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mathiasandClaude Opus 5 56a947b2a0 refactor(plugin)!: ship as a Claude Code plugin, one dir link per harness
Skills move to skills/<name>/SKILL.md and the repo gains both manifests, so
it is now a marketplace hosting exactly one plugin whose root is the repo
root (source: "."). Claude Code installs it from git; no symlinks involved.

Why: install.sh wired the library into every consuming repo as an ABSOLUTE
symlink to $CHECKOUT_DIR. The checkout moved three times, most recently when
local-dev@1966d5a dropped the embedded .skills/ copy, and nothing migrated
the links — 243 dangling links across 12 repos, hidden from git by the
**/.claude/skills/ ignore rule. Worse, ~/dev spans two path roots
(/Users/mathias on the iCloud-shared Macs, /home/mathias on koala), so an
absolute link stored there is broken on one side by construction. Re-running
the installer cannot fix that; only removing the mechanism can.

install.sh keeps the harnesses with no plugin system and drops from 42 links
per harness to one directory link, via the convergent ~/.agents/skills
convention that Pi and OpenCode both read:

  ~/.agents/skills          -> $CHECKOUT_DIR/skills
  ~/.config/crush/skills    -> ~/.agents/skills
  ~/.config/opencode/skills -> ~/.agents/skills

wire_claude_repo is deleted outright rather than gated behind a flag — on a
mixed-root fleet it cannot be made correct. Antigravity and Vibe targets go
too; both unused. CHECKOUT_DIR keeps its host-local default deliberately:
pointing it into ~/dev would put a git working tree inside iCloud with two
concurrent writers.

Taskfile drops five near-identical wiring loops (they had already drifted)
and delegates to install.sh. `task check` gains frontmatter validation, a
stray-root-entry gate, and manifest/tag version parity — the loose
secret-hygiene.md sat unloadable for months because nothing checked layout.

Verified: claude plugin validate . passes clean; a probe skill loaded as
skills:zzprobe through --plugin-dir; task check green at 42 skills.

Refs: #23
Bump-Type: minor

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BeAp5LTscnz2W7Ubt4eJ6m
2026-08-23 14:29:51 +02:00

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Codex Tool Mapping

Skills use Claude Code tool names. When you encounter these in a skill, use your platform equivalent:

Skill references Codex equivalent
Task tool (dispatch subagent) spawn_agent (see Subagent dispatch requires multi-agent support)
Multiple Task calls (parallel) Multiple spawn_agent calls
Task returns result wait_agent
Task completes automatically close_agent to free slot
TodoWrite (task tracking) update_plan
Skill tool (invoke a skill) Skills load natively — just follow the instructions
Read, Write, Edit (files) Use your native file tools
Bash (run commands) Use your native shell tools

Subagent dispatch requires multi-agent support

Add to your Codex config (~/.codex/config.toml):

[features]
multi_agent = true

This enables spawn_agent, wait_agent, and close_agent for skills like dispatching-parallel-agents and subagent-driven-development.

Legacy note: Codex builds before rust-v0.115.0 exposed spawned-agent waiting as wait. Current Codex uses wait_agent for spawned agents. The wait name now belongs to code-mode exec/wait, which resumes a yielded exec cell by cell_id; it is not the spawned-agent result tool.

Environment Detection

Skills that create worktrees or finish branches should detect their environment with read-only git commands before proceeding:

GIT_DIR=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
GIT_COMMON=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
  • GIT_DIR != GIT_COMMON → already in a linked worktree (skip creation)
  • BRANCH empty → detached HEAD (cannot branch/push/PR from sandbox)

See using-git-worktrees Step 0 and finishing-a-development-branch Step 1 for how each skill uses these signals.

Codex App Finishing

When the sandbox blocks branch/push operations (detached HEAD in an externally managed worktree), the agent commits all work and informs the user to use the App's native controls:

  • "Create branch" — names the branch, then commit/push/PR via App UI
  • "Hand off to local" — transfers work to the user's local checkout

The agent can still run tests, stage files, and output suggested branch names, commit messages, and PR descriptions for the user to copy.