@antoneeo/kb-agentic-skill 1.7.0 → 1.9.0

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,48 @@
 
 Every significant change to this skill is recorded here.
 
+## [1.9.0] - 2026-08-28
+
+F-042 -- the install wires the hook; the incomprehensible question dies.
+
+### Added
+- **Installing or updating the package wires the session-orientation hook
+  machine-wide** (Claude Code with Python; user-level settings). The npm install
+  is the consent -- no question is ever asked. Removal is a standing opt-out: a
+  per-target marker remembers every settings file ever wired and no update
+  re-adds a removed hook; deleting the marker re-enables. `npm uninstall`
+  surgically removes only the entries attributable to the removed skill, across
+  every world the marker remembers, so no dead hook is left behind. `init` now
+  reports "covered by the machine-global hook" instead of wiring a duplicate,
+  and still reports a dead or unverifiable global wrapper while wiring the
+  project.
+- **The check note is global-aware and speaks user language.** Detection now
+  also reads the user-level settings (`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` honored;
+  `AGENTIC_SDLC_USER_SETTINGS` is the test seam), so a fixed machine stops
+  being nagged; the two notes are reworded consequence-first ("agent sessions
+  start without automatic orientation...") so the agent relaying them can ask a
+  question a normal user understands.
+
+## [1.8.0] - 2026-08-28
+
+F-041 -- the mid-session drift field report, both items.
+
+### Added
+- **`check` notes an unwired or dead session-orientation hook.** `init` wires the
+  hook at init time only; pre-F-036 and agent-bootstrapped projects never got it,
+  silently. `check` now prints, right after its summary line, a one-line `[note]` when no hook is detectable
+  in `.claude/settings.json` / `.claude/settings.local.json` / `.codex/hooks.json`,
+  and a distinct note when a hook is wired but its validator does not resolve
+  (any-resolves aggregation across entries; BOM-tolerant reads; fail-open on
+  malformed config). Informational only: never the exit code, never a `validate`
+  warning -- CI stays green because the wired hook legitimately lives in the
+  git-ignored local settings file.
+- **`remind` -- an opt-in per-turn one-line reminder (UserPromptSubmit).** orient
+  fires once; mid-session drift had no mechanical guard. One constant, zero-read
+  line re-arms the kb minimum (triage levels, the topics/INDEX.md recall trigger,
+  the capture moment) at every prompt. Never wired by `init`, never a default:
+  ENFORCEMENT par.4 documents the snippet and the ~50 tokens/prompt cost.
+
 ## [1.7.0] - 2026-08-28
 
 F-040 — the capture moment (second-brain unit 2): the day's decisions reach the

package/README.md

@@ -71,7 +71,12 @@ kb-agentic-init
 
 Run it inside a project to create `ai_docs/`, Vision documents, strategic docs, audit plan, and agent protocol files (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, `GEMINI.md`, `.cursorrules`).
 
-It also **wires the SessionStart orientation hook** into `.claude/`, so an agent opening
+Installing or updating the npm package **wires the session-orientation hook
+machine-wide** (user-level `~/.claude/settings.json`, Claude Code with Python):
+every project with a docs root greets its agent already oriented, and removing
+the entry is a standing opt-out that no update ever overrides. `init` still
+wires per-project where that is the better shape (a vendored validator, a
+shared team file), so an agent opening
 the project is handed the reading guide, the generated manifest, the guide router and the
 last handoff before it does anything — instead of only when it remembers to look. That
 wiring used to be a manual step documented in `ENFORCEMENT.md`; being manual, it was
@@ -82,7 +87,11 @@ it: a repo that vendors it gets a repo-relative command in the shared `.claude/s
 (portable — commit it); otherwise the path is machine-specific and goes to the git-ignored
 `.claude/settings.local.json`, and each teammate runs `init` once. Re-running `init` never
 duplicates the hook, and a hook whose validator no longer resolves is reported as **broken**
-with the correction rather than counted as installed.
+with the correction rather than counted as installed. `check` prints a one-line
+note when a machine has no orientation hook at project or user level (or a dead
+one), and an opt-in per-turn reminder exists for long sessions: `sdlc_check.py
+remind`, one constant line via UserPromptSubmit -- documented in `ENFORCEMENT.md`
+par.4, never wired by default.
 
