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holocron/AGENTS.md
Defame1297 f91babcacd docs: dedupe structure and stack descriptions (finding 32)
Why: AGENTS.md's Structure bullet restated apm-install mechanics already owned by
docs/spec/architecture.md:24 and README.md:55, and docs/VISION.md carried stack, framework and
deployment choices for a product that lives in a separate repo.

Implementation notes: AGENTS.md keeps two actionable one-liners plus pointers to the README
layout table and architecture.md, preserving the session rule that .claude/skills/ and
.claude/agents/ are install output and must not be edited. VISION.md's Phase 1 Architecture
block becomes a one-line scope statement; the "Mobile/desktop (Phase 3)" line is dropped as an
intra-file duplicate of the Phase 3 section.

Impact: no behaviour change. README.md and docs/spec/architecture.md are untouched -- the
finding's premise was inflated, and architecture.md had already been differentiated in a way it
documents in the file itself.

Refs: SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md finding 32
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
2026-09-14 20:31:40 +00:00

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Working in this repo

The global AI development configuration repository — the authoritative source for agent definitions, skills, workflows, and prompts across all projects.

This file carries only what applies to every session. Setup, prerequisites, and test commands are in README.md; the reasoning behind each enforcement gate is in docs/spec/gates.md.

Structure

  • plugins/<name>/.apm/ is the only authoring source for plugin content. .claude/skills/ and .claude/agents/ are gitignored apm install output — never edit them.
  • providers/claude-code/ is the Claude Code adapter, deployed to ~/.claude/ by scripts/install.sh.

Repo layout table: README.md. Deployment mechanics and plugin boundaries: docs/spec/architecture.md.

Prefer plugin skills over raw shell

This repo dogfoods its own plugins. Before shelling out, check whether a skill already owns the operation — it usually does:

  • Commits, branches, history, worktrees, remotes → git-commits, git-branches, git-history, git-worktrees, git-remotes
  • Pre-commit hook install/config/troubleshooting → pc-run / pc-author
  • Issues, PRs, labels, milestones → gitea-issues, gitea-prs, gitea-labels-milestones; also gitea-branches, gitea-files, gitea-releases, or gitea-workflow when the domain is ambiguous
  • Vale prose linting → vale-config / vale-run
  • This repo's own AGENTS.md → agentsmd-author / agentsmd-audit

Use the bare, unnamespaced names. That is what apm install deploys and the only form this repo's own install produces — a project skill has no plugin to prefix (ADR-0018). Whether the <plugin>: form (gitea:gitea-prs) also resolves depends on native plugin installs at user scope, outside this repo; write the bare name either way.

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

Session rules

  • Do not add repo-owned keys to .claude/settings.json. apm treats it as its own deployed artifact and apm audit --ci replays the install and diffs, so anything apm would not have written is permanent drift that fails the apm-audit-ci pre-push hook. A hook you want here is authored in plugins/<name>/.apm/hooks/ and deployed by apm, never hand-written into that file. The SessionStart entry already in it is exactly that: kyberforge authors it in plugins/kyberforge/.apm/hooks/hooks.json and apm merges it in, so it is apm's own output, it is what the replay expects, and it belongs in the commit — do not strip it (ADR-0019). Machine-specific settings go in the gitignored .claude/settings.local.json; shared enforcement goes in .pre-commit-config.yaml.
  • apm.lock.yaml turning up modified is expected, not a bug. kyberforge's SessionStart hook keeps the install current on launch and rewrites the lock in the process (ADR-0019). Commit or discard it deliberately.
  • A .apm/ edit is not live in this session until it is pushed. The six dependencies resolve from the holocron remote, unpinned against the default branch. apm install deploys from the lock; apm update is what re-resolves refs.
  • No pre-push hook needs the network. Root apm.yml's marketplace has no remote package entries, so every hook resolves locally.
  • This repo and Gitea are the only source of truth. All project state, decisions, and working conventions live here. Do not use an external memory system for this project — cached state diverges from the repo and you get a split brain. Before answering any design or architecture question, check docs/adr/ for an existing decision.

Key documents

Read CONTEXT.md at the start of every session — it is this repo's domain glossary, and the terms it defines are used unglossed everywhere else. It is not exhaustive: terms it does not carry are defined at their point of use, mostly in docs/spec/.

Read these on demand:

  • README.md — prerequisites, install, and test commands
  • docs/VISION.md — the phased roadmap and where this is going; read when a decision turns on product direction
  • LESSONS.md — patterns that went wrong once; read before repeating a class of change that has burned the repo before
  • docs/spec/gates.md — what each pre-commit and pre-push hook enforces and why; read when a gate fails or before changing hook config
  • docs/spec/architecture.md — 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