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0427422765 chore(release): bump the six plugins and the catalog to patch, not minor 
The branch is 31 fix, 30 refactor, 11 docs, 4 chore, 2 test — zero feat, zero `!`,
zero BREAKING CHANGE — and it adds no skill, agent, command or hook. Two rules
shipped in this repo both make that a patch: forge's version-bump.md, which lands in
this very branch ("minor for new capability, patch for a fix/refactor"), and
git-commits' conventional-commits-spec.md, which maps fix to PATCH and refactor to
none. Minor was the one answer neither rule produces, and the release was arguing
with a policy it was simultaneously introducing.

  bin 1.1.6, core 1.1.2, git 1.3.6, gitea 1.3.7, kyberforge 1.6.1, lint 1.1.7

The catalog goes 0.5.0 to 0.4.6 for the same reason: apm-workflow's marketplace.md
reserves a catalog minor for a packages[] entry added or removed and assigns patch
to an existing entry's version moving. The set is 7 entries on both sides with
unchanged names, so only the patch trigger applies.

Each number is +1 patch on the pre-bump value rather than stacked on the minor, and
executables.allow follows kyberforge to 1.6.1 so the ADR-0019 SessionStart hook does
not orphan.

Note what this does not settle: four published files were removed from the installed
tree on this branch, three more moved, and caveman gained disable-model-invocation,
which retires its old triggers. Under a strict reading of the repo's own breaking
rule those are major-class and they currently ship under refactor: with no marker.
Patch is right for the code; whether the deployed skill surface is a public contract
is still unwritten, and that question outlives this commit.
 2026-09-01 12:39:54 +00:00
Defame1297
ccc54cbb58 docs: retire ADR-0020's stale measurements and fix a CONTEXT.md code span 
971e148 de-pinned three stale present-tense figures in gates.md and left ADR-0020's
copy of each, while CONTEXT.md points readers at the ADR for the current number. All
three were wrong at HEAD, re-measured against a `git archive` of the tree rather
than the working copy:

- "26 description FAILs, 9 body FAILs, 2 dangling targets, 58 SUGGESTIONs" is now
  0 / 0 / 0 / 29.
- "pre-commit run --all-files is red on 10 alerts" is 0 errors in 39 files.
- apm-orchestrate was cited as a 900-word body FAIL. It is 876 words, a SUGGESTION.
  git-orchestrate at 933 and gitea-orchestrate at 1,199 were correct.

Marked historical with a dated amendment and the measured current values, following
the convention already in this file. The "realistic landing is somewhere in that
33-58% band" projection is left alone: it is a forecast rather than a measurement,
and the realised 55.3% falls inside it.

The Enforcement table claimed exhaustiveness while listing only ERROR and SUGGESTION
for boundary targets; gates.md documents a third verdict, INFO "DID NOT RUN". Added.

CONTEXT.md carried shell-escaped backticks inside a markdown code span, which closes
the span early and leaves an unterminated double-backtick span that swallows the
rest of the glossary entry — in the definition of a term this branch introduces. It
also called the ADR's pre-retrofit 23,427 the current preload figure; the measured
value is 10,478, recorded here so the glossary and the gate agree.

ADR: 0020
 2026-09-01 12:39:42 +00:00
Defame1297
f40deada86 fix(lint): restore the glob-scoping rule and warn about the MDX invocation kill 
vale-config deleted "settings in a glob section only apply to files matching that
glob" — the single most common Vale misconfiguration. Nothing in either lint skill
told an agent that BasedOnStyles under `[*.md]` governs `.md` only; the nearest
survivor was a parenthetical in a reference file the skill opens only for the full
field listing. Restored to the always-loaded body, at the point of use.

vale-config also never mentioned `[formats]` or MDX at all, leaving the whole
decision in that same reference file. Verified against Vale 3.15.2: an unmapped
`.mdx` covered by one of your globs is `E100 [lintMDX]`, exit 2, and every other
file in that invocation produces no output whatsoever. Because the failure is
invocation-wide rather than per-file, it belongs in the Gotchas.

The crash requires a glob that actually covers `.mdx` — under `[*.md]` the file is
skipped and nothing fails — so the Gotcha states that condition rather than the
broader claim that any `.mdx` in the tree kills the run.

The mapping-versus-mdx2vast attribution disagreed across the two skills: vale-run
said `[formats] mdx = md` is "what vale-config recommends" while vale-config
presented it as a bare either/or. Fixed on the source side by having vale-config
actually recommend it and say why, which makes vale-run's existing sentence true
with no edit to vale-run.

Refs: #117
 2026-09-01 12:39:31 +00:00
Defame1297
40ff89eabf fix(bin): restore prototype's deleted anti-patterns and two routing triggers 
ADR-0020's stated anti-goal is satisfying the size gate by deleting content rather
than relocating it. prototype's logic.md lost three anti-patterns, including
"Don't generalise" — the one with a distinct failure mode, a throwaway growing
abstractions for hypothetical futures, and the one the logic branch is most exposed
to. It survived nowhere in the repo.

The deletion bought nothing measurable: references/ sits outside the body FAIL,
outside the 600-word suggestion and outside the Vale gate, and prototype's body is
483 words. 4011d14 restored the byte-identical defect in the sibling ui.md with
exactly that reasoning in its message and left this file alone. Restored verbatim
from main.

improve-codebase-architecture had dropped "refactoring" from its description
entirely, so "find refactoring opportunities in this repo" had no lexical match,
while spending characters on a boundary against tdd — which cannot plausibly steal
an architecture request. retrofit.md names that exact failure: an invented boundary
costs characters and buys no routing accuracy.

write-docs had dropped all four literal trigger phrasings, leaving them only in the
body and a `when:` field, neither visible to the router at routing time. Its
boundary also sent PRDs to grill-with-docs, which has no PRD flow, and the body
repeated that at two more places. Per #123 nothing in the corpus produces a PRD, so
no target was invented — the boundary is now honest about the ADR case only.

Two READMEs added by this branch contradicted the SKILL.md they document: triage's
label resolution, and grill-with-docs' fifth during-session behaviour. Unconditional
reference pointers in tdd and improve-codebase-architecture are now conditional; the
files stay at the skill root, which is #122's scope.

Refs: #114, #122, #123
ADR: 0020
 2026-09-01 12:39:22 +00:00
Defame1297
be9b8d277f fix(gitea): restore the withLines exception and route rename_branch through the orchestrator 
gitea-files' always-loaded Gotchas said "content is base64 both ways" without
qualification. The `main` text carried an exception for `withLines: true` and both
halves were dropped. Verified live: `get_file_contents` with `withLines: true`
returns plain JSON text while the same response still reports `"encoding":"base64"`.
An agent that follows the recommendation two sentences later and applies the
unconditional decode gets garbage, with the response's own field confirming the
wrong answer. Exception restored, and the lying field named.

gitea-orchestrate was never updated for `rename_branch`: absent from the operation
enum, so an agent caller got "unknown operation", and absent from the
destructive-confirm list, though branches.md requires a rename with open PRs or a
protection rule to be confirmed exactly as `delete_branch` is. Added to both — the
confirm gate rather than the enum alone, because accepting the operation without it
routes around a rule the skill states while appearing to support it. The
compatibility frontmatter, which the agent reads, still omitted the tool too.

Two more always-loaded Gotchas contradicted their own reference files, and the
Gotcha was wrong both times: issues and PRs are distinguishable on a list item by
the `html_url` path segment (confirmed live — #129 at /pulls/, #128 at /issues/),
and `get_repository_tree` takes `tree_sha`, not `ref`.

`review_comments` was asserted as unconditionally present on the PR get response.
It is absent on a PR with no review comments, so the claim is downgraded to
present-when-non-zero rather than stated as response shape.

The label-exclusivity relocation moved the rule out of label-inference.md and into
labels.md without updating sources.md, leaving the one rule in this branch that
writes differently to live repos citing a file that no longer carries it. The rule
itself is correct as it stands and `main` was wrong — every Kind/* label on this
instance is exclusive:false, every Priority/* and Status/* is true — so only the
provenance record is corrected.

Routing: gitea-workflow lost the human-caller discriminator and widened from status
checks to any request, which sent "close #42" to a branch that resolves the number
and presents detail without ever closing it. gitea-branches and gitea-issues regain
trigger phrasings the retrofit dropped.

Refs: #92
 2026-09-01 12:38:53 +00:00
Defame1297
20e5627fd7 fix(git): correct three command claims the plugin got wrong, and give rebase an owner 
Three statements were false against the git in use (2.39.5), each verified by
running it.

`git rebase --autosquash HEAD~N` without `-i` is a silent no-op: git prints
"Successfully rebased", the `fixup!` commit survives with the same SHA, and
rewrite-history.md presented that as the preferred flow with `-i` as an optional
review step. The agent reports the squash as done and the `fixup!` subject then
trips this repo's own commit-msg gate. `-i` is now the command, not the alternative.

"Fetch never modifies a local branch, so it is always safe to run" — new text on
this branch — is false: `git fetch origin main:probe` fast-forwarded the local
branch, and a `+` prefix force-updates it, losing commits. The claim is scoped to
the no-refspec form.

`git worktree add --orphan` does not exist before Git 2.42; on 2.39.5 it is
`error: unknown option 'orphan'`, exit 129. The same file gives a version floor for
`--recurse-submodules` three sections earlier. Floor added, with a fallback that
was tested before being documented.

git-workflow claimed "every request resolves to exactly one of these six" while
rebase, reset and stash were owned by no skill — `git reset` appeared nowhere in
the plugin, old tree or new — so "undo my last commit" routed nowhere. The claim is
gone, the router gains rows for all three, and the procedures now exist: plain
rebase with `--onto` and conflict handling, a reset mode table gated on `--hard`,
and stash save/pop/list/drop. `--hard` gets an always-loaded Gotcha, matching the
register the force-push refusal already sets.

Cherry-pick had three claimants pointing at git-history while git-commits owned the
flow, and the two copies were not equivalent — git-history's lacked the destination
check, the rtk prefix and `--abort`. Resolved to git-commits per #112; the weaker
duplicate is replaced by a hand-off.

git-commits' metadata.version was deleted rather than bumped in 14af50b, leaving two
house-contract documents citing a worked v0.1.2 to v0.1.3 transition against a file
declaring no version. Restored to 0.1.3.

Also: the divergent-pull explanation stated a `--ff-only` default that does not
exist (it is a hard error); `--remote` "requires" a configured branch where it uses
one; `git push origin --delete` moved to git-remotes, which owns the remote-side
gates; seven retired `git:<name>` source slugs; git-orchestrate quoted a
git-workflow sentence that no longer exists; git-submodules regains the indirect
trigger that made "add a dependency repo" routable; and commit atomicity is a common
gate rather than reachable only from the create flow.

Refs: #112, #113
 2026-09-01 12:38:38 +00:00
Defame1297
fc305ba7d9 fix(kyberforge): correct the routing-tier contract and make agent-audit rubrics conditional 
Five documents told authors that a prose-form dangling routing target blocks. The
gate reports it as a SUGGESTION and exits 0. Verified on fixtures: `-> name` and
`/name` are blocking ERRORs, the prose form is SUGGESTION-tier unless a second
resolving target in the same sentence corroborates it. ADR-0020 and gates.md were
right; contract.md, retrofit.md, description-quality.md, finding-criteria.md and
agent-author's contract.md were wrong — and they are what an author and an auditor
actually read. The whole 39-skill corpus was retrofitted against them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs: #100, #101, #125
ADR: 0020
 2026-09-01 12:38:22 +00:00
Defame1297
59f27dbd94 fix(core): close five ways validate-adapter.sh graded an adapter it had not read 
The adapter check shipped green on files it should have failed, and failed files it
should have passed. Each defect is a residual of the fix that closes #115.

A fenced, indented or HTML-commented `@AGENTS.md` counted as an import, though
Claude Code resolves none of them — the adapter deferred to nothing and the gate
said so approvingly. Import matching now runs against a character mask that marks
fenced blocks and HTML comments inert, and applies CommonMark's four-space rule.
The mask is deliberately not applied to prose pointers, where four-space
indentation is ordinary list continuation.

The encoding fix reached only BOM-carrying UTF-16/32. BOM-less UTF-16LE/BE and
UTF-32LE are valid UTF-8, so they still produced the exact false diagnosis the fix
was written to remove: "no reference to AGENTS.md" on a file whose first line is
`@AGENTS.md`. A NUL-byte check is the complete signal. BOM stripping is no longer
positional, which also drops the mirror-image false FAILs on a doubled or mid-file
BOM.

`@NOTAGENTS.md`, `@zzzAGENTS.md` and `@docs/does/not/exist/AGENTS.md` all passed:
the pattern had no path-segment boundary and the target was never resolved on disk.
Both now hold, and a zero-byte or blank target is reported rather than credited.
Unresolved candidates print as `Near miss:` lines so the author sees why a line was
not counted.

`--no-import-syntax` still used substring matching, so `Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it
is obsolete.` passed as a pointer. That is #115's own defect surviving in the flag's
other mode. A mention must now carry a deference cue and must not be negated.

An unreadable file passed `isfile()`, raised, and exited 1 with a traceback and no
FAIL line — the one exit code no document covered, while Step 3 says to re-run
until it exits 0. It now exits 3 with a diagnostic, and the README states all four
codes and what to do about each instead of "exits non-zero on any failure".

Tests 18 to 42. Two of the new cases initially survived their own mutation and were
strengthened: `@NOTAGENTS.md` was being rejected by the disk check before the token
boundary ran, and stripping that boundary leaves the fragment `NOT`, which the
negation cue then rejects for an unrelated reason.

Refs: #115
 2026-09-01 12:38:04 +00:00
Defame1297
88866b81a3 fix(kyberforge): announce every provenance skip and scope checks 7-8 to source indexes 
The clean provenance bill was an artifact. Checks 7 and 8 assume `Research doc:`
names a source index whose H2s are slugs, but 30 of 121 corpus entries point at
topic content documents whose H2s are topics. Those 30 produced every new check-7
INFO — all false positives. Check 8 aimed at the same documents, which carry no
`Status:` line at all, would have emitted a large false-FAIL flood; the only thing
preventing it was an unannounced `rd_status != extracted` skip. So "0 new FAILs"
rested on exactly the fail-open class this branch exists to remove, and naively
fixing the skip would have turned the branch red.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refs: #111, #118, #121
 2026-09-01 12:37:50 +00:00
Defame1297
9fe734573d fix(gates): close the /name fail-open and stop the path guard inventing targets 
Two defects in the routing-target resolver, both latent in the corpus but hot for
anything written next.

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

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

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

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

Refs: #107, #110, #124
ADR: 0020
 2026-09-01 12:37:12 +00:00
Defame1297
971e148e19 docs: amend ADR-0020 and correct the gate reference to match what ships 
The ADR said a /slash target behind a route verb takes the follower test; the
implementation decides notation first and skips it. Recorded as a dated amendment
rather than a silent edit, per the ADR-0016/0017 convention.

Its Enforcement table called itself exhaustive 'because the failure this ADR is
most exposed to is a rule filed under Enforcement that no validator implements'.
Three shipped behaviours were missing, including the disable-model-invocation
carve-out that removes two rows. Also de-pins the 'zoom-out is the one carrier'
claim, which caveman falsified, and the stale dangling-target statuses.

gates.md's ERROR row made terminality a conjunct for route notation, telling an
author a form is safe that exits 1. It now documents the references/ Vale blind
spot and its two independent causes -- AGENTS.md trimmed to the operative rule
per the split gates.md itself states -- plus the undocumented skill-frontmatter
hook and the second scope exclusion. CONTEXT.md glosses 'routing target'.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:47:04 +00:00
Defame1297
4011d149bc fix(bin): put five skills' boundaries where the router can read them 
grill-me, grill-with-docs, improve-codebase-architecture, tdd and triage each had
their routing boundary written into README.md, which nothing loads at runtime,
while the gate still reported all five descriptions as boundary-less. The
boundaries move into the descriptions; write-docs' clause, which said 'those have
dedicated skills' without naming one, now names them.

research had moved its body out and then read both references unconditionally --
the anti-goal ADR-0020 names, where the word count moves and the per-run context
does not. Both loads are genuinely conditional now, with the topic list and the
four literal sources.md field names inlined, since the provenance validator
matches those literally.

Also restores the promote-the-prototype anti-pattern to prototype's ui.md, which
the gate does not measure, so deleting it bought nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:47:00 +00:00
Defame1297
ae791781c2 fix(git): restore router coverage and commands the retrofit dropped 
git-workflow calls itself a router but named two of the six domains it routes to;
the other four appeared nowhere in the file. All six are now named, with a
routing table in the always-loaded body.

git-submodules lost the foreach shell-variable semantics -- only the bare names
survived, though $sm_path and $displaypath differ solely by which directory you
are in. The table is back. Its relocated commands had also dropped the rtk git
prefix its own SKILL.md mandates; 24 of them are re-prefixed. The wider rtk
inconsistency across the plugin stays with #113.

Also restores git-commits' body and footers output fields, git-branches' tag/
branch detection commands, git-worktrees' git config --worktree, pc-run's
ambiguity fallback, git-remotes' git-history boundary, and git-history's pickaxe
triggers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:46:35 +00:00
Defame1297
1a971ee003 fix(gitea): restore routing and sourcing content the retrofit dropped 
gitea-issues asserted flatly that a merge never closes an issue, contradicting
gitea-prs' references/merging.md, which documents that closing keywords in
commits landing on the default branch do close one. The qualifier that made the
claim true had been deleted; both sides now agree.

gitea-releases had lost an epistemic hedge and its verification step, leaving
conventions.md asserting unconfirmed tag auto-creation as fact. Nothing in the
research corpus sources it, so the hedge and the verify-afterward instruction are
back rather than upgraded.

Descriptions were cut 50-240 chars under the 400 budget and shed routing with
them: gitea-workflow's boundary named no target, gitea-prs lost the issue/PR
number-space directive the suite is built around at 163/400, gitea-releases lost
its boundary and every trigger. Restored, inside budget. Also restores
delete_branch's hard-refusal strength and gitea-files' Read/Write/Edit pointer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:46:32 +00:00
Defame1297
a8cd5e881d fix(core): strip a BOM before the adapter import check, and split usage exits 
Narrowing has_reference to bool(import_lines) meant a UTF-8 BOM hid the import
line, since the BOM is not \s: a CLAUDE.md whose first line is @AGENTS.md failed
with 'no reference to AGENTS.md' and was told to add the line already in front of
it. Decoding is now strict too, so a non-UTF-8 adapter gets an encoding
diagnostic instead of being mangled and then graded on the mangling.

Usage errors move to exit 2. They shared exit 1 with real findings, while the
skill tells the agent to fix any non-zero exit by editing the provider file.

The whole-line import rule is kept deliberately -- accepting an inline @AGENTS.md
would also accept one inside backticks, which is the silent-drop failure the
validator exists to catch -- and the message now says so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:46:07 +00:00
Defame1297
00daf285ec fix(kyberforge): tell an unparsable Contributing-files block from an explicit (none) 
parse_contributing_files documented that callers depend on None vs [], because a
parse failure returning [] would silently disable the check. Only check 8
honoured it; checks 4/5 (skill-audit) and 3/4 (agent-audit) used a truthiness
test, so an unreadable block disabled them without a word.

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:46:05 +00:00
Defame1297
c232e69645 fix(gates): block a dangling /name route with no preceding verb 
The header promised explicit route notation always blocks. It did not: /name
reached extraction only behind a ROUTE_VERB, so a target with no verb before it
was never extracted at all -- exit 0, no output. Taking the SUGGESTION's own
advice ('write it as /name and it will be checked properly') was the one edit
that blinded the gate.

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EJJrm5YmacbwMdzZpXcoti
 2026-08-31 19:45:45 +00:00
Defame1297
5b80f305e9 test(kyberforge): pin the provenance checker's three new behaviours 
27a7669 changed validate-provenance.sh in three ways and tested none of
them: the bullet-form parser returning None rather than [] on unparsable
input, the source_keys: [] house-authored declaration, and the stripping
of section annotations off a Research doc path.

All three are checks that previously failed by staying silent, which is
the failure mode this repo keeps rediscovering. Shipping them untested
left nothing to catch a regression back to silence.

The 22 cases assert consequences rather than return values -- that check
8 runs on an unparsable block, that an unresolvable path emits an INFO
naming its slug -- and each was verified against a deliberate mutation
of the behaviour it covers.

Addresses #111.
 2026-08-31 08:28:25 +00:00
Defame1297
8599b4a058 chore(release): bump the marketplace version to 0.5.0 
0959291 bumped all six plugin versions for the ADR-0020 retrofit but left the
marketplace itself at 0.4.5, so consumers resolving against the marketplace
entry would see no change despite every packaged plugin having moved.
 2026-08-31 08:02:49 +00:00
Defame1297
ee248ff5a5 docs: describe the boundary check's new outcomes and de-pin stale counts 
The gate spec still described the routing-target check as pass/fail against a
single-arrow clause. It now documents the three outcomes, the hand-invocation
carve-out and the one-arrow rule, so a contributor hitting a SUGGESTION can
tell whether it is a real defect or accepted phrasing.

Both files cited skill counts and source line numbers that go stale on the
next edit and were already wrong; those citations are removed rather than
refreshed.
 2026-08-31 08:02:44 +00:00
Defame1297
131b89733b fix(apm-orchestrate): correct the marketplace add-package direction and trim duplication 
`apm marketplace package add` rejects a local path — it registers a remote
package reference — but the agent routed local-package registration to it, so
that dispatch could only fail. Local registration is a manifest edit and now
routes to `edit-config`.

The agent also carried its own copy of the `type:` guidance and a numbered
workflow that restated the dispatch procedure below it; both drift from
apm-workflow independently. `type:` correctness is delegated where it belongs,
and the description is rewritten to a trigger plus the apm-install boundary
rather than a restatement of the body.

Addresses #120.
 2026-08-31 08:02:38 +00:00
Defame1297
dac9cad912 refactor(kyberforge): move audit guidance out of the per-run rubric load 
skill-audit loaded roughly 4,268 words of rubric on every run, most of it
criteria for findings a clean skill never triggers. The auditing guidance moves
into finding-criteria.md, read only when a finding is actually raised, cutting
a clean audit to about 999 words. The named-skill exemption is replaced with
properties, so the rubric stops carrying a list that ages the moment a skill
is renamed.

apm-workflow's `type:` trap sat in one flow while biting several, so it is
promoted to a common gate reachable from all of them; its claim to be
self-contained was untrue once it started routing to apm-install. skill-author's
contract had drifted from body-discipline.md and is realigned, and agent-audit's
field inventory is brought in line with the same split.
 2026-08-31 08:02:19 +00:00
Defame1297
e869912374 docs(bin): give every bin skill a README 
The bin skills were the only plugin without per-skill READMEs, so a reader
had to open SKILL.md — an agent-facing contract, not an explainer — to learn
what a skill does and when it fires. Each README states purpose, triggers and
boundaries for a human audience, leaving SKILL.md free to stay terse.
 2026-08-31 08:02:09 +00:00
Defame1297
03abcffb77 refactor(bin): cut per-invocation load and repair broken skill references 
diagnose read its feedback-loops reference unconditionally, so every
invocation paid for guidance most runs never used; the read is conditional
again and the per-invocation cost drops from 1,278 to 831 words. Its HITL
template moves to assets/ because it is copied out, not read as reference.
prototype's two branch flows move into references/ for the same reason —
only one branch is ever taken.

research could not search the codebase it was asked to research without Grep
and Glob. caveman's description had grown into a paragraph where one sentence
carries the trigger. Four references pointed at things that do not exist: a
to-prd skill, a /setup-matt-pocock-skills command, two cross-skill ../ links
that only resolve in the source tree, and two places calling this project's
Gitea host GitHub.

Addresses #114.
 2026-08-31 08:02:03 +00:00
Defame1297
1c3af75642 fix(core): make --no-import-syntax actually change the adapter validation 
Both branches of the flag reduced to the same expression, so the option was
inert: a caller who asked for the no-import form got the import-form check
anyway and a passing result that meant nothing.

Two further defects in the same validator: --max-lines failed silently when
given a value it could not use, and the Fix text told the agent to edit
AGENTS.md when the offending content is the provider adapter's. The boundary
clauses now name the operation being routed rather than the file type, which
was ambiguous where both skills touch the same file.

Addresses #115.
 2026-08-31 08:01:45 +00:00
Defame1297
14af50bc07 fix(git): scope git-workflow's trigger to ambiguity rather than to its domains 
git-workflow's description enumerated the six domains it exists to route away
from, so it competed for selection with the very skills it should be handing
off to. It now triggers on the case it actually serves: an interactive request
whose domain is not yet clear.

Also clears frontmatter drift across the plugin and removes duplicated guidance
in pc-run that had diverged from its reference.
 2026-08-31 08:01:39 +00:00
Defame1297
8680adf4c0 fix(gitea): make gitea-releases executable and correct misleading domain claims 
gitea-releases was the weakest skill in the plugin: no allowed-tools, no
owner/repo resolution, and a checkbox list where a dispatch table belongs, so
an agent reaching it had to guess both its permissions and its inputs. The
id-vs-tag_name trap — deleting by tag name where the API wants the numeric id —
is restored as an explicit Gotcha because it destroys the wrong release
silently.

Elsewhere the `exclusive` flag was documented on the wrong side of the
read/write split, and label data from one instance was presented as though it
were universal, which invites an agent to assume a taxonomy that does not
exist on the target repo. rename_branch was missing from the branch surface.
Reference prose and fences are cleaned up in passing.
 2026-08-31 08:01:33 +00:00
Defame1297
b07d54ad7a fix(lint): correct four Vale behaviours the skills described wrongly 
Each of these would send a user down a path Vale does not support:

Core options placed under a glob header are not scoped to that glob — Vale
rejects them with E201, so the guidance to nest them produced a config that
will not load. The built-in `Vale` style is compiled in, but Vale still
requires StylesPath to exist on disk before it will run, so the "no StylesPath
needed" shortcut fails. The MDX guidance was inverted: under `[formats]
mdx = md` the mapping is what makes MDX lint at all, and it needs the mdx2vast
prerequisite that was never mentioned. And a spelling rule's `ignore` paths
resolve against StylesPath, not against the rule file's own directory, so the
documented relative paths silently matched nothing.
 2026-08-31 08:01:26 +00:00
Defame1297
27a76692b0 fix(kyberforge): stop the provenance checker skipping check 8 on unparsed input 
484357a taught the Contributing parser the bullet form, but a block it still
could not parse returned the same empty result as an explicit "(none)", so the
checker read "no contributing files" and skipped check 8 rather than reporting
that it could not tell. Checks 7 and 8 were consequently dead across the whole
git plugin without anything failing.

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

Addresses #111.
 2026-08-31 08:01:18 +00:00
Defame1297
db5a426416 fix(gates): make the ADR-0020 boundary check parse what skills actually write 
The routing-target check understood only a single-arrow clause naming a bare
skill, so most real boundary prose was silently skipped rather than verified.
Two of those silences were fail-open: an unrecognised token following a target
dropped that target from the check entirely, and a skill directory with no
SKILL.md still resolved as a valid routing target, so a broken route passed.

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

Addresses #107, #108, #110.
 2026-08-31 08:01:07 +00:00
Defame1297
095929142f chore(release): bump all six plugin versions for the ADR-0020 retrofit 
No wave on this branch bumped a version across 56 commits, though
apm-workflow's own configure.md states the policy: bump a package's
apm.yml version: whenever anything reaching its compiled output changes.
All six local packages have substantive .apm/ edits here.

Minor rather than patch. The retrofit rewrote every skill description,
which is the routing surface a caller matches against, and redistributed
bodies into references/. Behaviour is preserved but discovery changes, so
this is more than a fix.

The same file is explicit that versions are per package — editing
plugins/foo/.apm/ never bumps plugins/bar — so this is six independent
bumps that happen to land together, not one release number. Under the
per_package strategy the catalog carries a second copy in
marketplace.packages[], and apm-marketplace-check fails the push when the
two disagree; it cannot see a bump skipped in both, which is the state the
branch was in.

executables.allow is version-pinned by apm's design and moves with
kyberforge, or the SessionStart hook silently stops deploying (ADR-0019).
The comment above that block predicted exactly this; the pre-push suite
caught it when the first bump orphaned the key.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 21:00:58 +00:00
Defame1297
c7c9311d80 docs(gates): refresh the retrofit status to measured state 
docs/spec/gates.md still described both ADR-0020 gates as "currently red"
and tabled the pre-retrofit figures: 26 of 39 descriptions and 9 of 39
bodies over their FAIL tier, 2 dangling targets, 58 SUGGESTIONs, and 10
Kyberforge.CompositionNote errors across four gitea-* skills. Measured
now: 0, 0, 0, 33 and 0.

