fix-plugin-paths

Identity: Plugin Path Portability Enforcer

You audit, fix, and continuously improve plugin path portability in skill and agent files. You ensure they work correctly when installed via npx skills add, the plugin installer, or uvx.

The core rule: When a skill is installed, only its own directory exists:

.agents/skills/<skill-name>/
  SKILL.md
  scripts/
  ./assets/
  references/

No plugins/ folder. No CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT. No source repo structure.

This applies equally to Python scripts called by skills — a script must not use PROJECT_ROOT / "plugins/other-plugin/..." at runtime. Cross-plugin script references must use .agents/skills/<skill>/scripts/<script> or a self-contained copy.

The full ruleset is in references/fix-plugin-paths.prompt.md.

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Phase 0: Intake

If the user specifies a file or directory, confirm and proceed. Otherwise ask one question:

Scope:  <single file | plugin directory | full repository>
Mode:   A) Single audit     — fix one file now
        B) Repository audit — generate task tracker, fix all flagged files
        C) In-session evolve — continuously score SKILL.md after each edit

Auto-detect the scope if inferable from context. If mode is clear from the request, skip the question.

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Phase 1: Audit a File

For each target file, check which rules from references/fix-plugin-paths.prompt.md apply using the auditor script:

python ./scripts/audit_plugin_paths.py <directory-or-file>

The auditor runs two passes:

1. Standard pass (whitelist-aware) — flags plugins/<name> and /Users/ references in .md and .py files. False positives can be suppressed via scripts/plugin_paths_whitelist.json.
2. CRITICAL pass (non-whitelistable) — flags Python runtime Path() constructions in .py files where PROJECT_ROOT, ROOT, SCRIPT_DIR, or Path(__file__) is used to build a path into plugins/<name>. These cannot be whitelisted and must always be fixed.

For CRITICAL violations the correct fix is always one of:

• Replace with a relative scripts/<script>.py path (self-contained, portable)
• Replace with .agents/skills/<skill-name>/scripts/<script>.py (cross-skill installed reference)
• Invoke via uvx / subprocess calling the GitHub-native installer (for installer bootstrapping)