>, ...] # if any
next_step: <recovery action if applicable>
conflicts: [<submodule-path>, ...]
next_step: <recovery action, when status is error or partial>
```
For errors, include the git command output and recommend recovery (e.g., `git submodule deinit`, force-update, or URL override).

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# References
## submodules.md
One file per task branch in SKILL.md's dispatch table. Load only the one that matches the request.
Deep-dive reference: full `update` flag table, workflow patterns (clone, add, keep-pinned, update-to-latest, override URL), the complete safe-removal sequence, `absorbgitdirs`, and `foreach` shell variables. Load when SKILL.md's condensed Operations list isn't enough detail.
## setup-and-update.md
Cloning a superproject that has submodules, adding a dependency as a submodule, initializing
without cloning, and updating or re-pinning. Carries the `add` and `update` flag tables and the
keep-pinned and move-the-pin-forward workflows.
## urls-and-config.md
Where a submodule points and how it is configured: the `.gitmodules` vs `.git/config` split, both
key tables, `sync` / `set-url` / `set-branch`, local mirror overrides, relative URL resolution, the
security gate on custom `update` commands, and `absorbgitdirs`.
## removal.md
Removing a submodule, and why `deinit` alone does not remove one. Carries the full four-step
removal sequence including the manual `.git/modules/<name>/` cleanup.
## sources.md
Research sources that informed this skill — provenance chain for git-scm-submodule-docs reference material.
Research sources that informed this skill — provenance chain for git-scm-submodule-docs reference
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---
topic: submodules
source_keys:
- git-scm-submodule-docs
---
# Removing and deinitializing a submodule
Both operations are destructive. Confirm with the user before executing either.
## `deinit` is not removal
```bash
git submodule deinit <path> # --all for every submodule, -f if locally modified
```
`deinit` clears the submodule's section from `.git/config` and empties its working tree. The
`.gitmodules` entry and the gitlink in the superproject's index are untouched, so the submodule is
still registered and a later `update --init` brings it straight back. Use it to reclaim disk space
or to reset a broken checkout, not to delete a dependency.
## Full removal, in order
```bash
git submodule deinit -f <path> # unregister from .git/config
git rm <path> # drop the .gitmodules entry and the gitlink from the index
rm -rf .git/modules/<name>/ # stale git dir: not tracked, not cleaned up by git
git commit -m "chore: remove <name> submodule"
```
The third step is the one that gets skipped. `.git/modules/<name>/` survives `git rm`, and while it
is present Git refuses to add a submodule at the same path again.

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---
topic: submodules
source_keys:
- git-scm-submodule-docs
---
# Adding, initializing, updating and pinning submodules
## Clone a superproject that already has submodules
```bash
git clone --recurse-submodules <url> # Git 2.13+, one step
# or, against an existing clone
git submodule update --init --recursive
```
## Add a dependency as a submodule
```bash
git submodule add <url> <path>
git commit -m "chore: add <name> as submodule"
```
`add` stages a `.gitmodules` entry and a gitlink — the commit is still required. Flags:
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `-b <branch>` | Track a branch (`submodule.<name>.branch`) instead of only a pinned commit |
| `--depth <n>` | Shallow clone |
| `-f` | Force past a gitignored path or a name conflict |
| `--name <name>` | Logical name differing from the path |
## Initialize without cloning
`git submodule init [<path>...]` copies submodule URLs from `.gitmodules` into `.git/config` and
does nothing else. This is the point at which a local URL override can be edited before any fetch
happens. If a local mirror override is wanted, read `references/urls-and-config.md` before running
`update`. Use `update --init` to run both steps at once.
## Update
`git submodule update --init --recursive` is the common case: it clones what is missing and checks
out the commit the superproject recorded, in detached HEAD.
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `--init` | Run `init` first, avoiding a separate step |
| `--remote` | Use the submodule's remote branch tip instead of the superproject's recorded commit |
| `--checkout` | Detached HEAD at the recorded commit (default) |
| `--rebase` | Rebase the current branch onto the recorded commit |
| `--merge` | Merge the recorded commit into the current branch |
| `--recursive` | Operate on nested submodules |
| `--jobs <n>` | Parallel clone (defaults to `submodule.fetchJobs`) |
| `-N` / `--no-fetch` | Skip the remote fetch |
| `-f` | Discard local changes in the submodule working tree |
| `--depth <n>` | Shallow clone |
| `--filter <spec>` | Partial clone filter |
## Keep submodules pinned to the recorded commit
```bash
git submodule update --recursive # after every git pull
git config submodule.recurse true # or do it automatically on pull/push/checkout
```
## Move the pin forward to the tracked branch tip
```bash
git submodule update --remote --merge --recursive
git commit -am "chore: update submodules to latest"
```
`--remote` requires `submodule.<name>.branch`; without it Git falls back to the remote's default
branch. Commit the superproject afterwards or the new pin is lost on the next `update`.

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**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (all sections)
- references/submodules.md (all sections)
- references/setup-and-update.md (all sections)
- references/urls-and-config.md (all sections)
- references/removal.md (all sections)
---

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---
topic: submodules
source_keys:
- git-scm-submodule-docs
---
# Submodules — Deep Reference
## Update flag reference
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `--init` | Run init first (avoids a separate step) |
| `--remote` | Use the submodule's remote branch tip instead of the superproject's recorded commit |
| `--checkout` | Detached HEAD at recorded commit (default) |
| `--rebase` | Rebase current branch onto recorded commit |
| `--merge` | Merge recorded commit into current branch |
| `--recursive` | Operate on nested submodules |
| `--jobs <n>` | Parallel clone (defaults to `submodule.fetchJobs`) |
| `-N` / `--no-fetch` | Skip remote fetch |
| `--depth <n>` | Shallow clone |
| `--filter <spec>` | Partial clone filter |
## Workflow patterns
### Clone a repo with submodules
```bash
git clone --recurse-submodules <url> # Git 2.13+, one step
# or
git clone <url>
git submodule update --init --recursive
```
### Add a dependency as a submodule
```bash
git submodule add https://github.com/org/lib.git libs/lib
git commit -m "chore: add lib as submodule"
```
### Keep submodules pinned to the superproject's recorded commit
```bash
git submodule update --recursive # after every git pull
git config submodule.recurse true # do this automatically on pull
```
### Update submodules to the latest commit on their tracked branch
```bash
git submodule update --remote --merge --recursive
git commit -am "chore: update submodules to latest"
```
### Override a submodule URL locally (private mirror)
```bash
git submodule init
# edit .git/config: submodule.<name>.url = <mirror-url>
git submodule update
```
Local-only override (`.git/config`, not `.gitmodules`) — doesn't propagate to collaborators. Re-running `sync` overwrites it with the `.gitmodules` URL.
