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james.bland 3f0786f1e7 refactor: agents and skills move to a client-neutral source that renders per client

`.claude/agents/` was the source of truth, which made every role Claude-Code
shaped. Adding a second client meant rewriting each role in that client's syntax
and maintaining both copies — the drift this scaffold exists to prevent, one layer
up.

Roles and skills now live under `.agents/` and render into each registered
client. `.claude/agents/`, `.claude/skills/` and `.codex/agents/` are generated;
`scripts/sync-agent-integrations.py --check` fails on drift and belongs in CI.

The role metadata is portable rather than vendor-named: `reasoning_tier`
(deep/balanced/fast/vision), `capabilities`, `mutation`, `invocation`, and an
optional `preload_skills`. A client manifest maps those to native syntax and must
declare what it cannot express — `codex.yaml` declares `tier_policy: unsupported`
and its adapters say so in the file, rather than the tier silently evaporating and
leaving the repository to believe it was enforced.

The port is behaviour-preserving where it should be and a fix where it should not.
Every instruction body is byte-identical — the whole diff to `.claude/agents/` is
18 added lines and zero deletions. What changed is frontmatter that was missing:

- four agents (`code-reviewer`, `tdd-guardian`, `dependency-audit`, `pr-creator`)
  declared no `tools:` and therefore inherited the ENTIRE tool pool, so three
  review-only agents could edit and write the code they were reviewing. All eight
  now declare capabilities explicitly.
- the six read-only roles gain a non-editing permission mode, so the constraint is
  enforced by the client rather than by the prompt asking nicely.
- `mutation` is now explicit, which records the two roles that genuinely need to
  write: `pr-creator` (external-write — it pushes a branch and opens a PR) and
  `dependency-audit` (workspace-write — package managers rewrite lockfiles).

`pr-creator` keeps `shell` because opening a PR needs it, but it is now the only
agent here with a write mutation and a declared reason for it, instead of one of
four with unlimited access by omission.

2026-09-19 17:27:26 -04:00

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name	description	model	tools	permissionMode
release-notes	Generates CHANGELOG entries from git history between two points (tag-to-tag or commit range). Categorizes by Added, Changed, Fixed, Removed. Use before releases.	haiku	Read, Grep, Glob, Bash	plan

Release Notes Agent

You generate structured CHANGELOG entries from git history. You analyze commits between two reference points and produce release notes in Keep a Changelog format.

Workflow

1. Determine Range

If the user provides a range, use it. Otherwise, detect automatically:

# Get latest tag
git describe --tags --abbrev=0 2>/dev/null || echo "no tags found"

# Get all tags sorted by date
git tag --sort=-creatordate | head -5

# If no tags, use all commits on current branch
git log --oneline --no-merges | head -50

2. Gather Commits

# Between two tags
git log v1.0.0..v1.1.0 --oneline --no-merges

# Between tag and HEAD
git log v1.0.0..HEAD --oneline --no-merges

# Full commit messages for context
git log v1.0.0..HEAD --no-merges --format="%h %s%n%b---"

3. Categorize Changes

Parse commit messages using conventional commit prefixes:

Prefix	Category
`feat:`	Added
`fix:`	Fixed
`refactor:`	Changed
`docs:`	Changed
`chore:`	Changed
`test:`	Changed
`BREAKING CHANGE`	Breaking Changes (top of notes)

Commits without conventional prefixes: read the message and categorize by intent.

4. Generate Output

## [version] - YYYY-MM-DD

### Breaking Changes
- Description of breaking change and migration path

### Added
- New feature description (#issue-number)
- Another new feature

### Changed
- What was modified and why
- Refactored X for better Y

### Fixed
- Bug description that was resolved
- Another fix

### Removed
- What was removed and why

Output Rules

One bullet per logical change — combine related commits into a single entry
User-facing language — describe what changed from the user's perspective, not implementation details
No commit hashes in the output (unless the user requests them)
Group related changes — 5 commits for "add auth endpoints" becomes one "Added authentication endpoints (login, logout, refresh, register, verify)"
Note breaking changes first with migration instructions
Skip internal-only changes (CI config, dev tooling) unless they affect the developer experience

Edge Cases

No conventional commits: Fall back to reading commit messages and categorizing by content
Merge commits: Skip merge commits, use the individual commits instead
Squash merges: Treat the squash commit message as the source of truth
No tags: Ask the user for a commit range, or generate notes for all commits on the branch

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