release: v5.3.0 — permission-rule & plugin-hygiene hardening (DIS/CML/PLH)

Five additive scanner findings extend existing scanners (count stays 13): DIS forbidden-param rules (Tool(param:value) on a canonicalizing field — deny/ask = false security, allow = dead config) and ineffective allow-wildcards + Tool(*) deny-all; CML context-window-scaled 40.0k-char CLAUDE.md budget mirroring CC's startup warning; PLH plugin namespace collision (two plugins declaring the same name). PLH cross-plugin command-name overlap reframed HIGH → LOW (namespacing keeps both reachable). feature-gap recommends disableBundledSkills under skill-listing pressure.

Version sync: plugin.json 5.2.0→5.3.0, README version badge + What's New + version-history row + TOC anchor (tests badge already 936+, scanner count stays 13), CHANGELOG [5.3.0] entry, 3 knowledge-backing entries. 936/936 tests; self-audit configGrade A 97, pluginGrade A 100, readmeCheck.passed:true; gitleaks clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
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{
"name": "config-audit",
"description": "Multi-agent workflow for analyzing, reporting, and optimizing Claude Code configuration across your entire machine",
"version": "5.2.0",
"version": "5.3.0",
"author": {
"name": "Kjell Tore Guttormsen"
},

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The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
## [5.3.0] - 2026-06-19
### Summary
Permission-rule & plugin-hygiene hardening. Five additive scanner findings extend the existing
DIS, CML, PLH, and feature-gap scanners — no new scanner file, so the scanner count stays **13**.
DIS gains forbidden-parameter and ineffective-allow-wildcard detection; CML mirrors Claude Code's
own 40.0k-char "large CLAUDE.md" startup warning, context-window scaled; PLH flags two plugins
that declare the same name; and feature-gap recommends `disableBundledSkills` under skill-listing
pressure. The cross-plugin command-name finding is reframed from a HIGH conflict to a LOW
ambiguity. Scanner internals only — no command, agent, or output-format changes; `--json` and
`--raw` remain byte-stable.
### Added
- **DIS forbidden-param rules** — flags `Tool(param:value)` whose key is the tool's own
canonicalizing field (`command`/`file_path`/`path`/`notebook_path`/`url`); Claude Code ignores
these and emits a startup warning. Severity by intent: **deny/ask = false security (medium)**,
**allow = dead config (low)**. Valid forms (`Bash(npm:*)`, `WebFetch(domain:host)`,
`Agent(model:opus)`) are never flagged. Predicate `forbiddenParamRule` in `permission-rules.mjs`.
- **DIS ineffective allow-wildcards + `Tool(*)` deny-all** — flags unanchored tool-name globs in
`permissions.allow` (`*`, `B*`, `mcp__*`) that CC silently skips (low); treats `Tool(*)` as
deny-all (`Bash(*)``Bash`) so a bare allow killed by it is reported as dead config. Valid
`mcp__<server>__*` is never flagged.
- **CML context-window-scaled char budget** — new `CA-CML` finding mirroring CC's startup warning
*"Large CLAUDE.md will impact performance (X chars > 40.0k)"*. Anchors on the conservative 200k
window; discloses the relaxed ~200,000-char figure at 1M context. Severity **medium** (token
cost). Char-keyed, complementary to the 200/500-line checks. Window constants live in the shared
`scanners/lib/context-window.mjs`.
- **PLH plugin namespace collision** — flags 2+ discovered plugins declaring the same `name` in
`plugin.json`. Namespaces collapse; CC picks an undocumented winner; the loser's
commands/skills/agents go silently unreachable. Severity **medium** (dead config),
`category: 'plugin-hygiene'`, COL-shaped `details.namespaces`. Keys on the declared `name`, not
`basename(dir)`; name-less plugins are excluded.
- **feature-gap `disableBundledSkills` lever** — conditional recommendation to set
`disableBundledSkills` when the active skill listing is over budget; remediation companion to
SKL `CA-SKL-002`.
### Changed
- **PLH cross-plugin command-name overlap: HIGH → LOW** — reframed from "conflict" to "ambiguity".
Commands are namespaced (`/name:command`) so both stay reachable; only a same-`name` plugin
collision loses components (covered by the new namespace-collision finding). Now group-first
(one finding per command name listing every namespace), COL-shaped `details.namespaces`. The old
HIGH `Cross-plugin command name conflict` finding and its humanizer entry are removed. Scoring
impact: configs with cross-plugin command overlap score slightly higher. Not a `--json`-shape
break — no test or consumer asserted the old HIGH.
### Fixed
- **README scanner table** — added the missing SKL row (12 → 13 rows); the prose table lagged the
badge/self-audit count (the `--check-readme` gate is number-only and didn't catch it).
### Internal
- **Extract skill-listing budget to shared lib**`scanners/lib/context-window.mjs` as the single
source of truth for the 200k/1M context-window constants, re-exported by
`skill-listing-budget.mjs` and consumed by the new CML char-budget finding.
### Knowledge
- Three backing entries added: `disableBundledSkills` as a token-efficiency lever
(`prompt-cache-patterns.md`); the 40.0k-char "large CLAUDE.md" startup warning + CC 2.1.169
context-window scaling (`claude-code-capabilities.md`); and `Tool(param:value)` permission
semantics — deny/ask-only matching plus the canonicalizing-field rules CC ignores
(`claude-code-capabilities.md`).
### Test count
- 936 tests across 56 test files (unchanged — this release covers already-tested work on `main`).
### Verification
- 936/936 tests pass (`node --test 'tests/**/*.test.mjs'`).
- `node scanners/self-audit.mjs --json --check-readme``configGrade: A`, `pluginGrade: A`,
`readmeCheck.passed: true`.
- README version badge updated: `version-5.2.0``version-5.3.0`. Scanner count stays 13; tests
badge already `936+`.
## [5.2.0] - 2026-06-18
### Summary

