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Fix the Base-Clone Conflict, the Missing Audit Flag, and the Layout - #1685
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes clarify worktree continuation rules, update resynchronization audit commands, and document additional repository layout entries and reusable workflows. ChangesRepository operations and governance
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The updated procedures introduce a continuation path that should explicitly stop on a dirty base clone, and the resync audit command examples should be made consistent within the Skill to avoid operational confusion.
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Pull request overview
This PR updates fleet governance and Skill documentation to resolve three procedural/layout defects recorded in #1155: (1) align repo-worktree’s base-clone mutation ban with its continuation workflow, (2) make resync-a-repo explicitly document the audit invocations (including --branch), and (3) expand GOVERNANCE.md’s “Repository Layout” to accurately describe hub-only vs carried trees and the workflow/task-workflow split.
Changes:
- Extend
repo-worktreeto explicitly allow the specific base-clone branch switch needed for continuation worktrees, and refine continuation handling guidance. - Update
resync-a-repoto spell out the two audit runs (ground-truth vs in-flight--branch) instead of only pointing atRESYNC.md. - Expand
GOVERNANCE.md“Repository Layout” to include hub-only root procedures, the Skill source/generated trees, andhost-setup/, plus clarify.github/workflows/contents.
File summaries
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GOVERNANCE.md |
Updates “Repository Layout” entries and clarifies .github/workflows/ purpose and hub vs carrier distinctions. |
.agents/skills/resync-a-repo/SKILL.md |
Documents explicit spec/audit.py invocations for ground-truth and in-flight branch preview. |
.agents/skills/repo-worktree/SKILL.md |
Resolves base-clone mutation prohibition vs continuation workflow by adding a narrowly-scoped exception and updated continuation handling text. |
.github/skills/resync-a-repo/SKILL.md |
Regenerated distribution copy of the updated resync-a-repo Skill. |
.github/skills/repo-worktree/SKILL.md |
Regenerated distribution copy of the updated repo-worktree Skill. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/resync-a-repo/SKILL.md |
Regenerated Claude plugin copy of the updated resync-a-repo Skill. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/repo-worktree/SKILL.md |
Regenerated Claude plugin copy of the updated repo-worktree Skill. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/resync-a-repo |
Updated source digest reflecting regenerated resync-a-repo content. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digests/repo-worktree |
Updated source digest reflecting regenerated repo-worktree content. |
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Implements items 1 to 3 of the four answers recorded on [#1155](#1155). Item 4 is tooling rather than prose and lands separately, so a tooling problem does not hold these three. ## Item 1: `repo-worktree` no longer forbids the command it requires "The Base Branch" banned every mutating command in the base clone with one exception, "Listing and Cleanup"'s terminal step. "Creating a Worktree" separately requires a continuation to return a checkout holding the task branch to its own working branch, which in the base clone is exactly the forbidden `checkout`. A reader met two units giving opposite instructions and neither stating an exception. The recorded answer was to name the switch a second exception rather than to let the ban win absolutely, which would stall the continuation case the mandate exists for. `gh-write-guard.py` already exempts a non-force `checkout <ref>`/`switch <ref>` and that unit already names the exemption, so only the prose moves and the documented path becomes performable. The exception is one sentence, and the procedure it names went to "Creating a Worktree", where the switch is actually performed. That section gave one remedy, a switch on a clean-tree test, for two cases that need different ones. It now splits by which checkout holds the branch, which `git worktree list` answers and which it prints the base clone first in. The base clone is returned to its own working branch and the worktree is then created. A previous session's own worktree is retired instead, because it normally sits at the exact path `worktree add` wants, so the command aborts on the existing directory whatever its branch is. That is the shape `backlog-burndown` already calls retire-then-dispatch while citing this skill for it, so the skill holding the rule had been instructing the opposite of the skill pointing at it. No caveat rides along. Four review passes each found the one I had added, in a new form each time, and the last of them fired on every continuation rather than none, which nullified both remedies above it. "The Mandate" already carries the stop rule for a tree another task is live in, and it keeps it alone. Both cases carry the clean-tree stop test the text had before the split. The base clone is returned only when its tree is