* fix: remove duplicate command wrapper so plugin exposes only the skill (#461)
The plugin shipped both commands/last30days.md and the skill under the
same name, so /last30 surfaced two `last30days` entries with two
different descriptions. Remove the wrapper; the skill already carries
its own argument-hint, so the /last30days <topic> picker UX is unchanged.
Also corrects the README install note that claimed Claude Code dedupes
the slash command across install methods (it does not), and bumps
3.3.0 -> 3.3.1 across plugin.json, marketplace.json, gemini-extension.json,
and SKILL.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: bump pyproject.toml version to 3.3.1 (manifest contract)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: update uv.lock for 3.3.1 version bump
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Step 1 and comparison-mode resolver loops walked a hardcoded list
of install paths trying to find scripts/last30days.py. Two problems:
1. The list was never exhaustive — it covered ~/.codex/skills, but not
~/.claude/skills, ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.copilot/skills,
~/.hermes/skills/research, etc. PR #406 was about to fix that by
enumerating more paths, but enumeration is the wrong shape.
2. The resolver could pick a different install than the SKILL.md the
model loaded from. Spec-vs-engine divergence is subtle and confusing
when it triggers.
The model already knows the SKILL.md path it loaded (from its Read tool
result). Templating that into the bash block is strictly better than
guessing across an enumerated list:
- Works for every harness without enumeration (Hermes, Cursor, anything
new) because we just use wherever the harness loaded SKILL.md from
- Aligns spec with engine — the engine runs from the same install the
spec was read from
- Deletes ~80 lines of bash across Step 1 + comparison-mode + the
prose preamble describing the resolver
Mechanics:
- SKILL_DIR placeholder in both bash blocks — model substitutes the
absolute path of the directory containing the SKILL.md it just Read
- One-line validation `[ ! -f "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/last30days.py" ]`
catches bad templating with a clear error
- All references to $SKILL_ROOT replaced with $SKILL_DIR (badge
VERSION lookup, prose description in the LAW-7 preamble area)
- STEP 0 unchanged — different concern (marketplaces stale-clone hop)
Version 3.2.3 -> 3.2.4 (behavior change: install paths the resolver
list never enumerated now work; install paths it did enumerate work
the same way they used to but via the SKILL_DIR template).
Closes#403.
The SKILL.md templates instructed the model to invoke the engine with
inline single-quoted JSON: `--plan '$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.
* feat(digg): bump POSTS_PER_CLUSTER to 5 and render limit to 3
Match the per-item enrichment cap and inline-display cap used by the
other sources (Reddit, HN, YouTube, TikTok, GitHub all use 5 fetched /
3 displayed). At the previous 3/2 caps the engine routinely truncated
cluster context — a recent run on cli-printing-press lost the Jason
Calacanis quote tweet entirely because the display cut off after Garry
Tan's first two posts.
* feat(digg): rename 'Digg AI 1000' to 'Digg' in user-facing strings
Drop the 'AI 1000' suffix from the footer line, source label, inline
quote attribution ('via Digg'), why_relevant, container, mock title,
SKILL.md source list, and README sources table. Internal code comments
and docstrings still reference the upstream Digg AI 1000 product.
Bumps version to 3.2.1 and adds a CHANGELOG entry covering this rename
and the POSTS_PER_CLUSTER / render-limit bumps from the prior commit.
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* chore(release): v3.2.0
Bumps plugin/marketplace/codex/pyproject versions from 3.1.1 to 3.2.0.
Promotes the Unreleased CHANGELOG entries (--emit=html, Digg AI 1000
source) to the 3.2.0 release section.
* chore(release): bump SKILL.md header and sync.sh path to 3.2.0
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`tests/test_plugin_contract.py::test_versions_match_across_manifests`
enforces that every version-bearing surface agrees: pyproject.toml,
SKILL.md, both plugin.json files, AND the marketplace plugin entry.
The Claude Code spec says plugin.json wins when both are set, but this
repo deliberately mirrors the version across all surfaces and tests it.
Restore the field at 3.1.1 to satisfy the contract.
- Remove no-op `"hooks": {}` from .claude-plugin/plugin.json (auto-discovery from hooks/hooks.json picks up the SessionStart hook).
- Remove redundant `version` from marketplace.json plugin entry; plugin.json is the source of truth per the spec.