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*AI-generated: all code produced by Claude Code through dialog-driven development. [Full disclosure →](../../README.md#ai-generated-code-disclosure)*
![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-5.2.0-blue)
![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-5.3.0-blue)
![Platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-Claude_Code_Plugin-purple)
![Scanners](https://img.shields.io/badge/scanners-13-cyan)
![Commands](https://img.shields.io/badge/commands-18-green)
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## Table of Contents
- [What's New in v5.2.0](#whats-new-in-v520)
- [What's New in v5.3.0](#whats-new-in-v530)
- [What Is This?](#what-is-this)
- [The Configuration Problem](#the-configuration-problem)
- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
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---
## What's New in v5.2.0
## What's New in v5.3.0
**Claude Code 2.1.114→181 compatibility + skill-listing budget.** A new orchestrated
scanner, **SKL**, checks the model's skill-listing token budget: `CA-SKL-001` flags any
active skill description over the 1,536-char listing cap (silently truncated by CC 2.1.105),
and `CA-SKL-002` flags when the summed descriptions exceed the listing budget (~2% of context).
Five validators were refreshed for the settings and hook surface that shipped across
CC 2.1.114181 (new settings keys, `xhigh` effort, `MessageDisplay` + post-session hook
events), and an adversarial gap-review eliminated a batch of false positives in the MCP and
permissions scanners. → **13 orchestrated deterministic scanners** (+ standalone plugin-health).
**Permission-rule & plugin-hygiene hardening.** Five additive scanner findings extend the
permission, CLAUDE.md, and plugin surfaces — no new scanner, so the count stays **13**:
- **DIS forbidden-param rules** — flags `Tool(param:value)` whose key is the tool's own
canonicalizing field (`command`/`file_path`/`path`/`notebook_path`/`url`), which Claude Code
silently ignores with a startup warning. Severity by intent: deny/ask = false security
(medium), allow = dead config (low). Valid forms (`Bash(npm:*)`, `WebFetch(domain:host)`,
`Agent(model:opus)`) are never flagged.
- **DIS ineffective allow-wildcards** — unanchored tool-name globs in `permissions.allow`
(`*`, `B*`, `mcp__*`) that CC silently skips, plus `Tool(*)` treated as deny-all
(`Bash(*)``Bash`) so a bare allow killed by it is reported as dead config.
- **CML context-window-scaled char budget** — mirrors CC's own *"Large CLAUDE.md will impact
performance (X chars > 40.0k)"* startup warning; anchors on the conservative 200k window and
discloses the relaxed ~200,000-char figure at 1M context. Char-keyed, complementary to the
existing line checks.
- **PLH plugin namespace collision** — flags two or more plugins declaring the same `name` in
`plugin.json`; their namespaces collapse and Claude Code silently drops the loser's components.
- **feature-gap `disableBundledSkills` lever** — recommends disabling bundled skills when the
active skill listing is over budget (remediation companion to `CA-SKL-002`).
The cross-plugin command-name finding is reframed from a HIGH conflict to a **LOW ambiguity** to
match Claude Code's namespacing (`/name:command` keeps both commands reachable). `--json` and
`--raw` output remain byte-stable.
---
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| Version | Date | Highlights |
|---------|------|-----------|
| **5.3.0** | 2026-06-19 | Permission-rule & plugin-hygiene hardening. Five additive scanner findings extend existing scanners (count stays **13**): DIS forbidden-param rules (`Tool(param:value)` on a canonicalizing field — deny/ask = false security, allow = dead config) and ineffective allow-wildcards + `Tool(*)` deny-all; CML context-window-scaled 40.0k-char CLAUDE.md budget mirroring CC's startup warning; PLH plugin namespace collision (two plugins declaring the same `name`); feature-gap `disableBundledSkills` lever under skill-listing pressure. PLH cross-plugin command-name overlap reframed HIGH → LOW (namespacing keeps both reachable). `--json`/`--raw` byte-stable. 936 tests |
| **5.2.0** | 2026-06-18 | CC 2.1.114→181 compatibility + skill-listing budget. New orchestrated scanner **SKL** (`CA-SKL-001` 1,536-char listing cap, `CA-SKL-002` listing-budget sum) → 13 orchestrated scanners. Five validators refreshed for CC 2.1.114181 settings/hook surface (`xhigh` effort, `MessageDisplay` + post-session events, 28 hook events). False positives eliminated in MCP (auto-injected/POSIX env vars, invented `trust` field) and permissions (param-aware DIS/CNF). Hermetic HOME isolation across all CLI-spawning tests. 875 tests |
| **5.1.0** | 2026-05-01 | Plain-language UX humanizer. Default output of all 18 commands now leads with prose; findings grouped by user-impact category (Configuration mistake, Conflict, Wasted tokens, Missed opportunity, Dead config) and led by urgency phrase (Fix this now → FYI). New `--raw` flag preserves v5.0.0 verbatim output for tooling that scrapes stderr; `--json` is unchanged and byte-stable. New scanner-lib modules: `humanizer.mjs`, `humanizer-data.mjs` with TRANSLATIONS for 13 scanner prefixes. Self-audit terminal output also humanized. 792 tests (+157 humanizer-tester) |
| **5.0.0** | 2026-05-01 | Reality-based token-optimization. 3 new scanners (CPS cache-prefix, DIS dead tools, COL plugin collisions) → 12 deterministic scanners. New `/config-audit manifest` and `--accurate-tokens` API calibration. Severity-weighted scoring (`scoringVersion: 'v5'`). MCP token estimates 15 → 500+. Plugin Hygiene as 10th quality area. Knowledge: cache-stability replaces 200-line rule, cache-telemetry recipe. **Breaking:** F2 token magnitude jump, F3 severity weighting, F5 Pattern D removed, N1 `CA-TOK-*` glob now matches CA-TOK-005. 635 tests |

