Plugin subagents silently ignore `hooks`/`mcpServers`/`permissionMode`
frontmatter — these are honored only for user/project agents in
.claude/agents/ (code.claude.com/docs sub-agents). Setting them in a
plugin agent is dead config; `permissionMode` is MEDIUM because it
implies a restriction Claude Code does not apply (false security).
hooks/mcpServers are LOW.
Additive to PLH's agent-frontmatter loop (no new scanner, count stays
13). One humanizer pattern covers the three field titles. Hermetic
temp-fixture test (positive + negative). Suite 954 -> 957, byte-stable.
Part of v5.5.0 "steering-model I". Foundation (active-config-reader
enumeration) deferred to v5.6 with B — A/E are additive and don't
consume it.
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plugin-health flagged "CLAUDE.md missing <commands|agents|hooks> section" regardless of
whether the plugin actually had that component — e.g. graceful-handoff (no commands/ or
agents/ dir) got two spurious medium findings. Same over-report class as the model-field fix.
Now gated on component presence (pluginShipsComponent): a section is required only if the
plugin ships that component (commands/ or agents/ with .md, or hooks/hooks.json). Across the 5
stable plugins this drops 12 spurious findings to 3 legitimate ones (graceful-handoff hooks,
ai-psychosis commands+hooks). New fixture plugin-section-coverage proves both directions.
Found via the marketplace-wide review. Suite 950/950, self-audit A/A, scanner count 13.
tests badge 949 -> 950.
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plugin-health-scanner required `model`+`allowed-tools` on commands and `model`+`tools`
on agents, plus `name` on commands. Per primary docs these are OPTIONAL:
- Commands/skills (code.claude.com/docs slash-commands): "All fields are optional. Only
`description` is recommended." `name` defaults to the directory name.
- Subagents (code.claude.com/docs sub-agents): "Only `name` and `description` are required";
`model` defaults to `inherit`, `tools` inherits all.
REQUIRED_COMMAND_FRONTMATTER -> [description]; REQUIRED_AGENT_FRONTMATTER -> [name, description].
This was over-reporting: every command without an explicit `model` got a spurious medium
finding (10 on the okr plugin alone). Found via the okr pilot review. Suite 949/949, self-audit
A/A, scanner count 13 (no new scanner).
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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.
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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.
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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.
Step 8 of v5.1.0 humanizer Wave 4. Adds tests/lint-default-output.mjs
runner and tests/scanners/lint-default-output.test.mjs wrapper that
exercise SC-3 against the 6 prose CLIs (scan-orchestrator, posture,
token-hotspots-cli, plugin-health-scanner, drift-cli, fix-cli) running
in default (humanized) mode against tests/fixtures/marketplace-medium.
Lint scope is stderr only — JSON envelope keys ("scanner", "severity")
are structural, not prose. Humanized prose fields embedded inside JSON
are already covered by tests/lib/humanizer-data.test.mjs tier1/tier3
checks. Code references inside backticks pass the lint
(stripBacktickSpans) so technical identifiers can appear when wrapped.
Default-mode prose fixes to land lint at zero violations:
- scan-orchestrator: top banner switches to "Config-Audit v2.2.0" and
per-scanner progress wraps "[XXX] Label" in backticks. --raw and
--json paths preserve the v5.0.0 verbatim banner via new
opts.humanizedProgress flag on runAllScanners.
- plugin-health-scanner: top banner switches to "Plugin Health v2.1.0"
in default mode; --raw/--json keep "Plugin Health Scanner v2.1.0".
- scoring.mjs generateHealthScorecard humanized branch: area names
(CLAUDE.md, Hooks, MCP, Settings, Rules, Imports, Conflicts, Token
Efficiency, Plugin Hygiene) are wrapped in backticks; dot-padding
compensates so column alignment matches v5.0.0 layout.
- posture / drift-cli / fix-cli: thread humanizedProgress flag through
their runAllScanners calls so default mode emits humanized progress
and --raw/--json preserve the v5.0.0 stderr snapshot.
Test infrastructure only — user-facing docs land in Wave 5/6 once
commands and agents consume the humanized payload.
Tests: 735 to 736 (+1 SC-3 wrapper). Full suite passes.
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Adds --raw flag to all 6 remaining CLIs and wires humanization into the
default rendering path. --json and --raw both bypass humanization for
v5.0.0 byte-equal output; default mode humanizes findings/diff/prose.
token-hotspots-cli: humanizes payload.findings before stdout JSON write.
plugin-health-scanner: humanizes finding titles in stderr brief summary;
--json/--raw write byte-identical v5.0.0-shape result to stdout.
drift-cli: humanizes diff.{newFindings,resolvedFindings,unchangedFindings,
movedFindings} before formatDiffReport; --raw applies to save and list
modes too. Baselines remain raw v5.0.0 on disk.
fix-cli: humanizes manual-finding titles in stderr fix-plan prose; both
--json and --raw produce identical machine-readable JSON to stdout.
manifest, whats-active: --raw is a no-op (no findings, inventory only)
but parsed for CLI surface consistency.
Decision on missing --output-file flag for drift-cli/fix-cli/plugin-health:
deferred. SC-6/SC-7 tests in Wave 4 will use stdout-redirect (the simpler
Alt B path) since these CLIs already write JSON to stdout in machine modes.
Test cli-humanizer.test.mjs covers all 6 CLIs. Three CLIs that read
environment state (plugin-health, manifest, whats-active) verify
mode-equivalence (--json == --raw) instead of frozen-snapshot byte-equal,
because their output reflects current marketplace state which drifts as
plugins are added since the Wave 0 capture.
Wave 3 / Step 7 of v5.1.0 humanizer.
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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.
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