## Removal, in full
`deinit` alone does not remove a submodule — it only clears `.git/config` and empties the working tree. To fully remove:
```bash
git submodule deinit -f <path> # unregister from .git/config
git rm <path> # remove .gitmodules entry + gitlink from index
rm -rf .git/modules/<name>/ # stale git dir; not tracked by git, not auto-cleaned
git commit -m "chore: remove <name> submodule"
```
`.git/modules/<name>/` persisting after `git rm` will block re-adding the same path until manually deleted.
## Relocate an embedded `.git` directory
```bash
git submodule absorbgitdirs [<path>...]
```
Moves a submodule's own `.git` directory into the superproject's `.git/modules/<name>/`, linking it back with a `.git` pointer file. Needed when a submodule was created or copied without going through `git submodule add` (e.g. converting a plain nested repo into a proper submodule).
## `foreach` shell variables
Available inside the `<command>` argument to `git submodule foreach`:
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `$name` | Logical submodule name |
| `$sm_path` | Path relative to superproject root |
| `$displaypath` | Path relative to current working directory |
| `$sha1` | Recorded commit SHA |
| `$toplevel` | Superproject's root path |
```bash
git submodule foreach --recursive '<command>'
git submodule foreach 'git pull origin main || :' # || : continues past failures
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---
topic: submodules
source_keys:
- git-scm-submodule-docs
---
# Where a submodule points, and how it is configured
## Two files, two audiences
- **`.gitmodules`** — version-controlled, shared with collaborators. Defines each submodule's
logical name, path, and canonical URL.
- **`.git/config`** — local only, populated by `git submodule init`. Local URL overrides live here
and never propagate to another clone.
The submodule's own `.git` directory lives at `.git/modules/<name>/` in the superproject and is
linked to the submodule's working tree by a `.git` pointer file.
## `.gitmodules` keys
| Key | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `submodule.<name>.path` | Working tree path |
| `submodule.<name>.url` | Remote URL |
| `submodule.<name>.branch` | Branch used by `update --remote` |
| `submodule.<name>.update` | Default update procedure |
| `submodule.<name>.shallow` | Recommend a shallow clone |
## `.git/config` keys
| Key | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `submodule.<name>.url` | Local URL override |
| `submodule.<name>.update` | Local procedure override |
| `submodule.fetchJobs` | Default parallelism for `update --jobs` |
| `submodule.recurse` | Auto-recurse submodule updates on `pull`/`push`/etc. |
## Rebind a URL or branch
```bash
git submodule sync --recursive # push .gitmodules URLs into .git/config
git submodule set-url <path> <url> # change the canonical URL
git submodule set-branch -b <branch> <path> # set the branch used by update --remote
```
Run `sync` after an upstream rename: existing clones keep the stale URL in `.git/config` until
they do.
## Override a URL locally (private mirror)
```bash
git submodule init
# edit .git/config: submodule.<name>.url = <mirror-url>
git submodule update
```
Local-only, invisible to collaborators, and overwritten by the next `sync`.
## Relative URLs
A `../foo.git` entry in `.gitmodules` resolves against the superproject's default remote URL, not
against the filesystem. It is portable across hosts that mirror the same layout and broken
everywhere else.
## Custom `update` commands are security-gated
A `.gitmodules` entry of `update = !some-command` is never copied into `.git/config` by
`git submodule init`. That is deliberate: it stops a hostile clone from silently executing
arbitrary code. Setting it locally in `.git/config` is the only way to enable it.
## Relocate an embedded `.git` directory
```bash
git submodule absorbgitdirs [<path>...]
```
Moves a submodule's own `.git` directory into `.git/modules/<name>/` and leaves a `.git` pointer
file behind. Needed when a nested repository was created or copied in without going through
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## What it does
This skill wraps the `git-orchestrate` agent to provide an interactive, educational interface for humans performing git workflows. It handles commits, branch management, history inspection, submodules, worktrees, and remotes. The skill parses user intent, gathers session context, invokes the orchestrator, and presents results in plain language with inline help, progress updates, and explanations of what's happening. It enforces confirmation gates for destructive operations (force-push, branch deletion, rebasing with history loss, force-checkout) and provides best-practices guidance throughout.
This skill wraps the `git-orchestrate` agent to provide an interactive, educational interface for humans performing git workflows. It handles commits, branch management, history inspection, submodules, worktrees, and remotes. The skill parses user intent, gathers session context, invokes the orchestrator, and presents results in plain language with inline help, progress updates, and explanations of what's happening. It enforces confirmation gates for destructive operations (force-push, branch deletion, rebasing with history loss, force-checkout) and provides best-practices guidance throughout. The org's non-negotiable git rules live in `references/hard-rules.md` and are loaded only when a request could conflict with one.