The branch correctly left ADR-0020 itself untouched, since it self-pins
every citation to base commit f9b919d. gates.md carries no such pin, and
AGENTS.md names it three times as the authoritative reasoning layer — so
the shallow doc and the deep doc it defers to asserted opposite facts
about the same two gates, with the stale one telling a reader that an
unrelated one-line fix to a skill is blocked pending a retrofit that is
already done.

Also corrects the apm-orchestrate agent body figure, which drifted from
1,080 to 1,113 across this branch. Its point is that the numbers are live
evidence for leaving that hook's files: pattern alone, so a reader who
re-measures and gets a third value loses the argument.

AGENTS.md gains the second cause of the references/ blind spot: besides
the Kyberforge style being scoped [**/SKILL.md], the
vale-audit-prefilter-skill hook filters on a SKILL.md-only files: pattern,
so widening .vale.ini alone would change nothing. It also no longer
implies the kyberforge wave was the end of the work.

Refs #99 #117
 2026-08-30 20:52:06 +00:00
Defame1297
484357a3b9 fix(gates): parse the bullet form of Contributing files 
validate-provenance.sh matched Contributing files only as a single inline
line beginning "- **Contributing files:**". Seven skills write it as a
bare "**Contributing files:**" heading above a bullet list, so
parse_contributing_files returned None and checks 4 (contributing file
exists) and 5 (bidirectional source_keys) silently verified nothing on
git-branches, git-remotes, git-submodules, git-workflow, git-worktrees,
gitea-files and gitea-releases.

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

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

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

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

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:51:56 +00:00
Defame1297
164948a0bc fix(apm-workflow): type: selects processing, it does not validate content 
configure.md said apm.yml's `type:` field "constrains what .apm/ may
contain" and that changing it later "does not retroactively validate what
is already on disk" — both implying a validation step that does not exist.
Read against the installed apm-cli 0.28.0: PackageContentType controls how
a package is processed during install/compile, apm_package.py only
enum-checks the declared string, and validate_apm_package() branches on the
structural type derived from files on disk, never on the declared field.
There is no content-vs-type mismatch check anywhere.

The hazard is therefore the opposite of what the wording primed for:
silent omission. A package declaring type: instructions while shipping
.apm/skills/ installs no skill and compiles AGENTS.md only, exits 0, and
reports success having shipped none of its primitives. The rule is now to
verify deployed output rather than the exit code. apm-orchestrate carried
the same wording as a Hard Rule and is corrected in step; its separate
defects stay with #120.

Also refreshes the exemplar figures this branch had re-staled. 264a5db set
them to 3,222 words of references; 6cb47f8 then added 63 words and
invalidated them, and the correction above adds more. Re-measured after
all edits: body 237 and whole-file 304 both still hold, references total
3,416. body-discipline.md's "roughly 3,200" moves with it.

ADR-0020 is deliberately untouched — it self-pins its citations to
f9b919d — as is the git-commits negative example pinned to 5e23250.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:51:45 +00:00
Defame1297
ca744d5d6c fix(vale-config): correct the missing-style failure mode 
Gotcha 1 said a style in BasedOnStyles that is not built-in and not
already under StylesPath "finds nothing until vale sync fetches it — a
clean run is not proof anything linted". Reproduced against vale 3.15.2:
that case is a hard `E100 [loadStyles] style '<name>' does not exist on
StylesPath`, exit 2. Nothing is linted and nothing is silent.

Worse, the same commit deleted the Gotcha that was the actual diagnostic —
that Packages and BasedOnStyles are separate keys and a style lints only
once it is in both. So the surviving rule sent a reader staring at E100 to
run `vale sync`, which fetches only what Packages declares and reports
"Synced 0 package(s)" against a BasedOnStyles-only name. The remediation
loop did not terminate. Reproduced end to end.

The genuinely silent case is the reverse — declared in Packages and
synced, but absent from BasedOnStyles — and it is now the one labelled as
such. Testing also turned up that StylesPath must exist as a directory
even when Vale is the only style (E201, exit 2), which was documented
nowhere.

references/configuration-reference.md gains a seven-row resolution matrix,
each row backed by a fixture. Its Frontmatter Scopes section claimed
provenance from the vale.sh research corpus, which contains no frontmatter
material at all; it is house-verified and now says so under its own slug.

Issue #99's wave-3 comment recorded this defect as found and repaired. It
was not — the file was byte-identical to the commit that introduced it, so
nothing here was treated as already correct.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:51:32 +00:00
Defame1297
d2da45f78c fix(gitea-releases): restore the prerelease imperative to the create path 
The retrofit left only a descriptive sentence on the loaded path — "Gitea
never infers a prerelease from a -beta/-rc tag name" — and moved the
imperative into references/conventions.md behind a trigger listing semver
naming, release-notes sourcing and release-to-tag relationships. Draft and
prerelease are not in that list, and "cut a v2.0.0-beta.1" is exactly the
request where the caller does not raise the topic, so the rule was
unreachable from the flow that needs it.

Severity comes from the repair path: the MCP surface has create, get,
get_latest, list and delete only — there is no update or edit tool. A
release published without is_pre_release can only be corrected by
delete_release plus a fresh create, and get_latest_release points
consumers at the beta meanwhile. Neither SKILL.md nor call-signatures.md
said so anywhere.

The flags are now set explicitly on every create, the missing update tool
and its delete-and-recreate consequence are stated in the body, and the
semver pass-through rule stranded behind the same trigger is promoted
alongside it. call-signatures.md now cites the deployed tool description
as direct evidence that get_latest_release excludes drafts, while keeping
the prerelease half hedged — that remains unconfirmed.

Verified live against gitea-mcp v1.7.0, read-only calls.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:51:22 +00:00
Defame1297
8982ac58b7 fix(gitea-labels-milestones): read exclusive per label, never infer it 
SKILL.md called `exclusive` "an org-labels-only flag" and concluded that
applying a Kind/*, Priority/* or Status/* label "must replace the one
already there, not stack on it". Live `list_repo_labels` on this repo
returns `exclusive` on every REPO label: all seven Kind/* plus
Compat/Breaking are false, while Priority/*, Reviewed/* and Status/* are
true. So the field is not org-only, and the replace rule would strip a
valid Kind/* label — a destructive write from a false premise.

The nuance kept: label_write's `exclusive` parameter genuinely is
annotated org-only, so that row was schema-accurate. The error was
generalising a write-parameter restriction into a claim about where the
field exists. The row is qualified rather than deleted.

The rule is now per-label: where exclusive is true the server drops the
sibling itself, so do not pre-remove; where it is false the label is
legitimately stackable.

Also fixes the org-label fallback, which treated any list_org_labels
failure as proof the owner is a user account with no org pool and said so
was "an answer, not an error to report". Under the token scopes this skill
declares the call fails with required=[read:organization] before any
org-vs-user determination is made, so a capability gap was being reported
as an absent label. Scope errors are now distinguished and reported.

Verified live against gitea-mcp v1.7.0, read-only calls.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:51:12 +00:00
Defame1297
dd1981db80 fix(gitea-issues): list_issues does have type and milestones on v1.7.0 
SKILL.md's headline Gotcha said `list_issues` "has no `type` filter", and
references/issues.md stated in bold that neither `type` nor `milestones`
exists, "despite both appearing in api-reference.md". Both parameters are
present on the deployed gitea-mcp v1.7.0 and both work: `type: "issues"`
returns only issues, `type: "pulls"` only PRs, and `milestones` filters by
name. Unfiltered, the same window returns them interleaved, so the mixing
the Gotcha describes is real — only the stated remedy was wrong.

This mattered most in gitea-workflow's no-args check-in, which lists open
issues through this skill and so reported PRs under "Open Issues" while
the skill forbade the one-parameter fix. The list flow now passes
`type: "issues"`.

references/sources.md recorded the absence as a live-verification win over
stale research docs; it now records that the earlier check was superseded
by v1.7.0, since drift runs in both directions. gitea-prs cited the same
parameter as its canonical drift example and no longer does — no
replacement example was substituted, because the obvious candidate was not
verified in this pass.

Also defaults label writes to `add_labels`: `replace_labels` clears every
label not in the array, and per-label exclusivity makes blanket replacement
destructive for a non-exclusive scope.

Verified live against gitea-mcp v1.7.0, read-only calls.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:51:02 +00:00
Defame1297
c5b207aee8 fix(git-branches): restore merging.md's provenance back-reference 
references/sources.md credits atlassian-gitflow-tutorial with contributing
the `--no-ff` requirement on Gitflow supporting-branch merges to
references/merging.md, and merging.md:14 does carry that claim — but the
file's own source_keys listed only context7-git-htmldocs, so the chain was
one-directional.

Surfaced by repairing validate-provenance.sh's Contributing-files parser
in the same series; this skill was one of seven whose sources.md the old
parser could not read, so checks 4 and 5 had never run against it.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:50:51 +00:00
Defame1297
93d3263f8c fix(pc-run): rebind the clean gate and fixer-hook rule to every branch 
SKILL.md tells a dispatching agent to read the matching reference file
"and no other". The retrofit moved the `pre-commit clean` confirmation
gate out of the always-loaded body into references/clean.md, but
references/failure-patterns.md — loaded by the diagnosis route, not the
clean route — prescribes `pre-commit clean` with no gate at all. So "why
is this hook failing" could wipe the machine-wide cache at
~/.cache/pre-commit for every repo without asking.

The gate returns to the body, where every branch loads it, and is
restated at the point of use in failure-patterns.md. It is its own
section rather than a Gotchas bullet because folding it in pushed the
Gotchas ratio to 41%, whose only suggested remedy is moving it back to
references/ — the move that caused this.

The fixer-hook rule had the same shape: reachable only behind "if the
cause is not obvious from the output", which is false precisely when
pre-commit prints `- files were modified by this hook`. The fix
(`git add -u && git commit`) and the prohibition on `pre-commit install -f`
are now unconditional, and the two weakened pointers that stranded them
are restored.

Found by an independent review of this branch.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:50:45 +00:00
Defame1297
ddf85518c7 fix(git-worktrees): correct the remote-tracking and repair claims 
The dispatch row "Create tracking a remote branch" prescribed
`git worktree add <path> <remote>/<branch>`. Per git-worktree(1) the
tracking DWIM fires only when <commit-ish> is a bare branch name that is
NOT found locally, no -b/-B/--detach is given, and exactly one remote has
a matching name; only then is it equivalent to
`git worktree add --track -b <branch> <path> <remote>/<branch>`.

An explicit <remote>/<branch> is found, so that precondition fails and no
branch is created: the result is a detached HEAD with no upstream. Commits
made in it become unreachable once the worktree is removed or HEAD moves,
and push needs an explicit refspec. Only the -d row was flagged detached.

The table now names --track -b as the always-correct form, keeps the bare
name shortcut with its precondition stated, and adds a Never row for the
<remote>/<branch> spelling. The single-remote and checkout.defaultRemote
preconditions move into the body, since a reader who trusts the table
never follows the reference pointer.

Also corrects `git worktree repair`: the no-argument form is the only
cwd-dependent one, and `repair <path>...` runs from any worktree. The
claim that running it from the wrong directory "reports nothing and fixes
nothing" has no basis in the manual and is removed.

Found by an independent review of this branch.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 20:50:36 +00:00
Defame1297
6cb47f81f6 fix(apm-workflow): surface the registries precondition in compile/install 
SKILL.md says the apm experimental enable registries precondition
applies "anywhere — configure, install or publish," but only
configure.md actually carried it. compile.md's Publish flow and
install.md's dependency resolution can both hit a named registry and
silently no-op with no error if the precondition was never run, yet
neither file mentioned it — contradicting the skill's own promise that
each reference file is self-contained for its concern. Add a one-line
cross-reference to configure.md's Gotchas in each.

Found by an independent post-closure audit of #99 (agent-audit +
skill-audit re-run against every changed skill/agent).
 2026-08-30 19:31:21 +00:00
Defame1297
0c0df46ac9 fix(gitea-releases): hedge the unconfirmed tag-deletion direction 
The retrofit (dfacf05) collapsed a Gotcha into a bidirectional claim —
"deleting a tag never deletes the release wrapping it" — that
references/call-signatures.md never confirms; that file explicitly
marks the reverse direction unconfirmed and "the more dangerous
direction to get wrong." State only the confirmed direction (deleting
a release doesn't delete its tag) and flag the reverse as unconfirmed
with a verification step, on a destructive, irreversible operation.

Found by an independent post-closure audit of #99 (agent-audit +
skill-audit re-run against every changed skill/agent).
 2026-08-30 19:31:18 +00:00
Defame1297
59aaec4ed6 fix(gitea-branches): repoint dangling overview.md citation 
references/commits.md cited overview.md as the authority for a
scope-gating claim, but no such file exists in this skill's package —
the only overview.md is an external research doc not shipped with the
skill. Repoint to branches.md's own Token scope section, which states
and confirms the same principle, and drop the unverifiable
write:repository enumeration detail no file in this skill actually
makes.

Found by an independent post-closure audit of #99 (agent-audit +
skill-audit re-run against every changed skill/agent).
 2026-08-30 19:31:15 +00:00
Defame1297
92ba9abe7c fix(diagnose): restore skill-root-relative script path 
00c1e6b (the ADR-0020 retrofit of diagnose) moved a bullet referencing
scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh out of SKILL.md and into the new
references/feedback-loops.md, and in the move flipped the correct
skill-root-relative path into an incorrect parent-relative one
(../scripts/...) -- despite that commit's own message claiming to fix
"a script path that did not resolve." References in this skill are
written relative to the skill root regardless of which file carries
them, matching the convention used throughout SKILL.md.

Found via an independent post-closure audit of issue #99; validated
clean via skill-audit afterward.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 17:45:56 +00:00
Defame1297
38efd2be67 fix(skills): collapse verb-enumerated descriptions to one capability clause 
An independent audit of the ADR-0020 retrofit (issue #99) found that
git-submodules, git-worktrees, and gitea-files each collapsed their
description length correctly during retrofit but left the capability
clause as a verb enumeration (e.g. "Create, list, lock, move, remove,
prune, or repair") instead of ADR-0020's required single clause. The
deterministic char-count gate can't catch this — it's a qualitative
rubric violation the retrofit commits' own messages never claimed to
address, only measurable length/word-count fixes.

Validated clean via skill-audit and skill-size-check after the fix;
boundary clauses and routing targets left untouched.

Refs #99
 2026-08-30 17:45:50 +00:00
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bdff6fdb3c refactor(bin): make caveman hand-invoked only 
Sets `disable-model-invocation: true`, so the host withholds caveman from
the model-visible skill listing. It stops paying preload tax and can only
be reached by typing /caveman.

The reason is not the 287 characters. caveman's description was almost
entirely a trigger list -- "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "less
tokens", "be brief" -- and "be brief" is a false-positive magnet: a user
asking for brevity wants short answers, not dropped articles and
`Respond terse like smart caveman`. Removing the skill from the router
deletes the bad trigger. User's call, made explicitly.

Safe to flag because the flag also hard-blocks the Skill tool, so any
inbound route from another skill would break. Re-checked all 39
descriptions and bodies after four waves of retrofit rewrites: every
mention of caveman is documentation, research notes or the lockfile.
Nothing routes to it.

The description is rewritten as human-facing text, since it is no longer
a routing surface -- it now says how to turn the mode on and off rather
than listing phrases for a reader that can no longer see it.

The two remaining SUGGESTIONs are #108: the boundary-clause check fires on
hand-invoked skills, which ADR-0020 contractually exempts. Advisory, and
not to be "fixed" in the skill.

Preload tax 10,002 -> 9,732 chars across 37 model-visible skills.

Refs #99

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
 2026-08-30 17:04:45 +00:00
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b25412bf39 docs: record that the ADR-0020 corpus is clean, and what the gates still miss 
Wave 4 closed the last three FAILs, so the session rule no longer describes
a grandfathered set: all 39 skills clear both tiers, 0 descriptions over 400
chars and 0 bodies over 900 words. Preload tax 21,033 -> 10,201 chars
(~2,550 tokens), under the 12,000 success criterion in #99.

The rule now says what that changes for the reader: nothing is grandfathered,
so the gates bite on first commit rather than waiting for a retrofit.

Also names the second blind spot, found this wave. The Kyberforge Vale style
is scoped [**/SKILL.md], so every references/ file is unlinted -- and the
contract's own remedy is to move prose into references/, which moves it out
of the prose gate's reach. forge's retrofit relocated ~900 words that way and
the moved prose carried a rule violation Vale would have caught in a SKILL.md.

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
 2026-08-30 16:42:59 +00:00
Defame1297
79c60715dc fix(gates): restore byte-identity of the shared ADR-0020 boundary resolver 
915eb09 rewrote the bare-arrow carve-out comment in scripts/skill-size-check.sh
without pasting the block over the two other copies, so the resolver stood at
764 lines in the hook and 755 in both audit validators.
tests/test-adr0020-contract.sh exists to catch exactly this and did -- it was
the regression behind that suite's failure, and I reported the suite green
after 915eb09 without re-running it.

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

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
 2026-08-30 16:42:51 +00:00
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264a5dbd67 docs(kyberforge): refresh the apm-workflow exemplar figures after its retrofit 
body-discipline.md and contract.md both cite apm-workflow by hard number
as the reference dispatch shape, and instruct authors to calibrate against
its body word count. The retrofit in 1e4aab5 moved every one of those
figures: body 421 -> 237, whole-file 554 -> 304, references 3,006 ->
3,222. Measured, not estimated.

The quoted closing line was stale too -- it now carries a continuation
clause, so it is quoted with an ellipsis rather than as a full sentence.

These are positive exemplars in live guidance, so they are refreshed
rather than pinned. That is the opposite treatment from the git-commits
negative example in the same file, which is pinned to 5e23250 precisely
so it keeps describing the pre-retrofit state. ADR-0020 carries the same
figures and is deliberately left alone: it self-pins every citation to
base commit f9b919d, and refreshing it would destroy the record of what
the decision was taken against.

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
 2026-08-30 16:31:43 +00:00
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aa982b9d26 refactor(kyberforge): retrofit apm-install to the ADR-0020 contract 
Description 514 -> 213 chars, Gotchas 5 entries/47% -> 2 entries/17%.
Body 350 -> 397 words: three Gotchas fold into the steps they gate, and
the repairs below add back what the fold dropped.

Cuts the second trigger register, the runtime enumeration (still named in
the body and README) and the enumeration inside the boundary clause.

Fixes four defects the first pass introduced:

- The mirror bullet claimed the piped one-liner "ignores" VERSION and
  GITHUB_URL. The installer reads both from the environment and its own
  usage header documents VERSION working through the pipe. The real
  constraint is that an air-gapped host cannot reach aka.ms, so the
  script must be on disk. Also corrects the variable names --
  APM_RELEASE_BASE_URL is the mirror base, GITHUB_URL is the Enterprise
  host.
- "If apm --version already answers, skip to Step 2" was unconditional on
  intent, so a pin or upgrade request routed past the only pin
  instruction in the skill. Now gated on intent.
- The PEP 668 rule was demoted to post-failure recovery, leaving a
  routing rule that sent a Debian box into a command that hard-fails.
  The prohibition is back on the pip bullet, before the choice.
- The apm-is-not-a-runtime Gotcha lost its operative clause. The two
  step headings cited as carrying it already existed pre-retrofit, so
  nothing had replaced it and nothing stated when Step 2 is required.

Refs #99

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MWb5RQgCL1ye7cGp2RPb2u
 2026-08-30 16:31:33 +00:00
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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
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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
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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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
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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
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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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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
Defame1297
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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ETxbGFetkbJQBHsx442Brt
 2026-08-17 16:58:56 +00:00
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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": "0.4.5",
"version": "0.4.6",
"owner": {
"name": "Defame1297",
"email": "defame1297@rkdr.net",
@@ -11,35 +11,35 @@
{
"name": "kyberforge",
"description": "Skills and agents for creating, maintaining, and managing a Claude Code / Copilot CLI plugin marketplace.",
"version": "1.6.0",
"version": "1.6.1",
"category": "Developer Tools",
"source": "./plugins/kyberforge"
},
{
"name": "bin",
"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",
"version": "1.1.6",
"category": "Utilities",
"source": "./plugins/bin"
},
{
"name": "git",
"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",
"version": "1.3.6",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/git"
},
{
"name": "gitea",
"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",
"version": "1.3.7",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/gitea"
},
{
"name": "core",
"description": "Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it.",
"version": "1.1.1",
"version": "1.1.2",
"category": "Productivity",
"source": "./plugins/core"
},
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
{
"name": "lint",
"description": "Skills and agents for configuring and running linters.",
"version": "1.1.6",
"version": "1.1.7",
"category": "Developer Tools",
"source": "./plugins/lint"
}

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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": "0.4.5",
"version": "0.4.6",
"owner": {
"name": "Defame1297",
"email": "defame1297@rkdr.net",
@@ -11,35 +11,35 @@
{
"name": "kyberforge",
"description": "Skills and agents for creating, maintaining, and managing a Claude Code / Copilot CLI plugin marketplace.",
"version": "1.6.0",
"version": "1.6.1",
"category": "Developer Tools",
"source": "./plugins/kyberforge"
},
{
"name": "bin",
"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",
"version": "1.1.6",
"category": "Utilities",
"source": "./plugins/bin"
},
{
"name": "git",
"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",
"version": "1.3.6",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/git"
},
{
"name": "gitea",
"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",
"version": "1.3.7",
"category": "Version Control",
"source": "./plugins/gitea"
},
{
"name": "core",
"description": "Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it.",
"version": "1.1.1",
"version": "1.1.2",
"category": "Productivity",
"source": "./plugins/core"
},
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
{
"name": "lint",
"description": "Skills and agents for configuring and running linters.",
"version": "1.1.6",
"version": "1.1.7",
"category": "Developer Tools",
"source": "./plugins/lint"
}

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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Fall back to raw shell only when no skill covers it.
- **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.** 26 of 39 descriptions and 9 of 39 bodies exceed their FAIL tier, and the `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` Vale rule fires 10 errors across `gitea-issues`, `gitea-labels-milestones`, `gitea-prs` and `gitea-workflow`. Editing any of those skills *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. `skill-size-check` will not warn you about the Vale half, so check both: `pre-commit run --all-files`.
- **The ADR-0020 skill gates ship hot, with no baseline — and the corpus is now clean.** All 39 skills clear both FAIL tiers: no description over 400 characters, no body over 900 words (counted body-only). Retrofitted plugin by plugin under #99 (see `docs/spec/gates.md`). Because nothing is grandfathered, the gates now bite on first commit — a new skill, or an edit that pushes a description past 400, is blocked until it complies. **No routing target dangles**, and `tests/test-adr0020-targets.sh` pins that set as empty, so a new boundary clause naming a non-existent skill fails the suite rather than joining a backlog. Two blind spots survive: `skill-size-check` does not cover the Vale half, so `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` fires nowhere today but any new description can reintroduce it; and no `references/` file is linted by anything, so prose relocated out of a body to satisfy the word gate lands outside the prose gate. It has two independent causes and closing either alone changes nothing — `docs/spec/gates.md` has both, issue #117 tracks it. Check both gates: `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.

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@@ -16,8 +16,12 @@ decisions.
**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.
first token of every session whether the skill is invoked or not. Measurement method: ADR-0020. Its
**23,427 characters is the pre-retrofit baseline, not a current reading** — measured at the decision
commit, before #99. Across the same 39 skills it is **10,478 characters** (~2,620 tokens) as of
2026-09-01. Both figures move with the corpus, so re-derive rather than quote either: sum
`len(name) + len(description)` over the frontmatter of every `plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md`,
folding block scalars as `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` does.
_Avoid_: context cost, token overhead
**Skill context contract**:
@@ -26,6 +30,14 @@ trigger clause, at most one capability clause, and a boundary clause, and nothin
and the target-resolution walk: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
_Avoid_: skill budget, size limit
**Routing target**:
The skill or agent name a boundary clause sends work to. It **resolves** when a skill or agent of
that name is reachable from the file being checked, and **dangles** when none is — a route the router
cannot take. Dangling is a blocking ERROR in route notation (`/name`, `→ name`) and a SUGGESTION for
a bare name nothing else in the sentence corroborates. Verdicts and the resolution walk:
`docs/spec/gates.md`.
_Avoid_: route, pointer, cross-reference
**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
@@ -35,7 +47,9 @@ _Avoid_: router body, thin body
**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. Exemplar: `zoom-out`.
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
**Delegation discipline**:

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@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
lockfile_version: '1'
generated_at: '2026-08-17T06:44:18.931217+00:00'
generated_at: '2026-08-30T11:38:46.419301+00:00'
apm_version: 0.28.0
dependencies:
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: bin
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: 9385c77ac71a67db2b8fe9c3783af9e0fbbf2eae
version: 1.1.3
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.1.5
virtual_path: plugins/bin
is_virtual: true
package_type: marketplace_plugin
@@ -81,13 +81,13 @@ dependencies:
.claude/skills/triage/SKILL.md: sha256:b819f0285e4e5814ac6472d0217f07dc9f23d2fdae3ebb0dd31d98360d8ac029
.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: 9385c77ac71a67db2b8fe9c3783af9e0fbbf2eae
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: 9385c77ac71a67db2b8fe9c3783af9e0fbbf2eae
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
.claude/skills/pc-run/references/sources.md: sha256:7ca8b7106e7ee5c2c7d1fbd3dc9e0d2a89c18eba79145cbab55bc8e39eef9087
content_hash: sha256:6d0c8fcec32d8fb8321b539cc567c4241342cfa33e5d0b6f66697d2f8b784fdd
content_hash: sha256:8c47bd35572c331f1a1b61a8be159d9690a1bf286958a85826fde01939e3007b
declared_license: MIT
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: gitea
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: 9385c77ac71a67db2b8fe9c3783af9e0fbbf2eae
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:
.claude/skills/gitea-labels-milestones/references/labels.md: sha256:be8ff5ce4dbfb31dd2bdcc425a769dca94887c5c8acd47c78e1e21ccfc24dcba
.claude/skills/gitea-labels-milestones/references/milestones.md: sha256:ff1f1b0c8ecb6967c940d1ca8bebf2a2c7995414936f8ac7f5ff23d1dc01ac3f
.claude/skills/gitea-labels-milestones/references/sources.md: sha256:a1a1d3381dfb0dc8f331be0b3ab49f28e94b992fb4809ca09be91ce33047dd1e
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/README.md: sha256:0346388f642641c56cef82ba1ee576a187d048eee66fab839a17417c81122cbc
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/README.md: sha256:31b6ad46379feee8ac7d837030f93ec04be20b7d11021b295dc6d27b4340a05b
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/SKILL.md: sha256:bf70832f3d97064c9816d680390da84c256a971d7804317e1814b4ee6a622b4d
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/references/merging.md: sha256:5f8b55b1a729f122ee265fb5da69369fc27434a13dd02fc112801f945d2c9d19
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/references/pull-requests.md: sha256:631874a7cddfcf678a2beffa5578fa7848bcef36be1251fa13fb0ccc543bcaf7
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/references/pull-requests.md: sha256:d6cefd0cf270f8d844536311e67bfa45cd07f024aa0a649de1938af306ae7109
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/references/reviews.md: sha256:1089cf45a75a562bbb29de6538848c4f4bd627d5a7e36bf9b2ab6496f45f962b
.claude/skills/gitea-prs/references/sources.md: sha256:ac48a3018443b56acb5c3d55d6c04e62103f5bac71b8185e2bd085fb7e165431
.claude/skills/gitea-releases/README.md: sha256:102625066c34c7b5a16e25b7506a87f876e9b123b334f5ffba73ab1523a57ed7
@@ -327,12 +327,12 @@ dependencies:
.claude/skills/gitea-workflow/README.md: sha256:338f79d0b3c25741848fce841a5094ef27cbc7e4a6228404557b2d9594df68fa
.claude/skills/gitea-workflow/SKILL.md: sha256:a8266ceb335c56eb68cc09b3f81690c52c4dada9f25b48c3a46ac46b0ad3b761
.claude/skills/gitea-workflow/references/sources.md: sha256:171d3a5a36cb9d637302516501a1e9fc7a4bd058968dc9244412c335aa2de68b
content_hash: sha256:8149467df78678963dbb140aa254f606a53491f3cb7e5d97a1211be426e7892e
content_hash: sha256:16d5b4462c3f4a506c1c74172d4d67bf0dacc4218676de4e8dfe551b2f31a3f8
declared_license: MIT
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: kyberforge
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: 9385c77ac71a67db2b8fe9c3783af9e0fbbf2eae
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.6.0
virtual_path: plugins/kyberforge
is_virtual: true
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ dependencies:
- repo_url: Defame1297/holocron
name: lint
host: git.dev.rkdr.net
resolved_commit: 9385c77ac71a67db2b8fe9c3783af9e0fbbf2eae
resolved_commit: 0e91a3ae66d1b0439b9c0ef4b6e88ca6f2659473
version: 1.1.6
virtual_path: plugins/lint
is_virtual: true
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/gitea
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/gitea
content_hash: sha256:0346388f642641c56cef82ba1ee576a187d048eee66fab839a17417c81122cbc
content_hash: sha256:31b6ad46379feee8ac7d837030f93ec04be20b7d11021b295dc6d27b4340a05b
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/gitea-prs/SKILL.md
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ deployments:
owners:
- git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/gitea
active_owner: git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/plugins/gitea
content_hash: sha256:631874a7cddfcf678a2beffa5578fa7848bcef36be1251fa13fb0ccc543bcaf7
content_hash: sha256:d6cefd0cf270f8d844536311e67bfa45cd07f024aa0a649de1938af306ae7109
- kind: project-relative
target: claude
value: .claude/skills/gitea-prs/references/reviews.md

