Cuts the v5.9.0 release bundling the three hardening gaps shipped since v5.8.0:
B1 (agent-listing budget — new orchestrated scanner AGT, count 15→16),
B2 (machine-wide always-loaded token roll-up in the campaign ledger), and
B3 (cache-aware filtering + stale plugin-cache disk-cleanup finding).
Version sync: plugin.json 5.8.0→5.9.0; README badges version 5.9.0 /
scanners 15→16 / tests 1168→1215; README intro + Health prose + scanner
table (new AGT row, TOK 7th pattern) + self-audit prose 15→16; new
version-history row; CHANGELOG [5.9.0]; CLAUDE.md finding-ID example (+CA-AGT)
and test count 1168→1215 / 67→68 files (scanner dir 35→36).
Gate: `self-audit --json --check-readme` -> readmeCheck.passed:true,
mismatches:[]. Full suite green (1215, 0 fail). Tag + catalog ref-bump follow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The B3a cache filter already exposes discovery.staleCacheVersions; surface them
as a finding so the user knows the superseded plugin versions are safe to delete.
Honesty (Verifiseringsplikt): the finding loads on ZERO turns, so it must NOT
read as a per-turn token cost. TOK normally humanizes to "Wasted tokens"; a new
per-finding category override ('plugin-cache-hygiene' -> "Dead config") plus a
dedicated humanizer translation ("Old plugin versions are sitting on disk (safe
to delete) ... cost zero tokens per turn ... housekeeping, not a performance
problem") keep the prose accurate instead of the generic "using more space"
default. evidence carries the explicit "zero live-context impact" note.
- token-hotspots: Pattern H emits CA-TOK (low) from discovery.staleCacheVersions
when stale versions exist (`--global`); silent otherwise.
- humanizer: CATEGORY_TO_IMPACT lets a finding's category override the
scanner-default impact label (raw `category` field unchanged -> --json/--raw
byte-stable). humanizer-data: honest static translation for the finding.
- Tests: finding fires/severity/category, lists stale keys + zero-impact note,
silent when none; humanizer override -> Dead config; honest translation locked.
- Docs: tokens command render note (disk-cleanup, not a token problem) +
--no-exclude-cache flag; README + CLAUDE.md rows (7 patterns, cache-aware).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires the user-facing surface of the machine-wide token roll-up (executable CLI
shipped in B2b-2, d664b70). The campaign report (Step 2) now renders rollUp.tokens:
the headline machine-wide always-loaded total split into the shared global layer
(paid once, every repo) + per-repo deltas, plus a ranked 'most expensive repos'
table. New mode 'refresh-tokens' (Step 6) documents the human-approved live sweep —
idempotent, skips unreadable repos, names any skipped so the bill's coverage stays
honest (Verifiseringsplikt).
Shapes documented carefully: rollUp.tokens.{sharedGlobal,perRepoDelta,machineWide}
are flat number maps; byRepo[] is the ranked {name,path,always,...} list. campaign-cli
already emitted rollUp.tokens (B2a) — no reader change; this is rendering only.
commands/campaign.md (73 lines) is the primary doc; README + CLAUDE.md campaign rows
get the matching one-line summary. Markdown-only → suite unchanged at 1198 green;
campaign command stays judgment-driven (not byte-stable).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CLAUDE.md was 540 lines (CML >500 MEDIUM, config-grade B/89). Move the 19
per-scanner/per-block implementation notes (v5.6/v5.7 design rationale +
primary-source verification + byte-stability lessons) verbatim into
docs/scanner-internals.md under a new "Implementation notes" section, leaving a
read-on-demand pointer. Add a real "## Conventions" section pointing at
.claude/rules/ — this clears CA-CML-001 (missing recommended section), which the
moved detail headings had been masking via incidental rule/style keyword matches.
CLAUDE.md 540->134 lines / 8.5k chars; config-grade A/97; CML findings: none;
readmeCheck green; full suite 1168 green (hermetic).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes Block 4 (4b backlog + 4c export/execution). Asymmetric: plan
export is new testable code; execution is pure reuse of the existing
per-repo implement/rollback (no new execution machinery), per the plan's
"reuse existing backup/rollback".
Plan export ("planer følger arbeidsstedet"):
- scanners/lib/campaign-export.mjs (pure, now injected, 8 tests):
planExportPath(repo,sessionId) -> <repo>/docs/config-audit-plan-<sessionId>.md
(sessionId-keyed so same-day re-audits never collide);
buildPlanExportDocument({...,now}) -> provenance header + verbatim plan.
- scanners/campaign-export-cli.mjs (-cli, read-only by default, 10 tests):
--repo resolves the repo's linked session, reads its action-plan.md,
assembles the doc, emits {exportable,problems,targetPath,document}. Two
gates -> exit 1 advisory: no-session-linked / no-action-plan. Writes the
file ONLY under opt-in --write (byte-faithful copy; the LLM never re-types
a 200-line plan). --sessions-dir override for hermetic tests; exit 0/1/3.
