Why: ADR-0015 established that Microsoft APM (apm.yml + .apm/) should replace this repo's hand-authored plugin.json/marketplace.json model, with those files becoming compiled output of `apm pack` instead of files edited by hand via the (now-retired) plugin-author/marketplace-author skills. Issue #90 was the deferred execution of that decision, gated on #88 (apm tooling) and #89 (apm-native agent-author/skill-author routing). Implementation notes: - All six plugins (bin, core, git, gitea, kyberforge, lint) now carry apm.yml + .apm/{skills,agents,hooks} as their authoring source. Skills moved with a plain git mv (content-identical across targets). Agents were re-authored, not moved: per ADR-0016, .apm/agents/*.agent.md compiles verbatim to both Claude and Copilot, so plugin-scope agents now carry only name/description/model/source_keys -- no tools: field, no Claude-only knobs (isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory, permissionMode). - Root apm.yml registers all 7 marketplace packages (6 local plus mattpocock-skills as a remote entry) under versioning: per_package, matching this repo's existing independent-plugin-versioning practice. - .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and every plugin's plugin.json are now apm-pack-compiled output, verified against the prior hand-maintained content: same names/descriptions/versions/licenses/authors, only cosmetic serialization differences (JSON key order, owner email vs. url, Unicode escaping). - plugin-author and marketplace-author are retired now that apm-based authoring fully replaces their job; kyberforge bumped 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0 for that removal, and the root marketplace catalog bumped 0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 to match, per the version-bump convention now documented in apm-workflow's reference docs instead of a dedicated script (apm has no native version-bump automation). - Fixed hardcoded pre-.apm/ path assumptions across .pre-commit-config.yaml, .pre-commit-hooks.yaml, scripts/check-scope-walkup-sync.sh, scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh, scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh, six plugins' root plugin.json (stale skills/hooks/agents pointer fields that check-manifests.sh validates), and several tests/*.bats and tests/*.sh fixtures -- including a bats REPO_ROOT relative-path depth bug (10 files, one extra .apm/ directory level to walk up) and a vale probe-path isolation regression introduced mid-fix. - Corrected empirically-wrong assumptions surfaced this session in apm-workflow/apm-install's own reference docs: `apm marketplace package add` does not accept local paths (only owner/repo remote shorthand -- local packages are registered by editing apm.yml's marketplace.packages[] directly); `apm compile` is a consumer-side AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md generator, not the plugin.json producer, and hard-fails on skill/agent-only packages without --clean; `apm plugin init <name>` nests a stray subdirectory when run with a positional name arg from inside a same-named directory; no native Copilot marketplace output profile exists; .mcp.json is merged into the compiled plugin.json content-aware and target-scoped, with no dependencies.mcp entry needed for simple passthrough; pipx is the correct pip fallback on externally-managed Python environments. - Renamed agent-author's copilot.agent.md template asset to copilot.agent.md.template so apm compile's recursive *.agent.md glob stops misparsing the placeholder template as a real agent primitive. Impact: plugin.json and marketplace.json are compiled artifacts from here on -- editing them by hand is no longer the workflow; edit apm.yml/.apm/ and run apm pack. CONTEXT.md's Plugin/Plugin marketplace glossary entries reflect this. ADR-0001 is marked superseded, ADR-0006 moot, and ADR-0010 updated for the new .apm/agents/ path (project/user scope unaffected, per ADR-0016). Full local verification: claude plugin validate --strict on all 6 plugins, apm audit --ci, apm marketplace check, check-manifests.sh, and the full test suite (165/165 bats, 13/13 shell scripts) all pass clean. Fixes: #90 Refs: #88, #89 ADR: 0015 ADR: 0016 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub96PyaSRD9BHPktotj1pC
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Skills are distributed via plugins, not monolithic repo deployment
Superseded by: ADR-0015 (Microsoft APM replaces the hand-authored plugin/marketplace model
as this repo's authoring source of truth) and, for plugin-scope agent files specifically,
ADR-0016 (plugin-scope .apm/agents/*.agent.md drops provider-specific fields). Since issue
#90's conversion executed, plugin content is authored under plugins/<name>/apm.yml +
.apm/{skills,agents,hooks}/ — not the flat skills//agents/ layout this ADR describes —
and .claude-plugin/plugin.json/.github/plugin/plugin.json are compiled output of apm pack,
not hand-authored. This ADR's content is kept below as the historical record of the
pre-APM decision; it is no longer the current model.
Skills (slash commands) are authored and distributed as part of plugins — each plugin contains its own skills/ directory alongside agents and other artifacts. Plugins are installed via claude plugin install <name>@holocron rather than deployed from the repo's local tree. This decision decouples skill authoring cadence from core provider deployments and allows independent versioning per plugin.
Context
Initially, skills were stored in a single .agents/skills/ directory and deployed universally via install.sh. This created a coupling problem: shipping a new skill required shipping an entire repo release, and skill updates were pinned to provider version releases. As the skill library grew, independent skill shipping became essential.
Consequences
- Skills are now co-located with their associated agents and infrastructure in
plugins/<name>/. Logically related skills ship together; independent skills can ship on independent cadences. claude plugin installhandles installation, versioning, and updates — no need for shell deployment logic ininstall.sh.- Repositories that use skills from this project declare plugin dependencies in their
claude.plugin.jsonmanifest or install via the CLI. - Providers that do not natively understand
claude plugin install(hypothetically) would need a custom adapter to fetch from the Holocron marketplace — deferred concern, not yet needed. - A skill in one plugin does not block a breaking change in another plugin.