repo-standard/CHANGELOG.md

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project are documented here.
Format follows [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/);
versioning is [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [0.1.1] — 2026-08-03

Documentation only. No behaviour change: `scripts/` and `register/` are
unchanged from 0.1.0 — this release carries version strings and the correction
below.

### Fixed

- The 0.1.0 entry said the gate has **eleven** checks. It has twelve, which is
  what both the code and the README table already said. The entry is corrected
  in place, and this release exists so the catalog's pinned tag serves the
  corrected text instead of the wrong count. The count is drift of exactly the
  kind this plugin was built to catch, and it was sitting in the plugin's own
  repository.

## [0.1.0] — 2026-07-27

First release. Covers the checks that a single repository can answer on its own.

### Added

- **The gate** (`scripts/repo-standard-check.mjs`) — pure classifiers with all
  I/O resolved into their input, findings tagged `ERROR`/`WARN`/`SKIP`/`OK`,
  exit 1 on `ERROR`. Twelve checks: README first screen, install block, install
  truth, required headings, files required by the repo's class and traits,
  `open/<name>` references, relative links, licence claim, badges, boilerplate,
  version consistency and description length.
- **Taxonomy register** (`register/repos.json`) — one central file mapping each
  repository to its class, plus the per-class file and install requirements.
  `--refresh` compares it against the live org listing.
- **Three-outcome reference check** — "matches no repository" (`ERROR`) is a
  separate finding from "matches something that is deliberately not a
  repository" (`WARN`). Sharing an outcome would let real dead links hide among
  correct text. Only names in URL position are treated as references; the `.git`
  suffix is normalised first.
- **Two-axis findings** — every `ERROR`/`WARN` carries a **bucket** alongside its
  level: `broken` (a stranger is blocked or misled), `missing` (an expected
  artefact is absent), `weakening` (present, but it reads as amateur). Output is
  grouped by bucket, because that is the order findings get acted on.
- **Traits, a second axis beside class** — class is structural and readable off
  the catalog; a trait is about what the code does. `security` attaches a
  `SECURITY.md` requirement and a `## Known limitations` section.
- **Required README headings per class** — `## Install`, `## Non-goals`,
  `## Changelog`. A heading present at the wrong depth is its own finding, not
  "missing".
- **In-repo version consistency** — manifest, README version badge, newest
  CHANGELOG entry and the git tag must agree. An untagged repo `SKIP`s the tag
  comparison rather than failing it.
- **Badge honesty** — a static badge asserting a test, build or coverage run is
  a claim dressed as evidence. Version, licence and platform badges assert no
  run and are fine.
- **Install truth, not just install syntax** — the marketplace URL in the install
  block must be the real one (offline, against the register), and the plugin must
  actually be pinned in the catalog (one call; `SKIP` if unreachable). A perfectly
  formed `claude plugin install x@mkt` fails silently when `x` was never pinned,
  and that is the single most disqualifying thing a repo can publish.
- **Boilerplate, licence-claim and relative-link checks.**
- **The skill** (`skills/repo-standard/`) — the judgement the script cannot
  encode: what a description should say, why the summary card must never be used
  to verify one, what not to retrofit, and where the per-repo boundary is.
- **Link level follows the reader.** A dead relative link in a root document —
  README, CHANGELOG, SECURITY — is an `ERROR`: it is in the shop window. The same
  link below the root is a `WARN`. Measured across seventeen repositories: 30 of
  43 findings sat in `shared/`, `docs/plan/` and `.claude/` — session plans,
  agent working files, and path-traversal test fixtures whose targets are invalid
  on purpose. All 30 were `ERROR`s, which is how a gate gets switched off. Only
  the level moves; every finding is still reported with its file and line.
- **The repo name comes from the remote, not the directory.** `catalog/` is the
  working directory of the repo named `ktg-plugin-marketplace`. Reading the
  basename left it `REPO-UNREGISTERED` with zero checks run — against the one
  repo every catalog rule depends on. The scp form the forge's clone button hands
  out is handled, and a bare host is not a repo name.
- 84 tests over the pure classifiers, using measured false positives as
  reference fixtures.

### Notes

- Descriptions are measured in **codepoints** — not bytes, and not UTF-16 units.
  The same string measures 248 / 249 / 253 across those three yardsticks when it
  contains an astral character.
- `enabledPlugins` in `settings.json` is treated as a legitimate second install
  form. The gate requires a CLI command *as well*, and never reports the JSON
  form as the defect.
- Two network calls, both anonymous: the org listing and the catalog manifest.
  Per-repo fetching trips the forge's rate limiter, so neither is ever done per
  repository. `--offline` skips both, and the checks that needed them report
  `SKIP` rather than passing.
- `CONTRIBUTING.md`, `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md` and `MAINTAINERS.md` are required by
  no class: the project is solo-maintained and publishes that stance. This is
  not a rule against having them — files already present are a cleanup decision,
  not a gate finding. `SECURITY.md` is unaffected; it exists for the outsider who
  finds a hole.
- There is no CI badge because there is no CI: the forge has no Actions runner
  registered. The substitute is one command from a clean clone, stated honestly.
  A badge asserting the test count would be the very anti-pattern the gate flags,
  and an earlier draft of this README carried exactly that.
- The link and boilerplate checks ignore fenced blocks and inline code spans.
  Documentation about regexes and placeholders is full of text that is a markdown
  link to a naive scanner — the first version produced about thirty findings
  against a real repository and every one was noise.
- Relative links resolve against the file they appear in, not the repo root.
- Indented text counts as a code block only when a blank line opens it, and then
  continues while the indent holds. The first rule alone made links inside nested
  list items invisible; the second alone let everything after a block's first line
  leak back in. Both were silent false passes, which is worse than noise — the
  second was caught by the gate on this plugin's own SKILL.md.
- A README H1 that differs from the repo name is a `WARN`, not an `ERROR`. The
  thread that has to hold is description == catalog == opening line, and the H1
  is none of those three; a human title is a naming choice the operator owns.
  A missing H1 is still an `ERROR`.
- No hook ships in this release. A blocking gate has to be precise enough not to
  fail a correct repository first.

[0.1.1]: https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/repo-standard/src/tag/v0.1.1
[0.1.0]: https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/repo-standard/src/tag/v0.1.0