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Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP 598a7c326a refactor(skills): retrofit the corpus to the ADR-0020 context contract (#129)
Retrofits all 39 skills to ADR-0020's description/body context contract, then fixes what six rounds of independent review found in that retrofit — including four ways the hot gate itself failed open.

Closes #99, #107, #108, #110, #111, #114, #115, #120.

## The retrofit (waves 1-5)

| | Start | Now |
|---|---|---|
| Description FAILs (>400 chars) | 26 | **0** |
| Body FAILs (>900 words, body-only) | 9 | **0** |
| Dangling routing targets | 2 | **0** |
| `Kyberforge.CompositionNote` | 10 | **0** |
| Preload tax | 21,005 chars | **~10,500** |

Under the 12,000-char success criterion. Per-wave detail is on #99.

## The review fixes

**The gate failed open four ways, three of them found after the retrofit shipped.** An unrecognised follower token made a dangling target vanish. A skill directory with no `SKILL.md` resolved as a valid target, so a commit could be green locally and red in a fresh clone — three existing fixtures were relying on that, one of which made the install-leak A/B pass vacuously. Then the free-standing `/name` sweep turned out to be gated on the sentence carrying a boundary marker, so route notation in any other sentence was invisible — not an ERROR, not a SUGGESTION, not an INFO — which left the documented "`/name` always blocks" promise false from a second direction. All four fixed and pinned.

**Two checks were silently not running.** `validate-provenance.sh` checks 7-8 were dead across nine skills. Waking them exposed a deeper problem: they assume `Research doc:` names a source index, but 30 of 121 entries point at topic content documents, so every new check-7 INFO was a false positive and check 8 was saved from a false-FAIL flood only by an *unannounced* skip. Checks 7/8 are now scoped to source indexes and every skip announces itself (#121).

**The retrofit's own anti-goal, four times.** ADR-0020 warns that a blunt gate gets satisfied by deleting content rather than relocating it. `diagnose` and `skill-audit` relocated prose and then read it unconditionally; `prototype` and `vale-config` deleted rules outright that survived nowhere. All four addressed.

## Verification

- `bash tests/run-tests.sh --strict` — 24 suites, 0 skipped, 0 failed
- `bash tests/run-bats.sh` — 325 tests, 0 failures
- `pre-commit run --all-files` — 17/17
- `pre-commit run --hook-stage pre-push --all-files` — 16/16, with `apm marketplace check` and `apm pack --check-clean` run against the remote, not skipped
- `scripts/skill-size-check.sh` over all 39 skills — rc 0, 0 ERROR/FAIL, SUGGESTION-only
- Preload tax measured at **10,498 chars**, max description 390 — both inside budget
- Every new test proven non-vacuous by a deliberate mutation of the behaviour it covers

**Per-commit sync, stated accurately:** the ten commits from the latest review round each pass `check-plugin-content-sync` in isolation, verified by checking each out in a detached worktree with a clean between. The earlier gitea window (`dfacf05..bedbd1d`, nine commits) does **not** — its mirror was regenerated in one batch at `bbc7300`. An earlier revision of this description claimed the property held for every commit; it does not, and a bisect through that window lands on a red commit. **Squash-merge** to collapse it, or accept that this range is not bisectable.

## Version bump

Six plugins and the catalog take a **patch**, not a minor. The branch is **89 commits — 40 `fix` / 30 `refactor` / 12 `docs` / 5 `chore` / 2 `test` — zero `feat`, zero `!`, zero `BREAKING CHANGE`** — and adds no skill, agent, command or hook. (Two earlier revisions of this section cited a stale histogram, most recently 78 commits; the figures above are measured at HEAD.) Both rules this repo ships (`forge/references/version-bump.md`, landing in this PR, and `git-commits/references/conventional-commits-spec.md`) make that a patch, and the catalog set is unchanged at 7 entries.

Not settled by that: four published files were removed from the installed tree, three moved, and `caveman` gained `disable-model-invocation`, retiring its old triggers. Under a strict reading those are major-class and currently ship under `refactor:` with no marker. Whether the deployed skill surface is a public contract is written down nowhere — worth deciding, but it outlives this PR.

## Deliberately not in scope

#112 (cherry-pick ownership, now resolved in favour of `git-commits`), #113 (`rtk git` normalisation), #116 (research fan-out), #101 (audit-skill merge), #122 (non-spec skill-root files), #123 (no PRD producer) stay open. #117 is the one worth reading: the contract's remedy is to move prose into `references/`, which is exactly where neither the size gate nor Vale looks — and the blind spot is wider than #117 currently records, since there is no root `.vale.ini` at all, so every ADR, `CONTEXT.md` and `README.md` is unlinted too.

