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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/agent-audit/scripts/validate.sh
Defame1297 f4bb1cf4e5 docs: finish reconciling the agent write fence across the toolchain
The previous round taught agent-audit's validator to permit disallowedTools but
left the skill that writes agents still forbidding it, in six places. Running
agent-author on any of the three fenced orchestrators would have stripped the
fence, and nothing would have caught it: the validator's allowlist is a permit
list, so an absent field passes. The template was the worst of them, since its
comment is copied verbatim into every new plugin-scope agent.

Where a list had to be restated it is now a pointer to field-inventory.md's
apm-agent-allowlist instead -- the same data validate.sh reads -- because a
roster copied into a template goes stale one step further out than the roster
itself. Where the text has to teach something it teaches the shape rule rather
than the exception: tools is an allowlist whose vocabulary differs per harness,
so verbatim copy makes one value wrong on one target; disallowedTools is a
denylist, where an unrecognised name denies nothing, so the worst case is a
missing fence rather than a wrongly granted capability.

ADR-0016's amendment claimed an unrecognised key is inert on Copilot while the
same ADR's Context says that behaviour is unconfirmed by research -- asserting
as settled the exact thing it flags as unknown, and justifying it with apm's
compile-time behaviour, which says nothing about Copilot's runtime. It is
rewritten into labelled tiers: confirmed for Claude Code with citations,
inferred by analogy for Copilot with the analogy's limits stated, unverified
where it is unverified, and the residual risk accepted explicitly with its
blast radius. It also no longer claims to restore a write sandbox: the denylist
does not deny Bash, which these agents inherit and legitimately need.

docs/hooks.md called the old root hooks.json a stale sync artifact -- it was
added in the plugin's creating commit and pointed at by main's Copilot manifest
-- and claimed both ecosystems now resolve hooks/hooks.json. Copilot does not:
its hooks field has no default and no compiled manifest declares one, so it
resolves nothing. Recorded as the gap it is, with re-injection noted as a
follow-up rather than asserted away. Its event list is marked partial.

Also: new-agent.bats asserted a hardcoded four-field allowlist and would have
rejected a scaffolded agent carrying the field the ADR now blesses; it reads
field-inventory.md too. And ADR-0016's premise that Claude's tools: is
space-separated was wrong -- it takes a comma-separated string or a YAML list.
The incompatibility with Copilot is the vocabulary, not the punctuation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
2026-08-14 12:30:30 +00:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
usage() {
cat <<EOF
Usage: validate.sh <agent-file>
Validate an agent definition file against the agent definition spec.
At plugin/APM scope, <agent-file> is a single vendor-neutral
.apm/agents/<name>.agent.md file with no counterpart. Its frontmatter allowlist
is not restated here: it is read at load time from the apm-agent-allowlist
section of references/field-inventory.md, which is the authoritative list.
At project or user scope, <agent-file> is either half of a Claude Code .md /
Copilot .agent.md pair.
Arguments:
agent-file Path to the agent file (or either half of a project/user-scope pair).
Exit codes:
0 All checks passed (may include SUGGESTIONs)
1 One or more checks failed
2 Script error (unrecognized file extension or missing field-inventory.md)
EOF
}
if [[ "${1:-}" == "--help" || "${1:-}" == "-h" ]]; then
usage
exit 0
fi
if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then
echo "Error: agent-file is required." >&2
echo "" >&2
usage >&2
exit 1
fi
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
python3 -u - "$1" "$SCRIPT_DIR" <<'PYTHON'
import sys
import os
import re
agent_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])
script_dir = sys.argv[2]
fname = os.path.basename(agent_file)
# --- Detect provider (check .agent.md before .md) ---
if fname.endswith('.agent.md'):
provider = 'copilot'
name_stem = fname[:-len('.agent.md')]
elif fname.endswith('.md'):
provider = 'claude-code'
name_stem = fname[:-len('.md')]
else:
print(f"Error: unrecognized extension '{fname}' — expected .md or .agent.md", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
# --- Load field-inventory.md ---
inv_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(script_dir, '..', 'references', 'field-inventory.md'))
if not os.path.isfile(inv_path):
