Closes#403.
The SKILL.md templates instructed the model to invoke the engine with
inline single-quoted JSON: `--plan '$JSON'` and `--competitors-plan '{...}'`.
When any resolved field value contained an apostrophe (common in `context`
strings like "McDonald's", "people's choice", or contracted forms like
"don't", "won't"), the inner `'` closed the outer single-quote and broke
shell parsing before the engine was even invoked.
Observed during PR #400 testing: a Codex run hit the trap and self-healed
by re-encoding, wasting one engine invocation and ~30s of latency.
Fix: switch both templates to the heredoc + tmpfile pattern. The engine's
`parse_plan()` and `parse_competitors_plan()` already check
`os.path.isfile(plan_str)` and read from disk — only the SKILL.md prose
needed to change.
The quoted heredoc marker (<<'PLAN_EOF') is load-bearing: it suppresses
shell interpolation so apostrophes, $, backticks, etc. pass through verbatim.
A trap on EXIT cleans up the tmpfile after the engine call returns.
LAW 7's "MUST contain --plan" self-check guidance and Step 1's invocation
example both updated to reference the file form. Comparison-mode invocation
block updated the same way for --competitors-plan.
Version bump 3.2.2 -> 3.2.3 because this is a behavior change users
running comparison-mode queries will notice (no more "shell quoting error,
retrying" sequences on apostrophe-containing context strings).
12 fixes from the multi-agent code review on PR #400:
Version 3.2.1 -> 3.2.2 across all manifests (SKILL.md frontmatter + body
header, pyproject.toml, .claude-plugin/{plugin,marketplace}.json, sync.sh
cache path). The PR ships observable behavior changes (STEP 0 logic flip,
resolver order change, badge fallback) that should not silently appear
under the same version number — the new fallback reads SKILL.md version
directly so the badge would otherwise be misleading.
render.py::_skill_version:
- `import re` moved to module top
- _VERSION_RE extracted as a module-level compiled pattern that accepts
double-quoted, single-quoted, and unquoted YAML version scalars
- `break` -> `continue` on corrupt manifest, so a corrupt inner manifest
no longer shadows a valid outer one
- Wrap SKILL.md read_text() in try/except for UnicodeDecodeError to keep
badge emission from crashing on mis-encoded SKILL.md
- Docstring clarifies precedence; inline comment marks the fallback boundary
between the manifest walk and the SKILL.md walk
tests/test_skill_version.py (new): 7 unit tests for the fallback paths
(manifest absent, manifest corrupt, corrupt-inner + valid-outer, both
absent, SKILL.md without version, single-quoted, unquoted).
tests/test_plugin_contract.py: tombstone test asserting .codex-plugin/
stays removed (was the only CI guard against accidental reintroduction).
SKILL.md:
- STEP 0 bash echoes CLAUDE_CACHE_LATEST so the model can see the
resolved value when deciding whether to hop
- "Both shapes ship in the wild" comment now names the two cache layouts
(nested {cache}/{version}/skills/last30days/ vs flat {cache}/{version}/)
- Comparison-mode bash invocation gets its own inline SKILL_ROOT resolver
(latent gap: the contract tells the model to skip Step 1 on comparison
queries, so SKILL_ROOT was previously unset there)
CHANGELOG.md: [Unreleased] entries for the resolver rewrite and the
breaking removal of Codex native-plugin support.
All 9 reviewer personas surfaced findings; 3 cross-reviewer corroboration
clusters were promoted (import re, "both shapes" comment, missing fallback
tests). Maintainability follow-up flagged: regex now duplicated across
render.py and 2 test files; could consolidate via shared lib/skill_meta.py
helper in a future PR.
Five provider modules (pinterest, threads, instagram, tiktok, youtube_yt)
and watchlist.py each carried a try/except `requests` import with parallel
urllib + requests branches. The urllib path already used the
stdlib-only wrapper at `lib/http.py` (retries, 429 handling, HTTPError).
This collapses every dual-branch into a single `http.get`/`http.post`
call and removes the `requests` dependency from `pyproject.toml`.
Also drops 4 transitive deps (urllib3, certifi, charset-normalizer, idna)
from the lockfile, leaving the skill stdlib-only at runtime.
Tests for tiktok comments and watchlist delivery were rewritten to mock
`lib.http` directly instead of the now-removed `requests` module.
Out of scope but flagged during review: the 13 surviving SC call sites
share a near-identical scaffold and would benefit from a
`http.scrapecreators_get(url, params, token, ...)` helper. Filed for a
follow-up PR rather than expanding scope here.
Trevin Chow