generate-repograph

generate-repograph

You are running the repograph vault generator in the user's current repository. Your job is to produce (or enhance) a .repograph/ vault through an interview with a contributor, grounded by existing repo docs, git history, and by reading source files to verify claims.

Preflight

• Confirm the current working directory is a git repository: git rev-parse --show-toplevel. If not, stop and tell the user.
• Read the full interview script at interview-script.md (sibling file in this skill). Follow its phases.
• Read the templates in templates/ (hub.md.template, domain.md.template, concept.md.template, invariant.md.template, task.md.template). Use them as the emission format.
• Read the vault spec at ../../docs/vault-spec.md (relative to this skill) so you know the exact frontmatter and file layout you must produce.

Detect mode

Check .repograph/hub.md:

• Exists → enhance mode. Follow interview-script.md Phase 0 enhance branch; then 0.5 → 6 → 8 → 9 → 10. Do NOT do the linear first-run walk.
• Absent → first-run mode. Follow interview-script.md Phase 0.5 → 1 → 2 → 3 → 4 → 5 → 7 → 8 → 9 → 10 in order.

Execute the interview

Follow the phases in interview-script.md. At each phase:

• Ask questions one at a time. Do not batch.
• Adapt phrasing to the interviewee's vocabulary. If they say "store," use "store"; if they say "reducer," use "reducer."
• When a phase calls for reading source files, read them. Do not guess content — cite by path + symbol or path + line range.
• When the interviewee describes something you cannot find in code, ask for clarification or mark [unverified].
• When the interviewee says "I don't know," write TODO: verify with <role> rather than invent.
• Skip phases the interviewee explicitly declines. Record skipped phases in a note at the end.

Emit files with the right frontmatter

For every concept, invariant, domain MOC, and task stub you emit:

1. Compute the content hash for each source_files entry. The hash is SHA256 of the cited region (symbol body or line range), with trailing whitespace stripped per line and runs of blank lines collapsed to one.

   Use a bash command. Example for a line range:

   sed -n '42,68p' src/stores/data-store.ts \
     | sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' \
     | cat -s \
     | sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1
   

   For a symbol (e.g., an exported class DataStore), use grep -n to find the start line, then find the closing brace (for TypeScript/JS: scan forward for balanced braces; if the symbol is not a brace-delimited block, use the symbol's start line to the next top-level export). This is best-effort — if resolving the exact end is hard, fall back to a line range and record that instead.

2. Set last_checked: <today> (YYYY-MM-DD).

3. Append the contributor to contributors: with name, date, role.

4. Use wiki-link syntax — [[concepts/foo]], [[invariants/bar]], etc. — in body content.

Non-hallucination discipline

Before you commit anything:

• Every code example in the vault must be a direct quote from a real source file you read. If you cannot cite it, do not emit it.
• Every file path, symbol name, PR number, and commit SHA in the vault must come from reading the actual repo or running a real command. No fabrication.
• Every [unverified] / [needs-review] / TODO: verify marker must correspond to a real gap in what you know — do not sprinkle them cosmetically.

If you find yourself tempted to generate content you cannot verify, stop and ask the interviewee instead.

Pointer-file patching (Phase 9)

Detect these files at repo root, in order:

1. AGENTS.md
2. CLAUDE.md
3. GEMINI.md
4. .cursorrules
5. .github/copilot-instructions.md

For each that exists, patch it:

• Check if the existing file contains the string "repograph" — if yes, skip (idempotent).
• If no, append the pointer stanza from the interview script Phase 9. The stanza contains conditional sections for authors and reviewers — both roles hit the same file.

Exception: .github/copilot-instructions.md gets a one-line pointer to AGENTS.md instead of the full stanza:

Refer to [AGENTS.md](../AGENTS.md) for all repo instructions.

This keeps all instructions canonical in AGENTS.md with no duplication drift. If AGENTS.md does not exist, create it (see below) before patching .github/copilot-instructions.md.

If NONE of the pointer files exist, create AGENTS.md with the full stanza as its whole content.

Record patched files in .repograph/config.yml:

vault_version: 1
plugin_version: 0.1.0
vault_path: .repograph
pointer_files:
  - AGENTS.md       # only list files you actually patched
git_history_mined: true | false

Commit discipline

Stage everything with git add, not git add -A (avoid accidentally adding unrelated changes).

Stage:

• .repograph/ (all files)
• Any pointer files you patched or created (AGENTS.md, etc.)

Show the user a summary before committing. Ask for commit-message override; default to:

feat: add repograph knowledge vault (v0, contributor: <name>)

Do not commit until the user confirms.

If the interview is interrupted

If the user says "pause" or the conversation stops:

• Do NOT leave partial files uncommitted in the vault; either finish the current phase or revert in-progress writes.
• Tell the user they can re-run /generate-repograph later; it will detect the vault and offer enhance mode.

Do not try to persist interview state to disk — resume mode is explicitly out of V0.1 scope.