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holocron/docs/adr/0006-plugin-version-parity.md
Defame1297 061bb3d5b4 docs: correct the apm-only change after a five-agent review
A five-agent review of 718c79a and d2480b8 found no skill, agent or hook
regressions (39 skills before and after) and confirmed both hook removals
are genuinely moot -- verified against the tree, not taken on the commit's
word. It did find one functional regression (fixed separately) and this
documentation drift.

Counting errors, all from a git pathspec `*` crossing `/`:
  - 17 .bats files shipped to consumers is really 10; 17 counted tracked
    paths merely containing /tests/, one of them a template asset
  - "roughly 88s off every push" is ~92.4s; 88 omitted validate-plugins
  - "roughly 70% of each plugin remains live" holds only for kyberforge;
    the real spread is 44.3% (bin) to 70.6%, now a table
  - the pre-push enforcement row was half-corrected: 33 entries stood
    unstruck (now 27) and 14 -> 11 switched counting basis mid-sentence
  - the root .claude-plugin/plugin.json was described as "kept"; it has
    never been tracked

gates.md said "Ten hooks" above a nine-row table (11 was decremented for
one removal, not two), and "both need the claude CLI" for one remaining
validator. Its pretty-format-json exclude rationale claimed six
alternations expanding to sixteen files in a passage headed "Mind which
number you are quoting" -- four alternations, two live files; the two
dead ones are dropped from the pattern. check-useless-excludes could not
catch this: it only flags an exclude matching nothing at all.

ADR-0024 cited ADR-0006 for a patch-bump rule it does not contain and
which ADR-0015 explicitly retired; stated apm's marketplace probe order
backwards (.claude-plugin/ is the last candidate, not the first, so the
earlier .github/plugin/ deletion only demoted resolution); undercounted
apm's skill-deploying targets as seven when there are fifteen; and never
recorded that validate-plugins was removed. The symlink hedge is resolved:
apm_cli/security/gate.py's ignore_non_content() drops symlinks silently on
deploy while apm_modules/ materialization dereferences them, so content
survives that far and vanishes at install. Accepted with no replacement
guard, per decision -- kyberforge/docs/hooks.md previously asserted a
guard that had been deleted with its script.

Four plugin READMEs still advertised `claude plugin install`; ADRs 0001,
0006, 0013, 0014, 0015 and 0019 described deleted machinery in the present
tense, 0019 most consequentially as the live justification for the
SessionStart hook's .apm/ path. CONTEXT.md's "apm package" entry forbade
"plugin" while using it in its own body, and "Output profile" lost the
antecedent for "one catalogue serves both".

run-tests.sh gains the .claude/skills/ exclusion run-bats.sh already had.
Latent today -- no test-*.sh lives under any .apm/skills/*/tests/ -- but
apm now deploys those directories, so one would be discovered twice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
2026-09-14 18:09:03 +00:00

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version field is present in both plugin manifests

Moot as of ADR-0015. This ADR addressed drift risk between two independently hand-maintained manifests. Since issue #90's conversion executed, .claude-plugin/plugin.json and .github/plugin/plugin.json are both compiled output of apm pack, generated in the same pass from a single apm.yml per plugin — there is no longer a second hand-authored file that could drift out of parity. The invariant this ADR required (version present and identical in both manifests) still holds in the compiled output, but structurally, not because a skill enforces it: both files are derived from the same apm.yml version: field, so divergence is no longer possible by construction. plugin-author, the skill that enforced this invariant, is deleted per ADR-0015 rather than adapted. Kept below as the historical record of the pre-APM decision.

Fully void as of ADR-0024 (2026-09-14). Both manifests are now deleted outright, so the two files this ADR was about no longer exist in any form, compiled or hand-authored. apm.yml's version: is the only version field a plugin has. This ADR states no patch-bump rule and never did — ADR-0015 retired that rule explicitly; do not cite this ADR as the source of one.


Each plugin has two manifests: plugin.json (Copilot CLI) and .claude-plugin/plugin.json (Claude Code). Both tools support a version field. Prior to this decision, only the CC manifest carried version; the Copilot manifest omitted it.

We now require version in both manifests, always identical. A reader of plugin.json alone should be able to determine the plugin version without consulting the CC manifest. The plugin-author skill enforces this invariant on every create, update, and release operation.

Considered options

CC-only version (rejected) — version only in .claude-plugin/plugin.json; Copilot derives version from the git tag. Rejected because it makes plugin.json incomplete as a standalone descriptor and creates a class of drift where the two manifests disagree on version without any tooling catching it.