repo-standard/CHANGELOG.md
Kjell Tore Guttormsen 6b1db0096e feat(gate): install truth, honest badges anywhere, and two stripCode bugs
Install truth is the brief's first control and the gate only checked
syntax. Now: the marketplace URL must be the real one (offline, from the
register), and the plugin must actually be pinned in the catalog (one
call, SKIP if unreachable). A well-formed `claude plugin install x@mkt`
fails silently when x was never pinned.

This makes the gate block ITSELF until publication finishes - the run
against this repo now has exactly one ERROR, and it is true: repo-standard
is not in the catalog yet. That is the post-publish acceptance test,
enforced mechanically instead of remembered.

Badge honesty no longer keys on img.shields.io. A self-hosted SVG asserts
the same unverified thing, and the README claimed the general rule while
the code checked one host.

Two stripCode bugs, both silent false passes:
- 4-space indent treated as code unconditionally made links inside nested
  list items invisible. Fixed by requiring a blank line to OPEN a block.
- That fix alone ended the block after line 1, so multi-line indented
  templates leaked back into scanning. Caught by the gate on this repo's
  own SKILL.md, which shows a README template containing a CHANGELOG link.
A block now opens on a blank line and continues while the indent holds.

Also corrected two claims in this README: it said "one network call"
when there are two, and it still argued against a CONTRIBUTING using
reasoning the solo-maintainer section had already replaced.

77 tests. llm-security regression: still zero link and boilerplate noise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WYJ3FHLtVgzFXMZ6UF598h
2026-07-27 16:13:17 +02:00

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# 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).
## [0.1.0] — 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`. Five checks: README first screen, install block, files
required by the repo's class, `open/<name>` references, 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.
- 77 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.
- The org listing is read in **one** call, anonymously. Per-repo fetching trips
the forge's rate limiter.
- `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.
[0.1.0]: https://git.fromaitochitta.com/open/repo-standard/src/tag/v0.1.0