# references/

## deployment-modes.md

Agent scope hierarchy, precedence rules, and per-scope restrictions. Covers: which fields are silently ignored for plugin agents (Claude Code and Copilot CLI), scoped identifiers for plugin subdirectory agents, cache isolation behaviour, and Copilot CLI path conventions. Loaded conditionally from SKILL.md when the destination is a plugin directory.

## sources.md

Research provenance record for this skill. Lists the upstream research sources (claude-code-plugins and github-copilot-plugins research docs) that informed SKILL.md, the templates, and the deployment-modes reference. Used by `skill-audit` to validate the provenance chain.