- Sync description / longDescription across .claude-plugin and .codex-plugin manifests so all surfaces show the same copy.
Five Opus 4.7 self-debugs on v3.0.8 (3 passing, 2 failing runs) converged
on four fixes:
1. Engine refuses Class 1 demographic-shopping queries at main() front-door.
Birthday-gift failure mode becomes structurally impossible - the pipeline
never runs on a doomed query. Exit code 2 with a REFUSE message on stderr
pointing the model to ask for hobbies/relationship/budget. Escape hatch:
LAST30DAYS_SKIP_PREFLIGHT=1 for "just run it" overrides.
2. Delete stale `.agents/skills/last30days/SKILL.md` (1382 lines, April 13
snapshot) and `.hermes-plugin/SKILL.md` (269 lines, April 13 snapshot).
Peter Steinberger's self-debug named the first file as the one it read
instead of the real SKILL.md. One SKILL.md per plugin, at the plugin root.
Sync script simplified: Hermes now always uses main SKILL.md.
3. render_compact() appends an explicit END-OF-CANONICAL-OUTPUT boundary
with pass-through instruction. The model had the canonical body in its
buffer on the Peter run and discarded it; the boundary makes pass-through
the path of least resistance.
4. LAW 1 gains a verbatim-pattern override clause naming the exact WebSearch
tool-result reminder ("CRITICAL REQUIREMENT: MUST include Sources:
section") that caused Peter's trailing Sources leak. No more ambiguity
at synthesis time.
Tests: tests/test_preflight.py, 29 scenarios covering Class 1 matches
(birthday gift, best-for-demographic, what-to-buy-relationship), qualifier
skips (budget, hobbies, activity after year-old), and the REFUSE message
shape.
Validation gate before merging to main: re-run the 5 debug topics
(Peter Steinberger, birthday gift for 40 year old, Kanye West, Garry Tan,
OpenClaw vs Paperclip vs Hermes) on v3.0.9 and confirm 5/5 canonical
compliance. Rollback to v3.0.8 if any previously-passing topic regresses.
Plan: docs/plans/2026-04-18-015-fix-engine-refuse-keyword-traps-delete-stale-skillmd-files-plan.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three independent Opus 4.7 self-debugs on 2026-04-18 converged on the same
root cause of the v3.0.6/v3.0.7 canonical-compliance regression: SKILL.md is
42,860 tokens / 1,478 lines, LAWs lived at line 1094+, every realistic reading
strategy failed to reach them before synthesis.
Unit 1 - Moved the BADGE MANDATORY block and VOICE CONTRACT LAW 1-5 (plus
the formatting-authority preface) from line ~1090 to line ~75 (right after
the SKILL CONTRACT preface, before HOW TO INVOKE THIS SKILL). Every reading
strategy now lands the LAWs in active context before synthesis.
Unit 2 - Engine now emits the badge as the first line of --emit=compact
stdout. Passing through the script output becomes the default-correct
behavior; emitting the badge no longer depends on model compliance. Reads
version from .claude-plugin/plugin.json at runtime with graceful fallback.
Unit 3 - Deleted skills/last30days/SKILL.md stub (231-line v3-spec file).
This was the wrong-file-capture hazard Ron Conway's self-debug identified:
model grabbed the first SKILL.md find surfaced and treated it as
authoritative. Only ONE SKILL.md in the plugin package now.
Diagnoses verbatim:
- Kanye thread: "I read lines 1-600 in chunks, jumped to 300-899, then
stopped. File is 1478 lines. I never saw past ~900."
- Peter thread: "I tried Read once, hit the 25K token cap on a 42,860-token
file, and bailed instead of chunked-reading with offset/limit. I never
opened SKILL.md at all."
- Ron Conway thread: "I read one SKILL.md (231 lines)... the v3 spec stub.
I never opened the operational SKILL.md sitting next to the script."
Validation: direct engine invocation confirms badge at line 1 of compact
output. Module imports clean.
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hot-fix for the public v3.0.6 0/8 regression (2026-04-18). Beta went 10/10
yesterday with the same LAW content; public went 0/8 today. The delta was
three structural anchors the port had removed or weakened.
