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Defame1297 05bb9d6e9f docs(adr): triage, rewrite, and renumber ADRs for clean slate
Complete ADR refactoring for issue #15:

## Changes

1. **Triage archival** — deleted chunk-era ADRs (0001–0003, 0006–0011, 0013); kept active decisions (0004, 0005, 0012, 0014+)
2. **ADR-0004 rewrite** — now reflects plugin-based skill distribution (`plugins/<name>/skills/` + `claude plugin install`) instead of monolithic `.agents/skills/` deployment
3. **Renumber to 0001–0009** — sequential clean slate after archival; all cross-references updated
4. **Content audit** — verified all 9 remaining ADRs for alignment with plugin model, removed stale chunk/deployment language

Kept ADRs: 0001–0009
- 0001: Skills distributed via plugins
- 0002: Two-tier CLAUDE.md (always-on + on-demand)
- 0003: AGENTS.md as provider-agnostic entry point
- 0004: INFO finding level in skill-audit
- 0005: agent-author dual provider scaffold
- 0006: Plugin version parity (version in both manifests)
- 0007: Gitea as exclusive issue tracker
- 0008: agent-audit single-file invocation
- 0009: agent-audit field inventory reference

All decisions are active and aligned with current repository state (marketplace/plugin model).

Closes #15 (ADR section of acceptance criteria)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-04 17:18:04 +00:00

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agent-author generates both provider files from a single root input

agent-author is the skill that creates Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI agent definition files. Both providers are always targeted: Claude Code produces a .md file; Copilot CLI produces a .agent.md file. The scaffold script new-agent.sh accepts a single root directory and derives both destination paths by convention rather than requiring the caller to supply two explicit paths. Scope is detected from the root: a directory containing plugin.json is plugin scope (both files land in <root>/agents/); a directory with .git but no plugin.json is project scope (.claude/agents/<name>.md + .github/agents/<name>.agent.md); ~ is user scope (~/.claude/agents/<name>.md + ~/.copilot/agents/<name>.agent.md).

Considered options

Two explicit destination paths (rejected) — new-agent.sh <name> <claude-dest> <copilot-dest> accepts a separate path per provider. Rejected because it breaks the minimal-input principle that guides the entire skill: the caller must now know and supply two provider-specific paths, which is exactly the convention knowledge the script is meant to encapsulate. Every invocation becomes more error-prone and harder to drive from a skill body without user interaction.

Plugin-only dual generation (rejected) — generate both files only at plugin scope; at project/user scope generate a single file with the provider inferred from the destination path. Rejected because it is an artificial asymmetry: the reason to author for both providers does not disappear outside a plugin context. It would force users to run the skill twice per agent at project/user scope or build a separate single-provider skill, adding complexity with no benefit.

Consequences

  • .github/agents/ is the locked-in Copilot CLI convention at project scope. Non-standard paths (e.g. .copilot/agents/) are not supported without an explicit override flag — deferred to a follow-on issue.
  • The script interface new-agent.sh <name> <root> is a stable public contract. Changing to a two-destination form is a breaking change to any caller.
  • At plugin scope, both files share a single agents/sources.md for provenance. At project/user scope, no sources file is generated — ad-hoc authoring outside a research-driven workflow has no provenance chain to record.
  • The file-by-file no-op in the script (skip existing files rather than overwriting) means partial state — one provider file exists, the other does not — is handled by routing in the skill body, not in the script.