# ktg-plugin-marketplace (catalog)

Catalog repository for the ktg-plugin-marketplace. After the polyrepo migration this repo hosts only
the marketplace manifest and the catalog-level docs; every plugin and the shared design-system live in
their own Forgejo repositories under `https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/`.

## What lives here

- `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` — the marketplace manifest (plugin entries point at external repos)
- `README.md` — the landing/catalog page
- `CONVENTIONS.md` — marketplace-wide conventions inherited by every plugin repo
- `GOVERNANCE.md` — governance + fork-and-own model
- `.mailmap`, `.gitleaks.toml`, `.gitleaksignore` — shared git-hygiene baselines

## Catalog maintenance

- Marketplace conventions: see CONVENTIONS.md.
- Adding/updating a plugin entry: edit `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json` (external `source: "url"` with
  a pinned `ref`) and re-state the plugin in README.md with its verified version.
- Plugin source, issues, and releases live in each plugin's own repository — not here.
- **Every tag this repo cuts is ANNOTATED — `git tag -a`, never a bare `git tag`.** A lightweight tag
  is a branch-like ref: it can be moved to another commit with nothing recorded that it ever pointed
  elsewhere. The catalog pins every plugin to `ref: vX.Y.Z`, so a movable tag is a movable pin — a
  supply chain property, not a tidiness one (repo-standard `TAG-ANNOTATED`, ERROR).
  **Two tagging sites, and only one of them was ever enforced:**
  - *Plugin tags* are cut by `scripts/release-plugin.mjs` (`--create-tag --write`), which has used
    `git tag -a` since its first commit (`9b1838f`) and has never had the defect. Verified 2026-08-17
    against the published surface, not the source: `git ls-remote --tags` on repo-mailbox returns both
    `refs/tags/v0.25.0` (tag object `a9b5eb8`) and the peeled `refs/tags/v0.25.0^{}` (commit `95ac710`)
    — a lightweight tag has no peeled ref. **Do not "fix" `release-plugin.mjs`; it is not the drift site.**
  - *The catalog's own tags* are cut BY HAND, and that is the site with no enforcement. All four
    newest (`v7.7.2`, `v7.7.1`, `v7.7.0`, `v5.0.3`) are lightweight, from the monorepo era. Control
    proving the measurement discriminates: `pre-polyrepo-archive` reports `tag`, and a local probe pair
    (`git tag -a` → `tag`, `git update-ref refs/tags/x` → `commit`) reproduces both outcomes.
  **The published lightweight tags STAY** (decided 2026-08-17, forward-only). The only remedy for an
  already-published tag is `git tag -a -f <name> <name>^{}`, which force-moves a ref others may have
  fetched — precisely the traceless move the finding warns about. Applying it as the fix would
  demonstrate the defect. **Consequence to state plainly, not to hide:** `TAG-ANNOTATED` stays ERROR
  until a NEW annotated tag becomes the newest, because `checkTagIntegrity`'s
  `tags_lightweight_accepted` register key reaches tag HISTORY only and cannot excuse the newest tag.
  And "newest" is `compareTags` order (semver triple), so a fresh-start `v1.0.0` would NOT clear it —
  a clearing tag must sort above `v7.7.2`. Non-semver tags (`config-audit/v5.0.0`,
  `pre-polyrepo-archive`) parse to `[0,0,0,…]` and never rank.
  **The ERROR is one the org ALREADY ACCEPTED, and the acceptance cannot land — measured 2026-08-17.**
  repo-standard's register (`register/repos.json:231`) lists `v7.7.2` under
  `tags_lightweight_accepted["ktg-plugin-marketplace"]`, accepted 2026-08-14 with a rationale recorded
  at `:211-223`: it is a monorepo-era llm-security tag (2026-05-19, pre-split), not a catalog release;
  the README install block pins no ref and all 12 `marketplace.json` refs are plugin-repo tags, so
  **zero install paths consume it**. But `checkTagIntegrity` judges the newest tag at `:711` **before**
  it reads the register at `:719`, and `accepted` is only ever applied to `tags.slice(0, -1)`. So the
  entry for `v7.7.2` is inert: the decision is written down and the gate cannot honour it.
  Run against this repo (importing repo-standard's own exported `checkTagIntegrity`, its real register,
  and `git for-each-ref refs/tags/v*`), the catalog scores exactly two findings:
  `[ERROR] TAG-ANNOTATED` on `v7.7.2`, and `[OK] TAG-ANNOTATED-ACCEPTED` covering the other 7
  lightweight tags. **There is no `TAG-ANNOTATED-HISTORY` WARN — history is fully claimed.**
  Consequence for whoever reads the next org-wide run: this repo's single ERROR is not an unmade
  decision, it is a made decision the checker structurally cannot see. That is the same
  "we decided this" / "nobody looked" collapse the register exists to prevent, one level up. The fix
  belongs in repo-standard, not here — reported, not patched.
