Every superpowers-prefixed skill call in ship-feature, init-project, tour,
deploy, audit-delta, plugin-advisor and lib/analyze-before-plan now names
the vendored skill directly. finishing-a-development-branch is described
as the upstream skill this config does not vendor (gitflow finish is the
integration path). CLAUDE.global.md Skill routing maps the four
non-vendored skills the vendored text still references. settings.json
loses the plugin key and its marketplace block; README, USAGE,
plugin-advisor and the profile skill describe superpowers as vendored
skills, always on, zero plugin cost. CHANGELOG entry with a known
residual.
plugins.lock.json gains a superpowers entry (obra/superpowers @ 5bf4e78,
path skills, per-skill file lists, always_on) that lib/vendor-skills.sh
fetches byte-for-byte: brainstorming, writing-plans,
subagent-driven-development, test-driven-development,
requesting-code-review, using-git-worktrees, writing-skills. install-plugins
STEP 8e vendors it, update-all refreshes it at the pin, link.sh links the
seven, .gitignore ignores them. The plugin is no longer installed or
protected: its 8 other skills duplicated personal flows and its
SessionStart injection cost ~900 tokens per start, clear and compact.
detect_superpowers is one file test on the linked skill; doctor and
session-start stop charging the injection. doctor-vendored gains an
always_on class (third lock column) so always-on externals are
link-checked instead of reported parked.
The design gate checked the 21st CLI with command -v only, so an
installed-but-signed-out CLI read as READY and every 21st step failed
downstream. tool_active now probes 21st whoami through a three-state
function: signed in (TWENTYFIRST_TOKEN or API_KEY_21ST set, or 'Logged in
as'), signed out (exact 'Not logged in'), unknown (rc != 0, timeout,
unexpected output). Signed out is a new verdict, SIGN-IN REQUIRED, exit
12: design-gate.md tells the orchestrator to ask the user to run
! 21st login, end the turn, re-run the gate on their reply, and to skip
21st only on an explicit 'proceed without 21st', never silently. Unknown
surfaces as exit 11 with the whoami diagnostic and a CLI-runtime remedy,
so a node/PATH failure can never loop on a sign-in prompt. INCOMPLETE
still wins. Hermetic suite lib/tests/design-tool-gate.test.sh (stub CLI,
fixture repo through DESIGN_GATE_REPO_OVERRIDE) covers every state.
settings.json: ENABLE_STOP_REVIEW=0 (the plugin's own switch: no more
Opus call on every turn that changes code, 0 findings in 6 days, 1
recorded false positive; the regex layer and the commit/push agentic
review stay on), brightdata-plugin@synced false (keyless-useless, its MCP
skill would hijack WebFetch/WebSearch), frontend-design official plugin
entry gone (uninstalled: byte-identical to the managed copy).
CLAUDE.global.md routes Ship/PR to ship-feature (gstack ship takes
origin/HEAD = main as base), drops ship/context-save from the gstack-off
list and 21st-ui-review from the design review line (trio is max-only).
deploy's table no longer points at land-and-deploy/setup-deploy.
plugin-advisor.md describes security-guidance's real mechanics. CHANGELOG
Unreleased entry with a Known residual section.
gstack skills hardcode ~/.claude/skills/gstack/<path> for 83 shared assets
(bin, scripts/jargon-list.json, ETHOS.md, */sections, review/specialists,
make-pdf/dist, lib/diagram-render/dist, freeze/bin...) but only bin and
browse/dist were linked: make-pdf and diagram failed on every run, cso and
plan-*-review could not read their sections, the freeze hook exited 127.
lib/gstack-links.sh links every top-level entry except SKILL.md, skips
non-skill dirs holding a nested SKILL.md (browser-skills, openclaw,
node_modules), removes the global symlink gstack ./setup plants and refuses
a destination inside the submodule. link.sh, install-plugins.sh and
update-all.sh all call it (three hand-copied blocks gone).
doctor.sh counted 34 skills (find without -L) and zero chars for block
scalar descriptions; lib/doctor-skills.sh reuses the census parser and
counts through the symlinks. Plugin constants re-based on measured values;
install-plugins.sh notes why frontend-design@claude-plugins-official and
brightdata-plugin@synced stay off and describes security-guidance truthfully.
