feat(dometrain): split the MCP server into dometrain-mcp

[kyle-sexton]

Refs #5209

Summary

Implements option 4 of #5209. dometrain becomes skills only (grounding, setup, sync) at 0.5.0. The bundled HTTP server (https://mcp.dometrain.com/mcp) and the dometrain_api_key option move to a new plugin, dometrain-mcp 0.1.0 (optional, sensitive key; defaultEnabled: false).

• A user with their own user-scope dometrain server installs dometrain only: no plugin server at the same endpoint, so no duplicate-server warning.
• A user with no server installs dometrain and dometrain-mcp and keeps the zero-setup path.
• grounding and setup accept mcp__plugin_dometrain-mcp_dometrain__* (plugin) and mcp__dometrain__* (user-scope). With neither present, setup names both supported setups. The prefix keeps the hyphen, as the live tool list shows for dotnet-msbuild (mcp__plugin_dotnet-msbuild_binlog__*).
• The env-var and vault-exec override recipes moved to the dometrain-mcp README and now mean "skip dometrain-mcp".
• Registered in marketplace.json, docs/catalog.md (generated), and .claude/settings.json enabledPlugins (false, matching animation). docs/cloud-sessions.md names dometrain-mcp as the plugin holding the key.

Migration impact for existing dometrain users

• Bundled-server users: install dometrain-mcp and enter the key again there. Claude Code does not carry pluginConfigs between plugins. Until then the skills report no server.
• User-scope server users: no change; updating removes the plugin server, which was the source of the warning.
• Permission rules on mcp__plugin_dometrain_dometrain__* need mcp__plugin_dometrain-mcp_dometrain__*.
• The dometrain changelog and README ("Upgrading from 0.4.x") say this.

Verification

Run in the worktree, all passing:

• scripts/validate-plugins.sh (all manifests plus strict catalog)
• scripts/validate-plugin-contracts.mjs (58 setup skills checked)
• scripts/check-plugin-catalog-enablement.sh --check (failed before the enabledPlugins key, passes after)
• scripts/check-changelog-parity.sh --check, --check-bump origin/main, --check-order
• scripts/check-plugin-manifest-presence.sh --check
• scripts/generate-catalog.mjs --check, scripts/sync-plugin-options-docs.py --check, scripts/generate-cheatsheet.mjs (unchanged)
• scripts/check-skill-count-claims.sh (0 mismatched), scripts/check-purged-em-dashes.sh (none)
• markdownlint-cli2 on the touched markdown (0 issues)
• skill-quality check-skill.sh plugins/dometrain/skills (3 pass, 0 errors; warnings only) and check-evals-quality.sh on the setup evals

Not verified

• The /plugin menu behavior was not tested live: that no warning appears with dometrain only plus a user-scope server, and that dometrain-mcp plus a user-scope server still warns. Both follow from the documented endpoint matching in the dometrain: user-scope MCP server shadows the plugin's and /plugin shows a warning; pick a supported no-warning setup #5209 comment.
• Evals were validated for shape only, not run against a model.
• docs/architecture/landscape.json was not regenerated; the animation add did not touch it either.

Conflict note

Draft #5210 edits the old dometrain README and will conflict with this branch. Its branch is untouched.

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📝 Code Review	✅ Completed 2026-09-29T01:51:35.405135Z	4f87520	Draft marked ready

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Summary

Reviewed the full diff (gh pr diff 5213, 15 files, +471/-367) against the /review:code-review lane's criteria: correctness, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md alignment, error handling, maintainability, scoped to changed files only.

This is a mechanical plugin split (dometrain → skills-only, new dometrain-mcp for the bundled server) with no executable/runtime code — only JSON manifests, Markdown docs, and SKILL.md/evals content. I traced the moving pieces end to end:

• plugins/dometrain-mcp/.mcp.json (renamed, unchanged) still declares its server as dometrain, which combined with the plugin name dometrain-mcp correctly produces the mcp__plugin_dometrain-mcp_dometrain__* tool prefix referenced throughout the new README, grounding/SKILL.md, and setup/SKILL.md.
• Cross-file anchor links resolve correctly: setup/SKILL.md → ../../README.md#getting-the-mcp-server and #adding-your-own-server, and dometrain/README.md → ../dometrain-mcp/README.md#using-your-own-server-instead all match actual headings in the target files.
• .claude-plugin/marketplace.json's new dometrain-mcp entry and .claude/settings.json's new enabledPlugins["dometrain-mcp@melodic-software"] = false are consistent with the fleet-enablement convention documented in docs/cloud-sessions.md (plugins that ship defaultEnabled: false only need an explicit settings.json key when the fleet list would otherwise enable them by default — same treatment as miro). Alphabetical ordering in enabledPlugins is preserved.
• plugins/dometrain/skills/setup/evals/evals.json expectations were updated in step with the corresponding setup/SKILL.md task-list changes (both-prefix checking, duplicate-server warning, two-setup naming).
• Version bumps (dometrain 0.4.1→0.5.0, dometrain-mcp new at 0.1.0) and both CHANGELOG.md entries line up with the described breaking change and migration guidance.

