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Defame1297 620f20b0fd refactor(kyberforge)!: merge skill-audit and agent-audit into factory-audit

Why

The two audit skills carried 1,724 lines of byte-identical duplication: the ADR-0020 boundary
resolver (1,061), vale-wrap.sh (526), the Vale style rules (44) and the Contributing-files parser
(93). Nothing shared them — they were held in sync by a 413-line pre-push gate and its 797-line
test suite. Sync-by-gate had already failed once: at 484357a the two parser copies drifted into
different spellings of the bullet loop while a docstring asserted they were identical. That drift
was behaviour-neutral and was re-unified by hand at 598a7c3, so the copies were identical at merge
time — but nothing had caught it, and the next drift need not be neutral.

Implementation Notes

Self-containment binds BETWEEN skills, not within one. The agentskills.io spec forbids reaching
across skill directories, which is why two separate skills needed embedded copies; two files inside
ONE skill may source a third. That is the whole reason the merge removes duplication rather than
relocating it.

The union of both bodies measured 1,532 words against BODY_MAX_WORDS=900, and only 211 of those
words were shared, so SKILL.md is a dispatch body. Step 0 resolves the flow from the target path
before any validation, and its table mirrors validate.sh's detection exactly: a directory holding
SKILL.md or a SKILL.md file (skill); a *.agent.md, or a .md directly under an agents/ directory
(agent); anything else stops without running a validator. Steps 1-3 live in
references/skill-flow.md and references/agent-flow.md, and gotchas that apply to one flow live in
that flow's file, since it is loaded on every invocation anyway. If validate.sh reports on the
other artifact type, the body restarts at Step 0.

Named factory-audit rather than forge-audit because forge is a live skill, and a family prefix that
matches a live sibling reads as ownership rather than membership.

The description carries one arrow per boundary target, because ADR-0020 resolves only the first
target after an arrow. It drops the quoted "audit this skill"-style phrases, which restated
"audited" in a second register (ADR-0020's duplicate-register rule). 241 characters, Gotchas 16%
of the body: no size SUGGESTIONs.

The boundary resolver stays embedded in two files rather than imported: a cache-installed plugin
cannot read outside its own directory, and the repo-root hook resolves via .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
where entry[0] is the only token pre-commit rewrites, so no single file is reachable by both.
tests/test-adr0020-contract.sh hashes both copies for byte-identity, and asserts validate.sh sources
the resolver and that no third copy exists.

The entry scripts classify the target from its resolved parent directory, so a bare agent filename
typed inside agents/ works; resolve SCRIPT_DIR CDPATH-safely; and exit 2 when a lib-*.sh is
missing, rather than dying with exit 1, the tier the flows relay as real findings.

The provenance run functions stash their findings code in KYBERFORGE_PROV_RC and
return 0, so validate-provenance.sh calls them UNTESTED. Testing a function's
status (`f || RC=$?`) disables errexit for its entire body, and no subshell or
`set -e` inside can re-arm it once the call sits in a condition context
(measured, both spellings). Their error paths use `exit`, which is unaffected
either way; this keeps errexit armed for anything added later.

Case 0's readability guard reads the file instead of asking `[[ -r ]]`. `-r` is
access(2), which answers yes for uid 0 even on a mode-000 file, and this repo's
dev environment is root -- so the guard could never fire where it exists to fire.
A read attempt is also the stricter question, catching EIO. This is the reasoning
scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh carried before this commit deleted it; the
hazard did not go with it.

All three entry scripts are CDPATH-safe, vale-wrap.sh included: both of its cd sites are cleared,
the --config resolution and the directory-mirror walk, where an exported CDPATH would otherwise
print a decoy path into the -print0 stream and build the mirror from the decoy's files. The two
remaining bare cd calls take absolute paths, which CDPATH is never consulted for.

Impact

BREAKING: skill-audit and agent-audit no longer exist as invocable skills. kyberforge goes to
2.0.0 (catalog 0.4.7).

Check logic is unchanged: differential runs of the old and new validators across every skill and
agent produced byte-identical stdout, stderr and exit codes, and the reconstructed Python payloads
differ only in comments and the references/field-inventory.md -> agent-field-inventory.md rename.
One doctrine governs the tiers: exit 0 is audited and clean, exit 1 is audited with findings OR a
target present but unreadable, exit 2 is that nothing was audited at all. Edge paths DID change,
deliberately (full table in ADR-0025):
- a missing target exits 2 (never ran), not 1, under its own "does not exist" message; detection is
  by path shape, so a shape-matching path that is simply absent used to reach the validator and come
  back as a FAIL against a file that never existed;
- an unshaped target exits 2 under the generic "matches neither" message, and a directory with no
  SKILL.md under a third, distinct one -- three exit-2 messages, not one;
- a dangling symlink or a symlink loop stays exit 1: it is present but broken, which is a finding
  about the artifact rather than a usage error;
- a SKILL.md file path is audited as its skill directory instead of refused;
- a .md agent outside an agents/ directory is refused rather than audited;
- a missing script library, a missing python3, a missing PyYAML, and no argument at all each exit 2.
  validate-provenance.sh already exited 2 for the last two; validate.sh now matches it.