  Note: `~/.gitconfig` sets `tag.gpgsign true`, which makes a bare `git tag <name>` **fail**
  ("no tag message?") rather than silently cut a lightweight one. Measured 2026-08-17, the probe's
  `-a` tag came out **unsigned** all the same (0 PGP blocks) — so this config is an accident that
  happens to block one path, not a signing guarantee. Do not treat it as the enforcement.
- **Releasing a plugin (canonical path — `scripts/release-plugin.mjs`):** since the polyrepo split,
  a release is a TWO-repo act — tag the plugin repo AND bump the catalog `ref`. Forgetting the second
  step strands users on the old version (the exact drift this helper exists to prevent). Run
  `node scripts/release-plugin.mjs <plugin> [--version X.Y.Z]` — dry-run by default; it REFUSES unless
  `plugin.json` == README badge == the target version AND the `vX.Y.Z` tag exists, then prints the
  planned bump. Apply with `--write [--commit] [--push]`; `--create-tag --write` mints+pushes a missing
  plugin tag first (**`--create-tag` is a WRITE and obeys `--write`** — on a dry-run it only reports
  what it would mint). On `--write` it bumps the catalog `ref` AND the catalog README's per-plugin `` `vX.Y.Z` ``
  label together (and `git add`s both on `--commit`). Because it only moves both to a verified, tagged,
  consistent version, `check-versions.mjs` is green by construction. Never hand-edit a `ref` or a
  README label for a release — use this. Pure planner + label reconciler + pre-flight/write step
  covered by `scripts/release-plugin.test.mjs`.
- **Pre-flight gate (`--write` runs `check-versions` BEFORE it writes):** the helper calls `runGate()`
  first and aborts with exit 1 — **nothing written** — if ANY plugin is ERROR, not just the one being
  released (`check-versions`' exit code is catalog-wide). Previously the gate ran *after* both writes,
  so a red catalog left a half-applied release in the working tree for a parallel session to carry to
  the public remote. The pre-flight reads the **ERROR set only**, never `failed`/`--strict`: pre-bump,
  the plugin being released is *supposed* to be WARN (catalog `ref` behind `plugin.json`), so gating on
  WARN would brick every release. The post-write gate at the end stays — pre-flight validates the old
  state, that one validates the new state. **`--create-tag` is deliberately NOT behind this gate**
  (decided 2026-08-10): it mints and pushes the plugin tag *before* the pre-flight runs, but every
  precondition it checks is local to that one plugin (`plugin.json` == target, badge agrees, tag
  absent), so the tag is correct by construction. A red *other* plugin can only make the tag EARLY,
  never WRONG, and the tag-absent check makes the retry idempotent — gating it would let plugin Y
  block the *tagging* of plugin X, the same over-coupling that reading ERROR-only avoids. What WAS
  closed is the worse half: `--create-tag` used to push on the documented dry-run path, with no
  `--write` at all. It now requires `--write` (`shouldCreateTag`, tested).
- **Version-consistency gate:** run `node scripts/check-versions.mjs` before committing any `ref`
  change. For each plugin it checks (against the sibling repo) that the catalog `ref` resolves to a
  real git tag (ERROR if dangling — breaks install), that `plugin.json` version == README
  version-badge (ERROR), that the catalog README's per-plugin `` `vX.Y.Z` `` label == the catalog
  `ref` (ERROR — the human-facing doc must not misstate the installed version), and that the catalog
  `ref` matches `plugin.json` version (WARN — catalog lags or an unreleased bump). Exit 1 on any
  ERROR; `--strict` also fails on WARN. Pure-function core covered by
  `scripts/check-versions.test.mjs` (`node --test scripts/check-versions.test.mjs`).
- **Stat-badge mirroring (part of the same gate):** each plugin block in the catalog README ends in a
  stat line (`7 agents · 16 scanners · 21 commands · 1398 tests · [Full documentation →]`). The gate
  compares every number on that line against the plugin's own shields badge for the same axis, and
  ERRORs when they disagree — the catalog must not overstate a plugin. **The rule is per-AXIS, not
  per-plugin:** an axis the plugin does not badge is skipped silently, so there is no exception list
  to maintain. **Re-measured 2026-08-13 at the pinned refs, all 12 plugins: 42 catalog axis-claims —
  24 badge-covered · 18 badge-less across 8 of the 12 plugins** and therefore ungated, with **0
  disagreements** on the gated set. The measurement imports `check-versions.mjs`'s OWN exported
  `extractStatBadges` / `extractCatalogStats` and feeds them `git show <ref>:README.md`, so coverage is
  read by the same code that gates it rather than by a second parser that could drift.
