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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/factory-audit/references/instruction-flow.md
Defame1297 9285b29e3c fix(factory-audit): flag unbraced plugin-root tokens and close hook check gaps
Why: PR #144 review round 4 reproduced hooks referencing $PLUGIN_ROOT or
${PLUGIN_ROOT} without a path separator passing the audit, although apm
only rewrites ${TOKEN}/ and the deployed hook points nowhere.

- FAIL unbraced or unseparated plugin-root tokens
- check the exec bit for scripts run via an interpreter -c string
- skip env NAME=value prefixes when locating bare relative paths
- correct input: and empty-frontmatter messages, depth-walk applyTo braces
- INFO on unrecognised targets; failing-case tests for untested checks
- document tiers, blind spots and crash exit 2; drop rtk from portable flow
- restore the after-a-hand-edit trigger; pin upstream apm source URL

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KkT7RSDwDbmrM9T34b6sTi
2026-09-29 08:00:17 +00:00

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Instruction Flow

Steps 1 to 3 for an apm instruction — the target Step 0 matched as a *.instructions.md file. Work them in order, then return to SKILL.md Step 4 to report.

Gotchas

  • apm compile --validate is not a gate. Every message Instruction.validate() produces is a warning, and it reports success on a file with no description and an empty body — never cite it as evidence against a finding.
  • description never reaches Claude, and it is index text elsewhere, never a routing description. Do not hold it to the skill description contract: no trigger clause, no boundary clause. A Vale Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener alert here means rewrite it as a plain statement of what the rule covers.

Step 1 — Deterministic checks

Resolve both paths against this skill's own directory. Run exactly:

bash scripts/validate.sh <instruction-file>
bash scripts/vale-wrap.sh <instruction-file>

validate.sh findings become the ### Structure dimension, FAILs and SUGGESTIONs both, at the tier the script assigned: path, a file that is not valid UTF-8, unfilled FILL IN or FILL_IN_ template placeholders, frontmatter, description, body, an applyTo that is neither a string nor a list, present but empty, or has unbalanced braces or brackets (a closer before its opener counts), a missing or list-form applyTo, extra keys, and a stem duplicated at the package root. It exits 0 with no FAIL, 1 on real findings, 2 when it never ran, including a crash inside the checks — report that as ### Structure unverified, quoting the stderr reason.

A missing applyTo is a SUGGESTION, not the FAIL primitive-author's instruction Must 4 implies: absence is legal after the author Gate's explicit yes, which the audit cannot see. The scope dimension's always-on FAILs below cover the misuse. Do not re-tier it by judgment.

vale-wrap.sh applies the bundled Kyberforge style. Every alert is a FAIL under ### Prose, cited by rule ID; do not re-derive it by judgment. That includes the rules scoped to the description (Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener, VagueWording, CompositionNote), a deliberate deviation from primitive-author, which holds description wording to at most a Should: the house prose rules apply to every model- or user-visible description, and a deterministic rule does not change tier by file kind. Do not re-tier them. 0 files scanned means NOT RUN, not clean — say so and judge prose by reading.

There is no provenance step: an instruction carries no source_keys.

Step 2 — Read the instruction and its context

Read the file, the package's apm.yml, and the repo's root AGENTS.md. For a scoped file, list the tracked files its applyTo matches (git ls-files filtered by the glob). List the instruction stems the installed dependencies ship (apm_modules/**/.apm/instructions/*.instructions.md) — the script checks only the package root for a duplicate.

Step 3 — Qualitative audit

Cite file and line for every finding.

scope — an instruction applies when files matching applyTo are touched; with no applyTo it loads into every session of every repo that installs the package.

  • FAIL: the content is a rule for this repo alone, scoped or always-on — it belongs in AGENTS.md (a nested AGENTS.md for a subtree), which is the repo's own instruction source, not in a package that ships it to every consumer. This matches primitive-author's Gate, which routes every repo-only rule there.
  • FAIL: the stem matches an instruction an installed dependency ships — both deploy to .claude/rules/<stem>.md, and one silently overwrites the other.
  • SUGGESTION: an applyTo glob that matches no tracked file here. It is legitimate for files the package's consumers have and this repo does not, so name the mismatch rather than failing it.
  • SUGGESTION: an always-on file whose content is really file-type specific — narrow it with applyTo.
  • SUGGESTION: a glob much broader than the content (** for a rule about Python).

description

  • SUGGESTION: the description does not say what the rule covers, or contradicts the body. Any rationale Claude readers need belongs in the body, because Claude drops the description.
  • SUGGESTION: a relative markdown link that does not resolve from the source file — apm rewrites links on deploy, and a broken one stays broken on every target.

Then return to SKILL.md Step 4, opening the report with this coverage line:

Checked: structure · prose · scope · description