## Usage
@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ Describe your git workflow: commit, create a branch, rebase, inspect history, ma
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `README.md` | This file |
| `references/hard-rules.md` | The org's non-negotiable git rules; read when a request creates, amends, or rewrites a commit, pushes, or touches hooks, config, or credentials |
| `references/README.md` | Describes the references directory contents |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources and provenance |

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name: git-workflow
description: >
Use when a human user wants to perform git workflows interactively — commits, branch management,
history inspection, submodules, worktrees, or remotes. Provides a friendly, conversational
interface with clarification prompts ("Which branch base?"), progress updates, inline help,
best practices guidance, and confirmation dialogs for destructive operations. Guides users
through complex git patterns even if they don't mention every detail. Do not use when the
caller is an agent—agents should invoke git-orchestrate directly for deterministic, composable execution.
Use when a human wants to work through local git interactively — commits, branches, history,
submodules, worktrees, or remotes. Not an agent caller needing deterministic execution ->
`git-orchestrate`. Not server-side Gitea work -> `gitea-workflow`.
metadata:
category: git
@@ -21,45 +18,41 @@ metadata:
## Gotchas
- This skill is specifically for **human interaction**. If the caller is an agent, invoke `git-orchestrate` directly instead—this skill adds UI overhead agents don't need.
- Session context from previous git operations (branch names, commit strategy) persists during a single multi-step user request, then clears. Users don't need to re-provide decisions within one workflow.
- Destructive operations require explicit confirmation: force-push, branch deletion, rebase with history loss, force-checkout. Users must confirm interactively; the skill never proceeds without their approval on destructive ops.
- Run git commands through `rtk git <command>` rather than bare `git <command>` for parent-repo operations — this is a mandated org wrapper, not an optional style choice. Drop into a submodule's own directory for submodule-specific commands (see `git-submodules`).
### Hard rules
These are non-negotiable regardless of what the user asks for — surface them proactively rather than waiting for the user to hit them (`org-git-conventions`; sub-skills invoked directly by humans, like this one, carry their own local copy of these rules for readers who won't chain through `git-orchestrate`, so state them plainly rather than assuming the user already knows them):
- Never skip hooks with `--no-verify` — hooks are the automated QA gate, and bypassing them breaks the pipeline for everyone downstream.
- Never force-push `main` or `master`.
- Keep commits atomic — each commit should represent one logical, independently reviewable and reversible change.
- Every commit must leave the repository in a working state (buildable/testable where practical).
- Commit messages explain **why**, not **what** — the diff already documents what changed.
- Never commit secrets, credentials, or environment-specific config.
- Use Conventional Commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `chore:`, `refactor:`, `test:`, etc.).
- Reference related issues, ADRs, or design documents using Git trailers when applicable.
If a user's request conflicts with a hard rule (e.g. "force-push main to fix this"), explain the rule and propose a safe alternative instead of complying.
- Session context built during one multi-step request — branch names, the chosen base, the commit
strategy — persists for that request and then clears. Do not re-ask the user for a decision they
already gave you earlier in the same workflow.
- Run parent-repo commands through `rtk git <command>`, never bare `git <command>`. This is a
mandated org wrapper, not a style preference. Submodule-specific commands run from inside the
submodule's own directory instead.
## Workflow
When a user wants to perform git workflows:
1. **Parse the user's intent** — extract the high-level task (commit, create branch, rebase, inspect history, etc.) and any explicit options they mentioned.
2. **Build session context** — gather repo state, current branch, any prior decisions in this workflow (branch intent for commit messages, base branch for rebasing, etc.).
3. **Invoke git-orchestrate agent** — call it with:
- `operation`: the git operation (e.g., "commit", "create-branch", "rebase")
- `parameters`: user-provided or inferred options
- `context`: decisions and repo state from prior steps in this workflow
- `confirm`: `true` if a destructive op and the user confirmed, otherwise omit
4. **Handle the response** — if orchestrator succeeds, present results in plain language with progress updates and explanations. If it fails, show the error reason and suggest recovery actions.
5. **Clarification prompts** — if the orchestrator needs more information (e.g., "Which branch should this be based on?"), prompt the user conversationally and loop back with the user's input.
6. **Confirmation gates** — before executing any destructive op (force-push, branch deletion, rebase, force-checkout), show what will happen and ask "Proceed?" If the user declines, cancel gracefully.
1. **Parse intent** — extract the operation (commit, create branch, rebase, inspect history, …)
and any options the user named.
2. **Check the hard rules** — if the request creates, amends, or rewrites a commit, pushes, or
touches hooks, config, or credentials, read `references/hard-rules.md`. Raise the relevant rule
before acting, not after.
3. **Read the repo** — current branch, working-tree state, and which branching model the repo
follows (the orchestrator reads `branching_pattern` from plugin config; infer from branch names
if absent); the last of those decides which tips are worth offering.
4. **Gate destructive operations** — before force-push, branch deletion, rebase, or
force-checkout, show what will happen and ask "Proceed?". Cancel gracefully if the user
declines. Never supply the confirmation on the user's behalf. Some operations are refusals, not
confirmations: never offer "Proceed?" for a force-push of `main` or `master`.
5. **Invoke the `git-orchestrate` agent** with `operation`, `parameters` (user-provided or
inferred), `context` (step 3 plus the session context), and `confirm: true` only for a
destructive op the user approved in step 4.
6. **Clarify when the orchestrator asks for more** — put its question to the user in plain
language ("Which branch should this be based on?") and loop back to step 5 with the answer.
7. **Report the outcome** — on success, the result and what changed, in plain language; on
failure, the error reason and a recovery action.
## Interaction style
- **Conversational**: Use natural language, not technical jargon. "Let me rebase your changes onto main" not "Running git rebase --interactive main".
- **Pedagogical**: Explain what each step does and why. "I'm squashing your last 3 commits into one clean commit" not just "Squashing commits".
