apm prints "1 outdated dependency found" in the singular when exactly one package is behind (apm_cli/commands/outdated.py). check-apm-current.sh matched only "outdated dependencies found", so one stale package was invisible: the hook exited 0 silently and no refresh ran. With six packages merging independently, one-behind is the ordinary case, so the freshness mechanism failed most often in the situation it exists for. Three further defects in the same hook: - The host timeout was below the script's own budget. hooks.json declared 320s while the script allows `timeout 60` plus `timeout 300` = 360s, so a slow remote let the host kill the hook mid-update and leave .claude/skills/ half-deployed with nothing emitted. Now 380. A test asserts the invariant rather than the literal: it sums every `timeout N` parsed out of the script and requires hooks.json to exceed it, so changing either side alone fails. - The lockfile guard was cwd-relative, so a session opened in a subdirectory no-opped silently and ran both apm calls against the wrong directory. Now anchored on CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR, falling back to the cwd so the hook stays inert under a host that does not set it. - Every assertion mocked apm, so the suite was green over code that could not detect its own most common trigger. That blind spot is what hid the singular/plural bug, and it is the same shape as the deleted post-push tests. The suite now stages a genuinely outdated dependency against a local git remote — offline, via url.<path>.insteadOf, so the pass-under-unshare property survives — runs the real `apm outdated`, and replays its output through the real hook. Reverting the grep to plural-only fails it. 23 -> 35 assertions. Each fix mutation-tested individually. kyberforge stays at 1.5.0: it is untagged, so this changes what 1.5.0 ships rather than superseding it, and executables.allow needs no edit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X7GvKuJfy2WrdBmUttV4DT
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Hooks
Reference for this plugin's hook definitions: where to edit them, where they end up, and what the host reads.
This document lives in docs/ rather than next to the hooks it describes. plugins/kyberforge/hooks/
is a generated mirror — scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh runs rm -rf on it before every
rebuild, so any hand-written file placed there is deleted on the next sync with no drift warning
(a prior copy of this document was lost exactly that way). See ADR-0017.
Where to edit
Author hooks in plugins/kyberforge/.apm/hooks/*.json. apm pack --format plugin merges every
file in that directory into a single hooks.json, which sync-plugin-content.sh copies to
plugins/kyberforge/hooks/hooks.json — the path Claude Code convention-scans. Never edit the
mirrored file; the check-plugin-content-sync pre-push hook reports it as drift.
Claude Code structure
hooks/hooks.json is read by Claude Code. Structure:
{
"hooks": {
"PostToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [
{ "type": "command", "command": "echo 'tool used'" }
]
}
]
}
}
Events (partial list): PreToolUse, PostToolUse, Notification, Stop, and SessionStart
(verified end-to-end by the hook below). Claude Code's plugin hook set is larger — SessionEnd,
UserPromptSubmit, PreCompact and SubagentStop also exist — and this repo's vendored corpus does
not enumerate it anywhere: docs/research/docs/claude-code-plugins/configuration.md:100 describes
the file as "Event handlers (PreToolUse, PostToolUse, etc.)", and agent-definition.md:53 covers
only the per-agent hooks field, not the plugin-level set. Treat the five names above as the ones
this repo has verified, not as the schema. Check Claude Code's own hooks documentation before wiring
an event not listed here.
Referencing a script — use the .apm/ path, not the mirror
Use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} to reference scripts inside this plugin; the plugin runs from a cache or
apm_modules/ path after install, not its original repo location. Address the script at its
.apm/ path:
"command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/.apm/hooks/check-apm-current.sh"
The obvious-looking ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/check-apm-current.sh does not work, and fails
quietly enough to be worth spelling out. apm resolves the placeholder against the installed package
root, where hooks/ is the generated mirror — and apm pack merges only *.json out of
.apm/hooks/, dropping every non-JSON file. So the mirror contains hooks.json and nothing else.
apm prints Hook script not found: .../hooks/check-apm-current.sh and then deploys the hook anyway,
pointing at a path with no file behind it.
