feat(harness-ops): on-demand plugin landscape audit (stale plugins and modern alternatives) #6461

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   needs-humanHuman-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.Human-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.

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3. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 17, 2026

   

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   Added a ## Done when (owner-approved scope: read-only v1, 2026-10-17) section to the body, per the owner decision of 2026-10-17. The criteria come from the issue's own proposal (ages, overlaps, alternatives), scoped to a read-only first version: the report recommends adopt, adapt or drop, and filing issues (proposal step 4) moves out of v1.
4. kyle-sexton commented on Oct 18, 2026

   

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   Agent Brief

   Type: Feature
   Summary: Add a read-only, on-demand harness-ops skill that reports stale installed plugins and marketplaces, overlaps and alternatives.

   Current behavior:
   Nothing reports when an installed plugin or marketplace has gone stale or when a better alternative exists; a one-off script found 16 stale plugins and 2 stale marketplaces.

   Desired behavior:

   • A harness-ops skill runs on demand only and is read-only: it files no issues, edits no settings or dotfiles, and installs, updates or removes nothing.
   • For every installed plugin and known marketplace, a script reports the date of the last upstream commit touching the plugin's source path, using batched GitHub API calls.
   • It flags no upstream commit in 60 or more days, an archived repository, a moved or renamed repository, or a source path that no longer exists.
   • The skill groups plugins that do the same job across marketplaces (melodic-software included) and names the one to keep with a basis; for each stale or losing plugin it lists current alternatives with evidence links, official docs first.
   • Each adopt, adapt or drop call is a recommendation in the report; for an adapted melodic copy of an upstream skill, the report says whether upstream now meets Anthropic's skill guidance.

   Key interfaces:

   • Age script: input (installed plugins and marketplaces), output (per row: last commit date and flags).
   • Report shape: ages and flags, overlap groups, alternatives, recommendations.

   Acceptance criteria:

   • The skill states it is on demand and read-only, with the limits above.
   • Tests feed recorded API responses (no network) and cover each flag: 60-day staleness, archived, moved or renamed, missing source path; scripts/run-test-file.sh on the test passes.
   • The skill body describes overlap grouping, alternatives with evidence, and recommendation-only output.
   • A changelog entry or fragment for harness-ops passes scripts/check-changelog-fragments.sh.

   Out of scope:

   • Filing issues, any change to installed state, and scheduling.
   • plugins sync behavior.

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   This was generated by AI during backlog shaping. Held, not admitted: this brief is drafted and checked, but the issue lane would stop on it today. It is admitted, by adding agent-ready, once the lane can run the skill-quality check scripts (Automation Lanes' PR #7912). Held under the owner's 2026-10-18 lane-narrowing course correction.
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   agent-readyFully specified and briefed; eligible for autonomous pickup from the frontier.Fully specified and briefed; eligible for autonomous pickup from the frontier.

   work-class: scopedA briefed fix or small feature; blast radius bounded by the brief, tests exist.A briefed fix or small feature; blast radius bounded by the brief, tests exist.

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   needs-humanHuman-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.Human-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.

   on Oct 18, 2026
6. kyle-sexton

   closed this as completedin #8047on Oct 20, 2026