That blind spot let this branch carry two `level: error` `Kyberforge.SentenceOpenerThereIs` violations into `references/` files it created — `provider-adapter-author/references/provider-matrix.md:31` and `agent-audit/references/finding-criteria.md:95`. Both are reworded in `afadaae`, confirmed by routing each file through the audit's own `vale-wrap.sh` (1 error each before, 0 after). Five further occurrences sit in `references/` files already on `main`; those are the pre-existing corpus and stay with #117, which is the real fix.

Also unfixed and not this PR's: `apm install` appends a duplicate `SessionStart` entry to `.claude/settings.json`, so a fresh clone cannot get pre-push green without an edit AGENTS.md warns against. Reproduces identically on `main`.

Co-authored-by: Defame1297 <gitea@rkdr.net>
Reviewed-on: https://git.dev.rkdr.net/Defame1297/holocron/pulls/129
Co-authored-by: Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP <claude@noreply.git.dev.rkdr.net>
Co-committed-by: Claude Code AI - Gitea MCP <claude@noreply.git.dev.rkdr.net>
2026-09-01 13:47:46 +00:00

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---
topic: submodules
source_keys:
- git-scm-submodule-docs
---
# Adding, initializing, updating and pinning submodules
## Clone a superproject that already has submodules
```bash
rtk git clone --recurse-submodules <url> # Git 2.13+, one step
# or, against an existing clone
rtk git submodule update --init --recursive
```
## Add a dependency as a submodule
```bash
rtk git submodule add <url> <path>
rtk git commit -m "chore: add <name> as submodule"
```
`add` stages a `.gitmodules` entry and a gitlink — the commit is still required. Flags:
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `-b <branch>` | Track a branch (`submodule.<name>.branch`) instead of only a pinned commit |
| `--depth <n>` | Shallow clone |
| `-f` | Force past a gitignored path or a name conflict |
| `--name <name>` | Logical name differing from the path |
## Initialize without cloning
`rtk git submodule init [<path>...]` copies submodule URLs from `.gitmodules` into `.git/config` and
does nothing else. This is the point at which a local URL override can be edited before any fetch
happens. If a local mirror override is wanted, read `references/urls-and-config.md` before running
`update`. Use `update --init` to run both steps at once.
## Update
`rtk git submodule update --init --recursive` is the common case: it clones what is missing and checks
out the commit the superproject recorded, in detached HEAD.
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `--init` | Run `init` first, avoiding a separate step |
| `--remote` | Use the submodule's remote branch tip instead of the superproject's recorded commit |
| `--checkout` | Detached HEAD at the recorded commit (default) |
| `--rebase` | Rebase the current branch onto the recorded commit |
| `--merge` | Merge the recorded commit into the current branch |
| `--recursive` | Operate on nested submodules |
| `--jobs <n>` | Parallel clone (defaults to `submodule.fetchJobs`) |
| `-N` / `--no-fetch` | Skip the remote fetch |
| `-f` | Discard local changes in the submodule working tree |
| `--depth <n>` | Shallow clone |
| `--filter <spec>` | Partial clone filter |
## Keep submodules pinned to the recorded commit
```bash
rtk git submodule update --recursive # after every rtk git pull
rtk git config submodule.recurse true # or do it automatically on pull/push/checkout
```
## Move the pin forward to the tracked branch tip
```bash
rtk git submodule update --remote --merge --recursive
rtk git commit -am "chore: update submodules to latest"
```
`--remote` uses `submodule.<name>.branch` when it is set; without it Git falls back to the remote's
default branch. Commit the superproject afterwards or the new pin is lost on the next `update`.
## Run one command across every submodule
```bash
rtk git submodule foreach --recursive '<command>'
rtk git submodule foreach 'git pull origin main || :' # || : continues past a failure
```
`<command>` runs inside each submodule's own working tree, so the git calls in it are the
submodule's own — that is the one place a bare `git` is correct. Append `|| :` to keep the
traversal going instead of aborting at the first failure.
Git exports five shell variables into `<command>`. `$sm_path` and `$displaypath` name the same
directory from different vantage points and are not interchangeable:
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `$name` | Logical submodule name (the `.gitmodules` section name, which need not match the path) |
| `$sm_path` | Path relative to the superproject root |
| `$displaypath` | Path relative to the current working directory |
| `$sha1` | Commit SHA the superproject has recorded for this submodule |
| `$toplevel` | Absolute path of the superproject's root |