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Deprecates symlink installs in favor of native plugin architecture.

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Adversarial review of 6b962f062d8d49d17cfab1e03f903fa774e2bc13 (origin/remove_symlink_install_logic vs origin/main).

Independent read-only pass. Prior review rounds were not treated as evidence the change is correct.

Summary of Changes

Head 6b962f062d8d49d17cfab1e03f903fa774e2bc13 (four commits) deletes the Claude/Codex/Cursor symlink-install path and the scripts that audited it: scripts/check-install.py, check-harness-installs.py, check-plugin-overlap.py, codex-plugin-enabled.py, cursor-plugin-enabled.py, check-harness-ignores.py, .claude/hooks/check-install.sh, and their tests.

bootstrap.sh is reduced to writing Antigravity/Gemini skills.json / plugins.json (now pointing at the checkout, not ~/.gemini/... symlinks) plus per-machine dotfile installers. .claude/settings.json drops the UserPromptSubmit check-install.sh hook. validate.yml drops those test steps and the live check-harness-ignores.py gate. hooks/hooks.json is a 1208-line indent-only rewrite; parsed JSON is identical to origin/main (47 scripts, same events), so the README hook table still matches.

The PR does not update AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md, scripts/doctor.py, .claude/hooks/session-start.sh, scripts/install-hooks.py, skills/post-merge/SKILL.md, or setup.qmd. Those still name the deleted tools and the old bootstrap contract.

Findings

  • [Defect] scripts/doctor.py:162 still runs scripts/check-install.py --strict (and --fix). That file is gone. python3 exits 2 (can't open file); check_consumer_installs maps any non-zero to WARN "Consumer installation contains stale, unlinked, or missing entries" (doctor.py:175-180), so a missing instrument is reported as a stale install. scripts/test_doctor.py:93-103 patches doctor.run_cmd and never asserts the argv path, so the suite stays green. validate.yml never ran test_doctor.py on main either, so CI cannot catch this.

  • [Defect] .claude/hooks/session-start.sh:8-11,29 still runs bootstrap.sh and still says it "Symlinks skills/ and commands/ into ~/.claude/". Remaining bootstrap.sh never touches $HOME/.claude. Claude Code remote sessions that relied on this SessionStart path no longer get a consumer install, and nothing in the same hook replaces it.

  • [Factual Error] README.md:7-8 leaves a leftover clause after the rewrite:

    This repository relies on native plugin configuration architectures for installation.
    by bootstrap.sh.

    README.md:17,28-33 still tells a new machine to rerun bootstrap when a top-level dir is added, then ls ~/.claude/skills, ~/.codex/skills, ~/.cursor/rules and run python3 scripts/check-harness-installs.py. That script is deleted (can't open file). After this bootstrap, those consumer paths are not created. README.md:45 still claims bootstrap "symlinks plugins/ai-config to ~/.gemini/config/plugins/ai-config"; the remaining script writes plugins.json with "path": "$SCRIPT_DIR/plugins/ai-config" and does not create that symlink. README.md:434-437 still says "bootstrap.sh symlinks hooks/ into ~/.claude".

  • [Factual Error] shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md:19,28-35,47,63 (unchanged; imported by CLAUDE.md:244-246) still prescribes python3 ~/.claude/scripts/check-install.py and --fix. After merge those commands fail. AGENTS.md:99-100 still says to run bootstrap.sh so ~/.claude, ~/.codex/skills, and ~/.cursor/rules contain up-to-date symlinks. Remaining bootstrap does none of that.

  • [Defect] Deleting scripts/check-harness-ignores.py also drops the live validate.yml step "Check harness ignore files cover local residue". That checker is not symlink-install logic: it asserts .gitignore / .cursorignore / .geminiignore still name .claude/worktrees/, .worktrees/, and Aider residue (ai-config#1641). README.md:567 still documents that trio. After this PR, dropping those patterns from .cursorignore no longer fails CI. Remaining tests do not cover that invariant.

  • [Factual Error] Callers of deleted tools remain on the head:

    • scripts/install-hooks.py:4-14,226 — docstring still says bootstrap symlinks hooks/ into ~/.claude; --fix still prints "run scripts/check-install.py --fix".
    • skills/post-merge/SKILL.md:787 — still "run check-install.py --fix first".
    • setup.qmd:101 — still "bootstrap.sh warns about both cases via scripts/check-plugin-overlap.py".
    • shared/workflow/skill-checklists.md:42 — session-start freshness is still check-install.py.
    • bootstrap.sh:16LINK_ONE_FIX_HINT still names scripts/check-install.py --fix; remaining bootstrap.sh sources link-one.sh and never calls link_one.
  • [Edge Case] Gemini JSON is write-once. If skills.json / plugins.json already exist, bootstrap prints skip and does not rewrite paths. Existing files still name ~/.gemini/skills and ~/.gemini/config/plugins/ai-config (the old symlink destinations). This bootstrap no longer creates those links, so a re-run on an already-bootstrapped machine neither migrates the JSON nor refreshes the old tree. A fresh clone gets checkout-relative paths. Two shapes, neither documented.

  • [Factual Error] .github/workflows/validate.yml:53-56 still titles the step "Run Cursor skill-install tests" with "Bootstrap must not stack a Cursor plugin with ~/.cursor/skills links", but the only remaining command is python3 scripts/test_cursor_rules_sync.py, which never invokes bootstrap and never checks stacking. scripts/test_cursor_rules_sync.py:5 still claims cursor-rules/ is "what bootstrap.sh links into ~/.cursor/rules". The remaining test would still pass if that linking (now deleted) were broken, because it never ran it.

hooks/hooks.json vs the README hook table: no catalog drift (parsed JSON equal to origin/main). The UserPromptSubmit check-install.sh removal in .claude/settings.json is consistent with deleting that hook.

Verdict: Needs more work

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Working on this --- please hold off on pushing to this branch until I'm done.

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claude added 8 commits August 26, 2026 22:28
The adversarial review on this PR found that removing the symlink
install path (check-install.py, bootstrap.sh's per-directory symlink
loop, check-harness-installs.py, and the other audit scripts) left
several callers pointing at files that no longer exist, plus one
unrelated CI check dropped along the way.

