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Defame1297 533364029a docs(agents-md): shrink AGENTS.md and prefer plugin skills over shell

AGENTS.md had grown to duplicate content owned elsewhere: behavioral
rules already active globally via ~/.agents/AGENTS.md, a VISION.md
read-on-demand entry CONTEXT.md already covers at session start, and
setup/testing/commit instructions that explained hook mechanics the
git plugin's pc-run/git-commits skills already own. It also gave no
explicit steer toward using installed plugin skills over raw shell
commands, so agents defaulted to shelling out to git directly.

- Added a "Prefer plugin skills over raw shell" section mapping
  operations (commits, branches, hooks, issues/PRs, linting, AGENTS.md
  itself) to the skill that owns them.
- Collapsed Setup/Testing/Commit-conventions into one section, keeping
  only the two genuinely non-obvious gotchas (missing
  default_install_hook_types, bats submodule auto-init).
- Removed the "Subagent orchestration" section: its content was mostly
  universal Agent/Task/worktree-tool facts, not specific to working in
  this repo, so it moves to core/instructions/subagent-orchestration.md
  (deployed globally via install.sh, referenced from core/AGENTS.md's
  content index) rather than staying repo-local.
- Removed agentsmd-author's "not this repo's own" scope exclusion in
  CONTEXT.md (ADR-0012 never mandated it) so this task could route
  through it, and folded the forge-routing rule it left behind into
  CONTEXT.md's existing Skill composition entry.

AGENTS.md: 50 -> 40 lines. Full test suite and manifest check pass.

2026-07-24 21:19:17 +00:00

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Working in this repo

This repo is the global AI development configuration repository — the authoritative source for agent definitions, skills, workflows, and prompts across all projects. Built as a homelab tool intended to scale to professional environments.

Structure

plugins/ — installable plugin units; each is self-contained (skills, agents, hooks, MCP servers, bundled assets); install separately via claude plugin install <name>@holocron
providers/claude-code/ — Claude Code adapter (deployed to ~/.claude/ via install.sh)

Prefer plugin skills over raw shell

This repo dogfoods its own plugins. Before shelling out to git, gitea, or lint tooling directly, check whether an installed skill already owns the operation — it usually does:

Commits, branches, history, worktrees, remotes → git:git-commits, git:git-branches, git:git-history, git:git-worktrees, git:git-remotes
Pre-commit hook install/config/troubleshooting → git:pc-run / git:pc-author
Issues, PRs, labels, milestones → bin:gitea
Vale prose linting → lint:vale-config / lint:vale-run
This repo's own AGENTS.md → core:agentsmd-author / core:agentsmd-audit

Fall back to raw shell only when no skill covers it.

Setup and testing

Install git hooks via git:pc-run, wiring all three stages — this repo's .pre-commit-config.yaml has no default_install_hook_types, so a plain install silently skips commit-msg (Conventional Commits) and pre-push (tests, manifest check).
Run bash tests/run-tests.sh before considering any change done — it runs every test-*.sh script in the repo plus the bats suite (--bats-only for just bats). First run auto-initializes the bats submodules; no manual git submodule update needed.
Pushing re-runs the full suite plus scripts/check-manifests.sh via the pre-push hook — same commands, so run them locally first.
Author commits with git:git-commits — it validates Conventional Commits (enforced at commit-msg) for you.

Key documents

Read CONTEXT.md at the start of every session in this repo.

Read these on demand:

docs/spec/architecture.md — current directory structure, install pipeline, provider model
docs/adr/ — architectural decisions; read before answering design questions or proposing structural changes
docs/ai-constitution.md — full governance evidence base; read when a governance decision needs justification
docs/research/ai-coding-factory/ai-coding-factory-principles.md — factory design rationale; read when implementing, auditing, or reviewing skills or factory structure
docs/notes/factory-integration-decisions.md — decisions from the factory integration grill; read when making skill authoring or factory design decisions
Governance rules are always in effect — core/instructions/governance.md (agent rules); docs/research/governance_principles/CONTROLS.md