A doctor that cries false is a doctor you ignore (LRN-047). Three stale
checks fixed:
- cargo "(RTK unavailable)" -> honest optional info: RTK ships prebuilt
(detect_rtk finds ~/.cargo/bin|~/.local/bin), cargo only builds it from
source.
- check_symlink passes files reached via dir-level symlinks. hooks/,
skills/, agents/, lib/, templates/ are directory symlinks, so a child
like hooks/session-start.sh is a real file under $REPO, not a symlink
itself. Now: PASS iff the canonical path lands in $REPO; a stray real
copy still warns as drift.
- gstack check counts the 34 per-skill symlinks into skills-external/gstack/
instead of a mythical skills/gstack link (link.sh deliberately removes
that one -> "run link.sh" could never satisfy the old check).
- token budget vs the 200k default context window, not a bogus 11k
"session budget" -- the old denominator was a category error producing a
false "92% CRITICAL". Measured footprint ~11.4k post-audit (LRN-088) ->
~5% of context.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XpphkdTosUzokBDNG7PToS
- EXPECTED_DENY hardcoded 100 vs 99 real → derive from committed
settings.json (HEAD): auto-tracks legit deny edits, still flags
live-vs-committed divergence.
- EXPECTED_SKILLS required gstack 'health' (OFF by default, profile-
managed): false warn on a default install with a wrong remedy —
link.sh cannot restore gstack skills. Dropped; 'status' kept (repo-
owned personal skill, git ls-files proven).
- disable-model-invocation check required a key BDR-019 stripped
repo-wide (2026-06-09) → warned on every owned skill since.
Inverted into a BDR-019 regression watch.
- pass message derives the skill list from the array (LRN-005 class:
no hardcoded display drift).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016zA3Qh2Q1QpcGXzXxKeDHR
jq is used 18+ times in always-on hooks (statusline.sh, rtk-rewrite.sh)
but was never installed by any script — it only worked because dev
machines happened to have it; a bare machine breaks at hook-run time.
Add it to Step 1 (same inline pattern as the other prereqs) and to
doctor.sh at fail level.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UyNYwD4UccVw9ZCFZyJX55
The gstack/bin/ and gstack/browse/dist/ symlinks (added in link.sh) were
missing from install-plugins.sh and update-all.sh, meaning fresh installs
and updates wouldn't create them. Also adds doctor.sh health checks.
- install-plugins.sh: create symlinks after gstack ./setup
- update-all.sh: refresh symlinks after gstack submodule update
- doctor.sh: verify both symlinks exist in consistency section
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Replace readme → doc in EXPECTED_SKILLS (readme skill was replaced by doc)
- Replace readme-updater → doc-syncer in EXPECTED_AGENTS
- Skip external/symlinked skills in disable-model-invocation check —
external skills (frontend-design, emil-design-eng, darwin-skill, find-skills)
and gstack skills (symlinked SKILL.md) are not owned by this repo
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires JuliusBrussee/caveman into the always-on tier alongside
security-guidance and superpowers. Caveman compresses Claude's output
tokens (~75%) by speaking like a caveman while keeping technical
substance. Three layers:
1. Plugin (caveman@caveman, marketplace JuliusBrussee/caveman)
— adds /caveman, /caveman-commit, /caveman-review, /caveman-stats,
/caveman-help, /cavecrew, /compress + 3 cavecrew agents +
SessionStart/UserPromptSubmit hooks from the plugin path.
2. Standalone hooks (statusline + stats badge) deployed by
caveman's own hooks/install.sh into ~/.claude/hooks/. Paths in
settings.json normalized to ~/.claude/hooks/... so this user's
home dir doesn't leak across machines.
3. caveman-shrink MCP proxy — NOT auto-registered. The bare proxy
fails health checks because it requires an upstream MCP server
to wrap. install-plugins.sh STEP 5.5 prints a snippet showing how
to register a wrapped entry (e.g. caveman-shrink-fs) when the user
decides which upstream to compress.
New helper enable_plugin() for explicit always-on activation —
'claude plugin install' only copies into cache, doesn't write
enabledPlugins. Idempotent via Python json check.
doctor.sh adds detect_caveman / detect_caveman_hooks / detect_caveman_shrink
checks plus a 300t passive-cost adder. update-all.sh refreshes hook
files via the upstream installer's --force mode.
.gitignore covers caveman runtime files materialized into hooks/
because ~/.claude/hooks is symlinked to this repo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
doctor.sh exited at the gstack-skills-count step on machines where
~/.claude/skills/gstack does not contain a skills/ subdirectory (e.g.
when the gstack submodule layout puts skills directly at root). Under
set -o pipefail, find's non-zero exit propagated through wc | tr,
killing the script before it reached the prerequisites/plugins/budget
sections.
Wrap the find in a brace group with `|| true` so the pipe stays
zero-exit and downstream sections run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bastien Chanot