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naudachu 8b1b11001a 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>
2026-08-12 16:17:24 +05:00

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AGENTS.md — internal/, and the boundaries between the packages in it

Nine packages, one direction of knowledge. The diagram is in cli/AGENTS.md; this file owns the rules that hold it and the tests that fail when one is broken. Each package's own document owns what is inside it.

The rule in one sentence: read the diagram bottom-up and each layer knows strictly less about trackers than the one above it. A tracker concept — an issue number, a login, an HTTP call, a label colour — that shows up in issue is in the wrong place, and a domain concept — a section, an acceptance criterion, a type taxonomy — that shows up in gitea is in the wrong place too.

Six rules, eleven tests

Each test fails on a real mistake rather than on a naming convention.

rule enforced by
issue may import project and the standard library, and nothing else TestDomainDependsOnNothing walks go list -deps and fails on any import path with a dot in its first element — which is what keeps yaml and the SDK out of the domain; TestDomainDoesNotReachTheNetworkOrTheShell names net/http, net, os/exec and encoding/json, standard library the first test cannot catch
wire imports only the standard library TestWireDependsOnNothing and TestWireReachesNeitherTheNetworkNorTheDisk, the same two checks
gitea must not import issue or mapping TestTransportDoesNotImportTheDomain — the transport knows numbers, logins, HTTP and JSON, and none of what they mean
mapping reaches for nothing but the domain, wire and the SDK, and does no I/O TestTheBridgeTranslatesAndNothingElse on its direct imports, with os, net/http, internal/gitea, internal/config and internal/project named; TestTheBridgeHasNoClock greps its sources for time.Now
mirror imports only the standard library, and shells out to nothing TestMirrorDependsOnNothing and TestMirrorNeitherDialsNorShellsOut
scaffold imports only the standard library, and reads nothing off the disk TestScaffoldDependsOnNothing and TestScaffoldReadsNothingOffTheDisk

The domain's two tests were untouched by the migration to the Gitea SDK, and that is the point: the domain did not notice it happened.

The last two rows are the newest and are there for the same reason as wire's, turned outward rather than inward. mirror walks any directory on the machine and scaffold hands out documents that must exist wherever the binary does — so one import of internal/config would make mirror unusable outside a project, and one os.ReadFile would make scaffold's documents files that can be missing. Neither failure would show up in this repository; both would show up on somebody else's machine.

mirror bans os/exec by name, and that one is a small monument: this package was 141 lines of Python behind a filename that said .sh, so the shell-out it must not grow is the exact thing it used to be.

The one rule that got weaker, and why the trade was taken

The payload shapes used to live in wire, a package that imported the standard library and nothing else, so "the bridge cannot reach a transport" was a fact about the import graph: there was nothing in its dependency closure that could open a socket. code.gitea.io/sdk/gitea is a client and a set of types in one package, so importing the types imports the client, and a test that walked the closure would now be asserting something false.

What is still true, and what the test now says, is that mapping performs no I/O — no os, no net/http, no transport, no configuration, no clock. Note the deliberate asymmetry with the domain's test: this one checks direct imports, because the domain reaches os through project and that is the domain's business. time is allowed here where it was not, because the SDK hands over a time.Time and somebody has to format it back into the string an issue file holds; the clock itself is still the caller's, and the grep for time.Now is what says so.

Why wire still exists

It existed because Go needs the JSON shapes to be one type — the transport and the bridge were written in parallel and each invented its own Issue, Label, Milestone and Comment. The SDK settles that argument for the shapes.

What survives is addressing, which the SDK has no answer for at all: it takes an owner, a name and an int64, and never parses. 42, #42, owner/repo#42 and an issue URL are four spellings of one address, all four are what somebody has in hand, and wire.Key is what the ledger is keyed by and what the gitea: metadata field holds. So wire keeps Repo, Key, their parsing and their tests, and lost the payloads.

Adding a package here

Three questions, in order:

  1. What does it know that its neighbours must not? A package that cannot answer this is a file in an existing one.
  2. Which direction does it import? Draw it into the diagram in cli/AGENTS.md before writing code; an arrow that has to point both ways means the split is in the wrong place.
  3. What test fails when the boundary is crossed? Write it with the package, not after. Every rule above has one, and each of them exists because the equivalent convention in the Python version was a grep somebody eventually forgot to run.

Then give it an AGENTS.md, add it to the table in cli/AGENTS.md, and add its rule to the table above.

Keeping this file true

  • Scope: the boundaries between the packages under internal/ — the six rules, the eleven tests that hold them, and the history of the one that changed. Files: every layering_test.go, plus TestTransportDoesNotImportTheDomain in gitea/client_test.go.
  • Update it when a layering test is added, renamed, removed or weakened; when a package is added or removed; or when an import that was forbidden becomes allowed — that last one always comes with a reason, and the reason is what this file is for.
  • Do not restate what a package does. The table links to the file that says so.