@vibe-agent-toolkit/vat-development-agents 0.1.32-rc.4 → 0.1.32

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  1. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/CHANGELOG.md +37 -4
  2. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/.claude-plugin/plugin.json +1 -1
  3. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/vat-adoption-and-configuration/SKILL.md +179 -0
  4. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/{authoring → vat-agent-authoring}/SKILL.md +16 -134
  5. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/{audit → vat-audit}/SKILL.md +1 -1
  6. package/dist/{skills/org-admin → .claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/vat-enterprise-org}/SKILL.md +3 -3
  7. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/{resources → vat-knowledge-resources}/SKILL.md +1 -1
  8. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/vat-rag/SKILL.md +104 -0
  9. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/vat-skill-authoring/SKILL.md +156 -0
  10. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/{distribution → vat-skill-distribution}/SKILL.md +3 -2
  11. package/dist/{skills/authoring/resources/skill-quality-checklist.md → .claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/vat-skill-review/SKILL.md} +16 -1
  12. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/vibe-agent-toolkit/SKILL.md +40 -189
  13. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/CLAUDE.d.ts +28 -0
  14. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/CLAUDE.js +60 -0
  15. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/SKILL.d.ts +2 -10
  16. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/SKILL.js +14 -54
  17. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-adoption-and-configuration.d.ts +29 -0
  18. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-adoption-and-configuration.js +53 -0
  19. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-agent-authoring.d.ts +0 -2
  20. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-agent-authoring.js +9 -19
  21. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-audit.js +1 -1
  22. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-claude-org-admin.js → vat-enterprise-org.js} +3 -3
  23. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-resources.js → vat-knowledge-resources.js} +1 -1
  24. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-install-architecture.d.ts → vat-rag.d.ts} +6 -7
  25. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-rag.js +43 -0
  26. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-debugging.d.ts → vat-skill-authoring.d.ts} +7 -7
  27. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-skill-authoring.js +48 -0
  28. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-skills-distribution.js → vat-skill-distribution.js} +4 -4
  29. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{skill-quality-checklist.d.ts → vat-skill-review.d.ts} +5 -1
  30. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{skill-quality-checklist.js → vat-skill-review.js} +10 -2
  31. package/dist/skills/vat-adoption-and-configuration/SKILL.md +179 -0
  32. package/dist/skills/{authoring → vat-agent-authoring}/SKILL.md +16 -134
  33. package/dist/skills/{audit → vat-audit}/SKILL.md +1 -1
  34. package/dist/{.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/org-admin → skills/vat-enterprise-org}/SKILL.md +3 -3
  35. package/dist/skills/{resources → vat-knowledge-resources}/SKILL.md +1 -1
  36. package/dist/skills/vat-rag/SKILL.md +104 -0
  37. package/dist/skills/vat-skill-authoring/SKILL.md +156 -0
  38. package/dist/skills/{distribution → vat-skill-distribution}/SKILL.md +3 -2
  39. package/dist/{.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/authoring/resources/skill-quality-checklist.md → skills/vat-skill-review/SKILL.md} +16 -1
  40. package/dist/skills/vibe-agent-toolkit/SKILL.md +40 -189
  41. package/package.json +13 -11
  42. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/debugging/SKILL.md +0 -111
  43. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/distribution/resources/vat-install-architecture.md +0 -229
  44. package/dist/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vat-skills/plugins/vibe-agent-toolkit/skills/install/SKILL.md +0 -229
  45. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-debugging.js +0 -48
  46. package/dist/generated/resources/skills/vat-install-architecture.js +0 -48
  47. package/dist/skills/debugging/SKILL.md +0 -111
  48. package/dist/skills/distribution/resources/vat-install-architecture.md +0 -229
  49. package/dist/skills/install/SKILL.md +0 -229
  50. /package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-claude-org-admin.d.ts → vat-enterprise-org.d.ts} +0 -0
  51. /package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-resources.d.ts → vat-knowledge-resources.d.ts} +0 -0
  52. /package/dist/generated/resources/skills/{vat-skills-distribution.d.ts → vat-skill-distribution.d.ts} +0 -0
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- name: distribution
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+ name: vat-skill-distribution
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  description: Use when setting up `vat build`, configuring plugin distribution (marketplace, plugins, managed settings), npm publishing with postinstall hooks, or `vat verify` — the full pipeline from skill source to installed plugin.
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  For the full install landscape — Claude Desktop paths, enterprise CI deployment,
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  Anthropic Cloud org management, MDM integration, and the `vat plugins uninstall`
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- design — see [Install & Uninstall Architecture](resources/vat-install-architecture.md).
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+ design — see the contributor reference at `docs/contributing/vat-install-architecture.md`
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+ in the `vibe-agent-toolkit` repo (contributor material, not bundled with this skill).