Address:
- scripts/doctor.py: drop the dead check_consumer_installs check (and
  the now-unused --fix flag) rather than shelling out to a deleted
  script; update scripts/test_doctor.py to match.
- .claude/hooks/session-start.sh: correct the comment -- bootstrap.sh
  no longer symlinks skills/commands; this repo's own plugin manifest
  covers that for a remote session working in ai-config itself.
- README.md, setup.qmd: fix the dangling clause left after the top
  paragraph's rewrite, the "Verify the install" section's call to the
  deleted check-harness-installs.py, the Gemini "symlinks" claim (it
  writes a path reference, not a symlink), and every other place that
  still described bootstrap.sh symlinking skills/commands/hooks/shared
  into consumer directories it no longer touches. Corrected the Cursor
  cursor-rules/ claim specifically: the Cursor plugin already ships it
  via plugin.json's "rules" field, so that one was never a gap.
- scripts/check-harness-ignores.py, scripts/test_check_harness_ignores.py,
  .github/workflows/validate.yml: restored. This check is unrelated to
  symlink installs -- it verifies .cursorignore/.geminiignore still
  cover the local-residue paths .gitignore already excludes -- and its
  removal was an unrelated regression.
- scripts/install-hooks.py, skills/post-merge/SKILL.md,
  shared/workflow/skill-checklists.md, AGENTS.md,
  shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md, memories/claude-code-hooks.md,
  scripts/lib/link-one.sh, bootstrap.sh's LINK_ONE_FIX_HINT: updated
  every caller and cross-reference to stop naming check-install.py or
  describing bootstrap.sh's removed symlink behavior, without inventing
  a replacement mechanism that doesn't exist.
- bootstrap.sh: removed the now-dead LINK_ONE_FIX_HINT/link-one.sh
  sourcing (nothing in bootstrap.sh calls link_one any more), and added
  a migration warning when an existing Gemini skills.json/plugins.json
  still names the old symlink-destination path instead of the checkout.
- .github/workflows/validate.yml,
  scripts/test_cursor_rules_sync.py: fixed the stale "Run Cursor
  skill-install tests" step title/comment and docstring, which still
  described bootstrap stacking checks that no longer run.

Defer (filed as #2352): shared/, hooks/, and the
Codex wrapper tree still have no plugin-equivalent replacement for the
bootstrap.sh symlink placement this PR removes, so a fresh install has
no working path for those three today. That is a design decision for
the repo owner (restore placement, build a real replacement, or
document the gap), not something this ARD round should decide
unilaterally -- fixed the affected docs to state the current, reduced
capability honestly instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016MyNR6ZrvN6M4Rr8eZbHts
…l_logic

# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/validate.yml
#	AGENTS.md
#	README.md
#	bootstrap.sh
#	hooks/hooks.json
#	scripts/check-harness-installs.py
#	scripts/cursor-plugin-enabled.py
#	scripts/lib/link-one.sh
#	scripts/test_bootstrap_cursor_plugin.py
#	scripts/test_check_harness_installs.py
#	scripts/test_cursor_plugin_enabled.py
#	scripts/test_cursor_rules_sync.py
#	setup.qmd
…l_logic

# Conflicts:
#	.github/workflows/validate.yml
Addresses the pre-push adversarial review at c451447:

1. Split memories/claude-code.md's added historical-marker line at its
   semicolon so the new-line-breaks gate passes.
2. CLAUDE.md's freshness-check summary no longer instructs verifying
   consumer copies with the deleted check-install.py; it now describes
   the plugin-install check and scopes install-hooks.py to the
   registration half.
3. AGENTS.md no longer claims bootstrap.sh keeps ~/.gemini/skills
   current: it names the skills.json/plugins.json registrations that
   point at the checkout's own paths.
4. README.md's skills/ line likewise drops the ~/.gemini/skills claim.
5. keep-checkouts-fresh.md's one-hook-at-a-time explanation no longer
   asserts that bootstrap.sh places hook scripts.
6. verify-the-right-artifact.md's check-install.py passage is reworded
   as a historical illustration with the removal referenced, keeping
   the run-the-instrument principle intact.
7. scripts/lib/plugin_overlap.py is trimmed to its live surface
   (ai_config_entries + enabled_ai_config_plugins, imported by
   install-hooks.py); the orphaned load_settings/resolve_enabled/
   describe_overlap went with the deleted CLI. scripts/
   test_plugin_overlap.py restores lib-only regression coverage
   (9 checks, negative control verified: a substring matcher fails
   the CONTAINING test), wired into validate.yml.
8. doctor.py's docstring and bootstrap.sh's header no longer claim
   Codex installs as a native plugin; both point at ai-config#2352.
9. .claude/settings.json is rebuilt from main minus the
   UserPromptSubmit block: 2-space indent restored, trailing newline
   restored, so the PR delta is exactly the hook removal.
10. memories/MEMORY.md's claude-code-hooks.md row synced with that
    file's rewritten header (plugin loader or manual copy places).
11. session-start.sh's added comment uses ASCII -- instead of an
    em-dash.

Checks: new-line-breaks gate vs origin/main clean, check-links clean,
validate-skills exit 0, test_check_harness_ignores 5/5,
test_plugin_overlap 9/9, test_doctor OK, bash -n OK, both JSON and
workflow YAML parse.
1. README.md (intro + verify step) and setup.qmd no longer claim Codex
   installs this repo as a plugin; the intro points at ai-config#2352,
   matching the corrected sites from the prior round.
2. GEMINI.md's global-configuration bullet now describes what
   bootstrap.sh actually does: it writes plugins.json registering the
   checkout's own plugins/ai-config path, with no symlink.
3. memories/claude-code.md's stale-symlink-clobber section gets the
   same Historical-as-of-#2229 marker as its sibling, and its opening
   mechanism claim moves to past tense: bootstrap.sh no longer
   symlinks into ~/.claude, check-install.py is deleted, and the
   UserPromptSubmit repair hook is removed.
4. keep-checkouts-fresh.md no longer attributes ~/.claude/hooks
   placement to the plugin loader (which serves hooks from the plugin
   root and places nothing there); only a manual copy fills that
   directory today.
5. skills/post-merge/SKILL.md no longer claims the plugin loader
   "already picked up the merged hook the moment main moved": plugin
   hooks connect at session start (or /reload-plugins), so the merged
   hook goes live at the next session start.
6. The remaining added em-dash in session-start.sh's comment and the
   three added em-dash lines in README.md are converted to ASCII.
7. memories/claude-code-hooks.md's quoted --fix note is updated to the
   script's current wording and framed as the wording as of this
   rewrite, keeping the structural claim (note prints only without
   --fix) accurate.

Checks: new-line-breaks gate vs origin/main clean, check-links clean,
validate-skills exit 0, bash -n clean.
Addresses the round-3 adversarial review at 2ec3169, whose two
findings were the round-2 finding 4 that commit a83e29a claimed to
fix but never edited (the fix was applied outside the worktree and
lost), plus the same misattribution in sibling lines:

- shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md: only a manual copy places
  scripts into ~/.claude/hooks today, and the plugin path serves and
  loads every hook straight from the plugin root rather than placing
  anything there.
- memories/claude-code-hooks.md's header and memories/MEMORY.md's
  index row (kept in sync) now draw the binds-versus-places split
  between install-hooks.py and a manual copy, with the plugin loader
  named as serving from the plugin root instead.