  **The prior `27 · 15 across 7` (2026-08-04) was correct and is not overturned** — re-running the
  measurement against catalog commit `c7fbbd3` reproduces `27 · 15 across 7` exactly. Coverage FELL
  because three axes lost their badge when a ref moved, each verified at both tags: `okr` v1.8.2 →
  v1.10.0 dropped `agents-7`, `hooks-3` and `references-17` (the catalog restates the first two →
  **−2 gated**), and `graceful-handoff` v3.1.0 → v3.2.1 dropped `tests-30` and `hooks-0` (the catalog
  restates only `test` → **−1 gated**). 27 − 3 = 24, 15 + 3 = 18, +1 ungated plugin (`okr`). This is
  the CLAUDE.md-documented graceful-handoff badge-drop reaching a *release*: it was visible on `main`
  on 2026-08-04 and is now what installs.
  **All 18 ungated values were measured at their refs in the same pass (2026-08-13) — 16 exact, 1
  correct-but-split, 1 defect.** Exact: voyage `24 agents` / `7 hooks` / `832 tests`, linkedin-studio
  `6 skills`, graceful-handoff `1 pipeline` / `48 tests`, ai-psychosis `1 skill` / `1 command`,
  ms-ai-architect `29 commands` / `5 skills` / `2 hooks`, okr `7 agents` / `3 hooks`, claude-design
  `5 tests`. Split: voyage `6 commands (+1 helper)` measures 7 command files, and the split is the
  plugin's own — its README at `v5.9.1` reads "6 slash commands (…) + trekendsession helper", and that
  file's `description:` calls itself a helper. **Defect: repo-standard `170 tests` measures 243** at
  `v0.11.1` (`node --test scripts/*.test.mjs`, the version its `package.json` declares). The catalog is
  faithfully mirroring repo-standard's own README, which says "170 tests over the pure classifiers" at
  that tag — so the plugin's prose is the stale source and the fix belongs there first. Understating,
  not overstating, which is why nothing screamed.
  **RESOLVED 2026-08-14/15 (commit `3f5afee`): repo-standard's checks axis is now consistent at 20.**
  The three-way disagreement at `v0.11.1` — catalog bullet said "Twelve", catalog stat line said 14,
  plugin's own README said "twelve checks" — is gone, and it was resolved on repo-standard's side, not
  by the catalog picking a number: `v0.11.2`'s CHANGELOG records the plugin removing its own stale prose
  counts ("170 tests" and "twelve checks") rather than correcting them, making the README's own
  "Check | What fails it" table the sole source of truth. That table is unchanged between `v0.11.1` and
  `v0.11.2` (verified: `diff` of the table is empty) and has **20 rows**, counted independently this
  session (`git show v0.11.2:README.md` in the sibling repo, First screen through Description). The
  catalog's repo-standard block (`README.md:206` bullet, `README.md:212` stat line) now reads "20
  checks" in both places, matching. The earlier "19 exported `check*` functions" count was a different
  unit (exported functions, not documented table rows) and is superseded by the table now being
  canonical — no further ask to repo-standard is needed.
  **⚠️ The `251 selftest checks` correction is not fully settled**, though the weight is on 370: this
  file *and* the catalog's own 08-02 stat line both record the axis as corrected to 370,
  `check-versions.mjs` said 374 (most likely a transcription slip), and repo-mailbox's README at
  v0.19.0 implies 390 (`183 + 134 + 73`) — its own prose being ungated too. Moot for the gate (they
  badge the axis now, 398 at v0.20.2, green) and **not** re-measured. It stands as the proof of the
  cost: an ungated number rots, and so does the record of having fixed it.
  `N+` in the catalog is read as a lower bound, not an equality, so `500+` was never gate-visible —
  ungated axes rot in silence and need a re-run of this pass **whenever a ref moves**. **Never
  hand-edit a stat line to silence the gate** — the plugin's badge is the source for every stat
  number; fix the catalog to match it.
