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).

## [0.7.1] — 2026-08-09

### Fixed

- The skill told a reader what a `SKIP` finding means and stopped there, which
  was complete before 0.7.0 and is not now: a repo can headline `OK · 3 not
  checked`, and a session reporting only the status word would report a green
  pass over three unjudged findings. `SKILL.md` now requires the status and the
  count to be reported together. Shipping 0.7.0 without this made the plugin
  whose purpose is catching stale published documents ship one.

- README's example output carried commits older than the behaviour they
  demonstrate — one from 0.6.0 beside a `notChecked` that did not exist in it,
  one two releases back. This repo's own invariant is that the version names a
  file and only the sha names the code; the examples now cite `10ad125`, the
  commit the feature actually shipped in.

### Added

- README states the unit of `notChecked`: it counts un-judged **findings**, not
  checks. A repo with many links leaving it scores a high count without a single
  check having failed to run, so the bare number reads worse than the repo is.
  Named as a known limitation rather than corrected in the string — the fix is
  splitting *deliberately not judged* from *could not run*, which is its own
  release.

## [0.7.0] — 2026-08-09

### Changed

- **A repo's `status` is the worst *judged* finding, and `SKIP` only when
  nothing was judged.** `SKIP` used to rank between `OK` and `WARN`, so one
  un-runnable check spoke for every check that ran: a repo with 0 ERROR, 0 WARN
  and a dozen `OK` headlined as "skipped". Reported by org-ops against five
  repos in census 05 — `ktg-plugin-marketplace`, `okr`,
  `playground-design-system`, `portfolio-optimiser`, `commons` — with `okr`
  holding the most `OK` in the org and reading as unread. A skip is not a
  severity; it is the absence of a verdict, and it cannot be the worst of a set
  that contains real ones. "`SKIP` is never a pass" survives intact in the half
  of the rule that keeps it: an unregistered repo, or an empty finding set,
  still says `SKIP`, because there is nothing else to be worst of.

  Measured across all 21 local clones from one saved sweep, so before and after
  are computed from the *same* findings rather than from two sweeps of a moving
  org: 343 findings before, 343 after, none added or removed. 8 repos moved,
  every one `SKIP` → `OK`. The counts that decide whether a repo needs work did
  not move at all — 1 `ERROR` before and after, 3 `WARN` before and after.

  Consumers reading `.status` see a changed value domain: a repo that reported
  `SKIP` in censuses 03–07 may report `OK` from 08 on with an identical finding
  set. Raw census files already carry `engineVersion` and `engineCommit`, which
  is what distinguishes the two readings.

### Added

- `notChecked` beside `status`, in `--json` and as a `· N not checked` qualifier
  on the summary line. Fixing the status alone would have traded "clean repos
  look skipped" for "skipped checks look clean", which is the worse direction —
  so coverage gets its own axis rather than being folded into the verdict, the
  same split the engine already makes between a finding's level and its bucket.
  The count is the number of `SKIP` findings, which is what the existing
  `NOT CHECKED — these are not passes` section has always listed. An **absent**
  `notChecked` means an older engine and prints the pre-0.7.0 line; it is not
  zero.

## [0.6.0] — 2026-08-09

### Added

- `titles` in the register: an optional per-repo README title. Set, the H1 is
  compared against it and a match is `OK`; unset, the `WARN` stands exactly as
  before. A human title was already a valid choice — `docs/rds-v1.md` prescribes
  `1. # Title` for every class, not `# repo-name` — but a decided YES had
  nowhere to live, so the same 6 `README-H1` WARNs were reported in census 05,
  06 and 07 and would have been reported forever. "We decided this is correct"
  and "nobody has looked at it" now produce different outcomes. Five titles
  registered, each H1 read from the repo rather than copied from the census;
  `ai-psychosis` is deliberately left unregistered, so the one repo where a
  reader cannot connect title to name stands alone. Measured across all 21
  local clones: 6 WARN before, 1 after, no other finding moved.