.pre-commit-hooks.yaml is a published contract consumed by external repos. Both hook IDs and both
files: regexes are unchanged; only entry: and description: moved.

scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh (413), scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh (21),
tests/test-check-vale-style-sync.sh (797) and agent-audit/scripts/README.md (47) are deleted. The
checker made 17 assertions: 6 compared the two Vale copies and are moot; 10 are rehomed into
tests/test-vale-wrap.sh (case 0, cases 28-31, and the suite's Vale-absent skip); and the
cross-manifest files: agreement check, which selected hooks by entry: and so could not survive both
hooks sharing one, is ported as case 33 pairing hooks by id:. Cases 28, 30 and 33 carry mutation
self-tests; narrowing the local skill prefilter to 6 of 38 SKILL.md files now fails the suite.

Skills go 39 to 38. Pre-push goes 9 repo-authored hooks to 8.

ADR: 0025
BREAKING-CHANGE: the skill-audit and agent-audit skills are removed. Both flows are served by
  factory-audit, which auto-detects whether it was handed a skill directory or an agent file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD

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Creating a new agent

Return to SKILL.md Step 4 once Step 3 below is done — validation, the version bump and commit verification are shared with the improve flow and are not repeated here.

Prerequisites

Before touching the filesystem, confirm you have:

Agent name (kebab-case, e.g. code-reviewer)
Root directory — a path inside a package for plugin/APM scope, a project root, or ~ for user scope
Agent purpose — one sentence describing the task this agent handles
Trigger condition — when should the runtime delegate to this agent?

If any are missing, stop and ask before proceeding.

factory-audit runs the validation in SKILL.md Step 4. It ships with the kyberforge plugin and is co-installed with this skill; if it is unavailable, stop and ask the user to install kyberforge before continuing.

Design for one job per agent. An agent covering two jobs is delegated to for the wrong one.

Step 1 — Scaffold

bash scripts/new-agent.sh <name> <root>

Examples:

bash scripts/new-agent.sh code-reviewer packages/my-package/   # plugin/APM scope if packages/my-package/apm.yml has a type: field
bash scripts/new-agent.sh deploy-assistant .
bash scripts/new-agent.sh security-reviewer ~

The script resolves scope itself and prints which one it used and every path it wrote — read that output rather than predicting it. It walks up from <root> for the nearest ancestor apm.yml carrying a top-level type: field (instructions/skill/hybrid/prompts), which marks a package root and means plugin/APM scope. An apm.yml with no type: is a marketplace-only manifest: the walk skips it and keeps going. With no such manifest found, <root> being exactly ~ (checked directly, no walk-up) is user scope and anything else is project scope. A bare plugin.json no longer signals plugin scope — that path was replaced outright, not made dual-mode, and falls through to project scope.

The script is file-by-file no-op: it skips any file that already exists, so re-running it to complete a partial pair is safe.

If the script or a template under assets/templates/ has to change to support this agent — a new scope, a new scaffolded field, different output — read references/scripts.md first. Its conventions are asserted by tests/new-agent.bats, and an edit that ignores them fails the suite.

Step 2 — Fill in the file(s)

Take the scope the script reported and read the matching reference — SKILL.md Step 2 has the table. That file carries the field rules and the pre-audit checklist for this scope; the other one describes fields this run cannot use.

Every scaffolded file, at every scope:

Replace each FILL IN: placeholder.
Delete every  template comment from the frontmatter. apm compile copies plugin frontmatter verbatim and HTML comments are not valid YAML, so a leftover comment breaks the file downstream on both harnesses.
Write the description against references/contract.md and the system prompt body against its Body section.

Step 3 — Populate or delete `sources.md`

Plugin/APM scope only — skip at project and user scope, which have no package root to hold the file.

The scaffold writes a commented sources.md skeleton at the package root, alongside apm.yml and not inside .apm/agents/, so that tooling scanning that directory for agent definitions does not treat it as an agent missing its frontmatter (ADR-0010).

If a research sources.md is present in the conversation context, filter it to entries with `extracted` status, work out which agent file each one contributed to, and fill in the skeleton following the commented format already in the file. Paths in Contributing files: are relative to the package root. Each slug must match an H2 heading and must also appear in the source_keys list of every file named under its Contributing files:.

If no research sources are in context, delete sources.md.

Then return to SKILL.md Step 4.

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