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| `/code-review` bundled review skill | v2.1.147 | Renamed from the former cleanup skill; reports correctness bugs at a chosen effort (`/code-review high`), `--comment` posts inline PR comments. |
| `/config key=value` | v2.1.181 | Apply any setting from the prompt (e.g. `/config thinking=false`) — interactive, `-p`, and Remote Control. Lets `/config-audit` settings recommendations be applied without hand-editing settings.json. |
## v5.3.0 scanner-backing facts (verified 2026-06-19)
| Fact | Source | Backs |
|------|--------|-------|
| **"Large CLAUDE.md will impact performance (X chars > 40.0k)"** — Claude Code emits this startup warning when a CLAUDE.md exceeds ~40,000 chars. CC 2.1.169 scales the threshold with the model's context window: ~40.0k at a 200k-context model, relaxing to ~200,000 chars at 1M context. The figure is a **char** count, not a line count — complementary to the 200/500-line adherence guidance (a file can be long by lines yet under budget, or short by lines yet over it). | CC changelog 2.1.169 + live startup-warning text | CML `CA-CML` char-budget finding — anchors on the conservative 200k window (fires earliest, since the user's window is unobservable) and discloses the relaxed 1M figure. Window constants in `scanners/lib/context-window.mjs`. Severity medium (token cost, not an adherence cliff). |
| **`Tool(param:value)` permission matching is deny/ask-only.** The `param:value` form is honored only in `permissions.deny` and `permissions.ask`; in `permissions.allow` it matches nothing (dead config). Separately, a rule whose key is the tool's own *canonicalizing field*`command` (Bash/PowerShell), `file_path` (Read/Edit/Write), `path` (Grep/Glob), `notebook_path` (NotebookEdit), `url` (WebFetch) — is **ignored** by CC, which emits a startup warning. Valid parameter forms (`Bash(npm:*)`, `WebFetch(domain:host)`, `Agent(model:opus)`) are honored. | code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions | DIS forbidden-param finding (`forbiddenParamRule` in `permission-rules.mjs`): deny/ask = false security (medium, the block never applies), allow = dead config (low). |
## Official Configuration Guidance (Anthropic)
These principles are backed by official docs and verified community reports. Use them to ground recommendations.

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| medium | Materially inflates token cost per turn (cache miss, schema bloat) |
| low | Detectable inefficiency that compounds across long sessions |
| info | Informational signal — no action required, may indicate room for optimisation |
## Skill-listing budget lever: disableBundledSkills
When the active skill listing exceeds its token budget (SKL `CA-SKL-002`), the
`disableBundledSkills` setting is a direct token-efficiency lever: it removes the descriptions
of plugin-bundled skills from the skill listing injected into the system prompt, shrinking the
per-turn baseline. Unlike trimming individual descriptions (`CA-SKL-001`), it is a single switch
that drops the entire bundled-skill surface at once — appropriate when the bundled skills are not
in active use. feature-gap surfaces it as a conditional recommendation, the remediation companion
to `CA-SKL-002`. Sibling levers: `skillOverrides` (selectively re-enable specific skills) and
per-skill description trimming.