- **Guided**: Offer inline help. When users mention ambiguous steps, suggest best practices. Match the tip to the repo's branching model: for Gitflow-style repos, "Tip: Feature branches branch off `develop`, not `main` — `main` only tracks released code." For trunk-based/GitHub Flow repos, "Tip: Short-lived feature branches off `main` keep merges small and reviewable."
- **Transparent**: Show progress. "Creating branch feature/user-auth..." then "✓ Branch created. Ready to commit." Humans benefit from seeing workflow state.
- **Safe**: Always confirm before destructive ops. Never silently rewrite history or force-push without explicit user approval.
The caller is a human, so the interaction is the point. Explain each step and why it happens ("I'm
squashing your last 3 commits into one clean commit" beats "Squashing commits"), show progress as
you go, and prefer natural language to raw command lines.
Match tips to the repo's branching model rather than offering generic advice: on a Gitflow repo,
feature branches come off `develop` and `main` tracks only released code; on a trunk-based or
GitHub Flow repo, short-lived branches off `main` keep merges small and reviewable.

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# References
This directory contains provenance metadata and research sources for the `git-workflow` skill.
This directory contains the org git rules and the provenance metadata for the `git-workflow`
skill.
## Files
- `hard-rules.md` — The org's non-negotiable git rules, loaded when a request creates, amends, or
rewrites a commit, pushes, or touches hooks, config, or credentials
- `sources.md` — Extracted research sources and their contributing documents

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---
source_keys:
- org-git-conventions
---
# Org git hard rules
Non-negotiable regardless of what the user asks for. Surface the relevant one proactively rather
than waiting for the user to hit it — a human invoking this skill directly never sees the
orchestrator's copy of these rules, so raise them here.
- Never skip hooks with `--no-verify` — hooks are the automated QA gate, and bypassing them breaks
the pipeline for everyone downstream.
- Never force-push `main` or `master`.
- Keep commits atomic — each commit should represent one logical, independently reviewable and
reversible change.
- Every commit must leave the repository in a working state (buildable/testable where practical).
- Commit messages explain **why**, not **what** — the diff already documents what changed.
- Never commit secrets, credentials, or environment-specific config.
- Use Conventional Commits (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`, `chore:`, `refactor:`, `test:`, etc.).
- Reference related issues, ADRs, or design documents using Git trailers when applicable.
If a user's request conflicts with one of these (e.g. "force-push main to fix this"), explain the
rule and propose a safe alternative instead of complying. Do not comply and note the rule
afterwards.

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- **Research doc:** none — org convention, not part of the plugin's research corpus (no `plugins/git/docs/research/` topic file backs this entry)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — Hard rules subsection, rtk git note)
- references/hard-rules.md (whole file — the eight hard rules and the conflict-handling rule)
- SKILL.md (Gotchas — `rtk git` wrapper note)

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## What it does
This skill handles worktree operations within the git workflow suite. It creates, lists, locks/unlocks, moves, removes, prunes, and repairs worktrees — letting an agent work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing. It returns structured results (paths, branches, lock status) suitable for agent composition.
This skill handles worktree operations within the git workflow suite. It creates, lists, locks/unlocks, moves, removes, prunes, and repairs worktrees — letting an agent work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing. It returns structured results (paths, branches, lock status) suitable for agent composition. For multi-step flows spanning branch strategy plus worktree setup, `git-workflow` handles the broader orchestration and delegates the worktree mechanics here.
## Usage
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Describe your worktree task: create a worktree for a branch, list existing workt
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `SKILL.md` | Dispatch table, per-operation gates, and the report format |
| `references/README.md` | Describes the references directory contents |
| `references/worktrees.md` | Full `add` flag table, sparse-checkout, removable-media locking, remote disambiguation, configuration |
| `references/worktrees.md` | Read when an operation needs more than the dispatch table: shared vs. per-worktree state, the `add` command forms, the full `add` flag table, orphan branches, sparse-checkout, removable-media locking, remote disambiguation, where to run `repair` from, config keys, and the emergency-fix and PR-review patterns |
| `references/sources.md` | Research sources and provenance |

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name: git-worktrees
description: >
Manage Git worktrees to enable multi-branch parallel development across isolated directories.
Use when the user needs to work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing, switch between feature/hotfix/experimental work, or coordinate code reviews alongside ongoing development.
Handles creation, listing, locking, moving, removal, pruning, and repair of worktrees.
Provides structured results (paths, branches, lock status) for agent composition in git orchestration workflows.
Do not use when only inspecting a single branch or when the user needs standard checkout/stash workflows.
Use when working on several branches at once without stashing.
Create, list, lock, move, remove, prune, or repair git worktrees.
Not ordinary branch switching or checkout -> `git-branches`.
Not interactive multi-step git guidance -> `git-workflow`.
metadata:
category: git
@@ -14,101 +13,44 @@ metadata:
- git-scm-worktree-docs
---
## Concept
A worktree lets you check out multiple branches simultaneously from one repository, each in its own directory. All worktrees share the same objects, config, and most refs (`refs/`). Each worktree has its own `HEAD`, index, and per-worktree metadata (`ORIG_HEAD`, `MERGE_HEAD`, `refs/bisect/`, `refs/worktree/`, `refs/rewritten/`) stored at `$GIT_DIR/worktrees/<name>/`. The **main worktree** (from `git init`/`git clone`) is exactly one per repo and cannot be removed; **linked worktrees** are the additional ones created via `git worktree add`.
## Gotchas
- **A branch can only be checked out in one worktree at a time.** Attempting `git worktree add` for an already-checked-out branch fails unless you pass `--force`. Use `--force` only when intentional.
- **Submodules are unsupported and block operations.** Repos with submodules have incomplete worktree support. Worktrees containing submodules cannot be moved and require `--force` to remove.
- **Never manually `rm -rf` a worktree directory.** This leaves stale metadata in `$GIT_DIR/worktrees/`. Always use `git worktree remove`. If already deleted, run `git worktree prune` to clean up.