Checks: new-line-breaks gate vs origin/main clean, check-links clean.
Addresses the round-4 adversarial review at fda39bb, whose two
findings were residual placement attributions in
memories/claude-code-hooks.md on lines earlier rounds never touched:

- The /reload-plugins recovery section gets the same
  Historical-as-of-#2229 marker as its siblings: it relied on the
  retired install placing symlinks into ~/.claude/hooks, and today
  /reload-plugins refreshes the plugin whose hooks run from the
  plugin root.
- The "plugin path ... places and binds together" Do bullet now says
  the plugin path needs no placement at all (the loader serves and
  binds from the plugin root), and the /reload-plugins Do bullet
  scopes its symlink-repair reading as historical.

Checks: new-line-breaks gate vs origin/main clean, check-links clean;
a residual scan of the file finds no remaining live attribution of
~/.claude/hooks placement to plugin machinery (the top-of-file blanket
marker covers the check-install.py references).

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Adversarial pre-push review (round 1 of 5) — dispatched adversarial-reviewer subagent (Claude), read-only, briefed with the diff and standards only, against the full PR delta (origin/main...HEAD at the time, base 18e809c9). Report published verbatim below. Rounds 2–5 and the disposition table follow as separate comments.


Summary of Changes

PR #2229 (remove_symlink_install_logic, 32 files, +212/−3662) removes the consumer-symlink install machinery: deletes scripts/check-install.py, scripts/check-harness-installs.py, scripts/check-plugin-overlap.py, scripts/codex-plugin-enabled.py, scripts/cursor-plugin-enabled.py, their six test files, and the .claude/hooks/check-install.sh UserPromptSubmit repair hook; strips bootstrap.sh down to Gemini/Antigravity skills.json/plugins.json registration (now pointing at the checkout path, no symlinks) plus dotfiles installers; drops the --fix/consumer-install check from doctor.py; narrows validate.yml to the retained checks; and rewrites README, AGENTS.md, setup.qmd, two shared fragments, three memories, and post-merge to describe the plugin-based install. The branch head is a merge whose two-dot and three-dot diffs against origin/main (18e809c) are identical and origin/main is an ancestor of HEAD, so no main-side content was silently dropped; validate.yml retains all main-side steps (including test_cursor_hook_adapter.py).

Verification performed: workflow YAML parses; check-links.py clean (2605 links / 627 files); validate-skills.py clean (advisory headroom warnings pre-exist); test_check_harness_ignores.py 5/5; test_doctor.py 7/7; py_compile on doctor.py/install-hooks.py; bash -n on bootstrap.sh and session-start.sh; settings.json parses; .cursor-plugin/plugin.json "rules": "cursor-rules" claim verified; install-hooks.py stale-status claim verified against its source; CI's vendored new-line-breaks gate run against origin/main.

Findings

  1. [Convention — CI-blocking] memories/claude-code.md:1125 — the added line "This whole section describes a bug in, and the fix to, a mechanism that has since been removed; keep it only as a record of the incident." fails CI's own semantic-line-break gate. Reproduced locally: NLB_BASE_REF=origin/main NLB_GLOBS='*.md' NLB_PATHS_IGNORE='codex-skills/**,docs/**,_site/**,.quarto/**' python3 scripts/vendor/gha-check-new-line-breaks.py exits 1 flagging exactly this line (mid-line semicolon). The new-line-breaks check on this PR will be red.

  2. [Defect] CLAUDE.md:256 — the auto-loaded root doc still instructs verifying the ~/.claude consumer copies "with check-install.py and install-hooks.py". This is a live, present-tense reference to a script this PR deletes, in the highest-traffic file in the corpus; every future session loads a pointer to a nonexistent instrument. The PR's doc sweep missed it.

  3. [Factual Error] AGENTS.md:114 (added line) — "Ensure bootstrap.sh has run so ~/.gemini/skills and the Gemini/Antigravity plugin registration stay current." The new bootstrap.sh never creates, links, or refreshes ~/.gemini/skills: it writes skills.json registering the checkout's skills/ path, and on an old install prints a skip ... still names the old symlink destination line without touching it. Running bootstrap does not keep ~/.gemini/skills current; nothing does.

  4. [Factual Error] README.md:571 (added line) — "skills/ --- reusable workflow skills (Claude Code and Cursor via plugin install, ~/.gemini/skills/ via bootstrap.sh)". Same error as finding 3: bootstrap now serves Gemini/Antigravity from the checkout path via skills.json, not ~/.gemini/skills/.

  5. [Factual Error] shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md:29 — retained present-tense line in a section this PR edited: "bootstrap.sh places every new script, while registration happens only when someone runs the second command". bootstrap.sh no longer places hook scripts anywhere — the PR's own edits five lines down say exactly that — so the retained sentence's explanation of one-hook-at-a-time degradation now contradicts the surrounding text.

  6. [Defect] shared/workflow/verify-the-right-artifact.md:234 — live instruction: "Where an instrument already owns the comparison, run the instrument instead --- scripts/check-install.py compares ~/.claude against the checkout and reports stale by name". This is guidance to run a deleted script, not a dated case record; a reader following it hits a missing file. Needs the historical marker treatment the PR gave memories/claude-code.md and memories/cursor.md.

  7. [Defect — coverage loss] scripts/lib/plugin_overlap.py (199 lines) is retained and live — scripts/install-hooks.py:52 imports enabled_ai_config_plugins from it to warn about double hook registration — but the PR deleted its only regression tests. The deleted scripts/test_plugin_overlap.py explicitly declared "Covers scripts/lib/plugin_overlap.py (the shared matching and reporting) and scripts/check-plugin-overlap.py (the CLI...)", and validate.yml dropped the step running it. Only the CLI half died; the library half now has zero coverage. Either restore the lib-only test cases or remove the library's now-untested surface.

  8. [Factual Error] scripts/doctor.py:9-10 (added docstring) — "(Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor now install this repo as a native plugin instead)" contradicts this same PR's README and setup.qmd, which state "Codex has no marketplace-plugin mechanism analogous to Claude Code's or Cursor's" and route Codex to a manual symlink until Restore or replace consumer-side placement for shared/, hooks/, cursor-rules/, and Codex wrappers after symlink-install removal #2352. bootstrap.sh:5-6 carries the same overclaim ("removed in favor of native plugin configuration architectures" naming Codex). Codex currently has no install path at all; the docstring asserts one exists.

  9. [Convention] .claude/settings.json — the only needed change was deleting the UserPromptSubmit block, but the whole file was re-indented 2→4 spaces and the trailing newline was dropped (\ No newline at end of file; confirmed with od). Unrelated reformat churn riding along, plus a missing final newline.