- **Counting rules for a badge-less axis (calibrated against the badged plugins, 2026-08-02).** When
  the catalog must count an axis itself, count it the way the badges do, or the numbers stop being
  comparable across plugin blocks: **hooks = hook ENTRIES** in `hooks/hooks.json` (not events, not
  matchers — the three diverge), and **tests = `ℹ tests` from `node --test`**, not `ℹ pass`
  (config-audit's badge 1398 is its `tests` count; `pass` was 1375). Measure in an extraction of the
  tag (`git archive <ref> | tar -x -C <tmp>`), never the sibling working tree.
  - **Re-calibrated 2026-08-13 — the file-counting rules now have a measured referent, 11/11.**
    `agents` = `agents/**/*.md` (4/4: llm-security 6, config-audit 7, ms-ai-architect 12,
    linkedin-studio 20), `commands` = `commands/**/*.md` (3/3: config-audit 21, okr 16,
    linkedin-studio 30), `skills` = `skills/*/SKILL.md` (4/4: repo-mailbox 3, claude-design 1,
    graceful-handoff 1, repo-standard 1). `tests = ℹ tests` re-confirmed against config-audit
    (`ℹ tests 1398` == badge 1398, `pass` 1374 — count `tests`, and note the suite need not be green
    for the census to be valid). **`scanners` is NOT calibrated:** neither files-under-`scanners/`
    (llm-security 55, config-audit 61) nor top-level `.mjs` (27 / 32) reproduces the badges (23 / 16),
    so the axis counts something the tree does not name. Harmless today — **both** scanner claims are
    gated and there is no ungated one to count — but do not invent a rule if that changes.
  - **⚠️ `git ls-tree` QUOTES non-ASCII paths, and a naive count silently drops them.** okr's
    `commands/innføring.md` and `commands/møter.md` come back as `"commands/innf\303\270ring.md"`, so a
    `^commands/.+\.md$` match counted 14 against a badge of 16 and read as a defect in okr. It was a
    defect in the measurement. **Always pass `-c core.quotePath=false`.** The same pass also produced a
    fully bogus "13/13 MATCH" from a zsh loop where `set -- $spec` did not word-split, leaving every
    field empty so `"" == ""` passed — **a verification that cannot fail has verified nothing.** Count
    in Node, not in a shell loop.
  - **`type: prompt` entries COUNT (decided 2026-08-13).** The rule read "hook COMMAND entries" until
    now. That wording was calibrated in 2026-08 against plugins that predate prompt-hooks, so it was
    never a ruling on them — it had no case to rule on. A prompt entry fires on the same event and
    does the same job from the reader's side, so excluding it would understate the plugin.
    **Re-measured 2026-08-13 at all 12 pinned refs before the rewrite**, because restating an old
    measurement in new words is itself a claim: every plugin that both badges `hooks` and ships a
    `hooks.json` has entries == command-entries (llm-security 9/9, config-audit 4/4, linkedin-studio
    9/9, ai-psychosis 4/4, repo-mailbox 1/1), so the two phrasings agree on the whole badged set and
    the rewrite contradicts nothing. `okr` @ `v1.10.0` is the **only** plugin with a non-command
    entry — 3 entries, 2 `command` + 1 `prompt` (`PreCompact`) — and it does **not** badge the axis,
    which is precisely why the badged set never tested the rule. The catalog's `3 hooks` stands, measured.
  - **The `agents` axis IS badge-covered — 4 of the 6 plugins that claim it (measured 2026-08-13).**
    `llm-security` `agents-6`, `config-audit` `agents-7`, `ms-ai-architect` `agents-12`,
    `linkedin-studio` `agents-20`; all four match the catalog exactly and are gated. Ungated:
    `voyage` (`24 agents`) and `okr` (`7 agents`) — badge-less. **Both measured 2026-08-13 at their
    refs: 24 and 7, exact.** Do **not** record this axis as uncalibrated: it has a referent.
  - **A badge whose value is not an integer does not gate the axis.** `extractStatBadges` keeps only
    integer-valued badges, so graceful-handoff's `Pipeline`/`STATE--helper-deterministic` badge leaves
    `1 pipeline` ungated even though a badge for the axis visibly exists. When asking "is this axis
    gated?", read the badge's VALUE, not its label.
- **The stat mirror reads the plugin README AT THE PINNED `ref`, never the sibling working tree.**
  The catalog documents what *installs*, and that is the tag. A plugin that commits past its tag
  without bumping its version — measured 2026-08-02 on both llm-security (scanners 23→22, tests
  2013→2034) and config-audit (tests 1398→1441) — would otherwise make the gate demand that the
  catalog restate unreleased numbers, which is exactly backwards. **When the gate flags a stat,
  check `git show <ref>:README.md` in the plugin repo before believing the working tree.**