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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
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source_keys:
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- context7-websites-code-claude
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- claude-code-plugins-docs
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- claude-code-subagents-docs
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- context7-github-en-copilot
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- github-custom-agents-configuration
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---
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# Finding Criteria
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Every FAIL and SUGGESTION criterion, for every qualitative dimension, and nothing else. The
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reasoning each criterion stands on, its worked examples and its house rules stay in that
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dimension's rubric, which Step 3 loads only for a dimension this file puts in play.
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Two rules on using it:
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- A criterion that plainly applies is a finding. Write it up citing file and line.
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- A criterion that might apply, or whose call the wording here does not settle, is a reason to load
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that dimension's rubric — never a reason to drop the candidate. This file decides which rubrics
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to read; it does not settle a close call on its own.
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## description — `references/description-quality.md`
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Flag as FAIL if:
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- **Over 400 characters.** Measured on the folded YAML value, not the raw source lines.
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`validate.sh` reports the number; do not re-derive it, but do point the Fix at what to cut. Agent
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descriptions have no platform-documented ceiling of their own, so 400 is the only hard limit
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there is — do not go looking for a backstop behind it.
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- **Internal mechanics appear in the description.** Any of:
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- capability enumeration or a feature list;
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- output-format detail ("Produces a compact findings report with Why and Fix per finding");
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- composition or architecture notes ("composes X rather than duplicating Y", "a cross-cutting
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shared agent", "the human-facing entry point", "replaces the old flat invocation");
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- implementation detail ("self-validates via a bundled deterministic script").
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None of it can change a routing decision and all of it is preloaded.
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`Kyberforge.CompositionNote` catches the common phrasings deterministically; the rest is
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judgment. This is the rule that deflates a description, so apply it before reaching for length.
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- **The same trigger stated twice in two registers** — a verb list, then the same verbs re-quoted
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as user phrasings, usually in the same order. One register, whichever routes better.
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- **Descriptive rather than imperative phrasing** (`This agent ...`, `This is the ...`).
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`Kyberforge.DescriptionOpener` catches any opener matching `^This`.
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- **Vague capabilities** ("helps with agents" where "audits an agent definition pair" was
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available). `Kyberforge.VagueWording` catches the known filler; imprecision outside that list is
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judgment.
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- **`Use proactively` in a Copilot or vendor-neutral description.**
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`KyberforgeCopilot.ProactivePhrase` catches it. The phrase steers the Claude Code runtime and
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does nothing anywhere else, so in a `.agent.md` it is preloaded text that buys no behaviour.
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- **Trigger-list, boundary or indirect-trigger content on a hand-invoked agent** — see Step 0 of
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`references/description-quality.md`.
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Flag as SUGGESTION if:
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- **Over 250 characters** but at or under 400. This tier is what moves the corpus average; the FAIL
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tier only stops outliers. Report it rather than treating a 399-character description as clean.
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- A near-miss exclusion is present but targets a weak near-miss.
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- An indirect trigger is present and warranted but could name the omitted phrasing more precisely.
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**An unresolved boundary target is not graded here.** `validate.sh` resolves boundary targets for
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agent files at both scopes and tiers the verdict itself — route notation (`/name`, an arrow form)
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is an ERROR, the bare prose form a SUGGESTION unless a second target in the same sentence resolves.
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Step 1 has already filed it under `### Structure` at that tier. Take the script's verdict rather
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than re-resolving the name by hand, and do not re-grade it under description: a hand-walk over a
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different universe can contradict the script, and re-grading puts one target in the report twice.
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What is left to judgment is semantic and the script cannot reach it: whether a target that *does*
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resolve is the right sibling to exclude, and whether a clause naming no target at all ("examine the
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files manually") should have named one.
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## body, delegation and comment-discipline — `references/body-and-delegation.md`
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Flag as FAIL if:
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- The body restates a procedure owned by a skill the agent can invoke — Fix: invoke `<skill>`
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instead
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- A sentence answers "no" to the core test — it is padding
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- A decision point presents a menu of options with no default
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- An instruction repeats content already in the description
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- Frontmatter comments are template scaffolding rather than instruction, or are HTML comments at
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plugin/APM scope
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- A prescriptive sequence is used where flexibility is fine, or the reverse
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Flag as SUGGESTION if:
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- The body does not open with a direct role instruction
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- The body specifies no error handling — nothing tells the agent what to do with malformed,
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missing or contradictory input
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- The job the agent describes is unbounded, or bounded only implicitly
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- A rationale is missing from a rule the agent is expected to enforce — present but unexplained
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- Comments are useful but verbose enough to bury the field they annotate
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**Never report an agent body as too long on a word count.** ADR-0020 gates a skill body at
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600/900 words and deliberately gates an agent body at nothing, because an agent body *becomes* the
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system prompt of a fresh context rather than competing with a live conversation. There is no number
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to cite. The one length signal that applies is the Copilot runtime's 30,000-character body limit,
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which `validate.sh` already reports as a SUGGESTION. Length is judged through the delegation FAIL
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above instead.
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