  10. [Convention] memories/MEMORY.md:41 — the index row for claude-code-hooks.md still describes "the bind-versus-place split across install-hooks.py and check-install.py/bootstrap.sh", out of sync with that file's header, which this PR rewrote to "the plugin loader or a manual copy (which places)". The index and the file it indexes now disagree.

  11. [Convention — minor] .claude/hooks/session-start.sh:13 (added line) — em-dash "—" in a shell source comment ("any such symlinking either — see its own header comment"), against shared/coding/ascii-punctuation-in-source.md. The file already carries pre-existing em-dashes on unchanged lines, but the newly added prose extends the violation rather than using --.

Verdict: Needs more work

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Adversarial pre-push review (round 2 of 5) — dispatched adversarial-reviewer subagent (Claude), read-only, re-reviewing the full PR delta after the round-1 fixes landed as 14195bdd. Report published verbatim below.


Adversarial re-review complete. All instruments were run fresh in the worktree; every prior finding was re-verified against the tree rather than the commit message.

Summary of Changes

PR #2229 (branch remove_symlink_install_logic, base origin/main = 18e809c9) removes bootstrap.sh's symlink-install machinery for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini consumers in favor of native plugin installs, deleting check-install.py, check-harness-installs.py, check-plugin-overlap.py, codex-plugin-enabled.py, cursor-plugin-enabled.py, seven test files, and the UserPromptSubmit check-install hook; trims bootstrap.sh to Gemini/Antigravity skills.json/plugins.json registration plus dotfiles; rewrites README, setup.qmd, AGENTS.md, and the affected memories/fragments; and drops doctor.py's consumer-install check. HEAD commit 14195bdd addresses the 11 findings from the prior adversarial review at c451447b.

Prior-finding verification (all instruments re-run, exit codes read):

  1. NLB gate vs origin/main: clean (exit 0) — the claude-code.md:1125 line is split. Fixed.
  2. CLAUDE.md:256 rewritten; no check-install.py instruction remains; new prose ("install-hooks.py answering only the registration half") verified against the script. Fixed.
  3. AGENTS.md now names skills.json/plugins.json pointing at the checkout's skills/ and plugins/ai-config paths — verified against bootstrap.sh lines 20–76 and the existing plugins/ai-config/ directory. Fixed.
  4. README skills/ bullet fixed.
  5. keep-checkouts-fresh.md:29 no longer claims bootstrap places scripts — but the replacement introduces a new inaccuracy (Finding 4 below). Partially fixed.
  6. verify-the-right-artifact.md reworded as a historical illustration; check-links.py clean (2605 links, 0 broken). Fixed.
  7. plugin_overlap.py trimmed to ai_config_entries + enabled_ai_config_plugins; install-hooks.py's import resolves; test_plugin_overlap.py 9/9 with positives-first ordering; the negative-control claim is genuine (a substring matcher returns entries for my-ai-config@x/ai-config-extras@x, failing the CONTAINING test); wired into validate.yml, which parses. Fixed.
  8. doctor.py docstring and bootstrap.sh header fixed at those two sites — but the identical Codex overclaim stands elsewhere in the delta (Finding 1 below). Partially fixed.
  9. git diff origin/main -- .claude/settings.json is exactly the UserPromptSubmit-block removal; JSON parses; 2-space indent and trailing newline preserved. Fixed.
  10. MEMORY.md:41 row now matches claude-code-hooks.md's rewritten header. Fixed.
  11. The named session-start.sh em-dash fixed — but another added line in the same hunk still carries one (Finding 6 below). Partially fixed.

Also verified: validate-skills.py exit 0, test_check_harness_ignores.py 5/5, test_doctor.py 7/7 OK, bash -n clean on bootstrap.sh and session-start.sh, doctor.py --fix/check_consumer_installs fully purged, check-install.sh fully purged, hooks/hooks.json is the native dict schema, setup.qmd's ~/.gemini/config/ verify path matches GEMINI_CONFIG_DIR, and dotfiles/shiva still sources link-one.sh as its header claims.

Findings

  1. [Factual Error] README.md:7, README.md:35, setup.qmd:27 — the Codex-installs-as-a-plugin overclaim (prior finding 8) was fixed only at the two sites the prior review named, and stands verbatim on three other added lines. README.md:7 ("Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor install this repo's skills natively as a plugin") and README.md:35 / setup.qmd:27 ("In a Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor session with the plugin installed, type / ...") are all + lines in this PR's delta, and each contradicts the same files' own corrected lines (README.md:78 "Codex has no marketplace-plugin mechanism", README.md:572 "no install path yet", setup.qmd:18) and ai-config#2352. A reader following README's own Quick start would wait for Codex skills that cannot appear.

  2. [Factual Error] GEMINI.md:15 — a live auto-read consumer doc still describes the deleted symlink step. "Running bootstrap.sh symlinks plugins/ai-config into ~/.gemini/config/plugins/ai-config and registers plugins.json" was true on origin/main (its bootstrap.sh line 192 ran link_one to that path and registered plugins.json pointing there) and is falsified by this PR: HEAD's bootstrap.sh writes plugins.json registering the checkout's own plugins/ai-config path directly, explicitly "(no symlink)" per this PR's own README edit. GEMINI.md is untouched by the PR (empty diff) and, worse, its stale wording matches the exact old-path state bootstrap.sh now prints a skip ... delete it and rerun to migrate warning about.

  3. [Factual Error] memories/claude-code.md:882–911 — a whole section of live, present-tense instruction referencing mechanisms this PR deletes, with no historical marker. The section "A harness pass can replace ~/.claude skill symlinks with stale copies AFTER SessionStart" states "bootstrap.sh symlinks this repo into ~/.claude" (l.884, now false), instructs "Run it from UserPromptSubmit ... Detect and repair it with python3 ~/.claude/scripts/check-install.py --fix" (ll.894, 905 — the script is deleted), and claims "the repo's own UserPromptSubmit hook runs it" (ll.906–907 — that hook is removed by this very PR's .claude/settings.json edit). This is the identical defect class as accepted findings 2/6, and the identical remedy the fix commit applied to the section at l.1122 (a Historical as of ai-config#2229 marker) is missing here.

  4. [Factual Error] shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md:29 — the replacement sentence written for prior finding 5 misattributes ~/.claude/hooks placement to the plugin loader. "scripts reach ~/.claude/hooks independently of registration (the retired symlink install placed them, and today only the plugin loader or a manual copy does)" — the plugin loader never places anything under ~/.claude/hooks; it runs hooks from the plugin root via ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/<script> (memories/claude-code-hooks.md:49 states exactly this contrast against $HOME/.claude/hooks/<script>), and this same file's own later paragraph plus install-hooks.py's docstring say the non-plugin path "only helps on a machine whose ~/.claude/hooks already holds the scripts some other way" — naming no plugin-loader route. Today a manual copy is the only filler of that directory.