Command: commands/campaign.md gains an `export <path>` mode (Step 6:
preview -> approve -> --write), then routes the user to the existing
/config-audit implement (backup + verify) + rollback + set-status
implemented. Nothing auto-written (Verifiseringsplikt).
Byte-stable: lib + -cli + command-doc only -> scanner count stays 15,
agents 7, commands 21 (export is a mode, not a new command), SC-5 +
backcompat suite untouched. suite 1150->1168. Block 4a (migrateLedger)
still deferred to the first breaking schema change.
Docs: CLAUDE.md section + badge 1150->1168/65->67 files; README badge +
campaign row + Testing prose (fixed stale 1055/59 -> true 1168/67).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the THIN machine-wide campaign surface (ledger + roll-up + status).
The write half of the campaign motor, mirroring how knowledge-refresh gates
register writes:
- scanners/campaign-write-cli.mjs (-cli → NOT a scanner; 11 tests): init/add/
set-status, each a thin wrapper over the invariant-enforcing lib transforms
(createLedger/addRepo/setRepoStatus) + saveLedger — path-normalization/dedup,
idempotent add, status-lifecycle guard and updatedDate bump never hand-rolled.
init refuses to clobber an existing/corrupt ledger (exit 1, file untouched);
add auto-inits + reports added vs skipped; set-status takes --findings/--session.
Deterministic: --reference-date is the only clock read, injected as `now`.
Exit 0=write, 1=advisory no-op, 3=error.
- commands/campaign.md (opus, no Web): thin orchestrator — always reports first
(read-only campaign-cli), then proposes init/add/set-status and invokes ONE
write-CLI subcommand only on explicit human approval (Verifiseringsplikt; never
hand-edits the JSON). add --discover finds git repos under a root to pick from.
Not byte-stable (own command, outside snapshot suite) like /config-audit optimize
+ knowledge-refresh. Both CLIs are -cli → scanner count stays 15, snapshot suite
untouched. commands 20→21, suite 1127→1138 (+11), test files 64→65.
Docs: CLAUDE.md §campaign-write-cli + command table + Testing badge; README
commands badge 20→21 + table row; help.md + router wiring.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add the durable ledger that sits ABOVE individual config-audit sessions for a
machine-wide audit campaign: repo list + per-repo lifecycle (pending → audited →
planned → implemented) + a machine-wide roll-up by status and severity.
scanners/lib/campaign-ledger.mjs — same hybrid split as knowledge-refresh:
- PURE transforms (createLedger / addRepo / setRepoStatus / rollUp) with `now`
injected (YYYY-MM-DD, never the clock) → deterministic + unit-testable.
- soft validateLedger (returns {valid,errors}, never throws) for loaded data;
transforms throw on programmer error (invalid status, unknown path).
- thin IO shell (defaultLedgerPath / loadLedger→null-on-ENOENT / saveLedger).
- persists to ~/.claude/config-audit/campaign-ledger.json — OUTSIDE the plugin
dir (next to sessions/) so it survives uninstall/reinstall/upgrade.
- schemaVersion stamped from the start → cheap Block 4 migration.
THIN scope (Block 3a, operator-approved): ledger + roll-up + persistence only —
no CLI/command/execution (Blocks 3b/3c/4). Internal plumbing, byte-stable until
consumed: no `export async function scan` + lives in lib/ → scanner count stays
15, no orchestrator wiring, SC-5 unchanged.
tests/lib/campaign-ledger.test.mjs — 28 tests (TDD, red→green). Full hermetic
suite 1091→1119 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 'living' half of the v5.7 living knowledge base. Same hybrid split as the
optimization lens (Chunk 2b): a deterministic, byte-stable, unit-tested core +
a web/judgment command shell.
- scanners/lib/knowledge-refresh.mjs: pure assessFreshness(register,
{referenceDate, staleAfterDays=90}) — age-based fresh/stale classification of
source.verified; referenceDate injected (never reads the clock) → fully
deterministic. 15 tests.
- scanners/knowledge-refresh-cli.mjs: -cli (NOT an orchestrated scanner →
scanner count stays 15, suite byte-stable). Read-only — never writes the
register, never hits the network. --reference-date/--stale-after/--dry-run,
exit 0/1/3. 8 tests.
- commands/knowledge-refresh.md (opus): CLI stale-report → re-verify each stale
entry by re-reading its source.url → poll CC changelog + Anthropic blog →
apply ONLY human-approved writes, then re-validate the register. No unverified
claim is ever auto-written (Verifiseringsplikt). Web-driven → not byte-stable.