- `engineCommit` alongside `engineVersion`, in the header line (short) and the
  `--json` output (full). The version names a FILE; only the sha names the CODE.
  A sweep stamped 18 raw files `0.4.0` while four carried findings from a check
  that only exists in 0.5.0 — the feature and the version bump are two commits,
  so the worktree held new code under an old number for a window, and the stamp
  lied without being broken. Derived from this checkout, no network call. The
  field is present-and-`null` when underivable, never absent: an absent key
  means an older engine, an explicit `null` means this engine ran and had no
  HEAD to read, and a consumer sorting raw files by stamp needs those to differ.

### Changed

- `README-DESC` no longer demands byte equality for the `org-profile` class,
  via `readme_desc_match: false` on the class — data in the register, not a
  hardcoded name. For an ordinary repo the README opening and the forge
  description describe the same subject and equality is right; for this one
  class they do not — the README is the organisation's landing page, the forge
  text describes the repo. Both are correct about their own subject, so it is
  the equality that does not apply. A landing page's opening line also carries a
  markdown link while the description field renders as plain text, so passing
  the old check would have meant putting raw markdown on a real surface. The
  class has one member, so coverage is lost nowhere else, and the exemption is
  still RECORDED as an `OK` finding naming the reason rather than dropped.
  Measured: `.profile` went from `ERROR` to 0 ERROR / 0 WARN, and the same
  README under a `plugin` class is still an `ERROR`.

## [0.5.0] — 2026-08-09

### Added

- `LINK-INTERNAL-FIXTURE`: a dead link inside a `test/`, `tests/`,
  `fixtures/`, or `*golden*` path now reports as `SKIP` instead of `WARN`.
  These paths are presumed to break their own links on purpose —
  `nav-golden-escape/bundle/index.md`'s deliberate `../../../../etc/passwd`
  escape pops the whole base path instead of resolving outside the repo, so
  it read as a genuine dead link against three repos in the org. The finding
  still fires with file and line; only the judgement changes. Measured
  before shipping: 16 `LINK-INTERNAL-*` findings before, 16 after, across
  all 20 local clones — every one converted 1:1, none disappeared.

## [0.4.0] — 2026-08-09

### Added

- `LINKS-OPEN-REFS`: the `open/` reference check now reports its own result
  instead of only its failures. Emitting nothing on success made "no dead
  references" and "the check never ran" identical in the output — a sweep
  across the org could not tell 19 clean repos from 19 unread ones (measured:
  org-ops census 03b). The OK line carries the count it resolved, because an
  OK that cannot say how many it checked is the same silence in a different
  colour. Zero enumerated files is now `LINKS-OPEN-REFS-UNAVAILABLE` (SKIP),
  which is the honest name for the case that used to look like a pass.
- `portfolio-optimiser-commons` registered as `shared-asset`, the org's 20th
  repo. Class verified structurally rather than accepted: absent from the
  catalog's `marketplace.json`, no `.claude-plugin/`, `README.md` + `LICENSE`
  present, consumed by both reference implementations as a `git subtree` —
  so `vendor` is the right install form and `## Install` would be wrong to
  require. Its absence was producing three false `LINK-DEAD` ERRORs in
  `portfolio-optimiser` against a repo that exists, and leaving repo #20 with
  zero coverage. Verified after the fact: `portfolio-optimiser` now has no
  ERROR, and the commons repo measures as WARN with 9 checks passed.

### Fixed

- `LINK-DEAD`/`LINK-NON-REPO` false negative on a schemaless host. `URL_REF`
  required `://` or `@host:`, so `git.fromaitochitta.com/open/<name>` — the
  form a subtree instruction routinely uses — resolved to nothing at all
  (measured: llm-security/V3-UPGRADE.md:343). What makes a name resolvable is
  its position after a host, not the scheme in front of it. Two guards keep
  the widening from becoming noise: the host must end in a TLD-shaped label,
  and a candidate preceded by `/` is a path segment that merely contains a
  dot, not a host — so `docs/v1.2/open/` and `test/nav.golden/open/` stay
  silent, and the API-endpoint rule from 0.3.0 is untouched. Measured before
  shipping across 1501 tracked Markdown files in 20 local clones: 14 lines
  changed verdict, 13 of them references that were previously invisible.
- The 14th was a defect the widening introduced, caught by that same
  measurement and fixed here: a markdown link whose display text repeats its
  own URL matched on both halves, which prints one dead reference twice and
  inflates the count the new OK line offers as evidence. References are now
  deduplicated per name-and-line — two different names on one line, or the
  same name on two lines, still count as two.

