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feat(skill): install norn through the skills CLI - #271

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norn had a public agent skill, but its nested integrations path was not discovered by the normal skills CLI scan. Several examples had also drifted from the current MigrationPlan and apply contracts.

This moves the package to skills/norn, sharpens its trigger for configured Markdown vaults and explicit norn requests, and teaches both local and -C <vault-path> use. It also updates current command, Standards pack, repair, and apply guidance, with executable contract tests to keep those surfaces aligned.

Verification:

  • npx --yes skills@1.5.23 add . --list
  • temporary Codex install with --skill norn, followed by a byte comparison
  • cargo check --workspace --locked
  • cargo test --workspace
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo fmt --check
  • git diff --check
  • Quartet adversarial review plus a fresh spot check: PASS

Built with GPT-5.6-sol in T3 Code through the Codex harness.

Move the public norn skill to the standard skills/norn package path and update its trigger, vault targeting, command coverage, and Standards pack guidance.

Correct stale MigrationPlan/apply documentation and add executable contract checks for discovery, CLI options, schemas, and the embedded config example.
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  • New Features

    • Updated the Norn skill to version 1.5.0 with expanded activation rules, command guidance, Standards configuration, and validation behavior.
    • Added MigrationPlan schema v2 support, including preconditions, operation tracking, skipped results, and post-apply validation.
    • Added documented edit and rewrite-wikilink mutation commands.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified skill installation, workflows, input formats, safety checks, partial application behavior, and stable machine-readable contracts.
    • Updated CLI help, configuration guidance, and release documentation.
  • Tests

    • Added integration coverage for skill packaging, workflows, CLI contracts, configuration, and migration behavior.

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The PR relocates the norn skill, updates installation and workflow documentation, documents MigrationPlan v2 and apply report v3 contracts, revises CLI help, and adds integration tests for the packaged skill and documented behavior.

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Norn skill contract update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Skill packaging and installation
.agents/skills/norn, .claude/skills/norn, skills/norn/*, docs/releases.md, docs/decisions/..., CHANGELOG.md
The skill uses the shared skills/norn path. Installation, metadata, release, and information-architecture documentation now use the current skill package.
Skill workflow and configuration guidance
skills/norn/SKILL.md
The skill documents loading conditions, command behavior, Standards-pack configuration, output formats, validation, repair review, and apply semantics.
MigrationPlan and apply contracts
README.md, docs/agent-workflows.md, docs/commands/*, docs/configuration.md, docs/concepts.md, src/cli.rs, src/help/examples.rs
Documentation and CLI help now describe MigrationPlan v2, apply report v3, precondition ordering, operation coverage, confirmation, input handling, output stability, and partial application.
Skill and CLI contract validation
tests/skill_contract.rs
Integration tests validate skill metadata, documentation contracts, CLI command coverage, help content, option coverage, and Standards-pack configuration behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 800b3

The documentation changes still leave a workflow that can bypass the required reviewable migration and apply steps, while related historical and compatibility guidance remains ambiguous. These bounded correctness and maintenance risks should be clarified before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: moving the norn skill for installation through the skills CLI.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the skill relocation, trigger updates, documentation changes, contract tests, and verification steps.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 84.62% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 3 files. (3 skipped: 3 …
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Inline comments:
In `@docs/agent-workflows.md`:
- Line 66: Require every document mutation to generate a reviewable
MigrationPlan and apply it through a separate norn apply step: update
docs/agent-workflows.md:66 to remove direct --yes mutation guidance, update
README.md:97-100 to retain the “always two steps” claim only when enforced, and
update tests/skill_contract.rs:301-318 to replace direct norn new --yes with
reviewed plan generation followed by norn apply.

In `@docs/decisions/0001-docs-information-architecture.md`:
- Line 8: Preserve the original historical wording in the ADR and add a dated
amendment after it. In the amendment, explicitly state that the skills/norn
package and installation into an agent’s skill directory supersede the earlier
installation decision, without rewriting or removing the original text.

In `@skills/norn/SKILL.md`:
- Around line 41-45: Update the norn describe example to preserve the explicitly
selected vault root by including the established -C option or NORN_ROOT setting
before running the command, rather than relying on the process working
directory.
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Preserve explicit vault targeting in the orient-first example, record the skill-install change as an ADR amendment, and clarify the supported preview and apply workflows.

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- Line 91: Update the compatibility-policy wording in the commands format
description so JSON and JSONL are described as stable across “patch releases”
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dbtlr added 2 commits August 25, 2026 13:18
Describe machine-readable contracts as stable across patch releases and remove ambiguous point-release wording from current guidance.
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