- **Manual moves break bidirectional pointers.** If a worktree directory is moved outside of `git worktree move`, run `git worktree repair` to fix connections.
- **Force-flag escalation with locks.** Removing or moving a locked worktree requires `-ff` (two flags), not just `-f`.
- **Worktree identification is by full path, unique basename, or unique partial path.** Ambiguous names error. Use `git worktree list` to see available identifiers.
- **`--lock` on `add` is atomic; create-then-lock has a race window.** Use `--lock` directly on `git worktree add` when consistency matters.
- **`extensions.worktreeConfig = true` is a one-way door.** It enables per-worktree config (`git config --worktree ...`) but makes the repo refuse to open in older Git versions. Once set, `core.bare`/`core.worktree` must live in `config.worktree`, not `config`. Don't enable it unless per-worktree config is actually needed.
- **A branch can be checked out in only one worktree at a time.** `git worktree add` on an already-checked-out branch fails; `--force` is the only override, so use it only deliberately.
- **Never `rm -rf` a worktree directory.** That strands metadata in `$GIT_DIR/worktrees/`. Use `git worktree remove`, or `git worktree prune` afterwards.
- **Submodules break worktree support.** A worktree containing submodules cannot be moved at all, and needs `--force` to remove.
- **`extensions.worktreeConfig = true` is a one-way door.** It costs compatibility with older Git and forces `core.bare`/`core.worktree` into `config.worktree`. Leave it off unless per-worktree config is needed.
## Common Operations
## Step 1 — Dispatch
**Create and switch to a new worktree** — default approach:
```bash
git worktree add -b <new-branch> <path>
cd <path>
```
This creates a new branch and checks it out in a new directory. Other branches cannot be checked out elsewhere simultaneously.
| Operation | Run |
|---|---|
| Create on an existing branch | `git worktree add <path> <branch>` |
| Create on a new branch | `git worktree add -b <branch> <path>` |
| Create on the branch named after the path basename | `git worktree add <path>` — checks that branch out if it exists, else creates it from HEAD |
| Create and reset an existing branch to HEAD — discards its commits | `git worktree add -B <branch> <path>` |
| Create tracking a remote branch | `git worktree add <path> <remote>/<branch>` |
| Throwaway experiment, no branch | `git worktree add -d <path>` |
| List | `git worktree list -v`, or `--porcelain -z` to parse |
| Lock or unlock | `git worktree lock [--reason <str>] <path>` / `git worktree unlock <path>` |
| Move | `git worktree move <from> <to>` |
| Remove | `git worktree remove <path>` |
| Prune stale metadata | `git worktree prune --dry-run`, then without the flag |
| Repair after a manual move | `git worktree repair [<path>]` — from the main worktree to fix all links, or from the moved worktree itself |
**Create-or-reset a branch**: `git worktree add -B <branch> <path>` — like `-b` but resets the branch to HEAD if it already exists.
If the operation needs anything the table does not carry — the full `add` flag
table, orphan branches, sparse-checkout, locking for removable media, remote
disambiguation across several remotes, worktree config keys, or the worked
emergency-fix and PR-review patterns — read `references/worktrees.md`.
**Create a worktree for an existing remote branch**:
```bash
git worktree add <path> <remote>/<branch>
```
For ambiguous names across remotes, disambiguate via `checkout.defaultRemote` config or `--guess-remote`. Full flag table and detail: `references/worktrees.md`.
Gates:
**Throwaway experiment in detached HEAD**:
```bash
git worktree add -d ../experiment # or --detach
# experiment freely, no branch created
git worktree remove ../experiment
```
- **`move`, `remove` — the main worktree cannot be moved or removed.** Only linked worktrees, the ones `git worktree add` created, are candidates.
- **`add`, `move`, `remove` — escalate force flags one step at a time.** `-f` overrides a safeguard such as an unclean tree; `move` and `remove` need `-ff` on top of that when the worktree is locked. Confirm with the user before either — both discard state.
- **`lock`, `move`, `remove`, `repair` — identify a worktree by full path, unique basename, or unique partial path.** An ambiguous name errors rather than picking; `git worktree list` shows the usable identifiers.
- **`add` — lock at creation, not after.** `git worktree add --lock` is atomic, where add-then-`lock` leaves a window in which the worktree is unprotected.
**List all worktrees with state**:
```bash
git worktree list -v # human-readable with lock/prune reasons
git worktree list --porcelain -z # machine-readable, NUL-terminated
```
## Step 2 — Report
**Move a worktree to a new path**:
```bash
git worktree move <current-path> <new-path>
# Cannot move: main worktree, worktrees with submodules
# To override safeguards: -f; to override locked state too: -ff
```
**Remove a worktree**:
```bash
git worktree remove <path> # only if clean
git worktree remove -f <path> # force-remove unclean
git worktree remove -ff <path> # force-remove even if locked
```
**Prune stale metadata**:
```bash
git worktree prune --dry-run # preview what would be removed
git worktree prune # clean up orphaned metadata
```
Also triggered by `git gc`, controlled by `gc.worktreePruneExpire` config.
**Repair broken connections** (after a manual move):
```bash
git worktree repair # from main worktree or after it was moved
git worktree repair <path> # reconnect a specific linked worktree
```
Sparse-checkout worktrees, locking for removable media, the full `add` flag table, and the config key reference: `references/worktrees.md`.
## Worked Examples
**Emergency fix without disrupting current work** — no stashing needed, ongoing work in the main worktree is untouched:
```bash
git worktree add -b emergency-fix ../temp main
cd ../temp
# fix, commit
git commit -a -m "fix: critical production bug"
cd -
git worktree remove ../temp
```
**Review a PR branch alongside your current work** — no context switch, both branches stay checked out:
```bash
git worktree add ../review-pr-123 origin/feature-xyz
# open ../review-pr-123 in a second editor window or terminal
```
## Return Format for Agents
When invoking worktree operations, return structured results:
```yaml
worktrees:
- path: <directory-path>
@@ -116,10 +58,8 @@ worktrees:
commit: <short-hash>
locked: <true/false>
lock_reason: <reason or empty>
- ...