Nor can the script be hand-placed in plugins/kyberforge/hooks/ to satisfy that path:
sync-plugin-content.sh runs rm -rf on the directory before every rebuild (ADR-0017), so it would
be deleted on the next sync with no drift warning — the same trap that ate this document's
predecessor.
tests/test-apm-current-hook.sh pins the reference so a well-meaning "simplification" back to
hooks/ fails the suite rather than silently disabling the hook.
Deployed shape
At install, apm merges the event bindings into .claude/settings.json, copies the referenced script
to .claude/hooks/<pkg>/ (preserving its executable bit, preserving the .apm/hooks/ subpath), and
rewrites command to a ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}-relative path. Ownership of its own entries is
tracked in a .claude/apm-hooks.json sidecar, so an uninstall removes them without touching
hand-authored hooks. Both .claude/hooks/ and the sidecar are gitignored install output.
Note that apm's executable-trust gate is off unless the consuming project's apm.yml has an
executables: block — without one, package hooks deploy with no prompt. See ADR-0019.
The SessionStart hook
check-apm-current.sh keeps an apm-consumed install level with its remote: it runs apm outdated,
and if anything is behind, runs apm update --yes and returns reloadSkills: true so the running
session picks up the redeployed content. Rationale, measurements, and the failure modes are in
ADR-0019.
Where it looks for the lockfile. The hook resolves a project directory as ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}
when the host exports it (Claude Code does, for SessionStart hooks) and the current directory
otherwise, then exits silently unless that directory holds an apm.lock.yaml — which is what makes
it inert for any host that installed this plugin natively rather than through apm. Both apm
invocations run against the same resolved directory. The earlier spelling checked a bare
apm.lock.yaml against the session's cwd, so a session opened in a subdirectory of an
apm-consuming repo no-opped silently. Keep the cwd fallback: a host that sets no
CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR must still get inert-but-harmless behaviour, not an unset-variable error.
The timeout in hooks.json must exceed the script's own budget. The script spends at most
timeout 60 apm outdated plus timeout 300 apm update; the hook entry declares timeout: 380, the
sum plus a buffer. Set it lower and a slow remote gets the hook SIGKILLed mid-apm update, leaving a
partially redeployed .claude/skills/ and emitting no notice — precisely the silent failure the hook
exists to prevent. tests/test-apm-current-hook.sh pins the relationship (host timeout > sum of the
script's internal timeouts) rather than the literal, so raising either side alone fails the suite.
Staleness is detected by matching apm's summary line, and both spellings count. apm outdated
has no --json or otherwise machine-readable output (verified against apm 0.28.0), so the hook
greps its text. apm prints 1 outdated dependency found in the singular when exactly one package is
behind and N outdated dependencies found otherwise; matching only the plural silently misses a
one-package drift. Because a mocked apm would keep a reworded release invisible, the test suite
stages a genuinely outdated dependency against the real apm — a local git repo reached through
url.<path>.insteadOf rewrites, so it needs no network — and replays that genuine output through the
hook.
GitHub Copilot CLI
Copilot reads a differently-shaped hooks.json: version: 1 is required, each entry is
type: "command" with separate bash and powershell scripts, and the lifecycle points are
lowercase and differently named (sessionStart, sessionEnd, userPromptSubmitted, preToolUse,
postToolUse, errorOccurred, agentStop). See
docs/research/docs/github-copilot-plugins/configuration.md.