## [0.3.0] — 2026-08-04

### Added

- `BADGE-DEAD-LINK`: a linked badge making a run claim ("tests", "build",
  "CI", "passing") is now resolved against the repo's tracked files when the
  link target is relative. Being wrapped in a link previously ended all
  scrutiny — the link-target capture group was missing from the regex
  outright, so a badge linked to a dead relative path passed silently.
  External targets (the ordinary case — a CI provider) still need the
  network and stay out of scope, same precedent as `checkInternalLinks`.

### Fixed

- `LINK-DEAD` false positive on API endpoint paths: `URL_REF` matched
  `open/<name>` anywhere in a URL, so a Forgejo API call like
  `.../api/v1/orgs/open/repos` read as a dead reference to a repo named
  "repos". `open` must now be the first path segment after the host,
  matching how every real repo URL is shaped. Measured twice against the
  catalog's own `RUNBOOK.md`.
- 429 backoff was tuned for a hard IP ban that does not exist. Measured
  directly against the live forge: nginx never sends `Retry-After` (the
  branch handling it is dead code in practice), the limit is a leaky bucket
  that can take up to ~15s to drain, and it is IP-based rather than
  token-quota-based — a valid token made no difference. `fetchWithRetry` now
  defaults to a 23s worst-case budget (`retries: 5`, `maxDelayMs: 8000`), up
  from 7s. `CLAUDE.md`'s "13 calls in a loop" explanation corrected to match.
- Two tests asserted facts about their own local test fixture instead of the
  real `register/repos.json` — a typo in the real register would have
  drifted past them silently. Both now read the live register via
  `loadRegister()`.

## [0.2.2] — 2026-08-04

### Fixed

- The engine never printed its own version, which is how a stale plugin cache
  went unnoticed: two repos independently proved the `/repo-standard` skill
  had resolved `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` to a cached `0.1.1` while `0.2.0` was
  installed and the catalog pinned it — same instruction, wrong engine, and
  `0.1.1` has neither `BADGE-COUNT` nor `README-LANGUAGE`, so the run looked
  clean instead of incomplete. The header line and `--json` output now both
  carry `repo-standard v<version>`; `SKILL.md` tells the reader to confirm it
  against the catalog pin before trusting a green result. The cache
  resolution itself is the harness's, not this repo's, and is not fixed here.

## [0.2.1] — 2026-08-04

### Fixed

- The gate makes two anonymous forge calls per invocation (org listing +
  catalog `marketplace.json`), not one — this repo's own `CLAUDE.md` said
  "one" from before `INSTALL-TRUTH` added the second, and stayed wrong long
  enough that a 13-repo shell loop trusted the count and tripped an HTTP 429
  at 26 requests. Both calls now go through `fetchWithRetry`, which honors
  `Retry-After` and retries instead of silently reporting `SKIP` on a
  transient rate limit. `CLAUDE.md` corrected to match.

## [0.2.0] — 2026-08-04

### Added

Two presentation checks, both from adversarially-verified research rather than
taste — `docs/presentation-research-2026-08-03.md` records what the evidence
supports and, more usefully, what it refuses to support.

- `BADGE-COUNT` (`WARN`) — more than five badges. Trockman et al., ICSE 2018
  (n=294,941 npm packages) measured a non-linear relationship with popularity
  inflecting at five, motivated by surveyed maintainers calling over-badged
  READMEs cluttered and "trying too hard". `WARN` and never `ERROR`: the
  coefficient sits in an appendix without CI or p-value, so it carries "more is
  not better" and cannot carry a hard limit. Counting uses a narrower rule than
  the existing claim check — a screenshot or architecture diagram must not be
  counted as clutter. Measured: 8 of 18 `open/` repos are past it.
- `README-LANGUAGE` (`WARN`) — the prose is not in the language this repo's
  readers were declared to speak, via a new `locales` axis in the register.
  English is the default; `ms-ai-architect` and `okr` are declared `nb` as
  Norway-only in audience. Detection is a stopword-frequency comparison over
  prose with code stripped, so a Norwegian flag name in a shell example cannot
  decide the document. Evenly bilingual prose is a `SKIP` — the question is
  live and unanswered. No running prose is an `OK`: nothing claims a language,
  and a thin README is `checkFirstScreen`'s business. Measured: fires on
  exactly the two declared repos, silent on all sixteen English ones.

