autonomous-common

Imported from zxkane/autonomous-dev-team (skills/autonomous-common/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add zxkane/autonomous-dev-team --skill autonomous-common. Copyright stays with the author.

Autonomous Common Infrastructure

Shared workflow-enforcement hooks and agent-callable utility scripts used by autonomous-dev, autonomous-review, and autonomous-dispatcher. The other autonomous-* skills reference scripts and hooks here — when those reference paths break, this is usually the skill to look at.

For optional dev/review learning capture, scoped fact revision, local environment references, or post-merge documentation writeback, read references/session-knowledge.md. Assessments may report no update; only a useful documentation diff creates a commit/PR.

Setup for npx skills add Users

After npx skills add, run the installer for your coding agent once from the project root:

Each installer wires up the workflow hooks at the project scope, so they fire on every shell command in the repo — not only when an autonomous-* skill is explicitly loaded. Without this, the hook commands declared in skill frontmatter only run while a skill is active in the conversation, which is the regression that closed #68.

For the per-agent schema mapping reference, see docs/cross-agent-hooks.md.

Project-side scripts/ and hooks/ symlinks

The IDE installer above only writes the IDE config file (e.g. .claude/settings.json). The project-side <project>/scripts/ symlinks (so dispatcher-tick.sh finds autonomous-dev.sh, lib-agent.sh, etc.) and the <project>/hooks directory symlink are managed by a separate, IDE-agnostic bootstrap script — the canonical pattern for projects whose scripts/ already contains project-local files:

# From your project root, after `npx skills add`:
bash .agents/skills/autonomous-common/scripts/install-project-hooks.sh

What it does:

• Symlinks every *.sh from the installed autonomous-dispatcher/scripts/ into <project>/scripts/, without overwriting real (non-symlink) project-local files like autonomous.conf or per-project deploy helpers.
• Prunes dangling symlinks if upstream removes a file.
• Symlinks <project>/hooks → autonomous-common/hooks (refuses to shadow an existing real directory).
• Installs the per-worktree git pre-push hook (#65). Skip with --no-git-hook.

Idempotent — re-run after every npx skills update so newly-added upstream files (e.g. when this skill set adds a new lib-*.sh) are picked up automatically. Closes the silent-drift mode behind #153, where projects bootstrapped via per-file ln -s cargo-culted lists missed new files and autonomous-review.sh died on source of the missing file before any review work ran.

Legacy directory-level fallback (deprecated)

The earlier docs suggested replacing the project's scripts/ directory with a single symlink:

ln -sf .claude/skills/autonomous-dispatcher/scripts scripts   # DEPRECATED

This loses any project-local files in scripts/. Use install-project-hooks.sh instead — it does the right thing on a directory that already has project-local content, and re-running picks up upstream changes.

Required Claude Code plugins

Claude Code only. The installer prompts for these; if installing manually, add to .claude/settings.json under enabledPlugins:

{
  "enabledPlugins": {
    "code-simplifier@claude-plugins-official": true,
    "pr-review-toolkit@claude-plugins-official": true
  }
}

IDEs without hook support (Cursor, Windsurf) skip both the installer and the symlinks — the skills work without hooks, but workflow steps must be followed manually.

What's here

• hooks/ — workflow-enforcement hooks (block-push-to-main, block-commit-outside-worktree, check-pr-review, check-shellcheck, verify-completion, …). See hooks/README.md for the canonical list and per-hook semantics.
• scripts/ — agent-callable utilities used by the dev/review skills:
  • session-knowledge.sh / session-knowledge.py — private shared task receipts, optional verified candidates, local knowledge, and isolated documentation commits (Python standard library)
  • install-project-hooks.sh — IDE-agnostic project-side bootstrap: symlinks dispatcher *.sh into <project>/scripts/ (without overwriting project-local files), symlinks <project>/hooks, prunes dangling links, installs the git pre-push hook. Re-run after every npx skills update (closes #153)
  • lib-installer.sh — shared merge/write helpers used by every per-agent installer
  • lib-installer-translate.sh — schema translation helpers for near-clone agents (event-name map, tool-name map, timeout-unit conversion)
  • install-claude-hooks.sh — Claude Code installer (writes .claude/settings.json)
  • install-qoder-hooks.sh — Qoder installer (writes .qoder/settings.json — same schema as Claude Code)
  • install-antigravity-hooks.sh — Antigravity installer (writes .antigravity/hooks.json — hooks-only file; contract is community-observed, undocumented by Google)
  • install-cursor-hooks.sh — Cursor installer (writes .cursor/hooks.json — version: 1 envelope, camelCase events, Shell matcher)
  • install-kiro-hooks.sh — Kiro CLI / Amazon Q installer (writes .kiro/agents/<name>.json — agent definition with camelCase events, execute_bash/fs_write matchers, timeout_ms in milliseconds)
  • install-gemini-hooks.sh — Gemini CLI installer (writes .gemini/settings.json — BeforeTool/AfterTool events, run_shell_command/write_file/replace matchers)
  • install-codex-hooks.sh — Codex CLI installer (requires Python 3.11+ tomllib, renders worktree-root-resolvable .codex/hooks.json, sets canonical [features] hooks = true, and safely migrates the deprecated codex_hooks alias)
  • install-windsurf-hooks.sh — Windsurf installer (writes .windsurf/hooks.json — snake_case events that fold matcher info; no per-tool matcher field)
  • install-kimi-hooks.sh — Kimi CLI installer (writes ~/.kimi/config.toml user-level by default, or .kimi/config.toml with --project; emits TOML [[hooks]] blocks)
  • claude-settings.template.json — canonical hook list applied by all per-agent installers
  • gh-as-user.sh — runs gh as a real user (needed when retriggering bot reviews like /q review)
  • mark-issue-checkbox.sh — toggles GitHub issue body checkboxes from the agent
  • reply-to-comments.sh — replies to PR review comments
  • resolve-threads.sh — batch-resolves review threads on a PR

The hooks and scripts are documented in detail in their respective README/source files. This SKILL.md only catalogs what's available so you can find the right file to edit.