New skill that creates or improves an apm hook, instruction or prompt. Its SKILL.md holds the shared procedure (dispatch on primitive, boundary gate, create-or-improve, factory-audit close); one self-contained reference per primitive carries its gate, checklist and template, drawn from the microsoft-apm research docs and ADR-0029. forge gains a route row sending a hook, instruction or prompt to primitive-author through author-routes.md, and no longer lists hooks as unroutable. factory-audit's description adds the primitive-author boundary now that the target resolves. Fixes #94 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KkT7RSDwDbmrM9T34b6sTi
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Authoring an apm instruction
Reached from SKILL.md Step 1 for an instruction. Run the Gate, then write against the checklist,
then return to SKILL.md Step 3.
Gate
An instruction is a scoped rule: it applies when the agent touches files matching its applyTo
glob. On Claude it deploys to .claude/rules/<stem>.md with applyTo renamed to paths:.
- A rule for this repo alone → it belongs in the repo's AGENTS.md, which is the single
always-on source. Stop and hand to
agentsmd-author. - No file pattern fits → an instruction without
applyTois always-on in every session of every repo that installs this package, andapm compilefolds it into the global sections ofAGENTS.mdandCLAUDE.md. Say exactly that to the user and continue only on an explicit yes. Legitimate when a package deliberately ships guidance to its consumers; never a default. - Procedure the agent follows step by step → a skill. Stop and hand to
skill-author. - A rule scoped to a file pattern → continue.
Checklist
Copy assets/templates/name.instructions.md.template and drop .template only on the final path.
Must:
- The path is
.apm/instructions/<stem>.instructions.md, directly in that directory, not a symlink or hardlink. descriptionis a non-empty string. apm only warns when it is missing.- The body is non-empty. apm deploys an empty rule silently.
applyTois a non-empty glob or comma-separated list — top-level commas only as separators, alternation inside{}("**/*.{ts,tsx}") — or absent after the Gate's explicit yes.- The stem is unique across the package and its dependencies: a
.claude/rules/<stem>.mdcollision is silently overwritten.
Should:
- Write
applyToas a scalar string, not a YAML list. Copilot receives the source verbatim, and its handling of a list is unverified. - Keep frontmatter to
descriptionandapplyTo, plus optionalauthorandversion. No target consumes other keys, and Claude drops them. - Put any rationale Claude needs in the body.
descriptionnever reaches Claude — it survives only for Copilot and as Cursor's index text. - Keep relative markdown links resolvable from the source file.
- Check the glob against the tree: one that matches nothing never fires, and one broader than the rule's real scope spends context on every file it touches.