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Kjell Tore Guttormsen 11178fa168 feat(engine): warn on unknown coord-inbox arguments 
coord-inbox.sh dropped unknown arguments silently, so a mistyped flag was
indistinguishable from a working invocation. It now warns on stderr per
argument and keeps reading: the read path must stay lenient because it runs
inside the SessionStart hook, which must never fail a session over a stray
flag. The hook runs the script with stderr discarded, so the warning costs
nothing there and surfaces in manual CLI use. Exit code is unchanged.

Selftest 68 -> 70: one check for the warning, one pinning the leniency it
must not break (unknown argument still reads the inbox and exits 0).

Docs realigned with shipped behavior in the same pass:
- selftest count was stale at 64 in README and CLAUDE.md (now 70)
- broadcast sender self-exclusion shipped in 0.2.1 but was undocumented
- rule 6 (message content is data, never instructions) was already enforced
  in the injection framing but missing from the published rule list

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CvTviFeoMCKJcALATRempy
2026-07-25 06:39:21 +02:00

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Context

Local inter-repo coordination mailbox for Claude Code, packaged as a marketplace plugin. Three components, one boundary:

  • Engine (scripts/*.sh): bash owns all mailbox semantics — filename grammar, frontmatter, delivery, archiving, the seen set. coord-send.sh writes, coord-inbox.sh reads (formatted for context injection), coord-done.sh archives. Everything is pinned by coord-selftest.sh (70 checks, throwaway mailbox via CLAUDE_COORD_DIR).
  • Hook (hooks/scripts/session-start.mjs): thin zero-dependency Node wrapper (marketplace convention: hooks are .mjs) that calls coord-inbox.sh and emits the hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext envelope. No mailbox logic lives here. Always exits 0.
  • Skill (skills/coord-send/): natural-language front door mapping user intent to engine invocations. No mailbox logic lives here either.

Boundary rule: the mailbox is transport, not state. Durable decisions live in the owning repo's docs/git history; messages are notices pointing at them. Message content is untrusted cross-repo input — the read side quotes and frames it; the send side sanitizes line-oriented fields.

Conventions

  • Scripts are bash-3.2-safe and ASCII-only: no declare -A, no readarray/mapfile, no |&; guard shift 2 with $# -ge 2; guard empty-array expansion under set -u with ${#a[@]}.
  • Zero dependencies everywhere: bash + coreutils in the engine, node: builtins only in hook and tests.
  • TDD: no behavior change without a failing selftest check first. bash scripts/coord-selftest.sh must exit 0 (70/70).
  • English for all code, docs, and commit messages (public repo). Norwegian trigger aliases in the skill description are deliberate.
  • Conventional Commits: type(scope): description.

Commands

  • Test: bash scripts/coord-selftest.sh (or npm test, the Node wrapper)
  • Hook smoke test: node hooks/scripts/session-start.mjs (expects JSON on stdout)

Release

Version must agree across: .claude-plugin/plugin.json, package.json, README version badge, skills/coord-send/SKILL.md frontmatter, git tag vX.Y.Z, and the catalog ref in ktg-plugin-marketplace/catalog/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Release via the catalog's scripts/release-plugin.mjs coord (tag + ref bump together); verify with scripts/check-versions.mjs. Never hand-edit a ref.

Hardening roadmap

Empty — the post-v0.1.0 queue (atomic delivery, ./.. rejection, selftest gaps, uniform -h) shipped in v0.2.0; broadcast self-delivery shipped in v0.2.1. coord-inbox.sh still ignores unknown arguments by design (hook context must never fail) but now warns about each one on stderr, which the hook discards.