I did not find a correctness or maintainability defect that clears this lane's high-signal bar (a linter/typechecker-catchable issue, a pre-existing issue on untouched lines, or a style nit don't count, and none of what I found rises above that). No inline comments were posted.

Not independently re-run here (author-claimed in the PR body, not verified by this review): the shell script suite (validate-plugins.sh, check-plugin-catalog-enablement.sh, check-changelog-parity.sh, etc.), generate-catalog.mjs --check, and the skill-quality/evals checks.

Branch: feat/dometrain-split-mcp

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Security review (/review:security-review)

• Gather context (PR diff via gh pr diff 5213, changed files)
• Skip-gate check — has security-relevant surface (sensitive API key moves plugins), so full review performed
• Review new dometrain-mcp plugin (API key handling, manifest, MCP config)
• Review dometrain plugin changes (config, skills)
• Review settings/catalog/marketplace changes
• Post findings

No security issues found.

This PR is a config/documentation restructuring: it moves the dometrain_api_key userConfig
declaration and the bundled .mcp.json HTTP server from plugins/dometrain to a new
plugins/dometrain-mcp plugin, with matching manifest/catalog/settings updates. Checked
specifically:

• Credential handling. plugins/dometrain-mcp/.claude-plugin/plugin.json keeps
  "sensitive": true on dometrain_api_key, and the .mcp.json (pure rename, 0 content diff)
  still references ${user_config.dometrain_api_key} in the Authorization header — the
  key never appears in plaintext, and continues to route through Claude Code's own masked
  userConfig/secure-credential-storage mechanism rather than anything this repo implements.
  No hardcoded keys or tokens found in the diff (plugin.json, README.md, CHANGELOG.md).
• Default enablement. The new plugin ships defaultEnabled: false in both
  plugin.json and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, and .claude/settings.json adds
  "dometrain-mcp@melodic-software": false — consistent with the existing opt-in pattern for
  other plugins holding sensitive remote-service credentials (e.g. miro).
• Instruction-surface check. plugins/dometrain/skills/setup/SKILL.md drops the
  dometrain-specific boundary "Do not read, echo, log, copy, or persist the API key" in favor
  of a broadened "any API key" version, and drops the Keychain/credentials-file "never read or
  reveal" line from its Output section. Neither is a gap in practice: dometrain no longer owns
  any credential (its userConfig was removed entirely), and dometrain-mcp ships no skill at
  all, so there is no model-facing surface in either plugin that could act on the key — the
  actual control (native masked prompt + OS keychain storage) is unchanged and untouched by this
  diff.
• No injection or trust-boundary changes. No new command execution, no changes to how the
  headersHelper/vault-exec opt-in recipe works (only relocated between READMEs), no
  permission or Actions workflow changes.

[chatgpt-codex-connector]

💡 Codex Review

claude-code-plugins/plugins/dometrain-mcp/.mcp.json

Lines 4 to 6 in 4f87520

	"type": "http",
	"url": "https://mcp.dometrain.com/mcp",
	"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${user_config.dometrain_api_key}" }

Reassign the remote-server security review

Moving the authenticated remote server into this new plugin leaves the security inventory and acceptance record attached to the wrong artifact: docs/migration-playbook.md:894-904 still says dometrain is the only remote-server plugin, while its record at lines 1047-1076 evaluates dometrain and its former userConfig. Consequently, a trust audit of dometrain-mcp finds no record covering its third-party data egress and credential surface; update or repeat that record under the new plugin identity.

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Security review (/review:security-review)

• Gather context (PR body, diff via gh pr diff 5213, changed files)
• Skip-gate check — sensitive API key and remote MCP server surface moves between plugins, so full review performed
• Review dometrain-mcp (new plugin: manifest, .mcp.json, README)
• Review dometrain (skills, manifest, README — server/credential removed)
• Review settings/catalog/marketplace/docs changes
• Post findings

No security issues found.

