Why The two audit skills carried 1,724 lines of byte-identical duplication: the ADR-0020 boundary resolver (1,061), vale-wrap.sh (526), the Vale style rules (44) and the Contributing-files parser (93). Nothing shared them — they were held in sync by a 413-line pre-push gate and its 797-line test suite. Sync-by-gate had already failed once: at484357athe two parser copies drifted into different spellings of the bullet loop while a docstring asserted they were identical. That drift was behaviour-neutral and was re-unified by hand at598a7c3, so the copies were identical at merge time — but nothing had caught it, and the next drift need not be neutral. Implementation Notes Self-containment binds BETWEEN skills, not within one. The agentskills.io spec forbids reaching across skill directories, which is why two separate skills needed embedded copies; two files inside ONE skill may source a third. That is the whole reason the merge removes duplication rather than relocating it. The union of both bodies measured 1,532 words against BODY_MAX_WORDS=900, and only 211 of those words were shared, so SKILL.md is a dispatch body. Step 0 resolves the flow from the target path before any validation, and its table mirrors validate.sh's detection exactly: a directory holding SKILL.md or a SKILL.md file (skill); a *.agent.md, or a .md directly under an agents/ directory (agent); anything else stops without running a validator. Steps 1-3 live in references/skill-flow.md and references/agent-flow.md, and gotchas that apply to one flow live in that flow's file, since it is loaded on every invocation anyway. If validate.sh reports on the other artifact type, the body restarts at Step 0. Named factory-audit rather than forge-audit because forge is a live skill, and a family prefix that matches a live sibling reads as ownership rather than membership. The description carries one arrow per boundary target, because ADR-0020 resolves only the first target after an arrow. It drops the quoted "audit this skill"-style phrases, which restated "audited" in a second register (ADR-0020's duplicate-register rule). 241 characters, Gotchas 16% of the body: no size SUGGESTIONs. The boundary resolver stays embedded in two files rather than imported: a cache-installed plugin cannot read outside its own directory, and the repo-root hook resolves via .pre-commit-hooks.yaml where entry[0] is the only token pre-commit rewrites, so no single file is reachable by both. tests/test-adr0020-contract.sh hashes both copies for byte-identity, and asserts validate.sh sources the resolver and that no third copy exists. The entry scripts classify the target from its resolved parent directory, so a bare agent filename typed inside agents/ works; resolve SCRIPT_DIR CDPATH-safely; and exit 2 when a lib-*.sh is missing, rather than dying with exit 1, the tier the flows relay as real findings. The provenance run functions stash their findings code in KYBERFORGE_PROV_RC and return 0, so validate-provenance.sh calls them UNTESTED. Testing a function's status (`f || RC=$?`) disables errexit for its entire body, and no subshell or `set -e` inside can re-arm it once the call sits in a condition context (measured, both spellings). Their error paths use `exit`, which is unaffected either way; this keeps errexit armed for anything added later. Case 0's readability guard reads the file instead of asking `[[ -r ]]`. `-r` is access(2), which answers yes for uid 0 even on a mode-000 file, and this repo's dev environment is root -- so the guard could never fire where it exists to fire. A read attempt is also the stricter question, catching EIO. This is the reasoning scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh carried before this commit deleted it; the hazard did not go with it. All three entry scripts are CDPATH-safe, vale-wrap.sh included: both of its cd sites are cleared, the --config resolution and the directory-mirror walk, where an exported CDPATH would otherwise print a decoy path into the -print0 stream and build the mirror from the decoy's files. The two remaining bare cd calls take absolute paths, which CDPATH is never consulted for. Impact BREAKING: skill-audit and agent-audit no longer exist as invocable skills. kyberforge goes to 2.0.0 (catalog 0.4.7). Check logic is unchanged: differential runs of the old and new validators across every skill and agent produced byte-identical stdout, stderr and exit codes, and the reconstructed Python payloads differ only in comments and the references/field-inventory.md -> agent-field-inventory.md rename. One doctrine governs the tiers: exit 0 is audited and clean, exit 1 is audited with findings OR a target present but unreadable, exit 2 is that nothing was audited at all. Edge paths DID change, deliberately (full table in ADR-0025): - a missing target exits 2 (never ran), not 1, under its own "does not exist" message; detection is by path shape, so a shape-matching path that is simply absent used to reach the validator and come back as a FAIL against a file that never existed; - an unshaped target exits 2 under the generic "matches neither" message, and a directory with no SKILL.md under a third, distinct one -- three exit-2 messages, not one; - a dangling symlink or a symlink loop stays exit 1: it is present but broken, which is a finding about the artifact rather than a usage error; - a SKILL.md file path is audited as its skill directory instead of refused; - a .md agent outside an agents/ directory is refused rather than audited; - a missing script library, a missing python3, a missing PyYAML, and no argument at all each exit 2. validate-provenance.sh already exited 2 for the last two; validate.sh now matches it. .pre-commit-hooks.yaml is a published contract consumed by external