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# references/

## deployment-modes.md

Agent scope hierarchy, precedence rules, and per-scope restrictions. Covers: which frontmatter fields a plugin/APM-scope agent may carry and the allowlist-vs-denylist shape rule that decides it (deferring to `agent-audit`'s `references/field-inventory.md` for the list itself), 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.

## scripts.md

Conventions for the `new-agent.sh` scaffold script and any future scripts added to this skill. Covers: what scripts should and should not do, file placement, error handling, template variable conventions, and the no-interactive-prompts rule.

## 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.