clean, since a dirty shared checkout is the signal another task may be live there, and the sibling worktree is removed only when its tree is clean. The split had dropped that test from the base-clone path while the sibling path kept it, which is the asymmetry Copilot caught. `spec/audit.py` is spelled `python3 spec/audit.py` throughout the skill, including the two pre-existing lines that omitted it. The same paragraph already spelled `python3 scripts/host_gate.py`, `RESYNC.md` spells it the same way, and a Windows host cannot run the file by its shebang. ## Item 2: `resync-a-repo` states both audit invocations itself The skill sent the reader to `RESYNC.md` section 2 and named no flag, so a re-run after fixes measured the target's `main` and re-reported everything the in-flight convergence ref had already fixed. Both invocations now sit in the skill: `python3 spec/audit.py <Repo>` for the first read of `main`, and `python3 spec/audit.py --branch <ref> <RepoName>` to preview in-flight work. They are stated rather than pointed at so the skill still works read in isolation, with no hub checkout open beside it, and the pointer now says section 2 carries further commands these two do not replace, since a reader holding two of its four is the one likeliest to skip it. ## Item 3: `GOVERNANCE.md` "Repository Layout" covers the tree Three content problems, all fixed. `.github/workflows/` was described as "this repo's own lint-only CI and source-only release". In a carrier that asserted the carrier's CI is lint-only and its release source-only, which is wrong for every csharp, python, docker and hugo repo in the fleet. The row now qualifies the hub-specific half and adds the fleet's reusable task workflows, which the description omitted entirely. It says a repo reaches them with `uses:` rather than that every repo already does, since `reports/workflow-reuse.md` records zero direct callers for both `validate-task.yml` and `build-release-task.yml` and `docs/reusable-workflows.md` still has rollout stages unchecked. `STANDUP.md` and `RESYNC.md` are hub-only procedure docs at the root and appeared nowhere in the layout, so a reader following `AGENTS.md` "Fleet Bootstrap" to them was sent to `docs/` and found neither. Both now have a row. `.agents/` and `host-setup/` are cited by path from other canonical units and were likewise absent, an omission invisible because the list otherwise reads as complete. Both now have a row, and the `host-setup/` row names Linux and Windows rather than calling the installers cross-platform, since that tree carries no macOS installer while this file defines cross-platform as Windows, macOS and Linux. The two generated Skill trees get a row each rather than sharing a clause. `.github/skills/` is carried verbatim to every repo per `spec/files.json`, so it is not hub-only and a fix to it belongs at `.agents/skills/`. `.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/` is the hub-only plugin copy, and the row says `marketplace.json` beside it is hand-authored, since `build_dist.py` never writes that file. ## Verification The declared local gate set in `OPERATIONS.md` "Local Verification" passes whole. The `repo-worktree` and `resync-a-repo` edits regenerate into all three distributions.
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It introduces/retains documentation inaccuracies (CI “lint-only”) and an undefined procedural placeholder (<working-branch>) that make the instructions misleading or non-executable.
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Answers Copilot's second round on [#1685](#1685). Both findings are real and both are against text this branch wrote. ## The base-clone command named an undefined placeholder The new continuation step read `git -C ~/repos/<Repo> checkout <working-branch>`, and `<working-branch>` is defined nowhere in the skill. `<Repo>` and `<task-slug>` are, in the layout block, so a reader could resolve every part of the command except the one naming the branch to return to. It now reads `git -C ~/repos/<Repo> checkout develop`, which is what "Listing and Cleanup" already prescribes for the same checkout, "Return the base clone to current `develop`". The base-branch rule above says work starts on `develop` on both fleet workflow models, so spelling it makes the step executable without adding a claim. ## The row no longer says this repository's CI is lint-only `.github/actions/validate/action.yml` runs `unittest discover -s scripts/tests` plus four `--selftest` entry points under coverage, on every pull request, and that action's own description names "the script self-test suite". So "The hub's own CI is lint-only" was false. The row now says the hub's own CI runs the fleet doc-lint set and its own script self-test suite, and that its release is source-only, which was the accurate half. [#1684](#1684) keeps what this does not settle. `README.md` carries the same claim with an enumeration that is separately incomplete, and `spec/type-model.md` defines lint-only as "there is no build/test/package for it in this repo" while the registry declares this repository `types: ["source-only", "docs"]`, so whether the prose term or the classification is the defect is a decision rather than a reword.