print(f"Error: field-inventory.md not found at {inv_path}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(2)
with open(inv_path) as f:
inv_content = f.read()
def parse_section_tokens(content, section_name):
lines = content.splitlines()
for i, line in enumerate(lines):
if line.strip() == f'## {section_name}':
for j in range(i + 1, len(lines)):
stripped = lines[j].strip()
if stripped and not stripped.startswith('#') and not stripped.startswith('---'):
return set(stripped.split())
return set()
cc_only_fields = parse_section_tokens(inv_content, 'claude-code-only-fields')
copilot_only_fields = parse_section_tokens(inv_content, 'copilot-only-fields')
apm_agent_allowlist = parse_section_tokens(inv_content, 'apm-agent-allowlist')
# Tools the runtime withholds from subagents regardless of the tools field
SUBAGENT_UNAVAILABLE_TOOLS = {
'AskUserQuestion', 'EnterPlanMode', 'ExitPlanMode', 'ScheduleWakeup', 'WaitForMcpServers',
}
# Copilot body length limit (chars) — content beyond this is silently truncated
COPILOT_BODY_LIMIT = 30000
# --- Helpers (shared by every scope) ---
failed = False
suggestions = []
def fail(msg):
global failed
failed = True
print(f"FAIL {msg}")
def suggest(msg):
suggestions.append(msg)
PLACEHOLDER_RE = re.compile(r'(?<!`)FILL IN:[^`\n]')
def parse_frontmatter(content):
m = re.match(r'^---\n(.*?)\n---', content, re.DOTALL)
if not m:
return None, content
return m.group(1), content[m.end():]
def extract_field(fm, field):
m = re.search(rf'^{re.escape(field)}:\s*(.+)', fm, re.MULTILINE)
return m.group(1).strip() if m else None
def get_frontmatter_keys(fm):
keys = set()
for line in fm.splitlines():
m = re.match(r'^([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*):', line)
if m:
keys.add(m.group(1))
return keys
def extract_tools_list(fm):
"""Extract tool names from the tools frontmatter field (space or comma separated)."""
val = extract_field(fm, 'tools')
if not val:
return set()
return set(re.split(r'[\s,]+', val.strip()))
def is_copilot_cloud_ide(fpath):
"""True if the file is a cloud/IDE Copilot agent (name is optional for these)."""
return '.github/copilot/agents' in os.path.abspath(fpath).replace(os.sep, '/')
# --- Detect scope ---
# APM_TYPE_RE matches a top-level (column-0) `type:` line in apm.yml whose value is
# exactly one of the four package content types. Group 1 captures an optional
# opening quote; \1 requires the same character (or nothing) to close it, so
# "skill" and '"skill"' both match but a mismatched quote doesn't. The value
# must then be followed by whitespace or end-of-line — not just a non-word
# character — so a malformed value like `prompts-only` is correctly rejected
# instead of false-matching on the `prompts` prefix.
APM_TYPE_RE = re.compile(r"^type:\s*(['\"]?)(instructions|skill|hybrid|prompts)\1(?:\s|$)")
def find_apm_package_root(apm_yml_path):
"""Return True if apm_yml_path has a top-level type: line (i.e. is a package
manifest, not a type:-less marketplace-only apm.yml)."""
with open(apm_yml_path) as f:
for line in f:
if APM_TYPE_RE.match(line):
return True
return False
def detect_scope(start_dir):
home = os.path.expanduser('~')
original_start = os.path.abspath(start_dir)
# Agent files conventionally live exactly two path segments below their
# scope root — <root>/.claude/agents, <root>/.github/agents,
# <root>/.copilot/agents, or <root>/.apm/agents (see new-agent.sh's
# CC_DIR/CP_DIR and user-scope dirs). Stripping those two segments
# recovers the same root new-agent.sh would have been invoked with to
# produce this exact file, independent of how far the walk below has to
# travel to find (or fail to find) a marker — mirrors new-agent.sh's
# `root` vs `current` distinction even though validate.sh is handed a
# file's directory, not the scope root itself.
#
# That arithmetic is only trustworthy when the path actually has this
# shape: parent directory literally named "agents", grandparent one of
# the four known scope-dir names. A hand-placed or otherwise
# non-conventional agent file (never produced by new-agent.sh) has no
# such guarantee — blindly trusting two-segments-up there could point at
# an unrelated ancestor. conventional_shape gates every use of
# conventional_root below; when it's false, the walked-to `current`
# directory is used instead, the same fallback this function used before
# conventional_root existed.
scope_dir_name = os.path.basename(os.path.dirname(original_start))
conventional_shape = (
os.path.basename(original_start) == 'agents'
and scope_dir_name in ('.claude', '.github', '.copilot', '.apm')
)
conventional_root = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(original_start))
current = original_start
while True:
apm_yml = os.path.join(current, 'apm.yml')
if os.path.isfile(apm_yml) and find_apm_package_root(apm_yml):