No new agent, no new orchestrated scanner. Docs/badges: commands 19→20,
tests 1068→1091 (20 lib + 32 scanner test files). self-audit A/A, readmeCheck passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The recall+precision halves of the CA-OPT hybrid motor for the three
mechanism-fit cases the deterministic OPT scanner (2a) deliberately skips:
lifecycle→hook (BP-MECH-001), unscoped path-specific→rule (BP-MECH-002),
absolute "never"→permission (BP-MECH-004).
New:
- scanners/lib/lens-prefilter.mjs — cheap, recall-oriented line scan of the
CLAUDE.md body; detector names mirror the register lensCheck fields; skips
fenced code, gates the path class on an instruction verb. Pure + 13 tests.
- scanners/optimize-lens-cli.mjs — discovery + OPT scanner + pre-filter; attaches
only the CONFIRMED register entry to each candidate (unverifiable → dropped,
Verifiseringsplikt); emits {deterministic, candidates, register, counts}.
- agents/optimization-lens-agent.md — opus precision gate (7th agent, orange):
reads the real CLAUDE.md, drops low-confidence candidates, keeps only genuine
opportunities, cites register id + source.
- commands/optimize.md — /config-audit optimize orchestrates pre-filter→agent→report.
Agent-driven → deliberately NOT byte-stable (own command, outside the snapshot
suite). No new orchestrated scanner → scanner count stays 15. Counts: agents
6→7, commands 18→19, suite 1055→1068. Self-audit A/A unchanged, readmeCheck
passed (clean HOME). Plan: docs/v5.7-optimization-lens-plan.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
First detector of the 'is the config OPTIMAL?' axis (vs the existing 'correct?' scanners). New orchestrated scanner family CA-OPT (count 14->15), the deterministic half of the hybrid optimization lens.
CA-OPT-001 (low, Missed opportunity): a multi-step procedure in CLAUDE.md (>=6 consecutive numbered steps) that belongs in a skill. Reads recommendation + provenance from the best-practices register (BP-MECH-003). Conservative by design; the negative corpus proves null false-positives. Prose-judgment cases (lifecycle->hook, 'never'->permission) are deferred to the Chunk 2b opus analyzer.
Wiring mirrors OST: orchestrator entry, humanizer (OPT->'Missed opportunity' + family), scoring (OPT->'CLAUDE.md', existing area -> no new posture row -> byte-stable), strip-helper (OST,OPT), SC-5 regenerated under hermetic HOME (additive OPT entry only). 10 new tests; suite 1045->1055, self-audit A/A, readmeCheck passed (all verified with a clean HOME).
Note: the pre-existing TOK test reads the real ~/.claude (non-hermetic) -> run the suite with a clean HOME for deterministic results. Tracked as a separate follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add knowledge/best-practices.json: a machine-readable, provenance-stamped, schema-validated best-practices register — the source of truth for the upcoming v5.7 optimization lens (CA-OPT). 13 seed entries migrated from the v5.5 V-rows (loading-model + compaction facts) and the Anthropic 'Steering Claude Code' blog (mechanism-fit rules); each entry carries source.url + verified date + confidence. Only confirmed claims are user-facing (Verifiseringsplikt).
scanners/lib/best-practices-register.mjs: zero-dependency loader + validator (loadRegister/validateRegister/getEntry, native JSON.parse — not YAML, since the repo is zero-dep and yaml-parser.mjs can't parse arrays-of-objects). tests/lib/best-practices-register.test.mjs: 22 tests (schema, provenance integrity, negative cases, lookup).
Byte-stable: no scanner consumes the register yet (Chunk 2), so all scanner output is unchanged. Suite 1023->1045, self-audit A/A, readmeCheck passed. Full design: docs/v5.7-optimization-lens-plan.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New orchestrated scanner output-style-scanner.mjs — first new family since
SKL. Three findings, each pinned to a CONFIRMED V-row of the steering-model
plan + re-verified against code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles:
- CA-OST-001 (medium, V10): user/project custom style missing
keep-coding-instructions:true (default false) → silently strips built-in
software-engineering instructions when active. Scoped to user/project.
- CA-OST-002 (low, V11): plugin style with force-for-plugin:true overrides the
user's selected outputStyle. Verifiseringsplikt correction — the plan bullet
said "project/user style," but force-for-plugin is plugin-styles-only per the
docs, so the check keys on source==='plugin'.
- CA-OST-003 (medium): settings outputStyle matching no built-in
(Default/Explanatory/Learning/Proactive, case-insensitive) nor discovered
custom style → dead config.
Byte-stability — a scanner addition, not a field addition. Growing the
scanners array + scanners_ok cannot be hidden by a field strip, but re-seeding
frozen v5.0.0 (the SKL precedent) would now bake in B2's hotspot triple +
claudeMd drift. So, per the B2 lesson, frozen v5.0.0 snapshots are PRESERVED
and the OST entry is stripped at compare time via new
tests/helpers/strip-added-scanner.mjs (wired into json/raw-backcompat + the
Step 5/6 humanizer tests); only SC-5 default-output is regenerated (additive
OST entry, diff reviewed). OST is fixture-gated (no output styles on
marketplace-medium / hermetic HOME → silent).