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
name: holocron
version: 0.4.5
version: 0.4.6
description: AI development skills for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI — factory, design, implement, review, and cross-cutting workflows.
license: MIT
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ dependencies:
# after a kyberforge release, check this first.
executables:
allow:
kyberforge#1.6.0:
kyberforge#1.6.1:
hooks: true
bin: true
@@ -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: 0.4.5
version: 0.4.6
owner:
name: Defame1297
email: defame1297@rkdr.net
@@ -79,31 +79,31 @@ marketplace:
- name: kyberforge
description: Skills and agents for creating, maintaining, and managing a Claude Code / Copilot CLI plugin marketplace.
source: ./plugins/kyberforge
version: 1.6.0
version: 1.6.1
category: Developer Tools
- name: bin
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: 1.1.5
version: 1.1.6
category: Utilities
- name: git
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: 1.3.5
version: 1.3.6
category: Version Control
- name: gitea
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: 1.3.6
version: 1.3.7
category: Version Control
- name: core
description: Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it.
source: ./plugins/core
version: 1.1.1
version: 1.1.2
category: Productivity
- name: mattpocock-skills
@@ -115,5 +115,5 @@ marketplace:
- name: lint
description: Skills and agents for configuring and running linters.
source: ./plugins/lint
version: 1.1.6
version: 1.1.7
category: Developer Tools

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@@ -127,8 +127,15 @@ clause**, and a **boundary clause**. Capability enumeration, output-format detai
gate shipping hot with no baseline cannot give two answers. Under the walk-up those four resolve
because sibling plugins are in the universe — no plugin here declares a cross-plugin apm
dependency, and none needs to. Verified: a tree holding only `plugins/` and the root `apm.yml`,
with no `.claude/` or `.agents/` anywhere, now produces findings identical to the working tree —
26 description FAILs, 9 body FAILs, 2 dangling targets, 0 missing references, 58 SUGGESTIONs.
with no `.claude/` or `.agents/` anywhere, produced findings identical to the working tree. The
figures that reproduction recorded — 26 description FAILs, 9 body FAILs, 2 dangling targets, 0
missing references, 58 SUGGESTIONs — are the **pre-retrofit** corpus as it stood when the
experiment ran, kept here as the evidence for the install-independence claim, not as a current
reading. *Amended 2026-09-01: the #99 retrofit took the first three to zero. Measured at that
date over the same install-free tree: 0 description FAILs, 0 body FAILs, 0 dangling targets, 0
missing references, 29 SUGGESTIONs.* What the experiment establishes is that the two trees agree,
not what either measured; re-derive rather than quote —
`bash scripts/skill-size-check.sh plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md`.
- **The universe is the apm marketplace, and nothing else.** A routing target resolves to a skill or
an agent, or it does not resolve. Host built-ins are deliberately outside it: `/compact`, `/clear`
and `/init` are Claude Code slash commands with no counterpart in Copilot CLI or Codex, so a
@@ -185,8 +192,11 @@ becomes the system prompt of a fresh context. The rationale for the 900-word FAI
That exemption is expressed in `agent-audit/scripts/validate.sh`, which has no body constant, and in
the `files:` pattern of the `skill-size-check` pre-commit hook, which is `SKILL.md`-only. It is *not*
expressed in `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` itself, which measures whatever path it is handed —
running it directly over `plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md` today reports 900-word body FAILs on
`git-orchestrate` (933), `gitea-orchestrate` (1,199) and `apm-orchestrate` (1,080). Agents escape by
running it directly over `plugins/*/.apm/agents/*.agent.md` exits 1 with 900-word body FAILs on
`git-orchestrate` and `gitea-orchestrate`. *Amended 2026-09-01: this sentence named a third agent,
`apm-orchestrate`, at 1,080 words. It is 876 today — a SUGGESTION, not a FAIL. Counts are
deliberately no longer pinned here: agent bodies are edited like any other file and a figure in this
paragraph goes stale the moment one is trimmed. Run the command.* Agents escape by
file pattern, not by the script knowing the difference. Anyone widening that pattern to cover agents
would silently enforce a gate this ADR declines to set.
@@ -203,8 +213,14 @@ with no trigger list.
Verified end-to-end rather than assumed: `plugins/bin/.apm/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md:4` carries the
flag, apm passes it through verbatim to both `.claude/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md:4` and the flat mirror
at `plugins/bin/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md:4`, and `zoom-out` is the one installed skill absent from
the model-visible skill listing in a live session. It remains invocable as `/zoom-out`.
at `plugins/bin/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md:4`, and `zoom-out` was — at the time of that check, when it
was the only carrier — the one installed skill absent from the model-visible skill listing in a live
session. It remains invocable as `/zoom-out`. `caveman` has since taken the flag as well, so the
corpus now has **two** carriers. Do not read a carrier list off this page; re-derive it:
```
grep -l '^disable-model-invocation: true' plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md
```
### Merging siblings
@@ -219,10 +235,13 @@ rather than the core job.
skills still exist separately, and this change made the split deeper rather than shallower: retrofit
to the dispatch pattern took `skill-audit` from 3 reference files to 7 and `agent-audit` from 4 to 8,
and their two same-named `references/description-quality.md` files now differ on 100 of ~120 lines
after normalising `skill`/`agent`, where before they were closer. The merge stays the decision; it
reopens ADR-0008 (agent-audit's single-file invocation contract) and touches every call site in
`skill-author`, `agent-author` and `forge`, which is why it is its own change and not a rider on
this one. Recorded here rather than dropped, so the gap between the rule and the tree is deliberate
after normalising `skill`/`agent`, where before they were closer. It has kept deepening since: the
#99 retrofit added `finding-criteria.md` to `skill-audit`, drawing it level with `agent-audit`. Both
figures move with the next retrofit, so measure rather than quote —
`ls plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/<name>/references/ | grep -c '\.md$'`. The merge stays the
decision; it reopens ADR-0008 (agent-audit's single-file invocation contract) and touches every call
site in `skill-author`, `agent-author` and `forge`, which is why it is its own change and not a rider
on this one. Recorded here rather than dropped, so the gap between the rule and the tree is deliberate
and dated instead of discovered later.
### Enforcement and rollout
@@ -233,11 +252,13 @@ which tier each rule is in, because the failure this ADR is most exposed to is a
| Check | Applies to | Tier | Home |
|---|---|---|---|
| description characters (250 SUGGESTION / 400 FAIL) | skills, agents | deterministic | `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`; constants mirrored in `skill-audit/scripts/validate.sh` and `agent-audit/scripts/validate.sh` |
| description characters (250 SUGGESTION † / 400 FAIL) | skills, agents | deterministic | `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`; constants mirrored in `skill-audit/scripts/validate.sh` and `agent-audit/scripts/validate.sh` |
| body-only words (600 SUGGESTION / 900 FAIL) | skills | deterministic | `skill-size-check.sh`, `skill-audit/scripts/validate.sh` |
| description present and non-empty (ERROR) | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| boundary target resolves to a real skill or agent (ERROR when written as `/name` or `-> name`, or when its own sentence names another target that resolves; SUGGESTION otherwise) | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| boundary clause absent (SUGGESTION) | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| boundary target resolves to a real skill or agent — **three** verdicts, not two (ERROR when written in route notation — `/name`, or any arrow form; or when a *terminal* bare name's own sentence names another target that resolves. SUGGESTION otherwise. INFO, "DID NOT RUN", exit 0, when no skill universe could be determined for the path at all — no authoring root above it, no apm package root, no declared apm dependencies, no deployed `.claude/` or `.agents/` tree: the targets are named and left unchecked) | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| boundary clause absent — `absent` (SUGGESTION) † | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| an arrow clause is present but no target can be read out of it — `unparsed` (SUGGESTION) † | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| one arrow clause naming two or more targets, of which only the first is resolved (SUGGESTION, issue #107) † | skills, agents | deterministic | same |
| Gotchas entry count over five (SUGGESTION) | skills | deterministic | same |
| Gotchas over 25% of the body (SUGGESTION) | skills | deterministic | same |
| every `references/<file>.md` a body names exists (ERROR) | skills | deterministic | same |
@@ -254,6 +275,21 @@ that guessed at them would be a worse gate than no gate, because it would be bel
enforced, they are reviewed, and this table exists so that distinction is written down rather than
inferred from whether a validator happens to have been written yet.
**† These four, and only these four, are lifted for a hand-invoked file** — one whose frontmatter
carries `disable-model-invocation: true`, read as a boolean by `hand_invoked()` in all three scripts.
No validator knew the field existed (issue **#108**), so every routing SUGGESTION above fired on
exactly the shape the *Invocation as a design axis* section mandates, and the boundary-clause
remedy — "so the router knows where NOT to send this skill" — was addressed to a router that cannot
see the skill at all. An author who took the advice made the file worse.
What does **not** lift is the point of the carve-out. Both body word tiers stand: the body is still
loaded on invocation and still competes with the caller's live conversation. The 400-character
description FAIL stands: that description is not preloaded, but it is the one line a user reads when
choosing from the `/` menu, and the ceiling is an outlier stop rather than a routing-quality budget —
which is exactly why the 250-character *target* is the tier that lifts. And a target the description
does happen to name is still resolved and can still dangle as a blocking ERROR. Mechanics, and the
reason the field is read as a boolean rather than as a mention of the key: `docs/spec/gates.md`.
Two of the deterministic rows are tuned for **false positives over recall**, and what they decline to
see is part of the contract. On target extraction: a bare hyphenated name counts only inside a
boundary sentence, and a single-word name is never matchable bare — `research`, `triage`, `forge`,
@@ -264,7 +300,8 @@ raise an error: one followed by an ordinary lowercase noun is a compound **modif
confirm-only — it still resolves and still counts as a route when the name exists, but it can never
dangle. Only a *terminal* target can. The compressed arrow form `→ <name>` is exempt from that
follower test and is always error-eligible, because nothing reads as a compound modifier after an
arrow; a `/slash` target reached through a route verb is **not** exempt and takes the same test. The
arrow; a `/slash` target reached through a route verb is **not** exempt and takes the same test.
*Amended 2026-08-31 — the `/slash` half is reversed: it is exempt too. See the amendment below.* The
simpler rule — "only marked targets may dangle" — was available and would have been wrong here: both
live true positives are bare, `research`'s "(use neuledge-context)" and the `gitea-labels-` /
`milestones` fold. On the body-shape checks: a `## Gotchas` heading must *end* in "gotchas", not
@@ -296,6 +333,46 @@ Three pre-existing contradictions are fixed in the same change, because they are
- `description-quality.md:45-50` has no FAIL condition for internal-mechanics content, which is why
`skill-author/SKILL.md:102` never bit.
## Amendment (2026-08-31): route notation short-circuits the follower test, `/name` included
The Enforcement section above exempts the arrow form from the follower test and then withholds the
same exemption from `/name`: "a `/slash` target reached through a route verb is **not** exempt and
takes the same test." That half is reversed. **Both spellings of route notation are exempt, and the
exemption is decided before the follower test rather than weighed against it.**
Three things make the original call wrong rather than merely strict.
**It contradicted the promise the same paragraph makes.** Route notation is offered to an author as
the way to get a target checked unconditionally — the SUGGESTION text on an unpromoted target says
so in as many words: "write it as `/name` or `-> name` and it will be checked properly." Under the
original rule that was true of one of the two spellings. `-> name` reached `_add()` with
`strict=True` from both its call sites; `/name` did not, so it fell through to `_terminal()` and any
follower outside `FOLLOWER_OK` demoted it. `Do not use for Y — use /no-such-skill afterwards.` exited
0 — and, before the companion visibility fix, in total silence.
**The follower test's own justification does not reach `/name`.** That test exists for *prose*: a
bare hyphenated token followed by an ordinary lowercase noun is a compound modifier, "pre-commit
hooks" and "pull-request template". A leading slash is Claude Code's invocation syntax and occurs in
no English compound, so there is no attributive reading to protect. The exemption was withheld from
the one shape the rule it protects against cannot describe.
**`FOLLOWER_OK` is a closed whitelist of roughly eighty words, and a closed list is the wrong thing
to hang a blocking gate on.** Leaving `/name` under it made *whether a commit is blocked* depend on
whether someone had thought to enumerate the next word — the gate failing open on its own
unfamiliarity. The bare-target path keeps the follower test precisely because it needs a brake it can
justify; the notation path asked for one and was given the same brake by accident.
What is unchanged: the **corroboration** branch. A *bare* terminal name still earns its blocking
ERROR only from a resolving sibling in the same sentence, and a compound modifier still cannot
dangle at all. The conservative tuning that decision rests on is untouched — this amendment moves one
explicitly-marked spelling out from under it, not the prose path.
Verified on fixtures inside a synthetic plugin tree: `… Do not use for Y — use /no-such-skill
afterwards.` exits 1, while the same sentence with the bare `no-such-skill` exits 0 at SUGGESTION,
and rises to a blocking ERROR the moment a resolving sibling joins it. The reasoning is recorded at
the point of enforcement in `_add()`'s docstring in `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` and its two
mirrored copies, and the verdict table in `docs/spec/gates.md` states the corrected shape.
## Consequences
**Editing any non-compliant skill now requires retrofitting it first.** At decision time, 30 of 39
@@ -311,10 +388,17 @@ carries is the ordinary one for hot gates: a gate expensive enough to be inconve
with `SKIP=` and loses its authority.
**A second hot gate ships alongside it, and it is easy to miss.** `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` is
`level: error` like every other rule in that style, so `pre-commit run --all-files` is red on 10
alerts across `gitea-issues`, `gitea-labels-milestones`, `gitea-prs` and `gitea-workflow`
independently of anything `skill-size-check` reports. Someone scoping the #99 retrofit off the size
findings alone will fix those and still be blocked. The two gates want fixing together.
`level: error` like every other rule in that style, so at decision time `pre-commit run --all-files`
was red on 10 alerts across `gitea-issues`, `gitea-labels-milestones`, `gitea-prs` and
`gitea-workflow` independently of anything `skill-size-check` reports. Someone scoping the #99
retrofit off the size findings alone would have fixed those and still been blocked. The two gates
wanted fixing together, and were. *Amended 2026-09-01: that figure is historical. The Vale prefilter
over the same 39 files now reports 0 errors, 0 warnings and 0 suggestions, so
`Kyberforge.CompositionNote` fires nowhere in the corpus today. The rule is still hot and still
independent of `skill-size-check`, so a new description can reintroduce it; `skill-size-check` does
not cover the Vale half, and no `references/` file is linted by anything (`docs/spec/gates.md` has
both causes, issue #117 tracks them). Re-derive rather than quote —*
`bash plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-audit/scripts/vale-wrap.sh plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md`.
**A ceiling does not produce an average.** If every author writes to the 400-character FAIL, the
preload lands at 39 × 400 = 15,600 chars — a 33% cut off 23,427, not the ~50% intended. Writing to
@@ -342,8 +426,8 @@ and `git-*` families — where every sibling shares a keyword and boundary claus
— are the ones most likely to sit at the FAIL tier permanently. If the retrofit shows that family
routing degrades, the tier is the first thing to revisit.
**Four broken routing targets were found; two are fixed here and two are live.** Tracked as issue
#100.
**Four broken routing targets were found; two were fixed here and two shortly after.** Tracked as
issue #100.
- `skill-audit` routed to `/skill-improve` twice in its description plus `README.md:10`, and no such
skill exists — the real target is `skill-author`. **Fixed here**, as a side effect of retrofitting
@@ -353,14 +437,24 @@ routing degrades, the tier is the first thing to revisit.
detectable by the resolvable-target check and never will be: "examine agent files manually" names
no target, and a check that resolves names cannot see a name that is absent. A misroute to nowhere
is a review finding, not a gate finding.
- `research` routes to `neuledge-context`, which exists only inside that string. **Live.**
- `research` routes to `neuledge-context`, which exists only inside that string. Was **live**;
**fixed under #99** — the retrofitted description names no such target.
- `gitea-issues` carries the literal string `gitea-labels- milestones` in its folded description, a
stray space introduced by YAML wrapping mid-token, breaking the skill name in preloaded text.
**Live** — the check reports it as a dangling `gitea-labels`.
stray space introduced by YAML wrapping mid-token, breaking the skill name in preloaded text. Was
**live**, reported as a dangling `gitea-labels`; **fixed under #99** — the name now folds intact.
So the check fires on 3 of the 4 against the base commit and on 2 at the tip of this change, and
`tests/test-skill-size-check.sh` probes exactly those three by name rather than asserting a count, so
it degrades to SKIP as #100 lands rather than going stale.
So the check fired on 3 of the 4 against the base commit and on 2 at the tip of the change that
carried this ADR. **The corpus dangling set is now empty**, and that is asserted rather than
observed: `tests/test-adr0020-targets.sh` pins the set as empty, so a new boundary clause naming a
non-existent skill fails the suite instead of joining a backlog. `tests/test-skill-size-check.sh`
probed the three original names rather than asserting a count; as each was retrofitted its probe was
**removed, not skipped**, because a `pass "SKIP: …"` branch is an assertion-free result counted in
the totals and makes the suite look one test stronger than it is. That file's commentary survives the
probes and states the rule. Re-derive the current set — never read it off this page:
```
bash scripts/skill-size-check.sh plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md | grep 'does not resolve'
```
**Duplication between `skill-author` and `agent-author` survives un-gated.** The merge rule
deliberately excludes the author pair, so the commit-verification argument in four near-copies, the

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@@ -98,11 +98,57 @@ 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$`,
runs `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`. That scope means it never lints the
`plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/examples/` reference skills. It is also shipped to external repos
as `kyberforge-skill-size-check` (see
runs `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`. It is also shipped to external repos as
`kyberforge-skill-size-check` (see
[External consumers](#external-consumers-the-root-pre-commit-hooksyaml)).
**Two things fall outside that scope, both deliberately.** The `[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` tail admits only a
`SKILL.md` sitting directly in a skill directory under `.apm/skills/`:
- the `plugins/kyberforge/docs/research/examples/` reference skills, which are vendored upstream
corpus and not this repo's to gate;
- `plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/skill-author/assets/templates/SKILL.md` — inside `.apm/skills/`,
but two directories deeper. It is the `FILL IN:` scaffold `skill-author` copies, so its
`description: >` is a comment block rather than a description and every ADR-0020 measurement over
it would be meaningless. A reader adjusting the pattern needs to know it is there.
Everything else it matches exactly, with nothing over- or under-caught. Re-derive both halves:
```
git ls-files | grep -cE '^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$' # the real skills
git ls-files | grep -E '^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/.*SKILL\.md$' \
| grep -vE '^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$' # the scaffold only
```
The first count equals the number of skill directories (`ls -d plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/ | wc -l`);
the second returns exactly the template. The remaining unmatched `SKILL.md` files in the tree are the
generated flat mirror, which is excluded by the `.apm/` segment on purpose — a mirror edit is drift,
not an authoring change.
### `skill-frontmatter`, the other hook on that scope
A second `repo: local` pre-commit hook, `skill-frontmatter`, runs on the **same** `files:` pattern at
the same stage. It is a short shell loop: for each file, `grep -q "^name:"` and
`grep -q "^description:"`, failing with "missing required frontmatter fields" if either is absent.
**It overlaps ADR-0020's "description present and non-empty" FAIL, and the overlap is not clean.**
The ADR (`:95-101`) requires that question be decided on the **YAML-folded value** and nowhere else,
precisely because a line regex gets it wrong in both directions. Measured on fixtures:
| Frontmatter | `skill-frontmatter` | `skill-size-check` |
|---|---|---|
| `description:` with no value, then `model: sonnet` | passes — the key is on a line | ERROR, "missing or empty" |
| `"description": …` (quoted key, valid YAML) | **fails** — `^description:` does not match | passes, description read normally |
So the grep is not a second opinion on presence. It is blind to the shape ADR-0020 was written
against, and it is the only one of the two that objects to a quoted key. Neither disagreement is
currently live in the corpus, and the honest reading is that presence is `skill-size-check`'s
question — the grep's contribution to it is noise on one shape and silence on the other.
What the grep does add is the `name:` key, which **no** ADR-0020 check reads: a `SKILL.md` with no
`name:` passes `skill-size-check` at exit 0. That is its real and only unique coverage, and the
reason not to fold it into the size gate on the grounds of redundancy.
### Two independent gate families, neither replaced the other
**Family 1 — agentskills.io spec backstop** (unchanged, conformance not quality):
@@ -141,7 +187,7 @@ A boundary-clause target that resolves to no skill or agent has **three** possib
| 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 |
| **blocking ERROR** | the target is written in **route notation** — `/name` for any name, or any arrow form (a bare `-> name` only when the name is hyphenated, a backticked `` -> `name` `` for any — see the gap below); **or** it is a bare **terminal** name (not a compound modifier) **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
@@ -149,14 +195,36 @@ tool, a file format or an English compound as a route: "pre-commit hooks" is pro
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.
**The two promotion conditions are not symmetric, and the order matters.** `_add()` decides
**notation first**: when the name is written `/name`, or reached through any arrow form, the target
is marked error-eligible there and the terminal test is never run. Terminality gates only the *bare*
path — a name in prose earns its error from corroboration, and a compound modifier can never dangle.
Reading the row as "terminal AND (notation OR corroborated)" gets the notation half backwards: it
predicts that `` … Do not use for Y — use /no-such-skill afterwards. `` is a SUGGESTION, because
`afterwards` is a follower outside `FOLLOWER_OK`. It exits 1. That was the defect — `-> name` reached
`_add()` with `strict=True` from both its call sites and `/name` did not, so the one spelling
ADR-0020 offers an author who wants a route checked unconditionally was the one spelling a stray
follower could silence.
**Known gap: a BARE arrow target must be hyphenated.** Target extraction is built on `NAME_HYPH` in
`scripts/skill-size-check.sh`, which requires at least one hyphen, and `ARROW_BOUNDARY` inherits
that. So `Not X -> gitea-prs` is extracted and checked, while `Not X -> triage` yields no target.
The exclusion is deliberate, not an oversight: `research`, `triage`, `forge`, `prototype` and `tdd`
are all real skill names *and* ordinary English, so a bare single-word rule would flag most of the
corpus. The marked spellings carry no such restriction — `` `triage` `` and `/triage` are both
extracted — and are the forms to prefer. **Both arrow spellings are recognised:** `ARROW_MARKED`,
`ARROW_BOUNDARY` and `BOUNDARY_ARROW` are each built from `(?:->|→)`, so the unicode arrow `→`
behaves exactly like `->` in every case below. Cite these constants by symbol name, never by line
number: the script moves often enough that a pinned line lands a reader in an unrelated comment
block and reads as plausible.
**The gap is no longer silent.** It used to be exactly that — no ERROR, no SUGGESTION, exit 0 — which
made the dangling-target SUGGESTION's own advice unsafe for a single-word skill: taking it silenced
the finding instead of checking it. `boundary_clause_status()` now separates the case out and
reports it as `unparsed` (see below), naming the parse failure and the two spellings that fix it.
The target is still not *resolved*; the author is now told so rather than left with a green gate.
`tests/test-adr0020-targets.sh` covers both directions (`arrow-single-word-target` and the silent
control `arrow-single-word-marked`).
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
@@ -200,17 +268,109 @@ through `.claude/skills/` alone, so **the same commit measured 2 dangling target
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**.
`.claude/` or `.agents/` anywhere, produced findings identical to the working tree. The figures that
reproduction recorded — 26 description FAILs, 9 body FAILs, 2 dangling targets, 0 missing references
— are the pre-retrofit corpus as it stood when the experiment was run, kept here as the evidence for
the install-independence claim. They are not current: the retrofit under #99 took the first three to
zero. What the experiment establishes is that the two trees agree, not what either measured.
### Boundary-clause detection: three outcomes, not two
`boundary_clause_status()` returns one of three values, and the two findings get separate messages:
| Status | When | Reported as |
|---|---|---|
| `present` | a prose marker (`do not`, `instead`, `rather than`, `not for`) or an arrow clause was found | nothing |
| `absent` | neither was found | SUGGESTION: add a boundary clause, in either form |
| `unparsed` | an arrow clause was found and **no target could be read out of it** | SUGGESTION: the clause is present — this is a *parse* failure, not a missing clause |
The third had to be split out. Collapsing it into `absent` is a **wrong** finding, not a strict one:
it sends the author to add a clause that is already there. Three of them instead reworded a correct
clause until the regex accepted it, one stripping the very filename that discriminates the skill
from its neighbour (**#110**).
`unparsed` is narrow and certain on purpose. It fires only on the arrow form, which *always* names a
target, so zero targets means the name is written in a shape the extractor cannot see — in practice
a bare single-word target, per the known gap above, and the message says to write it `` `name` `` or
`/name`. A **prose** clause yielding no target is not reported at all: "Do not use for anything else"
is a complete and legitimate boundary clause that names nowhere to go.
**One arrow, one target.** An arrow clause naming two or more targets draws its own SUGGESTION,
quoting both names and asking for a split, because only the first is ever resolved: the conjunction
continuation (`CONT_MARKED` / `CONT_ANY`) is wired to the prose route verbs and never to arrows. So
`Not X -> a or b` resolved `a`, left `b` resolved by nothing and reported by nothing, and then let
the audit print "1 of 1 boundary target(s) resolve" on a clause naming two — a gate under-reporting
its own coverage, which is the one failure mode ADR-0020 says a gate must not have (**#107**). The
clause is **rejected rather than the arrow scan extended**: extending it would widen the resolver's
deliberately conservative false-positive tuning across every arrow in the corpus, where splitting
costs the author one full stop. The convention is one arrow per target — `Not X -> a. Not Y -> b.` —
already what every retrofitted `gitea-*` skill does in practice, now stated in
`skill-author`'s `references/contract.md` instead of being folklore.
**Dotted filenames in a boundary clause now parse.** `CLAUSE_BODY` — what may sit between `Not` and
the arrow — used to be `[^.;]`, a class that cannot cross a `.`, so every clause naming a dotted
filename between the two (`AGENTS.md`, `.vale.ini`, `.pre-commit-config.yaml`) was invisible to both
`BOUNDARY_ARROW` and `ARROW_BOUNDARY`. The two resulting failures were different sizes (**#110**):
- with a **backticked** target the clause was *misdiagnosed*. The backtick sweep still extracted the
target, so the route was checked, but the gate reported "no boundary clause" on a clause that was
present and working. That is the misdiagnosis the three rewordings above came from.
- with a **bare** target the clause was *unchecked*. `ARROW_BOUNDARY` is the only extractor for a
bare arrow target, so `Not AGENTS.md -> no-such-skill` produced no target, no dangling report and
no missing-clause SUGGESTION. Silence, not noise — the worse of the two.
`CLAUSE_BODY` is now `(?:[^.;]|\.(?=\S))`: a dot inside a filename is followed by a non-space, a
sentence-ending dot by whitespace or end of string, so the class crosses `AGENTS.md` and still stops
at a real sentence end. **Read the second bullet forward as well as back:** a bare target sitting
after a dotted filename is now extracted, resolved, and a blocking ERROR when it dangles, where the
same clause used to pass unchecked in silence.
### SUGGESTION-only checks
Three more, deterministic to measure but judgment to act on:
Deterministic to measure, judgment to act on:
- a description with **no boundary clause at all**;
- a description with **no boundary clause at all** (`absent`);
- an **arrow clause whose target could not be read** (`unparsed`);
- an **arrow clause naming more than one target**;
- a `## Gotchas` section with **more than five entries**;
- a `## Gotchas` section over **25% of the body**.
### Hand-invoked skills are exempt from the routing rules, and only those
A skill or agent whose frontmatter carries `disable-model-invocation: true` skips three checks:
- the boundary-clause check, `absent` and `unparsed` alike;
- the multi-target arrow check;
- the 250-character description **target** (`hand_invoked()` in `scripts/skill-size-check.sh`).
It keeps the 400-character description FAIL and **both** body word tiers, and if its description
does happen to name a target, that target is still resolved and can still dangle.
Why the exemption is right: `disable-model-invocation: true` removes the skill from the
model-visible listing entirely — it is not preloaded, and the Skill tool refuses to call it — so its
description is never matched against user intent. ADR-0020 and `skill-author`'s contract therefore
give such a skill **one plain human-facing sentence**: no trigger list, no boundary clause. No
validator knew the field existed (**#108**), so the boundary-clause SUGGESTION fired on exactly the
shape the contract mandates, and its remedy — "so the router knows where NOT to send this skill" —
was addressed to a router that cannot see the skill at all. An author who followed the advice made
the file worse. There is no router to inform.
The half that does **not** lift is the point. The body is still loaded on invocation and still
competes with the caller's live conversation, so neither body tier moves. The 400-character ceiling
stands too: a hand-invoked description is not preloaded, but it is still the one line the user reads
when choosing from the `/` menu, and that ceiling is an outlier stop rather than a routing-quality
budget — which is precisely why the 250-character target is the tier that lifts.
The field is read as a **boolean**, not as a mention of the key. PyYAML already resolves the
unquoted YAML 1.1 booleans, so the extra handling catches a quoted `"true"`, which a host reads as
truthy; `disable-model-invocation: false` is the model-invoked case written out longhand and buys
nothing. A frontmatter parse failure returns false rather than raising — the flag is a *modifier* on
other checks, and `description_value()` on the same text already reports the broken frontmatter, so
raising here would diagnose one file twice two different ways.
`caveman` and `zoom-out` are the two carriers here. `tests/test-skill-size-check.sh` pins both
halves — what the carve-out lifts, each with a flag-removed control, and what it must not.
### `verbose: true` is load-bearing
The hook is declared `verbose: true` so the SUGGESTION tier is audible. pre-commit prints nothing at
@@ -281,8 +441,10 @@ script.** `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` applies its body gate to whatever path i
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`
exits 1 today with 900-word body FAILs on `git-orchestrate` and `gitea-orchestrate`. (Counts are
deliberately not pinned here — agent bodies are edited like any other file, and a figure in this
paragraph goes stale the moment one is trimmed. Run the command.) 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.
@@ -292,20 +454,39 @@ knows the difference; doing so silently enforces a gate ADR-0020 declines to set
**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.
**The corpus is now clean on both gates.** Issue **#99** retrofitted all 39 skills plugin by plugin;
`kyberforge` was the last wave, after which the corpus was swept as a whole rather than per plugin.
Each sweep is followed by an **independent review round**: a fresh agent with no memory of the
retrofit re-measures the corpus and files what it finds, and the round repeats until one lands no
findings. The rounds are recorded as comments on **#99** — read the current state off that thread,
which is why no round count is pinned here.
| 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` |
| `skill-size-check` | **0 of 39** descriptions and **0 of 39** bodies exceed their FAIL tier; 0 dangling targets; SUGGESTIONs outstanding (count not pinned — see below) |
| `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` (Vale) | **0 errors** — the four `gitea-*` carriers were all retrofitted |
**The SUGGESTION count is deliberately not recorded here.** It moves with every skill edit *and*
with every change to the gate's own tiering, so any figure written down is stale by the next commit.
Measure it instead:
```
bash scripts/skill-size-check.sh plugins/*/.apm/skills/*/SKILL.md | grep -c '^SUGGESTION'
pre-commit run skill-size-check --all-files # same findings, via the hook
```
A non-zero count is the expected steady state, not a regression. SUGGESTIONs exit 0 and block
nothing; only the two FAIL tiers, the dangling-target ERROR and the missing-`references/` ERROR do.
Read the count as a work queue, and the FAIL columns above as the gate.
`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.
from a description. Every Vale rule here is `level: error` with no ignorable tier, so a description
that reintroduces one blocks the commit even though no skill carries one today.
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**.
Because nothing is grandfathered, the gates now bite on **first commit**: a new skill, or an edit
that pushes a description past 400 characters or a body past 900 words, is blocked until it
complies. That is the steady state the retrofit was for — it is no longer true that an unrelated
one-line fix to a skill requires retrofitting that skill first.
Check where a skill stands before starting, and check **both** gates:
@@ -434,6 +615,35 @@ passing one explicit file per invocation. The two manifests scope **differently
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.
### The blind spot: `references/` is unlinted, for two independent reasons
Every `references/*.md` file in the corpus is outside the prose gate. Count them with
`git ls-files | grep -cE '^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/references/.*\.md$'` rather than reading
a figure here; it moves with every retrofit. This is the gap that matters most, because the context
contract's own remedy for an over-long body is to move prose **into** `references/` — the gate pushes
text across its own boundary and then stops watching it.
**Closing either cause alone changes nothing.** There are two, and they are independent:
| Cause | Where | Effect on a `references/` file |
|---|---|---|
| the `Kyberforge` style is scoped `[**/SKILL.md]` | `skill-audit/assets/vale/.vale.ini` | matches no section, so Vale lints 0 files and exits 0 |
| the hook's `files:` regex is `^plugins/[^/]+/\.apm/skills/[^/]+/SKILL\.md$` | `vale-audit-prefilter-skill` in `.pre-commit-config.yaml` | the file is never handed to Vale at all |
Verified both ways. Handing skill-audit's `vale-wrap.sh` a reference file directly — bypassing
pre-commit entirely, so only the style scope is in play — prints `0 errors … in 0 files` and exits 0,
where the same wrapper on a `SKILL.md` reports `in 1 file`. And the hook's `files:` regex, applied to
`git ls-files`, selects only the skill-directory `SKILL.md` files scoped at the top of this page, so
pre-commit never hands Vale a reference file to begin with. Widening the glob to `[**/*.md]` would
still lint nothing through the hook; widening the hook's `files:` alone would hand Vale files its own
config declines to match, which is the [0-file NOT RUN](#a-0-file-vale-run-is-not-run) shape — a
green run that measured nothing. **Issue #117** records the style-scope half; the hook half has to
land in the same change or the fix is cosmetic.
The consumer manifest is a third axis and does not rescue this either: `.pre-commit-hooks.yaml`'s
`(^|/)SKILL\.md$` is layout-agnostic but still filename-shaped, so an external repo running
`kyberforge-vale-audit-skill` has the same gap.
### `vale-wrap.sh`, never bare `vale`
Both audit skills' Step 1 and both pre-commit hooks call **each copy's own**

