feat: drop the kettle plugin; the binary writes its own skills
The plugin and the binary shipped on two release cadences and nothing on an operator's machine ever checked that the one they installed described the other. The generated flag block existed precisely so a renamed flag could not ship with documentation recommending the old one — and then shipped one version behind the registry it came from, which is the same bug one hop downstream. So the prose moved into the binary. `internal/scaffold` embeds every document; `kettle init` and `kettle gen scaffold` write them into a project's own `.claude/`. The two cannot disagree because there is one artefact. The namespace survived the move. A project's skills are flat, so the prefix is spelled into the directory name (`kettle-issue`); a project's *commands* take their namespace from a subdirectory, so `commands/kettle/init.md` is still `/kettle:init`. Four of the six command files are thin pointers at a skill, and that is what kept ~1,600 lines of `/kettle:…` cross-references true without a rewrite. `init` and `auth` lost `disable-model-invocation: true` — being a command is that property — and `auth` now restricts `allowed-tools` so a model cannot reach `kettle auth add` at all. `gen scaffold` writes files whole rather than splicing a region. The old refusal protected somebody's hand-written prose around the block; that prose is embedded now, so there is none to protect, and preserving local edits would freeze a project's documentation at whatever version first initialized it. `--check` warns before an upgrade discards one. The plugin's `agents-sync.sh` — 141 lines of Python behind a filename that said `.sh` — became `internal/mirror` and `kettle mirror`. Same seven branches, same refusal to merge two real files that differ, now with a table test per branch and a check that a repair converges in one pass. `--hook` is the PreToolUse form and exits 0 on every path including a panic. It is opt-in per project, which is strictly narrower than the plugin hook that was on for everybody who installed it. `kettle init --interactive` walks a person through the login, the token (read with the echo off, so it lands in no history and no file), the repository, the `.claude/` tree and the mirror hook. It refuses a stdin that is not a terminal and names the flags instead: every question it asks has one, and it performs nothing itself, so an interactive run and a flag run are one code path. Two rules that used to be prose are now the binary's: init refuses a linked worktree and names the main checkout, and writing into an existing `.claude/settings.json` is refused with the snippet printed rather than reformatting a file the operator commits. The scaffold version stamp went to its own `.kettle/scaffold.yaml` rather than into `config.yaml`, because unknown keys there are a hard error and that file may be committed and read by whatever build each machine has. golang.org/x/term becomes a direct dependency; it was already in the tree indirectly, so no module was added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| plugin | what it is |
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| [`kettle/`](kettle/AGENTS.md) | issues as local markdown, driven by the `kettle` binary in [`cli/`](../cli/AGENTS.md). Skills, a runner subagent, two hooks |
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| [`tdl/`](tdl/AGENTS.md) | Three Dots Labs Go conventions as an enforceable rule set. One skill, no binary, no state |
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**There used to be a second one, and where it went is the useful part.** `kettle`
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was a plugin wrapping a binary, and the two shipped on separate cadences with
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nothing checking that an installed plugin described the installed binary. Its
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documents are embedded in the binary now
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([`cli/internal/scaffold`](../cli/internal/scaffold/AGENTS.md)) and `kettle init`
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writes them into a project's own `.claude/`.
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That is not a reason to stop writing plugins here. It is a test to apply to the
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next one: **does this plugin describe something whose version it cannot see?** If
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it does, whatever ships that thing should ship the documents too. `tdl` passes
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easily — it has no binary, no state and no network, so there is no second version
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for it to disagree with.
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## Adding one
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Two edits, and nothing else in the repository needs to know:
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@@ -49,5 +61,6 @@ what the installed plugin reports. Keep them saying the same thing.
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- **Scope:** what a plugin directory is, how the catalog points at it, and the rules
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common to all of them. The table names every plugin here.
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- **Update it when** a plugin is added or removed or renamed, or when the catalog
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gains a field a plugin author has to fill in.
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gains a field a plugin author has to fill in. If the last one ever goes, this
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directory goes with it.
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- **Do not** describe an individual plugin's skills or design; each has its own file.
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