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Brummel a18c0974e8 docs: add repo CLAUDE.md forbidding worktree development
The plugin installs via symlinks pinned at the absolute path of the
primary clone, so skill/agent/workflow edits made in a git worktree of
this repo are not what the live session runs (silent no-op or, on
re-install, a split-brain). Record a no-worktree rule for this repo in a
repo-local CLAUDE.md, with the dominant symlink-pinning rationale plus
the secondary cwd-slug memory/transcript re-keying caveat.

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Skills plugin — repo-local rules

This is the skills plugin's own repository. It does not consume its own pipeline: there is no ## Skills plugin: project facts section and no per-cycle skill dispatch here. Changes are made directly and committed to main.

Do not develop this repo from a git worktree

Never work on this repository from a git worktree — neither a manual git worktree add nor the harness EnterWorktree tool. Always edit the primary clone at ~/dev/skills, on main.

Reason (dominant): install.sh installs the plugin by symlinking ~/.claude/{skills,agents,workflows} to the absolute path of the clone it was first run from — the primary clone. A running session loads every skill, agent, and workflow definition through those symlinks regardless of cwd, so it always executes the primary clone's bodies. Edits made in a worktree of this repo are therefore not what the live session runs: dispatching an edited skill silently runs the old primary-clone body, and re-running install.sh from a worktree skips the existing symlinks and only adds links for new skills (a split-brain across two checkouts). Worktree development of the plugin is silently ineffective.

Secondary: a worktree session also re-keys the cwd-derived project slug, so the accumulated auto-memory and the session transcript land under a different namespace than the primary clone.

This constraint is specific to editing the plugin itself. Consumer projects are unaffected: they resolve the same global symlinks and read their own checked-in CLAUDE.md, so they may use worktrees freely.