Wiring: orchestrator; humanizer (OST→Configuration mistake) + humanizer-data
OST family (title-coupled); scoring (OST→Settings, keeps 10 areas). Suite
1012→1023 (+11). Badges: scanners 14, tests 1023, TRANSLATIONS families 15.
Lore swept: README, CLAUDE.md, scanner-internals, humanizer.md. self-audit A/A.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Annotate every ranked TOK hotspot with the load-pattern triple
(loadPattern/survivesCompaction/derivationConfidence):
- hotspotLoadPattern() maps each discovery `type` → a deriveLoadPattern kind.
Rules reuse activeConfig.rules for precise `scoped` handling; claude-md maps
by scope. Two new deriveLoadPattern kinds back the rest: `command`
(on-demand — body loads on /invoke) and `harness-config` (external —
settings/keybindings/.mcp.json/hooks.json/plugin.json configure the CLI, not
the model context, so they cost no per-turn context tokens). Honest split:
the .mcp.json FILE is external; the MCP server's tool schemas are a separate
`always` hotspot.
Byte-stability — the opposite of B1's manifest. token-hotspots IS a byte-equal
SC-6/SC-7 CLI, and its hotspots ride inside scan-orchestrator + posture, so the
change touched SIX frozen-v5.0.0 comparisons across five test files. Resolved by
preserving the frozen baselines: a shared tests/helpers/strip-hotspot-load-pattern.mjs
strips the additive triple before each byte-equal compare (proves the original
schema is byte-identical). SC-5 default-output snapshots (scan-orchestrator +
token-hotspots) regenerated — diff reviewed as additive-only.
Tests 1008→1012. Self-audit A/A, scanner count unchanged at 13 (C bumps to 14).
Completes v5.6 B (B1 manifest + B2 token-hotspots).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consume the v5.6 Foundation enumeration in buildManifest:
- Component-level sources: drop the coarse `kind:'plugin'` roll-up (it
double-counted skills/rules/agents already enumerated once). Kinds are now
claude-md/skill/rule/agent/output-style/mcp-server/hook.
- Every source carries loadPattern/survivesCompaction/derivationConfidence.
Rules/agents/output-styles propagate the foundation-derived values; CLAUDE.md
maps scope→kind (all cascade files always-loaded); skills are tagged on-demand
(skill-body) so the body cost does not inflate the always-loaded subtotal.
- New `summary` (always/onDemand/external/unknown {tokens,count}); the
always-loaded subtotal — "tokens that enter context every turn" — is the headline.
manifest is an environment-aware CLI → SC-6/SC-7 verify it by mode-equivalence,
not byte-equal, and it is not in SC-5. Adding fields in place keeps all snapshots
green with no regen (verified). `total` changes (de-duped) — intended correctness fix.
TOK's load-pattern column (byte-equal SC-6) is deferred to the next chunk (B2).
Tests 996→1008 (deterministic buildManifest unit test + CLI presence checks).
Self-audit A/A, scanner count unchanged at 13.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Foundation chunk of v5.6 "steering-model II" (internal plumbing for B/C;
no command-output change, so --json/--raw/SC-5/6/7 stay byte-stable, count
stays 13).
active-config-reader.mjs:
- deriveLoadPattern(kind,{scoped}) — pure helper mapping each source kind to
loadPattern {always,on-demand,external} + survivesCompaction {yes,no,n/a}
+ derivationConfidence {confirmed,inferred}, traced to the published
loading model (V-rows in docs/v5.5-steering-model-plan.md).
- enumerateRules / enumerateAgents / enumerateOutputStyles — the three
source kinds previously unenumerated (mirror enumerateSkills). Output-style
discovery is direct (not a new file-discovery type) to keep the discovery
surface stable.
- readActiveConfig now exposes rules/agents/outputStyles arrays + totals
counts/subtotals (folded into grandTotal).
yaml-parser.mjs:
- parseSimpleYaml now reads YAML block sequences (paths:\n - a), not just
inline paths:. An empty-valued key with no `- ` items stays null
(backcompat). Resolves a pre-existing RUL false-positive (a block-seq-scoped
rule was misread as unscoped) — fix flows through unchanged RUL code.
Tests +35 (961 -> 996): block-seq parser cases, RUL block-seq regression
(no-misflag + durability-fires), deriveLoadPattern table, three enumerators
(positive+negative). Amended two existing ACR asserts (top-level key shape +
grandTotal sum). self-audit A/A, readmeCheck passed, mismatches []. tests
badge 961+->996+; README testing prose de-staled (635/36 -> 996/56);
CLAUDE.md Foundation note.
