refactor: flatten skills/ and adopt Agent Plugins 1.0

The Agent Plugins standard reads only the immediate children of
skills/ and cannot be pointed elsewhere, so a bucketed tree is
invisible to every conformant client.

Rather than generate a flat copy of the repo into a package
directory — a builder, a validator, an allowlist, a drift CI job,
and every skill committed twice — remove the buckets.

- skills/ is flat and holds exactly the promoted 25
- in-progress/ -> drafts/, misc/ -> extras/, deprecated/ deleted
- new root plugin.json (Agent Plugins 1.0)
- .claude-plugin/plugin.json loses its 25-entry skills array
- docs/ keeps its category folders; it is now the only place a
  skill's category lives

Reasoning in .agents/adr/0003.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **The interface is the test surface.** Callers and tests cross the same seam. If you want to test *past* the interface, the module is the wrong shape.
- **One adapter means a hypothetical seam. Two adapters means a real one.** Don't cut a seam until something actually varies across it. A single-adapter seam is just indirection.
Two supporting files go further, and the skill reads them on demand rather than up front. [DEEPENING.md](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/codebase-design/DEEPENING.md) classifies a candidate's dependencies — in-process, local-substitutable, remote-but-owned, true-external — because the category decides how the deepened module gets tested across its seam. [DESIGN-IT-TWICE.md](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/engineering/codebase-design/DESIGN-IT-TWICE.md) spins up parallel [sub-agents](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/subagent) to produce three or more radically different interfaces for the same module, then compares them on depth, locality and seam placement.
Two supporting files go further, and the skill reads them on demand rather than up front. [DEEPENING.md](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/codebase-design/DEEPENING.md) classifies a candidate's dependencies — in-process, local-substitutable, remote-but-owned, true-external — because the category decides how the deepened module gets tested across its seam. [DESIGN-IT-TWICE.md](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/codebase-design/DESIGN-IT-TWICE.md) spins up parallel [sub-agents](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/subagent) to produce three or more radically different interfaces for the same module, then compares them on depth, locality and seam placement.
## Common questions
**How do I actually build a deep module in TypeScript?**
This is the most-asked question about the skill and the skill does not answer it. It defines what a deep module *is*; it says nothing about how to stop a stray import from reaching past the interface. [Issue #458](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/issues/458) put it plainly: "let's say we're happy with the interface, it hides the details, etc. But how do we enforce it? I think without linting or clear guardrails, humans and LLMs alike will start making it messy over time." Matt's answer, in that thread, was three options: wrap it in a class or IIFE and accept that the class gets enormous; make it a package in a monorepo and accept the monorepo tooling; or use a linter like [dependency-cruiser](https://github.com/sverweij/dependency-cruiser) to forbid imports that bypass the interface. He has separately called Effect the best mechanism and dependency-cruiser the second-best. There is a `setup-ts-deep-modules` skill in the repo's `in-progress/` bucket that lays down a `src/packages/<name>/index.ts` convention, but it is a beta-channel skill with no docs page, and it has no lint rule shipped with it.
This is the most-asked question about the skill and the skill does not answer it. It defines what a deep module *is*; it says nothing about how to stop a stray import from reaching past the interface. [Issue #458](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/issues/458) put it plainly: "let's say we're happy with the interface, it hides the details, etc. But how do we enforce it? I think without linting or clear guardrails, humans and LLMs alike will start making it messy over time." Matt's answer, in that thread, was three options: wrap it in a class or IIFE and accept that the class gets enormous; make it a package in a monorepo and accept the monorepo tooling; or use a linter like [dependency-cruiser](https://github.com/sverweij/dependency-cruiser) to forbid imports that bypass the interface. He has separately called Effect the best mechanism and dependency-cruiser the second-best. There is a `setup-ts-deep-modules` skill in the repo's `drafts/` folder that lays down a `src/packages/<name>/index.ts` convention, but it is a beta-channel skill with no docs page, and it has no lint rule shipped with it.
**I pointed a session at it and it burned 100k [tokens](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/token) redesigning things I never asked about.**