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# caveman
Ultra-compressed output mode: drop articles, filler and pleasantries, keep the technical substance exact.
## What it does
Switches the agent into a terse register — no articles, no hedging, no pleasantries, fragments allowed, arrows for causality — while leaving technical terms, code blocks and quoted error strings untouched. The mode is *sticky*: once turned on it stays on for every subsequent response until the user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode", rather than decaying back to normal prose after a few turns.
It carries one built-in escape hatch. Security warnings, confirmations for irreversible actions, multi-step sequences where fragment order could be misread, and any request to clarify are answered in normal prose, then the compressed register resumes.
## Hand-invoked only
`SKILL.md` sets `disable-model-invocation: true`. This is the single most important thing to know about this skill: **the model cannot route to it.** No other skill can hand off to it, and no phrasing in a user's request will cause it to be selected automatically. The only way in is the human typing `/caveman`.
That is deliberate — output style is the user's choice, not an inference the router should make on their behalf. It is also why the description reads as one plain human-facing sentence rather than carrying the trigger phrasing and boundary clause a routable skill needs.
## Usage
```text
/caveman
```
Then keep working normally. To leave the mode, say "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — persistence rule, compression rules, worked examples, and the auto-clarity exception |

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---
name: caveman
disable-model-invocation: true
description: >
Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping
filler, articles, and pleasantries while keeping full technical accuracy.
Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman",
"less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman.
Ultra-compressed output mode that drops articles, filler and pleasantries while
keeping technical substance exact, cutting token usage by roughly 75%.
---
Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.
## Persistence
ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE once triggered. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only when user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE once user type `/caveman`. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only when user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
## Rules

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# diagnose
A six-phase discipline for hard bugs and performance regressions: feedback loop → reproduce → hypothesise → instrument → fix with a regression test → clean up.
## What it does
Imposes an order of operations on debugging so the agent cannot skip to guessing. The load-bearing phase is the first one: build a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable pass/fail signal for the bug. Everything downstream — bisection, hypothesis testing, instrumentation — just consumes that signal, so the skill refuses to advance to Phase 2 without one, and says so explicitly rather than hypothesising blind.
The remaining phases each carry a constraint worth knowing about: hypotheses are generated 3–5 at a time and must be falsifiable, so the first plausible idea cannot anchor the whole investigation; every debug log is tagged with a unique prefix (`[DEBUG-a4f2]`) so cleanup is a single grep; the regression test is written before the fix and only at a seam that exercises the real bug pattern; and the run closes by asking what would have prevented the bug, handing off to `improve-codebase-architecture` when the answer is architectural.
Performance regressions take a branch of their own inside Phase 4 — baseline measurement and bisection, not logs.
## Conditional reading
Neither reference file is read on every run; `SKILL.md` names the condition for each.
- `references/feedback-loops.md` is read when Phase 1 has no signal yet, or when the loop you have is slow or intermittent.
- `references/regression-seams.md` is read when Phase 5 leaves you unsure whether the available seam is deep enough — or whether one exists at all.
## Usage
```text
/diagnose
```
Describe the bug or the regression. For filing and triaging a reported bug rather than diagnosing it, use `triage`; for test-first feature work, use `tdd`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The six phases and their gates — what must be true before each one ends |
| `references/feedback-loops.md` | Loaded when Phase 1 has no loop or the loop is too weak: ten ways to construct one ordered by cost, how to sharpen an existing loop, handling intermittent bugs, and what to ask the user for when the bug resists reproduction |
| `references/regression-seams.md` | Loaded when Phase 5 is unsure about the seam: what makes a seam correct, the four shapes of a too-shallow seam, and what to do when no correct seam exists |
| `assets/hitl-loop.template.sh` | Copy-and-edit bash template for the last-resort human-in-the-loop feedback loop, cited by `references/feedback-loops.md`. Provides `step` and `capture` helpers and prints captured values as `KEY=VALUE` for the agent to parse |

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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 +18,11 @@ 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
**If you do not yet have such a signal, read `references/feedback-loops.md`** — ten ways to build one ordered by cost, and what to ask the user for when the bug resists reproduction entirely.
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.
**If you do have one, it is probably not sharp enough yet.** Make it faster and more deterministic, and make it assert on the exact symptom rather than "didn't crash" — a 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. If it stays slow or intermittent after that, read that file's "Iterate on the loop itself" and "Intermittent bugs" sections.
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
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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.
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## Phase 5 — Fix + regression test
Write the regression test **before the fix** — but only if there is a **correct seam** for it.
Write the regression test **before the fix** — but only at a **correct seam**: one where the test exercises the real bug pattern as it occurs at the call site. If the available seam looks too shallow, or you cannot tell whether it is, read `references/regression-seams.md`.
A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it occurs at the call site. If the only available seam is too shallow (single-caller test when the bug needs multiple callers, unit test that can't replicate the chain that triggered the bug), a regression test there gives false confidence.
**If no correct seam exists, that itself is the finding.** Note it and carry it into Phase 6 — the architecture is preventing the bug from being locked down.
**If no correct seam exists, that itself is the finding.** Note it. The codebase architecture is preventing the bug from being locked down. Flag this for the next phase.
At a correct seam:
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 `assets/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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# Judging a regression-test seam
Read this when Phase 5 leaves you unsure whether the seam available for the regression test is the correct one — either because the obvious seam looks shallow, or because there appears to be no seam at all.
## What makes a seam correct
A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it occurs at the call site: the same entry point, the same participants, the same ordering, and the same state the real caller holds when it goes wrong.
## Seams that are too shallow
- A single-caller test when the bug only appears with multiple callers.
- A unit test that cannot replicate the chain of calls that triggered the bug.
- A test that reproduces the symptom by construction — asserting on a value the test itself set — rather than by driving the code path that produces it.
- A test that mocks out the collaborator the bug actually lives in.
A regression test at a shallow seam gives false confidence. It passes forever, including after a change reintroduces the bug at the real call site, and it will be read by the next maintainer as proof the bug is locked down.
## When there is no correct seam
Do not force one, and do not settle for a shallow seam to have something green. Instead:
1. Apply the fix and verify it against the Phase 1 loop directly.
2. Write down which seams you considered and why each was too shallow.
3. Carry that into Phase 6's "what would have prevented this bug" question. A missing seam is an architecture finding — tangled callers, hidden coupling, or a module with no testable boundary — and the handoff is the `improve-codebase-architecture` skill, with those specifics attached.

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# grill-me
Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until the decision tree is fully resolved.
## What it does
Turns the agent into an interviewer rather than an implementer. It walks the design tree branch by branch, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time, and offers its own recommended answer alongside each question so the user has something concrete to push against. Two rules give it its shape: **one question at a time**, and **never ask what the codebase can answer** — if a question is settleable by reading the code, the agent goes and reads the code instead of spending the user's attention on it.
## Composition
This is the plain grilling loop, with no documentation side effects. The sibling `grill-with-docs` skill runs the same interview but additionally challenges answers against the project's `CONTEXT.md` glossary and existing ADRs, and writes decisions back into those files as they crystallise. Reach for that one when the project has a domain model worth defending; reach for this one when it does not, or when nothing should be written down yet.
`triage` composes the documented variant, not this one, when an issue needs fleshing out.
## Usage
```text
/grill-me
```
Describe the plan or design to be stress-tested. Expect questions one at a time, each with a recommended answer.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — the interview instruction, the one-question-at-a-time rule, and the explore-instead-of-asking rule |

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---
name: grill-me
description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".
description: >
Use when the user says "grill me" or wants a plan or design stress-tested by
relentless interview — one question at a time, down each branch of the
decision tree. Not a plan to challenge against `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs ->
`grill-with-docs`.
---
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

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# grill-with-docs
The grilling interview, run against the project's domain model — and writing decisions back into `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs as they land.
## What it does
Runs the same relentless one-question-at-a-time interview as `grill-me`, with the project's own documentation as an active participant. During codebase exploration it also locates the domain documentation — a root `CONTEXT.md` and `docs/adr/`, or a `CONTEXT-MAP.md` pointing at per-context glossaries and ADR directories in a multi-context repo — and then uses it five ways:
- **Challenges terms against the glossary.** When the user's usage conflicts with what `CONTEXT.md` already defines, that is raised immediately rather than absorbed.
- **Sharpens fuzzy language** by proposing a precise canonical term ("you're saying 'account' — do you mean the Customer or the User?").
- **Stress-tests domain relationships with concrete scenarios**, inventing edge cases that force the user to be precise about where one concept ends and the next begins.
- **Cross-references claims against the code**, and surfaces contradictions between what the user says happens and what the code does.
- **Updates `CONTEXT.md` inline**, the moment a term is resolved, rather than batching changes to the end of the session where they get lost.
Files are created lazily — only when there is something real to write.
ADRs are offered *sparingly*, and only when all three tests pass: the decision is hard to reverse, it would surprise a future reader without the context, and it was a genuine trade-off with real alternatives. Missing any one of the three means no ADR.
## Composition
`grill-me` is the same interview without the documentation side effects — use it when there is no domain model to defend or nothing should be written down yet. `triage` composes this skill (not `grill-me`) at step 4 when an issue needs fleshing out. `improve-codebase-architecture` runs its own grilling loop and borrows this skill's `CONTEXT.md` and ADR discipline for the decisions that come out of it.
## Usage
```text
/grill-with-docs
```
Describe the plan or design. Expect questions one at a time, each with a recommended answer, and expect `CONTEXT.md` to be edited during the session rather than after it.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The interview instruction plus the domain-awareness rules: file layout discovery, the five during-session behaviours, and the three-part ADR test |
| `CONTEXT-FORMAT.md` | Skill-root document, cited when a term is resolved: the structure of a `CONTEXT.md` and how to write a Language entry |
| `ADR-FORMAT.md` | Skill-root document, cited when an ADR is offered: `docs/adr/` naming, sequential numbering, and the ADR template |

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---
name: grill-with-docs
description: Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.
description: >
Use when a plan should be stress-tested against the project's domain model —
the interview challenges terms against `CONTEXT.md` and writes decisions into
it and into ADRs as they land. Not a plain interview -> `grill-me`.
---
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# improve-codebase-architecture
Surface architectural friction and propose deepening opportunities — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones.
## What it does
Looks for places where a codebase is hard to understand, hard to test, or hard for an agent to navigate, and proposes refactors that concentrate behaviour behind smaller interfaces. It runs in three stages:
1. **Explore.** Reads the domain glossary and any ADRs in the area first, then walks the codebase with an `Explore` sub-agent — organically, noting friction rather than applying fixed heuristics. The **deletion test** is the filter: imagine deleting the module; if complexity vanishes it was a pass-through, if complexity reappears across N callers it was earning its keep.
2. **Present candidates.** A numbered list, each with files, problem, solution and benefits — benefits stated in terms of *locality* and *leverage* and of how tests would improve. No interfaces are proposed yet; the user picks one.
3. **Grilling loop.** Walks the design tree for the chosen candidate, with documentation side effects landing inline as decisions crystallise.
The skill is opinionated about vocabulary, and that is the point: **module, interface, implementation, depth, seam, adapter, leverage, locality**, used exactly, with no drift into "component", "service", "API" or "boundary". Domain nouns come from `CONTEXT.md`, architecture nouns from `LANGUAGE.md` — so a proposal reads as "the Order intake module", never "the FooBarHandler".
ADRs are treated as decisions not to be re-litigated. A candidate that contradicts one is surfaced only when the friction is real enough to warrant reopening it, and is marked as such.
## Composition
`diagnose` hands off here when a bug's post-mortem concludes that no correct test seam exists, or that callers are tangled — the recommendation is made after the fix is in, not before. The grilling loop follows `grill-with-docs`'s discipline for `CONTEXT.md` entries and ADR offers, and `SKILL.md` names that skill's format documents directly.
## Usage
```text
/improve-codebase-architecture
```
Point at a codebase or an area of one. Expect a numbered candidate list and a "which of these would you like to explore?" before any interface design happens.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Condensed glossary, key principles, and the three-stage process |
| `LANGUAGE.md` | Skill-root document, cited throughout `SKILL.md`: full definitions of every term, the words each one replaces, and the full principle list |
| `INTERFACE-DESIGN.md` | Skill-root document, read at stage 3 when the user wants alternative interfaces explored: the parallel sub-agent "Design It Twice" pattern, framing the problem space, and the per-agent design constraints |
| `DEEPENING.md` | Skill-root document, cited from `INTERFACE-DESIGN.md`: how to deepen a cluster of shallow modules safely, the four dependency categories (in-process, local-substitutable, remote-but-owned, true external), seam discipline, and the replace-don't-layer testing strategy |

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---
name: improve-codebase-architecture
description: Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in CONTEXT.md and the decisions in docs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.
description: >
Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring
opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more
testable and AI-navigable — deepening opportunities that turn shallow modules
into deep ones, informed by `CONTEXT.md` and `docs/adr/`. Not debugging a
failure -> `diagnose`.
---
# Improve Codebase Architecture
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## Glossary
Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." Full definitions in [LANGUAGE.md](LANGUAGE.md).
Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."
- **Module** — anything with an interface and an implementation (function, class, package, slice).
- **Interface** — everything a caller must know to use the module: types, invariants, error modes, ordering, config. Not just the type signature.
@@ -20,12 +25,14 @@ Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point
- **Leverage** — what callers get from depth.
- **Locality** — what maintainers get from depth: change, bugs, knowledge concentrated in one place.
Key principles (see [LANGUAGE.md](LANGUAGE.md) for the full list):
Key principles:
- **Deletion test**: imagine deleting the module. If complexity vanishes, it was a pass-through. If complexity reappears across N callers, it was earning its keep.
- **The interface is the test surface.**
- **One adapter = hypothetical seam. Two adapters = real seam.**
If a term or principle above is ambiguous in the case in front of you, or you need the definitions and the principles the two lists leave out, read `LANGUAGE.md`.
This skill is _informed_ by the project's domain model. The domain language gives names to good seams; ADRs record decisions the skill should not re-litigate.
## Process
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- **Solution** — plain English description of what would change
- **Benefits** — explained in terms of locality and leverage, and also in how tests would improve
**Use CONTEXT.md vocabulary for the domain, and [LANGUAGE.md](LANGUAGE.md) vocabulary for the architecture.** If `CONTEXT.md` defines "Order," talk about "the Order intake module" — not "the FooBarHandler," and not "the Order service."
**Use CONTEXT.md vocabulary for the domain, and the architecture glossary above for the architecture.** If `CONTEXT.md` defines "Order," talk about "the Order intake module" — not "the FooBarHandler," and not "the Order service."
**ADR conflicts**: if a candidate contradicts an existing ADR, only surface it when the friction is real enough to warrant revisiting the ADR. Mark it clearly (e.g. _"contradicts ADR-0007 — but worth reopening because…"_). Don't list every theoretical refactor an ADR forbids.
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Side effects happen inline as decisions crystallize:
- **Naming a deepened module after a concept not in `CONTEXT.md`?** Add the term to `CONTEXT.md` — same discipline as `/grill-with-docs` (see [CONTEXT-FORMAT.md](../grill-with-docs/CONTEXT-FORMAT.md)). Create the file lazily if it doesn't exist.
- **Naming a deepened module after a concept not in `CONTEXT.md`?** Add the term to `CONTEXT.md` — same discipline as `grill-with-docs`, in the format `grill-with-docs`'s `CONTEXT-FORMAT.md` defines. Create the file lazily if it doesn't exist.
- **Sharpening a fuzzy term during the conversation?** Update `CONTEXT.md` right there.
- **User rejects the candidate with a load-bearing reason?** Offer an ADR, framed as: _"Want me to record this as an ADR so future architecture reviews don't re-suggest it?"_ Only offer when the reason would actually be needed by a future explorer to avoid re-suggesting the same thing — skip ephemeral reasons ("not worth it right now") and self-evident ones. See [ADR-FORMAT.md](../grill-with-docs/ADR-FORMAT.md).
- **Want to explore alternative interfaces for the deepened module?** See [INTERFACE-DESIGN.md](INTERFACE-DESIGN.md).
- **User rejects the candidate with a load-bearing reason?** Offer an ADR, framed as: _"Want me to record this as an ADR so future architecture reviews don't re-suggest it?"_ Only offer when the reason would actually be needed by a future explorer to avoid re-suggesting the same thing — skip ephemeral reasons ("not worth it right now") and self-evident ones. See `grill-with-docs`'s `ADR-FORMAT.md`.
- **Want to explore alternative interfaces for the deepened module?** Read `INTERFACE-DESIGN.md`.

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# prototype
Build a throwaway prototype that answers one design question — either a runnable terminal app or several UI variations.
## What it does
Treats a prototype as **throwaway code that answers a question**, and lets the question decide the artifact. `SKILL.md` opens with a two-row dispatch table and the run resolves exactly one row before doing anything else:
- *"Does this logic / state model feel right?"* → a tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state machine through the cases that are hard to reason about on paper.
- *"What should this look like?"* → several radically different UI variations on one route, switchable from a floating bottom bar via a URL search param.
The two branches produce fundamentally different artifacts, so picking wrong wastes the whole prototype. When the question is genuinely ambiguous and the user is unreachable, the skill defaults on the shape of the surrounding code (backend module → logic, page or component → UI) and states the assumption at the top of the prototype rather than silently choosing.
Six rules apply to both branches: throwaway and visibly named as such, one command to run, no persistence by default, no polish, surface the full state after every action or variant switch, and delete or absorb the prototype when it is done. The *answer* is the only durable output — the skill captures it in a commit message, ADR, issue or `NOTES.md` before the code is deleted.
## Usage
```text
/prototype
```
State the design question. For production code, use `tdd`; for talking a design through without building anything, use `grill-me`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The branch dispatch table and the rules that apply to both branches |
| `references/logic.md` | The logic branch, read only when that row is selected: when it is the right shape, and how to build the interactive terminal app |
| `references/ui.md` | The UI branch, read only when that row is selected: when it is the right shape, and how to build and switch between the variations |
Each reference is self-contained — a run reads one of the two, never both.

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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. Not production code -> `tdd`. Not talking a design through ->
`grill-me`.
---
# Prototype
@@ -9,10 +13,12 @@ A prototype is **throwaway code that answers a question**. The question decides
## Pick a branch
Identify which question is being answered — from the user's prompt, the surrounding code, or by asking if the user is around:
| Question being answered | Build | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| "Does this logic / state model feel right?" | A tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state machine through cases that are hard to reason about on paper | `references/logic.md` |
| "What should this look like?" | Several radically different UI variations on one route, switchable via a URL search param and a floating bottom bar | `references/ui.md` |
- **"Does this logic / state model feel right?"** → [LOGIC.md](LOGIC.md). Build a tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state machine through cases that are hard to reason about on paper.
- **"What should this look like?"** → [UI.md](UI.md). Generate several radically different UI variations on a single route, switchable via a URL search param and a floating bottom bar.
Resolve the row from the user's prompt, the surrounding code, or by asking if the user is around, then read only that reference — each is self-contained.
The two branches produce fundamentally different artifacts — getting this wrong wastes the whole prototype. If the question is genuinely ambiguous and the user isn't reachable, default to whichever branch better matches the surrounding code (a backend module → logic; a page or component → UI) and state the assumption at the top of the prototype.

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- "I want to feel out what the API should look like before writing it."
- Anything where the user wants to **press buttons and watch state change**.
If the question is "what should this look like" — wrong branch. Use [UI.md](UI.md).
If the question is "what should this look like" — wrong branch. Read `references/ui.md`.
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Generate **several radically different UI variations** on a single route, switchable from a floating bottom bar. The user flips between variants in the browser, picks one (or steals bits from each), then throws the rest away.
If the question is about logic/state rather than what something looks like — wrong branch. Use [LOGIC.md](LOGIC.md).
If the question is about logic/state rather than what something looks like — wrong branch. Read `references/logic.md`.
## When this is the right shape

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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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# research
Research a tool, library or API from canonical documentation into a directory of structured per-topic reference files.
## What it does
Runs a six-step pipeline: scope against the working directory (what version is actually in use, what is already documented), resolve the topic through Context7, websearch for canonical docs covering whatever Context7 missed, read those sources, deepen one level into the links worth following, then write one markdown file per topic area plus a `sources.md` provenance record.
Four gotchas at the top of `SKILL.md` shape the whole run, and each exists because of a specific failure: the output path is never inferred (a guessed destination scatters a directory's worth of files through someone's source tree); nothing is written outside that path; no empty topic file is ever written (a stub `troubleshooting.md` reads downstream as researched and closed); and a Context7 "no results", redirect or header-only response does not count as coverage. If no topic area has content, the run writes nothing at all — `sources.md` included — and reports what it searched.
The frontmatter pins `model: sonnet` and a closed `allowed-tools` list. Notably it grants no subagent tool, so every `WebFetch` is serial and each fetched page lands in the run's own context — which is why steps 4 and 5 insist on reducing each page to notes before fetching the next, and cap deepening at roughly ten extra pages.
## Composition
Both reference files are read on condition, never on every run — `SKILL.md` inlines the minimum each step needs (the seven default topic areas at step 1, the four `sources.md` field names and the topic-file frontmatter keys at step 6) and sends the run to the reference only for what it does not carry. Those four field names are matched literally by the downstream provenance validator, so prose written in their place parses as nothing and the check passes having verified nothing — which is why they are inlined rather than deferred.
## Usage
```text
/research
```
Name the topic and the output path — the skill will stop and ask if the path is missing. Supplying starting URLs is treated as a deliberate source choice and skips Context7 resolution and discovery. For documentation derived from existing code or specs, use `write-docs`; for a bug or incident, use `diagnose`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The four gotchas and the six research steps |
| `references/topics.md` | Read at Step 1 only when what belongs in a default topic is unclear or a custom topic is needed: the per-topic coverage table and the custom-topic naming rule |
| `references/file-format.md` | Read at Step 6 only when the inlined field names do not settle the case: slug derivation, the Context7 slug and URL convention, and what belongs in a topic body |

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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:
- WebSearch
- WebFetch
- Grep
- Glob
- Read
- Write
- WebSearch
- WebFetch
- mcp__context7__resolve-library-id
- mcp__context7__query-docs
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
The default topic areas are `overview`, `installation`, `configuration`, `cli-reference`,
`api-reference`, `examples` and `troubleshooting` — one file each, and only where content exists.
If what belongs in one of them is unclear, or the topic needs a file outside that set, read
`references/topics.md` for the per-topic coverage table and the custom-topic naming rule.
</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, then write, in the output path:
</steps>
- `<topic>.md` for each topic area that has content, default or custom. Frontmatter carries `topic:` (the filename without `.md`) and `source_keys:` (kebab-case slugs matching `sources.md`); the body is prose in `##` sections, with no inline URLs.
- `sources.md`, always, one `##` section per source — including sources that yielded nothing — with exactly these four fields:
<checks>
```markdown
- **URL:** <full URL>
- **Description:** <one-line summary>
- **Contributing files:** <topic files this source contributed to>
- **Status:** `extracted` | `no content extracted`
```
## Failure handling
Spell those four field names exactly as given. The downstream provenance validator matches them literally; prose in their place parses as nothing, and the check passes having verified nothing.
- 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
Read `references/file-format.md` when the four fields above do not settle the case: what a slug should be, the `context7-<library-slug>` slug and `context7:<library-id>` URL convention for a Context7 source, or what belongs in a topic body versus a verbatim copy of the source.
## 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.

