Three divergences between what the audit skills claim and what the hooks
enforce, each of which fails silently rather than loudly:
- `skill-size-check.sh` blocked at 2900 words while `validate.sh` checked only
the 500-line ceiling, so `/skill-audit` could report a skill ready to ship
that the commit hook then rejected. `validate.sh` now checks the same pair on
the same inclusive terms; the constants are duplicated with a comment naming
the other file, because a plugin skill's scripts cannot read outside the
plugin directory once installed to the cache.
- Both audit skills' Step 1 passed `--config assets/vale/.vale.ini`, which is
redundant (the wrapper self-locates its sibling config) and fragile: an agent
that resolves the script path against the skill directory but not the config
path gets E100, exit 2, which the surrounding fallback clause misreads as
"vale unavailable" and downgrades to full LLM judgment with no signal.
- The external-consumer test registered only the two Vale hooks, never the
third shipped hook, so a lost executable bit would have broken every consumer
while the local suite stayed green. Verified by mutation: `chmod 644` on the
copied script now turns three passes into two failures.
Also corrects the size hook's calibration comment, which claimed ~5.7-6.5
characters per word against a corpus whose measured median is 6.79 — the stated
upper bound sat below the median, so the "calibrated with margin" claim was
inverted for prose-dense files. MAX_WORDS is unchanged pending a decision; the
comment is now explicit that the gate holds under 5,000 tokens for typical
prose density, not for any file.
Refs: #85
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