 ## The family: three lenses, one spine
 

package/gemini-extension.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "kb-agentic-skill",
-  "version": "1.7.0",
+  "version": "1.9.0",
   "description": "Knowledge-Base & Document-First protocol with risk triage, Vision governance, signal distillation and optional devPNT integration.",
   "author": "Antonio Pinto (https://github.com/Antoneeo)"
 }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@antoneeo/kb-agentic-skill",
-  "version": "1.7.0",
+  "version": "1.9.0",
   "description": "Knowledge-Base & Document-First protocol for Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity and Codex with risk triage, Vision governance, signal distillation and optional devPNT integration.",
   "keywords": [
     "claude-code",

package/scripts/init.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
 const { execSync } = require('child_process');
-const { SKILL_SOURCE, INSTALLED_SKILL_NAME, SELF_LENS, SIBLING_LENSES, CLIENTS, clientDetected, skillTarget, wireOrientHook, loadTemplates, templateFor } = require('./lib');
+const { SKILL_SOURCE, INSTALLED_SKILL_NAME, SELF_LENS, SIBLING_LENSES, CLIENTS, clientDetected, skillTarget, wireOrientHook, detectPython, loadTemplates, templateFor } = require('./lib');
 
 const cwd = process.cwd();
 
@@ -152,16 +152,8 @@ let protocolPreexisting = false;
 // Probed ONCE and reused by section 6c: re-filtering CLIENTS there would
 // run every client's detection a second time.
 const detectedClients = CLIENTS.filter(clientDetected);
-const PYTHON_CANDIDATES = ['python', 'python3', 'py'];
-const detectedPython = (() => {
-  for (const py of PYTHON_CANDIDATES) {
-    try {
-      execSync(`${py} --version`, { stdio: 'ignore' });
-      return py;
-    } catch (e) { /* try the next interpreter */ }
-  }
-  return null;
-})();
+// One probe, shared with postinstall's global wiring (F-042): lib owns it.
+const detectedPython = detectPython();
 
 for (const client of detectedClients) {
   {
@@ -276,8 +268,21 @@ if (!claudeClient) {
     hybrid: hybridProject, docsLabel: 'ai_docs',
   });
   switch (r.code) {
+    case 'global':
+      // F-042: a resolving machine-global hook already orients every project.
+      console.log('⏭️  Covered by the machine-global orientation hook — no project-level');
+      console.log(`   hook needed (${r.target}).`);
+      break;
     case 'wired':
       console.log(`🪝 Wired the SessionStart orientation hook in .claude/${r.file}.`);
+      if (r.globalNote === 'dead') {
+        console.log('⚠️  Note: a machine-global orientation hook exists but its validator');
+        console.log('   does not resolve — it emits nothing. Fix or remove it in your user');
+        console.log('   settings (ENFORCEMENT.md §4).');
+      } else if (r.globalNote === 'unverifiable') {
+        console.log('ℹ️  Note: your user settings carry an orientation hook this installer');
+        console.log('   cannot verify; the project-level hook above covers this project.');
+      }
       if (r.local) {
         console.log('   It names a path on THIS machine, so it went to the git-ignored');
         console.log('   file: each teammate runs init once to get their own.');
@@ -321,6 +326,12 @@ if (!claudeClient) {
       console.log(`   hook command safely: ${r.validator}`);
       console.log('   Refusing to build one. Wire it by hand (ENFORCEMENT.md §4).');
       break;
+    default:
+      // A lens port missing a case must be loud, never a silent skip — the
+      // exact defect class the manual-snippet note below exists to prevent.
+      console.log(`ℹ️  Orientation hook: unhandled result '${r.code}'. Wire it by hand`);
+      console.log('   per ENFORCEMENT.md §4.');
+      break;
   }
 }
 for (const c of otherClients) {

package/scripts/lib.js

@@ -358,6 +358,31 @@ function wireOrientHook(options) {
       : { code: 'broken', file: name, target: p, existing, command };
   }
 