B (manifest/tokens render + snapshot regen) and C (CA-OST, count->14)
deferred to their own sessions/GO.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
settings-validator now validates the autoMode block (auto-mode classifier
config). Structure (medium): autoMode must be an object whose only keys are
environment/allow/soft_deny/hard_deny, each a string array ("$defaults" is a
valid entry); flags not-an-object, unknown-subkey, not-string-array. Dead-config
(low): Claude Code does not read autoMode from shared project settings
(.claude/settings.json), so an autoMode block committed there has no effect —
keyed on file.scope === 'project'.
Both premises primary-source-verified (code.claude.com/docs/en/auto-mode-config).
The plan's "test per-file scope first" gate passed: ConfigFile already carries
scope. SET is in the orchestrator; SC-5 re-checked, byte-equal (snapshot fixture
has no autoMode). Fixtures force-added (.claude/ is gitignored).
Tests +5 (944->949). Scanner count unchanged (13). --json/--raw byte-stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
PLH now validates each entry of a plugin.json `skills` field (string|array):
every entry must resolve to an existing directory inside the plugin root.
One finding per bad entry (medium, plugin-hygiene), problem ∈ {non-string,
escapes-root, not-found, not-a-directory}. Mirrors `claude plugin validate`.
String|array normalized so a non-string top-level value is caught too.
Verifiseringsplikt: the plan's "CC suggests the parent directory" error text
is NOT in the primary docs — dropped. Only the four primary-source-verified
conditions are asserted (escape backed by the path-traversal rule).
Tests +3 (941->944). Scanner count unchanged (13). --json/--raw byte-stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
PLH now flags a plugin.json component-path key (commands/agents/outputStyles)
that replaces a default folder still present on disk — Claude Code stops
scanning that folder, so its contents are silently ignored (dead config).
Mirrors CC's /doctor & `claude plugin list` warning (v2.1.140+).
Field set pinned to the docs' "replaces" category only (Verifiseringsplikt,
code.claude.com/docs path-behavior-rules): skills is excluded (adds to the
default skills/ scan — both load) as are hooks/mcpServers/lspServers (own
merge rules); a custom path that addresses the default folder is not flagged.
Tests +5 (936->941). Scanner count unchanged (13). --json/--raw byte-stable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Commands are namespaced (/name:command), so a command name shared by two
differently-named plugins keeps both reachable — it is ambiguity, not a hard
conflict. The check now mirrors COL's plugin-vs-plugin skill finding: severity
LOW (was HIGH), category plugin-hygiene, COL-shaped details.namespaces, and a
group-first shape (one finding per command name listing every namespace, not
pairwise). It keys on the declared namespace (was folder basename) and fires
only across 2+ distinct namespaces — when plugins share a declared name, the
namespace-collision finding (medium) is the right signal, so this stays silent.
Removes the inaccurate "only one wins" humanizer entry. Adds fixtures
(duplicate-command-name; a shared command in duplicate-plugin-name's colliding
namespace) and 4 tests. Suite 932->936. self-audit A 97 / A 100, scanners 13.
Two plugins that declare the same `name` in plugin.json collapse into one
component namespace (/name:command, name:skill, agent "name"). Resolution
between two installed same-name plugins is undocumented, so one plugin's
commands/skills/agents are silently shadowed and unreachable. PLH now flags
this at medium severity, keying on the declared `name` (not folder basename,
via new declaredName on scanSinglePlugin) with a COL-shaped details.namespaces
payload. Name-less plugins are excluded from the collision map.
Search-first (code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins): plugin components are
namespaced by the declared name, so a plugin component can never shadow a
user/project one — only a same-name collision loses components. This refutes
the original "plugin vs user vs project shadowing" framing in the backlog.
Adds humanizer pattern, fixture (duplicate-plugin-name: 2 colliding + 2
name-less), and 3 tests. Suite 929->932. self-audit A 97 / A 100, scanners 13.
Extends the DIS scanner and its shared permission-rules lib with a third
documented Claude Code permission footgun. Verified verbatim against
code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions (fetched 2026-06-19).
CC's Tool(param:value) matching (2.1.178) is off-limits for a tool's own
canonicalizing field — CC ignores such a rule and emits a startup warning,
because e.g. Bash(command:rm *) is bypassable by a compound command. The
forbidden fields: command (Bash/PowerShell), file_path (Read/Edit/Write),
path (Grep/Glob), notebook_path (NotebookEdit), url (WebFetch).
- lib/permission-rules.mjs: new forbiddenParamRule(entry) returning
{ tool, key, hint } or null. Only the param:value form (colon present)
whose key equals the tool's forbidden field is flagged; Bash(npm:*),
WebFetch(domain:host), Agent(model:opus), and Bash(command) (no colon)
are left valid. FORBIDDEN_PARAMS map is the single source of truth.
