repo-standard/CLAUDE.md
Kjell Tore Guttormsen 9fcceb7522 fix(gate): the reader sets a link's level, and a repo's name is its remote
Two defects that only org-wide measurement exposes. Both were found by running
the gate against seventeen repositories, not by reading the code.

Link level follows the reader. 30 of 43 LINK-INTERNAL-MISSING findings sat in
`shared/`, `docs/plan/` and `.claude/` -- session plans, agent working files,
and path-traversal fixtures whose targets are invalid on purpose. All 30 were
ERRORs. portfolio-optimiser scored 19 ERRORs and 15 of them were noise. A gate
that wrong gets switched off, so root documents stay ERROR and everything below
becomes WARN. Only the level moves; the finding keeps its file and line.

The OK line had to move with it: it asserted "every resolvable relative link
resolves" whenever no ERROR was present, which would have printed it beside a
pile of WARNs saying the opposite.

The repo name comes from `git remote get-url origin`. `catalog/` is the working
directory of `ktg-plugin-marketplace`; the basename left it REPO-UNREGISTERED
with zero checks run -- against the one repo every catalog rule depends on. The
scp form is handled because the forge's clone button hands it out, and a bare
host is not a repo name (that test caught a real bug: `https://host/` parsed as
a repo named after the host).

Re-measured: portfolio-optimiser 19 ERROR -> 4, all four genuine. catalog now
reports as `ktg-plugin-marketplace [catalog]` and runs its full rule set.

Still v0.1.0: nothing is pushed, no tag exists, no consumer has seen it.

77 -> 84 tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EeNsGsWukggfmLQ926WZPx
2026-08-03 19:53:57 +02:00

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repo-standard

Per-repo gate for the open/ presentation standard, packaged as a marketplace plugin.

Context

Two components, one boundary:

  • Engine (scripts/repo-standard-check.mjs) — pure classifiers with all I/O resolved into their input, mirroring the marketplace's check-versions.mjs. Findings are ERROR/WARN/SKIP/OK; exit 1 on ERROR. Pinned by scripts/repo-standard-check.test.mjs (npm test).
  • Skill (skills/repo-standard/) — the judgement the script cannot encode. No checking logic lives here; it calls the engine.

register/repos.json is the single taxonomy register (name → class, per-class requirements, and the known non-repo names). Central by design: per-repo copies would recreate, in data, exactly the drift this plugin exists to remove.

Invariants

  • This repo has a PUBLIC remote. STATE.md is LOCAL-ONLY and gitignored from the first commit. Repos on a private remote track theirs — do not carry that habit across in either direction.
  • The gate sees ONE repo. Anything needing a view across the whole org (topic coverage, competing install forms, catalog-vs-forge divergence) does not belong here. It is measured where the org is enumerated.
  • It records, it does not fix. Findings first, remediation afterwards. Patching while measuring is how the inconsistency it detects was produced.
  • SKIP is never a pass. A check that could not run says so and names why.
  • When a check fires many times in one repo, suspect the CHECK. The first link pass produced ~30 findings against llm-security and all were noise — regexes in code spans, file: URLs, relative paths resolved against the wrong directory. Strip code before scanning text; resolve links against the file they sit in. A gate that is wrong this often gets switched off.
  • Two axes on every finding. Level (ERROR/WARN/SKIP/OK) and bucket (broken/missing/weakening). They are independent — a weakening finding can be an ERROR.
  • Class is structural, traits are judgement. Class is read off the catalog and the remotes. A trait (security) says what the code does, which no remote knows, and the operator owns that list.
  • Who the reader is decides what is required. Contributor-facing documents are required by no class — solo-maintained, and the published stance says so. Consumer-facing ones (SECURITY.md, LICENSE, non-goals, limitations) are untouched by that. This is not a rule against having the others.
  • No CI badge, because there is no CI. The forge has zero Actions runners registered (measured). The substitute is one command from a clean clone, said plainly. A static badge asserting a run is the anti-pattern this gate flags — and an early draft of this README carried one.
  • Three outcomes on references. "No match" and "match on a known non-repo" must stay distinct findings. Collapsing them hides real loss inside correct text — the exact defect class this gate exists to catch.
  • One API call, anonymous. The org listing carries description and topics already; per-repo fetching trips the rate limiter (HTTP 429). It reads without a token, so the gate works for any reader — a public plugin whose documented check only runs for its author is a broken plugin.
  • Codepoints, not bytes, not UTF-16 units. Use [...s].length. An em-dash exposes only the byte layer; astral characters expose the rest.
  • The reader decides a link's level, not just what is required. Root documents are the shop window — a dead link there is an ERROR. Below the root it is a WARN: that is where session plans, agent working files and path-traversal fixtures with deliberately invalid targets live. Measured, 30 of 43 findings were down there and all were ERRORs.
  • A repo's name is its remote, not its directory. catalog/ holds ktg-plugin-marketplace. The basename left it unregistered with zero checks run, against the one repo every catalog rule depends on.
  • No hook until the rule is precise. A blocking gate that fails a correct repository is the mechanism that gets gates switched off.

Commands

npm test                                                  # 84 tests
node scripts/repo-standard-check.mjs --dir "$PWD"         # gate one repo
node scripts/repo-standard-check.mjs --offline            # no network call
node scripts/repo-standard-check.mjs --json               # machine output
node scripts/repo-standard-check.mjs --refresh            # register vs. forge

Release

Polyrepo rule: a version bump is not finished until the tag vX.Y.Z is pushed and the catalog ref is bumped to it. Use release-plugin.mjs, never a hand-edited ref.

check-versions.mjs reads the catalog README's per-plugin label, and a missing entry is a silent null rather than an error — release-plugin.mjs rewrites an existing heading but cannot create one. A new plugin's catalog README entry has to be added by hand once.