+  // F-042: a resolving MACHINE-GLOBAL hook (user-level settings) already
+  // orients every project. Checked AFTER the project scan on purpose: a
+  // project-level broken/malformed/unverifiable must be reported first — a
+  // pre-check would mask a dead project hook behind "covered globally", the
+  // wired-and-DEAD state F-041 calls the worst of the three. A dead or
+  // unverifiable global hook falls through to the project write (the wrapper
+  // may be emitting nothing) and the caller gets `globalNote` to print the
+  // correction. A user-level token that is not absolute has no cwd to resolve
+  // against, so it is treated as unverifiable.
+  let globalNote;
+  {
+    const userTarget = path.join(client.home, 'settings.json');
+    const ustate = orientSettingsState(userTarget);
+    if (ustate.ok) {
+      const uexisting = findOrientHook(ustate.settings);
+      if (uexisting) {
+        const ufound = orientHookValidator(uexisting);
+        if (ufound !== null && path.isAbsolute(ufound) && fs.existsSync(ufound)) {
+          return { code: 'global', target: userTarget, command: uexisting };
+        }
+        globalNote = (ufound === null || !path.isAbsolute(ufound)) ? 'unverifiable' : 'dead';
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   // A machine-specific command must not reach the shared, committed file.
   const file = vendored ? 'settings.json' : 'settings.local.json';
   const target = path.join(cwd, '.claude', file);
@@ -384,7 +409,209 @@ function wireOrientHook(options) {
   } catch (e) {
     return { code: 'write-failed', file, target, command, error: e.message };
   }
-  return { code: 'wired', file, target, command, local: !vendored };
+  return { code: 'wired', file, target, command, local: !vendored, globalNote };
+}
+
+// --- F-042: the machine-global hook (install-time wiring) -------------------
+// The F-041 field lesson: the check note asked a question a normal user cannot
+// evaluate. The owner's ruling: the hook is wired by the act the user already
+// performs — installing/updating the package — at the USER level, which the
+// installer knows exactly. `orient` is fail-open (no docs root ⇒ silent), so a
+// global hook is safe by construction on unmanaged projects. Removal is a
+// STANDING opt-out: a per-target marker remembers every settings file ever
+// wired, and no install or update ever re-adds a removed hook. Deleting the
+// marker file is the documented re-enable gesture (ENFORCEMENT §4).
+
+// Python detection, shared by init (project wiring + index) and postinstall
+// (global wiring). One list, one probe.
+const PYTHON_CANDIDATES = ['python', 'python3', 'py'];
+function detectPython() {
+  for (const py of PYTHON_CANDIDATES) {
+    try {
+      execSync(`${py} --version`, { stdio: 'ignore' });
+      return py;
+    } catch (e) { /* try the next interpreter */ }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// Case/separator normalization uses the PLATFORM'S OWN path.relative: win32
+// folds case and separators; forcing win32 semantics on POSIX would fold
+// genuinely distinct paths (a false positive). One helper guards BOTH the
+// uninstall attribution and the marker lookup — a naive prefix/string match
+// misses `c:\` vs `C:\`, which on attribution re-manufactures the dead hook
+// and on the marker re-wires against a standing opt-out.
+function pathsEqual(a, b) {
+  try {
+    return path.relative(String(a), String(b)) === '';
+  } catch (e) {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+function pathInside(child, parent) {
+  try {
+    const rel = path.relative(String(parent), String(child));
+    return rel !== '' && !rel.startsWith('..') && !path.isAbsolute(rel);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+// The marker lives under the family's agent-global root (the same root the
+// validator's AGENTIC_SDLC_KB_ROOT seam names), read at call time so the test
+// battery's stubbed env applies. Every helper is fail-open: a broken marker
+// must never break an install, and a failed marker write never undoes a wire.
+function orientMarkerPath() {
+  const root = process.env.AGENTIC_SDLC_KB_ROOT
+    || path.join(os.homedir(), '.agentic-sdlc');
+  return path.join(root, 'orient-hook-wired');
+}
+function orientMarkerTargets() {
+  try {
+    return fs.readFileSync(orientMarkerPath(), 'utf8')
+      .split(/\r?\n/).map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+  } catch (e) {
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+function orientMarkerHas(target) {
+  return orientMarkerTargets().some((t) => pathsEqual(t, target));
+}
+function orientMarkerAdd(target) {
+  try {
+    if (orientMarkerHas(target)) return;
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(orientMarkerPath()), { recursive: true });
+    fs.appendFileSync(orientMarkerPath(), target + String.fromCharCode(10), 'utf8');
+  } catch (e) { /* fail-open */ }
+}
+function orientMarkerRemove(target) {
+  try {
+    const rest = orientMarkerTargets().filter((t) => !pathsEqual(t, target));
+    if (rest.length) {
+      fs.writeFileSync(orientMarkerPath(), rest.join(String.fromCharCode(10)) + String.fromCharCode(10), 'utf8');
+    } else {
+      fs.rmSync(orientMarkerPath(), { force: true });
+    }
+  } catch (e) { /* fail-open */ }
+}
+
+// Wire the machine-global hook into client.home/settings.json — exactly ONE
