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Fixes#1070. `local-strict-review/SKILL.md`'s subagent-briefing template copied the closing sentence of `AGENTS.md`'s own template ("If a rule you were given does not cover what you find, stop and report it. Do not guess, and do not read a governance file to resolve it.") verbatim into its fenced instantiation, instead of only referencing it. That risks silent drift if `AGENTS.md`'s template wording changes later. Fix: dropped the copied line from the fenced template block, added one prose sentence outside the fence pointing at `AGENTS.md`'s own template line instead. Applied to the canonical source (`.agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md`) and regenerated the two mirrored copies (`.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/`, `.github/skills/`) via `scripts/build_dist.py`. Ran `local-strict-review` against this branch's own diff before pushing (dogfooding it, per the issue's own subject): it confirmed the fix's core claim (the referenced line is verbatim-present in `AGENTS.md`) and caught one real prose-convention slip — the new sentence was hard-wrapped across two physical lines, the one paragraph in the file breaking its own single-line-per-paragraph convention (`.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` disables MD013 deliberately for this file's long-paragraph style). Fixed before this push. `scripts/build_dist.py --check`, `scripts/prose_lint.py`, `scripts/repo_gate.py`, and `scripts/host_gate.py` all pass. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Updated review guidance to improve briefing formatting and clarify how unresolved rules are communicated. * Standardized instructions across supported review workflows for a more consistent review experience. * Clarified the expected closing statement when applicable rules do not fully resolve a finding. * **Chores** * Refreshed supporting metadata to keep workflow resources synchronized. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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🟡 Changes recommended
The new “Close with … from AGENTS.md” line lives inside the fenced subagent-brief template but does not include the closing text, which can make the template ambiguous to use as-is.
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Pull request overview
Promotes develop to main, carrying the local-strict-review skill update that avoids duplicating AGENTS.md boilerplate by referencing the unresolved-rule closing line instead.
Changes:
- Replaced the verbatim unresolved-rule closing sentence in
local-strict-review’s subagent-brief template with a reference to the canonicalAGENTS.mdline. - Regenerated the mirrored skill distributions for GitHub Copilot and the Claude plugin.
- Updated the Claude plugin
.source-digestto reflect the regenerated content.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| .github/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md | Mirrors the updated local-strict-review guidance for GitHub Copilot. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md | Mirrors the updated local-strict-review guidance for the Claude plugin distribution. |
| .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digest | Updates the plugin digest to match the regenerated skill content. |
| .agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md | Canonical source change: references AGENTS.md instead of restating the unresolved-rule closing line. |
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Follow-up to #1074 (issue #1070), found by the develop -> main promotion PR (#1077)'s own review. Copilot sharpened Qodo's earlier ambiguity finding on the same line: the closing-reference sentence sat inside the fenced subagent-brief template with no field-name prefix, unlike the template's other five fields (Task/Paths/Rules that bind this task/Return/Bounds), so it read as literal content handed to the subagent rather than an instruction to whoever assembles the brief — and the subagent has no access to `AGENTS.md` to resolve it. Fix: gave it its own `Close:` field, phrased the same way line 45 already resolves the identical pattern (inserting canonical content into the prompt at assembly time rather than restating it): `quote X into the prompt`. Ran `local-strict-review` against this branch's diff before pushing; no blocking findings (one purely stylistic comma-splice nit, not a rule violation, left as-is). <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Updated review guidance to require quoting the exact unresolved-rule closing line, “Context and Delegation Discipline,” rather than referring to it indirectly. * Synchronized the same instruction across all distributed review guidance. * Refreshed associated source metadata to reflect the updated guidance. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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The new Close: key inside the subagent-brief template deviates from AGENTS.md’s canonical briefing shape and should be reworked to keep the template format consistent.