- DIS: scans allow + deny + ask and splits severity by intent — deny/ask
hits are false security (medium: the block never applies), allow hits are
dead config (low: param:value matching is deny/ask-only). Two findings,
permissions-hygiene, CA-DIS-NNN.
- 11 new tests (7 lib, 4 DIS) + 1 fixture forbidden-param-permissions
(force-added past .gitignore .claude/). Suite 918 -> 929. Snapshot
unchanged (SC-5 byte-equal), contamination grep clean, gitleaks clean.
README/CLAUDE document the broadened DIS mandate; test badge synced.
self-audit: PASS, configGrade A 97, pluginGrade A 100, scanners 13.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Add a char-based CML finding that mirrors Claude Code's own startup warning
("Large CLAUDE.md will impact performance (X chars > 40.0k)"). CC 2.1.169 scales
that threshold with the model's context window, so the finding anchors on the
conservative 200k window (we cannot observe the user's window; the anchor fires
earliest) and discloses the relaxed ~200,000-char figure at 1M context. MEDIUM
severity (token cost, not an adherence cliff — consistent with the v5.2.0 reframe).
Keyed on chars, not lines, so it is complementary to the existing 200/500-line
checks (which stay untouched): a file can be long by lines yet under budget (short
lines, e.g. large-cascade at 37k chars / 1024 lines), or short by lines yet over it.
Extract the shared 200k/1M context-window constants to scanners/lib/context-window.mjs
(single source of truth; skill-listing-budget.mjs now imports + re-exports them).
40.0k figure and context-window scaling verified against the CC changelog (2.1.169,
2026-06-08) and the live startup-warning text. +6 tests, new fixture large-claude-chars
(48,531 chars / 100 lines). Suite 918/918, self-audit PASS configGrade A 97.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Extends the DIS scanner and its shared permission-rules lib with two
documented Claude Code permission footguns. Verified verbatim against
code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions (fetched 2026-06-19).
- lib/permission-rules.mjs: new isIneffectiveAllowGlob(entry) — unanchored
tool-name globs in permissions.allow (`*`, `B*`, `mcp__*`) that CC silently
skips ("does not auto-approve anything"); valid only as a glob-free
`mcp__<server>__*`. Shared with CNF.
- lib/permission-rules.mjs: dominates() now treats the `Tool(*)` deny-all glob
as equivalent to a bare deny (covers a bare allow) — CC: "Bash(*) is
equivalent to Bash ... both forms remove the tool from Claude's context".
- DIS: new finding "Ineffective allow wildcard — Claude Code ignores this rule"
(low, permissions-hygiene, CA-DIS-NNN); the existing dead-allow finding now
also catches a bare allow killed by a Tool(*) deny.
- 9 new tests (5 lib, 4 DIS) + 2 fixtures (force-added past .gitignore .claude/).
Suite 903 -> 912. Snapshot unchanged, contamination grep clean. README/CLAUDE/
scanner-internals document the broadened DIS mandate; test badge synced.
self-audit: PASS, configGrade A 96, pluginGrade A 100, readme gate passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Chunk 2 of the disableBundledSkills GAP feature. Adds a conditional GAP check
that prescribes the `disableBundledSkills` lever — but only when the active
skill listing is measurably over budget (SKL's CA-SKL-002 overflow signal) and
the lever is un-pulled. It stays an opportunity, not noise.
Bundled skills (/code-review, /batch, /debug, /loop, /claude-api, …) live in the
CC binary, not on disk, so their exact cost is unmeasurable here — the finding
says so plainly, and frames the lever as zero-cost budget reclaim that leaves
the user's own skills untouched. CC 2.1.169+.
- Pure, exported bundledSkillsLeverFinding({leverPulled, aggregate}) → finding|null
(severity low, category token-efficiency, CA-GAP-NNN), wired into scan() via the
shared measureActiveSkillListing().
- Lever resolved via new isBundledSkillsDisabled(): env var + settings cascade
read directly, because discovery does NOT tag ~/.claude/settings.json (its
relPath lacks ".claude" when walked from the .claude root) — the dominant
user-scope location for this global preference would otherwise be missed.
- GAP scan() now reads HOME → existing GAP tests retrofitted to withHermeticHome
per the hermetic rule. Snapshots unchanged, contamination grep clean.
- 16 new tests (9 GAP, 7 lib). Suite 887 -> 903. README/CLAUDE.md document the
cross-scanner remediation; test counts synced. self-audit: PASS, configGrade
A 96, pluginGrade A 100, readme gate passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Chunk 1 of the disableBundledSkills GAP feature. Moves the per-description cap,
aggregate budget constants, calibration note, and the enumerate-and-measure step
out of skill-listing-scanner into scanners/lib/skill-listing-budget.mjs — so SKL
(diagnoses overflow) and the upcoming GAP check (prescribes disableBundledSkills)
consume one budget definition instead of two divergent copies.