Unit 1 - Restored MANDATORY first-line badge. Every public response now
emits "🌐 last30days v{VERSION} · synced {YYYY-MM-DD}" as line 1, blank
line, then "What I learned:" (GENERAL) or "# {TOPIC_A} vs {TOPIC_B}..."
(COMPARISON). This is the LAW 2 / LAW 4 enforcement anchor that my v3.0.6
port accidentally stripped along with the beta-specific "🧪 last30days-beta"
wording.
Unit 2 - Pinned SKILL_ROOT to the public plugin cache via
`ls -d ~/.claude/plugins/cache/last30days-skill/last30days/*/ | sort -V |
tail -1`, with a small fallback for repo/Gemini/Codex hosts. Replaces the
path-discovery loop that was landing on stale copies (~/.openclaw/,
~/.agents/, ~/.codex/) on machines with a private-repo sync history.
Unit 3 - Added a "SKILL CONTRACT" preface at the top of SKILL.md that names
the 0/8 regression as a documented failure mode and explicitly tells the
model not to treat /last30days as a generic keyword. Encodes user theory
that "/last30days-beta" sounded specific enough to trigger skill-follow
mode while "/last30days" reads as a search term and triggers improvise
mode.
Validation: all three anchors visible in the grep check for public
v3.0.7 cache. Next validation is manual re-run of the 8 failure topics
on public after shipping.
Co-authored-by: Matt Van Horn <455140+mvanhorn@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consolidates seven beta-validated plans into the public release. Validated
on nine+ topics across GENERAL, COMPARISON, RECOMMENDATIONS, and
demographic-shopping classes before ship.
Plans bundled in this release:
- 003 Engine-emitted Pre-Research Status warning + Polymarket summarization
+ VOICE CONTRACT LAW 1-5 + Step 0.55 MANDATORY
- 004 WebSearch deferred-tool loading (ToolSearch STEP 0) + LAW 5 universal
+ top-of-file imperative
- 005 Supplement floor (2-3 minimum) separate from Step 0.55 pre-research
- 006 Step 2.5 MANDATORY raw-file append with canonical format example +
count-equality self-check
- 007 Restored April 9 canonical comparison template with Quick Verdict,
per-entity Strengths/Weaknesses, 9-axis Head-to-Head, Bottom Line,
emerging stack + LAW 2/4 COMPARISON exceptions
- 008 Person-topic GitHub handle resolution MANDATORY + LAW 1 reinforcement
at Step 2 tail and Step 2.5 entry + RECOMMENDATIONS signal-weighted
ranking rewrite + Polymarket post-merge topic filter (engine change,
filter_items_against_topic helper + vs/versus in _NOISE_WORDS)
- 009 Unified pre-flight CHECKLIST + VOICE CONTRACT formatting-authority
preface + Step 0.45 Query Quality Pre-Flight (4 keyword-trap classes) +
post-synthesis Sources-block self-check
Beta validation topics (2026-04-18): Kanye West, Matt Van Horn, CLI vs MCP,
OpenClaw vs Paperclip vs Hermes, Paperclip vs Hermes vs Open Claw, Garry
Tan, Israel vs Lebanon, Best programming language for AI agents, Peter
Steinberger post plan 009, Birthday gift for 42 year old man (Class 1
pre-flight fired correctly), Vincent Koc (passed).
No breaking changes. No new CLI flags. No new public API. Plugin name
(last30days) and marketplace name (last30days-skill) unchanged.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds commands/last30days.md so /last30days registers as a Claude Code
slash command for plugin users. Users type /last30days and autocomplete
prefix-matches to the canonical /last30days:last30days form (same as
/ce:plan resolving to /compound-engineering:ce-plan).
Removes skills/last30days-nux/, a byte-identical duplicate of the root
SKILL.md that created confusing /last30days:last30days-nux autocomplete
entries via Claude Code's plugin namespacing. Root SKILL.md remains
the canonical skill source; natural-language skill-selector invocation
is unchanged.
Recovery for users on v3.0.4: /plugin update last30days then /reload-plugins.
Closes#239 (path-escape error was already fixed in v3.0.4 by dropping
the rogue 'skills' key; v3.0.5 adds the slash command on top).
Supersedes #257 (suggested './' -> '.' workaround is obsolete since
v3.0.4 dropped the 'skills' key entirely, matching ecosystem standard).
