create-religion 1.2.0 → 1.3.0

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  1. package/CHANGELOG.md +456 -0
  2. package/README.md +2 -1
  3. package/dist/bin/religion.js +87 -7
  4. package/dist/lib/args.js +15 -5
  5. package/dist/lib/changelog.js +29 -0
  6. package/dist/lib/dashboard.js +102 -22
  7. package/dist/lib/doctor.js +134 -26
  8. package/dist/lib/install.js +43 -6
  9. package/dist/lib/paths.js +18 -0
  10. package/dist/lib/settings.js +156 -0
  11. package/dist/lib/state.js +261 -8
  12. package/dist/lib/status.js +38 -3
  13. package/dist/lib/uninstall.js +216 -0
  14. package/package.json +2 -2
  15. package/template/.agents/skills/auto/SKILL.md +9 -3
  16. package/template/.agents/skills/check/SKILL.md +69 -2
  17. package/template/.agents/skills/ci/SKILL.md +28 -0
  18. package/template/.agents/skills/complete/SKILL.md +76 -5
  19. package/template/.agents/skills/distill/SKILL.md +42 -19
  20. package/template/.agents/skills/feature/SKILL.md +19 -4
  21. package/template/.agents/skills/feature/reference/spec-template.md +1 -0
  22. package/template/.agents/skills/fix/SKILL.md +7 -0
  23. package/template/.agents/skills/implement/SKILL.md +16 -2
  24. package/template/.agents/skills/scout/SKILL.md +2 -2
  25. package/template/.agents/skills/spike/SKILL.md +8 -0
  26. package/template/.agents/skills/status/SKILL.md +17 -4
  27. package/template/.agents/skills/tests/SKILL.md +45 -3
  28. package/template/.claude/hooks/warn-on-drift.mjs +74 -0
  29. package/template/.claude/hooks/write-handoff.mjs +54 -2
  30. package/template/.claude/skills/auto/SKILL.md +9 -3
  31. package/template/.claude/skills/check/SKILL.md +69 -2
  32. package/template/.claude/skills/ci/SKILL.md +28 -0
  33. package/template/.claude/skills/complete/SKILL.md +76 -5
  34. package/template/.claude/skills/distill/SKILL.md +42 -19
  35. package/template/.claude/skills/feature/SKILL.md +19 -4
  36. package/template/.claude/skills/feature/reference/spec-template.md +1 -0
  37. package/template/.claude/skills/fix/SKILL.md +7 -0
  38. package/template/.claude/skills/implement/SKILL.md +16 -2
  39. package/template/.claude/skills/scout/SKILL.md +2 -2
  40. package/template/.claude/skills/spike/SKILL.md +8 -0
  41. package/template/.claude/skills/status/SKILL.md +17 -4
  42. package/template/.claude/skills/tests/SKILL.md +45 -3
  43. package/template/religion/.state/settings-template.json +9 -0
  44. package/template/religion/learning/journal.md +4 -3
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  ## Step 1 - apply the configured gates
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+ The record counts only for the code it checked. Reuse it when its stamp names the current
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+ commit with a clean tree, and the tree is still clean apart from the workflow's own state
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+ files. A record from another commit, from a dirty tree, or with an outcome that failed or
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  completion but must survive verbatim for a later review. Reset the ledger to its stub only
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+ **Write the journal entry.** Append one entry to `religion/learning/journal.md` for the item
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+ just archived, whatever its kind. This skill is the journal's only writer, and an entry per
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+ ## 2026-10-21 - Export reports as CSV
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+ **Archive:** history/features/12-export-reports-as-csv.md
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+ **Surprised:** one or two sentences, or "nothing".
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+ **Went wrong:** one or two sentences, or "nothing".
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+ **Deferred:** what was left, and why, or "nothing".
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+ Write it from what the work actually went through, not from the spec: a repair that took two
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+ attempts, an assumption that proved wrong, a check that caught something late. The heading
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+ ## Step 2b - draft the release note
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+ Where the project uses Changesets, which `.changeset/config.json` shows, and no changeset in
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+ `.changeset/` already describes this item, draft one from the archive:
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+ - **Packages** - for each product path in the archive's `## Landed` record, the nearest
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+ `package.json` with a `name`, leaving out any the Changesets config ignores and any marked
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+ - **Bump** - proposed, never decided: `major` when the item removes, renames or narrows anything
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+ public, `minor` when it adds something, `patch` when it only repairs. Where the project has a
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+ stability statement, that is what defines public and breaking; where it has none, say what was
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+ assumed.
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+ - **Summary** - from the archive's Outcome, rewritten for someone reading the changelog: what
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+ they can now do or what behaves differently, in a short paragraph, with no plan numbers.
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+ ---
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+ "create-religion": minor
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+ ---
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+ `religion status` reports the run in progress and how many notes the inbox holds.
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+ Interactively, show the draft and ask before writing it. In an automated run there is nobody to
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+ ask, so write it under a name made from the item's title, and name it and its bump in the pull
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+ commit. The body is a review packet for whoever reviews on the host, built from the
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+ archive just written rather than from memory of the session:
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+ - **Goal** - the spec's goal, in a sentence or two.
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+ - **Steps and evidence** - one line per build step: what it delivered, and the verdict
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+ and evidence its `## Evidence` entry records. A step with no entry says so.
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+ - **Findings** - those closed with this item, by their archived identifier, and any still
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+ `open` or `fixed` that touch it.
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+ - **The record** - a link to the archive on this branch for the full spec, what went wrong,
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+ what was deferred, and the walkthrough from Step 5.
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+ - **The release note** - a changeset drafted in Step 2b, by file, with its proposed bump and
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+ the packages it names, for the reviewer to approve or change.
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+ - **The issue** - when the spec carries `**From issue:**`, name it: with the host's closing
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+ keyword for a fix (`Closes #42`), so merging closes it, and as a plain reference for a
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+ Keep it to what can be read beside the diff: one line per step, the detail behind the
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  4. Report the pull request URL and stop. Do not merge it, do not wait or poll for it, and do
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  ## Step 5 - say how to try it
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+ When the spec came from an issue and no pull request was opened, name the issue here so it
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+ can be closed by hand. Nothing in this skill comments on, labels or closes an issue: those are
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+ description: "Read religion/learning/journal.md, promote observations that have proved stable into religion/learning/lessons.md, fold corrections about this project into its coding standards, propose a standard where the same kind of finding has recurred across archived items, and archive what was processed. Lessons are loaded every session, so promotion is deliberately strict: an observation earns a place only once it has recurred or been confirmed. Use when the user runs /distill, asks to consolidate what has been learned, or when the journal has grown enough to be worth a pass."
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