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# tdd
Test-driven development as a strict red-green-refactor loop, one behaviour at a time.
## What it does
Two convictions drive this skill. The first is about what a test is for: tests verify behaviour through public interfaces, not implementation details. A good test reads like a specification ("user can checkout with valid cart") and survives refactors because it does not care about internal structure. The warning sign for a bad one is precise — the test breaks when you refactor but behaviour has not changed.
The second is an explicit anti-pattern: **do not write all the tests first, then all the implementation.** Horizontal slicing treats RED as "write every test" and GREEN as "write every implementation", and it produces tests of *imagined* behaviour — tests of the shape of things, insensitive to real change, committed to before the implementation was understood. The correct shape is vertical: one test → one implementation → repeat, each cycle informed by what the last one taught you.
The workflow is four stages: plan (confirm the interface and which behaviours matter, with the user — you cannot test everything), fire a tracer bullet (one test proving the path works end to end), loop incrementally one behaviour at a time, then refactor once everything is green. Refactoring while RED is forbidden.
Codebase exploration uses the project's domain glossary, so test names and interface vocabulary match the project's language, and ADRs in the area are respected.
## Usage
```text
/tdd
```
Describe the feature or bug. Expect the skill to ask what the public interface should look like and which behaviours matter most before any code is written. For diagnosing an existing bug rather than building test-first, use `diagnose`; for throwaway exploratory code, use `prototype`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Philosophy, the horizontal-slicing anti-pattern, the four-stage workflow, and the per-cycle checklist |
| `tests.md` | Skill-root document, cited from Philosophy: worked good and bad test examples |
| `mocking.md` | Skill-root document, cited from Philosophy: mock at system boundaries only, and what not to mock |
| `deep-modules.md` | Skill-root document, cited from stage 1: what a deep module is (small interface, large implementation) and why it is the design to aim for |
| `interface-design.md` | Skill-root document, cited from stage 1: designing interfaces for testability, starting with accepting dependencies rather than creating them |
| `refactoring.md` | Skill-root document, cited from stage 4: the refactor-candidate checklist — duplication, long methods, shallow modules, feature envy, primitive obsession |

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---
name: tdd
description: Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop. Use when user wants to build features or fix bugs using TDD, mentions "red-green-refactor", wants integration tests, or asks for test-first development.
description: >
Use when the user wants a feature built or a bug fixed test-first, in a strict
red-green-refactor loop, one behaviour at a time. Not diagnosing an existing
bug -> `diagnose`. Not throwaway exploratory code -> `prototype`.
---
# Test-Driven Development
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**Bad tests** are coupled to implementation. They mock internal collaborators, test private methods, or verify through external means (like querying a database directly instead of using the interface). The warning sign: your test breaks when you refactor, but behavior hasn't changed. If you rename an internal function and tests fail, those tests were testing implementation, not behavior.
See [tests.md](tests.md) for examples and [mocking.md](mocking.md) for mocking guidelines.
If you need worked examples of the difference — a behaviour-level test beside the implementation-coupled version of the same check — read `tests.md`. If a test needs a collaborator faked, read `mocking.md` before reaching for a mock.
## Anti-Pattern: Horizontal Slices

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# Writing Agent Briefs
An agent brief is a structured comment posted on a GitHub issue when it moves to `ready-for-agent`. It is the authoritative specification that an AFK agent will work from. The original issue body and discussion are context — the agent brief is the contract.
An agent brief is a structured comment posted on an issue in the issue tracker when it moves to `ready-for-agent`. It is the authoritative specification that an AFK agent will work from. The original issue body and discussion are context — the agent brief is the contract.
## Principles
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The agent needs to know when it's done. Every agent brief must have concrete, testable acceptance criteria. Each criterion should be independently verifiable.
- **Good:** "Running `gh issue list --label needs-triage` returns issues that have been through initial classification"
- **Good:** "Querying the issue tracker for the `needs-triage` label returns issues that have been through initial classification"
- **Bad:** "Triage should work correctly"
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# triage
Move issues on the project issue tracker through a small state machine of triage roles.
## What it does
Gives issue triage an explicit state model and a fixed set of moves. Every issue carries exactly one **category** role (`bug`, `enhancement`) and one **state** role (`needs-triage`, `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, `wontfix`); conflicting state roles are flagged to the maintainer before anything else happens. Unlabeled issues normally enter at `needs-triage`; `needs-info` returns there once the reporter replies. The maintainer can override at any point, and unusual transitions are questioned rather than executed silently.
A run does one of three things depending on what the maintainer asks for:
- **Show what needs attention** — three buckets, oldest first: unlabeled, `needs-triage`, and `needs-info` with reporter activity since the last triage notes.
- **Triage a specific issue** — gather context (including prior triage notes, so resolved questions are not re-asked, and `.out-of-scope/` records that resemble the issue), recommend a category and state with reasoning, attempt reproduction for bugs *before* any grilling, run a `grill-with-docs` session if the issue needs fleshing out, then apply the outcome.
- **Quick state override** — "move #42 to ready-for-agent" is trusted and applied directly, skipping grilling, after confirming the exact changes.
Two hard rules: every comment or issue the skill posts during triage must open with the AI-generated disclaimer, and the canonical role names above are *not* necessarily the label strings in the tracker — each is resolved against the tracker's live label set before it is applied, and a name with no counterpart there is reported to the maintainer as a gap rather than guessed at.
## Composition
`grill-with-docs` is invoked at step 4 when an issue needs fleshing out; whatever that session establishes is carried into the triage notes so the work is not lost. The reverse direction also exists: `diagnose` names this skill as the place to send a *reported* bug that needs filing rather than debugging.
## Usage
```text
/triage
```
Then describe what you want in natural language — "show me anything that needs my attention", "let's look at #42", "move #42 to ready-for-agent", "what's ready for agents to pick up?".
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The roles and state machine, the three invocation modes, the needs-info template, and how to resume a prior session |
| `AGENT-BRIEF.md` | Skill-root document, cited when an issue moves to `ready-for-agent` (and reused for `ready-for-human`): how to write a brief that stays durable for weeks while the codebase moves under it — describe interfaces and behavioural contracts, not line numbers |
| `OUT-OF-SCOPE.md` | Skill-root document, cited when an enhancement is closed `wontfix` and when checking for prior rejections: how the `.out-of-scope/` knowledge base is laid out and what it is for — institutional memory, and deduplication against re-litigated requests |

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---
name: triage
description: Triage issues through a state machine driven by triage roles. Use when user wants to create an issue, triage issues, review incoming bugs or feature requests, prepare issues for an AFK agent, or manage issue workflow.
description: >
Use when the user wants an issue created, triaged, or moved through the
tracker's triage states, or an issue prepared for an AFK agent. Not debugging
the bug itself -> `diagnose`. Not fleshing out a design -> `grill-with-docs`.
---
# Triage
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ Five **state** roles:
Every triaged issue should carry exactly one category role and one state role. If state roles conflict, flag it and ask the maintainer before doing anything else.
These are canonical role names — the actual label strings used in the issue tracker may differ. The mapping should have been provided to you - run `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` if not.
These are canonical role names — the actual label strings used in the issue tracker may differ. Resolve each canonical name against the tracker's live label set before applying it, using whichever tracker skill this install provides. If a name has no counterpart there, report the gap and ask the maintainer for the mapping — never substitute a guess.
State transitions: an unlabeled issue normally goes to `needs-triage` first; from there it moves to `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, or `wontfix`. `needs-info` returns to `needs-triage` once the reporter replies. The maintainer can override at any time — flag transitions that look unusual and ask before proceeding.

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# write-docs
Produce technical documentation derived from code and spec, one section at a time, with a confirmation gate on every section.
## What it does
Casts the agent as a technical writer with one non-negotiable constraint: **every claim must be traceable to a source file line, a spec section, or an explicit user statement.** Nothing is invented, and behaviour that genuinely cannot be documented from the available sources is marked out-of-scope rather than explained away.
The process is eight steps — identify scope, read and extract, gap check, draft section by section, confirmation gate, delta summary, reader testing, finalise — and several of them are deliberately gated on the human:
- Files are read only after the user approves them by name. The skill may propose candidates; it waits.
- The **gap check** presents what the code does say and asks the user to fill only what it does not: caller intent, error-handling rationale, non-obvious side effects.
- No section is finalised until the full revised text has been shown. The skill never gates on output the user has not seen, and never reprints the whole document — all edits are surgical.
- **Reader testing** predicts 5–10 questions a target reader would ask, then spawns a sub-agent that receives only the finished doc and the questions — no source files. If the doc cannot answer them, neither can the sub-agent, and the run loops back to drafting.
Summary and overview sections are written last, once the detail sections are stable.
## Usage
```text
/write-docs
```
Name the files or modules to document, the target audience (developer / user / contributor / internal), and the documentation type (reference, guide, README section, inline comment, changelog entry). For a PRD, ADR or decision doc, use `grill-me` or `grill-with-docs` instead — those have dedicated handling.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — role, use/do-not-use boundaries, required inputs, constraints, the eight-step process, output format, failure handling, and a nine-item self-check |

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---
name: write-docs
description: Write documentation for X, document this module, create docs for this feature. Use when the user wants to produce or update technical documentation derived from code, spec, or existing artifacts. Do NOT use when the user wants a PRD, ADR, decision doc, or skill file — those have dedicated skills.
description: >
Use when the user wants technical documentation produced or updated from code
or spec, every claim traced to a source — "write docs for X", "document this
module", "create docs for this feature", "write a README for this". Not an ADR
or other decision record -> `grill-with-docs`. Not an external tool researched
from its docs -> `research`.
version: "1.0"
updated: 2026-05-17
when: invoked by explicit trigger ("write docs for X", "document this module", "create docs for this feature") or implicit request to produce technical documentation from code or spec
@@ -35,7 +40,8 @@ You are a technical writer that produces documentation by reading code and spec
- User says "write docs for X", "document this", "create docs for this feature", "write a README for this"
**Do not use when:**
- User wants a PRD, decision doc, or architecture proposal → `to-prd` or `grill-me`
- User wants an ADR, decision doc, or architecture proposal → `grill-with-docs`, which writes ADRs
- User wants a PRD → no skill in this set produces one; say so rather than redirecting
- User wants to document a skill file (skill files are self-describing)
- User wants marketing or blog copy
- Documentation requires tacit organisational knowledge that cannot be read from code or spec
@@ -88,7 +94,7 @@ You are a technical writer that produces documentation by reading code and spec
- Stage skipped without a logged reason → flag and require the one-sentence log before continuing
- Code behaviour is undocumentable (internal implementation detail, no public spec) → note as out-of-scope in the doc; do not invent an explanation
- Reader Testing sub-agent fails on multiple questions → surface the failures, return to step 4; do not mark complete
- Requested output is a PRD, decision doc, or architecture proposal → redirect to `to-prd`, `grill-me`, or `grill-with-docs`
- Requested output is an ADR, decision doc, or architecture proposal → redirect to `grill-with-docs`; for a PRD, say no skill here produces one instead of redirecting
## Self-check

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# zoom-out
Ask the agent to go up a layer of abstraction and map the modules and callers around unfamiliar code.
## What it does
A single-purpose prompt for the moment you land in a part of the codebase you do not know. Instead of answering at the level of the file in front of it, the agent climbs one layer and produces a map of the relevant modules and their callers — and names them using the project's own domain glossary vocabulary, so the map lines up with the language the rest of the repo already uses.
## Hand-invoked only
`SKILL.md` sets `disable-model-invocation: true`, so the router never selects this skill on its own and no other skill can hand off to it. It runs when the human asks for it. That also means its description is written as one plain human-facing sentence — it carries no trigger phrasing or boundary clause, because nothing routes on it.
## Usage
```text
/zoom-out
```
Best used with the unfamiliar code already in context — the skill widens the view around what you are looking at rather than picking a starting point for you.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — a single instruction, no supporting files |

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{
"name": "bin",
"version": "1.1.5",
"version": "1.1.6",
"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",

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{
"name": "bin",
"version": "1.1.5",
"version": "1.1.6",
"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",

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name: bin
version: 1.1.5
version: 1.1.6
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

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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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# caveman
Ultra-compressed output mode: drop articles, filler and pleasantries, keep the technical substance exact.
## What it does
Switches the agent into a terse register — no articles, no hedging, no pleasantries, fragments allowed, arrows for causality — while leaving technical terms, code blocks and quoted error strings untouched. The mode is *sticky*: once turned on it stays on for every subsequent response until the user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode", rather than decaying back to normal prose after a few turns.
It carries one built-in escape hatch. Security warnings, confirmations for irreversible actions, multi-step sequences where fragment order could be misread, and any request to clarify are answered in normal prose, then the compressed register resumes.
## Hand-invoked only
`SKILL.md` sets `disable-model-invocation: true`. This is the single most important thing to know about this skill: **the model cannot route to it.** No other skill can hand off to it, and no phrasing in a user's request will cause it to be selected automatically. The only way in is the human typing `/caveman`.
That is deliberate — output style is the user's choice, not an inference the router should make on their behalf. It is also why the description reads as one plain human-facing sentence rather than carrying the trigger phrasing and boundary clause a routable skill needs.
## Usage
```text
/caveman
```
Then keep working normally. To leave the mode, say "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — persistence rule, compression rules, worked examples, and the auto-clarity exception |

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---
name: caveman
disable-model-invocation: true
description: >
Ultra-compressed communication mode. Cuts token usage ~75% by dropping
filler, articles, and pleasantries while keeping full technical accuracy.
Use when user says "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "use caveman",
"less tokens", "be brief", or invokes /caveman.
Ultra-compressed output mode that drops articles, filler and pleasantries while
keeping technical substance exact, cutting token usage by roughly 75%.
---
Respond terse like smart caveman. All technical substance stay. Only fluff die.
## Persistence
ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE once triggered. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only when user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE once user type `/caveman`. No revert after many turns. No filler drift. Still active if unsure. Off only when user says "stop caveman" or "normal mode".
## Rules

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# diagnose
A six-phase discipline for hard bugs and performance regressions: feedback loop → reproduce → hypothesise → instrument → fix with a regression test → clean up.
## What it does
Imposes an order of operations on debugging so the agent cannot skip to guessing. The load-bearing phase is the first one: build a fast, deterministic, agent-runnable pass/fail signal for the bug. Everything downstream — bisection, hypothesis testing, instrumentation — just consumes that signal, so the skill refuses to advance to Phase 2 without one, and says so explicitly rather than hypothesising blind.
The remaining phases each carry a constraint worth knowing about: hypotheses are generated 3–5 at a time and must be falsifiable, so the first plausible idea cannot anchor the whole investigation; every debug log is tagged with a unique prefix (`[DEBUG-a4f2]`) so cleanup is a single grep; the regression test is written before the fix and only at a seam that exercises the real bug pattern; and the run closes by asking what would have prevented the bug, handing off to `improve-codebase-architecture` when the answer is architectural.
Performance regressions take a branch of their own inside Phase 4 — baseline measurement and bisection, not logs.
## Conditional reading
Neither reference file is read on every run; `SKILL.md` names the condition for each.
- `references/feedback-loops.md` is read when Phase 1 has no signal yet, or when the loop you have is slow or intermittent.
- `references/regression-seams.md` is read when Phase 5 leaves you unsure whether the available seam is deep enough — or whether one exists at all.
## Usage
```text
/diagnose
```
Describe the bug or the regression. For filing and triaging a reported bug rather than diagnosing it, use `triage`; for test-first feature work, use `tdd`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The six phases and their gates — what must be true before each one ends |
| `references/feedback-loops.md` | Loaded when Phase 1 has no loop or the loop is too weak: ten ways to construct one ordered by cost, how to sharpen an existing loop, handling intermittent bugs, and what to ask the user for when the bug resists reproduction |
| `references/regression-seams.md` | Loaded when Phase 5 is unsure about the seam: what makes a seam correct, the four shapes of a too-shallow seam, and what to do when no correct seam exists |
| `assets/hitl-loop.template.sh` | Copy-and-edit bash template for the last-resort human-in-the-loop feedback loop, cited by `references/feedback-loops.md`. Provides `step` and `capture` helpers and prints captured values as `KEY=VALUE` for the agent to parse |

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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 +18,11 @@ 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
**If you do not yet have such a signal, read `references/feedback-loops.md`** — ten ways to build one ordered by cost, and what to ask the user for when the bug resists reproduction entirely.
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.
**If you do have one, it is probably not sharp enough yet.** Make it faster and more deterministic, and make it assert on the exact symptom rather than "didn't crash" — a 30-second flaky loop is barely better than no loop. If it stays slow or intermittent after that, read that file's "Iterate on the loop itself" and "Intermittent bugs" sections.
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 +31,7 @@ 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.
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## Phase 5 — Fix + regression test
Write the regression test **before the fix** — but only if there is a **correct seam** for it.
Write the regression test **before the fix** — but only at a **correct seam**: one where the test exercises the real bug pattern as it occurs at the call site. If the available seam looks too shallow, or you cannot tell whether it is, read `references/regression-seams.md`.
A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it occurs at the call site. If the only available seam is too shallow (single-caller test when the bug needs multiple callers, unit test that can't replicate the chain that triggered the bug), a regression test there gives false confidence.
**If no correct seam exists, that itself is the finding.** Note it and carry it into Phase 6 — the architecture is preventing the bug from being locked down.
**If no correct seam exists, that itself is the finding.** Note it. The codebase architecture is preventing the bug from being locked down. Flag this for the next phase.
At a correct seam:
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 `assets/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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# Judging a regression-test seam
Read this when Phase 5 leaves you unsure whether the seam available for the regression test is the correct one — either because the obvious seam looks shallow, or because there appears to be no seam at all.
## What makes a seam correct
A correct seam is one where the test exercises the **real bug pattern** as it occurs at the call site: the same entry point, the same participants, the same ordering, and the same state the real caller holds when it goes wrong.
## Seams that are too shallow
- A single-caller test when the bug only appears with multiple callers.
- A unit test that cannot replicate the chain of calls that triggered the bug.
- A test that reproduces the symptom by construction — asserting on a value the test itself set — rather than by driving the code path that produces it.
- A test that mocks out the collaborator the bug actually lives in.
A regression test at a shallow seam gives false confidence. It passes forever, including after a change reintroduces the bug at the real call site, and it will be read by the next maintainer as proof the bug is locked down.
## When there is no correct seam
Do not force one, and do not settle for a shallow seam to have something green. Instead:
1. Apply the fix and verify it against the Phase 1 loop directly.
2. Write down which seams you considered and why each was too shallow.
3. Carry that into Phase 6's "what would have prevented this bug" question. A missing seam is an architecture finding — tangled callers, hidden coupling, or a module with no testable boundary — and the handoff is the `improve-codebase-architecture` skill, with those specifics attached.

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# grill-me
Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until the decision tree is fully resolved.
## What it does
Turns the agent into an interviewer rather than an implementer. It walks the design tree branch by branch, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time, and offers its own recommended answer alongside each question so the user has something concrete to push against. Two rules give it its shape: **one question at a time**, and **never ask what the codebase can answer** — if a question is settleable by reading the code, the agent goes and reads the code instead of spending the user's attention on it.
## Composition
This is the plain grilling loop, with no documentation side effects. The sibling `grill-with-docs` skill runs the same interview but additionally challenges answers against the project's `CONTEXT.md` glossary and existing ADRs, and writes decisions back into those files as they crystallise. Reach for that one when the project has a domain model worth defending; reach for this one when it does not, or when nothing should be written down yet.
`triage` composes the documented variant, not this one, when an issue needs fleshing out.
## Usage
```text
/grill-me
```
Describe the plan or design to be stress-tested. Expect questions one at a time, each with a recommended answer.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — the interview instruction, the one-question-at-a-time rule, and the explore-instead-of-asking rule |

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---
name: grill-me
description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".
description: >
Use when the user says "grill me" or wants a plan or design stress-tested by
relentless interview — one question at a time, down each branch of the
decision tree. Not a plan to challenge against `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs ->
`grill-with-docs`.
---
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

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# grill-with-docs
The grilling interview, run against the project's domain model — and writing decisions back into `CONTEXT.md` and ADRs as they land.
## What it does
Runs the same relentless one-question-at-a-time interview as `grill-me`, with the project's own documentation as an active participant. During codebase exploration it also locates the domain documentation — a root `CONTEXT.md` and `docs/adr/`, or a `CONTEXT-MAP.md` pointing at per-context glossaries and ADR directories in a multi-context repo — and then uses it five ways:
- **Challenges terms against the glossary.** When the user's usage conflicts with what `CONTEXT.md` already defines, that is raised immediately rather than absorbed.
- **Sharpens fuzzy language** by proposing a precise canonical term ("you're saying 'account' — do you mean the Customer or the User?").
- **Stress-tests domain relationships with concrete scenarios**, inventing edge cases that force the user to be precise about where one concept ends and the next begins.
- **Cross-references claims against the code**, and surfaces contradictions between what the user says happens and what the code does.
- **Updates `CONTEXT.md` inline**, the moment a term is resolved, rather than batching changes to the end of the session where they get lost.
Files are created lazily — only when there is something real to write.
ADRs are offered *sparingly*, and only when all three tests pass: the decision is hard to reverse, it would surprise a future reader without the context, and it was a genuine trade-off with real alternatives. Missing any one of the three means no ADR.
## Composition
`grill-me` is the same interview without the documentation side effects — use it when there is no domain model to defend or nothing should be written down yet. `triage` composes this skill (not `grill-me`) at step 4 when an issue needs fleshing out. `improve-codebase-architecture` runs its own grilling loop and borrows this skill's `CONTEXT.md` and ADR discipline for the decisions that come out of it.
## Usage
```text
/grill-with-docs
```
Describe the plan or design. Expect questions one at a time, each with a recommended answer, and expect `CONTEXT.md` to be edited during the session rather than after it.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The interview instruction plus the domain-awareness rules: file layout discovery, the five during-session behaviours, and the three-part ADR test |
| `CONTEXT-FORMAT.md` | Skill-root document, cited when a term is resolved: the structure of a `CONTEXT.md` and how to write a Language entry |
| `ADR-FORMAT.md` | Skill-root document, cited when an ADR is offered: `docs/adr/` naming, sequential numbering, and the ADR template |

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---
name: grill-with-docs
description: Grilling session that challenges your plan against the existing domain model, sharpens terminology, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against their project's language and documented decisions.
description: >
Use when a plan should be stress-tested against the project's domain model —
the interview challenges terms against `CONTEXT.md` and writes decisions into
it and into ADRs as they land. Not a plain interview -> `grill-me`.
---
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# improve-codebase-architecture
Surface architectural friction and propose deepening opportunities — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones.
## What it does
Looks for places where a codebase is hard to understand, hard to test, or hard for an agent to navigate, and proposes refactors that concentrate behaviour behind smaller interfaces. It runs in three stages:
1. **Explore.** Reads the domain glossary and any ADRs in the area first, then walks the codebase with an `Explore` sub-agent — organically, noting friction rather than applying fixed heuristics. The **deletion test** is the filter: imagine deleting the module; if complexity vanishes it was a pass-through, if complexity reappears across N callers it was earning its keep.
2. **Present candidates.** A numbered list, each with files, problem, solution and benefits — benefits stated in terms of *locality* and *leverage* and of how tests would improve. No interfaces are proposed yet; the user picks one.
3. **Grilling loop.** Walks the design tree for the chosen candidate, with documentation side effects landing inline as decisions crystallise.
The skill is opinionated about vocabulary, and that is the point: **module, interface, implementation, depth, seam, adapter, leverage, locality**, used exactly, with no drift into "component", "service", "API" or "boundary". Domain nouns come from `CONTEXT.md`, architecture nouns from `LANGUAGE.md` — so a proposal reads as "the Order intake module", never "the FooBarHandler".
ADRs are treated as decisions not to be re-litigated. A candidate that contradicts one is surfaced only when the friction is real enough to warrant reopening it, and is marked as such.
## Composition
`diagnose` hands off here when a bug's post-mortem concludes that no correct test seam exists, or that callers are tangled — the recommendation is made after the fix is in, not before. The grilling loop follows `grill-with-docs`'s discipline for `CONTEXT.md` entries and ADR offers, and `SKILL.md` names that skill's format documents directly.
## Usage
```text
/improve-codebase-architecture
```
Point at a codebase or an area of one. Expect a numbered candidate list and a "which of these would you like to explore?" before any interface design happens.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Condensed glossary, key principles, and the three-stage process |
| `LANGUAGE.md` | Skill-root document, cited throughout `SKILL.md`: full definitions of every term, the words each one replaces, and the full principle list |
| `INTERFACE-DESIGN.md` | Skill-root document, read at stage 3 when the user wants alternative interfaces explored: the parallel sub-agent "Design It Twice" pattern, framing the problem space, and the per-agent design constraints |
| `DEEPENING.md` | Skill-root document, cited from `INTERFACE-DESIGN.md`: how to deepen a cluster of shallow modules safely, the four dependency categories (in-process, local-substitutable, remote-but-owned, true external), seam discipline, and the replace-don't-layer testing strategy |

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---
name: improve-codebase-architecture
description: Find deepening opportunities in a codebase, informed by the domain language in CONTEXT.md and the decisions in docs/adr/. Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more testable and AI-navigable.
description: >
Use when the user wants to improve architecture, find refactoring
opportunities, consolidate tightly-coupled modules, or make a codebase more
testable and AI-navigable — deepening opportunities that turn shallow modules
into deep ones, informed by `CONTEXT.md` and `docs/adr/`. Not debugging a
failure -> `diagnose`.
---
# Improve Codebase Architecture
@@ -9,7 +14,7 @@ Surface architectural friction and propose **deepening opportunities** — refac
## Glossary
Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." Full definitions in [LANGUAGE.md](LANGUAGE.md).
Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary."
- **Module** — anything with an interface and an implementation (function, class, package, slice).
- **Interface** — everything a caller must know to use the module: types, invariants, error modes, ordering, config. Not just the type signature.
@@ -20,12 +25,14 @@ Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point
- **Leverage** — what callers get from depth.
- **Locality** — what maintainers get from depth: change, bugs, knowledge concentrated in one place.
Key principles (see [LANGUAGE.md](LANGUAGE.md) for the full list):
Key principles:
- **Deletion test**: imagine deleting the module. If complexity vanishes, it was a pass-through. If complexity reappears across N callers, it was earning its keep.
- **The interface is the test surface.**
- **One adapter = hypothetical seam. Two adapters = real seam.**
If a term or principle above is ambiguous in the case in front of you, or you need the definitions and the principles the two lists leave out, read `LANGUAGE.md`.
This skill is _informed_ by the project's domain model. The domain language gives names to good seams; ADRs record decisions the skill should not re-litigate.
## Process
@@ -53,7 +60,7 @@ Present a numbered list of deepening opportunities. For each candidate:
- **Solution** — plain English description of what would change
- **Benefits** — explained in terms of locality and leverage, and also in how tests would improve
**Use CONTEXT.md vocabulary for the domain, and [LANGUAGE.md](LANGUAGE.md) vocabulary for the architecture.** If `CONTEXT.md` defines "Order," talk about "the Order intake module" — not "the FooBarHandler," and not "the Order service."
**Use CONTEXT.md vocabulary for the domain, and the architecture glossary above for the architecture.** If `CONTEXT.md` defines "Order," talk about "the Order intake module" — not "the FooBarHandler," and not "the Order service."
**ADR conflicts**: if a candidate contradicts an existing ADR, only surface it when the friction is real enough to warrant revisiting the ADR. Mark it clearly (e.g. _"contradicts ADR-0007 — but worth reopening because…"_). Don't list every theoretical refactor an ADR forbids.
@@ -65,7 +72,7 @@ Once the user picks a candidate, drop into a grilling conversation. Walk the des
Side effects happen inline as decisions crystallize:
- **Naming a deepened module after a concept not in `CONTEXT.md`?** Add the term to `CONTEXT.md` — same discipline as `/grill-with-docs` (see [CONTEXT-FORMAT.md](../grill-with-docs/CONTEXT-FORMAT.md)). Create the file lazily if it doesn't exist.
- **Naming a deepened module after a concept not in `CONTEXT.md`?** Add the term to `CONTEXT.md` — same discipline as `grill-with-docs`, in the format `grill-with-docs`'s `CONTEXT-FORMAT.md` defines. Create the file lazily if it doesn't exist.
- **Sharpening a fuzzy term during the conversation?** Update `CONTEXT.md` right there.
- **User rejects the candidate with a load-bearing reason?** Offer an ADR, framed as: _"Want me to record this as an ADR so future architecture reviews don't re-suggest it?"_ Only offer when the reason would actually be needed by a future explorer to avoid re-suggesting the same thing — skip ephemeral reasons ("not worth it right now") and self-evident ones. See [ADR-FORMAT.md](../grill-with-docs/ADR-FORMAT.md).
- **Want to explore alternative interfaces for the deepened module?** See [INTERFACE-DESIGN.md](INTERFACE-DESIGN.md).
- **User rejects the candidate with a load-bearing reason?** Offer an ADR, framed as: _"Want me to record this as an ADR so future architecture reviews don't re-suggest it?"_ Only offer when the reason would actually be needed by a future explorer to avoid re-suggesting the same thing — skip ephemeral reasons ("not worth it right now") and self-evident ones. See `grill-with-docs`'s `ADR-FORMAT.md`.
- **Want to explore alternative interfaces for the deepened module?** Read `INTERFACE-DESIGN.md`.

