Why: ADR-0015 established that Microsoft APM (apm.yml + .apm/) should replace this repo's hand-authored plugin.json/marketplace.json model, with those files becoming compiled output of `apm pack` instead of files edited by hand via the (now-retired) plugin-author/marketplace-author skills. Issue #90 was the deferred execution of that decision, gated on #88 (apm tooling) and #89 (apm-native agent-author/skill-author routing). Implementation notes: - All six plugins (bin, core, git, gitea, kyberforge, lint) now carry apm.yml + .apm/{skills,agents,hooks} as their authoring source. Skills moved with a plain git mv (content-identical across targets). Agents were re-authored, not moved: per ADR-0016, .apm/agents/*.agent.md compiles verbatim to both Claude and Copilot, so plugin-scope agents now carry only name/description/model/source_keys -- no tools: field, no Claude-only knobs (isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory, permissionMode). - Root apm.yml registers all 7 marketplace packages (6 local plus mattpocock-skills as a remote entry) under versioning: per_package, matching this repo's existing independent-plugin-versioning practice. - .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and every plugin's plugin.json are now apm-pack-compiled output, verified against the prior hand-maintained content: same names/descriptions/versions/licenses/authors, only cosmetic serialization differences (JSON key order, owner email vs. url, Unicode escaping). - plugin-author and marketplace-author are retired now that apm-based authoring fully replaces their job; kyberforge bumped 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0 for that removal, and the root marketplace catalog bumped 0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 to match, per the version-bump convention now documented in apm-workflow's reference docs instead of a dedicated script (apm has no native version-bump automation). - Fixed hardcoded pre-.apm/ path assumptions across .pre-commit-config.yaml, .pre-commit-hooks.yaml, scripts/check-scope-walkup-sync.sh, scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh, scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh, six plugins' root plugin.json (stale skills/hooks/agents pointer fields that check-manifests.sh validates), and several tests/*.bats and tests/*.sh fixtures -- including a bats REPO_ROOT relative-path depth bug (10 files, one extra .apm/ directory level to walk up) and a vale probe-path isolation regression introduced mid-fix. - Corrected empirically-wrong assumptions surfaced this session in apm-workflow/apm-install's own reference docs: `apm marketplace package add` does not accept local paths (only owner/repo remote shorthand -- local packages are registered by editing apm.yml's marketplace.packages[] directly); `apm compile` is a consumer-side AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md generator, not the plugin.json producer, and hard-fails on skill/agent-only packages without --clean; `apm plugin init <name>` nests a stray subdirectory when run with a positional name arg from inside a same-named directory; no native Copilot marketplace output profile exists; .mcp.json is merged into the compiled plugin.json content-aware and target-scoped, with no dependencies.mcp entry needed for simple passthrough; pipx is the correct pip fallback on externally-managed Python environments. - Renamed agent-author's copilot.agent.md template asset to copilot.agent.md.template so apm compile's recursive *.agent.md glob stops misparsing the placeholder template as a real agent primitive. Impact: plugin.json and marketplace.json are compiled artifacts from here on -- editing them by hand is no longer the workflow; edit apm.yml/.apm/ and run apm pack. CONTEXT.md's Plugin/Plugin marketplace glossary entries reflect this. ADR-0001 is marked superseded, ADR-0006 moot, and ADR-0010 updated for the new .apm/agents/ path (project/user scope unaffected, per ADR-0016). Full local verification: claude plugin validate --strict on all 6 plugins, apm audit --ci, apm marketplace check, check-manifests.sh, and the full test suite (165/165 bats, 13/13 shell scripts) all pass clean. Fixes: #90 Refs: #88, #89 ADR: 0015 ADR: 0016 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub96PyaSRD9BHPktotj1pC
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Plugin-scope agent provenance file moves to <plugin-root>/sources.md
Partially supersedes: ADR-0005 (agent-author dual-provider scaffold) — specifically the
claim that "both files share a single agents/sources.md for provenance." The rest of
ADR-0005 (dual-provider generation, scope detection, single-root script interface) is
unaffected and remains in force.
Path update per ADR-0016: at plugin scope, agent files no longer live at
<plugin-root>/agents/<name>.md. The authoring source is now
<plugin-root>/.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md — a single vendor-neutral file (no dual Claude/
Copilot pair) compiled to both targets via apm pack. See ADR-0016 for why (the field-dropping
rationale, tools: incompatibility, the compiled-output mechanics) — not restated here. This
ADR's own conclusion is unaffected by that move: the provenance file still belongs at
<plugin-root>/sources.md, outside any directory claude plugin validate --strict
auto-scans, and .apm/agents/ is, if anything, further removed from plugin-root than the old
flat agents/ directory was, so the reasoning below still holds. References below to
<plugin-root>/agents/ describe the pre-APM layout in effect when this decision was made.
Scope boundary (per ADR-0016): this path change is plugin scope only. Project scope
(.claude/agents/ + .github/agents/) and user scope (~/.claude/agents/ +
~/.copilot/agents/) are unaffected — they are not APM packages and keep the dual-file
Claude+Copilot pair model this ADR originally described.
claude plugin validate --strict auto-discovers every .md file directly under a plugin's
agents/ directory and treats it as an agent definition requiring YAML frontmatter (name,
description, etc.). A flat provenance file at agents/sources.md — no frontmatter, by
design, since it is not an agent — fails validation with a missing-frontmatter warning that
--strict promotes to an error.
This was first hit in plugins/git/agents/sources.md (added by the git-plugin skill suite).
It failed the validate-plugins pre-push hook. The stopgap in commit 0239b00 added
throwaway agent frontmatter to unblock the push:
---
name: git-agents-sources
description: Provenance record for the git plugin's agents, not an invokable agent. Do not invoke.
tools: none
---
That workaround is now reverted — the file no longer lives where it needs to impersonate an agent to pass validation.
Considered options
Exclude via an explicit agents manifest array (rejected) — plugin.json supports
"agents": ["./agents/reviewer.md"] as an alternative to "agents": "agents/". The
hypothesis was that listing only real agent files would stop the validator from also
discovering sources.md in the same directory. Tested empirically on a scratch copy of the
git plugin: claude plugin validate --strict still auto-discovered and failed on the
unlisted sources.md, regardless of the explicit array. The manifest field controls what
Claude Code loads as agents at runtime; it does not control what the validator scans on
disk. There is no manifest-level or CLI-flag mechanism to exclude a file from agents/
auto-discovery.
Keep the frontmatter workaround permanently (rejected) — cheapest fix, already applied,
but semantically wrong: it makes a plain provenance record indistinguishable from a real
invokable agent to any tooling or UI that lists available agents (e.g. it could appear as a
callable agent in the /agents picker), which is confusing and incorrect.
Consequences
- The provenance file moves to
<plugin-root>/sources.md— a flat file, plugin-root relative, sitting outside any directory that Claude Code or its validator auto-scans. No frontmatter is needed or added. agent-author'snew-agent.shnow writes<root>/sources.mdinstead of<root>/agents/sources.mdat plugin scope.agent-audit'svalidate-provenance.shnow looks for<plugin-root>/sources.mdwhen checkingsource_keysprovenance chains.- All doc and template references to
agents/sources.md(agent-authorSKILL.md, agent-auditSKILL.md/README.md, both provider templates) are updated tosources.md. plugins/git/agents/sources.mdis relocated toplugins/git/sources.mdand the0239b00frontmatter workaround is removed.