feat: the standing repo conventions become a skill, not a per-brief retype - #285
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…etype Nine constraints bind every agent working in a rainlanguage repo — clone and scratch isolation, the acts reserved to the human, the `## QA` gate, the environment shapes a run breaks on — and none of them was shipped anywhere. They were hand-copied into brief after brief, which pays to restate an invariant every time it is needed and offers a fresh chance to restate it wrongly or drop one. `rain-repo-conventions` is a third plugin publishing ONE skill. It is neither actor's: `human-fsm` is the human's transitions and `vetter-judgement` is the machine vetter's judgement, while this is what is true AROUND the work, for whoever is doing it. It versions separately because it changes separately — a plugin's content is its release, and welding it to either of the others would bump a version every installer reinstalls for something that did not change. A `--agents` brief was the alternative and it does not reach far enough: it binds only agents the cron itself dispatches, while the hand-copying was happening in ordinary sessions on the box. A marketplace skill reaches every session that installed it. ## Grouped by what KIND of rule each entry is The grouping is the content, because it decides what a reader does with an entry: - RULES are chosen and do not expire. Nothing about the box lifts one. - FACTS are true of the environment rather than of the work, each stated so a reader can check it — the day the box changes the entry is simply wrong, and a stale fact carried as belief is worse than no entry. - WORKAROUNDS route around a defect elsewhere and each names what would retire it, so the debt has an owner and an exit. An agent that cannot tell which it is holding argues with a fact, verifies a prohibition, or treats a piece of debt as permanent. ## What was judged rather than transcribed - `jq is not on PATH` is narrowed to "on PATH only inside the flake devshell". The unqualified form contradicts this repo's own live worker brief, which tells every dispatched worker that `gh` and `jq` are on PATH — true there because `campaign-run.sh` wraps the type with `jq`. `gh --jq` is the form that holds either way, so that is what the entry prescribes. - The `--body-file` literal-path requirement moves from workaround to FACT. The hook reads a command line with a lexer that resolves quoting and nothing else, and CLAUDE.md is explicit that it is not bash and never will be — a guard that expanded shell variables would have to BE a shell. Nothing is coming to fix it. - The generated `.pre-commit-config.yaml` is a WORKAROUND with a named fix, not a standing rule: rainix devshells run git-hooks-nix's shellHook, which writes the file on entry, and a `.gitignore` line retires the instruction per repo. Surveyed across the checkouts on this box, roughly half the org's flake repos already carry that line and the rest do not. - The QA block's SUBSTANCE stays in QA-GUIDE.md, where `require-qa-block` and the vetter enforce it. The skill records only that the gate exists and what shape it refuses — one fact, one surface. - The scratch-path incident comes out and its MECHANISM stays, per the properties-never-cases rule the marketplace already ships under. A case rots when its subject changes state and invites reasoning by analogy; the applicable half is that a shared path hands one agent's numbers to another agent's PR body. Nothing was cut for being repo-specific: every entry holds across at least a family of repos, and the two narrowest (soldeer, the pre-commit config) are scoped in their own text to the Foundry and rainix repos they bind. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`pgrep -f` matching the searching process is a FACT about the box. "Every wait carries a maximum iteration count and is never keyed on a pattern its own command line contains" is a RULE. They were one entry, and collapsing them produced a ban on the whole `until <cond>; do sleep; done` shape — stronger than the fact underneath it, and a Rule sitting in the Facts section. A bounded loop terminates correctly, so the ban forbade something safe while naming neither thing that actually strands a wait: no iteration bound, and a pattern the searcher's own argv contains. Both are avoidable without banning the shape. Split accordingly. The fact says why a self-matching search can never be satisfied in the direction the loop needs. The rule requires a bound, requires the loop to say what it last saw when it hits it, and states the preference — poll once in the foreground, or read the backgrounded output file; a loop is the last resort, not the default. The unbounded case is stated as a property (a loop whose condition never arrives does not fail, it runs on past the turn that started it, unattended, and they accumulate) rather than as the incident that produced it. README gains the split as the worked argument for why the grouping exists at all: a rule that overreaches its fact is exactly what it is built to catch. Version stays 0.1.0 — the plugin is new in this PR and nothing has installed it, so this is content of the first release rather than a change to a shipped one, which is the case `version-hygiene.yaml`'s bump job exempts by name. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 447: Add the text language identifier to the fenced code blocks at
README.md lines 447-447, plugins/rain-repo-conventions/README.md lines 38-38,
and plugins/rain-repo-conventions/skills/rain-repo-conventions/SKILL.md lines
65-65; update each installation-command or QA block fence consistently without
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Apply the same fix in `@plugins/rain-repo-conventions/README.md` around lines 30 -
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Add language identifiers to all new fenced code blocks. Each block contains commands or literal configuration, so use text consistently.
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In `@README.md` at line 447, Add the text language identifier to the fenced code
blocks at README.md lines 447-447, plugins/rain-repo-conventions/README.md lines
38-38, and plugins/rain-repo-conventions/skills/rain-repo-conventions/SKILL.md
lines 65-65; update each installation-command or QA block fence consistently
without changing its contents.