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# prototype
Build a throwaway prototype that answers one design question — either a runnable terminal app or several UI variations.
## What it does
Treats a prototype as **throwaway code that answers a question**, and lets the question decide the artifact. `SKILL.md` opens with a two-row dispatch table and the run resolves exactly one row before doing anything else:
- *"Does this logic / state model feel right?"* → a tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state machine through the cases that are hard to reason about on paper.
- *"What should this look like?"* → several radically different UI variations on one route, switchable from a floating bottom bar via a URL search param.
The two branches produce fundamentally different artifacts, so picking wrong wastes the whole prototype. When the question is genuinely ambiguous and the user is unreachable, the skill defaults on the shape of the surrounding code (backend module → logic, page or component → UI) and states the assumption at the top of the prototype rather than silently choosing.
Six rules apply to both branches: throwaway and visibly named as such, one command to run, no persistence by default, no polish, surface the full state after every action or variant switch, and delete or absorb the prototype when it is done. The *answer* is the only durable output — the skill captures it in a commit message, ADR, issue or `NOTES.md` before the code is deleted.
## Usage
```text
/prototype
```
State the design question. For production code, use `tdd`; for talking a design through without building anything, use `grill-me`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The branch dispatch table and the rules that apply to both branches |
| `references/logic.md` | The logic branch, read only when that row is selected: when it is the right shape, and how to build the interactive terminal app |
| `references/ui.md` | The UI branch, read only when that row is selected: when it is the right shape, and how to build and switch between the variations |
Each reference is self-contained — a run reads one of the two, never both.

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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. Not production code -> `tdd`. Not talking a design through ->
`grill-me`.
---
# Prototype
@@ -9,10 +13,12 @@ A prototype is **throwaway code that answers a question**. The question decides
## Pick a branch
Identify which question is being answered — from the user's prompt, the surrounding code, or by asking if the user is around:
| Question being answered | Build | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| "Does this logic / state model feel right?" | A tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state machine through cases that are hard to reason about on paper | `references/logic.md` |
| "What should this look like?" | Several radically different UI variations on one route, switchable via a URL search param and a floating bottom bar | `references/ui.md` |
- **"Does this logic / state model feel right?"** → [LOGIC.md](LOGIC.md). Build a tiny interactive terminal app that pushes the state machine through cases that are hard to reason about on paper.
- **"What should this look like?"** → [UI.md](UI.md). Generate several radically different UI variations on a single route, switchable via a URL search param and a floating bottom bar.
Resolve the row from the user's prompt, the surrounding code, or by asking if the user is around, then read only that reference — each is self-contained.
The two branches produce fundamentally different artifacts — getting this wrong wastes the whole prototype. If the question is genuinely ambiguous and the user isn't reachable, default to whichever branch better matches the surrounding code (a backend module → logic; a page or component → UI) and state the assumption at the top of the prototype.

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- "I want to feel out what the API should look like before writing it."
- Anything where the user wants to **press buttons and watch state change**.
If the question is "what should this look like" — wrong branch. Use [UI.md](UI.md).
If the question is "what should this look like" — wrong branch. Read `references/ui.md`.
## Process

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Generate **several radically different UI variations** on a single route, switchable from a floating bottom bar. The user flips between variants in the browser, picks one (or steals bits from each), then throws the rest away.
If the question is about logic/state rather than what something looks like — wrong branch. Use [LOGIC.md](LOGIC.md).
If the question is about logic/state rather than what something looks like — wrong branch. Read `references/logic.md`.
## When this is the right shape

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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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# research
Research a tool, library or API from canonical documentation into a directory of structured per-topic reference files.
## What it does
Runs a six-step pipeline: scope against the working directory (what version is actually in use, what is already documented), resolve the topic through Context7, websearch for canonical docs covering whatever Context7 missed, read those sources, deepen one level into the links worth following, then write one markdown file per topic area plus a `sources.md` provenance record.
Four gotchas at the top of `SKILL.md` shape the whole run, and each exists because of a specific failure: the output path is never inferred (a guessed destination scatters a directory's worth of files through someone's source tree); nothing is written outside that path; no empty topic file is ever written (a stub `troubleshooting.md` reads downstream as researched and closed); and a Context7 "no results", redirect or header-only response does not count as coverage. If no topic area has content, the run writes nothing at all — `sources.md` included — and reports what it searched.
The frontmatter pins `model: sonnet` and a closed `allowed-tools` list. Notably it grants no subagent tool, so every `WebFetch` is serial and each fetched page lands in the run's own context — which is why steps 4 and 5 insist on reducing each page to notes before fetching the next, and cap deepening at roughly ten extra pages.
## Composition
Both reference files are read on condition, never on every run — `SKILL.md` inlines the minimum each step needs (the seven default topic areas at step 1, the four `sources.md` field names and the topic-file frontmatter keys at step 6) and sends the run to the reference only for what it does not carry. Those four field names are matched literally by the downstream provenance validator, so prose written in their place parses as nothing and the check passes having verified nothing — which is why they are inlined rather than deferred.
## Usage
```text
/research
```
Name the topic and the output path — the skill will stop and ask if the path is missing. Supplying starting URLs is treated as a deliberate source choice and skips Context7 resolution and discovery. For documentation derived from existing code or specs, use `write-docs`; for a bug or incident, use `diagnose`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The four gotchas and the six research steps |
| `references/topics.md` | Read at Step 1 only when what belongs in a default topic is unclear or a custom topic is needed: the per-topic coverage table and the custom-topic naming rule |
| `references/file-format.md` | Read at Step 6 only when the inlined field names do not settle the case: slug derivation, the Context7 slug and URL convention, and what belongs in a topic body |

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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:
- WebSearch
- WebFetch
- Grep
- Glob
- Read
- Write
- WebSearch
- WebFetch
- mcp__context7__resolve-library-id
- mcp__context7__query-docs
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
The default topic areas are `overview`, `installation`, `configuration`, `cli-reference`,
`api-reference`, `examples` and `troubleshooting` — one file each, and only where content exists.
If what belongs in one of them is unclear, or the topic needs a file outside that set, read
`references/topics.md` for the per-topic coverage table and the custom-topic naming rule.
</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, then write, in the output path:
</steps>
- `<topic>.md` for each topic area that has content, default or custom. Frontmatter carries `topic:` (the filename without `.md`) and `source_keys:` (kebab-case slugs matching `sources.md`); the body is prose in `##` sections, with no inline URLs.
- `sources.md`, always, one `##` section per source — including sources that yielded nothing — with exactly these four fields:
<checks>
```markdown
- **URL:** <full URL>
- **Description:** <one-line summary>
- **Contributing files:** <topic files this source contributed to>
- **Status:** `extracted` | `no content extracted`
```
## Failure handling
Spell those four field names exactly as given. The downstream provenance validator matches them literally; prose in their place parses as nothing, and the check passes having verified nothing.
- 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
Read `references/file-format.md` when the four fields above do not settle the case: what a slug should be, the `context7-<library-slug>` slug and `context7:<library-id>` URL convention for a Context7 source, or what belongs in a topic body versus a verbatim copy of the source.
## 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.

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# tdd
Test-driven development as a strict red-green-refactor loop, one behaviour at a time.
## What it does
Two convictions drive this skill. The first is about what a test is for: tests verify behaviour through public interfaces, not implementation details. A good test reads like a specification ("user can checkout with valid cart") and survives refactors because it does not care about internal structure. The warning sign for a bad one is precise — the test breaks when you refactor but behaviour has not changed.
The second is an explicit anti-pattern: **do not write all the tests first, then all the implementation.** Horizontal slicing treats RED as "write every test" and GREEN as "write every implementation", and it produces tests of *imagined* behaviour — tests of the shape of things, insensitive to real change, committed to before the implementation was understood. The correct shape is vertical: one test → one implementation → repeat, each cycle informed by what the last one taught you.
The workflow is four stages: plan (confirm the interface and which behaviours matter, with the user — you cannot test everything), fire a tracer bullet (one test proving the path works end to end), loop incrementally one behaviour at a time, then refactor once everything is green. Refactoring while RED is forbidden.
Codebase exploration uses the project's domain glossary, so test names and interface vocabulary match the project's language, and ADRs in the area are respected.
## Usage
```text
/tdd
```
Describe the feature or bug. Expect the skill to ask what the public interface should look like and which behaviours matter most before any code is written. For diagnosing an existing bug rather than building test-first, use `diagnose`; for throwaway exploratory code, use `prototype`.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | Philosophy, the horizontal-slicing anti-pattern, the four-stage workflow, and the per-cycle checklist |
| `tests.md` | Skill-root document, cited from Philosophy: worked good and bad test examples |
| `mocking.md` | Skill-root document, cited from Philosophy: mock at system boundaries only, and what not to mock |
| `deep-modules.md` | Skill-root document, cited from stage 1: what a deep module is (small interface, large implementation) and why it is the design to aim for |
| `interface-design.md` | Skill-root document, cited from stage 1: designing interfaces for testability, starting with accepting dependencies rather than creating them |
| `refactoring.md` | Skill-root document, cited from stage 4: the refactor-candidate checklist — duplication, long methods, shallow modules, feature envy, primitive obsession |

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---
name: tdd
description: Test-driven development with red-green-refactor loop. Use when user wants to build features or fix bugs using TDD, mentions "red-green-refactor", wants integration tests, or asks for test-first development.
description: >
Use when the user wants a feature built or a bug fixed test-first, in a strict
red-green-refactor loop, one behaviour at a time. Not diagnosing an existing
bug -> `diagnose`. Not throwaway exploratory code -> `prototype`.
---
# Test-Driven Development
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**Bad tests** are coupled to implementation. They mock internal collaborators, test private methods, or verify through external means (like querying a database directly instead of using the interface). The warning sign: your test breaks when you refactor, but behavior hasn't changed. If you rename an internal function and tests fail, those tests were testing implementation, not behavior.
See [tests.md](tests.md) for examples and [mocking.md](mocking.md) for mocking guidelines.
If you need worked examples of the difference — a behaviour-level test beside the implementation-coupled version of the same check — read `tests.md`. If a test needs a collaborator faked, read `mocking.md` before reaching for a mock.
## Anti-Pattern: Horizontal Slices

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# Writing Agent Briefs
An agent brief is a structured comment posted on a GitHub issue when it moves to `ready-for-agent`. It is the authoritative specification that an AFK agent will work from. The original issue body and discussion are context — the agent brief is the contract.
An agent brief is a structured comment posted on an issue in the issue tracker when it moves to `ready-for-agent`. It is the authoritative specification that an AFK agent will work from. The original issue body and discussion are context — the agent brief is the contract.
## Principles
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Describe **what** the system should do, not **how** to implement it. The agent w
The agent needs to know when it's done. Every agent brief must have concrete, testable acceptance criteria. Each criterion should be independently verifiable.
- **Good:** "Running `gh issue list --label needs-triage` returns issues that have been through initial classification"
- **Good:** "Querying the issue tracker for the `needs-triage` label returns issues that have been through initial classification"
- **Bad:** "Triage should work correctly"
### Explicit scope boundaries

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# triage
Move issues on the project issue tracker through a small state machine of triage roles.
## What it does
Gives issue triage an explicit state model and a fixed set of moves. Every issue carries exactly one **category** role (`bug`, `enhancement`) and one **state** role (`needs-triage`, `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, `wontfix`); conflicting state roles are flagged to the maintainer before anything else happens. Unlabeled issues normally enter at `needs-triage`; `needs-info` returns there once the reporter replies. The maintainer can override at any point, and unusual transitions are questioned rather than executed silently.
A run does one of three things depending on what the maintainer asks for:
- **Show what needs attention** — three buckets, oldest first: unlabeled, `needs-triage`, and `needs-info` with reporter activity since the last triage notes.
- **Triage a specific issue** — gather context (including prior triage notes, so resolved questions are not re-asked, and `.out-of-scope/` records that resemble the issue), recommend a category and state with reasoning, attempt reproduction for bugs *before* any grilling, run a `grill-with-docs` session if the issue needs fleshing out, then apply the outcome.
- **Quick state override** — "move #42 to ready-for-agent" is trusted and applied directly, skipping grilling, after confirming the exact changes.
Two hard rules: every comment or issue the skill posts during triage must open with the AI-generated disclaimer, and the canonical role names above are *not* necessarily the label strings in the tracker — each is resolved against the tracker's live label set before it is applied, and a name with no counterpart there is reported to the maintainer as a gap rather than guessed at.
## Composition
`grill-with-docs` is invoked at step 4 when an issue needs fleshing out; whatever that session establishes is carried into the triage notes so the work is not lost. The reverse direction also exists: `diagnose` names this skill as the place to send a *reported* bug that needs filing rather than debugging.
## Usage
```text
/triage
```
Then describe what you want in natural language — "show me anything that needs my attention", "let's look at #42", "move #42 to ready-for-agent", "what's ready for agents to pick up?".
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The roles and state machine, the three invocation modes, the needs-info template, and how to resume a prior session |
| `AGENT-BRIEF.md` | Skill-root document, cited when an issue moves to `ready-for-agent` (and reused for `ready-for-human`): how to write a brief that stays durable for weeks while the codebase moves under it — describe interfaces and behavioural contracts, not line numbers |
| `OUT-OF-SCOPE.md` | Skill-root document, cited when an enhancement is closed `wontfix` and when checking for prior rejections: how the `.out-of-scope/` knowledge base is laid out and what it is for — institutional memory, and deduplication against re-litigated requests |

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---
name: triage
description: Triage issues through a state machine driven by triage roles. Use when user wants to create an issue, triage issues, review incoming bugs or feature requests, prepare issues for an AFK agent, or manage issue workflow.
description: >
Use when the user wants an issue created, triaged, or moved through the
tracker's triage states, or an issue prepared for an AFK agent. Not debugging
the bug itself -> `diagnose`. Not fleshing out a design -> `grill-with-docs`.
---
# Triage
@@ -35,7 +38,7 @@ Five **state** roles:
Every triaged issue should carry exactly one category role and one state role. If state roles conflict, flag it and ask the maintainer before doing anything else.
These are canonical role names — the actual label strings used in the issue tracker may differ. The mapping should have been provided to you - run `/setup-matt-pocock-skills` if not.
These are canonical role names — the actual label strings used in the issue tracker may differ. Resolve each canonical name against the tracker's live label set before applying it, using whichever tracker skill this install provides. If a name has no counterpart there, report the gap and ask the maintainer for the mapping — never substitute a guess.
State transitions: an unlabeled issue normally goes to `needs-triage` first; from there it moves to `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, or `wontfix`. `needs-info` returns to `needs-triage` once the reporter replies. The maintainer can override at any time — flag transitions that look unusual and ask before proceeding.

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# write-docs
Produce technical documentation derived from code and spec, one section at a time, with a confirmation gate on every section.
## What it does
Casts the agent as a technical writer with one non-negotiable constraint: **every claim must be traceable to a source file line, a spec section, or an explicit user statement.** Nothing is invented, and behaviour that genuinely cannot be documented from the available sources is marked out-of-scope rather than explained away.
The process is eight steps — identify scope, read and extract, gap check, draft section by section, confirmation gate, delta summary, reader testing, finalise — and several of them are deliberately gated on the human:
- Files are read only after the user approves them by name. The skill may propose candidates; it waits.
- The **gap check** presents what the code does say and asks the user to fill only what it does not: caller intent, error-handling rationale, non-obvious side effects.
- No section is finalised until the full revised text has been shown. The skill never gates on output the user has not seen, and never reprints the whole document — all edits are surgical.
- **Reader testing** predicts 5–10 questions a target reader would ask, then spawns a sub-agent that receives only the finished doc and the questions — no source files. If the doc cannot answer them, neither can the sub-agent, and the run loops back to drafting.
Summary and overview sections are written last, once the detail sections are stable.
## Usage
```text
/write-docs
```
Name the files or modules to document, the target audience (developer / user / contributor / internal), and the documentation type (reference, guide, README section, inline comment, changelog entry). For a PRD, ADR or decision doc, use `grill-me` or `grill-with-docs` instead — those have dedicated handling.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — role, use/do-not-use boundaries, required inputs, constraints, the eight-step process, output format, failure handling, and a nine-item self-check |

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---
name: write-docs
description: Write documentation for X, document this module, create docs for this feature. Use when the user wants to produce or update technical documentation derived from code, spec, or existing artifacts. Do NOT use when the user wants a PRD, ADR, decision doc, or skill file — those have dedicated skills.
description: >
Use when the user wants technical documentation produced or updated from code
or spec, every claim traced to a source — "write docs for X", "document this
module", "create docs for this feature", "write a README for this". Not an ADR
or other decision record -> `grill-with-docs`. Not an external tool researched
from its docs -> `research`.
version: "1.0"
updated: 2026-05-17
when: invoked by explicit trigger ("write docs for X", "document this module", "create docs for this feature") or implicit request to produce technical documentation from code or spec
@@ -35,7 +40,8 @@ You are a technical writer that produces documentation by reading code and spec
- User says "write docs for X", "document this", "create docs for this feature", "write a README for this"
**Do not use when:**
- User wants a PRD, decision doc, or architecture proposal → `to-prd` or `grill-me`
- User wants an ADR, decision doc, or architecture proposal → `grill-with-docs`, which writes ADRs
- User wants a PRD → no skill in this set produces one; say so rather than redirecting
- User wants to document a skill file (skill files are self-describing)
- User wants marketing or blog copy
- Documentation requires tacit organisational knowledge that cannot be read from code or spec
@@ -88,7 +94,7 @@ You are a technical writer that produces documentation by reading code and spec
- Stage skipped without a logged reason → flag and require the one-sentence log before continuing
- Code behaviour is undocumentable (internal implementation detail, no public spec) → note as out-of-scope in the doc; do not invent an explanation
- Reader Testing sub-agent fails on multiple questions → surface the failures, return to step 4; do not mark complete
- Requested output is a PRD, decision doc, or architecture proposal → redirect to `to-prd`, `grill-me`, or `grill-with-docs`
- Requested output is an ADR, decision doc, or architecture proposal → redirect to `grill-with-docs`; for a PRD, say no skill here produces one instead of redirecting
## Self-check

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# zoom-out
Ask the agent to go up a layer of abstraction and map the modules and callers around unfamiliar code.
## What it does
A single-purpose prompt for the moment you land in a part of the codebase you do not know. Instead of answering at the level of the file in front of it, the agent climbs one layer and produces a map of the relevant modules and their callers — and names them using the project's own domain glossary vocabulary, so the map lines up with the language the rest of the repo already uses.
## Hand-invoked only
`SKILL.md` sets `disable-model-invocation: true`, so the router never selects this skill on its own and no other skill can hand off to it. It runs when the human asks for it. That also means its description is written as one plain human-facing sentence — it carries no trigger phrasing or boundary clause, because nothing routes on it.
## Usage
```text
/zoom-out
```
Best used with the unfamiliar code already in context — the skill widens the view around what you are looking at rather than picking a starting point for you.
## Files
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `SKILL.md` | The whole skill — a single instruction, no supporting files |

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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 |
@@ -30,6 +33,6 @@ Provide the path to the repo root to audit when invoking.
| `tests/validate-drift.bats` | (source-only) Bats test suite for `scripts/validate-drift.sh` |
Rows marked **(source-only)** exist in the authoring source (`.apm/skills/agentsmd-audit/`) but are
not present in an installed plugin: `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips `<category>/<name>/tests`
when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no plugin host needs to
discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.
not present in an installed plugin: the repo's `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
`<category>/<name>/tests` when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no
plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.

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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 for secrets, structure
and drift — "is this AGENTS.md safe to commit" — or after a hand-edit
outside `agentsmd-author`.
Not converting a provider file -> `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` lines, plus `INFO`/`SUGGESTION` where applicable, 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
@@ -53,16 +43,4 @@ Checked: secrets · structure · drift
Then output only findings that were found, in this order within a repo: `### Secrets`, `### Structure`, `### Drift`. Omit a dimension heading entirely if it produced nothing — its absence confirms it passed. Report each finding verbatim as emitted by the scripts (they already carry file:line, Why/Fix or Note).
Close with a result block:
```text
## Result
PASS
PASS · P info
PASS (N suggestions) · P info
FAIL (N fails)
FAIL (N fails) · P info
```
INFO and SUGGESTION findings are observational — they never flip PASS to FAIL. Do not fix anything — this skill reports and proposes only. Point the user to `agentsmd-author` to apply fixes.
Close with a `## Result` block holding one line: `PASS`, `PASS (N suggestions)`, or `FAIL (N fails · M suggestions)`, each optionally followed by ` · P info`. Omit the suggestion count when there are none, and omit `· P info` when there are none. INFO and SUGGESTION findings are observational — they never flip PASS to FAIL. Do not fix anything — this skill reports and proposes only. Point the user to `agentsmd-author` to apply fixes.

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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 converting 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, invoke the `provider-adapter-author` skill on it to reconcile — whether it duplicates content the AGENTS.md you just wrote/updated now owns, or is merely stale or missing a pointer to it. Never edit it yourself in either case.
## 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 on the target repo root — its validators take a `<repo-root>` and walk the tree for every AGENTS.md themselves; there is no per-file entry point. 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, the validator flag each needs, and the rule that a standalone run and a run composed into by `agentsmd-author` behave identically |
| `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/` |
@@ -30,6 +31,6 @@ Provide the path to the provider-specific file to convert (and the target repo r
| `tests/validate-adapter.bats` | (source-only) Bats test suite for `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` |
Rows marked **(source-only)** exist in the authoring source (`.apm/skills/provider-adapter-author/`)
but are not present in an installed plugin: `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
but are not present in an installed plugin: the repo's `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
`<category>/<name>/tests` when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no
plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.

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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 — "make
CLAUDE.md just import AGENTS.md".
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.
- Works standalone or composed-into by `agentsmd-author` — behave identically either way; don't assume a caller skill exists.
- 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; do not assume a caller skill exists. Detect the provider file, confirm `AGENTS.md`, and run the closeout validator yourself in both cases (`references/provider-matrix.md`).
## 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
Read the provider file and `AGENTS.md` side by side. Separate the provider file's content into two buckets: lines that restate what `AGENTS.md` already owns (universal rules, conventions, project overview) versus lines that are genuinely provider-specific (tool syntax, IDE behavior, model-specific instructions). Rewrite 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.
- **Providers with import syntax** (Claude Code): replace the redundant bucket with an `@AGENTS.md` (or correct relative path) import on a line of its own, keep the provider-specific bucket below it. An import folded into a sentence is not the thin-adapter shape and `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` will not credit it — nor one inside a code fence, an indented block, or an HTML comment, nor one whose path does not resolve to a real, non-empty file on disk.
- **Providers without import syntax** (Cursor, Copilot, etc.): replace the redundant bucket with a short sentence pointing at `AGENTS.md` ("See AGENTS.md at the repo root for ..."), keep the provider-specific bucket. A bare or negated mention is not a pointer and will not be credited.
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
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ 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`. Exits `2` and `3` are not `FAIL`s and nothing was graded under either, so neither is a reason to touch the adapter: `2` means the invocation or the input is wrong (a bad, missing, or extra argument, an unknown option, or a file that is not UTF-8), and `3` means a named file exists but could not be read.
## 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`.
## Standalone and composed runs behave identically
This skill is reached two ways: invoked directly by a user, and composed into by `agentsmd-author`
once it has written or updated the repo's `AGENTS.md`. Behave identically either way — do not
assume a caller skill exists. Detect the provider file yourself, confirm `AGENTS.md` yourself, and
run the closeout validator yourself, rather than treating any step as already done by the caller or
as something the caller will do afterwards. There is no handshake to rely on and no state passed
in beyond the file paths.