```
Derive these fields from `git worktree list --porcelain -z` — its `worktree`/`branch`/`HEAD`/`locked` lines map directly to `path`/`branch`/`commit`/`locked`+`lock_reason`.
For single operations, include the operation result (e.g., `created: true`, `removed: true`, `moved: true`).
For multi-step flows spanning branch strategy plus worktree setup, compose with the `git-workflow` skill — it handles the broader orchestration, this skill handles the worktree mechanics.
Derive those fields from `git worktree list --porcelain -z`. For a single
operation, report its outcome instead — `created: true`, `moved: true`,
`removed: true`.

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## Files
- `sources.md` — Extracted research sources and their contributing documents
- `worktrees.md` — Full `add` flag table, sparse-checkout setup, removable-media locking, remote-branch disambiguation, and the config key reference
- `worktrees.md` — Shared vs. per-worktree state, the `add` command forms, the full `add` flag table, orphan branches, sparse-checkout setup, removable-media locking, remote-branch disambiguation, where to run `repair` from, the config key reference, and the emergency-fix and PR-review workflow patterns

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- **Research doc:** plugins/git/docs/research/docs/git/worktrees.md (whole-document reference — covers `## Concept Overview`, `## Key Commands`, `## Workflow Patterns`, `## Common Gotchas`, `## Configuration`)
**Contributing files:**
- SKILL.md (Concept, Gotchas, Common Operations, Worked Examples, Return Format)
- references/worktrees.md (full `add` flag table, sparse-checkout, removable media, remote disambiguation, configuration)
- SKILL.md (Gotchas, Step 1 dispatch table and per-operation gates, Step 2 report format)
- references/worktrees.md (shared vs. per-worktree state, `add` command forms, full `add` flag table, orphan branches, sparse-checkout, removable media, remote disambiguation, `repair` invocation directory, configuration, workflow patterns)

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- git-scm-worktree-docs
---
## Shared vs. per-worktree state
All worktrees share one object store, one config, and most refs under `refs/`. Each worktree keeps
its own `HEAD`, index, and per-worktree metadata (`ORIG_HEAD`, `MERGE_HEAD`, `refs/bisect/`,
`refs/worktree/`, `refs/rewritten/`) under `$GIT_DIR/worktrees/<name>/`. Exactly one **main
worktree** exists per repo — the one `git init` or `git clone` produced — and it cannot be removed
or moved. Every other worktree is a **linked worktree** created by `git worktree add`.
## `add` forms
```bash
git worktree add <path> <branch> # check out an existing branch — non-destructive
git worktree add -b <branch> <path> # create a new branch; fails if it exists
git worktree add <path> # branch named after $(basename <path>): checked out
# if it exists, else created from HEAD
git worktree add -B <branch> <path> # create the branch, or reset an existing one to HEAD,
# discarding the commits it carried
git worktree add <path> <remote>/<branch> # track a remote branch
git worktree add -d <path> # detached HEAD, no branch
```
## Full `add` flag table
| Flag | Meaning |
@@ -52,6 +73,16 @@ git worktree add <path> <remote>/<branch>
```
For ambiguous names across remotes, `checkout.defaultRemote` config disambiguates explicitly, or `--guess-remote` auto-matches by path basename (default controlled by `worktree.guessRemote` config). If a branch name matches multiple remotes during `worktree add` and neither is set, Git refuses rather than guessing.
## Repair after a manual move
```bash
git worktree repair # run from the main worktree: fixes the links to every linked worktree
git worktree repair <path> # run from a moved linked worktree: fixes its own pointer back to main
```
`repair` reestablishes the bidirectional pointers a manual move breaks, but only for the side it is
run from. Run it from the wrong directory and it reports nothing and fixes nothing.
## Configuration
| Key | Effect |
@@ -61,3 +92,25 @@ For ambiguous names across remotes, `checkout.defaultRemote` config disambiguate
| `gc.worktreePruneExpire` | How long before stale worktree metadata is pruned by `git gc` |
| `extensions.worktreeConfig` | Enable per-worktree config scope (`config.worktree` file) — see Gotchas in SKILL.md |
| `checkout.defaultRemote` | Disambiguates which remote to use when a branch name matches multiple remotes during `worktree add` |
## Workflow patterns
**Emergency fix without disrupting current work** — nothing is stashed, and the main worktree is
untouched throughout:
```bash
git worktree add -b emergency-fix ../temp main
cd ../temp
# fix, then commit
git commit -a -m "fix: critical production bug"
cd -
git worktree remove ../temp
```
**Review a PR branch alongside your own work** — both branches stay checked out, so there is no
context switch:
```bash
git worktree add ../review-pr-123 origin/feature-xyz
# open ../review-pr-123 in a second editor window or terminal
```

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| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Skill instructions for agents |
| `references/create-config.md` | Loaded when the repo has no `.pre-commit-config.yaml` — the create-from-scratch flow |
| `references/modify-config.md` | Loaded when a `.pre-commit-config.yaml` already exists — add, remove, top-level keys, rev staleness |
| `references/hooks-by-language.md` | Hook recommendations by detected language/extension |
| `references/README.md` | Index of files in references/ |
| `references/sources.md` | Provenance — research sources that informed this skill |

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---
name: pc-author
description: >
Use when the user wants to create, add hooks to, remove hooks from, update,
or configure .pre-commit-config.yaml. Triggers on: "set up pre-commit",
"add a hook", "remove this hook", "configure pre-commit", "create a pre-commit
config", "disable trailing whitespace hook", "add shellcheck", "update my
pre-commit config", even if the user does not name pre-commit explicitly.
