The adapter check shipped green on files it should have failed, and failed files it should have passed. Each defect is a residual of the fix that closes #115. A fenced, indented or HTML-commented `@AGENTS.md` counted as an import, though Claude Code resolves none of them — the adapter deferred to nothing and the gate said so approvingly. Import matching now runs against a character mask that marks fenced blocks and HTML comments inert, and applies CommonMark's four-space rule. The mask is deliberately not applied to prose pointers, where four-space indentation is ordinary list continuation. The encoding fix reached only BOM-carrying UTF-16/32. BOM-less UTF-16LE/BE and UTF-32LE are valid UTF-8, so they still produced the exact false diagnosis the fix was written to remove: "no reference to AGENTS.md" on a file whose first line is `@AGENTS.md`. A NUL-byte check is the complete signal. BOM stripping is no longer positional, which also drops the mirror-image false FAILs on a doubled or mid-file BOM. `@NOTAGENTS.md`, `@zzzAGENTS.md` and `@docs/does/not/exist/AGENTS.md` all passed: the pattern had no path-segment boundary and the target was never resolved on disk. Both now hold, and a zero-byte or blank target is reported rather than credited. Unresolved candidates print as `Near miss:` lines so the author sees why a line was not counted. `--no-import-syntax` still used substring matching, so `Do NOT read AGENTS.md; it is obsolete.` passed as a pointer. That is #115's own defect surviving in the flag's other mode. A mention must now carry a deference cue and must not be negated. An unreadable file passed `isfile()`, raised, and exited 1 with a traceback and no FAIL line — the one exit code no document covered, while Step 3 says to re-run until it exits 0. It now exits 3 with a diagnostic, and the README states all four codes and what to do about each instead of "exits non-zero on any failure". Tests 18 to 42. Two of the new cases initially survived their own mutation and were strengthened: `@NOTAGENTS.md` was being rejected by the disk check before the token boundary ran, and stripping that boundary leaves the fragment `NOT`, which the negation cue then rejects for an unrelated reason. Refs: #115
provider-adapter-author
Convert a target repo's provider-specific instruction file (CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, copilot-instructions.md, etc.) into a thin adapter over AGENTS.md.
What it does
Detects a provider-specific AI instruction file in a target repo, diffs it against the repo's AGENTS.md, and rewrites it down to a minimal reference — an @AGENTS.md-style import for providers that support one, or a text pointer for those that don't — plus only genuinely provider-specific additions. Self-validates its own output with a bundled deterministic script (no LLM judgment, no separate audit skill) before finishing.
Before you start
The target repo must already have an AGENTS.md. If it doesn't, run agentsmd-author first — this skill never creates or edits AGENTS.md itself.
Usage
/provider-adapter-author
Provide the path to the provider-specific file to convert (and the target repo root, if not inferable). Can be invoked directly, or composed into by agentsmd-author when it detects an existing provider file with content overlapping AGENTS.md.
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
Skill instructions for agents |
references/provider-matrix.md |
Loaded at Step 1 before searching, unless the target is already a known root CLAUDE.md: known files per provider, which ones resolve a cross-file import, the validator flag each needs, and the rule that a standalone run and a run composed into by agentsmd-author behave identically |
references/sources.md |
Provenance record — the in-repo ADR precedent this skill's design is modeled on |
scripts/validate-adapter.sh |
Self-check gate: reference to AGENTS.md present, no excessive duplication, adapter stays thin |
scripts/README.md |
Directory documentation for scripts/ |
tests/README.md |
(source-only) Bats test dependency and run instructions |
tests/validate-adapter.bats |
(source-only) Bats test suite for scripts/validate-adapter.sh |
Rows marked (source-only) exist in the authoring source (.apm/skills/provider-adapter-author/)
but are not present in an installed plugin: the repo's scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh strips
<category>/<name>/tests when it generates the flat mirror, because these are dev-time fixtures no
plugin host needs to discover (ADR-0017). Run them from a repo checkout, not from an install.