Why A six-agent review of the two preceding commits found their code sound -- the differential claim holds, the published hook contract is byte-unchanged -- but their prose drifted from it in three ways: statements of fact the code contradicts, markers in a convention this repo does not use, and figures that went stale when the merge changed what they counted. Implementation Notes ADR-0025's edge-path table is rewritten around one stated doctrine: 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. Its old row 1 promised "one generic matches-neither message" for three different inputs; there are three distinct messages, and the missing-path case exited 1 until the preceding commit fixed it. Rows are added for the preflight and CDPATH changes, because a table claiming to enumerate every entry-point behaviour change reproduces its own "an earlier revision of this ADR said they were behaviour-neutral" failure if it omits any. ADR-0025 also gains a Consequences supersession record in ADR-0016's form: partially-superseded entries for 0008, 0014, 0020 and 0021, and explicit "is not superseded" entries with reasoning for the rest. Twelve ADRs are amended and it previously listed none. ADR-0008 moves from an amendment note to partially superseded. Its contract genuinely narrowed -- an agent .md outside an agents/ directory was audited before the merge and is refused now -- and ADR-0020 already recorded that the merge "reopens ADR-0008". Its detector description said "a path under .apm/agents/", the phrasing ADR-0025 rejects as wider than the script and circular; the shipped rule is a .md whose immediate parent is named agents/, at any scope. ADR-0020's amendment claimed the boundary resolver is sourced by validate-provenance.sh. It is not, and never was; only validate.sh sources it, once per mode branch. Three Home-column entries pointed at reference filenames the merge renamed, one of which now resolves to two files because its row covers skills and agents. Five ADRs opened with "Skill renamed per ADR-0025", a form this repo does not use, in the same commit that used the conventional "Amended by ADR-0025" twice. They are normalized. "Renamed" was also wrong: the BREAKING-CHANGE trailer says the skills were removed and their flows merged. SIMPLIFICATION-AUDIT.md had 2026-09-15 notes attached to headlines that were never updated, against its own convention of correcting in place with strikethrough. Every figure here was re-derived at HEAD by command, and several differed from the review's own numbers, so the notes record the basis rather than the result alone. LESSONS.md asserted the two review-time suite failures were the SIGPIPE race. The commit that fixed that race explicitly declined to claim it -- the suite was running while agents edited live config files -- so the hedge is restored. Impact No code, test or configuration change; documentation only. Suites stay 20/20 strict with 0 skipped and 374/374 bats. No gate parses ADR or gates.md content, so nothing here is load-bearing for a hook. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YR2CjVumUbEGWcMikcoXBD
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agent-audit reads field lists from a reference file, not hardcoded script arrays
Amended by ADR-0025 (2026-09-15). agent-audit was removed and its flow merged with
skill-audit's into factory-audit. Read agent-audit below as factory-audit's agent flow; the
reference file this ADR is about is now factory-audit/references/agent-field-inventory.md. The
decision is unchanged — the field lists still live in a reference file read at runtime, not in
script arrays.
agent-audit's validate.sh checks for Claude Code-only fields in Copilot files and
silently-ignored fields in plugin agents. Rather than hardcoding those field lists in the
script, the script reads references/field-inventory.md at runtime. This keeps field list
maintenance decoupled from script logic and preserves a provenance chain back to the
research corpus that sourced the lists.
Considered options
Hardcode in validate.sh (rejected) — field lists live as literal arrays in the
bash/python script. Rejected because: (1) the lists came from research docs
(claude-code-plugins/agent-definition.md and github-copilot-plugins/agent-definition.md)
and should maintain a provenance chain back to those sources via source_keys frontmatter;
(2) both provider APIs evolve — updating a structured markdown file is lower friction than
editing a script and less likely to introduce bugs; (3) it breaks the bidirectional reference
principle already established for this repo, where research-derived content carries explicit
source attribution.
Consequences
validate.shmust parsereferences/field-inventory.mdto extract field lists — the file format must be machine-parseable (section headings the script can grep, or a simple list structure).field-inventory.mdcarriessource_keysfrontmatter referencingclaude-code-plugins-docsandgithub-custom-agents-configurationslugs.- The script exits with a clear error if
references/field-inventory.mdis not found — fail-fast, not silent. - Field list updates (new provider field, deprecated field) require only editing
field-inventory.md; no script change needed.