fix(plugins): restore 29 plugin SKILL.md bodies lost to the 2026-05-28 footer truncation - #3685
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…8 footer truncation Twenty-nine `plugins/**/skills/*/SKILL.md` files held only their YAML frontmatter, with the entire body deleted. This restores the original body from the commit immediately before the damaging run, and gives each file exactly one canonical footer. Cause. Commit 6cdbe75 ("fix: remediate duplicate footers across repository", 2026-05-28) ran a remediation script whose `removeDuplicateFooters()` treated all content after the last `---` as a removable footer. For a file whose last `---` is its own frontmatter closer that is the whole document body, so the body was deleted. Verified by replaying the original function: a ten-line SKILL.md came back as six lines with the body gone. This was a genuine defect, not an accepted trade-off. The run's own FOOTER_REMEDIATION_GUIDE.md documents only the intent of keeping one footer per document and never scopes the boundary assumption out. The same class of bug was independently reported as #1118 on 2026-07-22, described as silent data loss, and fixed in #1123. The 17 files that run lost were restored during review of PR #1108; these 29 were not noticed until now. The script itself no longer exists in the tree. Recovery source. The revision immediately preceding 6cdbe75, read with `git show 6cdbe75^:<path>`. That version is coherent, not partially corrupted: each file carries its heading and its purpose or trigger statement. Recovered body size is 2 lines for 27 files and 9 to 10 lines for the other 2. These were always thin; this restores what was written rather than reconstructing anything. Preserved as-is. Each target keeps its own frontmatter, so legitimate later changes such as version bumps from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1 are not reverted. Footer. Every file ends with exactly one block: `DEFAULT_FOOTERS[1]` from `scripts/agents/includes/header-footer.js`, whose `Contributors` link PR #3669 corrected to resolve to this repository. Asterisk emphasis matches the generator and MD049 in `.markdownlint.config.cjs`; `npm run lint:md` hardcodes `fix: true` and would otherwise rewrite it in place. Verification. Body equals the pre-damage revision byte for byte, 29/29 by SHA-256 of the stripped body. Frontmatter unchanged from the base commit in all 29. Exactly one canonical footer, final block, no stray footer lines. Every file has a Markdown heading. `dedupe-footers.js --check` reports 0 affected and 0 blocks. `markdownlint-cli2` reports 0 issues and makes zero further edits. Semgrep p/security-audit and p/secrets: 0 findings over 31 targets. CodeRabbit: 0 findings. Restore only. No consolidation, no content authoring, no changes to the footer tooling.
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…tract The skill's frontmatter description promises plans "with acceptance criteria and phased delivery tasks". Its Output expectations list required neither. A plan produced by following the list could omit both, so the skill did not do what it advertises. Adds "Acceptance criteria" and renames "Ordered implementation tasks" to "Phased delivery tasks, ordered by implementation sequence". The CodeRabbit suggestion also dropped "Requirements summary". That is not applied: the description scopes the work to building plans "from requirements", so a requirements summary is a deliverable of this skill and removing it would trade one gap for another. No existing deliverable is dropped here. This is the only file in the restoration that no longer matches its pre-damage revision byte for byte, 28 of 29 do. The pull request description records that. Verification: footer guard reports 0 affected and 0 blocks found; markdownlint reports 0 issues and makes no further edits; Semgrep p/security-audit and p/secrets report 0 findings; local CodeRabbit review reports 0 findings.
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Bugfix Pull Request
Linked issues
Relates to #1118and#1123— the 2026-05-28 footer truncation that emptied these files, root-caused and fixed in JulyRelates to #3451and#3669— the footer duplicate cleanup and the correctedContributorslink this batch appliesNo issue is closed by this pull request. It is the second and final batch of the 95-file restoration; the other 66 files are in #3680.
Context
plugins/**/skills/*/SKILL.mdondevelop.Reproduction
develop. 2) Observe that the content ends immediately after the closing---of the frontmatter, followed by a single footer block. 3) No skill body is present.Root Cause
Commit
6cdbe75efb("fix: remediate duplicate footers across repository", 2026-05-28) ran a remediation script whoseremoveDuplicateFooters()treated everything after the last---as a removable footer:For a file whose last
---is its own frontmatter closer, that is the whole document body, so the body was deleted. Confirmed by replaying the original function against a realisticSKILL.md: ten lines came back as six, body gone.This was a genuine defect rather than an accepted trade-off. The run's own
FOOTER_REMEDIATION_GUIDE.mdstates only the intent of keeping one footer per document and never scopes the boundary assumption out. The same class of bug was independently reported as #1118 on 2026-07-22, described as silent data loss, and fixed in #1123. The 17 files lost during review of PR #1108 were restored then; these 29 were not noticed until now.The script no longer exists in the tree. The live path was verified content-safe before starting:
dedupe-footers.js --fixrun across the whole repository removed 130,195 lines across 3,811 files with zero non-footer lines, and the oldensureFooterregex was proven to be dead code that could only ever append.Fix Summary
Each body is restored from the revision immediately preceding the damaging run, read with
git show 6cdbe75efb^:<path>. That version is coherent rather than partially corrupted: each file carries its heading and its purpose or trigger statement.One file has been corrected since.
lightspeed-wordpress-spec-planningshipped a body that was internally inconsistent: its description promised plans "with acceptance criteria and phased delivery tasks" while its Output expectations list required neither. Its output list now covers both. That is the only file here that no longer matches its pre-damage revision byte for byte; the other 28 do.Recovered body size is 2 lines for 27 files and 9 to 10 lines for the other 2. These were always thin skills; this restores what was originally written and authors nothing.
Each target keeps its own frontmatter, so later legitimate changes such as version bumps from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1 are not reverted.
Each file now ends with exactly one footer block:
DEFAULT_FOOTERS[1]fromscripts/agents/includes/header-footer.js, whoseContributorslink PR #3669 corrected to resolve to this repository. Asterisk emphasis matches the generator and MD049;npm run lint:mdhardcodesfix: trueand would otherwise rewrite it in place.Restore only. No consolidation, no content authoring, no change to the footer tooling.
Verification
dedupe-footers.js --checkreports 0 affected and 0 blocks found;markdownlint-cli2reports 0 issues and makes zero further edits, confirmed by checksum before and after; Semgrepp/security-auditandp/secretsreport 0 findings over 31 targets; CodeRabbit local review against the uncommitted diff returned 0 findingsRisk & Rollback
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plugins/**/skills/*/SKILL.mdfiles, emptied by the 2026-05-28 footer remediation script, and gave each exactly one canonical footer. (Relates to fix(validation): validate-footers --fix truncates file bodies #1118, fix(validation): address footer truncation and mermaid workflow robustness #1123, fix: repo-wide footer duplicate cleanup (9,280 files, ~117K duplicate blocks) #3451)Removed
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9d4eaaf91eand re-reviewed locally with 0 findingsSummary by CodeRabbit