Claude Code's (and Copilot's) native plugin installer has zero awareness of .apm/ nesting -- it convention-scans only flat skills/, agents/, commands/, hooks.json at each plugin's root. Confirmed via strings on the installed claude binary and live installs of git@holocron/gitea@holocron/kyberforge@ holocron, all reporting Skills(0) Agents(0) Hooks(0) post ADR-0015's apm conversion. Root cause (apm_cli/core/plugin_manifest.py): apm's plugin.json compiler deliberately strips skills/agents/commands keys, assuming the host already auto-discovers those convention directories -- it has no model of .apm/ being host-visible at all. Separately, apm's own bundle exporter (apm_cli/bundle/plugin_exporter.py, behind `apm pack --format plugin`) implements the correct .apm/ -> flat mapping, but only ever targeted build/<name>-<version>/, a path nothing in marketplace.json's source: points at. scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh wraps that bundle exporter and copies its agents/, skills/, commands/, instructions/, extensions/, and merged hooks.json back into each plugin's own root as a second tracked compiled-output category -- same governance status as .claude-plugin/plugin.json: generated from .apm/, never hand-edited. tests/ subdirectories are excluded from the mirror (dev fixtures, not host-visible runtime content; several hardcode a relative repo-root walk-up sized for the .apm/-nested depth, which breaks when duplicated one level shallower). Applied for real across all 6 plugins and verified two ways: `claude plugin validate --strict` passes on every real plugin directory, and a live `claude --plugin-dir <path> -p "list skills/agents"` behavioral test confirms content is now actually discovered. Also, from the same issue #90 review round: - scripts/check-manifests.sh pointed at each plugin's root-level plugin.json (checking skills/hooks/mcpServers/agents pointer fields) -- that file was a stale near-duplicate of .claude-plugin/plugin.json nothing else read or wrote, now deleted across all 6 plugins. check-manifests.sh is rewritten to validate .claude-plugin/plugin.json instead, and drops the pointer-field checks entirely (nothing to check -- those fields are correctly absent by design). Content-presence drift is now check-plugin-content-sync's job, a new pre-push hook wired in .pre-commit-config.yaml. docs/adr/0017 records the root cause and decision in full, including two rejected alternatives (patching plugin.json's path fields directly -- apm's compiler strips them on every run; pointing marketplace.json at apm pack's build/ output -- a version-suffixed non-source directory nothing can install from without an extra build step). ADR-0015 and CONTEXT.md are updated to point at it. Refs: #90
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agentsmd-author
Create or update a target repo's AGENTS.md file(s) by exploring the repo for real conventions.
What it does
Explores a target repo (package manager scripts, Makefile/task runner, CI config, linter config, existing docs) and writes or updates AGENTS.md with only verified commands and conventions — never invented ones. Supports nested monorepo placement, following the agents.md standard's nearest-file-wins precedence. Closes every run by invoking agentsmd-audit inline, and hands off to provider-adapter-author when an existing provider-specific file (CLAUDE.md, etc.) now duplicates content AGENTS.md owns.
Before you start
The agentsmd-audit skill must be available (co-installed in the core plugin) — this skill invokes it as a mandatory closeout step.
Usage
/agentsmd-author
Provide the target repo root (defaults to the current directory) and, if relevant, which subdirectory should get a nested AGENTS.md.
Files
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
SKILL.md |
Skill instructions for agents |
references/content-guide.md |
Section-by-section AGENTS.md content guidance, a worked example, and monorepo/nested-file precedence rules |
references/sources.md |
Provenance record — sources that informed this skill and which files each contributed to |