return 'plugin', current
# $HOME is the user-scope boundary — checked before the .git test
# below, so a dotfiles-managed $HOME (yadm, chezmoi bare-repo, etc.)
# can't shadow user scope by being its own .git repo. 'user' scope
# requires EITHER start_dir to BE $HOME itself (no walk-up — the
# new-agent.sh "root exactly $HOME" case) OR start_dir to sit at the
# conventional two-segments-below-root depth (i.e. $HOME IS that
# root, matching the real ~/.claude/agents or ~/.copilot/agents
# shape). Any other walk-up into $HOME — a marker-less directory
# nested deeper than that convention — resolves to project scope
# instead: a stray directory under $HOME can't be silently
# redirected into the shared global ~/.claude or ~/.copilot agent
# directories.
if current == home:
if original_start == home or (conventional_shape and conventional_root == home):
return 'user', home
return 'project', conventional_root if conventional_shape else current
# .git is a directory in a normal checkout but a file (`gitdir: ...`)
# in a git worktree — exists() covers both. Returns conventional_root,
# not current: new-agent.sh's project-scope file placement always
# uses its `$ROOT` argument directly, never the walked-up `.git`
# location, so a <root> one or more levels below the repo's .git
# (a subdirectory of a larger git-tracked tree — explicitly a
# supported case per new-agent.sh's usage text) must resolve to the
# same root new-agent.sh actually wrote to, not to the .git dir —
# unless the path lacks the conventional shape, in which case that
# arithmetic isn't trustworthy and current is used instead.
if os.path.exists(os.path.join(current, '.git')):
return 'project', conventional_root if conventional_shape else current
parent = os.path.dirname(current)
if parent == current:
return 'project', conventional_root if conventional_shape else current
current = parent
agent_dir = os.path.dirname(agent_file)
scope, scope_root = detect_scope(agent_dir)
# --- Plugin/APM scope: single vendor-neutral file, no counterpart ---
def check_apm_agent_file(fpath, allowlist, stem):
local_fname = os.path.basename(fpath)
with open(fpath) as f:
content = f.read()
fm, body = parse_frontmatter(content)
if fm is None:
fail(f"no valid YAML frontmatter (---...---) — {local_fname}")
return
# The apm-agent.md template embeds its authoring guidance as HTML
# comments inside the frontmatter block (so they render invisible in a
# Markdown preview but stay visible in the raw file). get_frontmatter_keys
# silently ignores any line that isn't a `key:` match, so a comment left
# behind at ship time would otherwise pass unnoticed — yet apm compile
# copies this frontmatter verbatim to both harnesses, and `<!-- -->` is
# not valid YAML, so yaml.safe_load breaks on both downstream (ADR-0016).
if re.search(r'<!--|-->', fm):
fail(f"frontmatter still contains template HTML comments (<!-- ... -->) "
f"— delete them before shipping — {local_fname}")
# Allowlist: the permitted keys are data, read at load time from
# references/field-inventory.md's `## apm-agent-allowlist` section — do not
# restate them here, or this comment goes stale the next time that line
# changes. apm compile verbatim-copies frontmatter to every target, so a key
# outside the list is unsafe on at least one harness (ADR-0016). Note the
# list admits denylist-shaped restrictions (disallowedTools) but never
# allowlist-shaped ones (tools), whose value shape differs per harness.
fm_keys = get_frontmatter_keys(fm)
for key in sorted(fm_keys):
if key not in allowlist:
fail(f"field '{key}' is not in the vendor-neutral APM agent allowlist "
f"({', '.join(sorted(allowlist))}) — {local_fname}")
# name — required, kebab-case, must match filename stem (file is <name>.agent.md)
name_val = extract_field(fm, 'name')
if not name_val:
fail(f"name field is missing or empty — {local_fname}")
else:
if not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name_val):
fail(f"name '{name_val}' is not kebab-case — {local_fname}")
if name_val != stem:
fail(f"name '{name_val}' does not match filename stem '{stem}' — {local_fname}")
# description — required, non-empty, no placeholder
desc_val = extract_field(fm, 'description')
if not desc_val:
fail(f"description field is missing or empty — {local_fname}")
else:
if PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(desc_val):
fail(f"description contains unfilled FILL IN: placeholder — {local_fname}")