Reviewed all 15 files changed in this PR (head 428bb9a) against this lane's criteria:
logic flaws, authz/access gaps, injection, and unsafe secret handling. This is a plugin split
(bundled MCP server + dometrain_api_key move from dometrain to a new dometrain-mcp
plugin) with no executable code — manifests, Markdown, and SKILL.md/evals content only.

• Credential handling unchanged. plugins/dometrain-mcp/.mcp.json is a pure rename (0 content diff): the Bearer header still resolves through ${user_config.dometrain_api_key}, never hardcoded. plugins/dometrain-mcp/.claude-plugin/plugin.json keeps "sensitive": true and defaultEnabled: false, matching the existing opt-in pattern for other credentialed remote-service plugins (e.g. miro). .claude/settings.json adds the matching "dometrain-mcp@melodic-software": false fleet-enablement key.
• Tool-matching fix verified. The prior review round (Codex, commit 4f87520) flagged a hardcoded mcp__plugin_dometrain-mcp_dometrain__ prefix in the skill bodies as a volatile-harness-behavior risk. The follow-up commit (428bb9a, "match tools by server segment, not a fixed prefix") resolves this: grounding/SKILL.md and setup/SKILL.md now match on the dometrain server segment plus tool name rather than a literal full prefix; no hardcoded mcp__plugin_dometrain... string remains in either skill body (confirmed by grep — the only remaining literal prefix is in dometrain-mcp/README.md's "Tool names" section, carrying its own four-part verification record: claim, basis link, as-of date, recheck trigger).
• Instruction-surface check. setup/SKILL.md broadens "Do not read, echo, log, copy, or persist the API key" to "any API key" (strictly broader, not weaker) and drops the Keychain/.credentials.json "never reveal" line. Not a gap: dometrain no longer holds any credential (its userConfig was removed entirely) and dometrain-mcp ships no skill at all, so neither plugin has a model-facing surface capable of reading keychain/credentials-file contents in the first place — the boundary text was removed alongside the capability it guarded, not left dangling.
• Broadened tool-matching heuristic considered, not a new gap. Matching by server segment instead of an exact prefix is technically broader (any server exposing a dometrain segment now resolves), but the pre-existing "Namespace-collision note" already documents that a same-named colliding plugin can't be distinguished this way, and grounding/SKILL.md's standing untrusted-data instruction (treat all search_dometrain/search_code/get_lesson results as data, never instructions) already covers a spoofed/malicious server returning adversarial content — this defense is unchanged by the diff.
• No injection or trust-boundary changes. No new command execution, no changes to the headersHelper/vault-exec opt-in mechanics (only relocated between READMEs), no permission or Actions workflow changes.

Not re-raised here: Codex's P2 comment about docs/migration-playbook.md's plugin-acceptance review record still describing dometrain as the sole remote-server plugin. That file is untouched by this PR's diff, and this lane's scope is limited to files changed in the PR — it's a legitimate documentation-currency point but outside this review's remit; the doc-drift/code-review lanes are better suited to it.

Branch: feat/dometrain-split-mcp

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Summary

Reviewed the full diff for this PR (d15eaae...428bb9a, 15 files, +480/-367) against the /review:code-review lane's criteria: correctness, CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md alignment, maintainability, scoped to changed files.

This is the mechanical split of dometrain (skills-only, 0.5.0) into a new dometrain-mcp (bundled HTTP server + dometrain_api_key, 0.1.0). Commit 428bb9a already fixes the defect Codex flagged on grounding/SKILL.md ("Add a verification record for the MCP namespace") — the hard-coded mcp__plugin_dometrain-mcp_dometrain__* prefix in grounding/SKILL.md and setup/SKILL.md — by matching on the dometrain server segment and tool name instead, and it records the one remaining literal prefix (in the dometrain-mcp README) with a basis, as-of date, and recheck trigger per .claude/rules/skill-bodies-state-current-rules.md.

1 inline finding posted, on a changed line:

• plugins/dometrain/skills/setup/evals/evals.json#L8 — eval 1's expected_output field still says "Checks Dometrain tool availability under both prefixes," while expectations[1] two lines below (added by the very same fix commit) says the opposite: matches by server segment/tool name, "not a fixed full prefix." Confirmed via grep -rn "prefix" plugins/dometrain/ plugins/dometrain-mcp/ that this is the only spot in the whole diff still using the old "prefixes" framing — the fix commit updated SKILL.md, the CHANGELOG.md, both READMEs, and the sibling expectations bullet, but missed this one field in the same JSON object. Posted with a suggested fix.