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The changes are consistent, internally executable, and align generated Skill distributions with their .agents/ source without introducing behavioral code changes.
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- Around line 32-34: Move the spec/audit.py preflight invocation until after the
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…Check (#1687) Promotes the two changes that implement [#1155](#1155 recorded answers, items 1 to 3 as prose and item 4 as tooling. ## The delta Two squash commits, 21 files, read from `git diff origin/main origin/develop` rather than from a local fast-forward's file list: - `e18730f` [#1685](#1685), the carried-text defects. - `d0e722f` [#1686](#1686), the composite-action schema check. ## What changes for a carrier **`repo-worktree`** no longer forbids in one unit the command it requires in another. "The Base Branch" names the base-clone return as a second exception beside the cleanup step, with the ban rescoped to commands that mutate the working tree, index or HEAD, so `worktree remove` and `branch -d` sit outside it rather than as uncounted exceptions. "Creating a Worktree" splits the continuation by which checkout holds the branch: the base clone is returned to `develop` when its tree is clean and stopped on when it is not, while a previous session's worktree is retired rather than switched, since it normally occupies the very path `worktree add` wants. **`resync-a-repo`** carries both audit invocations itself rather than pointing at `RESYNC.md` section 2 for them, so the skill works read in isolation. `python3 spec/audit.py <RepoName>` measures the ground-truth branch the registry names, and `--branch <ref>` previews in-flight work. The invocation is spelled with `python3` at all four sites, since a shebang does not execute on Windows and this fleet declares that platform first-class. **`GOVERNANCE.md` "Repository Layout"** gains rows for `STANDUP.md`/`RESYNC.md`, `.agents/`, `host-setup/`, `.github/skills/` and `.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/`, and no longer describes this repository's CI as lint-only or its `.github/workflows/` as holding only its own workflows. **A new CI gate** validates every tracked `action.yml` under `.github/actions/` against the action-metadata schema, which actionlint cannot do because it parses an action file as a workflow. It found eight real defects on its first run, all fixed in the same change. `workflow-ci-contract` now states what each check reads and what neither reads, all of it measured rather than asserted. ## Review coverage Both pull requests reached every Merge Gate item before merging: review on head, full coverage, no refusal, zero unresolved threads and zero suppressed findings on head, checks 8 of 8. One boundary, already recorded on [#1686](#1686) and repeated here so it is not inferred from a green check: **CodeRabbit did not review that pull request.** Its check reports `pass` while its own reply to the explicit trigger reads "Review rate limited", and it posted zero comments there. It did review [#1685](#1685). Proceeding on Copilot plus the local passes there was the maintainer's call rather than an inference from the check. ## No closing references None of the issues this work touches is finished by it, so this pull request closes nothing. - **#1155** keeps items 5 to 10. Item 5 has a recorded answer and no implementation, and items 6 to 10 have no answer. - **[#1684](#1684 keeps `README.md`'s copy of the lint-only claim and the question of whether the prose term or the registry classification is the defect. - **[#1682](#1682 is unimplemented, though this round's own cleanup ran its recommended fix by hand and it worked: the remote branch delete ran from each task's worktree before that worktree was removed, which the guard permits where the base clone would have denied it. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