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Follow-up to #1074/#1079 (issue #1070), found by the develop -> main promotion PR (#1077)'s second review round. Copilot flagged the `Close:` field #1079 introduced as a non-canonical key: `AGENTS.md`'s own template ("Context and Delegation Discipline") has exactly 5 labeled fields (Task/Paths/Rules that bind this task/Return/Bounds) followed by one unlabeled trailing sentence, not a 6th labeled field. `local-strict-review/SKILL.md`'s own "Running It" section says to follow that exact shape. Round 1 fix (commit 2778010): dropped the `Close:` label, went back to an unlabeled trailing line in the same position `AGENTS.md`'s own closing sentence occupies, kept #1079's "quote X into the prompt" phrasing. A fresh Copilot round then flagged that this still read as an imperative instruction addressed to the subagent, who cannot fulfil it (no AGENTS.md access) - the same ambiguity #1079 had already addressed once. Round 2 fix (commit 2faa0e0, current): replaced the imperative sentence with an explicit angle-bracket placeholder, matching `AGENTS.md`'s own template syntax exactly (which uses `<...>` for every field value). This is the second use of that convention in this file, not a new one - `<target>` already appears the same way at line 40. Fails safe if pasted unsubstituted: an obvious unfilled token rather than a misleading instruction. Ran `local-strict-review` against this branch's diff before each push, explicitly asked to hunt for a reason a further round could still be needed. Round 2's review: no confirmed defect, and a specific, honest assessment of why this shape is unlikely to bounce again (matches an established in-file convention, fails safe, closes every prior round's concern simultaneously).
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The skill templates now contain a literal placeholder string instead of actionable instructions for subagents, which breaks the intended guidance.
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Root cause of a recurring complaint: local-strict-review (and other Skills/rules) not firing reliably unless explicitly told to. Confirmed against current official Claude Code docs: Claude Code reads `CLAUDE.md`, not `AGENTS.md`, at all. This repo (and every fleet repo, per the same convention) carries `AGENTS.md` as its provider-agnostic instruction file specifically so Codex, opencode, and Claude Code all read the same rules with no per-provider duplication - but that design silently failed for Claude Code specifically, since `AGENTS.md` never reached a Claude Code session's context automatically. It only surfaced when an agent chose to read it mid-task, which is exactly the unreliable path this fix closes. Fix: a root `CLAUDE.md` using Claude Code's official `@AGENTS.md` import syntax (confirmed: the import works anywhere in the file, not only as the first line - kept after an H1 heading to satisfy MD041). No duplicated content, one import line plus a short paragraph explaining why, matching the fleet's own don't-duplicate-per-provider design. Also: - New `spec/files.json` baseline entry (`fidelity: verbatim`, `whole: true`, `appliesTo: "*"`), same shape as `.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` (fleet-generic, no governed per-repo divergence), so `resync-a-repo`/`audit-a-repo` propagate it to every fleet repo over time. - `STANDUP.md`'s "carry the instruction set" list and `RESYNC.md`'s "apply, in this order" step 1 both now name `CLAUDE.md` alongside `AGENTS.md`/`GOVERNANCE.md`/`CODESTYLE.md`/`WORKFLOW.md`, with an explicit carve-out from the `carried-instruction-file-guard` skill's probe (that guard is for mixed verbatim+intent content; `CLAUDE.md` carries none by design, same exemption `.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc` already has). - `GOVERNANCE.md`'s own "Repository Layout" bullet list gains the new root file. Scope note: this fixes the hub itself. Every other fleet repo picks this up at its own next `resync-a-repo`/`audit-a-repo` pass via the new baseline entry, per the existing rollout mechanism - not a manual per-repo sweep in this PR. Local-strict-review dogfooded across two rounds on this branch (findings from round 1 - a missing `GOVERNANCE.md` bullet, an over-broad guard-probe sentence that would have swept in the new exempt file - fixed before round 2 confirmed clean). <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Documentation** * Added a dedicated Claude Code entry point that references centralized repository guidance. * Updated governance and contributor instructions to include the new entry point. * Clarified synchronization procedures for incomplete guidance files and Claude Code configuration. * **Chores** * Updated the standard repository baseline to preserve the new guidance file consistently. * Improved synchronization safeguards and processing for instruction files. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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New prose hard-wraps mid-sentence in CLAUDE.md and introduces an awkward sentence/run-on wrap in the resync-a-repo Skill copies that is likely to trip prose linting and should be reformatted.
