@forwardimpact/pathway 0.3.0 → 0.5.0

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  1. package/app/commands/agent.js +1 -1
  2. package/app/commands/behaviour.js +1 -1
  3. package/app/commands/command-factory.js +2 -2
  4. package/app/commands/discipline.js +1 -1
  5. package/app/commands/driver.js +1 -1
  6. package/app/commands/grade.js +1 -1
  7. package/app/commands/index.js +4 -3
  8. package/app/commands/serve.js +2 -2
  9. package/app/commands/site.js +22 -2
  10. package/app/commands/skill.js +57 -3
  11. package/app/commands/stage.js +1 -1
  12. package/app/commands/tool.js +112 -0
  13. package/app/commands/track.js +1 -1
  14. package/app/components/card.js +11 -1
  15. package/app/components/checklist.js +6 -4
  16. package/app/components/code-display.js +153 -0
  17. package/app/components/markdown-textarea.js +153 -0
  18. package/app/css/bundles/app.css +14 -0
  19. package/app/css/components/badges.css +15 -8
  20. package/app/css/components/forms.css +55 -0
  21. package/app/css/components/layout.css +12 -0
  22. package/app/css/components/surfaces.css +71 -3
  23. package/app/css/components/typography.css +1 -2
  24. package/app/css/pages/agent-builder.css +11 -102
  25. package/app/css/pages/detail.css +60 -0
  26. package/app/css/pages/job-builder.css +0 -42
  27. package/app/css/tokens.css +3 -0
  28. package/app/formatters/agent/dom.js +26 -71
  29. package/app/formatters/agent/profile.js +67 -10
  30. package/app/formatters/agent/skill.js +48 -6
  31. package/app/formatters/grade/dom.js +6 -6
  32. package/app/formatters/job/description.js +21 -16
  33. package/app/formatters/job/dom.js +9 -70
  34. package/app/formatters/json-ld.js +1 -1
  35. package/app/formatters/shared.js +58 -0
  36. package/app/formatters/skill/dom.js +70 -3
  37. package/app/formatters/skill/markdown.js +18 -0
  38. package/app/formatters/skill/shared.js +14 -4
  39. package/app/formatters/stage/microdata.js +2 -2
  40. package/app/formatters/stage/shared.js +3 -3
  41. package/app/formatters/tool/shared.js +78 -0
  42. package/app/handout-main.js +19 -18
  43. package/app/index.html +16 -3
  44. package/app/lib/card-mappers.js +91 -17
  45. package/app/lib/render.js +4 -0
  46. package/app/lib/yaml-loader.js +12 -1
  47. package/app/main.js +4 -0
  48. package/app/model/agent.js +47 -23
  49. package/app/model/checklist.js +2 -2
  50. package/app/model/derivation.js +5 -5
  51. package/app/model/levels.js +4 -2
  52. package/app/model/loader.js +12 -1
  53. package/app/model/validation.js +77 -11
  54. package/app/pages/agent-builder.js +121 -77
  55. package/app/pages/landing.js +35 -15
  56. package/app/pages/self-assessment.js +7 -5
  57. package/app/pages/skill.js +5 -17
  58. package/app/pages/stage.js +12 -8
  59. package/app/pages/tool.js +50 -0
  60. package/app/slide-main.js +1 -1
  61. package/app/slides/chapter.js +8 -8
  62. package/app/slides/index.js +26 -26
  63. package/app/slides/overview.js +8 -8
  64. package/app/slides/skill.js +1 -0
  65. package/bin/pathway.js +31 -16
  66. package/examples/capabilities/business.yaml +18 -18
  67. package/examples/capabilities/delivery.yaml +54 -37
  68. package/examples/capabilities/people.yaml +1 -1
  69. package/examples/capabilities/reliability.yaml +130 -115
  70. package/examples/capabilities/scale.yaml +39 -37
  71. package/examples/disciplines/engineering_management.yaml +1 -1
  72. package/examples/framework.yaml +21 -9
  73. package/examples/grades.yaml +5 -7
  74. package/examples/self-assessments.yaml +1 -1
  75. package/examples/stages.yaml +18 -10
  76. package/package.json +2 -1
  77. package/templates/agent.template.md +47 -17
  78. package/templates/job.template.md +8 -8
  79. package/templates/skill.template.md +33 -11
  80. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/architecture-design/SKILL.md +0 -130
  81. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/cloud-platforms/SKILL.md +0 -131
  82. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/code-quality-review/SKILL.md +0 -108
  83. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/devops-cicd/SKILL.md +0 -142
  84. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/full-stack-development/SKILL.md +0 -134
  85. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/sre-practices/SKILL.md +0 -163
  86. package/examples/agents/.claude/skills/technical-debt-management/SKILL.md +0 -164
  87. package/examples/agents/.github/agents/se-platform-code.agent.md +0 -132
  88. package/examples/agents/.github/agents/se-platform-plan.agent.md +0 -131
  89. package/examples/agents/.github/agents/se-platform-review.agent.md +0 -136
  90. package/examples/agents/.vscode/settings.json +0 -8
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- ---
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- name: code-quality-review
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- Guide for reviewing code quality, identifying issues, and suggesting
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- improvements. Use when asked to review code, check for best practices,
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- # Code Quality & Review
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- ## Stage Guidance
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- **Focus:** Understand code review scope and establish review criteria. Consider
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- - [ ] Review scope is clear
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- **Focus:** Write clean, maintainable, tested code. Follow project conventions
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- **Focus:** Verify correctness, maintainability, and adherence to standards.
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- Guide for building CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure as code, and
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- ## Stage Guidance
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- ## Reference
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- ## Types of Technical Debt
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- ### Code Debt
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- ### Architecture Debt
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- ## Debt Assessment
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- - **Description**: What is the debt?
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- - **Plan**: When/how will it be fixed?