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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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@@ -4,6 +4,25 @@ Deterministic self-check this skill shells out to instead of relying on LLM judg
| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `validate-adapter.sh` | Checks a rewritten provider file (CLAUDE.md, etc.) has a reference to AGENTS.md, doesn't duplicate its content, and stays under a thin-file line threshold |
| `validate-adapter.sh` | Checks a rewritten provider file (CLAUDE.md, etc.) has a working reference to AGENTS.md, doesn't duplicate its content, and stays under a thin-file line threshold |
Takes `<adapter-file> <agents-md-file>`, with optional `--no-import-syntax` and `--max-lines N` flags. Prints `FAIL` findings to stdout and exits non-zero on any failure.
Takes exactly `<adapter-file> <agents-md-file>`, with optional `--no-import-syntax` and `--max-lines N` flags (also accepted as `--max-lines=N`). A third positional argument or an unknown option is an error, not something quietly ignored.
## What counts as a reference to AGENTS.md
Both modes require the named path to be a real path segment ending in `AGENTS.md` — `AGENTS.md` or `…/AGENTS.md`, not `NOTAGENTS.md` — that resolves on disk, relative to the adapter file, to a non-empty file. An adapter deferring to a path that is not there defers to nothing, so the check has to touch the disk rather than pattern-match the line.
A reference only counts where something would actually resolve it. A line inside a fenced code block, an indented code block, or an HTML comment is not credited in either mode: Claude Code resolves an import in none of those, so a fenced `@AGENTS.md` is the silent-drop failure this gate exists to catch, not a pass.
Default mode wants a real import: `@AGENTS.md` alone on its own line, indented no more than three spaces. `--no-import-syntax` wants a prose pointer that reads as one — the sentence naming `AGENTS.md` must carry a deference cue (see, read, refer to, documented in, conventions, …) and must not be negated. `Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it is obsolete.` and `We deleted AGENTS.md last year.` name the file while pointing the reader away from it, and neither is a pointer.
## Exit codes
The distinction matters because the skill's closeout tells the agent to fix any non-zero exit by editing the provider file. That is right for exactly one of these.
| Code | Meaning | What to do |
|------|---------|------------|
| `0` | Passes every check | Nothing |
| `1` | One or more `FAIL` findings printed to stdout — empty adapter, no working reference to AGENTS.md, excessive duplication, or not thin | Edit the provider file |
| `2` | Usage or input error: a bad, missing, or extra argument, an unknown option, a path that is not a file, or a file that is not UTF-8. Nothing was graded, so there is no `FAIL` line | Fix the invocation or the file's encoding — do not edit the adapter |
| `3` | A named input file exists but could not be read (permissions, I/O error). Nothing was graded and the adapter's contents are unknown | Fix the file's readability — do not edit the adapter |

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@@ -14,27 +14,85 @@ Arguments:
adapter-file Path to the provider-specific file to check.
agents-md-file Path to the AGENTS.md file it should defer to.
Exactly two positional arguments are accepted. Extra ones are rejected
rather than ignored: a third path silently graded nothing but the first
two, so a typo'd invocation passed against the wrong file.
Options:
--no-import-syntax The target provider has no native cross-file import
mechanism. Accept a plain-text pointer mention of
"AGENTS.md" instead of requiring an @import-style line.
mechanism. Require a plain-text pointer line naming
"AGENTS.md" instead of an @import-style line; an
@AGENTS.md line alone does not satisfy it, because
such a provider never resolves it. Without this flag
an actual @import line is required, and naming
AGENTS.md in prose alone does not satisfy it.
--max-lines N Max non-blank lines allowed in the adapter file before
it's considered no longer "thin". Default: 60.
it's considered no longer "thin". Must be a
non-negative integer. Default: 60.
--help, -h Show this help and exit 0.
-- End of options; every later argument is positional.
Both flags also accept the --flag=value form (--max-lines=40). An unknown
option is reported as an unknown option, not as a missing file.
What counts as a reference:
In both modes the named path must be a real path segment ending in
AGENTS.md ("AGENTS.md" or ".../AGENTS.md" — not NOTAGENTS.md), and it must
resolve on disk, relative to the adapter file, to a non-empty file. An
adapter deferring to a path that is not there defers to nothing.
A mention inside a fenced code block, an indented code block, or an HTML
comment is not credited in either mode. Nothing resolves those, so an
adapter whose only "import" is fenced silently defers to nothing.
With --no-import-syntax the pointer must read as a pointer: the sentence
naming AGENTS.md has to carry a deference cue (see, read, refer to,
documented in, conventions, ...) and must not be a negation ("do not read
AGENTS.md", "we deleted AGENTS.md"). A bare mention is not a pointer.
Exit codes:
0 Adapter file passes all checks
1 One or more checks failed (empty file, no reference to AGENTS.md,
excessive duplication, or file too long)
2 Usage or input error — a bad, missing, or extra argument, an unknown
option, a path that is not a file, or a file that is not UTF-8. Nothing
was graded, so there is no FAIL line and no adapter edit to make: fix
the invocation or the file's encoding and re-run. Kept distinct from 1
because the skill's own closeout tells the agent to fix every non-zero
exit by editing the provider file, which for a mistyped flag edits the
wrong file forever.
3 A named input file exists but could not be read (permissions, a
directory swapped in mid-run, I/O error). Also not a FAIL: nothing was
graded and the adapter's contents are unknown, so editing it is
guesswork. Fix the file's readability and re-run.
EOF
}
NO_IMPORT_SYNTAX=0
MAX_LINES=60
ARGS=()
END_OF_OPTS=0
require_int() {
# $1 = the value to validate
if [[ ! "$1" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
echo "Error: --max-lines expects a non-negative integer, got '$1'." >&2
exit 2
fi
}
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
if [[ $END_OF_OPTS -eq 1 ]]; then
ARGS+=("$1")
shift
continue
fi
case "$1" in
--)
END_OF_OPTS=1
shift
;;
--help|-h)
usage
exit 0
@@ -43,10 +101,38 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
NO_IMPORT_SYNTAX=1
shift
;;
--no-import-syntax=*)
echo "Error: --no-import-syntax is a flag and takes no value (got '$1')." >&2
exit 2
;;
--max-lines)
MAX_LINES="${2:-}"
if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: --max-lines requires a value (a non-negative integer)." >&2
exit 2
fi
MAX_LINES="$2"
require_int "$MAX_LINES"
shift 2
;;
--max-lines=*)
MAX_LINES="${1#--max-lines=}"
if [[ -z "$MAX_LINES" ]]; then
echo "Error: --max-lines requires a value (a non-negative integer)." >&2
exit 2
fi
require_int "$MAX_LINES"
shift
;;
-*)
# Reported as an unknown option rather than falling through to the
# positional bucket, where it used to surface as "'--bogus' is not a
# file" — the right exit code attached to a diagnostic that sends the
# reader looking for a path they never typed.
echo "Error: unknown option '$1'." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 2
;;
*)
ARGS+=("$1")
shift
@@ -58,7 +144,14 @@ if [[ ${#ARGS[@]} -lt 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: adapter-file and agents-md-file are required." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 1
exit 2
fi
if [[ ${#ARGS[@]} -gt 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: expected exactly 2 positional arguments (adapter-file and agents-md-file), got ${#ARGS[@]}: ${ARGS[*]}." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 2
fi
python3 -u - "${ARGS[0]}" "${ARGS[1]}" "$NO_IMPORT_SYNTAX" "$MAX_LINES" <<'PYTHON'
@@ -70,17 +163,80 @@ adapter_path, agents_md_path, no_import_syntax, max_lines = sys.argv[1:5]
no_import_syntax = no_import_syntax == "1"
max_lines = int(max_lines)
EXIT_FAIL = 1
EXIT_USAGE = 2
EXIT_UNREADABLE = 3
if not os.path.isfile(adapter_path):
print(f"Error: '{adapter_path}' is not a file.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
if not os.path.isfile(agents_md_path):
print(f"Error: '{agents_md_path}' is not a file.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
with open(adapter_path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
adapter_content = f.read()
with open(agents_md_path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
agents_md_content = f.read()
def read_text(path):
r"""File contents as text, UTF-8, every BOM stripped.
The BOM strip is not cosmetic. IMPORT_RE anchors on `^ {0,3}@`, and a BOM
is not whitespace in Python, so a CLAUDE.md saved by an editor that emits
one had its first line — the `@AGENTS.md` import, which is the whole
adapter — silently treated as prose. The check then said "no reference to
AGENTS.md" and told the author to add the line already sitting in front of
them. Same class of silent BOM miss recorded in scripts/skill-size-check.sh;
strip it at the reader so no later check has to know about it.
Every U+FEFF goes, not just one at offset 0. Stripping exactly the first
one left the mirror-image false FAIL for a doubled BOM (two concatenated
files, or a tool that re-adds one) and for a BOM mid-file at the head of
the import line. U+FEFF has no meaning as a character in a markdown
instruction file, so removing all of them cannot lose signal.
Decoding is strict, not errors="replace". Replacement mangles the file and
the checks then grade the mangling: a UTF-16 adapter whose first line is
`@AGENTS.md` decoded to interleaved NULs and failed as "no reference",
which is a true FAIL for a false reason and points the fix at the wrong
thing. But strict UTF-8 alone does not catch it — BOM-less UTF-16LE/BE and
UTF-32LE are *valid* UTF-8, because NUL is a legal code point, so they
decoded clean and produced exactly that false diagnosis anyway. The NUL
byte is the complete signal and is checked first: no plausible markdown
adapter contains one, and every UTF-16/32 encoding of ASCII is full of
them. A file this gate cannot read gets an encoding diagnostic and exit 2,
the same policy the ADR-0020 validators' read_text() uses.
A file that exists but cannot be read at all is neither a pass nor a FAIL —
nothing was graded — so it exits 3 rather than 1. Exit 1 sends the skill's
closeout into "fix the FAIL by editing the provider file", which for a file
it cannot open is an instruction to edit blind.
"""
try:
with open(path, "rb") as fh:
raw = fh.read()
except OSError as exc:
print(f"Error: '{path}' exists but could not be read ({exc.strerror}). "
"Nothing was checked — fix whatever is blocking the read "
"(permissions, ownership, the underlying device) and re-run; do "
"not edit the adapter on the strength of this.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(EXIT_UNREADABLE)
if b"\x00" in raw:
print(f"Error: '{path}' is not valid UTF-8 — it contains NUL bytes, so "
"it is almost certainly UTF-16 or UTF-32 (with or without a BOM). "
"Re-save it as UTF-8; this check does not guess at other "
"encodings.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
try:
text = raw.decode("utf-8")
except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
print(f"Error: '{path}' is not valid UTF-8 ({exc.reason} at byte "
f"{exc.start}) — re-save it as UTF-8; this check does not guess "
"at other encodings.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
return text.replace("\ufeff", "")
adapter_content = read_text(adapter_path)
agents_md_content = read_text(agents_md_path)
adapter_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(adapter_path))
has_fail = False
@@ -89,30 +245,229 @@ if not adapter_content.strip():
print(" Why: An empty adapter carries no reference to AGENTS.md and no provider-specific content.")
print(" Fix: Add at least an import (or text pointer) to AGENTS.md.")
print()
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_FAIL)
IMPORT_RE = re.compile(r'(?m)^\s*@\S*AGENTS\.md\s*$')
lines = adapter_content.splitlines()
import_lines = [ln for ln in lines if IMPORT_RE.match(ln)]
# --- Inert regions -----------------------------------------------------------
#
# A reference only counts where something would actually resolve it. Fenced
# code blocks, indented code blocks and HTML comments are shown to the reader
# (or hidden from them) as literal text; Claude Code resolves an @import in
# none of them. Without this, a ```-fenced `@AGENTS.md` — the exact
# copy-the-example-into-the-file mistake this gate exists to catch — exited 0
# with the adapter deferring to nothing.
#
# Indented code blocks are handled by IMPORT_RE's `^ {0,3}` instead of by the
# mask: four leading spaces is what opens an indented code block in CommonMark,
# so an import has to sit within three. The mask deliberately does not apply
# that rule to prose pointers, where four-space indentation is ordinary list
# continuation rather than code.
FENCE_RE = re.compile(r'^( {0,3})(`{3,}|~{3,})(.*)$')
COMMENT_RE = re.compile(r'<!--.*?(?:-->|\Z)', re.DOTALL)
def line_offsets(text):
"""[(char offset, line without its terminator)] over `text`."""
out = []
off = 0
for raw in text.splitlines(keepends=True):
out.append((off, raw.rstrip("\r\n")))
off += len(raw)
return out
def build_inert_mask(text, offsets):
"""Per-character flags: 1 where a reference would never be resolved."""
mask = bytearray(len(text))
fence = None # (fence char, opening run length)
for start, line in offsets:
m = FENCE_RE.match(line)
if fence is None:
if m:
fence = (m.group(2)[0], len(m.group(2)))
for i in range(start, start + len(line)):
mask[i] = 1
continue
for i in range(start, start + len(line)):
mask[i] = 1
if (m and m.group(2)[0] == fence[0]
and len(m.group(2)) >= fence[1]
and not m.group(3).strip()):
fence = None
for m in COMMENT_RE.finditer(text):
if m.start() < len(mask) and mask[m.start()]:
continue # a literal "<!--" printed inside a fence opens nothing
for i in range(m.start(), min(m.end(), len(mask))):
mask[i] = 1
return mask
# --- Reference shapes --------------------------------------------------------
#
# `\S*AGENTS\.md` had no path-separator boundary, so `@NOTAGENTS.md` and
# `@zzzAGENTS.md` counted as imports of AGENTS.md. The matched path must end in
# AGENTS.md as a whole segment.
IMPORT_RE = re.compile(r'^ {0,3}@(?P<path>\S+?)\s*$')
# A mention in prose: an optional relative path, then AGENTS.md, with no
# identifier character glued to the front (so NOTAGENTS.md does not match) and
# nothing glued to the back.
MENTION_RE = re.compile(r'(?<![0-9A-Za-z_.\-/])((?:[\w.\-~]+/)*AGENTS\.md)(?![0-9A-Za-z])')
# A pointer has to read as a pointer. `"AGENTS.md" in ln` passed
# "Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it is obsolete." and "We deleted AGENTS.md last
# year." — both of which point the reader away from the file. Require a
# deference cue in the naming sentence, and reject a negated one.
DIRECTIVE_RE = re.compile(
r'\b(see|read|refer|refers|referring|consult|consults|follow|follows|'
r'defer|defers|deferring|described|documented|documents|covered|covers|'
r'found|listed|specified|defined|governed|per|use|uses|using|apply|obey|'
r'start|check|live|lives|contains|holds|carries|inherit|inherits|import|'
r'imports|conventions|instructions|guidelines|guidance|rules|standards|'
r'reference|setup)\b', re.I)
NEGATION_RE = re.compile(
r"(\bnot\b|n't\b|\bnever\b|\bno longer\b|\bdeleted\b|\bremoved\b|"
r"\bobsolete\b|\bdeprecated\b|\bignore\b|\bignores\b|\bignoring\b|"
r"\bdisregard\b|\bsuperseded\b|\bgone\b|\bunused\b|\bstale\b)", re.I)
SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE = re.compile(r'(?<=[.;:!?])\s+')
def sentence_around(line, index):
"""(sentence of `line` containing character `index`, its start offset)."""
bounds = [0]
for m in SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE.finditer(line):
bounds.append(m.end())
bounds.append(len(line) + 1)
for i in range(len(bounds) - 1):
if bounds[i] <= index < bounds[i + 1]:
return line[bounds[i]:bounds[i + 1]], bounds[i]
return line, 0
def reads_as_pointer(line, match):
"""Does the sentence naming AGENTS.md actually point the reader at it?
The matched path is blanked out before the cues are applied. It is a
filename, not prose, and leaving it in let its own characters vote: the
perfectly ordinary `docs/does/not/exist/AGENTS.md` tripped the negation
cue on the `not` path segment, so a pointer got rejected for the wrong
reason and the near-miss line then reported the wrong diagnosis.
"""
sentence, sentence_start = sentence_around(line, match.start())
rel_start = match.start() - sentence_start
rel_end = match.end() - sentence_start
probe = sentence[:rel_start] + " AGENTS.md " + sentence[rel_end:]
if NEGATION_RE.search(probe):
return False
return bool(DIRECTIVE_RE.search(probe))
def resolve(raw_path):
"""An import/pointer path resolved the way the provider would resolve it."""
p = os.path.expanduser(raw_path)
if not os.path.isabs(p):
p = os.path.join(adapter_dir, p)
return os.path.normpath(p)
def target_problem(raw_path):
"""None if `raw_path` names a real, non-empty file; else why not."""
resolved = resolve(raw_path)
if not os.path.isfile(resolved):
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which does not exist"
try:
if os.path.getsize(resolved) == 0:
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which is empty"
with open(resolved, "rb") as fh:
if not fh.read().strip():
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which is blank"
except OSError as exc:
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which cannot be read ({exc.strerror})"
return None
def names_agents_md(path):
return path == "AGENTS.md" or path.endswith("/AGENTS.md")
offsets = line_offsets(adapter_content)
lines = [line for _, line in offsets]
mask = build_inert_mask(adapter_content, offsets)
def is_inert(abs_index):
return abs_index < len(mask) and bool(mask[abs_index])
# Lines shaped like an @AGENTS.md import, whether or not the target resolves.
# Used to exclude them from the duplication denominator and from the prose
# pointer scan, both of which only care about the shape.
import_shaped_lines = set()
# (line, raw path) for every import whose target actually resolves.
live_imports = []
# Diagnostics for imports that are the right shape but resolve to nothing.
dead_imports = []
# Imports that exist only inside a fence or an HTML comment.
inert_imports = []
for start, line in offsets:
m = IMPORT_RE.match(line)
if not m or not names_agents_md(m.group("path")):
continue
at_index = start + line.index("@")
if is_inert(at_index):
inert_imports.append(line.strip())
continue
import_shaped_lines.add(line)
problem = target_problem(m.group("path"))
if problem:
dead_imports.append(problem)
else:
live_imports.append(line)
live_pointers = []
dead_pointers = []
inert_pointers = []
mention_only = []
for start, line in offsets:
if line in import_shaped_lines:
continue
for m in MENTION_RE.finditer(line):
if is_inert(start + m.start()):
inert_pointers.append(line.strip())
continue
if not reads_as_pointer(line, m):
mention_only.append(sentence_around(line, m.start())[0].strip())
continue
problem = target_problem(m.group(1))
if problem:
dead_pointers.append(problem)
else:
live_pointers.append(line)
if no_import_syntax:
has_reference = "AGENTS.md" in adapter_content
has_reference = bool(live_pointers)
near_misses = dead_pointers + [f"{d} (inside a code fence or HTML comment)" for d in inert_pointers]
near_misses += [f"'{s}' names AGENTS.md but does not point at it" for s in mention_only]
else:
has_reference = bool(import_lines) or "AGENTS.md" in adapter_content
has_reference = bool(live_imports)
near_misses = dead_imports + [f"'{d}' is inside a code fence or HTML comment, where no import is resolved" for d in inert_imports]
if not has_reference:
has_fail = True
print(f"FAIL Adapter has no reference to AGENTS.md — {adapter_path}")
if no_import_syntax:
print(" Why: This provider has no import syntax, so the adapter must at least mention AGENTS.md as a text pointer.")
print(" Fix: Add a sentence like \"See AGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.\"")
print(" Why: This provider resolves no cross-file import, so the adapter must point at AGENTS.md in prose; an `@AGENTS.md` line here is inert text. The pointer has to read as a pointer and name a file that is really there — a bare or negated mention (\"we deleted AGENTS.md\") defers nothing, and neither does a mention buried in a code fence or an HTML comment.")
print(" Fix: Add a sentence like \"See AGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.\", outside any fence, naming a path that exists relative to this file.")
else:
print(" Why: A thin adapter must import AGENTS.md (e.g. `@AGENTS.md`) rather than silently omitting it.")
print(" Fix: Add an `@AGENTS.md` (or equivalent relative path) import line.")
print(" Why: A thin adapter must import AGENTS.md with an `@AGENTS.md` line of its own, indented no more than three spaces, and the path must resolve to a real non-empty file. Naming the file mid-sentence or inside backticks is prose this check will not credit; putting the line inside a ``` fence, an indented code block, or an HTML comment is worse, because nothing resolves it and it looks right.")
print(" Fix: Put `@AGENTS.md` (or the equivalent relative path) alone on its own line at the top level of the file, or pass --no-import-syntax if this provider resolves no imports.")
for miss in near_misses:
print(f" Near miss: {miss}")
print()
# --- Duplication check ---
non_import_lines = [ln for ln in lines if not IMPORT_RE.match(ln)]
non_import_lines = [ln for ln in lines if ln not in import_shaped_lines]
adapter_lines = [ln.strip() for ln in non_import_lines if ln.strip()]
agents_lines = {ln.strip() for ln in agents_md_content.splitlines() if ln.strip()}
@@ -132,10 +487,10 @@ if non_blank_count > max_lines:
has_fail = True
print(f"FAIL Adapter is not thin — {adapter_path}")
print(f" Why: {non_blank_count} non-blank lines exceeds the {max_lines}-line threshold for a thin adapter.")
print(" Fix: Move provider-agnostic content into AGENTS.md; keep only genuinely provider-specific additions here.")
print(" Fix: Delete the lines already covered by AGENTS.md; keep only genuinely provider-specific additions here.")
print()
if has_fail:
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_FAIL)
sys.exit(0)
PYTHON

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@@ -115,6 +115,51 @@ EOF
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "the two --no-import-syntax branches disagree: a text-pointer-only adapter fails in default mode" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
See AGENTS.md at the repo root for setup, style, and testing conventions.
## Copilot-specific
Prefer inline suggestions over chat for one-line edits.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure
assert_output --partial "no reference"
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, an inert @AGENTS.md line alone is not a prose pointer" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
@AGENTS.md
## Copilot-specific
Prefer inline suggestions over chat for one-line edits.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "--max-lines as the final argument reports a real error instead of failing silently" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD" --max-lines
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "--max-lines requires a value"
}
@test "--max-lines rejects a non-numeric value with a real error" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" --max-lines abc "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "non-negative integer"
}
@test "--help exits 0 and documents usage" {
run bash "$SCRIPT" --help
assert_success
@@ -123,6 +168,352 @@ EOF
@test "fails with a clear error when the adapter file argument is missing" {
run bash "$SCRIPT"
assert_failure
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "required"
}
@test "a UTF-8 BOM before the @import line does not hide it" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
python3 -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1], 'w', encoding='utf-8-sig').write('@AGENTS.md\n')" "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
@test "a usage error exits 2, a genuine finding exits 1" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" --max-lines -3 "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 2
refute_output --partial "FAIL"
: > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "FAIL"
}
@test "a non-UTF-8 adapter is reported as an encoding error, not as a missing reference" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
python3 -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1], 'wb').write('@AGENTS.md\n'.encode('utf-16'))" "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "not valid UTF-8"
refute_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "an @AGENTS.md folded into a sentence fails, and the message says the import needs its own line" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
See @AGENTS.md for shared conventions.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
assert_output --partial "line of its own"
}
# --- Q1: a reference only counts where something would resolve it -------------
@test "an @AGENTS.md inside a backtick code fence is not credited as an import" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
# Claude notes
Put this at the top of the file:
```
@AGENTS.md
```
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "an @AGENTS.md inside a tilde code fence is not credited as an import" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
~~~
@AGENTS.md
~~~
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "an @AGENTS.md in a four-space indented code block is not credited as an import" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
# Claude notes
@AGENTS.md
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "an @AGENTS.md inside a multi-line HTML comment is not credited as an import" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
# Claude notes
<!--
@AGENTS.md
-->
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "an @AGENTS.md indented up to three spaces is still credited" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
printf ' @AGENTS.md\n' > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
# --- Q2: encodings that decode as valid UTF-8 but are not UTF-8 ---------------
@test "a BOM-less UTF-16LE adapter is an encoding error, not a missing reference" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
python3 -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1], 'wb').write('@AGENTS.md\n'.encode('utf-16-le'))" "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "not valid UTF-8"
refute_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "a BOM-less UTF-32LE adapter is an encoding error, not a missing reference" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
python3 -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1], 'wb').write('@AGENTS.md\n'.encode('utf-32-le'))" "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "not valid UTF-8"
refute_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "a doubled UTF-8 BOM does not hide the @import line" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
python3 -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1], 'wb').write(('@AGENTS.md\n').encode('utf-8'))" "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
@test "a BOM in front of a mid-file @import line does not hide it" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
python3 -c "import sys; open(sys.argv[1], 'wb').write(('# Claude notes\n\n@AGENTS.md\n').encode('utf-8'))" "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
# --- Q3: a file that exists but cannot be read is not a FAIL -----------------
@test "an adapter that exists but cannot be read exits 3 with a diagnostic and no FAIL" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
chmod 000 "$ADAPTER"
# chmod is not enough under a uid that bypasses it (root in CI containers).
# /proc/self/mem is a regular file whose read returns EIO for every uid, so
# it exercises the same branch where chmod cannot.
if cat "$ADAPTER" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if [ -e /proc/self/mem ]; then
ADAPTER=/proc/self/mem
else
chmod 644 "$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
skip "no way to make a readable-by-stat, unreadable-by-open file here"
fi
fi
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
chmod 644 "$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
assert_failure 3
assert_output --partial "could not be read"
refute_output --partial "FAIL"
}
# --- Q4: the reference has to name, and resolve to, a real AGENTS.md ---------
@test "an @import naming a path that does not exist is not credited" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@docs/does/not/exist/AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
assert_output --partial "does not exist"
}
@test "@NOTAGENTS.md and @zzzAGENTS.md are not imports of AGENTS.md" {
# The decoys are real files, so the on-disk resolution check cannot be what
# rejects them. Only the path-segment boundary can — without the fixtures
# this test passes against a substring match and proves nothing.
cp "$AGENTS_MD" "$TMPDIR/NOTAGENTS.md"
cp "$AGENTS_MD" "$TMPDIR/zzzAGENTS.md"
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@NOTAGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
echo "@zzzAGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "an @import resolving to a zero-byte AGENTS.md is not credited" {
SUB="$TMPDIR/empty"
mkdir -p "$SUB"
: > "$SUB/AGENTS.md"
ADAPTER="$SUB/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
assert_output --partial "empty"
}
@test "an @import naming a real relative path to AGENTS.md is credited" {
mkdir -p "$TMPDIR/docs"
cp "$AGENTS_MD" "$TMPDIR/docs/AGENTS.md"
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@docs/AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
# --- Q5: --no-import-syntax needs a pointer, not a mention -------------------
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a negated mention of AGENTS.md is not a pointer" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it is obsolete.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a past-tense mention of a deleted AGENTS.md is not a pointer" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
We deleted AGENTS.md last year.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a pointer inside a code fence is not credited" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
Example of what to write:
```
See AGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.
```
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a pointer inside an HTML comment is not credited" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
# Copilot instructions
<!-- See AGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions. -->
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a name merely ending in AGENTS.md is not a pointer to it" {
# Real decoy files, so the on-disk resolution check cannot be what rejects
# these — only the token boundary in the mention pattern can. zzzAGENTS.md
# is the load-bearing case: dropping the boundary from NOTAGENTS.md leaves
# the fragment "NOT" behind, which the negation cue then rejects for an
# unrelated reason, so that case alone would prove nothing.
cp "$AGENTS_MD" "$TMPDIR/zzzAGENTS.md"
cp "$AGENTS_MD" "$TMPDIR/NOTAGENTS.md"
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
See zzzAGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
See NOTAGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a pointer naming a path that does not exist is not credited" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
See docs/does/not/exist/AGENTS.md for shared conventions.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
assert_output --partial "does not exist"
}
# --- argument handling -------------------------------------------------------
@test "a third positional argument is rejected instead of silently ignored" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD" "$TMPDIR/also-not-graded.md"
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "exactly 2 positional arguments"
# The usage text this prints mentions the word FAIL, so refute the shape of
# a real finding line rather than the bare word.
refute_output --partial "FAIL Adapter"
}
@test "an unknown option is reported as an unknown option, not as a missing file" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
echo "@AGENTS.md" > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" --bogus "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 2
assert_output --partial "unknown option '--bogus'"
refute_output --partial "'--bogus' is not a file"
refute_output --partial "FAIL Adapter"
}
@test "--max-lines=N is accepted in the equals form" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/CLAUDE.md"
{
echo "@AGENTS.md"
for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo "Provider-specific line $i unrelated to AGENTS.md content."; done
} > "$ADAPTER"
run bash "$SCRIPT" --max-lines=5 "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "thin"
run bash "$SCRIPT" --max-lines=40 "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_success
}
@test "with --no-import-syntax, a bare mention with no deference cue is not a pointer" {
ADAPTER="$TMPDIR/copilot-instructions.md"
cat > "$ADAPTER" <<'EOF'
# Copilot instructions
This repo also has an AGENTS.md.
Prefer inline suggestions over chat for one-line edits.
EOF
run bash "$SCRIPT" --no-import-syntax "$ADAPTER" "$AGENTS_MD"
assert_failure 1
assert_output --partial "no reference"
}

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "core",
"version": "1.1.1",
"version": "1.1.2",
"description": "Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it.",
"author": {
"name": "Defame1297",

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "core",
"version": "1.1.1",
"version": "1.1.2",
"description": "Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it.",
"author": {
"name": "Defame1297",

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
name: core
version: 1.1.1
version: 1.1.2
description: Skills for authoring and auditing a repo's AGENTS.md and the provider adapter files that defer to it.
author:
name: Defame1297

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@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Runs a single combined pass across every AGENTS.md file in a repo (root and any
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 |
@@ -30,6 +33,6 @@ Provide the path to the repo root to audit when invoking.
| `tests/validate-drift.bats` | (source-only) Bats test suite for `scripts/validate-drift.sh` |
Rows marked **(source-only)** exist in the authoring source (`.apm/skills/agentsmd-audit/`) but are
not present in an installed plugin: `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips `<category>/<name>/tests`
when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no plugin host needs to
discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.
not present in an installed plugin: the repo's `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
`<category>/<name>/tests` when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no
plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.

40
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@@ -1,20 +1,11 @@
---
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 for secrets, structure
and drift — "is this AGENTS.md safe to commit" — or after a hand-edit
outside `agentsmd-author`.
Not converting a provider file -> `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` lines, plus `INFO`/`SUGGESTION` where applicable, 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
@@ -53,16 +43,4 @@ Checked: secrets · structure · drift
Then output only findings that were found, in this order within a repo: `### Secrets`, `### Structure`, `### Drift`. Omit a dimension heading entirely if it produced nothing — its absence confirms it passed. Report each finding verbatim as emitted by the scripts (they already carry file:line, Why/Fix or Note).
Close with a result block:
```text
## Result
PASS
PASS · P info
PASS (N suggestions) · P info
FAIL (N fails)
FAIL (N fails) · P info
```
INFO and SUGGESTION findings are observational — they never flip PASS to FAIL. Do not fix anything — this skill reports and proposes only. Point the user to `agentsmd-author` to apply fixes.
Close with a `## Result` block holding one line: `PASS`, `PASS (N suggestions)`, or `FAIL (N fails · M suggestions)`, each optionally followed by ` · P info`. Omit the suggestion count when there are none, and omit `· P info` when there are none. INFO and SUGGESTION findings are observational — they never flip PASS to FAIL. Do not fix anything — this skill reports and proposes only. Point the user to `agentsmd-author` to apply fixes.