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  ## Overview
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- # Skill Quality Checklist
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+ name: vat-skill-review
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+ description: Use when reviewing a skill before publication or running `vat skill review`. Pre-publication quality checklist grouped into general (all skills) and CLI-backed items, tied to VAT validation codes and Anthropic's skill-authoring best practices.
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+ # Skill Quality Checklist (vat skill review)
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+ This content is also surfaced by the `vat skill review` CLI command, which formats the checklist around a specific skill's validation output.
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+ ## Guidance freshness
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+ Skill authoring standards move fast. Before applying this checklist to a non-trivial change:
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+ - Re-fetch the source of `docs/external/anthropic-skill-authoring-best-practices.md` named in its preamble. If the content has shifted, update the cache and this checklist together.
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+ - Web search for the latest Claude Code release notes when trigger semantics, frontmatter rules, or packaging behavior may have changed. Don't rely on training-data recall.
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+ - Promote any manual item below to a programmatic validator when the pattern is detectable from file contents — see the shift-left notes in `packages/vat-development-agents/resources/skills/CLAUDE.md`.
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  ## About this checklist
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- description: Use when building, adopting, or learning vibe-agent-toolkit (VAT). Covers agent creation, CLI commands (vat skills, vat resources, vat audit, vat rag), runtime adapters, skill packaging, and resource validation. Routes to specialized sub-skills.
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+ description: Use when starting VAT work or deciding which VAT sub-skill applies. Router that points at sub-skills for adoption, skill/agent authoring, audit, distribution, RAG, knowledge resources, skill review, and enterprise org admin.
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- # Vibe Agent Toolkit Skill
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+ # Vibe Agent Toolkit
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- **Vibe Agent Toolkit (VAT)** is a modular toolkit for building portable AI agents that work across
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+ **Vibe Agent Toolkit (VAT)** is a modular toolkit for building, packaging, and distributing portable AI agents and skills that work across multiple Claude surfaces and adjacent frameworks. Write skill or agent content once; VAT handles validation, packaging, plugin/marketplace layout, and npm publishing.
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- ## Purpose: For Users, Not Contributors
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- - **This skill** = How to USE VAT to build agents
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- - **`vibe-agent-toolkit:debugging`** = When VAT itself behaves unexpectedly or you need to test a fix
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- - **Root CLAUDE.md** = How to DEVELOP the VAT codebase itself
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+ This is a router skill. Load the sibling sub-skill that matches the work you're doing — each sub-skill owns one slice of VAT's surface and is designed to be pulled in on demand.
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  ## When to Use VAT
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- **VAT is great for:** Multi-framework projects, reusable agent libraries, testing across LLM
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- ## Skill Routing Table
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+ - Publishing a Claude skill or plugin to npm with a proper marketplace layout
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+ - Multi-runtime agent projects (Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI, Claude Agent SDK)
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+ - Validating plugins / skills / marketplaces with `vat audit` before shipping
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+ - Enforcing frontmatter schemas across large markdown corpora
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+ - Wiring RAG indexing into an agent project
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- | If you're working on... | Use this skill |
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- | Writing or structuring a `SKILL.md` file | `vibe-agent-toolkit:authoring` |
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- | Agent archetypes, orchestration patterns, result envelopes | `vibe-agent-toolkit:authoring` |
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- | `packagingOptions` (linkFollowDepth, excludeReferencesFromBundle) | `vibe-agent-toolkit:authoring` |
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- | Resource collections, frontmatter schema validation | `vibe-agent-toolkit:resources` |
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- | `vat resources validate`, collection config | `vibe-agent-toolkit:resources` |
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- | Setting up `vat build` + `vat claude build` for a project | `vibe-agent-toolkit:distribution` |
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- | Configuring `claude:` section in vibe-agent-toolkit.config.yaml | `vibe-agent-toolkit:distribution` |
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- | npm publishing with plugin postinstall | `vibe-agent-toolkit:distribution` |
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- | `vat build` / `vat verify` orchestration | `vibe-agent-toolkit:distribution` |
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- | `--target claude-web` ZIP format | `vibe-agent-toolkit:distribution` |
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- | Install/uninstall methods, enterprise deployment, Desktop vs CLI paths | `vibe-agent-toolkit:install` |
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- | `vat audit`, `--compat`, CI validation | `vibe-agent-toolkit:audit` |
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- | `vat claude org`, Admin API, org users/cost/usage/skills, ANTHROPIC_ADMIN_API_KEY | `vibe-agent-toolkit:org-admin` |
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- | VAT behaves unexpectedly, debugging VAT, testing local VAT changes, VAT_ROOT_DIR | `vibe-agent-toolkit:debugging` |
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- ## Agent Archetypes (Quick Reference)
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+ - Cases where you need deep framework-specific features with no reuse goal
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+ ## Picking a Sub-skill
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- | **Pure Function Tool** | Stateless validation, transformation, computation no LLM needed |
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- | **One-Shot LLM Analyzer** | Single LLM call for analysis, classification, or generation |
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- vat build # build all artifacts (skills then claude plugins)
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- vat verify # verify all artifacts (resources, skills, claude)
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- vat claude build # generate plugin artifacts from built skills
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- vat claude verify # validate plugin artifacts
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- # Skills