# body — required, non-empty, no placeholder; same Copilot truncation risk
# applies since this file compiles verbatim into a real Copilot file downstream.
if not body.strip():
fail(f"system prompt body is empty — {local_fname}")
else:
if PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(body):
fail(f"body contains unfilled FILL IN: placeholder — {local_fname}")
if len(body) > COPILOT_BODY_LIMIT:
suggest(f"body exceeds {COPILOT_BODY_LIMIT:,} characters ({len(body):,} chars) — "
f"content beyond the limit is silently truncated by the Copilot runtime "
f"once apm compile emits it downstream — {local_fname}")
if scope == 'plugin':
check_apm_agent_file(agent_file, apm_agent_allowlist, name_stem)
for s in suggestions:
print(f"SUGGESTION {s}")
sys.exit(1 if failed else 0)
# --- Project/user scope: unchanged CC/Copilot pair validation ---
# --- Derive counterpart path ---
if scope == 'project':
if provider == 'claude-code':
counterpart = os.path.join(scope_root, '.github', 'agents', name_stem + '.agent.md')
counterpart_provider = 'copilot'
else:
counterpart = os.path.join(scope_root, '.claude', 'agents', name_stem + '.md')
counterpart_provider = 'claude-code'
else: # user
home = os.path.expanduser('~')
if provider == 'claude-code':
counterpart = os.path.join(home, '.copilot', 'agents', name_stem + '.agent.md')
counterpart_provider = 'copilot'
else:
counterpart = os.path.join(home, '.claude', 'agents', name_stem + '.md')
counterpart_provider = 'claude-code'
def check_file(fpath, file_provider):
local_fname = os.path.basename(fpath)
with open(fpath) as f:
content = f.read()
fm, body = parse_frontmatter(content)
if fm is None:
fail(f"no valid YAML frontmatter (---...---) — {local_fname}")
return
# name — required for CC and Copilot CLI; optional for Copilot cloud/IDE agents
cloud_ide = (file_provider == 'copilot' and is_copilot_cloud_ide(fpath))
name_val = extract_field(fm, 'name')
if not cloud_ide:
if not name_val:
fail(f"name field is missing or empty — {local_fname}")
else:
if not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name_val):
fail(f"name '{name_val}' is not kebab-case — {local_fname}")
# Stem check applies to Copilot CLI only; CC docs say filename need not match name
if file_provider == 'copilot':
stem = local_fname[:-len('.agent.md')]
if name_val != stem:
fail(f"name '{name_val}' does not match filename stem '{stem}' — {local_fname}")
elif name_val and not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*$', name_val):
# cloud/IDE: name is optional, but if present it must be valid
fail(f"name '{name_val}' is not kebab-case — {local_fname}")
# description
desc_val = extract_field(fm, 'description')
if not desc_val:
fail(f"description field is missing or empty — {local_fname}")
else:
if PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(desc_val):
fail(f"description contains unfilled FILL IN: placeholder — {local_fname}")
# body
if not body.strip():
fail(f"system prompt body is empty — {local_fname}")
else:
if PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(body):
fail(f"body contains unfilled FILL IN: placeholder — {local_fname}")
# Copilot body length limit
if file_provider == 'copilot' and len(body) > COPILOT_BODY_LIMIT:
suggest(f"body exceeds {COPILOT_BODY_LIMIT:,} characters ({len(body):,} chars) — content beyond the limit is silently truncated by the Copilot runtime — {local_fname}")
# CC-only fields in Copilot file
if file_provider == 'copilot':
fm_keys = get_frontmatter_keys(fm)
for key in sorted(fm_keys):
if key in cc_only_fields:
fail(f"CC-only field '{key}' present in Copilot file — {local_fname}")
# Copilot-only fields in CC file
if file_provider == 'claude-code':
fm_keys = get_frontmatter_keys(fm)
for key in sorted(fm_keys):
if key in copilot_only_fields:
fail(f"Copilot-only field '{key}' present in CC file — {local_fname}")
# Subagent-unavailable tools listed in tools field
tools = extract_tools_list(fm)
unavailable = tools & SUBAGENT_UNAVAILABLE_TOOLS
for tool in sorted(unavailable):
suggest(f"'{tool}' is listed in tools but is never available to subagents — the runtime withholds it regardless — {local_fname}")
# --- Check counterpart exists ---
if not os.path.isfile(counterpart):
fail(f"counterpart file not found: {counterpart}")
sys.exit(1)
# --- Check both files ---
check_file(agent_file, provider)
check_file(counterpart, counterpart_provider)
for s in suggestions:
print(f"SUGGESTION {s}")
sys.exit(1 if failed else 0)
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