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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/primitive-author/references/instruction.md
Defame1297 9ac5340e15 fix(kyberforge): resolve clean-context audit findings on primitive support
primitive-author:
- description excludes read-only review (-> factory-audit)
- validation Gotcha now matches the research: compile never reads
  prompts, install fails only on a bad Copilot hook payload and warns on
  prompt input names and dropped keys
- instruction fold-in into AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md stated as conditional on
  dedup and --force-instructions
- hook checklist gains the wrapped-shape Must, drops hardlinks, notes
  why executable is stricter than the research, and states the
  separate Copilot-targeted package route instead of a blanket "don't"
- prompt Must 5 keeps the research's Copilot-only-key exception; adds
  model-slug and 250-char Shoulds; descriptions name skills or agents
- placeholder instruction covers both FILL IN and FILL_IN_ tokens

factory-audit: hardlink FAIL scoped to instructions and prompts
(find_hook_files skips symlinks only), with bats cases; prompt-flow
description rubric names skills or agents.

forge: version-bump, apm-routes and sources references updated for the
primitive route.

Refs #94

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KkT7RSDwDbmrM9T34b6sTi
2026-09-28 17:40:12 +00:00

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Authoring an apm instruction

Reached from SKILL.md Step 1 for an instruction. Run the Gate, then write against the checklist, then return to SKILL.md Step 3.

Gate

An instruction is a scoped rule: it applies when the agent touches files matching its applyTo glob. On Claude it deploys to .claude/rules/<stem>.md with applyTo renamed to paths:.

  • A rule for this repo alone → it belongs in the repo's AGENTS.md, which is the single always-on source. Stop and hand to agentsmd-author.
  • No file pattern fits → an instruction without applyTo is always-on in every session of every repo that installs this package, and apm compile can fold it into the global sections of AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md (skipped when .github/instructions/ or .claude/rules/ is already populated, unless --force-instructions). Say exactly that to the user and continue only on an explicit yes. Legitimate when a package deliberately ships guidance to its consumers; never a default.
  • Procedure the agent follows step by step → a skill. Stop and hand to skill-author.
  • A rule scoped to a file pattern → continue.

Checklist

Copy assets/templates/name.instructions.md.template and drop .template only on the final path.

Must:

  1. The path is .apm/instructions/<stem>.instructions.md, directly in that directory, not a symlink or hardlink.
  2. description is a non-empty string. apm only warns when it is missing.
  3. The body is non-empty after trimming whitespace. apm deploys an empty rule silently.
  4. applyTo is a non-empty glob or comma-separated list — top-level commas only as separators, alternation inside {} ("**/*.{ts,tsx}") — or absent after the Gate's explicit yes.
  5. The stem is unique across the package and its dependencies: a .claude/rules/<stem>.md collision is silently overwritten.

Should:

  1. Write applyTo as a scalar string, not a YAML list. Copilot receives the source verbatim, and its handling of a list is unverified.
  2. Keep frontmatter to description and applyTo, plus optional author and version. No target consumes other keys, and Claude drops them.
  3. Put any rationale Claude needs in the body. description never reaches Claude — it survives only for Copilot and as Cursor's index text.
  4. Keep relative markdown links resolvable from the source file.
  5. Check the glob against the tree: one that matches nothing never fires, and one broader than the rule's real scope spends context on every file it touches.