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Defame1297 38f1ba4e03 fix(kyberforge): bridge apm content to Claude Code's flat plugin discovery

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

2026-08-13 16:59:03 +00:00

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Compile

apm compile                     # fails on skill/agent-only packages — see Gotchas
apm compile --clean             # zero-write sanity check; use for skill/agent-only packages
apm compile --clean --dry-run   # pure preview, no writes

Compiles .apm/instructions/ + .apm/agents/*.agent.md primitives into consumer-side context files (AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md CONTEXT files) for the deployment target, per the compilation: block in apm.yml. This is the consumer/deployment side — it is NOT the producer of plugin.json/marketplace.json; that's apm pack's job (below). Run apm compile after any change to .apm/instructions//.apm/agents/ content or to compilation:/targets: in apm.yml.

Pack

apm pack --dry-run              # resolve and print; do not write
apm pack --offline              # cached refs only
apm pack --include-prerelease   # allow pre-release tags
apm pack -v                     # per-entry resolution detail
apm pack --marketplace=claude --json   # JSON output for CI pipelines

Bundles a producer package into a distributable artifact. Default to --dry-run -v first when packing something for the first time or after a dependency change — resolution errors surface before anything is written.

`.mcp.json` merge mechanics

apm pack reads a package's root-level .mcp.json directly — no dependencies.mcp entry in apm.yml is needed for simple passthrough. Behavior is content-aware:

An empty .mcp.json ({"mcpServers": {}}) is NOT included in the packed output at all.
A populated one gets its mcpServers content merged directly into the compiled plugin.json, but only for the claude target.
The copilot target's compiled plugin.json OMITS mcpServers entirely — it isn't part of Copilot's plugin manifest schema.

dependencies.mcp in apm.yml is for a different purpose — declaring a remote MCP-server package as an APM dependency — not local .mcp.json passthrough.

`includes: auto` and the packed bundle

includes: auto does NOT sweep generic root-level passthrough files (README.md, docs/, sources.md, config files, etc.) into the apm pack distribution bundle (build/<name>-<version>) — only .apm/ primitives, the compiled plugin.json, and the content-aware .mcp.json handling above make it into that bundle. This does not affect Claude Code's own plugin loading, which reads a plugin's working directory directly via its source: path in marketplace.json, not the apm pack bundle — but it matters for anyone relying on the packed bundle for distribution via apm install.

Run apm audit after compile/pack, not before — audit scans deployed/compiled output, not the source apm.yml manifest; see references/audit.md.

Publish

apm publish --package acme/my-skill --dry-run -v
apm publish --package acme/my-skill

Publishes a producer package (root containing apm.yml, .apm/, and optionally a registries: block) to a registry. Always dry-run with -v first — publishing is not trivially reversible once a version tag is claimed on a registry.

Run

apm run <script> [--param key=value]

Executes a named script defined under scripts: in apm.yml, with --param substituting values into the script's parameters.

Gotchas

Plain apm compile HARD-FAILS with exit 1 and No instruction files found in .apm/ directory on any package that has skills/agents but no .apm/instructions/ content — the common case for a skill-only or skill+agent package. Use apm compile --clean as the zero-write sanity-check substitute: it sets allow_empty=True internally and exits 0 cleanly with zero writes; add --dry-run for a pure preview. compile ≠ pack — see above.
claude plugin validate --strict auto-scans every .md file directly under a compiled plugin's agents/ directory and treats it as an agent definition requiring frontmatter, independent of any manifest declaration (an empirically observed Claude Code platform behavior, not an apm mechanic). A non-agent .md file (notes, provenance record, README) that ends up under .apm/agents/ in the source tree will still fail validation once compiled to the claude target. Keep such files outside .apm/agents/ (e.g. at the package root), regardless of what apm.yml declares.

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