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Aaron Powell c66449b4fa fix: skill-validator invocation for .github/plugin/plugin.json convention (#1916)
* fix: skill-validator invocation for .github/plugin/plugin.json convention

The skill-validator --plugin mode looks for plugin.json at <dir>/plugin.json,
but external plugins (and the Copilot CLI) place it at .github/plugin/plugin.json.
This caused every external plugin with skills or agents to fail the skill-validator
gate with a misleading 'No plugin.json found' error, even when the install smoke
test passed correctly.

Extract buildSkillValidatorArgs() which reads plugin.json from
.github/plugin/plugin.json, resolves skills/agents paths relative to the plugin
root, and invokes skill-validator with --skills/--agents instead of --plugin.
Falls back to --plugin if the conventional path is not present.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: also check .plugins/plugin.json and root plugin.json locations

Extend buildSkillValidatorArgs to probe three candidate plugin.json locations
in priority order before falling back to --plugin:
  1. .github/plugin/plugin.json  (Copilot CLI convention)
  2. .plugins/plugin.json
  3. plugin.json  (root — also the skill-validator's native --plugin expectation)

Extract findPluginJson() and PLUGIN_JSON_CANDIDATES constant so the list is easy
to extend. Paths in plugin.json are always resolved relative to the plugin root
regardless of where the manifest lives.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Contributor Reporting (Maintainers) 🚧

This directory contains build scripts and utilities for maintaining the repository.

Build Scripts

update-readme.mjs

Generates the main README.md and documentation files from the repository content (agents, prompts, instructions, skills, hooks, collections).

generate-marketplace.mjs

Automatically generates .github/plugin/marketplace.json from all plugin directories in the plugins/ folder. This file is used by the GitHub Copilot CLI to discover and install plugins from this repository.

How it works:

  • Scans all directories in plugins/
  • Reads each plugin's .github/plugin/plugin.json for metadata
  • Generates a consolidated marketplace.json with all available plugins
  • Runs automatically as part of npm run build

To run manually:

npm run plugin:generate-marketplace

generate-website-data.mjs

Generates JSON data files for the website from repository content.

Contributor Tools

  • contributor-report.mjs — generates a markdown report of merged PRs for missing contributors (includes shared helpers).
  • add-missing-contributors.mjs — on-demand maintainer script to automatically add missing contributors to .all-contributorsrc (infers contribution types from merged PR files, then runs the all-contributors CLI).

Key notes for maintainers

  • Reports are generated on-demand and output to reports/contributor-report.md for human review.
  • The report output is intentionally minimal: a single list of affected PRs and one command to add missing contributor(s).
  • This repository requires full git history for accurate analysis. In CI, set fetch-depth: 0.
  • Link: all-contributors CLI documentation

On-demand scripts (not CI)

These are maintainer utilities. They are intentionally on-demand only (but could be wired into CI later).

add-missing-contributors.mjs

  • Purpose: detect missing contributors, infer contribution types from their merged PR files, and run npx all-contributors add ... to update .all-contributorsrc.
  • Requirements:
    • GitHub CLI (gh) available (used to query merged PRs).
    • .all-contributorsrc exists.
    • Auth token set to avoid the anonymous GitHub rate limits:
      • Set GITHUB_TOKEN (preferred), or GH_TOKEN for the gh CLI.
      • If you use PRIVATE_TOKEN locally, contributor-report.mjs will map it to GITHUB_TOKEN.

Graceful shutdown

  • contributor-report.mjs calls setupGracefulShutdown('script-name') from eng/utils/graceful-shutdown.mjs early in the file to attach signal/exception handlers.

Testing & maintenance

  • Helper functions have small, deterministic behavior and include JSDoc comments.
  • The getMissingContributors function in contributor-report.mjs is the single source of truth for detecting missing contributors from all-contributors check output.