manage

Note: disable-model-invocation: true — /manage user-invoked only, no Skill() chaining from orchestrators. When suggesting /manage as follow-up, invoking skill must present as user-run command, not auto step.

Manage lifecycle of agents, skills, rules, hooks in .claude/. Handles creation with rich domain content, atomic renames with cross-ref propagation, content editing (trivial edits inline; .md files → foundry:curator; code files *.js/*.py/*.ts → foundry:sw-engineer; rule edits inline), clean deletion with broken-ref cleanup. Keeps MEMORY.md inventory in sync with disk.

• $ARGUMENTS: required, one of:

  • create agent <name> "description" — create new agent with generated domain content
  • create skill <name> "description" — create new skill with workflow scaffold
  • create rule <name> "description" — create new rule file with frontmatter and sections
  • update <name> <new-name> — rename; type auto-detected from disk
  • update <name> "change description" — content-edit; trivial → inline, .md → foundry:curator, code → foundry:sw-engineer, rule → inline
  • update <name> <spec-file.md> — content-edit from spec file; trivial → inline, .md → foundry:curator, code → foundry:sw-engineer, rule → inline
  • delete <name> — delete; type auto-detected from disk (agents, skills, rules, hooks); asks user if ambiguous
  • add perm <rule> "description" "use case" — add permission to settings.json allow list and permissions-guide.md
  • remove perm <rule> — remove permission from settings.json allow list and permissions-guide.md

• Names must be kebab-case (lowercase, hyphens only)

• Descriptions must be quoted when containing spaces

• Permission rules use Claude Code format: WebSearch, Bash(cmd:*), WebFetch(domain:example.com)

• --skip-audit — optional flag: skip Step 9 /audit validation (use inside audit fix loop to avoid recursion)

Update/delete mode — name looked up across agents, skills, rules automatically:

• One match on disk → proceed with that type
• Multiple matches → AskUserQuestion: (a) agent, (b) skill, (c) rule
• No match → report error and stop

Update second-argument discrimination:

• Two bare kebab-case args (second arg no spaces, no .md extension) → rename mode
• One name + quoted string → content-edit mode (trivial → inline; .md: foundry:curator; code *.js/*.py/*.ts: foundry:sw-engineer; rule: inline)
• One name + path ending in .md → content-edit mode (trivial → inline; .md: foundry:curator; code *.js/*.py/*.ts: foundry:sw-engineer; rule: inline)

Examples:

• /foundry:manage create agent task-planner "Planning specialist for decomposing epics into actionable tasks"
• /foundry:manage update my-agent "add a section on error handling patterns"
• /foundry:manage update optimize docs/specs/YYYY-MM-DD-<spec-name>.md
• /foundry:manage delete old-agent-name
• /foundry:manage add perm "Bash(jq:*)" "Parse and filter JSON" "Extract fields from REST API responses"

• AGENTS_DIR: .claude/agents
• SKILLS_DIR: .claude/skills
• RULES_DIR: .claude/rules
• HOOKS_DIR: .claude/hooks
• USED_COLORS: blue, cyan, green, orange, pink, purple, yellow
• AVAILABLE_COLORS: indigo, lime, magenta, teal, violet

• MONITOR_INTERVAL: 300 (5 minutes between polls)
• HARD_CUTOFF: 900 (15 minutes of no file activity → declare timed out)
• EXTENSION: 300 (one +5 min extension if output file tail explains delay)

Bash equivalent (paste at the start of any health-monitoring block):

MONITOR_INTERVAL=300
HARD_CUTOFF=900
EXTENSION=300

Maintain colors manually — add new agent colors here when creating agents; static list advisory only — live Grep in Step 3 authoritative for colors in use.

Task hygiene: call TaskList first; close orphaned tasks. Task tracking: create tasks for each major phase; mark in_progress/completed throughout.

Step 1: Parse and validate

Extract operation, type, name, optional arguments from $ARGUMENTS.

# Parse --skip-audit flag before other argument processing
SKIP_AUDIT=false
[[ "$ARGUMENTS" == *"--skip-audit"* ]] && SKIP_AUDIT=true
ARGUMENTS=$(echo "$ARGUMENTS" | sed 's/\(^\|[[:space:]]\)--skip-audit\([[:space:]]\|$\)/ /g' | sed 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//')
echo "$SKIP_AUDIT" > "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/manage-skip-audit"  # persist (Check 41)

Unsupported flag check — after all supported flags extracted (--skip-audit), scan $ARGUMENTS for remaining --<token> tokens. If found: print ! Unknown flag(s): \--<token>`. Supported: `--skip-audit`.then invokeAskUserQuestion` — (a) Abort (stop, re-invoke with correct flags) · (b) Continue ignoring (skip unknown flags, proceed). On Abort: stop.

Validation rules:

• Name must match ^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$ (kebab-case)
• For create: name must NOT already exist on disk; description required
• For update/delete: name MUST already exist on disk
• For update rename: new-name must NOT already exist on disk
• For add perm: rule must NOT already exist in settings.json allow list; description and use case required
• For remove perm: rule MUST already exist in settings.json allow list

Type auto-detection (for update and delete): run all four Glob checks in parallel:

• Agent: pattern agents/<name>.md, path .claude/
• Skill: pattern skills/<name>/SKILL.md, path .claude/
• Rule: pattern rules/<name>.md, path .claude/
• Hook: pattern hooks/<name>.js, path .claude/

Results:

• One non-empty result → resolved type; proceed
• Multiple non-empty results → AskUserQuestion: "Multiple entities named <name> found. Which one? (a) agent (b) skill (c) rule (d) hook" — note: (d) hook valid for update and delete only; create hook not yet implemented (use Edit tool on hooks/<name>.js directly until create-hook mode added)
• All empty → report "No agent, skill, rule, or hook named <name> found" and stop

For create, check only relevant type's path.

Delete confirmation gate — when $MODE is delete, immediately after type resolution invoke AskUserQuestion: "Delete <name> (<type>)? This cannot be undone. (a) Confirm · (b) Abort". On Abort: stop. On Confirm: proceed to Step 4.

# Check permission existence (for add perm / remove perm)
jq -e --arg rule '<rule>' '.permissions.allow | index($rule) != null' .claude/settings.json >/dev/null 2>&1  # timeout: 5000

Update second-argument discrimination — apply after type resolved. Set the shell variable MODE from the parsed operation; it is consumed by the delete confirmation gate above, the edit-complexity classifier below, and the per-mode workflow branches in Step 4. Recognised values: create, rename, content-edit, delete, add-perm, remove-perm.

Assign MODE in shell before the edit-complexity classification below so the [[ "$MODE" == "content-edit" ]] guard fires correctly:

# Set MODE from the operation parsed above. Example for an update invocation:
# MODE="content-edit"   # or "rename" / "create" / "delete" / "add-perm" / "remove-perm"