There is no separate Copilot hooks file at this plugin root, and — as things stand — Copilot resolves to no hooks file at all. Two corrections to an earlier revision of this document, which got both halves of this wrong:
The deleted root hooks.json was not a stale sync artifact. plugins/kyberforge/hooks.json was
added in 2287ddc (2026-06-20), the commit that created the plugin, well before
scripts/sync-plugin-content.sh existed; plugins/lint/hooks.json arrived the same way in
f326df4. Main's Copilot manifest plugins/kyberforge/plugin.json declared "hooks": "hooks.json",
and plugins/lint/plugin.json did the same — these were deliberately pointed-at Copilot hooks files,
not leftovers. The sync (38f1ba4) later took ownership of that path, and ADR-0017's 2026-08-14
amendment moved the generated file to hooks/hooks.json because that, not the plugin root, is the
path Claude Code convention-scans.
Only Claude Code resolves to hooks/hooks.json. Claude Code finds it by auto-discovery.
Copilot does not: docs/research/docs/github-copilot-plugins/configuration.md:47 types hooks as a
plugin.json field of type "string or object" with no default, so there is no convention path to
scan, and jq 'has("hooks")' returns false for all six .github/plugin/plugin.json files that
apm pack emits. With the pointer gone and no auto-discovery to fall back on, the Copilot ecosystem
sees zero hooks.
The effect looks like the twin of the mcpServers gap that ADR-0017's 2026-08-13 amendment
re-injects for: same "string or object" type, same absence of a default, same outcome of a Copilot
manifest with no pointer. The mechanism differs, and ADR-0017 is explicit about it — mcpServers
is actively stripped by build_plugin_manifest, whereas hooks "was never in
build_plugin_manifest's strip list at all"; it is simply never emitted, because apm.yml has no
key that produces one. So this is an absence apm never fills, not a removal to reverse.
Why no hooks pointer is injected
Decided (2026-08-14, PR #95): the gap stays documented rather than patched. sync-plugin-content.sh
does not re-inject a hooks pointer into .github/plugin/plugin.json, and a test pins that
absence. Full reasoning is in ADR-0017's "no hooks pointer" amendment; the short version, because
the one-line fix looks obvious and someone will propose it again:
The mcpServers re-injection is safe because .mcp.json is one format both ecosystems read, so
the pointer is a true statement about the file whatever it contains. Hooks have no shared format.
Compare the two structures above: Claude Code wants PreToolUse with matcher objects; Copilot
requires version: 1, lowercase event names, and per-shell bash/powershell keys. And apm merges
.apm/hooks/*.json into exactly one hooks.json with no per-target shaping — the same file
Claude Code convention-scans. One file, two incompatible readers.
So a pointer would tell Copilot that a Claude-shaped file is Copilot-shaped: an incomplete manifest
traded for a wrong one. It is not inert even today — {"hooks": {}} has no version: 1, so the
pointer would name a file invalid against the very schema it is pointed at from. And it does not
become correct later: whoever writes the first real hook writes it in one shape, and it is the
Claude shape in practice, since Claude Code auto-discovers the same file and is what hooks here are
authored against.
What this costs you: a hook authored under .apm/hooks/ reaches Claude Code and not Copilot.
That is a real limitation, and it is the accepted one until apm emits a per-target hooks file or the
two schemas converge. If you need a Copilot hook today, raise it — it needs an upstream change or a
second authoring path, not a pointer.
Symlinks under .apm/ do not survive
Do not author any file under plugins/kyberforge/.apm/ as a symlink. apm's bundle exporter filters
symlinks out of the bundle entirely and says nothing, so the file never reaches the mirror. Since
sync-plugin-content.sh builds both sides of its drift comparison from that same bundle, the loss
used to be invisible to --check as well. check_apm_symlinks() now reads the .apm/ source tree
directly and fails the sync with the offending path — replace the symlink with a regular file.
It stays quiet about one place: .apm/<category>/<name>/tests/, the dev-fixture directory the
mirror excludes anyway (a symlink there loses nothing, because nothing under it is mirrored). A
tests/ deeper than that — assets/templates/tests/, a scaffolding asset the mirror does carry —
is reported like anywhere else. See ADR-0017's symlink amendment.