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plugin.json has declared "skills": ["./"] unchanged since v2.1.0. That
value used to work on older Claude Code but current versions reject it
with: Path escapes plugin directory: ./ (skills). The error surfaces
on fresh /doctor runs even after v3.0.3 restored the archive contents.
Fix: omit the "skills" key entirely. Every other plugin in the Claude
Code marketplace ecosystem (compound-engineering, coding-tutor, codex,
esper, 15+ Anthropic official plugins) omits this key and the loader
auto-discovers skills/*/SKILL.md. Matching that pattern clears the
path-escape error on v2.1.109+ and remains compatible with older
Claude Code versions where the default-discovery path was already the
working code path.
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v3.0.1 added .gitattributes rules that excluded both directories from
git archive output, shrinking the claude.ai .skill bundle. But Claude
Code's /plugin install fetches the SAME archive, so users installing
v3.0.1 or v3.0.2 received a tarball with no plugin manifest and no
skill files. Install appeared successful but the plugin was a useless
empty shell.
Proof:
git archive v3.0.0 | grep 'skills/|\.claude-plugin/' | wc -l # 8
git archive v3.0.1 | grep 'skills/|\.claude-plugin/' | wc -l # 0
git archive v3.0.2 | grep 'skills/|\.claude-plugin/' | wc -l # 0
No issue reports yet because:
- Cached pre-v3.0.1 installs keep working (it's the new-install path
that's broken)
- The breakage is under 24 hours old
- Users invoking the skill via natural language go through
skill-selector rather than /last30days slash command
Also reverts v3.0.2's "skills": ["skills"] back to "./", the value
that shipped in every tag from v2.1.0 through v3.0.0. That change was
a misdiagnosis; the manifest wasn't in the tarball anyway so it had
no effect on user-visible installs.
Archive file count after fix: 97 (cap is 200, plenty of room).
Follow-up: move claude.ai-specific bundle exclusions into
scripts/build-skill.sh where they belong, rather than .gitattributes
which cannot distinguish between the two distribution channels.
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Two regressions were silently breaking /last30days for every user:
1. plugin.json declared "skills": ["./"], which newer Claude Code
rejects with "Path escapes plugin directory: ./ (skills)". The
skill loader refused to register the command, so /last30days
returned "Unknown command" even though /plugin list showed the
plugin as installed. Fix: "skills": ["skills"] so the loader
scans the real subdirectory.
2. marketplace.json pinned "version": "3.0.0" while plugin.json
advertised "3.0.1". The /plugin resolver used the marketplace
version and could install a phantom user-scope copy at a stale
SHA alongside the correct project-scope install, creating
duplicate skill-name collisions. Both manifests now agree on
3.0.2.
Prior attempt: commit 93fbed2 fixed (1) before but got reverted.
This lands both fixes together in a tagged release so users can
/plugin update to recover.
Recovery for affected users is in CHANGELOG.md under 3.0.2.
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marketplace.json had stale v3 rename artifacts: plugin name was
"last30days-3" (should be "last30days" to match plugin.json) and
version was "3.0.0-alpha" (should be "3.0.0" to match the stable
release).
Update .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and plugin.json to v2.9.5 with
full metadata. Add plugin install instructions to README as the
recommended install method. The repo root serves as both the marketplace
and the plugin - skills/last30days/SKILL.md (symlink) is discovered
automatically.
Users can now install with:
/plugin marketplace add mvanhorn/last30days-skill
/plugin install last30days@last30days-skill
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add CHANGELOG.md (Keep a Changelog format) and release-notes.md
for the v2.1.0 GitHub Release. Also includes queued copy updates:
plugin.json version bump to 2.1.0, YouTube added to descriptions,
SKILL.md security/permissions section and ClawdBot metadata,
updated watchlist examples, and v2.1 launch post refinements.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and plugin.json manifests
- Use ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$HOME/.claude/skills/last30days} for script path
- Plugin install: uses CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT when set
- Manual install: falls back to ~/.claude/skills/last30days (no breakage)
- SKILL.md stays at root, plugin.json points skills to "./"
Users can now install via:
claude plugin marketplace add mvanhorn/last30days-skill
claude plugin install last30days@last30days
Inspired by PR #1 (galligan) — lighter approach without repo restructure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matt Van Horn