Nine gstack skills leave every profile (ship is trunk-based on Gitea,
land-and-deploy auto-merges and deploys, setup-deploy, autoplan reads
paths that do not exist here, context-save has no restore, learn is an
unused parallel store, careful and guard hooks never fired, design-shotgun
needs an absent OpenAI key). lib/gstack-removed.sh is the single denylist;
profile.sh gstack on and toggle-external.sh enable gstack skip it.
full now carries everything every other profile carries (user rule), minus
the parked make-pdf, diagram and 21st-ai/ui-explore/ui-review, which live
in the new max profile together with pr-review-toolkit. The 21st trio also
leaves web, web-full and design (redundant with impeccable + ui-ux-pro-max).
lib/tests/profile-census.test.sh asserts the invariants live and on a
baseline fixture plus one mutant per invariant; gstack-removed.test.sh
covers both restore paths.
lib/doctor-vendored.sh check_vendored_skills: every curl-pinned lock entry
has its files under skills-external/ (list, dict, single-path shapes),
every link.sh EXTERNAL_SKILLS name is symlinked into ~/.claude/skills when
the active profile lists it, parked names reported not failed, hints make
plugin / make link. Lock shape-validated (warn, never a traceback), profile
and item names allowlisted before becoming paths. Suite: 11 cases.
Two security-gate LOW notes closed on user ask: the SAFE guard uses
re.fullmatch so a trailing newline is rejected; commit (40 hex), source
(github.com owner/repo) and path (SAFE class, no traversal) are validated
before any URL is built, INVALID marker names the field. Suite 12 cases.
Personal skill distilling the MengTo motion pack invariants (LRN-141):
gates first (reduced motion renders final states, content visible without
JS, compositor-only, offscreen pause), one smooth-scroll engine with the
Lenis/ScrollTrigger sync, Astro ClientRouter lifecycle, numbered recipes
(reveal, scrub, sticky stack, video and image scrub, TreeWalker split,
progressive blur, marquee, WebGL budgets), upstream pitfalls, checklist.
Routed into the Build UI chain of CLAUDE.global.md and lib/design-gate.md.
lib/vendor-skills.sh: vendor_pinned_skills <lock-key> [refresh], list or
dict lock shapes, lock read via python argv, traversal and charset guard
on lock values, VENDOR_BASE_URL honoured only as file:// (hermetic suite),
per-file tmp+mv, refresh skips a skill never installed. install-plugins.sh
Step 8e and update-all.sh 7.3 call it for agent-skills and mengto-skills.
Vendored at a965851: scroll-world-storytelling, build-threejs-scroll-worlds
(+5 references), scroll-scrubbed-visual-sequence, scroll-scrubbed-word-
reveal, scroll-progress-timeline; text files only. Registered in link.sh,
.gitignore, toggle-external, profile.sh and the design/web/web-full/full
profiles, which also list site-motion (personal). Suite: 8 cases.
Security-gate MEDIUM: a self-service floor-guard: allow <reason> neutralised
the detector in the same commit. User chose strict: the tool prints WAIVED,
the contract authorizes, the verifier counts the rest as gaps. BDR-102
amendment.
Fourteen lines of stack-agnostic micro-rules (dvh, safe-area, paste,
tabular-nums, text-wrap, z-index scale, compositor-only motion, 44 px
targets, focus-visible, status not by color alone, errors by the field,
one accent per view). Case 3 of the 6-repo review: nothing installed.
Top 10 description pairs, WARN >= 0.50, FAIL >= 0.75, fixture flip-test
with a positive control and a sensitivity re-run (2-doc corpora are
degenerate, LRN-172). Baseline 2026-09-27: 120 skills, max 0.52
(careful ~ guard). Adapted from agent-skills evals Tier 2.
observability-and-instrumentation, deprecation-and-migration,
ci-cd-and-automation from addyosmani/agent-skills 2686b620, curl'd into
skills-external/<name>/ by install-plugins.sh Step 8e (tmp+mv), refreshed
by update-all.sh 7.3, symlinked by link.sh, registered in toggle-external,
profile.sh and the full/backend/dev profiles. Pin read from the lock via
argv, never hardcoded. Case 2 of the 6-repo review, BDR-102.
`profile.sh apply full` linked skills/diagram (added to full today) and it
showed as untracked: the per-skill allowlist never listed it (LRN-025
class). One literal line, alphabetical slot; the full.profile census now
finds every bare gstack entry ignored.
bastien