Five documents told authors that a prose-form dangling routing target blocks. The
gate reports it as a SUGGESTION and exits 0. Verified on fixtures: `-> name` and
`/name` are blocking ERRORs, the prose form is SUGGESTION-tier unless a second
resolving target in the same sentence corroborates it. ADR-0020 and gates.md were
right; contract.md, retrofit.md, description-quality.md, finding-criteria.md and
agent-author's contract.md were wrong — and they are what an author and an auditor
actually read. The whole 39-skill corpus was retrofitted against them.
skill-audit was also self-contradictory: it imports validate.sh's SUGGESTIONs into
the Structure dimension verbatim while its own rubric grades the same target a FAIL,
so one target got reported twice at two tiers. The script owns the grade; the rubric
now says so.
The YAML-fold trap that broke gitea-labels-milestones (#100) was warned about only
in retrofit.md, reachable only from the improve flow when a budget is exceeded. It
is now in both contract.md files, which SKILL.md mandates on the create flow too.
agent-audit loaded both rubrics unconditionally on every run — 3,323 words for a
clean audit against skill-audit's 1,636. dac9cad fixed exactly this in skill-audit
and edited agent-audit in the same commit without applying it. Same treatment: the
criteria move to a new finding-criteria.md and load per dimension. Clean run now
2,083 words, a 37% cut.
Routing: apm-workflow's description shed dependency installation while still owning
the flow, and apm-install's boundary did not exclude it, so "install my apm
dependencies" matched the CLI-binary skill with no route back. Fixed on both sides.
forge regains two of the three phrasings the retrofit deleted.
forge Step 1 called grill-with-docs unconditionally — a skill in plugins/bin, which
kyberforge does not declare as a dependency. It resolves here only because the
walk-up sweeps sibling plugins; a standalone install dead-ends. Step 1 now names
the cross-plugin dependency and gives an inline fallback. Declaring it properly in
apm.yml remains the better fix.
Also: both audit SKILL.md files now grade exit 2 as "did not run, dimension
unverified" rather than as findings; skill-audit's README row described content that
moved, which its own finding-criteria.md grades a FAIL; and body-discipline.md's
`git show <sha>:plugins/...` command is fenced, since an installed plugin cache has
no repo and file-structure.md makes a bare repo path a FAIL.
Refs: #100, #101, #125
ADR: 0020
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references/
create.md
The create flow, loaded from SKILL.md Step 1 when no agent file exists at the target path.
Covers: prerequisites, the scaffold script and its scope walk-up, what to fill in at every scope,
and populating or deleting the package-root sources.md.
improve.md
The improve flow, loaded from SKILL.md Step 1 when a file exists and at least one improvement signal is present. Covers: signal verification, partial-pair recovery, root-cause grouping, generalizing rather than patching, delegation over growth, and the ADR-0020 retrofit rule.
contract.md
The description and body contract, loaded from SKILL.md Step 3 before any description is written or any body restructured. Covers: the three-part description shape, banned description content, boundary-target resolution, the 250/400 length tiers, the body role-instruction pattern, the delegation rule that replaces a body word gate, and the invocation axis.
plugin-scope.md
Field rules and the pre-audit checklist for the single vendor-neutral .apm/agents/<name>.agent.md
file. Loaded from SKILL.md Step 2 when the scaffold resolves plugin/APM scope.
project-user-scope.md
Field rules and the pre-audit checklist for the Claude Code .md + Copilot .agent.md pair,
including the two distinct Copilot formats. Loaded from SKILL.md Step 2 when the scaffold resolves
project or user scope.
deployment-modes.md
Scope hierarchy and precedence, scoped identifiers for plugin subdirectory agents, cache isolation behaviour, and Copilot CLI path conventions. Loaded from SKILL.md Step 2 when precedence, paths or cache isolation matter to the run.
scripts.md
Conventions for the new-agent.sh scaffold script, the templates it copies, and any future script
in this skill. Loaded from create.md Step 1 when the script or a template has to change. Covers:
the no-interactive-prompts rule, structured output, idempotency, template variables, file
placement, error messages, and the no-restated-field-roster rule that tests/new-agent.bats
enforces.
sources.md
Research provenance record for this skill. Lists the upstream research sources
(claude-code-plugins and github-copilot-plugins research docs) that informed SKILL.md and the
reference files. Used by skill-audit to validate the provenance chain.