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- vat skills list # list skills in current project
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- vat skills list --user # list user-installed skills
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- vat skills install npm:@org/my-skills # install from npm (routes through plugin system)
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- vat skills build # build portable skills only
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- vat skills validate # validate skill quality
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+ | Writing or revising a SKILL.md frontmatter, body, references, packagingOptions, validation overrides | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-skill-authoring` |
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+ | TypeScript agent archetypes, `agent.yaml`, result envelopes, orchestration, runtime adapters | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-agent-authoring` |
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+ | `vat audit` on plugins, marketplaces, skills, or settings including `--compat`, `--exclude`, `--user`, CI use | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-audit` |
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+ | Markdown collections, `resources:` config, frontmatter schema validation, `vat resources validate` | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-knowledge-resources` |
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+ | `vat build`, `vat verify`, plugin/marketplace layout, npm publishing, postinstall | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-skill-distribution` |
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+ | `vat rag index` / `vat rag query`, embedding providers, vector stores, chunking | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-rag` |
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+ | Pre-publication quality review, `vat skill review`, validation-code triage | `vibe-agent-toolkit:vat-skill-review` |
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- Debug unexpected VAT behavior, reproduce bugs, test local vibe-agent-toolkit
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- changes in adopter projects (VAT_ROOT_DIR), write failing tests before fixing,
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- and validate fixes with the full build pipeline before publishing
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- ---
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- # Debugging & Testing VAT Fixes
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- Use this skill when VAT itself is behaving unexpectedly, you suspect a VAT bug,
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- or you need to test a local code change to vibe-agent-toolkit in another project.
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- ## Step 1: Confirm the Version
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- First, confirm which version of VAT is running:
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- ```bash
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- # In the adopter project
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- cat node_modules/@vibe-agent-toolkit/cli/package.json | grep '"version"'
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- # Or check the binary directly
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- vat --version
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- If the installed version is behind the monorepo, you may need `VAT_ROOT_DIR` (see below)
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- ## Step 2: Enable Debug Output
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- ```bash
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- VAT_DEBUG=1 vat <command>
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- `VAT_DEBUG=1` prints context detection info, binary path resolution, and config loading
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- details. Use it to confirm which config file and which binary are actually being used.
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- Other useful env vars:
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- - `VAT_TEST_ROOT=/path` — Override the project root VAT uses (skips `.git` detection)
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- - `VAT_TEST_CONFIG=/path/to/config.yaml` — Override the config file path
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- ## Step 3: Reproduce With the Local Monorepo Build
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- To test a fix from your local vibe-agent-toolkit checkout in an adopter project
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- (e.g. lfa-cc-marketplace) **without publishing to npm**:
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- ### Option A: VAT_ROOT_DIR (recommended)
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- ```bash
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- # In your shell (or .env.local in the adopter project)
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- export VAT_ROOT_DIR=/path/to/vibe-agent-toolkit
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- # Build the monorepo first — always required
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- cd /path/to/vibe-agent-toolkit && bun run build
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- # Now any vat command in the adopter project uses your local build
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- cd /path/to/adopter-project
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- vat resources validate .
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- The globally-installed `vat` wrapper detects `VAT_ROOT_DIR` and re-dispatches
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- ### Option B: Direct path (no global install needed)
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- ```bash
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- # Build first
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- cd /path/to/vibe-agent-toolkit && bun run build
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- ## Step 4: Write a Failing Test Before Fixing
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- Before changing VAT source code, write a test that reproduces the bug:
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- - **Unit bug** → add a test in `packages/<package>/test/`
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- ## Step 5: Validate Before Committing
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- ## Quick Diagnosis Checklist
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- | Symptom | First thing to check |
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- | `vat` command not found | `npm install -g vibe-agent-toolkit` |
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- | Wrong results in adopter project | Confirm installed version matches expected RC |
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- | Fix applied but adopter still wrong | Did you `bun run build` after the change? |
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- | Validation slow every time | `git rev-parse --git-dir` — are you in a git repo? |
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- | Config not loading | `VAT_DEBUG=1 vat <command>` to see which config is found |
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- | Test passes locally, fails CI | Windows path separator? Use `toForwardSlash()` from `@vibe-agent-toolkit/utils` |
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- ## See Also
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- - docs/debug-and-test-vat-fixes.md — Full reference
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- - docs/writing-tests.md — Test patterns and classification
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- - [packages/cli/CLAUDE.md]() — CLI development guidelines