+// file (user level has no local split; the path is machine-local by nature).
+// Codes follow the wireOrientHook contract, plus `opted-out`.
+function wireGlobalOrientHook(options) {
+  const client = options.client;
+  const python = options.python;
+
+  const validator = path.join(skillTarget(client), 'scripts', ORIENT_ENTRY_POINT);
+  if (!fs.existsSync(validator)) return { code: 'no-validator', validator };
+  if (!python) return { code: 'no-python', validator };
+  if (ORIENT_UNSAFE_IN_PATH.test(validator)) return { code: 'unsafe-path', validator };
+  const command = orientHookCommand(python, validator, false);
+
+  const target = path.join(client.home, 'settings.json');
+  const state = orientSettingsState(target);
+  if (!state.ok) return { code: 'malformed', target, why: state.why, command };
+
+  const existing = findOrientHook(state.settings);
+  if (existing) {
+    const found = orientHookValidator(existing);
+    if (found === null || !path.isAbsolute(found)) {
+      // No cwd exists at user level, so an unresolvable token is "cannot
+      // tell" — left alone, never remembered as ours.
+      return { code: 'unverifiable', target, existing, command };
+    }
+    if (fs.existsSync(found)) {
+      // A hand-wired live hook, once removed, deserves the same respect as
+      // one this installer wrote: remember the target.
+      orientMarkerAdd(target);
+      return { code: 'already', target, command: existing };
+    }
+    return { code: 'broken', target, existing, command };
+  }
+
+  if (orientMarkerHas(target)) return { code: 'opted-out', target };
+
+  const settings = state.settings;
+  if (!settings.hooks) settings.hooks = {};
+  if (!Array.isArray(settings.hooks.SessionStart)) settings.hooks.SessionStart = [];
+  settings.hooks.SessionStart.push({
+    hooks: [{
+      type: 'command',
+      command,
+      timeout: ORIENT_HOOK_TIMEOUT,
+      statusMessage: 'Loading docs orientation...',
+    }],
+  });
+  try {
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(target), { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(target, JSON.stringify(settings, null, 2) + String.fromCharCode(10), 'utf8');
+  } catch (e) {
+    return { code: 'write-failed', target, command, error: e.message };
+  }
+  orientMarkerAdd(target);
+  return { code: 'wired', target, command };
+}
+
+// Uninstall symmetry: removing the skill dirs would leave any global hook
+// naming them wired-and-DEAD. So, across EVERY settings target the marker
+// remembers (a hook wired under CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=/x must be cleaned from a
+// shell without that env) unioned with the current client.home, remove ONLY
+// the SessionStart entries whose validator token resolves INTO a root being
+// removed. Foreign or unverifiable entries are never touched. The marker line
+// is cleared ONLY when an entry was actually removed — when the user had
+// already removed the hook, the line stays and the opt-out survives uninstall,
+// reinstall, and sibling-lens uninstalls.
+function removeGlobalOrientHooks(removedRoots) {
+  const targets = [];
+  const claude = CLIENTS.find((c) => c.key === 'claude');
+  if (claude) targets.push(path.join(claude.home, 'settings.json'));
+  for (const t of orientMarkerTargets()) {
+    if (!targets.some((x) => pathsEqual(x, t))) targets.push(t);
+  }
+  const removedFrom = [];
+  for (const target of targets) {
+    try {
+      const state = orientSettingsState(target);
+      if (!state.ok || !fs.existsSync(target)) continue;
+      const hooks = state.settings.hooks;
+      if (!hooks || !Array.isArray(hooks.SessionStart)) continue;
+      let removedHere = false;
+      const ours = (h) => {
+        const cmd = h && typeof h.command === 'string' ? h.command : '';
+        if (!(ORIENT_ENTRY_POINTS.some((n) => cmd.includes(n)) && / orient(\s|$)/.test(cmd))) return false;
+        const tok = orientHookValidator(cmd);
+        if (tok === null || !path.isAbsolute(tok)) return false;   // cannot attribute: keep
+        return removedRoots.some((root) => pathInside(tok, root));
+      };
+      const kept = [];
+      for (const group of hooks.SessionStart) {
+        if (!group || typeof group !== 'object') { kept.push(group); continue; }
+        if (Array.isArray(group.hooks)) {
+          const inner = group.hooks.filter((h) => {
+            if (ours(h)) { removedHere = true; return false; }
+            return true;
+          });
+          if (inner.length) kept.push({ ...group, hooks: inner });
+          else if (inner.length !== group.hooks.length) { /* emptied: prune */ }
+          else kept.push(group);
+        } else if (ours(group)) {
+          removedHere = true;                      // direct-object shape: prune
+        } else {
+          kept.push(group);
+        }
+      }
+      if (!removedHere) continue;
+      state.settings.hooks.SessionStart = kept;
+      if (!kept.length) delete state.settings.hooks.SessionStart;
+      if (state.settings.hooks && !Object.keys(state.settings.hooks).length) {
+        delete state.settings.hooks;
+      }
+      fs.writeFileSync(target, JSON.stringify(state.settings, null, 2) + String.fromCharCode(10), 'utf8');
+      orientMarkerRemove(target);
+      removedFrom.push(target);
+    } catch (e) { /* fail-open per target: never abort an uninstall */ }
+  }
+  return removedFrom;
 }
 