  5. [Factual Error] skills/post-merge/SKILL.md:787–789 — "its loader already picked up the merged hook the moment main moved, so there is nothing to run" overstates plugin-path immediacy. Plugin hooks connect at session start (or via /reload-plugins), a constraint this very passage still states for the non-plugin path in the same sentence chain ("hooks connect at session start so a mid-session --fix arms nothing until a restart") and that memories/claude-code-hooks.md's /reload-plugins guidance depends on. Post-merge runs mid-session by construction, so the merged hook is precisely not yet live at that moment; "nothing to run" is right, "already picked up" is not.

  6. [Convention] .claude/hooks/session-start.sh:16 — an added line in the same hunk as accepted finding 11 still carries an em-dash ("guarded — it"). ascii-punctuation-in-source covers shell comments; the fix commit converted the em-dash on the adjacent line and left this one. Three README.md added lines carry em-dashes too ("checked out — so", "commands/ — slash commands", "plugins/ (in ~/.claude) — managed"), though those reflow pre-existing em-dash text and the file's total (31) is unchanged — lower priority, but the rule's own scope statement includes .md bodies.

  7. [Edge Case, minor] memories/claude-code-hooks.md:141–146 — a present-tense passage ("A plain run prints it") quotes install-hooks.py's printed note verbatim, and 14195bdd rewrote that note, so the quoted text no longer matches what the current script prints. The structural claim (the note lives only in the if not args.fix: branch) remains true of the new code; the quote wants a "printed at the time" framing or an update.

Verdict: Needs more work

Findings 1–3 are live-documentation factual errors of the same classes the prior review's accepted findings 2, 3, 6, and 8 established as blocking for this PR, and each names a mechanism this PR itself deleted or changed.

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Adversarial pre-push review (round 3 of 5) — dispatched adversarial-reviewer subagent (Claude), read-only, scoped to the changes since 14195bdd (round-2 fix commit a83e29a8 plus the merge of main 78ab9ed4 as 2ec3169f) and to verifying each round-2 finding in the tree. Report published verbatim below.


Summary of Changes

The delta since 14195bd (git diff 14195bdd..HEAD) is two commits: a83e29a, a 9-file prose fix commit responding to the 7 round-2 findings (README.md, setup.qmd, GEMINI.md, .claude/hooks/session-start.sh, memories/claude-code.md, memories/claude-code-hooks.md, skills/post-merge/SKILL.md), and 2ec3169, a merge of origin/main (78ab9ed) whose only content over a83e29a is main's delegate-to-opencode description trim in skills/ and codex-skills/ — both files are byte-identical to origin/main at HEAD, and the merge changes nothing else over either parent (both exclusion diffs are empty; parents confirmed as a83e29a + 78ab9ed).

Round-2 finding verification against the tree:

  1. Fixed. README:7-8 now says Claude Code and Cursor install as a plugin, "Codex has no plugin mechanism yet (Restore or replace consumer-side placement for shared/, hooks/, cursor-rules/, and Codex wrappers after symlink-install removal #2352)"; README:36 and setup.qmd:27 drop Codex from the plugin-verify line. Consistent with README:79, README:573, and setup.qmd:18.
  2. Fixed. GEMINI.md:15 now says bootstrap.sh "writes ~/.gemini/config/plugins.json registering this checkout's own plugins/ai-config path (no symlink)" — matches bootstrap.sh:61-76 exactly.
  3. Fixed. memories/claude-code.md:884-886 now opens the section with a "Historical as of the symlink-install removal ([ai-config#2229])" marker and converts the opening claim to past tense.
  4. NOT fixed — see Findings.
  5. Fixed. skills/post-merge/SKILL.md:787-790 now says the loader "serves hooks straight from the plugin root" and the merged hook goes live "at the next session start (or /reload-plugins)". Accurate against hooks/hooks.json's ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} commands.
  6. Fixed. session-start.sh:16 em-dash is now ASCII --; the three README em-dash lines (148, 584, 655) are now ---. A perl non-ASCII scan over every added line of 14195bdd..HEAD returns zero hits.
  7. Fixed. memories/claude-code-hooks.md:141-146 now quotes install-hooks.py:226-230 verbatim (character-for-character match against the joined string literals) and timestamps the wording ("as of the ai-config#2229 rewrite").

Mechanical checks: NLB check vs origin/main — clean (exit 0); check-links.py — 2605 links, 627 files, no broken links (exit 0); validate-skills.py — all valid (exit 0; two advisory headroom warnings only); PR delta stat — 37 files, +266/−3765, matching the expected shape.

Findings

  1. [Factual Error] Round-2 finding 4 is unresolved: shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md is untouched by a83e29a (git diff 14195bdd..HEAD -- shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md is empty), and line 29 — a PR-added line — still reads "scripts reach ~/.claude/hooks independently of registration (the retired symlink install placed them, and today only the plugin loader or a manual copy does)". The plugin loader places nothing in ~/.claude/hooks: every hooks/hooks.json command runs from ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/... (hooks.json:22, :29, and its own header comment), i.e. hooks are served from the plugin root, exactly as the a83e29a fix to post-merge/SKILL.md:788 now correctly states. Line 39 of the same file repeats the claim ("the plugin loader places and loads every hook in hooks/hooks.json together"). The tree is now internally inconsistent: post-merge says "serves from the plugin root", keep-checkouts-fresh says the loader populates ~/.claude/hooks. A reader following line 29 would conclude a plugin-enabled machine has current scripts in ~/.claude/hooks for install-hooks.py --fix to bind — the precise registered-but-absent failure the surrounding paragraphs warn takes the Bash tool down. Concrete fix: reword line 29 so only "a manual copy" reaches ~/.claude/hooks today, and line 39 so the plugin path serves (not places) hooks from the plugin root.

  2. [Factual Error] Same misattribution in a sibling PR-added line the fix commit's own file: memories/claude-code-hooks.md:3 says "the split between install-hooks.py (which binds) and the plugin loader or a manual copy (which places)". On the plugin path nothing is ever placed into ~/.claude/hooks (the location the whole file's placement discussion is about); only a manual copy places there. a83e29a edited this file at lines 138-146 but left line 3 carrying the round-2 defect. (The related line 165 phrase "the Claude Code plugin path ... places and binds together" is borderline-defensible — the marketplace clone does put scripts on disk — but line 3's binds-vs-places split is specifically about ~/.claude/hooks and is wrong as written.)

Verdict: Needs more work

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Adversarial pre-push review (round 4 of 5) — dispatched adversarial-reviewer subagent (Claude), read-only, scoped to round-3 fix commit fda39bbc plus the round-3 findings' resolution. Report published verbatim below.