Everything else traced cleanly: cross-file anchor links (../../README.md#getting-the-mcp-server, #adding-your-own-server, ../dometrain-mcp/README.md#using-your-own-server-instead) all resolve to real headings; marketplace.json/settings.json/docs/catalog.md/docs/cloud-sessions.md are consistent with each other and with the fleet-enablement convention (defaultEnabled: false + explicit enabledPlugins key, matching miro/animation); version bumps and both CHANGELOG.mds line up with the described breaking change.

Not re-verified independently (author-claimed in the PR body): the shell script suite (validate-plugins.sh, check-plugin-catalog-enablement.sh, check-changelog-parity.sh, etc.), generate-catalog.mjs --check, and the skill-quality/evals checks — none of these were run in this review.

Out of this lane's scope, not re-litigated here: Codex's other finding (docs/migration-playbook.md — the trust-review record still names dometrain as the sole remote-server plugin and doesn't cover dometrain-mcp) touches a file this PR doesn't change, so it's outside this scoped-to-changed-files pass; it stands on its own merits from the Codex review.

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Summary

This is a re-review triggered by the latest push (428bb9a → f95b76a). Diffed d15eaae...f95b76a (the PR's actual merge-base, 15 files, +480/-367, matching the PR metadata) and separately diffed 428bb9a...f95b76a to isolate what changed since the last full review round.

The only change in this push is exactly the fix for the one finding raised in the prior round. Commit f95b76a is a one-line edit to plugins/dometrain/skills/setup/evals/evals.json: eval 1's expected_output no longer says "under both prefixes" (which contradicted the sibling expectations entry and the fix commit 428bb9a's own "match by server segment, not a fixed prefix" change); it now reads "by server segment and tool name, not a fixed prefix," consistent with expectations[1] on the next line and with SKILL.md/CHANGELOG.md/both READMEs.

I re-verified this is the only remaining "prefix" reference that needed to change — a repo-wide grep -rn "prefix" plugins/dometrain/ plugins/dometrain-mcp/ shows every other hit is legitimate: the CHANGELOG.md entries (historical record of the breaking change), the dometrain-mcp README's "Tool names" section (carries its own four-part verification record per .claude/rules/skill-bodies-state-current-rules.md), and setup/SKILL.md's own prose explaining why it deliberately avoids matching on a fixed prefix.

I also re-scanned the rest of the diff (marketplace.json, .claude/settings.json, docs/catalog.md, docs/cloud-sessions.md, grounding/SKILL.md, sync/context/update.md, both plugin.json manifests) for anything new since the last round — nothing has changed there, and nothing new stood out. No findings clear this lane's high-signal bar; no inline comments posted.

Not re-run here (author-claimed in the PR body, unverified by this review): the shell script suite (validate-plugins.sh, check-plugin-catalog-enablement.sh, check-changelog-parity.sh, etc.), generate-catalog.mjs --check, and the skill-quality/evals checks.

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Skip gate: this head's only new content is a non-security wording fix.

Two full security reviews already ran on this PR and found no issues:

• Commit 4f87520 (initial split): no issues.
• Commit 428bb9a (server-segment matching fix): no issues, including explicit confirmation that the earlier hardcoded-prefix concern (Codex P1) was resolved without introducing a new gap.

The only change since the last review — the commit that triggered this run, f95b76a — is a single-line wording fix in plugins/dometrain/skills/setup/evals/evals.json:

- "expected_output": "Checks Dometrain tool availability under both prefixes without inspecting the token, settings, or environment variables. ..."
+ "expected_output": "Checks Dometrain tool availability by server segment and tool name, not a fixed prefix, without inspecting the token, settings, or environment variables. ..."

This brings the eval's expected_output description in line with the sibling expectations entry and the actual skill behavior (the exact gap flagged in my own code-review comment on the prior commit). It is test/eval fixture prose describing expected grading behavior, not a runtime instruction, guardrail, or credential/trust-boundary surface — no executable logic, no MCP config, no permission or secret handling touched.

No security issues found. The prior review's findings still apply in full to the current head (f95b76a): sensitive dometrain_api_key handling is unchanged (masked userConfig, sensitive: true, defaultEnabled: false on dometrain-mcp), tool-matching uses the server-segment/tool-name approach (no hardcoded namespace prefix), and no instruction-surface deletions weaken a standing guardrail without a remaining enforcement mechanism.
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