@sandgarden/gloria 0.0.0-stage → 0.3.87
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- package/collector/stub.sh +463 -0
- package/gloria.js +150 -0
- package/index.js +1 -0
- package/package.json +16 -4
- package/skills/checking-coding-standards/SKILL.md +137 -0
- package/skills/debugging-production-errors/SKILL.md +124 -0
- package/skills/deriving-agent-code-style/SKILL.md +147 -0
- package/skills/documenting-service-dependencies/SKILL.md +400 -0
- package/skills/extracting-coding-standards/SKILL.md +182 -0
- package/skills/identifying-skills-for-a-project/SKILL.md +111 -0
- package/skills/investigating-production-incidents/SKILL.md +100 -0
- package/skills/mapping-packages-for-coding-agents/SKILL.md +116 -0
- package/skills/setting-up-a-project/SKILL.md +162 -0
- package/skills/setting-up-a-project/TDD.rules.md +196 -0
- package/skills/setting-up-a-project/git-commit-rules.md +16 -0
- package/skills/setting-up-gloria/SKILL.md +139 -0
- package/skills/setting-up-gloria/USING-GLORIA.md +144 -0
- package/skills/using-coding-standards/SKILL.md +117 -0
- package/skills/using-the-skills-library/SKILL.md +89 -0
- package/README.md +0 -3
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name: checking-coding-standards
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description: Use to check code against a project's registered gloria Coding Standards. Fires for plain requests to compare code with the rules — "check this against our standards", "does this drift from our rules/conventions", "are we following our own standards", "review this for standards compliance", "check this PR against our standards", "run a standards check", "audit the repo for drift", "has our code drifted from the rules" — including before or after implementing a change in a project that has registered standards. Runs diff-scoped checks (the per-PR workhorse), cheap metadata checks (render stamp + rule-evidence staleness), or a full audit (snippet staleness included), and reports findings to the gloria drift ledger via report_check_run. Read-only: findings, never edits.
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# Checking Code Against Standards
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## "Check against our standards" is a gloria action; reporting means calling report_check_run
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When the user asks to **check, audit, or compare** code **against the project's
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standards / rules / conventions** — or asks whether code **drifts** from them —
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that is this skill, driven by gloria's registered library (`get_standards`), not
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an ad-hoc code review from memory. **Reporting** the findings — the sync half —
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means **calling the gloria MCP tool `report_check_run`**, which records them to
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gloria's drift ledger; it is not just printing a summary in chat. Load the
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standards, evaluate, then `report_check_run` (even when findings are empty).
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## Overview
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The probe half of gloria Coding Standards: evaluate code against the project's registered rules
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and snippet library, and report what has drifted to the backend ledger. The agent is the probe;
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the backend is the ledger — **this skill never edits source, it only observes and reports.**
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**Core principle: every finding traces to a specific rule or snippet id.** A finding that can't
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name what it violates is a vibe, and vibes-based findings poison the ledger — they train people
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## When to Use
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- Reviewing a PR / branch in a project with registered standards (diff-scoped run)
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- A periodic or on-demand whole-repo recalibration (full audit)
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- Any check invocation at all (metadata checks ride along free)
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**Don't use for:** fixing the violations (report first; fixing is a separate, explicitly
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requested task); repos with no registered standards — confirm with `get_standards` and stop if
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## Process
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### Step 0 — Load the standards
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get_standards { projectSlug } → version N, rules[]
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If `version` is null, there is nothing to check against — say so and suggest
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`extracting-coding-standards`. Record `startedAt` (Unix seconds) now; every finding this run
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produces must cite a `ruleId` or `snippetId` from what this call returned.
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### Step 1 — Metadata checks (every run, cheap)
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check all three and take the highest `M` found. `M < N`, or no stamp found anywhere, → one
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`render_stale` finding, detail naming both versions and which locations were checked.
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changed since the rule's `updatedAt` (`git log -1 --format=%ct -- <file>`). Changed →
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`rule_stale` finding for that `ruleId`. The rule may still be right — staleness means
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outside a PR. This is the workhorse — cheap enough to run per-PR.
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- **Full audit (on demand / periodic):** every source file in scope of any rule. Also
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scope and refreshes last-checked for the staleness cron. Then summarize for the user: counts
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| Findings with no rule/snippet id | Guardrail 1: drop them; if the concern is real, propose a new rule instead |
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| Flagging documented divergence | Read the adjacent comment; `observed`/snippet divergence with a reason is intent |
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| Flagging uncovered languages/patterns | No coverage → no finding |
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| Fixing violations in the same run | Read-only; report, then fix only on explicit request |
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| Skipping the report because findings were empty | Empty reports resolve stale findings and feed last-checked |
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| Diff runs re-reporting old, unchanged findings | Diff scope evaluates changed code; the ledger dedups by key, but keep detail current |
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## Quality Checklist
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- [ ] `get_standards` loaded first; run aborted cleanly if no standards registered
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description: Use to investigate production problems through gloria's log debugging tools. Fires for plain requests about live behavior — "why is X failing in production", "what happened at 2pm", "debug these 500s", "is anything erroring right now", "check the logs", "what broke after the last deploy", "why are checkouts timing out" — for any project with a gloria log connection configured. Queries the org's own log provider live via the gloria MCP tools (get_log_provider_status, get_log_stats, list_error_groups, query_logs): find the spike, group the errors, correlate with the deploy, pull the stack trace, map it to source. Read-only over logs; never asks for credentials in chat.
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# Debugging Production Errors
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name: deriving-agent-code-style
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description: Use when asked to turn a codebase's linter, formatter, and compiler configuration into agent-facing code style instructions — "write code style rules for agents", "summarize our lint rules as best practices", "add a Code Style section to CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md", "what conventions should an agent follow in this repo". Reads every config layer per package, detects where linting silently doesn't run, mines observed conventions from the source, and emits an imperative Code Style section with each rule labeled by what enforces it.
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# Deriving Agent Code Style from a Codebase
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## Overview
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Translate what a repo's toolchain **enforces** and its source **practices** into imperative
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instructions a coding agent can follow while writing — a "Code Style & Formatting" section for
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## When to Use
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- "Turn our lint rules into coding best practices / agent instructions"
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- "Write the code style section of CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md"
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- Onboarding an agent to a repo whose conventions live only in configs and code
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(run the linters); documenting architecture (this is style/mechanics only).
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## Process
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| Formatter | `.prettierrc*`, `prettier.config.*`, `biome.json*`, `.editorconfig`, `rustfmt.toml`, `pyproject.toml [tool.black/ruff]`, `gofmt` (implicit) |
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| Linter | `eslint.config.*`, `.eslintrc*`, `.oxlintrc*`, `biome.json*`, `ruff.toml`, `.golangci.yml`, `clippy.toml`, `stylelint*` |
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| Stated rules | `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md` — conventions humans already wrote down |
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| `strict` | Handle `null`/`undefined` explicitly; no implicit `any` |
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