Deliberately **not** built, because the evidence does not reach: any rule about
images, diagrams, screenshots or terminal recordings (every such claim was
refuted 0-3); a README length bound (no evidence-based target exists); a section
count (would fire on 9 of 18 — textbook "suspect the CHECK"); Mermaid source
length and `#gh-dark-mode-only` (zero occurrences, and the instance's actual
limit is not readable via the API, so any threshold would be a guess).

### Changed

- The skill now carries diagram guidance, deliberately as judgement and not as a
  check. Mermaid is verified to render on this forge; that is capability, not
  justification, and every claim that visuals improve a README was refuted. What
  the guidance covers is a diagram that already exists — height, node labels,
  the silent degradation past `MERMAID_MAX_SOURCE_CHARACTERS`, and the fact that
  `#gh-dark-mode-only` is unavailable below Gitea 1.26.0. The org's own measured
  example renders at 1,459 px and wraps node text mid-word while its neighbour
  sits at 191 px: rendering and rendering well are separate questions.

## [0.1.3] — 2026-08-03

### Fixed

Three more measured false positives, all reported via coord the same day
0.1.2 shipped, from repos running the gate for the first time.

- `extractChangelogTop` truncated a PEP 440 pre-release (`0.5.0a2`) to `0.5.0`,
  so `VERSION-CHANGELOG` disagreed with `VERSION-TAG` — which compares the
  untruncated tag and does not have this problem — over a version the manifest
  and the tag already agreed on. Reported by `llm-ingestion-okf` with a
  repro. An affected repo could reach 0 ERROR only by lying about its version;
  now the pre-release suffix is kept.
- `BADGE-STATIC-CLAIM` treated a bare `status` badge (`status-alpha`,
  `status-experimental`) as a run claim, the same as `tests-34-passing`.
  A self-declared maturity label asserts no run — the same class as version,
  licence and platform, already exempt. Reported by
  `llm-ingestion-pipeline-security`. `build`/`ci`/`passing` still catch the
  run-asserting compounds ("build status", "CI status"); only the bare word
  is dropped.
- `BOILERPLATE` flagged a bare `FIXME` even when it named the *convention*
  rather than an instance of it — a scanner's own docs describing what it
  detects ("Flag TODO/FIXME markers…", a table row listing "TODO/FIXME
  comments" as a finding type) read the same as a forgotten marker. Reported
  by `config-audit`, whose product literally is a marker scanner. "TODO/FIXME"
  named together is now read as the convention; a lone `FIXME` is still
  caught.

## [0.1.2] — 2026-08-03

### Fixed

- `checkInternalLinks` compared a link's resolved target only against
  `present` — the set of tracked *files* — so a link to a directory
  (`[x](dir/)`) was reported `LINK-INTERNAL-MISSING` even when every file
  under that directory was tracked. A directory was never a member of that
  set to begin with. Reported by `portfolio-optimiser-claude` (coord
  20260803T194933Z) with a minimal repro; confirmed and traced to the same
  defect in `voyage`, `linkedin-studio` and `portfolio-optimiser` — 12 of the
  71 ERROR findings measured across the org on 2026-08-03 were this one check,
  not twelve separate repo problems. Fixed by deriving the set of directories
  that actually contain a tracked file from `present` itself, and letting a
  link that resolves to one of them pass.

## [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.

[0.2.0]: https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/repo-standard/src/tag/v0.2.0
[0.1.3]: https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/repo-standard/src/tag/v0.1.3
[0.1.2]: https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/repo-standard/src/tag/v0.1.2
[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