- New lib: assessSkillListingBudget (pure aggregate math) + measureActiveSkillListing
(HOME-scoped enumerate-and-measure wrapper).
- SKL delegates measurement; all finding strings kept byte-identical. 18/18 SKL
tests pass unchanged → behavior-neutral refactor.
- 12 new lib unit tests pin the budget contract. Suite 875 -> 887.
- README badge + CLAUDE.md test counts synced (self-audit --check-readme: passed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Syklus 2 of Fase 4 Items 2+3. Flags when the sum of active skill
descriptions exceeds the listing budget (~2% of context, CC 2.1.32).
Design (operator-confirmed "fact-first, 200k anchor"):
- low severity (estimate) vs medium for the verified 1,536-char cap
- each description counted up to the 1,536 cap (what actually loads in
the listing) — avoids double-counting the tail CA-SKL-001 flags
- fires when sum > 2% x 200k = 4000 tok; evidence leads with the measured
sum + a calibration note that the budget scales 5x on 1M-context models
- aggregate emitted after the per-skill loop so the common case reads
001=cap, 002=aggregate (finding IDs are a sequential counter, not stable
semantic IDs — tests match on title, never NNN)
Also:
- tailored humanizer static entry for the aggregate title
- fix latent HOME leak in posture-grade-stability.test.mjs: it spawned
posture.mjs without hermeticEnv(), so a real ~/.claude leaked HOME-scoped
SKL/COL findings into the baseline grade (Token Efficiency A->B). Now
isolated like the 8 other CLI-spawning tests.
- docs sync: test count 868->875, scanner-internals, gap-matrix, plan status
Suite 875/875, no snapshot drift, self-audit clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Fase 4 Items 2+3 (CC 2.1.114→181 gap-review). New orchestrated scanner
`skill-listing-scanner.mjs` (prefix SKL) flags every active skill whose
description exceeds the verified 1,536-char listing cap (CC 2.1.105, changelog
L1502). Past the cap, Claude Code silently truncates the description the model
reads to route skill invocation — dropping the trigger phrases at the tail.
HOME-scoped over all user + plugin skills via enumerateSkills (COL is the model).
- CA-SKL-001 (medium): description > 1,536 chars. Remediation folds in Item
2(b) — recommends disableBundledSkills + skillOverrides + trimming
(designvalg A: no standalone GAP-check, which would fire for nearly everyone).
- Designvalg B: v1 ships the verified cap ONLY. The aggregate 2%-of-context
listing budget is deferred — it needs a context-window assumption that would
turn a verified fact into a guess (would carry a CALIBRATION_NOTE if added).
- Choice C: recognize the skillOverrides settings key (CC 2.1.129) in
KNOWN_KEYS. Left OUT of TYPE_CHECKS — the value is a per-skill object
(off/user-invocable-only/name-only), not a string; a 'string' check (as the
plan sketched) would create a NEW false positive. Verify-first deviation.
Registration: scan-orchestrator (13th scanner), humanizer (SKL → 'Wasted
tokens' + static/_default translations), scoring SCANNER_AREA_MAP (→ Token
Efficiency; no 11th area), README badge 12→13, CLAUDE.md (finding-id +
test-count), docs/scanner-internals.md, gap-matrix + plan status notes.
Snapshots reseeded hermetically (SEED_SNAPSHOT/UPDATE_SNAPSHOT): SKL entry with
0 findings in empty HOME, scanners_ok 11→12, claudeMdEstimatedTokens bump from
the CLAUDE.md edits flowing through the cascade. Contamination grep clean.
Suite 868/868 (856 baseline + 11 SKL + 1 skillOverrides). RED→GREEN logged
per cycle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Fase 4 token-opt, Item 1 of gap-review NEXT STEP #2. The prompt-cache pattern corpus + TOK scanner were frozen at an "Opus 4.7" framing after CC shipped Opus 4.8 (default, 2.1.154) and Fable 5 (2.1.170). Model-era facts re-verified against the official changelog cache before editing.
The patterns are properties of prompt-caching, not of any model, so mechanic text is now model-neutral with a single "current default: Opus 4.8" anchor — preventing a re-freeze at the next model bump.