Summary of Changes

fda39bbc is a 3-file / 4-line wording fix atop 2ec3169f, retiring the claim that the plugin loader places hook scripts into ~/.claude/hooks:

  • shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md:29 — "today only the plugin loader or a manual copy does" → "today only a manual copy does".
  • shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md:39 — "the plugin loader places and loads every hook in hooks/hooks.json together" → "serves and loads every hook in hooks/hooks.json straight from the plugin root".
  • memories/claude-code-hooks.md:3 and the mirrored memories/MEMORY.md:41 index row — the binds-vs-places split now reads "install-hooks.py (which binds) and a manual copy (which places, the plugin loader serving its hooks from the plugin root instead)".

Verification performed:

  • All 50 command entries in hooks/hooks.json invoke "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/..." — the plugin loader serves from the plugin root and places nothing under ~/.claude/hooks. The new wording is factually accurate, and consistent with skills/post-merge/SKILL.md:787-790 ("its loader serves hooks straight from the plugin root") and with scripts/install-hooks.py's own header ("plugin root and registers every hook it names, no separate step needed").
  • memories/MEMORY.md:41 and memories/claude-code-hooks.md:3 now carry the identical parenthetical — in sync.
  • The install-hooks.py note quoted at claude-code-hooks.md:144 matches the script's actual output at scripts/install-hooks.py:226-230 verbatim.
  • gha-check-new-line-breaks.py vs origin/main: clean (exit 0).
  • scripts/check-links.py: 2605 links / 627 files, no broken links (exit 0).
  • Non-ASCII scan of the commit's added lines: none (the --- runs are ASCII hyphens).
  • Mandated grep of both files for plugin loader / places: two residual attributions found — see Findings.

Findings

  1. [Factual Error] memories/claude-code-hooks.md:167 still attributes placement to the plugin: "use the Claude Code plugin path instead, which places and binds together." This is a present-tense Do bullet, 164 lines below the header this commit just corrected, and it contradicts that header directly (line 3 now says a manual copy places, "the plugin loader serving its hooks from the plugin root instead") as well as install-hooks.py's own header. Under the corrected model the plugin path obviates placement rather than performing it. The brief's check — "no other line still attributes ~/.claude/hooks placement to the plugin loader" — fails on this line.

  2. [Factual Error] memories/claude-code-hooks.md:153-158 — "Recovery: /reload-plugins places the symlinks", "re-runs the install and links every declared hook at once", "Confirm it worked by reading ~/.claude/hooks/ and seeing symlinks into the checkout" — plus the standing Do bullet at line 169 ("reach for /reload-plugins when registered hooks point at absent scripts that do exist in the checkout"). This attributes ~/.claude/hooks symlink placement to plugin machinery, in present-tense standing advice. It now contradicts keep-checkouts-fresh.md:29's tightened claim that "today only a manual copy does": at most one of the two can be true, and nothing in either file resolves which. The section is a dated incident record (2026-08-05/06, symlink-install era), but the file's historical disclaimer at the top covers only check-install.py references, not this recovery procedure — so either the /reload-plugins claim needs the historical marker (and the Do bullet retiring), or keep-checkouts-fresh.md:29 overclaims. I could not measure /reload-plugins behavior from this environment; the contradiction stands regardless of which side is right.

Both findings are on lines the commit did not touch, surfaced by the brief's own residual-attribution check; the round-3 findings themselves (lines 29, 39, header, index row) are fully and accurately resolved.

Verdict: Needs more work

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Adversarial pre-push review (round 5 of 5) — dispatched adversarial-reviewer subagent (Claude), read-only, scoped to round-4 fix commit 0c485641. Report published verbatim below. This is the clean verdict the push shipped under.


Summary of Changes

0c485641 is a 1-file, +4/−2 edit to memories/claude-code-hooks.md atop fda39bbc, resolving the round-4 review's two findings:

  1. Inserts a Historical as of the symlink-install removal (Remove symlink install logic #2229) marker (plus "Keep it as the incident record it is.") as the first body line of the "Recovery: /reload-plugins places the symlinks" section, scoping the recovery's present-tense advice as historical.
  2. Rewords the line-169 Do bullet: the plugin path now "needs no placement at all: the loader serves and binds every declared hook from the plugin root" (replacing "places and binds together").
  3. Rewords the line-171 /reload-plugins Do bullet to scope its symlink-repair reading as historical, per the new marker.

Findings

No actionable findings identified.

Verification performed:

  • Marker factual claims verified. hooks/hooks.json commands all invoke "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/<script>", confirming plugin hooks run from the plugin root; its _comment block confirms the loader reads the file directly when the plugin is enabled. "Nothing places symlinks there" is consistent with shared/workflow/keep-checkouts-fresh.md's "the retired symlink install placed them, and today only a manual copy does" (its ~:29) and "the plugin loader serves and loads every hook in hooks/hooks.json straight from the plugin root" (its ~:39).
  • Marker pattern matches its siblings exactly. memories/claude-code.md:884, :1127, and memories/cursor.md:45 use the identical Historical as of the symlink-install removal (Remove symlink install logic #2229) phrasing, each likewise keeping the original present-tense heading with the marker as the first body line plus a keep-as-record sentence — so the retained bold heading at line 153 follows the established convention rather than constituting a residual live claim.
  • Reworded bullets internally consistent. Line 169's "serves and binds ... from the plugin root" agrees with the corrected file header (line 3: "the plugin loader serving its hooks from the plugin root") and with keep-checkouts-fresh.md; line 171's parenthetical accurately restates the retired reading and points at the marker.
  • Residual scan clean. A full-file grep for place|symlink|reload-plugins finds no remaining live present-tense attribution of ~/.claude/hooks placement to plugin machinery: lines 129–132 and 193–200 attribute placement to check-install.py (covered by the top-of-file blanket marker at lines 4–5, "read every reference to it below as historical"); lines 156–161 sit below the new marker; lines 177–186 and 188–200 are dated past-tense incident records; line 144 quotes the current (Remove symlink install logic #2229-rewrite) note wording.
  • NLB gate: gha-check-new-line-breaks.py vs origin/main — "No lines missing semantic breaks", exit 0.
  • Link check: check-links.py — 2605 links across 627 files, no broken relative links, exit 0.
  • Non-ASCII scan: commit's added lines contain no non-ASCII characters (ASCII --- throughout).
  • Commit message accurate: its claims (marker matches siblings, residual scan clean, checks clean) all verified above.

Verdict: Ready for merge

Reviewed-Commit: 0c48564

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Status + dispositions (follow-up to the five review rounds above; posted separately per the publish-verbatim rule).

