- Add HARD CONSTRAINT blocks to both onboarding and custom agent creation
flows, forcing the use of AskUserQuestion for each question to prevent
the Architect from skipping phases or bundling questions
- Replace hard-coded "| postman |" match in updateme.sh with generic
last-table-row detection to avoid breaking custom row reinsertion if
core agents are renamed or reordered
- launchme.sh: skip overwriting agents-registry.md and agents.md on
reinstall to preserve custom agent entries
- updateme.sh: extract and re-insert custom table rows from the
registry table plus custom sections, preventing data loss when
updating from upstream
- Require manifest before deprecating to avoid false positives
Address multiple issues raised during PR code review:
- Skip deprecation entirely when .core-manifest is missing, preventing
accidental deprecation of custom agents/references on first update
- Preserve user's "## Custom Agents" sections in agents-registry.md and
agents.md during reference updates (merge strategy instead of overwrite)
- Update confirmation message to accurately reflect what is preserved
Deprecated agents kept in .claude/agents/ could still be auto-discovered
by Claude Code via their frontmatter. Moving them to .claude/deprecated/
ensures they are completely invisible to the dispatcher while still
preserved for user reference.
Same pattern as agents: launchme/updateme write a .core-manifest in
.claude/references/ listing installed core files. The deprecation loop
only touches files in the manifest, leaving user-created references
untouched.
The manifest was being truncated and rewritten before the deprecation
loop ran, so removed core agents were no longer in the manifest and
got skipped as "custom". Now: read old manifest -> deprecate -> copy
new agents -> rewrite manifest.
On reinstall (EXISTING=1), read the old .core-manifest and deprecate
any agent that is no longer shipped in the repo, before writing the
new manifest. Prevents stale core agents from lingering in the vault.
launchme.sh and updateme.sh now write .core-manifest listing which agent
files were installed as core. The deprecation loop checks this manifest
before touching any file, so custom agents are never deprecated.
When a file is removed from the repo (agents, references, or skills),
the updater now renames it with a "-DEPRECATED" suffix and prepends
a "DEPRECATED DO NOT USE" header instead of silently leaving it.
updateme.sh:
- Core agents in .claude/agents/ that no longer exist in the repo
get renamed to {name}-DEPRECATED.md with deprecation header
(custom agents are never touched)
- References in .claude/references/ that no longer exist in the repo
get the same treatment
- The entire .claude/skills/ directory (removed from the project)
gets renamed to .claude/skills-DEPRECATED/ with deprecation headers
on each SKILL.md
- Summary now reports deprecated file count
launchme.sh:
- Added confirmation prompt before overwriting existing installation
- Skills generation and copying kept intact (generate-skills.py runs
first, then copies to .claude/skills/)
launchme.sh:
- Detects if .claude/ or CLAUDE.md already exist in the vault
- Shows the user what will be overwritten
- Asks for explicit confirmation before proceeding
- Clarifies that custom agents and vault notes are never touched
updateme.sh:
- Asks for confirmation before overwriting core files
- Same clarification about custom agents being preserved
- generate-skills.py now respects SKILLS_DIR env var
- launchme.sh and updateme.sh generate into mktemp -d, copy to vault,
then clean up — no more untracked skills/ left in the repo
- Warn the user when python3 is missing so Cowork/Desktop users know
why .claude/skills/ is absent
- Fix call-chain example consistency in CLAUDE.md and agent-orchestration.md
(chain lists already-invoked agents, "step N" matches chain length + 1)
- Renumber architect.md Task Checklist (was skipping 3) and replace
"Leave messages" step with dispatcher-driven "Suggested next agent"
- Replace "Leave a message to the Sorter" with signal via Suggested next agent
- Clarify "Do NOT write to other agents' files" → only prompt/config files
(.claude/agents/*.md), normal vault edits still allowed
- Fix agent count 10→8 in docs/getting-started.md
- Initialize SKILL_COUNT before conditional block in launchme.sh