…on Form (#3818) ## Summary Three small `GOVERNANCE.md` prose changes, each made the way the maintainer answered it, plus the `.gitignore` entry one of them calls for. - **#3617, the workspace-edit default.** The maintainer kept the default that treats another VS Code window as hosting no session. Both sentences stating it, in "Verification Discipline" and "Editor and Tasks", now give the reason. Another window's session state is normally unobservable, so assuming a live one would hand every such edit back to the maintainer. That reason is there so a carrier's reviewer does not raise the same finding again. `agent-conduct` includes "Verification Discipline", so `scripts/build_dist.py` regenerated it. - **#3757, the Python Environments extension.** "Editor and Tasks" now says a repository shipping Python lists `.vscode/settings.json` in `.gitignore`. The reason given is that the Python extension installs the Python Environments extension, which writes settings there (it is in `ms-python.python`'s `extensionPack`). The rule that settings live only in the `.code-workspace` file stays. Its `.vscode/` clause now speaks of tracked files, so the generated file does not contradict it. The hub ships Python, so its own `.gitignore` gains the entry. - **#3790, the aggregator's expression name.** The "Job and step `name:` suffixes" bullet now says the ruleset-bound name is the one a `pull_request` run posts. It points to `WORKFLOW.md` D1.5 for the expression form and says each string that expression yields ends in "job". The same-string sentence is scoped to that `pull_request` name too, since an expression `name:` is not literally the context string. ## Not in this change #3768 (Repository Layout) was assigned to this group, but `develop` already has every item its decision lists. #1685 added them on 2026-09-18, before #1155 was split. Its `.github/workflows/` row already scopes the reusable task workflows to the hub, and the `STANDUP.md`/`RESYNC.md`, `.agents/`, and `host-setup/` rows are all there. That issue is left open with a comment giving the evidence, so this pull request does not close it. ## Verification - `scripts/build_dist.py --check`: generated distributions are current. Only `agent-conduct` changed. - `prose_lint.py . --diff` against the merge base: clean. - `spec/validate.py`: OK. - The `tests/` unittest suite: 3332 tests, OK (7 skipped). - `local-strict-review`: three recorded passes at the `frontier` tier. The first two raised findings and each was fixed or classed. The third ran over the final content. ## Pre-existing findings, not filed - `GOVERNANCE.md` "Verification Discipline", the workspace-edit bullet, `pre-existing`: "Where it cannot tell, it asks the maintainer" can be read as covering the unobservable other-window state. The default sentence just before it already settles that case, and the "Editor and Tasks" copy scopes its question to "whether the rule binds it". The sentence predates this change, which adds only the reason clause. A resync is owed to carriers, since the sections this changes are carried. Closes on promotion: #3617, #3757, #3790 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix the Base-Clone Conflict, the Missing Audit Flag, and the Layout
Implements items 1 to 3 of the four answers recorded on
#1155. Item 4
is tooling rather than prose and lands separately, so a tooling problem
does not hold these three.
Item 1:
repo-worktreeno longer forbids the command it requires"The Base Branch" banned every mutating command in the base clone with
one exception, "Listing and Cleanup"'s terminal step. "Creating a
Worktree" separately requires a continuation to return a checkout
holding the task branch to its own working branch, which in the base
clone is exactly the forbidden
checkout. A reader met two units givingopposite instructions and neither stating an exception.
The recorded answer was to name the switch a second exception rather
than to let the ban win absolutely, which would stall the continuation
case the mandate exists for.
gh-write-guard.pyalready exempts anon-force
checkout <ref>/switch <ref>and that unit already namesthe exemption, so only the prose moves and the documented path becomes
performable.