Pushed 6b962f06..0c485641: the branch now carries a clean merge of current main (78ab9ed4, resolving the validate.yml conflict in 037d7dfe/f9e1043f and clearing the merge-conflict flag GitHub was showing against the stale remote head), the round-1 through round-4 fixes, and passes the full local check battery (new-line-breaks gate vs origin/main, check-links.py, validate-skills.py, test_plugin_overlap.py 9/9, test_check_harness_ignores.py 5/5, test_doctor.py, bash -n, JSON/YAML parses).

Dispositions — every finding across all rounds was Addressed (none rebutted, none deferred):

Round Findings Disposition Fix commit
1 (at c451447b) 11 (NLB gate, stale check-install.py/bootstrap claims in CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md/README/fragments, untested plugin_overlap.py, Codex overclaim, settings.json churn, index desync, em-dash) all Addressed 14195bdd
2 (at 14195bdd) 7 (three more Codex overclaims, GEMINI.md stale symlink step, missing historical marker in claude-code.md, plugin-loader placement misattribution, post-merge overstatement, em-dashes, stale quote) all Addressed a83e29a8 (6 of 7) + fda39bbc
3 (at 2ec3169f) 2 (round-2 finding 4 unlanded + sibling header/index misattribution) all Addressed fda39bbc
4 (at fda39bbc) 2 (residual "places and binds" bullet; un-marked /reload-plugins symlink recovery) all Addressed 0c485641
5 (at 0c485641) none

The round-3 discovery that a fix-round commit's file count can match its findings count while missing a file is banked as its own ardi.md entry (tracked by #2400, separate PR).

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The validate job's Lint QMD prose step (MD013, 80 chars) failed at
0c48564 on twelve setup.qmd lines this PR rewrote. Reflow each at
clause boundaries (semantic line breaks, no wording changes), and
convert the one arrow glyph to ASCII "->" to match the file's other
arrows. Remaining over-length lines are single unbreakable link
tokens, which MD013 permits and main already carries.
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Adversarial pre-push review (round 6) — dispatched adversarial-reviewer subagent (Claude), read-only, scoped to e0b2d2dc (the fix for the validate job's Lint QMD prose failure at 0c485641: twelve over-length setup.qmd lines reflowed at clause boundaries, one glyph converted to ASCII ->). Report published verbatim below; pushed as 0c485641..e0b2d2dc on its clean verdict.


Summary of Changes

git show e0b2d2dc is a single-file, style-only commit to setup.qmd (+38/−12).
It reflows twelve prose lines that exceeded the 80-char MD013 limit — in the plugin-install paragraph, the two Cursor verification lines, the cloud-sessions paragraph, and the marketplace-dedup paragraph — into multi-line semantic-break form, and converts one glyph (in the SessionStart hook line) to ASCII ->.

Findings

No actionable findings identified.

Verification performed:

  1. Content preservation — programmatic reconstruction (SequenceMatcher over old/new file, joining each changed block's lines with single spaces): all five changed blocks are byte-identical to the old text after joining, except the one block containing the -> -> conversion, which is identical after that one substitution. No wording changes, no dropped or added words.
  2. MD013 (non-strict) resolution — the parent version (0c485641:setup.qmd) has exactly 12 non-fence lines >80 chars with a space past column 80, matching CI's twelve reported failures; the new version has zero such lines anywhere in the file, fences included. Remaining >80 lines (4) all lack whitespace past column 80 (long link tokens and token-tailed prose), which non-strict MD013 exempts; origin/main:setup.qmd carries 7 lines of the same exempt shape and is green, confirming the commit message's claim.
  3. Semantic line breaks — every new break falls at a clause, comma, colon, parenthetical, coordinating-conjunction, or phrase (NP/VP, prepositional) boundary; none is mid-phrase. Instrument confirmation below.
  4. NLB check — the brief's command (NLB_GLOBS='*.md') exits 0, but that pass is vacuous for this commit: git pathspec *.md does not match setup.qmd (confirmed by git diff --stat origin/main...HEAD -- '*.md', which lists no qmd file), and CI's own NLB step is scoped identically (validate.yml:326 globs: '*.md'). I re-ran with NLB_GLOBS='*.qmd' as a non-vacuous control — population confirmed (41 added setup.qmd lines) — and it also exits 0 with no findings. Not a defect in the commit; noting it so the *.md pass is not read as evidence about setup.qmd.
  5. scripts/check-links.py — exit 0 (2605 relative links across 627 files, none broken); the reflowed [ai-config#2352], [ai-config#1409], and settings-docs links survived intact.
  6. Non-ASCII scan of added lines — zero non-ASCII characters in any + line of the commit; the removed (U+2192) is the only non-ASCII character touched.

Verdict: Ready for merge

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ARD close-out for cursor[bot]'s adversarial review of 6b962f06 (posted 2026-08-25; the thread was never formally answered, which the latest CI review round correctly flagged as the one open item under the per-reviewer rule). Every finding is Addressed — none rebutted, none deferred — and each fix is verified in the current head e0b2d2dc (the latest CI review round independently confirmed all of them resolved via grep and git log):

Cursor finding Disposition Where fixed
doctor.py:162 still ran the deleted check-install.py --strict/--fix Addressed 037d7dfe removed the consumer-install check; the docstring's residual Codex overclaim was corrected in 14195bdd
session-start.sh still ran bootstrap "to symlink skills/commands into ~/.claude" Addressed 037d7dfe rewrote the hook's header for bootstrap's remaining job (Gemini/Antigravity config + dotfiles); ASCII cleanup in 14195bdd/a83e29a8
README leftover clause ("...by bootstrap.sh.") + stale verify steps naming deleted scripts and symlink paths Addressed 037d7dfe rewrote the README's install sections; residual Codex/~/.gemini/skills overclaims fixed in 14195bdd and a83e29a8
keep-checkouts-fresh.md / AGENTS.md still prescribing check-install.py and symlink freshness Addressed 037d7dfe + 14195bdd (fragment and AGENTS.md rewrites) + fda39bbc (placement attribution corrected)
Deleting check-harness-ignores.py dropped a live CI invariant unrelated to symlinks Addressed The checker and its test are restored on the branch; validate.yml at head runs both (test_check_harness_ignores.py 5/5 and the live "Check harness ignore files cover local residue" step)
Stale callers: install-hooks.py docstring/--fix note, post-merge SKILL, setup.qmd check-plugin-overlap claim, skill-checklists.md, LINK_ONE_FIX_HINT Addressed 037d7dfe rewrote each caller; the --fix note's quoted wording re-synced in a83e29a8 (verified verbatim against install-hooks.py:226-230 in round 5); post-merge mechanics corrected in a83e29a8
Gemini skills.json/plugins.json write-once: old symlink-era files neither migrated nor refreshed, two undocumented shapes Addressed bootstrap.sh now detects an old-destination file and prints an explicit skip ... delete it and rerun to migrate to the checkout path line for both files, so the two shapes are surfaced with the migration step at the moment they matter
validate.yml step titled "Run Cursor skill-install tests" describing a deleted bootstrap-stacking check Addressed The step at head runs test_cursor_rules_sync.py + test_cursor_hook_adapter.py (149/149) under an accurate name/comment

With this thread closed, the two procedural items from the latest CI review round are resolved: its own job has completed (success), and this comment supersedes the standing cursor round. No code has changed since e0b2d2dc.