 module.exports = {
@@ -397,6 +624,10 @@ module.exports = {
   clientDetected,
   skillTarget,
   wireOrientHook,
+  wireGlobalOrientHook,
+  removeGlobalOrientHooks,
+  detectPython,
+  pathsEqual,
   orientHookCommand,
   copyRecursive,
   loadTemplates,

package/scripts/postinstall.js

@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
 const fs = require('fs');
-const { SKILL_SOURCE, CLIENTS, clientDetected, skillTarget, copyRecursive } = require('./lib');
+const {
+  SKILL_SOURCE, CLIENTS, clientDetected, skillTarget, copyRecursive,
+  wireGlobalOrientHook, detectPython,
+} = require('./lib');
 
 function installSkill(client) {
   if (!fs.existsSync(SKILL_SOURCE)) {
@@ -29,7 +32,36 @@ for (const client of CLIENTS) {
   if (clientDetected(client)) {
     console.log(`✅ Detected: ${client.label}`);
     detected = true;
-    installSkill(client);
+    const installed = installSkill(client);
+    // F-042: wire the machine-global orientation hook — the install IS the
+    // consent, so no question is ever asked. Claude Code only (the one client
+    // whose hook shape a fixture pins); removal is a standing opt-out the
+    // marker remembers. A convenience must never fail an npm install: wrapped.
+    if (client.key === 'claude' && installed) {
+      try {
+        const r = wireGlobalOrientHook({ client, python: detectPython() });
+        if (r.code === 'wired') {
+          console.log('🔗 Session orientation wired for every project on this machine');
+          console.log(`   (${r.target}).`);
+          console.log('   Agents now start oriented on any project with a docs root; projects');
+          console.log('   without one see nothing. To opt out, remove that hook entry — it');
+          console.log('   will not be re-added.');
+        } else if (r.code === 'broken') {
+          console.log('⚠️  A session-orientation hook exists but the validator it names does');
+          console.log('   not resolve, so it has been emitting nothing. Correct its command to:');
+          console.log(`     ${r.command}`);
+        } else if (r.code === 'no-python') {
+          console.log('ℹ️  Python not found: session orientation not wired (wire it later per');
+          console.log('   ENFORCEMENT.md §4).');
+        } else if (r.code === 'malformed' || r.code === 'write-failed'
+                   || r.code === 'unsafe-path') {
+          console.log(`⚠️  Session orientation not wired (${r.code}). Wire it by hand per`);
+          console.log('   ENFORCEMENT.md §4.');
+        }
+        // already / opted-out / unverifiable / no-validator: silent — an
+        // install must not nag (the opt-out is the user's standing choice).
+      } catch (e) { /* never fail the install for a convenience */ }
+    }
   }
 }
 

package/scripts/preuninstall.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
 const fs = require('fs');
-const { CLIENTS, skillTarget } = require('./lib');
+const { CLIENTS, skillTarget, removeGlobalOrientHooks } = require('./lib');
 
 function removeSkill(client) {
   const target = skillTarget(client);
@@ -14,4 +14,17 @@ function removeSkill(client) {
   }
 }
 
+// F-042: BEFORE the skill dirs go, remove the global orientation hooks that
+// name them — otherwise every future session carries a hook whose validator no
+// longer exists, the wired-and-DEAD state the check note calls the worst of
+// the three. Surgical (only entries attributable to the removed dirs; the
+// marker's opt-out lines survive when nothing was removed) and fail-open (an
+// uninstall must never abort on a settings file).
+try {
+  const removedFrom = removeGlobalOrientHooks(CLIENTS.map(skillTarget));
+  for (const target of removedFrom) {
+    console.log(`🧹 Removed the session-orientation hook entry (${target}).`);
+  }
+} catch (e) { /* never abort an uninstall for a convenience */ }
+
 CLIENTS.forEach(removeSkill);

package/skills/kb-agentic-skill/ENFORCEMENT.md

@@ -86,6 +86,37 @@ that cannot be placed in a command safely, or a settings file it cannot write. `
 prints which case applied, per client — a silent skip is what let "documented default
 that nobody installs" survive in the first place.
 
+**Older and agent-bootstrapped projects are silently unwired -- `check` now tells you (F-041).**
+`init` wires the hook at init time only: a project initialized before F-036, or whose
+docs root was bootstrapped by the agent (which runs `index`, never `init`), never
+received it retroactively -- and until F-041 nothing said so. `check` now prints, right after its summary line, a
+one-line `[note]` when no orientation hook is detectable (`.claude/settings.json`,
+`.claude/settings.local.json`, `.codex/hooks.json`), and a DISTINCT note when a hook is
+wired but the validator it names does not resolve (the wired-and-DEAD state below --
+silence there would bless the worst of the three states). The notes are informational
+only: never the exit code, never a `validate` warning -- CI (`validate --strict`) does
+not see them, because the wired hook legitimately lives in the git-ignored
+`settings.local.json`. Known residuals, accepted as honest: a client with no hook
+mechanism (Gemini today) keeps the note -- read it as the manual-reads reminder; a
+`.codex/hooks.json` wired in a shape other than the documented one keeps it too.
+
+**Installing the package wires the hook machine-wide (F-042).** On Claude Code
+with Python, `npm i -g` (and every update) wires a SessionStart orient hook into
+the USER-level settings (`$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/settings.json` when set, else
+`~/.claude/settings.json`), covering every project on the machine -- `orient` is
+fail-open, so projects without a docs root see nothing. The install itself is
+the consent: no question is asked. **Removing that hook entry is a standing
+opt-out**: a per-target marker (`<agentic-sdlc root>/orient-hook-wired`,
+default `~/.agentic-sdlc/`) remembers each settings file ever wired, and no
+install or update ever re-adds a removed hook; deleting the marker file is the
+re-enable gesture. `npm uninstall` removes the entries it can attribute to the
+removed skill (and only those), so no hook is left pointing at deleted files.
+Notes: the global command carries no `--hybrid` (a machine-global hook cannot
+know per-project mode -- on Hybrid projects only the devPNT pointer line is
+absent); a project wired per-project AND globally prints its orientation twice
+-- remove one of the two entries; `init` reports "covered by the machine-global
+hook" instead of wiring a project-level duplicate.
+
 **Which settings file, and why it is not always the shared one.** The command names a
 validator, and where that validator lives decides where the hook may be written:
 
