Changelog

Progressive disclosure: modules/workflow/GUIDE.md keeps align, verify and complete output, and diagnose, handoff and retro moved verbatim to references/diagnose.md, handoff.md and retro.md. modules/humanize-writing/GUIDE.md keeps sections 1 to 5, and the LinkedIn post method and the English tells moved verbatim to references/linkedin-post.md and references/english-tells.md. Each guide ends with a router line. Workflow guide 1388 est tokens (was 2172), humanize guide 2695 (was 4650), typical text task 7640 (was 10324). Selftest caps the two guides at 1530 and 3000 est tokens and checks the new reference files exist.

Token cost: the reminder hook prints once per session (about 450 characters, was 790 on every prompt), ALWAYS.md is about 25% smaller with every rule kept, and SKILL.md is 44 lines (was 84) with the companion skills table, the pipelines and the input-to-checks table moved verbatim to docs/COMPANIONS.md.

adams tokens prints the estimated token cost (chars/4) of every always-on file, SKILL.md and each module. Selftest caps the reminder at 450 characters, SKILL.md at 65 lines and 1750 est tokens, ALWAYS.md at 950 est tokens.

Evals: stop-gate checks that flagged text triggers a check before the agent finishes (with Adams 1.00, without 0.25); plan-breaks and tiny-typo-fix are tagged regression-guard because they pass either way on purpose.

The workflow guide no longer points at a setting that Adams does not own.

The skill description is 629 characters (was 883) and SKILL.md is 84 lines (was 138), cutting the always-on and on-invoke token cost without touching the routing table.

Install, profiles, hooks, maintenance and the repo layout moved verbatim to docs/OPERATIONS.md, with one pointer line left in the router.

Selftest caps SKILL.md at 105 lines (was 160).

Web balance now checks pages whose content sits under display: contents wrappers or fades in on scroll (reduced motion is forced), splits grid rows by vertical overlap, and ignores screen-reader-only table headers.

adams uninstall removes hook events it emptied instead of leaving empty lists.

README lists what runs automatically.

adams install --link links the skill and registers the hooks even when the plugin is enabled, for apps that do not load marketplace plugins.

Evals: graders now score the delivered work (deterministic checks where possible), turn budgets fit Adams' reviewer passes, and the drift case tests scope growth. Measured with and without the plugin: auto-ask, adams check use and humanize rules show a clear gain; the drift and typo cases pass either way (they guard against regressions).

evals/ holds six cases for claude plugin eval (ask-first on a vague request, no questions on a tiny task, humanize and adams check on a post, stop on a broken plan, Arabic rules, web balance on a page), graded with and without the plugin. Run deliberately, it spends API usage.

Plugin option profile (userConfig): hzlint.py and check.py use it as the last fallback before default. Claude Code passes it to hooks as CLAUDE_PLUGIN_OPTION_PROFILE.

New AI-search audit: modules/seo-architect/scripts/ai_search_audit.py URL_OR_FOLDER (llms.txt, AI-bot rules in robots.txt, sitemap, titles, descriptions, canonicals, JSON-LD, brand spelling), a section in the seo-architect guide, references/ai-search.md, and a router row.

New humanize regression corpus (modules/humanize-writing/tests/corpus/, English and Arabic, stock-AI and plain samples) checked by the selftest.

README: "Scheduled audits" with a copy-paste prompt for /schedule and loop.

New Stop hook (hooks/adams_stop.py): checks the .md and .txt files changed in the working repo when the agent finishes, and sends it back to fix BLOCK hits. Files that passed are not re-checked until they change.

New SessionStart hook (hooks/adams_context.py): reloads .adams/decisions.md (settled decisions) after a start, restart or compaction. The workflow guide records decisions there.

Budget guards in the selftest: reminder at most 900 characters, SKILL.md at most 160 lines, and no network imports in the hooks (telemetry-free). SECURITY.md states it.

New: Adams asks on its own. At the start of any non-trivial task, and again whenever the work drifts, it reads the project docs, then asks the open decisions in one round (max 4), each with a recommended best practice and the reason, records the answers, and checks the work against them at checkpoints. No "ask me" needed. Loop in modules/workflow/GUIDE.md section 1; wired into ALWAYS.md, the router and the prompt reminder.

main and the release tags are protected: no force pushes or deletions, and release tags can no longer be moved, so an update always gets the code that was released.

The reminder and ALWAYS.md name the plugin form of the skill (adams:adams), and use neutral wording for the owner.

adams doctor prints the installed version; the README explains how to verify a plugin install.

Plugin installs and clone installs no longer double up: with the plugin enabled, adams install skips the skill link and the hooks, and adams doctor counts the plugin as the source of both.

Release tags are annotated, so git push --follow-tags publishes them.

Coming from 0.1.0? That release had no updater, so run git -C <your clone> pull once (or claude plugin marketplace update adams for the plugin). From 2.0 on, updates are automatic.

Updates that reach you by themselves. adams update moves a clone to the newest release tag, and a new SessionStart hook checks once a day and updates a clean clone quietly (opt out with ADAMS_AUTO_UPDATE=0). Plugin users enable auto-update in /plugin or in settings (see the README).

Versioned releases. One VERSION file, this changelog, and a release workflow that publishes a GitHub Release when a vX.Y.Z tag is pushed. scripts/release.py cuts a release.

Checks on what you changed. adams check --changed and --since REF skip untouched files, for pull requests and CI.

One profile per project. adams init writes .adams/config.json so everyone shares the same rules.

Visible versions. A release badge on the repository page, adams version, and an Updates section in the README.

Fixed: HTML tag lines no longer count as repeated openers, and a file named README is no longer treated as a direct message.

First public release: the Adams skill with ten modules, profiles (default, strict-ar), the adams CLI, hooks, plugin manifests and CI.