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The prior round's verdict was Needs-more-work on two purely procedural items, both now closed with no code change at head e0b2d2dc: (1) its own review / claude-review job has completed successfully, and (2) cursor[bot]'s 6b962f06 review thread now has its explicit ARD close-out above (all eight findings Addressed with commit references). The round's check-pr-fully-clean.py finding is filed as #2402. Requesting a fresh review of the same head.

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👀 Picked up by workflow run #33048259268. Setup runs first; Claude itself responds after that.

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Reverted a bot auto-commit that undid part of this PR. The @claude agent run picked up by the review re-request auto-committed "residual session changes" (4311a0b0), re-adding .claude/hooks/check-install.sh — the UserPromptSubmit repair hook this PR deletes. That file was already identified by the earlier CI review round as review-sandbox contamination ("the deleted .claude/hooks/check-install.sh had reappeared as an untracked file ... contamination in the review environment, not a defect in the PR"); the agent's auto-commit promoted that contamination onto the branch.

eeb7163e reverts it (an ordinary revert commit, no history rewrite). The resulting tree is byte-identical to e0b2d2dc (git diff e0b2d2dc eeb7163e is empty), so the round-6 adversarial Ready for merge verdict and the green CI at e0b2d2dc describe exactly this tree; the push re-runs CI at the new SHA to re-establish the checks formally. The review dispatched at 4311a0b is reviewing a superseded head and can be disregarded; this push triggers a fresh round.

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Claude finished reviewView run


Correction to my prior message

My "Ready for merge" verdict was wrong to assert as a terminal claim. I based it on gh pr checks (a short list) and my own read of the diff, not on the repo's own fully-clean instrument. Running it now:

python3 scripts/check-pr-fully-clean.py 2229 -R Morrison-Lab/ai-config

Exit code 1 — not clean:

  • review / claude-review, build / build, and both validate runs are still in_progress at HEAD eeb7163e.
  • No review comment has yet evaluated HEAD SHA eeb7163e (my own review, once posted, will be the first).
  • The latest verdict-bearing statement in the thread (2026-08-27T07:02:54Z) is still not-clean and nothing has superseded it with a clean verdict recognized by the tool.

Restated finding (unchanged substance)

git diff e0b2d2dc0e8dca6ce8aff5b5aa16917920609a6c eeb7163ed2e9440101b363ebc30c488ac092e6c6 is empty — the tree at current HEAD is byte-identical to e0b2d2dc, the commit my prior round fully reviewed and found no code/prose defects in (across six self-review rounds plus two bot rounds). The two intervening commits (4311a0b0 auto-commit, eeb7163e revert of it) cancel out. The cursor 6b962f06 thread now has an explicit ARD close-out comment addressing all eight findings, and the check-pr-fully-clean.py admission-gate bug I found last round is filed as #2402 (confirmed open).

So: no new code-level findings, but I cannot authorize a terminal "clean" claim while the instrument itself reports pending checks and no review yet posted against this exact SHA.

Verdict

Not yet clean — CI/review still in progress, no defects found. check-pr-fully-clean.py exits 1 solely due to in-progress checks and the absence (until this comment posts) of a review evaluating eeb7163e. The underlying diff is unchanged from the previously fully-vetted e0b2d2dc and I found no new issues in it. Re-run the instrument once checks complete and this comment is posted; if it then reports exit 0, the PR is ready to merge on the merits already established.

Reviewed commit: eeb7163

Stopping Point: Not a clean stopping point / work remains queued: CI checks (review/claude-review, build/build, both validate runs) are still in progress at the reviewed SHA, and check-pr-fully-clean.py needs to be re-run after they complete and this review posts, to confirm exit 0.

Reviewed commit: eeb7163

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Merging under the standing ai-config mwc grant — fully clean at head eeb7163e:

  • CI: all 11 check runs at this head completed/success (both validate runs — the MD013 lint fix held — build/build, both new-line-breaks, and the full review chain including require-review).
  • CI Claude review at this exact head: "no defects found"; its verdict was conditional solely on CI completion and its own comment posting, both now resolved, with its stated resolution ("ready to merge on the merits already established") satisfied. Its instrument re-run instruction can't be executed verbatim from this session (check-pr-fully-clean.py needs gh, absent in remote sessions, and would also false-block on the check-pr-fully-clean.py: a non-bot author's clean verdict is never admitted, so their not-clean round sticks forever #2402 admission-gate bug it itself discovered), so both fully-clean criteria are established from the paginated check-runs endpoint and the review/thread record instead, per the documented remote-session fallback.
  • Adversarial verdict at the shipping tree: round 6's Ready for merge at e0b2d2dc, whose tree is byte-identical to this head (git diff e0b2d2dc eeb7163e empty), plus the independent CI Ready for merge at 0c485641 and six published adversarial rounds with every finding Addressed.
  • Review threads: cursor[bot]'s round formally closed with the ARD table above; no reviewer holds a standing not-clean (each not-clean round is superseded by the same reviewer's later clean or conditional-clean whose condition resolved).
  • Mergeable: behind current main with no conflict (the earlier conflict was resolved in 037d7dfe/f9e1043f; overlap-free vs the commits main gained since).

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…an, without quorum authority (#2426)

* fix: a structured non-bot clean supersedes its own identity's not-clean

Closes #2402. The admission gate (the #1798 fail-closed fix) admitted a
non-bot comment only when its verdict was not-clean, so one such round
pinned that identity's "latest" forever: later Ready-for-merge rounds
under the same account were dropped before check_latest_verdict ever saw
them, manufacturing a permanent standing veto no ARDI round could clear
(measured on #2229's six-round sequence).

A non-bot comment is now also admitted when it is a STRUCTURED review
report (Summary/Findings/Verdict-family heading plus a Reviewed-Commit
fingerprint) stating a clean verdict -- but tagged quorum-ineligible at
admission, so it can supersede that same identity's own earlier
not-clean and can never count toward the clean-review quorum that
authorizes a merge. #2308's invariant (approval authority comes from
author identity, never body text) is preserved by the tag; #1798's guard
is preserved by the structure test, which casual prose cannot satisfy.

Four regression tests: supersession, its negative control, the
solo-human-clean quorum refusal, and the casual-comment guard.

* fix: identity-gate the supersession branch; strip before the structure test (security round)

* test: spoof fixture discriminates via a quorum-satisfying rider (round 2)
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