@@ -133,6 +164,38 @@ Gemini CLI — wire the same command into its startup-hook mechanism if present;
 - **Hybrid/devPNT projects**: add `--hybrid` — the hook then appends a one-line pointer to run `devpnt_mcp_get_bootstrap` for the Master Plan / Knowledge Layer and does not replicate them; the filesystem orientation (router + handoff + README) still emits.
 - Like the CI gate (§2), if you copied `sdlc_check.py` into the repo, the hook references that copy — keep it current when you update the skill.
 
+### Per-turn reminder: `remind` (UserPromptSubmit -- opt-in, NEVER a default)
+
+`orient` fires once, at session start; a long session drifts after it (a compaction,
+ten turns of other work -- the F-041 field report). `sdlc_check.py remind` prints ONE
+constant line -- the kb minimum: the triage levels, the topic-index recall trigger, the
+capture moment -- for the client to inject at every prompt. Cost: ~50 tokens per
+prompt, which is exactly why `init` never wires it and never will by default: the
+per-turn cost is the project's choice. The line is constant and zero-read, so nothing
+repo-controlled can ride into the agent's context through it, and the vision's
+no-per-turn-graph-queries non-goal stays honored -- the line re-arms the
+entry-into-topic trigger; it never runs the reading itself.
+
+Claude Code -- in the project's `.claude/settings.json` (or `settings.local.json` when
+the validator path is machine-specific, same rule as the orientation hook above):
+
+```json
+{
+  "hooks": {
+    "UserPromptSubmit": [
+      {
+        "hooks": [
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "python \"C:\\Users\\<user>\\.claude\\skills\\kb-agentic\\scripts\\sdlc_check.py\" remind"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
 ## 5. Skill eval battery (release gate)
 
 **Skill development only.** `test_*.py` and `evals/` are deliberately absent from the npm `files` allowlist — they never reach an installed consumer, so this section applies to whoever builds the skill, not to a project that uses it. (Consumers get `sdlc_check.py`; §1–§4 are theirs.)

package/skills/kb-agentic-skill/SKILL.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: kb-agentic
-version: 1.7.0
+version: 1.9.0
 description: Knowledge-Base & Document-First protocol with risk-proportional triage, Vision as a guide, Signal Distillation, a complete Standalone mode and optional symbiosis with devPNT. Use for user documentation, knowledge extraction, SOPs, research notes, decision logs, knowledge management — and for answering project questions from the claim ledger and topic graph.
 author: Antonio Pinto (https://github.com/Antoneeo)
 copyright: (c) 2026 Antonio Pinto
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Support files in the skill directory:
 - `review.md`: the review discipline — when a review is due, how to request one, how to receive findings, how to review.
 - `dispatch.md`: opt-in subagent execution of an approved plan.
 - `routing.md`: which lens owns this unit of work. Read ONLY when a sibling lens skill is installed alongside this one; a single-lens install never reads it.
-- `scripts/sdlc_check.py` + `scripts/sdlc_core.py`: the mechanical validator for the docs root (`check`, `validate`, `index`, `stale`, `mark`, `gate`, `plan`, `orient`, `migrate`, and the knowledge overlay: `graph`, `corpus`, `claim-id`, `anchor`, `export`, `import`). Two files: the core is the family's shared spine; the entry point IS the knowledge overlay — the claim ledger and topic-graph checks live inside it, so the core alone runs none of them. Copy both, or neither.
+- `scripts/sdlc_check.py` + `scripts/sdlc_core.py`: the mechanical validator for the docs root (`check`, `validate`, `index`, `stale`, `mark`, `gate`, `plan`, `orient`, `migrate`, and the knowledge overlay: `graph`, `corpus`, `claim-id`, `anchor`, `export`, `import`, plus `remind` — the opt-in per-turn one-line reminder, ENFORCEMENT §4). Two files: the core is the family's shared spine; the entry point IS the knowledge overlay — the claim ledger and topic-graph checks live inside it, so the core alone runs none of them. Copy both, or neither.
 - `ENFORCEMENT.md`: optional setup for CI and hooks.
 