repos. Both hook IDs and both files: regexes are unchanged; only entry: and description: moved. scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh (413), scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh (21), tests/test-check-vale-style-sync.sh (797) and agent-audit/scripts/README.md (47) are deleted. The checker made 17 assertions: 6 compared the two Vale copies and are moot; 10 are rehomed into tests/test-vale-wrap.sh (case 0, cases 28-31, and the suite's Vale-absent skip); and the cross-manifest files: agreement check, which selected hooks by entry: and so could not survive both hooks sharing one, is ported as case 33 pairing hooks by id:. Cases 28, 30 and 33 carry mutation self-tests; narrowing the local skill prefilter to 6 of 38 SKILL.md files now fails the suite. Skills go 39 to 38. Pre-push goes 9 repo-authored hooks to 8. ADR: 0025 BREAKING-CHANGE: the skill-audit and agent-audit skills are removed. Both flows are served by factory-audit, which auto-detects whether it was handed a skill directory or an agent file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
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name, description, metadata
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| forge | Use when the user wants to build or improve something but has not yet named the artifact type — skill, agent, plugin, or marketplace entry; "not sure if this should be a skill or a plugin", "I have an idea but don't know where it belongs". Routes to the matching author skill. Do not use when the type is already named — invoke `skill-author`, `agent-author` or `apm-workflow` directly. |
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Gotchas
- forge is an optional guided entry point, not a gate —
skill-author,agent-author,factory-auditandapm-workflowall stay directly invokable, and forge never intercepts a direct call to one. - Claude Code's skill-level
context: forkfrontmatter field and the/forksubagent command are opposites despite the shared word:context: forkisolates (fresh context, no parent access), while/forkinherits the full conversation. The route reference each classification loads spends that distinction:references/author-routes.mdchooses between the two,references/apm-routes.mdrules the fork out.
Step 1 — Grill the intent
Call grill-with-docs unless a grill session has already run and is available in the context.
grill-with-docs ships in a sibling plugin that kyberforge does not declare as an apm dependency, so it resolves in the authoring monorepo but can be absent where kyberforge is installed alone. If it does not resolve, grill inline yourself rather than skipping the step: what problem the artifact solves, who invokes it and how, what it must refuse, and which existing skill or plugin already owns part of the job. Say which path you took.
Grilling regularly overturns the artifact type assumed at the start, or splits one idea into several artifacts, so it runs before classification rather than confirming it. Run it inline in the current conversation — grilling is interactive and a subagent cannot hold the back-and-forth.
Step 2 — Classify and dispatch
Match the grilled intent against exactly one row — or more than one, if the intent genuinely spans several artifacts.
| Intent | Artifact type | Route to | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
A reusable capability the agent loads inline in the main conversation, triggered by description-matching, free to bundle its own references/, scripts/ or assets/ |
Skill | skill-author |
references/author-routes.md |
| A recurring task needs its own reusable definition — dedicated system prompt, tools and description, invokable by name across sessions | Agent / subagent | agent-author |
references/author-routes.md |
| A new distributable unit — no existing plugin is the right home for the skill, agent, hook or MCP server being built, or the bundle needs its own manifest, versioning and install lifecycle | Plugin | apm-workflow (apm plugin init) |
references/apm-routes.md |
| The plugin already exists and only its marketplace-facing metadata changes — a first listing, or a version/description update, never the plugin's contents | Marketplace entry | apm-workflow (apm marketplace package add) |
references/apm-routes.md |
The table classifies what to build, not how to run it: a one-off task that merely needs an isolated or context-inheriting run is not an artifact and has no row here. If the intent stays genuinely ambiguous between rows after grilling, ask the user rather than guessing.
A real artifact that matches no row — a hook, an MCP server, an AGENTS.md, a research doc — has no route here. Say so, hand the user the skill that does own it, and never bend it into a row to make the table fit.
When the intent spans several rows, chain the routes in dependency order — an artifact that must exist on disk before another skill can target it goes first, so apm-workflow scaffolds the plugin directory before skill-author scaffolds a skill inside it.
Announce, then invoke. State the classification and which skill(s) will run. Then read the reference file for each classified artifact type — only those — and follow it.
Step 3 — Closing gates, common to every route
- Resolve before closing. A route is finished only when its verification reports nothing unresolved. An actionable finding reopens the route; it is never reported onward as a caveat.
- Bump the package version. A skill route always lands here:
skill-authormoves only a skill's ownmetadata.version, which is not the packageapm.yml's number — so readreferences/version-bump.mdafter one.agent-authorand the apm routes bump the package themselves at plugin scope; after those, read it only when their output does not say they did.