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The clean provenance bill was an artifact. Checks 7 and 8 assume `Research doc:` names a source index whose H2s are slugs, but 30 of 121 corpus entries point at topic content documents whose H2s are topics. Those 30 produced every new check-7 INFO — all false positives. Check 8 aimed at the same documents, which carry no `Status:` line at all, would have emitted a large false-FAIL flood; the only thing preventing it was an unannounced `rd_status != extracted` skip. So "0 new FAILs" rested on exactly the fail-open class this branch exists to remove, and naively fixing the skip would have turned the branch red. Checks 7/8 now run only when the research doc's basename is `sources.md`, and every other case emits a visible INFO naming the slug. The dangling-path INFO stays ahead of the basename gate, because a path that does not resolve is rot whatever it is named. `parse_status` accepts the bullet form and a trailing note after the backticked value, so a status it cannot read no longer reads as "nothing to check". Corpus: 36 INFOs of which 30 were false, to 56 of which none are. FAIL stays 0, and no Status line flipped to `extracted` under the new parser, so no FAIL was suppressed by luck. Also closed, each a silent pass: a nonexistent directory, a directory with no SKILL.md, and extra arguments now exit 2; a UTF-8 BOM no longer defeats frontmatter parsing; the bare `except Exception: return False` that turned an unreadable file into a clean pass is gone, with all reads pinned to UTF-8; check 3 walks nested `references/` subdirectories; `FILL IN:` at end of line no longer escapes checks 1 and 6; duplicate `## slug` blocks and repeated `Research doc:` lines are announced rather than half-read. The agent-audit copy carried all of the above unfixed and is now ported, minus the four fixes that are genuinely N/A at agent scope — it reads a plugin-root `sources.md` and has no checks 7/8 and no `references/` tree. Its silent exit 0 for a file outside plugin scope is preserved deliberately: that is a verdict about a valid file, not a skip, and `check-scope-walkup-sync.sh` pins it. Every exit-2 gate therefore decides from the argument alone, before the walk-up runs. `validation-scripts.md` said flatly that silence from the validator is a pass, not a skip. That sentence is what made a typo'd path dangerous, and both copies are corrected here. The matching SKILL.md exit-code guidance lands with the audit rubric change, which touches the same files. Tests: skill-audit 45 to 65, agent-audit 24 to 43, every new case proven by mutation. Refs: #111, #118, #121
scripts/
Executable code bundled with this skill. Agents run scripts in this directory to perform repeatable operations rather than reinventing the logic each run.
When to add a script
Add a script when agents independently reinvent the same logic across runs — building the same parser, chart, or validation routine from scratch each time. Bundle it here once, tested and reliable.
Script requirements (agentskills.io)
Scripts must be designed for non-interactive, agentic execution:
- No interactive prompts — agents run in non-interactive shells. Accept all input via flags, env vars, or stdin. A script that blocks on TTY input hangs indefinitely.
- Expose
--help— this is how agents learn your script's interface. Keep the output concise; it enters the agent's context window. - Structured output — write data (JSON, CSV, TSV) to stdout. Write progress, warnings, and diagnostics to stderr.
- Idempotent — prefer "create if not exists" over "create and fail on duplicate". Agents may retry on failure.
- Meaningful exit codes —
0for success, non-zero for failure. Use distinct codes for different failure types; document them in--help. - Dry-run support — add
--dry-runfor destructive operations.
Self-contained scripts
Bundle dependencies inline so the agent can run the script with a single command.
Python (PEP 723 + uv):
# /// script
# dependencies = ["requests>=2.31,<3"]
# requires-python = ">=3.11"
# ///
import requests
uv run scripts/my-script.py
If no scripts are needed
Delete this README and the scripts/ directory entirely.