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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/skills/agent-author/references/scripts.md
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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Scripts Reference

Conventions for scripts/new-agent.sh and any future scripts in this skill.

Contract

All scripts in this skill must follow these rules:

  • No interactive prompts — agents run non-interactive; blocking on TTY input hangs indefinitely. Accept all input via positional arguments, flags, or environment variables.
  • Structured output — file paths and status messages to stderr; nothing to stdout unless a downstream tool needs to consume it.
  • Idempotent — "create if not exists" per file. The scaffold script skips any file that already exists; agents may safely re-run it.
  • Meaningful exit codes — 0 success, 1 invalid arguments or precondition failure. Document in --help.
  • Self-contained — no external package installs at runtime. The script uses only bash builtins and POSIX tools (sed, mkdir, cat).

Template variables

The scaffold script uses sed "s/AGENT_NAME/$AGENT_NAME/g" to substitute the agent name into templates. Template files must use AGENT_NAME (all caps, no delimiters) as the substitution token.

Do not add additional substitution tokens unless you update both the template files and the script in the same edit pass.

File placement

The script creates files at paths determined by scope detection (plugin/APM / project / user). Scope is resolved by walking up from the root directory: a type:-bearing apm.yml at or above the root marks the package root (plugin/APM scope, single file); an apm.yml without a type: field is a marketplace-only manifest and is skipped, the walk continues upward. If no such apm.yml is found, the root resolving to exactly $HOME is user scope; anything else is project scope. If scope detection logic changes, update the new-agent.sh usage comment and SKILL.md Step 1 scope detection description in the same pass.

Error messages

On failure, state: what went wrong, what was expected, what to try. Example:

Error: agent-name must use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens only.
       No leading, trailing, or consecutive hyphens.
       Received: 'My_Agent'

Vague errors leave agents unable to self-correct.

--help output

Keep --help concise — it may enter the agent's context window. Include: usage line, argument descriptions with scope detection table, exit codes. Omit prose explanations.