The exception is one sentence, and the procedure it names went to
"Creating a Worktree", where the switch is actually performed. That
section gave one remedy, a switch on a clean-tree test, for two cases
that need different ones. It now splits by which checkout holds the
branch, which
git worktree listanswers and which it prints the baseclone first in. The base clone is returned to its own working branch and
the worktree is then created. A previous session's own worktree is
retired instead, because it normally sits at the exact path
worktree addwants, so the command aborts on the existing directorywhatever its branch is. That is the shape
backlog-burndownalreadycalls retire-then-dispatch while citing this skill for it, so the skill
holding the rule had been instructing the opposite of the skill pointing
at it.
No caveat rides along. Four review passes each found the one I had
added, in a new form each time, and the last of them fired on every
continuation rather than none, which nullified both remedies above it.
"The Mandate" already carries the stop rule for a tree another task is
live in, and it keeps it alone.
Item 2:
resync-a-repostates both audit invocations itselfThe skill sent the reader to
RESYNC.mdsection 2 and named no flag, soa re-run after fixes measured the target's
mainand re-reportedeverything the in-flight convergence ref had already fixed.
Both invocations now sit in the skill:
python3 spec/audit.py <Repo>for the first read of
main, andpython3 spec/audit.py --branch <ref> <RepoName>to preview in-flightwork. They are stated rather than pointed at so the skill still works
read in isolation, with no hub checkout open beside it, and the pointer
now says section 2 carries further commands these two do not replace,
since a reader holding two of its four is the one likeliest to skip it.
Item 3:
GOVERNANCE.md"Repository Layout" covers the treeThree content problems, all fixed.
.github/workflows/was described as "this repo's own lint-only CI andsource-only release". In a carrier that asserted the carrier's CI is
lint-only and its release source-only, which is wrong for every csharp,
python, docker and hugo repo in the fleet. The row now qualifies the
hub-specific half and adds the fleet's reusable task workflows, which
the description omitted entirely. It says a repo reaches them with
uses:rather than that every repo already does, sincereports/workflow-reuse.mdrecords zero direct callers for bothvalidate-task.ymlandbuild-release-task.ymlanddocs/reusable-workflows.mdstill has rollout stages unchecked.STANDUP.mdandRESYNC.mdare hub-only procedure docs at the root andappeared nowhere in the layout, so a reader following
AGENTS.md"Fleet Bootstrap" to them was sent to
docs/and found neither. Bothnow have a row.
.agents/andhost-setup/are cited by path from other canonicalunits and were likewise absent, an omission invisible because the list
otherwise reads as complete. Both now have a row, and the
host-setup/row names Linux and Windows rather than calling the installers
cross-platform, since that tree carries no macOS installer while this
file defines cross-platform as Windows, macOS and Linux.
The two generated Skill trees get a row each rather than sharing a
clause.
.github/skills/is carried verbatim to every repo perspec/files.json, so it is not hub-only and a fix to it belongs at.agents/skills/..claude-plugin/fleet-skills/is the hub-only plugincopy, and the row says
marketplace.jsonbeside it is hand-authored,since
build_dist.pynever writes that file.Verification
The declared local gate set in
OPERATIONS.md"Local Verification"passes whole. The
repo-worktreeandresync-a-repoedits regenerateinto all three distributions.
Local review
Four adversarial passes, 24 findings, every one dispositioned. Two declined with evidence: repo-relative links to hub-only paths, consistent with the six pre-existing hub-only rows in the same intent-fidelity section, and sentence length, where the opt-in
sentence-lengthcheck is violated pervasively tree-wide. The rest fixed.Three of the four passes found the same invented caveat, in a new form each round, and the last one fired on every continuation rather than none. It is deleted rather than rewritten a fourth time.
Not this pull request
#1684, filed from this work:
GOVERNANCE.mdandREADME.mdboth say this repository's CI is lint-only, and.github/actions/validateruns the script test suite plus four selftests on every pull request. The.github/workflows/row here restates that clause without originating it, and the fix spansREADME.mdand the registry entry.RESYNC.mdsection 2 says "Three commands cover the mechanized part" and then walks "the first / the second / the third" over a four-line block, leaving--branchuncounted. Pre-existing, outside this diff, not filed yet.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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