 Read these files only when needed. `SKILL.md` is the operating contract; the support files are progressive resources.

package/skills/kb-agentic-skill/scripts/sdlc_check.py

@@ -1598,6 +1598,26 @@ def kb_cmd_orient(argv):
     return rc
 
 
+def kb_cmd_remind(_argv):
+    """F-041 item B: the per-turn one-line reminder (UserPromptSubmit, opt-in).
+
+    A CONSTANT, zero-read line -- the kb minimum an agent needs re-armed every
+    prompt: triage, the recall trigger, the capture moment. Constant by
+    contract: nothing repo-controlled may ride a line injected into the agent's
+    context every turn, and zero reads is what keeps the per-turn cost flat.
+    The vision's non-goal bans per-turn GRAPH queries; this line only re-arms
+    the entry-into-topic criterion, it never runs the descent. Never wired by
+    init and never a default: ENFORCEMENT par.4 documents the manual snippet
+    and the ~50 tokens/prompt cost -- the project chooses. Fail-open like every
+    hook surface: argv is ignored whole, the exit code is always 0."""
+    print("kb-agentic: triage before acting -- L1 quick fact, L2 propagation of "
+          "settled knowledge, L3 new knowledge unit, Spike exploration; declare "
+          "the level. Answering about this project's domain? Read topics/INDEX.md "
+          "under the docs root first and cite claim ids, or state no coverage. "
+          "Decisions made today get recorded in the KB at session close.")
+    return 0
+
+
 def kb_cmd_help():
     """The spine's usage, then the overlay's own commands.
 
@@ -1619,6 +1639,8 @@ knowledge overlay (kb-agentic) -- also available:
   anchor <path> <phrase>      resolve a phrase to a verified locator span
   export --out <dir>          bundle a subgraph WITH the bytes its claims cite
   import <dir>                merge a bundle in additively (never overwrites)
+  remind                      one-line per-turn reminder (UserPromptSubmit hook,
+                              opt-in -- ENFORCEMENT par.4; constant, zero-read)
 
   index / validate / check    the spine's behaviour PLUS the claim ledger and
                               the topic graph""")
@@ -1636,6 +1658,10 @@ def main(argv=None):
     # spine runs it on the raw argv, the overlay only appends the topic router.
     if argv and argv[0] == "orient":
         return kb_cmd_orient(argv)
+    # `remind` too: it is a hook surface (UserPromptSubmit), so a stray flag
+    # must print the line, not an argparse usage error into someone's prompt.
+    if argv and argv[0] == "remind":
+        return kb_cmd_remind(argv)
     # Forward-by-default: anything not intercepted goes to the spine untouched.
     # Never a hand-copied command tuple - that is how a spine command gets
     # silently dropped (mkt_check.py ships that exact defect with `migrate`).

