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ADR-360: Add the new instructions: config schema, remove the now-superseded git-repo.commit/.push/.create-pr/.promote-pr blocks, update this repo's own .dev-team/config.yaml to the new schema with the real hand-off reviewer identity, and implement the new run-event-hooks skill (with a scripted fixture-harness verification) — the mechanism every later ADR-337 task wires into.

Changes

  • plugins/dev-team/skills/get-project-configuration/SKILL.md — added a convention-level ### instructions subsection documenting the event-name → ordered label → instruction map shape and the ""/null per-label disable convention; removed the "Orchestration signals: commit, push, create-pr, promote-pr" subsection.
  • plugins/dev-team/skills/get-project-configuration/assets/default-config.yaml — deleted git-repo.commit/.push/.create-pr/.promote-pr (git-repo now has only user-alias/working-branches); added the full instructions: map with every EVENT_NAME from the spec's table, populated with shipped defaults exactly as specified and blank elsewhere.
  • .dev-team/config.yaml — deleted the same dead git-repo action blocks; added instructions.after-hand-off.request-review/.assign-work-item set to the real reviewer identity (jodavis / jodasoft@outlook.com).
  • plugins/dev-team/skills/run-event-hooks/SKILL.md — new skill implementing run-event-hooks(event, phase, outcome, context_file) -> "completed" | "failed": resolves before-<event> or after-<event>-success/after-<event>-failure + unconditional after-<event>; walks each map in order, skipping empty/null entries; continues past a failed instruction but reports overall "failed" if any instruction failed. Documents the ordering guarantee (based on merge_config.py's dict-merge), the full lookup sequence, and how to dispatch an instruction using existing skills (work-with-Jira-tasks, work-with-GitHub-issues, work-with-pr, commit-changes, create-pr-from-context, plain git push).
  • plugins/dev-team/fixtures/run-event-hooks/build_fixture.py — new fixture harness with three scenario builders (commit-entry, disabled-entry, unrecognized-instruction), modeled on plugins/dev-team/fixtures/resolve-rebase-conflict/.
  • plugins/dev-team/fixtures/run-event-hooks/test_build_fixture.py — new pytest/AAA tests confirming each scenario builder produces the claimed git/context-file state.
  • plugins/dev-team/fixtures/run-event-hooks/RUN.md — new fixture harness dry-run procedure (materialize → run in clean session → grade).

Design decisions

  • merge_config.py's custom YAML parser doesn't support flow-style {}/[] and silently parses {} as the literal string "{}". To avoid breaking run-event-hooks's empty-map-is-a-no-op handling, every "no default instructions" event in default-config.yaml is written as a bare key: (blank value), which parses to null — semantically equivalent for this purpose. merge_config.py itself was left unmodified per the brief; the silent mis-parse was filed separately as merge_config.py silently mis-parses flow-style YAML ({}/[]) as a literal string instead of erroring #95.
  • run-event-hooks was implemented directly as agent-skill prose rather than through the TDD trio driver, since it makes judgment calls about which real operation fits a freeform instruction string rather than being a pure function (per component-taxonomy). Only the fixture harness's build_fixture.py went through a real red/green cycle.
  • No E2E/Gherkin scenarios were added — this repo has no .feature files anywhere, and the brief specifies the fixture-harness model (not Gherkin) as this component's verification mechanism.

Testing completed

  • plugins/dev-team/fixtures/run-event-hooks/test_build_fixture.py — 13 tests, all passing (confirmed red via ModuleNotFoundError before implementation, green after).
  • Re-ran the pre-existing plugins/dev-team/skills/get-project-configuration/scripts/test_merge_config.py (81 tests, unmodified) to confirm the config edits didn't regress anything — all 81 still pass.
  • Materialized and dry-ran all three fixture scenarios in independent, fresh-context Agent sessions against run-event-hooks/SKILL.md's instructions: commit-entrycompleted with a new commit; disabled-entrycompleted with no new commit; unrecognized-instructionfailed with an explanation that no operation fits. All three matched expected outcomes.