Do not use for running hooks, installing git hooks, or bumping revision pins
— use pc-run for those.
Use when the user wants to create or edit `.pre-commit-config.yaml` — add,
remove, or configure hooks — even when they name only the tool ("add
shellcheck"). Not running, installing, or updating hooks -> `pc-run`.
allowed-tools: Bash Read Write Edit
metadata:
category: devtools
@@ -20,72 +16,22 @@ metadata:
## Gotchas
- `rev` must be an immutable tag or commit SHA — never a branch name. `pre-commit autoupdate` breaks silently on branches.
- Fixers (`trailing-whitespace`, `end-of-file-fixer`, `pretty-format-json`) modify files but do NOT auto-stage them. The commit is blocked; the user must re-stage and recommit. Warn when adding fixers.
- `pre-commit validate-config` catches YAML structure errors but does NOT check whether hook `id`s exist in the target repo's manifest, and does NOT download or run hooks. It is fast; run it after every write.
- When removing a hook leaves its repo block with zero hooks, delete the entire repo block — an empty `hooks: []` causes `validate-config` to fail.
- `language: system` and `language: script` are deprecated names. Use `language: unsupported` and `language: unsupported_script` for new local hooks.
- `rev` must be an immutable tag or commit SHA, never a branch name. A branch looks like it works and then breaks `pre-commit autoupdate` silently.
- `pre-commit validate-config` checks YAML structure only — it never confirms a hook `id` exists upstream, so a config it accepts can still fail on first use.
## Route
Check before acting:
| Condition | Flow | Read |
|---|---|---|
| No `.pre-commit-config.yaml` in the repo | Create | `references/create-config.md` |
| `.pre-commit-config.yaml` exists | Modify | `references/modify-config.md` |
- `.pre-commit-config.yaml` does not exist → **Create from scratch**
- File exists → **Modify existing**
Read only the file matching the resolved flow — each is self-contained.
## Create from scratch
The target is always `.pre-commit-config.yaml`, the config that consumes hooks. A request to publish hooks for other repos to consume means `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml`, a different file this skill does not author.
1. Run a shallow extension scan:
```bash
git ls-files | grep -oE '\.[a-z]+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
```
2. Read `references/hooks-by-language.md` to map detected extensions to recommended hooks. For a minimal starting point instead of a full recommendation set, `pre-commit sample-config > .pre-commit-config.yaml` prints a small starter config to build on.
3. State the proposed config in full before writing. Wait for user confirmation.
4. Write `.pre-commit-config.yaml`.
5. Run `pre-commit validate-config`. If non-zero: show the error, fix it, re-validate. Never leave a broken config.
## Gates common to both flows
## Modify existing
Read `.pre-commit-config.yaml` first. Note any stale `rev` values (see **Rev staleness** below) but do not change them.
### Adding a hook
1. Run a shallow extension scan to detect languages in the repo:
```bash
git ls-files | grep -oE '\.[a-z]+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
```
2. Read `references/hooks-by-language.md` for the correct repo URL, rev, and recommended args for any hook before writing.
3. Check for duplicates — if the same hook ID or equivalent tool already exists in the config, say so and stop.
4. To sanity-check a hook against the repo's actual files before committing to it in config, smoke-test it with `pre-commit try-repo <repo-url> <hook-id> --verbose` (or a local path for hooks under development). This runs the hook without writing anything.
5. If the hook's source repo already exists in the config, add the hook under that repo block. Otherwise append a new repo block.
6. State the proposed addition. Wait for confirmation.
7. Write. Run `pre-commit validate-config`. If non-zero: show error, fix, re-validate.
### Removing a hook
1. Identify the hook entry and its repo block.
2. State what will be removed: hook ID, and whether the parent repo block will also be deleted (if it would have zero hooks remaining). Wait for confirmation.
3. Remove the hook entry. If the repo block now has zero hooks remaining, remove the entire repo block.
4. Write. Run `pre-commit validate-config`. If non-zero: revert the edit, show the error, and stop — do not leave a broken config (removal edits are not safely auto-fixable, unlike a bad new hook block, which can usually be corrected in place).
### Configuring top-level keys
Only when the user explicitly asks. Valid keys: `fail_fast`, `default_stages`, `default_language_version`, `minimum_pre_commit_version`, `exclude`, `files`, `default_install_hook_types`.
State the proposed change and wait for confirmation before writing.
## Rev staleness
When reading the config, for each repo listed in `references/hooks-by-language.md`, compare its `rev` in the user's config against the rev in that file. Flag any mismatch as potentially outdated and tell the user to run `pc-run` to autoupdate. Repos not in the reference cannot be checked — skip them silently. Do not modify `rev` values yourself.
The reference table's pins can themselves go stale between updates — treat a mismatch as a prompt to check, not a certainty. `pre-commit autoupdate` (via `pc-run`) is the authoritative source for what the current rev actually is.
## Scope boundary
This skill manages `.pre-commit-config.yaml` only. It does not:
- Author `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml` (publishing hooks for external consumers)
- Run `pre-commit install`
- Execute hooks or run the test suite
- Bump `rev` values
For those operations, use `pc-run`.
1. State the proposed config or edit in full and wait for confirmation before writing. Hook choices are opinions imposed on everyone else's commit loop, not defaults to assume.
2. Run `pre-commit validate-config` after every write. On a non-zero exit, show the error and resolve it before reporting done — never leave a config that cannot be parsed.
3. Never edit a `rev` value. Report staleness and hand the bump to `pc-run`, which runs `autoupdate` against the hook repos themselves.