Apply the same fix in `@plugins/rain-repo-conventions/README.md` around lines 30 -
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…tually is `static / rs-static` runs `pre-commit run --all-files`, whose bundle includes prettier, so the markdown this PR adds is CI-gated the same as the code. The two new files were hand-wrapped and prettier disagreed about six paragraphs; nothing else in the tree moved, including the re-padded README table. While confirming it: entering the rainix rust-shell created the `.pre-commit-config.yaml` the skill's last entry is about. It is a SYMLINK into the nix store, rewritten on every entry — which is a sharper and more checkable statement than "generated", so the entry now says it. That is the group's own standard: a fact is written so a reader can verify it, and this one was verified by the run that gated this commit. `pre-commit run --all-files` now exits 0 with all eleven hooks passing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewed 8bfb4bf: APPROVE — read SKILL.md in full at this head. The pgrep split is correct: the fact stays in Facts, the bounded-wait rule sits in Rules, prefer-neither-shape stated. The fix commit is prettier reflow plus one wording change making the pre-commit-config entry checkable. 19 checks pass, 1 skipped, CodeRabbit pending. |
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Reviewed 8bfb4bf: APPROVE Rulings-conformance: checked against every ruling stated for this work.
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A third plugin in this marketplace:
rain-repo-conventions, one skill holdingthe standing constraints on any agent doing work in a rainlanguage repo. They
were hand-copied into brief after brief, which pays to restate an invariant every
time it is needed and offers a fresh chance to restate it wrongly or drop one.
It is neither actor's.
human-fsmis the human's transitions,vetter-judgementis the machine vetter's judgement; this is what is true AROUND the work, for
whoever is doing it. It ships as its own plugin at
0.1.0for the reason thosetwo are separate — a plugin's content is its release, and welding it to either
would bump a version every installer reinstalls for something that did not
change. A
--agentsbrief was the alternative and does not reach far enough: itbinds only agents the cron dispatches, while the hand-copying was happening in
ordinary sessions on the box.
Grouped by what KIND of rule each entry is
The grouping is the content, because it decides what a reader does with an entry:
parallel agents, the irreversible acts reserved to the human, assignment, never
departing from an agreed spec, never reporting a run you did not watch finish,
and keeping every wait bounded.
reader can check it — the
## QAgate ongh pr createand its literal-pathargument, force-backgrounded builds and how to read one to completion,
jqonly inside the devshell, a
pgrepsearch that finds itself. The day the boxchanges, the entry is simply wrong; a stale fact carried as belief is worse
than no entry.
retire it — the soldeer bump sequence, the generated pre-commit config.
An agent that cannot tell which it is holding argues with a fact, verifies a
prohibition, or treats a piece of debt as permanent.
What was judged rather than transcribed
jqis narrowed, not restated. "jqis not on PATH" contradicts thisrepo's own live worker brief, which tells every dispatched worker that
ghandjqare on PATH — true there becausecampaign-run.shwraps the type withjq. The entry says "on PATH only inside the flake devshell" and prescribesgh --jq, which holds either way.--body-fileliteral path is a FACT, not a workaround. The hook readsa command line with a lexer that resolves quoting and nothing else, and
CLAUDE.mdis explicit that it is not bash and never will be. A guard thatexpanded shell variables would have to BE a shell; nothing is coming to fix it.
.pre-commit-config.yamlis a workaround with a named fix.rainix devshells run git-hooks-nix's
shellHook, which writes the file onentry; a
.gitignoreline retires the instruction per repo. Surveyed acrossthe flake checkouts on this box, roughly half the org's repos already carry
that line and the rest do not.
QA-GUIDE.md, whererequire-qa-blockand the vetter enforce it. The skill records only that the gate exists and what
shape it refuses — one fact, one surface.
pgrep -fmatching the searching process is a FACT about the box; "every wait carries a
maximum iteration count and is never keyed on a pattern its own command line
contains" is a RULE. As one entry they collapsed into a ban on the whole
until <cond>; do sleep; doneshape — stronger than the fact underneath it,and a Rule sitting in the Facts section. A bounded loop terminates correctly,
so the ban forbade something safe while naming neither thing that actually
strands a wait. The two now sit in their own sections, with the preference
stated: poll once in the foreground, or read the backgrounded output file.
properties-never-cases rule this marketplace already ships under. The
applicable half is that a shared path hands one agent's numbers to another
agent's PR body.
Nothing was cut for being repo-specific: every entry holds across at least a
family of repos, and the two narrowest are scoped in their own text to the
Foundry and rainix repos they bind.
QA
marketplace_tests::this_repos_marketplace_is_in_lockstep— it walks every entry in
.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonand resolves eachto its manifest, so the new plugin is inside its scope the moment it is listed.
Proven to discriminate rather than merely pass: with the new entry listed at
0.1.1against a manifest still at0.1.0the test FAILS (1 failed, exit101) and it passes again on the restored tree. No new test is added — the
committed gate already covers a new plugin by construction, and a second one
asserting the same predicate would be decoration.
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, the new entry's"version": "0.1.0"→"0.1.1"→ killed twice, bythis_repos_marketplace_is_in_lockstep(test FAILED) and by theplugin-version-lockstepsubcommand CI runs (exit 2,FAIL rain-repo-conventions: the marketplace lists 0.1.1 but the plugin is 0.1.0).Baseline before the mutation and after restoring it: exit 0,
ok rain-repo-conventions 0.1.0. Every run above was read to its own completionline, not inferred from a return.
.github/workflows/version-hygiene.yamland the README section it points atsay
/plugindetects an update by comparing version STRINGS, so the listingand the manifest must agree or the listing silently serves stale content. The
expected exit codes (0 satisfied / 2 a listing is wrong / 3 not evaluable) come
from that documented contract, and the expected file layout from the two
plugins already shipped, not from re-deriving either with the same parser.
skill in this marketplace, named/described/versioned per its conventions,
grouped so a reader can tell fact from prohibition from workaround, with
anything that does not generalise beyond one repo cut. All nine are carried —
none was dropped for scope, and the three judgement calls that changed an
entry's wording or group are enumerated above rather than applied silently. No
prompt, transition, tool or pipeline behaviour is touched: the diff is the new
plugin, its marketplace entry, and the README section plus inventory row those
two conventions require.