CLAUDE.md had grown to 545 lines / 50 KB — most of it plugin-author
content that other AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Aider) and humans
without AI never reach. Extract the plugin surface into 10 focused
docs and a JSON Schema for plugin.json, then slim CLAUDE.md to a
156-line navigable index.
New docs (~999 lines total, all self-contained):
docs/PLUGIN_AUTHORING.md — entry point and quickstart
docs/plugin-manifest.md — plugin.json field reference
docs/plugin-visualization-contracts.md — setRenderer / overlay / note-state
docs/plugin-audio-mixer.md — fader registration
docs/plugin-logging.md — context["log"] + env vars
docs/plugin-diagnostics.md — server_files / callable
docs/plugin-keyboard-shortcuts.md — registerShortcut + scopes
docs/plugin-sibling-imports.md — load_sibling pattern
docs/websocket-protocol.md — /ws/highway message reference
docs/testing-plugins.md — pytest fixtures + Playwright
schema/plugin.schema.json — Draft 2020-12 schema for
plugin.json; license enum
mirrors CONTRIBUTING's curated
allowlist. Backs CI validation
and the plugin-validate skill.
CLAUDE.md slim (581 lines changed, -485):
- Removed ~300 lines of plugin-author prose (now in docs/).
- Kept architecture quick reference, running the app, testing,
git workflow, versioning, song formats, frontend/backend
conventions, plugin authoring INDEX (table → docs/), first-hour
pitfalls, "For AI agents" footer.
- Anchor stubs preserved next to the new index entries so deep
links from specs/001-slopsmith-platform/analyze.md still resolve.
Verification:
python -c "import json,glob,jsonschema; s=json.load(open('schema/plugin.schema.json')); [jsonschema.validate(json.load(open(p)), s) for p in sorted(glob.glob('plugins/*/plugin.json'))]"
# ok — validates highway_3d, app_tour_library, app_tour_settings
Signed-off-by: Miguel_LZPF <mgcdreamer@gmail.com>