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| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
| `create-config.md` | The create flow — read when the repo has no `.pre-commit-config.yaml` |
| `modify-config.md` | The modify flow — read when a `.pre-commit-config.yaml` already exists |
| `hooks-by-language.md` | Hook recommendations by language/context — repo, rev, and rationale for adding hooks |
| `sources.md` | Provenance: research sources that informed this skill |

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---
source_keys:
- context7-pre-commit-com
- pre-commit-com
---
# Creating a `.pre-commit-config.yaml`
Reached from `SKILL.md`'s Route table when the repo has no config yet. Self-contained — the modify
flow's file is not needed here. `SKILL.md`'s three common gates still apply.
## Steps
1. Detect what languages are actually in the repo with a shallow extension scan, rather than
inferring them from the project's name or README:
```bash
git ls-files | grep -oE '\.[a-z]+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
```
2. Read `references/hooks-by-language.md` and map the detected extensions to recommended hooks.
Take the repo URL, `rev` and args from that file rather than from memory — a `rev` that does not
exist is the most common way a fresh config fails on its first run.
For a deliberately minimal starting point instead of a full recommendation set,
`pre-commit sample-config > .pre-commit-config.yaml` prints a small starter config to build on.
3. State the proposed config in full and wait for the user's confirmation.
4. Write `.pre-commit-config.yaml`, then run `pre-commit validate-config`. If it exits non-zero,
show the error, fix it in place, and re-validate.

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Use this table when creating a config from scratch or recommending hooks to add.
Always check the existing config for duplicates before proposing.
Fixer hooks (`trailing-whitespace`, `end-of-file-fixer`, `pretty-format-json` and the like) rewrite
files but do NOT re-stage them, so the commit is still blocked and the user has to stage and commit
again. Say so when proposing one — otherwise the first blocked commit reads as the hook being
broken.
## Universal (recommend for every repo)
| Hook ID | Repo | Rev | Rationale |
@@ -101,6 +106,9 @@ Use for repo-specific scripts that don't belong in an external hook repo.
stages: [pre-push]
```
`language: system` and `language: script` are deprecated names for the first two below.
New local hooks use `unsupported` and `unsupported_script`.
Language choices for local hooks:
- `unsupported` — system PATH tool (pre-commit does not manage env)
- `unsupported_script` — script at a repo-relative path
@@ -117,4 +125,4 @@ Language choices for local hooks:
## Rev pin freshness
The revs above were last verified current at time of writing (matched against the plugin's own research corpus in `docs/research/docs/pre-commit/`; rows marked "Unverified" have no such backing and must be checked against upstream before use). Since `pc-author`'s "Rev staleness" check treats this table as ground truth, a pin that goes stale here produces false-positive staleness warnings for users who already have a newer, correct rev. Re-verify these pins periodically (e.g. against each repo's latest release tag). When in doubt, treat `pre-commit autoupdate`'s own output as the authoritative staleness signal, not a mismatch against this table.
The revs above were last verified current at time of writing (matched against the plugin's own research corpus in `docs/research/docs/pre-commit/`; rows marked "Unverified" have no such backing and must be checked against upstream before use). Since the "Rev staleness" check in `references/modify-config.md` treats this table as ground truth, a pin that goes stale here produces false-positive staleness warnings for users who already have a newer, correct rev. Re-verify these pins periodically (e.g. against each repo's latest release tag). When in doubt, treat `pre-commit autoupdate`'s own output as the authoritative staleness signal, not a mismatch against this table.

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---
source_keys:
- context7-pre-commit-com
- pre-commit-com
---
# Modifying an existing `.pre-commit-config.yaml`
Reached from `SKILL.md`'s Route table when the repo already has a config. Self-contained — the
create flow's file is not needed here. `SKILL.md`'s three common gates still apply.
Read the existing `.pre-commit-config.yaml` before editing. Note any stale `rev` values (see
**Rev staleness** below) but do not change them.
## Adding a hook
1. Run a shallow extension scan, so the addition is judged against the languages actually present:
```bash
git ls-files | grep -oE '\.[a-z]+$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
```
2. Read `references/hooks-by-language.md` for the correct repo URL, `rev` and recommended args
before writing anything.
3. Check for duplicates. If the same hook ID, or an equivalent tool, is already configured, say so
and stop rather than adding a second one.
4. To sanity-check a hook against the repo's real files before committing to it, smoke-test it:
```bash
pre-commit try-repo <repo-url> <hook-id> --verbose
```
Use a local path in place of the URL for a hook under development. This runs the hook without
writing anything.
5. If the hook's source repo is already a block in the config, add the hook under that block.
Otherwise append a new repo block.
6. State the proposed addition, wait for confirmation, write, and run `pre-commit validate-config`.
On a non-zero exit, show the error, fix it, and re-validate.
## Removing a hook
1. Identify the hook entry and its parent repo block.
2. State what will be removed — the hook ID, and whether the parent repo block goes with it because
it would be left with zero hooks. Wait for confirmation.
3. Remove the hook entry. If the repo block now has no hooks left, remove the whole block: an empty
`hooks: []` fails `validate-config`.
4. Write, then run `pre-commit validate-config`. On a non-zero exit, **revert the edit**, show the
error, and stop. A removal is not safely fixable in place the way a malformed new hook block is,
so recovering the prior state beats patching forward.
## Configuring top-level keys
Only when the user explicitly asks. Valid keys: `fail_fast`, `default_stages`,
`default_language_version`, `minimum_pre_commit_version`, `exclude`, `files`,
`default_install_hook_types`.
State the proposed change and wait for confirmation before writing.
## Rev staleness
For each repo in the config that also appears in `references/hooks-by-language.md`, compare the
two `rev` values. Flag a mismatch as potentially outdated and tell the user to run `pc-run` to
autoupdate. Repos absent from the reference cannot be checked — skip them silently. Do not modify
any `rev` yourself.
The reference table's own pins go stale between updates, so treat a mismatch as a prompt to check
rather than proof of staleness. `pre-commit autoupdate`, via `pc-run`, is the authoritative answer
to what the current `rev` actually is.

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