skills-external/emil-design-eng/SKILL.md is curl'd from emilkowalski/skill
by install-plugins.sh when absent and re-fetched unconditionally by every
update-all.sh run, so tracking it produced a repo diff on each upstream edit
(latest: Radix vars dropped for Base UI). Same category as frontend-design/
and impeccable/, already ignored on that rationale — a fresh clone re-fetches
it, so no offline copy is needed and nothing was pinned here anyway.
design-motion-principles/ has the same overwrite-on-update behaviour but NOT
the same bootstrap: install-plugins.sh only warns instead of cloning it, so it
stays tracked until that gap is closed.
Opus 5 follows conservative-reporting clauses literally; 'a manufactured
concern is a failure' risked suppressing real low-confidence findings.
In-place reword: ungrounded stays noise, grounded-but-uncertain files as
[MINOR] with the uncertainty in WHY:. OUTPUT grammar byte-identical;
census row added.
3rd tightening pass (series LRN-1005/1007): bare "ux" matched inside
French prose (2 logged FPs, both FR — latest "changement ux vu").
\bui\b kept: zero logged FP, one logged true positive, now locked by a
must-fire test row. Flip-tested: quiet row fired pre-change.
BDR-065 delete-side now automated (lib/gitflow.sh _gitflow_purge_transient).
LRN-138: gitignore != delete for run-time artifacts read from disk — use
commit-during-run + auto-delete at the integration boundary. TODO checked,
journal line.
_gitflow_purge_transient removes docs/superpowers/{specs,plans} on the
feature/bugfix branch just before the directed merge, so develop's tip
lands clean while the feature commits stay reachable as the archive
(git show <sha>:...). Best-effort: never aborts a finish (no-op when
absent, skip on dirty paths, restore index+tree on commit failure).
Opt-out GITFLOW_PURGE_TRANSIENT=0; purge-transient CLI verb. Automates
the manual post-merge cleanup BDR-065 left as doctrine (slipped once,
655e364). Universal via the ~/.claude/lib symlink. gitflow-test T17 a-d;
shellcheck clean; make test exit 0.
- Fresh-install block: clone URL → github.com/bchanot/claude, bash
install.sh/doctor.sh → make install / make doctor (user pass)
- magic MCP example: placeholder key line instead of WRONG/RIGHT contrast
- new subsection: SEO data layer needs GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID/SECRET +
CRUX_API_KEY in ~/.claude/.env (GCP steps, make seo-connect, graceful
degradation) — mirrors .env.example
- docs/plans + docs/specs (deploy-skill 2026-06-27): predate the BDR-065
lifecycle codification, never swept
- docs/superpowers/{plans,specs} (model-routing 2026-07-15): 6-wave
chantier — final W6 merge closed it without the purge step
Git history at the feature commits is the archive (BDR-065).
- MANAGED_EXTERNALS (emil-design-eng, frontend-design,
design-motion-principles, impeccable) + MANAGED_MCPS (magic):
cmd_set now trims both when the profile does not list them —
design leftovers no longer survive a 'set backend'
- cmd_set refactored to 4 symmetric trim helpers; nothing outside
the MANAGED_* allowlists is ever auto-toggled (darwin-skill manual)
- enable_skill external: from-source fallback (ln -sf
skills-external/<name>), mirrors toggle-external.sh
- stale usage() NOTE + SKILL.md updated to the both-ways reality
- hermetic test: 16 checks, fixture repo + fake claude shim (gstack
on-demand, from-source, park/restore, magic add/remove, non-managed
untouched); shellcheck + full make test green
Fresh-opus whole-chantier ronde (17fbe51..HEAD, EVAL-023 style): axes
severed-wires / gate-regressions / fail-open PROVEN CLEAN (all 7 new
handoffs traced end-to-end both sides). Fixed: init 5b now dispatches the
FULL-AUDIT path (auto-mode gated a missing README as SIGNIFICANT →
[CREATE-AUTO] unconditional restored, sole greenfield README path);
census locks added for /geo ERROR CONTRACT + never-re-derive (deleting
the fail-closed handler would have stayed green), doc-audit
model=opus override x5 flows, SYNTH REPORT grammar; doc-syncer ex-STEP-8
prose repointed to the dispatcher gate; plugin-advisor anim rows read
the PROBE REPORT ANIM field (no Bash anymore); client-handover 9.7
cleans the transient draft. Census caught one more line-wrapped lock
before it shipped vacuous. 133 pass / 0 fail, make test exit 0.
seo-analyzer + geo-analyzer gain MODE: collect|judge|template around the
dispatcher (mode-based, zero body-text moves — seo-data fetch-wiring
locks survive; opus pin kept = fail-safe direction, a forgotten override
over-tiers but never downgrades judgment). Run-scoped gitignored
signals handoff (.audit/*-signals-<RUNID>.md + COLLECTION COMPLETE
sentinel), judge fails closed on absent/mismatched/unsealed signals.
/seo rewired to 3 phases (domains parallel per phase) + DISPATCHER ERROR
CONTRACT (mute/ERROR judge never carried into templating; retry once,
escalate); /geo same single-domain; legacy no-MODE single-shot kept on
the opus pin for /harden narrow-scope + /onboard report-only. Dropped
/geo's 'ask and I relay' fiction (dispatched agents cannot ask).
In-wave smokes PASSED disk-verified: collect signals+sentinel; judge
ERROR-verdict on wrong RUNID; real judge = honest N/A + deterministic
engine + full scoring grammar; template = complete envelope + verbatim
sentinel + zero re-derivation. Census §18 (125 pass — one vacuous
line-wrapped lock caught by the census itself and fixed), make test
exit 0.
Bastien Chanot