opencode discovers AGENTS.md and nothing else; claude code discovers CLAUDE.md. this repo had neither, so an agent sent to change something here arrived with no guidance at all under either. it deliberately does NOT repeat README.md. that file says what the plugin is, for someone deciding whether to install it. this one answers the other question: i have to change something in here, what will i break. the facts in it are read from the repository rather than recalled — the panel keys from web/panels.ts, the tables from db/schema.ts, the permission keys, the host binaries and the route claims from manifest.ts. presence is the declaration everywhere in this system, so the file says what the platform will actually conclude from these files existing. CLAUDE.md beside it is a pointer, not a copy: two copies drift and the stale one is the one somebody reads.
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AGENTS.md
Guidance for a coding agent working on this plugin's own repository. CLAUDE.md beside it only
points here — the two harnesses discover different filenames and one set of instructions has to
reach both.
This is not what the plugin is. README.md answers that, for a person deciding whether to
install it. This file answers "I have to change something in here — what will I break?"
Where you are
A plugin repository, cloned into ~/officer-dev/plugins/gitea, its own git remote. It is not
part of the platform's repository, and platform/plugins/gitea is a different thing — that is
where this plugin gets INSTALLED, by the installer cloning it from gitea. Never edit there; the
next install overwrites it.
Check the checkout with bun run plugins:check from the platform repo.
What it ships
api/router.ts— routes, mounted at/api/giteasidecar/index.ts— a process, run by PM2 asofficer-giteaweb/— panels and a layout; the platform renders the screen, not this pluginaffordances/— read by every agent session, harness-agnostic
Presence is the declaration: the platform decides what this plugin has by what files exist. Adding
db/schema.ts gives it tables; deleting api/router.ts removes its routes. There is no field to
keep in step.
What must not change without knowing why
- Permission key
gitea— stored as the subject of every grant. Renaming one is a data change, not a rename. - Panel keys (
gitea-frame) — a user's stored layout names them. - Unauthenticated paths (
/_web/*) — served without a session. Adding one is a security decision. - Host binaries (
tea) — declared in the manifest so an install can get them. Shelling out to something undeclared works on this machine and nowhere else. appName— the directory name IS the id: route segment, table prefix, sidecar suffix, install key.
Verifying
From the platform repo, which is where the toolchain lives:
bunx tsgo # a red typecheck is not done
bun test # 1 known failure: ModelSelector, unrelated
bun run plugins:check
bunx prettier --write <the files you touched>
A sidecar change needs pm2 restart officer-gitea; anything in api/ or web/ needs
pm2 restart officer.
Related
README.md— what it is and what it claims, for someone installing itPLUGIN.md— this plugin's own reference: conventions and API surface