package/skills/kb-agentic-skill/scripts/sdlc_core.py

@@ -1646,6 +1646,143 @@ def cmd_mark(root, paths):
     return 0
 
 
+# ------------------------------------------------- orientation-hook wiring
+# F-041: read-only mirror of the installer-side detection in lib.js
+# (findOrientHook + orientHookValidator). The JS owns WRITING hooks, with its
+# injection guards; this side only DETECTS, at `check`, so a project whose
+# sessions start unoriented hears about it in-project (ENFORCEMENT par.4: the
+# hook is wired at init only -- pre-F-036 and agent-bootstrapped projects never
+# got it, and a wired-but-dead hook is "the worst of the three states").
+# The file list is a SUPERSET of the JS one: .codex/hooks.json is documented in
+# ENFORCEMENT par.4 but never written by init. Pinned equal on both sides:
+# the entry-point names, and (F-042) the user-settings path derivation --
+# CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when set, else <home>/.claude -- empty-string env falsy
+# on both sides.
+ORIENT_HOOK_ENTRY_POINTS = ("sdlc_check.py", "mkt_check.py")
+ORIENT_HOOK_CONFIG_FILES = (".claude/settings.json",
+                            ".claude/settings.local.json",
+                            ".codex/hooks.json")
+ORIENT_HOOK_CONFIG_CAP = 1024 * 1024  # settings are tiny; cap pathological files
+_ORIENT_HOOK_CMD_RE = re.compile(r" orient(\s|$)")
+_ORIENT_HOOK_TOKEN_RE = re.compile(r'"([^"]*)"|(\S+)')
+
+
+def _orient_entries_in(p):
+    """Yield the SessionStart commands invoking an orient entry point from ONE
+    client config file. Fail-open: an unreadable, oversized, malformed or
+    directory-shaped file contributes nothing. Reads are utf-8-sig -- a BOM'd
+    settings.json (PowerShell/Notepad) must not read as unwired (declared
+    divergence from Node's JSON.parse)."""
+    try:
+        if not p.is_file() or p.stat().st_size > ORIENT_HOOK_CONFIG_CAP:
+            return
+        data = json.loads(p.read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig"))
+    except Exception:
+        return
+    if not isinstance(data, dict):
+        return
+    hooks = data.get("hooks")
+    groups = hooks.get("SessionStart") if isinstance(hooks, dict) else None
+    if groups is None:
+        groups = data.get("SessionStart")  # the .codex/hooks.json shape
+    if not isinstance(groups, list):
+        return
+    for group in groups:
+        if not isinstance(group, dict):
+            continue
+        inner = group.get("hooks")
+        for h in inner if isinstance(inner, list) else [group]:
+            cmd = h.get("command") if isinstance(h, dict) else None
+            if (isinstance(cmd, str)
+                    and any(n in cmd for n in ORIENT_HOOK_ENTRY_POINTS)
+                    and _ORIENT_HOOK_CMD_RE.search(cmd)):
+                yield cmd
+
+
+def _orient_user_settings_path():
+    """The machine-global settings file (F-042 wires it at install time).
+
+    Read at CALL time -- a DECLARED divergence from AGENTIC_SDLC_KB_ROOT's
+    import-time read: unittest imports this module once before any test runs,
+    so an import-time seam would be frozen before the matrix could set it.
+    AGENTIC_SDLC_USER_SETTINGS is the test-isolation seam (python-side only);
+    the production derivation mirrors lib.js: CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR || ~/.claude."""
+    seam = os.environ.get("AGENTIC_SDLC_USER_SETTINGS")
+    if seam:
+        return Path(seam)
+    cfg = os.environ.get("CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR")
+    return (Path(cfg) if cfg else Path.home() / ".claude") / "settings.json"
+
+
+def _orient_hook_commands(root):
+    """Yield (command, at_user_level) across every known client config: the
+    three project-relative files, then the machine-global user settings --
+    the file the installer wires (F-042), without which a fixed machine's
+    projects would read as unwired forever."""
+    for rel in ORIENT_HOOK_CONFIG_FILES:
+        for cmd in _orient_entries_in(Path(root) / rel):
+            yield cmd, False
+    for cmd in _orient_entries_in(_orient_user_settings_path()):
+        yield cmd, True
+
+
+def orient_hook_state(root):
+    """'wired' | 'dead' | 'unwired'.
+
+    A matching entry whose tokens name no validator is "cannot tell" and counts
+    as wired (the lib.js contract: never report broken on cannot-tell). 'dead'
+    requires every matching entry to name a validator that does not resolve:
+    the client runs ALL SessionStart hooks -- project-level AND user-level
+    merge -- so one live entry at either level still orients the session
+    (any-resolves aggregation across levels). Relative tokens resolve against
+    the project root (the vendored-validator convention); a USER-level relative
+    token has no cwd to resolve against and is treated as cannot-tell."""
+    matched = False
+    for cmd, at_user_level in _orient_hook_commands(root):
+        matched = True
+        token = None
+        for m in _ORIENT_HOOK_TOKEN_RE.finditer(cmd):
+            tok = m.group(1) if m.group(1) is not None else m.group(2)
+            if any(tok.endswith(n) for n in ORIENT_HOOK_ENTRY_POINTS):
+                token = tok
+                break
+        if token is None:
+            return "wired"
+        tp = Path(token)
+        if not tp.is_absolute():
+            if at_user_level:
+                return "wired"  # cannot tell: no cwd exists at user level
+            tp = Path(root) / tp
+        if tp.exists():
+            return "wired"
+    return "dead" if matched else "unwired"
+
+
+def print_orient_hook_note(root):
+    """Print the FS-A wiring note (unwired / dead), or nothing when wired.
+
+    Informational only, by contract: never an exit code, never a validate
+    warning (--strict CI must not fail on a hook that legitimately lives in
+    git-ignored settings.local.json). Called by the spine's cmd_check AND by
+    an overlay that replaces check with its own pipeline (the marketing lens
+    does): the note is check-layer behaviour, whoever owns the check."""
+    try:
+        state = orient_hook_state(root)
+        if state == "unwired":
+            print("[note] agent sessions start without automatic orientation on this "
+                  "machine (no session-orientation hook found at project or user level). "
+                  "Fix once: update or reinstall the skill npm package (on Claude Code "
+                  "with Python it wires the hook machine-wide), or wire it per "
+                  "ENFORCEMENT.md par.4")
+        elif state == "dead":
+            print("[note] a session-orientation hook is configured but points at a "
+                  "validator that no longer exists, so sessions start unoriented. Fix: "
+                  "update or reinstall the skill npm package, or correct the command. "
+                  "Details: ENFORCEMENT.md par.4")
+    except Exception:
+        pass  # detection must never break check
+
+
 def cmd_check(root, strict=False, hybrid=False):
     print("===== validate =====")
     rc_v = cmd_validate(root, strict=strict, hybrid=hybrid)
@@ -1653,6 +1790,7 @@ def cmd_check(root, strict=False, hybrid=False):
     rc_s = cmd_stale(root, hybrid=hybrid)
     print(f"\ncheck: {'CLEAN' if not (rc_v or rc_s) else 'NOT CLEAN'} "
           f"(validate rc={rc_v}, stale rc={rc_s})")
+    print_orient_hook_note(root)
     return 1 if (rc_v or rc_s) else 0