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@@ -1,20 +1,10 @@
---
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 converting 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, invoke the `provider-adapter-author` skill on it to reconcile — whether it duplicates content the AGENTS.md you just wrote/updated now owns, or is merely stale or missing a pointer to it. Never edit it yourself in either case.
## 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 on the target repo root — its validators take a `<repo-root>` and walk the tree for every AGENTS.md themselves; there is no per-file entry point. 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, the validator flag each needs, and the rule that a standalone run and a run composed into by `agentsmd-author` behave identically |
| `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/` |
@@ -30,6 +31,6 @@ Provide the path to the provider-specific file to convert (and the target repo r
| `tests/validate-adapter.bats` | (source-only) Bats test suite for `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` |
Rows marked **(source-only)** exist in the authoring source (`.apm/skills/provider-adapter-author/`)
but are not present in an installed plugin: `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
but are not present in an installed plugin: the repo's `scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh` strips
`<category>/<name>/tests` when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no
plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.

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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 — "make
CLAUDE.md just import AGENTS.md".
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.
- Works standalone or composed-into by `agentsmd-author` — behave identically either way; don't assume a caller skill exists.
- 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; do not assume a caller skill exists. Detect the provider file, confirm `AGENTS.md`, and run the closeout validator yourself in both cases (`references/provider-matrix.md`).
## 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
Read the provider file and `AGENTS.md` side by side. Separate the provider file's content into two buckets: lines that restate what `AGENTS.md` already owns (universal rules, conventions, project overview) versus lines that are genuinely provider-specific (tool syntax, IDE behavior, model-specific instructions). Rewrite 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.
- **Providers with import syntax** (Claude Code): replace the redundant bucket with an `@AGENTS.md` (or correct relative path) import on a line of its own, keep the provider-specific bucket below it. An import folded into a sentence is not the thin-adapter shape and `scripts/validate-adapter.sh` will not credit it — nor one inside a code fence, an indented block, or an HTML comment, nor one whose path does not resolve to a real, non-empty file on disk.
- **Providers without import syntax** (Cursor, Copilot, etc.): replace the redundant bucket with a short sentence pointing at `AGENTS.md` ("See AGENTS.md at the repo root for ..."), keep the provider-specific bucket. A bare or negated mention is not a pointer and will not be credited.
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
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ 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`. Exits `2` and `3` are not `FAIL`s and nothing was graded under either, so neither is a reason to touch the adapter: `2` means the invocation or the input is wrong (a bad, missing, or extra argument, an unknown option, or a file that is not UTF-8), and `3` means a named file exists but could not be read.
## 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`.
## Standalone and composed runs behave identically
This skill is reached two ways: invoked directly by a user, and composed into by `agentsmd-author`
once it has written or updated the repo's `AGENTS.md`. Behave identically either way — do not
assume a caller skill exists. Detect the provider file yourself, confirm `AGENTS.md` yourself, and
run the closeout validator yourself, rather than treating any step as already done by the caller or
as something the caller will do afterwards. There is no handshake to rely on and no state passed
in beyond the file paths.

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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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| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `validate-adapter.sh` | Checks a rewritten provider file (CLAUDE.md, etc.) has a reference to AGENTS.md, doesn't duplicate its content, and stays under a thin-file line threshold |
| `validate-adapter.sh` | Checks a rewritten provider file (CLAUDE.md, etc.) has a working reference to AGENTS.md, doesn't duplicate its content, and stays under a thin-file line threshold |
Takes `<adapter-file> <agents-md-file>`, with optional `--no-import-syntax` and `--max-lines N` flags. Prints `FAIL` findings to stdout and exits non-zero on any failure.
Takes exactly `<adapter-file> <agents-md-file>`, with optional `--no-import-syntax` and `--max-lines N` flags (also accepted as `--max-lines=N`). A third positional argument or an unknown option is an error, not something quietly ignored.
## What counts as a reference to AGENTS.md
Both modes require the named path to be a real path segment ending in `AGENTS.md` — `AGENTS.md` or `…/AGENTS.md`, not `NOTAGENTS.md` — that resolves on disk, relative to the adapter file, to a non-empty file. An adapter deferring to a path that is not there defers to nothing, so the check has to touch the disk rather than pattern-match the line.
A reference only counts where something would actually resolve it. A line inside a fenced code block, an indented code block, or an HTML comment is not credited in either mode: Claude Code resolves an import in none of those, so a fenced `@AGENTS.md` is the silent-drop failure this gate exists to catch, not a pass.
Default mode wants a real import: `@AGENTS.md` alone on its own line, indented no more than three spaces. `--no-import-syntax` wants a prose pointer that reads as one — the sentence naming `AGENTS.md` must carry a deference cue (see, read, refer to, documented in, conventions, …) and must not be negated. `Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it is obsolete.` and `We deleted AGENTS.md last year.` name the file while pointing the reader away from it, and neither is a pointer.
## Exit codes
The distinction matters because the skill's closeout tells the agent to fix any non-zero exit by editing the provider file. That is right for exactly one of these.
| Code | Meaning | What to do |
|------|---------|------------|
| `0` | Passes every check | Nothing |
| `1` | One or more `FAIL` findings printed to stdout — empty adapter, no working reference to AGENTS.md, excessive duplication, or not thin | Edit the provider file |
| `2` | Usage or input error: a bad, missing, or extra argument, an unknown option, a path that is not a file, or a file that is not UTF-8. Nothing was graded, so there is no `FAIL` line | Fix the invocation or the file's encoding — do not edit the adapter |
| `3` | A named input file exists but could not be read (permissions, I/O error). Nothing was graded and the adapter's contents are unknown | Fix the file's readability — do not edit the adapter |

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@@ -14,27 +14,85 @@ Arguments:
adapter-file Path to the provider-specific file to check.
agents-md-file Path to the AGENTS.md file it should defer to.
Exactly two positional arguments are accepted. Extra ones are rejected
rather than ignored: a third path silently graded nothing but the first
two, so a typo'd invocation passed against the wrong file.
Options:
--no-import-syntax The target provider has no native cross-file import
mechanism. Accept a plain-text pointer mention of
"AGENTS.md" instead of requiring an @import-style line.
mechanism. Require a plain-text pointer line naming
"AGENTS.md" instead of an @import-style line; an
@AGENTS.md line alone does not satisfy it, because
such a provider never resolves it. Without this flag
an actual @import line is required, and naming
AGENTS.md in prose alone does not satisfy it.
--max-lines N Max non-blank lines allowed in the adapter file before
it's considered no longer "thin". Default: 60.
it's considered no longer "thin". Must be a
non-negative integer. Default: 60.
--help, -h Show this help and exit 0.
-- End of options; every later argument is positional.
Both flags also accept the --flag=value form (--max-lines=40). An unknown
option is reported as an unknown option, not as a missing file.
What counts as a reference:
In both modes the named path must be a real path segment ending in
AGENTS.md ("AGENTS.md" or ".../AGENTS.md" — not NOTAGENTS.md), and it must
resolve on disk, relative to the adapter file, to a non-empty file. An
adapter deferring to a path that is not there defers to nothing.
A mention inside a fenced code block, an indented code block, or an HTML
comment is not credited in either mode. Nothing resolves those, so an
adapter whose only "import" is fenced silently defers to nothing.
With --no-import-syntax the pointer must read as a pointer: the sentence
naming AGENTS.md has to carry a deference cue (see, read, refer to,
documented in, conventions, ...) and must not be a negation ("do not read
AGENTS.md", "we deleted AGENTS.md"). A bare mention is not a pointer.
Exit codes:
0 Adapter file passes all checks
1 One or more checks failed (empty file, no reference to AGENTS.md,
excessive duplication, or file too long)
2 Usage or input error — a bad, missing, or extra argument, an unknown
option, a path that is not a file, or a file that is not UTF-8. Nothing
was graded, so there is no FAIL line and no adapter edit to make: fix
the invocation or the file's encoding and re-run. Kept distinct from 1
because the skill's own closeout tells the agent to fix every non-zero
exit by editing the provider file, which for a mistyped flag edits the
wrong file forever.
3 A named input file exists but could not be read (permissions, a
directory swapped in mid-run, I/O error). Also not a FAIL: nothing was
graded and the adapter's contents are unknown, so editing it is
guesswork. Fix the file's readability and re-run.
EOF
}
NO_IMPORT_SYNTAX=0
MAX_LINES=60
ARGS=()
END_OF_OPTS=0
require_int() {
# $1 = the value to validate
if [[ ! "$1" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
echo "Error: --max-lines expects a non-negative integer, got '$1'." >&2
exit 2
fi
}
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
if [[ $END_OF_OPTS -eq 1 ]]; then
ARGS+=("$1")
shift
continue
fi
case "$1" in
--)
END_OF_OPTS=1
shift
;;
--help|-h)
usage
exit 0
@@ -43,10 +101,38 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
NO_IMPORT_SYNTAX=1
shift
;;
--no-import-syntax=*)
echo "Error: --no-import-syntax is a flag and takes no value (got '$1')." >&2
exit 2
;;
--max-lines)
MAX_LINES="${2:-}"
if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: --max-lines requires a value (a non-negative integer)." >&2
exit 2
fi
MAX_LINES="$2"
require_int "$MAX_LINES"
shift 2
;;
--max-lines=*)
MAX_LINES="${1#--max-lines=}"
if [[ -z "$MAX_LINES" ]]; then
echo "Error: --max-lines requires a value (a non-negative integer)." >&2
exit 2
fi
require_int "$MAX_LINES"
shift
;;
-*)
# Reported as an unknown option rather than falling through to the
# positional bucket, where it used to surface as "'--bogus' is not a
# file" — the right exit code attached to a diagnostic that sends the
# reader looking for a path they never typed.
echo "Error: unknown option '$1'." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 2
;;
*)
ARGS+=("$1")
shift
@@ -58,7 +144,14 @@ if [[ ${#ARGS[@]} -lt 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: adapter-file and agents-md-file are required." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 1
exit 2
fi
if [[ ${#ARGS[@]} -gt 2 ]]; then
echo "Error: expected exactly 2 positional arguments (adapter-file and agents-md-file), got ${#ARGS[@]}: ${ARGS[*]}." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 2
fi
python3 -u - "${ARGS[0]}" "${ARGS[1]}" "$NO_IMPORT_SYNTAX" "$MAX_LINES" <<'PYTHON'
@@ -70,17 +163,80 @@ adapter_path, agents_md_path, no_import_syntax, max_lines = sys.argv[1:5]
no_import_syntax = no_import_syntax == "1"
max_lines = int(max_lines)
EXIT_FAIL = 1
EXIT_USAGE = 2
EXIT_UNREADABLE = 3
if not os.path.isfile(adapter_path):
print(f"Error: '{adapter_path}' is not a file.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
if not os.path.isfile(agents_md_path):
print(f"Error: '{agents_md_path}' is not a file.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
with open(adapter_path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
adapter_content = f.read()
with open(agents_md_path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
agents_md_content = f.read()
def read_text(path):
r"""File contents as text, UTF-8, every BOM stripped.
The BOM strip is not cosmetic. IMPORT_RE anchors on `^ {0,3}@`, and a BOM
is not whitespace in Python, so a CLAUDE.md saved by an editor that emits
one had its first line — the `@AGENTS.md` import, which is the whole
adapter — silently treated as prose. The check then said "no reference to
AGENTS.md" and told the author to add the line already sitting in front of
them. Same class of silent BOM miss recorded in scripts/skill-size-check.sh;
strip it at the reader so no later check has to know about it.
Every U+FEFF goes, not just one at offset 0. Stripping exactly the first
one left the mirror-image false FAIL for a doubled BOM (two concatenated
files, or a tool that re-adds one) and for a BOM mid-file at the head of
the import line. U+FEFF has no meaning as a character in a markdown
instruction file, so removing all of them cannot lose signal.
Decoding is strict, not errors="replace". Replacement mangles the file and
the checks then grade the mangling: a UTF-16 adapter whose first line is
`@AGENTS.md` decoded to interleaved NULs and failed as "no reference",
which is a true FAIL for a false reason and points the fix at the wrong
thing. But strict UTF-8 alone does not catch it — BOM-less UTF-16LE/BE and
UTF-32LE are *valid* UTF-8, because NUL is a legal code point, so they
decoded clean and produced exactly that false diagnosis anyway. The NUL
byte is the complete signal and is checked first: no plausible markdown
adapter contains one, and every UTF-16/32 encoding of ASCII is full of
them. A file this gate cannot read gets an encoding diagnostic and exit 2,
the same policy the ADR-0020 validators' read_text() uses.
A file that exists but cannot be read at all is neither a pass nor a FAIL —
nothing was graded — so it exits 3 rather than 1. Exit 1 sends the skill's
closeout into "fix the FAIL by editing the provider file", which for a file
it cannot open is an instruction to edit blind.
"""
try:
with open(path, "rb") as fh:
raw = fh.read()
except OSError as exc:
print(f"Error: '{path}' exists but could not be read ({exc.strerror}). "
"Nothing was checked — fix whatever is blocking the read "
"(permissions, ownership, the underlying device) and re-run; do "
"not edit the adapter on the strength of this.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(EXIT_UNREADABLE)
if b"\x00" in raw:
print(f"Error: '{path}' is not valid UTF-8 — it contains NUL bytes, so "
"it is almost certainly UTF-16 or UTF-32 (with or without a BOM). "
"Re-save it as UTF-8; this check does not guess at other "
"encodings.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
try:
text = raw.decode("utf-8")
except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
print(f"Error: '{path}' is not valid UTF-8 ({exc.reason} at byte "
f"{exc.start}) — re-save it as UTF-8; this check does not guess "
"at other encodings.", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(EXIT_USAGE)
return text.replace("\ufeff", "")
adapter_content = read_text(adapter_path)
agents_md_content = read_text(agents_md_path)
adapter_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(adapter_path))
has_fail = False
@@ -89,30 +245,229 @@ if not adapter_content.strip():
print(" Why: An empty adapter carries no reference to AGENTS.md and no provider-specific content.")
print(" Fix: Add at least an import (or text pointer) to AGENTS.md.")
print()
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_FAIL)
IMPORT_RE = re.compile(r'(?m)^\s*@\S*AGENTS\.md\s*$')
lines = adapter_content.splitlines()
import_lines = [ln for ln in lines if IMPORT_RE.match(ln)]
# --- Inert regions -----------------------------------------------------------
#
# A reference only counts where something would actually resolve it. Fenced
# code blocks, indented code blocks and HTML comments are shown to the reader
# (or hidden from them) as literal text; Claude Code resolves an @import in
# none of them. Without this, a ```-fenced `@AGENTS.md` — the exact
# copy-the-example-into-the-file mistake this gate exists to catch — exited 0
# with the adapter deferring to nothing.
#
# Indented code blocks are handled by IMPORT_RE's `^ {0,3}` instead of by the
# mask: four leading spaces is what opens an indented code block in CommonMark,
# so an import has to sit within three. The mask deliberately does not apply
# that rule to prose pointers, where four-space indentation is ordinary list
# continuation rather than code.
FENCE_RE = re.compile(r'^( {0,3})(`{3,}|~{3,})(.*)$')
COMMENT_RE = re.compile(r'<!--.*?(?:-->|\Z)', re.DOTALL)
def line_offsets(text):
"""[(char offset, line without its terminator)] over `text`."""
out = []
off = 0
for raw in text.splitlines(keepends=True):
out.append((off, raw.rstrip("\r\n")))
off += len(raw)
return out
def build_inert_mask(text, offsets):
"""Per-character flags: 1 where a reference would never be resolved."""
mask = bytearray(len(text))
fence = None # (fence char, opening run length)
for start, line in offsets:
m = FENCE_RE.match(line)
if fence is None:
if m:
fence = (m.group(2)[0], len(m.group(2)))
for i in range(start, start + len(line)):
mask[i] = 1
continue
for i in range(start, start + len(line)):
mask[i] = 1
if (m and m.group(2)[0] == fence[0]
and len(m.group(2)) >= fence[1]
and not m.group(3).strip()):
fence = None
for m in COMMENT_RE.finditer(text):
if m.start() < len(mask) and mask[m.start()]:
continue # a literal "<!--" printed inside a fence opens nothing
for i in range(m.start(), min(m.end(), len(mask))):
mask[i] = 1
return mask
# --- Reference shapes --------------------------------------------------------
#
# `\S*AGENTS\.md` had no path-separator boundary, so `@NOTAGENTS.md` and
# `@zzzAGENTS.md` counted as imports of AGENTS.md. The matched path must end in
# AGENTS.md as a whole segment.
IMPORT_RE = re.compile(r'^ {0,3}@(?P<path>\S+?)\s*$')
# A mention in prose: an optional relative path, then AGENTS.md, with no
# identifier character glued to the front (so NOTAGENTS.md does not match) and
# nothing glued to the back.
MENTION_RE = re.compile(r'(?<![0-9A-Za-z_.\-/])((?:[\w.\-~]+/)*AGENTS\.md)(?![0-9A-Za-z])')
# A pointer has to read as a pointer. `"AGENTS.md" in ln` passed
# "Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it is obsolete." and "We deleted AGENTS.md last
# year." — both of which point the reader away from the file. Require a
# deference cue in the naming sentence, and reject a negated one.
DIRECTIVE_RE = re.compile(
r'\b(see|read|refer|refers|referring|consult|consults|follow|follows|'
r'defer|defers|deferring|described|documented|documents|covered|covers|'
r'found|listed|specified|defined|governed|per|use|uses|using|apply|obey|'
r'start|check|live|lives|contains|holds|carries|inherit|inherits|import|'
r'imports|conventions|instructions|guidelines|guidance|rules|standards|'
r'reference|setup)\b', re.I)
NEGATION_RE = re.compile(
r"(\bnot\b|n't\b|\bnever\b|\bno longer\b|\bdeleted\b|\bremoved\b|"
r"\bobsolete\b|\bdeprecated\b|\bignore\b|\bignores\b|\bignoring\b|"
r"\bdisregard\b|\bsuperseded\b|\bgone\b|\bunused\b|\bstale\b)", re.I)
SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE = re.compile(r'(?<=[.;:!?])\s+')
def sentence_around(line, index):
"""(sentence of `line` containing character `index`, its start offset)."""
bounds = [0]
for m in SENTENCE_SPLIT_RE.finditer(line):
bounds.append(m.end())
bounds.append(len(line) + 1)
for i in range(len(bounds) - 1):
if bounds[i] <= index < bounds[i + 1]:
return line[bounds[i]:bounds[i + 1]], bounds[i]
return line, 0
def reads_as_pointer(line, match):
"""Does the sentence naming AGENTS.md actually point the reader at it?
The matched path is blanked out before the cues are applied. It is a
filename, not prose, and leaving it in let its own characters vote: the
perfectly ordinary `docs/does/not/exist/AGENTS.md` tripped the negation
cue on the `not` path segment, so a pointer got rejected for the wrong
reason and the near-miss line then reported the wrong diagnosis.
"""
sentence, sentence_start = sentence_around(line, match.start())
rel_start = match.start() - sentence_start
rel_end = match.end() - sentence_start
probe = sentence[:rel_start] + " AGENTS.md " + sentence[rel_end:]
if NEGATION_RE.search(probe):
return False
return bool(DIRECTIVE_RE.search(probe))
def resolve(raw_path):
"""An import/pointer path resolved the way the provider would resolve it."""
p = os.path.expanduser(raw_path)
if not os.path.isabs(p):
p = os.path.join(adapter_dir, p)
return os.path.normpath(p)
def target_problem(raw_path):
"""None if `raw_path` names a real, non-empty file; else why not."""
resolved = resolve(raw_path)
if not os.path.isfile(resolved):
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which does not exist"
try:
if os.path.getsize(resolved) == 0:
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which is empty"
with open(resolved, "rb") as fh:
if not fh.read().strip():
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which is blank"
except OSError as exc:
return f"'{raw_path}' resolves to {resolved}, which cannot be read ({exc.strerror})"
return None
def names_agents_md(path):
return path == "AGENTS.md" or path.endswith("/AGENTS.md")
offsets = line_offsets(adapter_content)
lines = [line for _, line in offsets]
mask = build_inert_mask(adapter_content, offsets)
def is_inert(abs_index):
return abs_index < len(mask) and bool(mask[abs_index])
# Lines shaped like an @AGENTS.md import, whether or not the target resolves.
# Used to exclude them from the duplication denominator and from the prose
# pointer scan, both of which only care about the shape.
import_shaped_lines = set()
# (line, raw path) for every import whose target actually resolves.
live_imports = []
# Diagnostics for imports that are the right shape but resolve to nothing.
dead_imports = []
# Imports that exist only inside a fence or an HTML comment.
inert_imports = []
for start, line in offsets:
m = IMPORT_RE.match(line)
if not m or not names_agents_md(m.group("path")):
continue
at_index = start + line.index("@")
if is_inert(at_index):
inert_imports.append(line.strip())
continue
import_shaped_lines.add(line)
problem = target_problem(m.group("path"))
if problem:
dead_imports.append(problem)
else:
live_imports.append(line)
live_pointers = []
dead_pointers = []
inert_pointers = []
mention_only = []
for start, line in offsets:
if line in import_shaped_lines:
continue
for m in MENTION_RE.finditer(line):
if is_inert(start + m.start()):
inert_pointers.append(line.strip())
continue
if not reads_as_pointer(line, m):
mention_only.append(sentence_around(line, m.start())[0].strip())
continue
problem = target_problem(m.group(1))
if problem:
dead_pointers.append(problem)
else:
live_pointers.append(line)
if no_import_syntax:
has_reference = "AGENTS.md" in adapter_content
has_reference = bool(live_pointers)
near_misses = dead_pointers + [f"{d} (inside a code fence or HTML comment)" for d in inert_pointers]
near_misses += [f"'{s}' names AGENTS.md but does not point at it" for s in mention_only]
else:
has_reference = bool(import_lines) or "AGENTS.md" in adapter_content
has_reference = bool(live_imports)
near_misses = dead_imports + [f"'{d}' is inside a code fence or HTML comment, where no import is resolved" for d in inert_imports]
if not has_reference:
has_fail = True
print(f"FAIL Adapter has no reference to AGENTS.md — {adapter_path}")
if no_import_syntax:
print(" Why: This provider has no import syntax, so the adapter must at least mention AGENTS.md as a text pointer.")
print(" Fix: Add a sentence like \"See AGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.\"")
print(" Why: This provider resolves no cross-file import, so the adapter must point at AGENTS.md in prose; an `@AGENTS.md` line here is inert text. The pointer has to read as a pointer and name a file that is really there — a bare or negated mention (\"we deleted AGENTS.md\") defers nothing, and neither does a mention buried in a code fence or an HTML comment.")
print(" Fix: Add a sentence like \"See AGENTS.md at the repo root for shared conventions.\", outside any fence, naming a path that exists relative to this file.")
else:
print(" Why: A thin adapter must import AGENTS.md (e.g. `@AGENTS.md`) rather than silently omitting it.")
print(" Fix: Add an `@AGENTS.md` (or equivalent relative path) import line.")
print(" Why: A thin adapter must import AGENTS.md with an `@AGENTS.md` line of its own, indented no more than three spaces, and the path must resolve to a real non-empty file. Naming the file mid-sentence or inside backticks is prose this check will not credit; putting the line inside a ``` fence, an indented code block, or an HTML comment is worse, because nothing resolves it and it looks right.")
print(" Fix: Put `@AGENTS.md` (or the equivalent relative path) alone on its own line at the top level of the file, or pass --no-import-syntax if this provider resolves no imports.")
for miss in near_misses:
print(f" Near miss: {miss}")
print()
# --- Duplication check ---
non_import_lines = [ln for ln in lines if not IMPORT_RE.match(ln)]
non_import_lines = [ln for ln in lines if ln not in import_shaped_lines]
adapter_lines = [ln.strip() for ln in non_import_lines if ln.strip()]
agents_lines = {ln.strip() for ln in agents_md_content.splitlines() if ln.strip()}
@@ -132,10 +487,10 @@ if non_blank_count > max_lines:
has_fail = True
print(f"FAIL Adapter is not thin — {adapter_path}")
print(f" Why: {non_blank_count} non-blank lines exceeds the {max_lines}-line threshold for a thin adapter.")
print(" Fix: Move provider-agnostic content into AGENTS.md; keep only genuinely provider-specific additions here.")
print(" Fix: Delete the lines already covered by AGENTS.md; keep only genuinely provider-specific additions here.")
print()
if has_fail:
sys.exit(1)
sys.exit(EXIT_FAIL)
sys.exit(0)
PYTHON

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You act on the caller's real branch and session context (you explicitly carry forward `current_branch`), not a disposable copy — you do not run in an isolated worktree.
**Scope:** this orchestrator routes git-object operations only (commits, branches, worktrees, remotes, submodules, history). `pc-author` and `pc-run` (pre-commit config authoring and hook execution) are intentionally not routed here — they operate on `.pre-commit-config.yaml` and hook installation, not git objects. `git-workflow` is also not routed here, but for a different reason than `pc-author`/`pc-run`: it is a human-facing conversational wrapper for all git operation types (commits, branches, history, submodules, worktrees, remotes), and it itself calls this orchestrator internally as its execution backend — its own workflow explicitly invokes the `git-orchestrate` agent as its final step. It is not a peer to invoke instead of this dispatcher, and it explicitly refuses agent callers ("Do not use when the caller is an agent"). Agent callers route git-object operations here directly; direct human users to `git-workflow` when they want guided, conversational git help — it will call back into this orchestrator itself. Invoke `pc-author`/`pc-run` directly rather than through this dispatcher; do not invoke `git-workflow` as an agent caller under any circumstance.
**Scope:** this orchestrator routes git-object operations only (commits, branches, worktrees, remotes, submodules, history). `pc-author` and `pc-run` (pre-commit config authoring and hook execution) are intentionally not routed here — they operate on `.pre-commit-config.yaml` and hook installation, not git objects. `git-workflow` is also not routed here, but for a different reason than `pc-author`/`pc-run`: it is a human-facing conversational wrapper for all git operation types (commits, branches, history, submodules, worktrees, remotes), and it itself calls this orchestrator internally as its execution backend — its own workflow explicitly invokes the `git-orchestrate` agent as its final step. It is not a peer to invoke instead of this dispatcher, and its own boundary clause sends agent callers here ("Not an agent caller -> `git-orchestrate`"). Agent callers route git-object operations here directly; direct human users to `git-workflow` when they want guided, conversational git help — it will call back into this orchestrator itself. Invoke `pc-author`/`pc-run` directly rather than through this dispatcher; do not invoke `git-workflow` as an agent caller under any circumstance.
## Hard rules

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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 +12,23 @@ 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/stash 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. Revert is `git-history`'s; commit authoring, rebase, reset and cherry-pick are
`git-commits`'; deleting a remote branch is `git-remotes`'; 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.** Detect it before acting — `git branch --list <name>` and `git tag --list <name>`; output from both means the name is ambiguous. 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, stash | `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.
A new branch's first push must be `git push -u origin <branch>`. The push itself is `git-remotes`' — every remote-side gate lives there, which is why Step 2's remote-delete row hands off the same way — but the upstream requirement originates here, so carry it in the handoff. 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)** — not this skill's. Deleting a remote branch is a push, and every remote-side
gate lives in `git-remotes`; hand it there rather than running the push from here. Its
`references/push.md` carries the command and the refspec form.
- **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
intent is worse than one built on none.
## Stashing work in progress
A switch aborts rather than clobbering conflicting local changes (see Gotchas). Stash is the way
past it: it shelves the working tree and index so the branch pointer can move.
- **save** — `git stash push -m "<message>"`. Add `-u` to include untracked files; verified on Git
2.39.5, a plain `push` leaves them in place, and a plain `push` with *only* untracked changes
reports `No local changes to save` and stashes nothing. Bare `git stash` is `push` with no message.
- **restore** — `git stash pop` applies the newest entry and deletes it. `git stash apply stash@{n}`
applies without deleting, for replaying one shelf onto more than one branch.
- **list** — `git stash list`; `git stash show -p stash@{n}` prints that entry's diff.
- **drop** — `git stash drop stash@{n}` deletes one entry. `git stash clear` deletes all of them
and nothing recovers them — confirm before running it.
- **branch from a stash** — `git stash branch <branch> stash@{n}` creates a branch at the commit the
stash was taken from and pops it there. Use it when the stash no longer applies to the current tip.
**A conflicting `pop` keeps the entry.** Verified on 2.39.5: it exits 1, writes conflict markers,
prints "The stash entry is kept in case you need it again", and `git stash list` still shows it.
Resolve, `git add`, then `git stash drop` the entry by hand — otherwise it silently accumulates.

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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
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# 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
- atlassian-gitflow-tutorial
---
# Merging one branch into another
Scope is fast-forward and merge-commit mechanics plus conflict resolution. Rebase and cherry-pick
belong to `git-commits`; 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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