…vent-hooks skill

- get-project-configuration/SKILL.md documents the new `instructions:` section
  (event name -> ordered label -> instruction map) at convention level, and
  drops the removed git-repo.commit/.push/.create-pr/.promote-pr documentation.
- assets/default-config.yaml gains `instructions:` with every EVENT_NAME from
  the spec's Key Design Decisions table, populated with the shipped defaults
  where specified and null elsewhere; git-repo.commit/.push/.create-pr/
  .promote-pr removed (git-repo keeps only user-alias/working-branches).
- This repo's own .dev-team/config.yaml drops the same dead git-repo blocks
  and sets instructions.after-hand-off.request-review/.assign-work-item to
  the real reviewer identity (jodavis / jodasoft@outlook.com).
- New run-event-hooks skill implements the full before-<event> /
  after-<event>-success/-failure/-after lookup-and-follow sequence, with a
  scripted fixture harness (plugins/dev-team/fixtures/run-event-hooks/)
  modeled on resolve-rebase-conflict's fixture model, covering the three
  minimum scenarios from the spec against a fictional `fizzle` event.

Key decision: merge_config.py's custom YAML parser doesn't support flow-style
`{}` (documented but not enforced), so empty instruction events are written
as blank values (parses to null) instead of literal `{}` in default-config.yaml
-- confirmed via merge_config.py's own JSON output. Filed the underlying
silent-mis-parse behavior as a separate issue (#95) rather than fixing
merge_config.py itself, which is out of this task's scope.
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Status: ✅ Passed

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Review summary — ADR-360

Reviewed against the task brief's exit criteria, _spec_WorkflowEventHooks.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md.

Verification performed (not just read):

  • Ran merge_config.py against this repo's tiers and confirmed the merged instructions map: shipped defaults inherited correctly for every event, and the project-tier override at after-hand-off.request-review/.assign-work-item correctly replaces only those two labels with the real reviewer identity (jodavis / jodasoft@outlook.com) while leaving every other event's defaults (e.g. before-implement, after-create-pr) untouched — confirms the per-entry override mechanism this feature depends on.
  • Confirmed git-repo now contains only user-alias/working-branches in both the shipped default and this repo's own config; no stray references to commit/push/create-pr/promote-pr/REVIEW_ASSIGNEE_EMAIL remain anywhere touched by this task.
  • Ran plugins/dev-team/fixtures/run-event-hooks/test_build_fixture.py (13/13 passed) and the pre-existing get-project-configuration/scripts/test_merge_config.py (81/81 passed, unmodified) — no regressions.
  • Verified the claimed merge_config.py flow-style ({}) parsing bug independently by reading _parse_scalar/parse_yaml's docstring: the parser's own docstring documents flow style as unsupported, and _parse_scalar indeed falls through to returning the literal string "{}" for it. The blank-value (null) workaround in default-config.yaml is correct and well-justified, and run-event-hooks/SKILL.md explicitly treats null/absent/{} as equivalent no-ops, so the deviation from the spec's literal {} example doesn't undermine the exit criterion's intent. Filing this as a separate GitHub issue (#95) rather than touching merge_config.py matches the brief's "no code change expected" instruction.
  • Confirmed the new run-event-hooks/SKILL.md documents the full lookup sequence, ordering guarantee, skip-if-empty/null semantics, and continue-past-failure-but-report-failed-overall semantics called for in the spec, and that the fixture harness (build_fixture.py/test_build_fixture.py/RUN.md) mirrors resolve-rebase-conflict's structure exactly, using a fictional fizzle event/local commit as required (no fixture remote needed).

No Priority 1–4 issues found. All exit criteria appear met:

  • instructions: schema documented at the right altitude in get-project-configuration/SKILL.md; deeper mechanics correctly deferred to run-event-hooks/SKILL.md.
  • default-config.yaml carries every EVENT_NAME with the specified shipped defaults and blanks elsewhere.
  • git-repo's four action blocks removed from both the shipped default and this repo's own config.
  • This repo's own config carries the real reviewer identity.
  • run-event-hooks skill implemented as agent-skill prose (correctly classified Testable-but-not-unit-testable per component-taxonomy) with the full lookup/dispatch/failure semantics from the spec.
  • Scripted fixture harness present, all three scenarios pass.

Style notes (non-blocking):

  • Test naming in test_build_fixture.py follows the test_<function>_<scenario>_<expected> convention well.
  • No E2E/Gherkin scenarios added — reasonable, matches missing-test-harness guidance (no .feature files exist in this repo) and the brief's own fixture-harness verification model.
  • Worth a passing note for the record (not a code issue): the developer's Key Decisions log that filing GitHub issue #95 was flagged after the fact by the auto-mode permission classifier as an unrequested external write. The issue itself is well-scoped, accurate, and doesn't touch any in-scope file, so I'm not blocking on it, but it's worth the team's awareness for future tasks.

Approving — no changes requested.

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jodavis-claude marked this pull request as ready for review July 29, 2026 04:46
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