- rename knowledge/opus-4.7-patterns.md -> prompt-cache-patterns.md (git mv, history preserved); 6 reference sites updated
- TOK scanner: line-318 finding text (human-facing) made model-neutral; header + cache-prefix-scanner + CLI comments refreshed
- configuration-best-practices.md body + footnote 4.7 -> 4.8
- human-facing docs: commands/{tokens,help,manifest}.md, project CLAUDE.md, README, docs/scanner-internals.md
- gap-matrix row marked DONE; future Items 2/3 retargeted to new filename
Failing-test-first (Iron Law): +2 knowledge staleness guards (era-anchor + no-refreeze) +1 scanner assertion (no stale model anchor in finding text). Suite 853 -> 856 green; zero snapshot drift; self-audit A(97) PASS. CHANGELOG / v5 plan / ratified gap-plan keep historical opus-4.7-patterns refs (correct record of past state).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ter3E2JSi1Khgmuf2kady8
Pre-trekexecute snapshot of in-progress CLAUDE.md/SKILL.md edits and
extracted docs/ files. Captured as one commit so /trekexecute claude-design
can run against a clean working tree.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Standardize named-markdown-link guidance across all plugins so file://
references render as independently clickable links in terminals like
Ghostty (bare file:// URLs only make the first clickable).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Plugin README: add "What's New in v5.1.0" section with humanizer overview,
before/after example, plain-language vocabulary table, --raw flag docs.
Bump version badge 5.0.0 → 5.1.0. Add Version History row.
- Plugin CLAUDE.md: add humanizer.mjs + humanizer-data.mjs to Scanner Lib
table. Add "Plain-Language Output (v5.1.0)" section documenting output
modes, vocabularies, and Wave 5 lessons. Bump test count 635 → 792 across
52 test files.
- Marketplace root README: bump config-audit entry 5.0.0 → 5.1.0, update
one-line description to mention plain-language UX, add bullet for the
v5.1.0 humanizer, bump test count 635+ → 792+.
Test-normalizer hardening (consequence of growing CLAUDE.md):
walkClaudeMdCascade walks upward from the marketplace-medium fixture into
this plugin's own CLAUDE.md, so any docs edit ripples into
`scanners[*].activeConfig.claudeMdEstimatedTokens`. The v5.0.0 byte-stability
contract is about scanner internals being unchanged, not ancestor input
content being frozen. Normalizers in json-backcompat, raw-backcompat,
posture-humanizer, scan-orchestrator-humanizer, and snapshot-default-output
now strip claudeMdEstimatedTokens to <ANCESTOR_DERIVED>. The
default-output snapshot for scan-orchestrator was re-seeded via
UPDATE_SNAPSHOT=1 (intent: Wave 6 docs additions; humanizer prose
unchanged).
Verify:
- grep -E "5\.1\.0|v5\.1\.0" README.md CLAUDE.md ../../README.md | wc -l = 12
- node --test 'tests/**/*.test.mjs' = 792/792 pass
- self-audit configGrade A (97), pluginGrade A (100), readmeCheck.passed true
New read-only command that shows everything Claude Code actually loads for a
given repo — plugins, skills, MCP servers, hooks, CLAUDE.md cascade — with
source attribution (user/project/plugin) and rough token estimates. Helps
identify candidates for disabling without guessing.
Added:
- scanners/lib/active-config-reader.mjs — pure async helper: readActiveConfig,
detectGitRoot, walkClaudeMdCascade, readClaudeJsonProjectSlice (longest-prefix
matching for .claude.json projects), enumeratePlugins, enumerateSkills,
readActiveHooks, readActiveMcpServers, estimateTokens (markdown 4 c/tok,
json 3.5 c/tok, frontmatter cap 150 tokens, item flat 15)
- scanners/whats-active.mjs — thin CLI shim: --json, --output-file, --verbose,
--suggest-disables
- commands/whats-active.md — renders tables via Read tool; honors UX rules
- tests/lib/active-config-reader.test.mjs — 36 tests, all green (integration
fixture built in tmpdir with fake HOME, .claude.json prefix matching,
plugin discovery, hook/MCP merge from all scopes)
Verified:
- Performance budget: <2s wall-clock (smoke test: 102ms on real repo)
- Token estimates within ±20% of hand-computed values
- Read-only: no writeFile/mkdir/unlink in production code
- Self-audit: Plugin Health scanner reports 0 findings (Grade A)
- Full test suite: 522 tests, 512 pass (10 pre-existing conflict-detector
failures on main — unrelated to this change, reproducible on clean HEAD)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add /ultraresearch-local for structured research combining local codebase
analysis with external knowledge via parallel agent swarms. Produces research
briefs with triangulation, confidence ratings, and source quality assessment.
New command: /ultraresearch-local with modes --quick, --local, --external, --fg.
New agents: research-orchestrator (opus), docs-researcher, community-researcher,
security-researcher, contrarian-researcher, gemini-bridge (all sonnet).
New template: research-brief-template.md.
Integration: --research flag in /ultraplan-local accepts pre-built research
briefs (up to 3), enriches the interview and exploration phases. Planning
orchestrator cross-references brief findings during synthesis.
Design principle: Context Engineering — right information to right agent at
right time. Research briefs are structured artifacts in the pipeline:
ultraresearch → brief → ultraplan --research → plan → ultraexecute.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