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Fix-up to #1081, found by the develop -> main promotion PR (#1077)'s fresh full-diff review. CLAUDE.md's intro paragraph and resync-a-repo/SKILL.md's step 1 both had a sentence hard-wrapped across physical lines mid-sentence, against this repo's prose convention (paragraphs and sentences stay on one unwrapped physical line, per .markdownlint-cli2.jsonc disabling MD013 for exactly this). Pure re-flow, no wording changed (verified: `git diff -w --word-diff` shows zero word-level differences). Ran local-strict-review before pushing: confirmed no wording changed, both new sentence/line joins read correctly, mirrors byte-identical. One informational note surfaced (not fixed here, correctly out of scope): the same wrap pattern is pervasive fleet-wide and deliberately unenforced (the sentence-split prose_lint rule is opt-in, same rationale as sentence-length) - not a regression this branch introduced.
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The unresolved-rule placeholder in local-strict-review is hard-wrapped across two lines in all mirrored copies, which reduces copy/paste usability and deviates from the single-line closing sentence shape in AGENTS.md.
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.agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:52
- The unresolved-rule placeholder is split across two physical lines inside the fenced
texttemplate. That makes the placeholder harder to copy/paste and deviates from AGENTS.md's template shape where the closing line is a single line; keep this placeholder on one line to preserve the template's structure.
<AGENTS.md's own unresolved-rule closing line, quoted verbatim from "Context and Delegation
Discipline", not restated here>
.github/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:52
- The unresolved-rule placeholder is split across two physical lines inside the fenced
texttemplate. Keeping it on a single line makes the template easier to copy/paste and matches the single-line closing sentence shape in AGENTS.md.
<AGENTS.md's own unresolved-rule closing line, quoted verbatim from "Context and Delegation
Discipline", not restated here>
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:52
- The unresolved-rule placeholder is split across two physical lines inside the fenced
texttemplate. Keeping it on one line improves copy/paste usability and preserves the AGENTS.md template shape where the closing line is a single line.
<AGENTS.md's own unresolved-rule closing line, quoted verbatim from "Context and Delegation
Discipline", not restated here>
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Aug 29, 2026
Suppressed Qodo finding (3x, one per mirror): the unresolved-rule placeholder split across two physical lines inside the fenced template. Fix in progress via #1085 (join onto one physical line, verified as a pure reflow). |
Found by a suppressed Qodo finding (low-confidence, 3x across the mirrored copies) on the develop -> main promotion PR (#1077): local-strict-review/SKILL.md's bracket placeholder was split across two physical lines inside the fenced template, which the finding said hurts copy-paste usability and deviates from AGENTS.md's own single-line closing-sentence shape. Joined onto one physical line, no wording changed (verified: git diff -w --word-diff shows zero word-level differences). Ran local-strict-review before pushing: join point reads cleanly, mirrors byte-identical. One stylistic-only observation surfaced and not acted on: the joined line (123 chars) is now wider than the fence's other five fields, which wrap at ~90-94 chars with a hanging indent to simulate a realistic terminal width. Not a rule violation (no gate checks fence-internal line width) and directly trades off against the reviewer's own explicit one-line request, so left as one line.
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The changes consistently introduce and document CLAUDE.md across the baseline manifest and mirrored Skill/procedure documentation without introducing inconsistencies or broken references.
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In @.agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:
- Line 51: Replace the unresolved-rule placeholder in the local-strict-review
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.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:51, and
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develop->main.Carries: #1074 (fixes#1070) -
local-strict-review/SKILL.md's subagent-briefing template referencedAGENTS.md's unresolved-rule closing line instead of copying it verbatim, closing a drift risk.Summary by CodeRabbit
Documentation
CLAUDE.mdas the Claude Code entry point for repository guidance.Chores