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Plugin type (required) / 插件类型（必填）

• UI Plugin / 是 UI 插件 — provides MCP Apps interactive pages / 提供 MCP Apps 交互页面
• Standard plugin / 普通插件（非 UI） — does not provide MCP Apps interactive pages / 不提供 MCP Apps 交互页面
• Not applicable / 不适用 — repository-only changes; no plugin content changed / 仅仓库级改动，不涉及插件内容

Affected plugin name(s) / 涉及的插件名称：make-it-a-bit-better

What / 改动内容

EN — Adds make-it-a-bit-better, a skill-only product-polish loop. Every round opens a mandatory fresh brainstorm (three perspective lenses), picks one small angle, implements it, verifies it, commits it alone, and records the round in a per-project ledger. Oversized ideas go to an icebox instead of derailing the round.

• A round is capped at three files or roughly a hundred lines, whichever comes first, so the loop stays cheap to review.
• The ledger records angle, dimensions touched and the next-round hint; a failed round leaves a commit plus a revert, and a stalled loop writes stalled and stops rather than grinding.
• The loop commits locally and never pushes; the repository gate now requires the target to be the repository root, so a nested directory can no longer commit rounds into an unrelated parent repository.

中文 — 新增 make-it-a-bit-better：纯 skill 的产品打磨循环。每轮强制开新头脑风暴（三个视角），择一个小角度实现、验证、单独提交并落账；超格想法进 icebox。轮次有体量上限、只本地提交不 push，并要求目标必须是仓库根。

Visible behavior and testing / 可见行为与测试

• The skill has no unit tests by design; it was exercised with one full polish round on a real repository (brainstorm → pick → implement → verify → commit → ledger entry), and the ledger/hint read-back was checked afterwards.
• Gate behaviour checked both ways: a target that is the repository root passes; a directory nested inside another repository now fails and reports both paths (this is the 0.2.2 fix).
• The three subagent lenses were run as real subagents in the round, not simulated.

Not covered by this round / 本轮未覆盖：

• Multi-round rotation (stalled / reverted rounds) was only partially exercised; a long unattended run is untested.

Version and marketplace registration / 版本与市场注册

• New plugin directory external_plugins/make-it-a-bit-better/ (10 files, 46 KiB), manifest and marketplace.json entry both at 0.2.2.
• Category productivity; icon added at the repo-root path the entry uses (assets/make-it-a-bit-better/icon.png, 512×512).
• description_i18n carries en and zh-CN, identical in both files; README.md / README_CN.md both present.

Dependencies, network, permissions, side effects / 依赖、网络、权限与副作用

• No runtime dependencies: the plugin is a skill plus its references.
• Operates on whichever repository the user points it at: it reads that project's context, writes its ledger under that project, and creates local git commits.
• No network access; it never pushes, never opens PRs and never rewrites history.

Licensing / provenance / 许可与来源

• MIT (LICENSE ships in the plugin directory); code written for this submission.
• No third-party code or assets.

Self-check / 自查清单

• Plugin name is unique kebab-case; new external plugin directory is external_plugins/make-it-a-bit-better/; existing fixes retain ownership / 插件名唯一且 kebab-case，外部新增插件位于 external_plugins/make-it-a-bit-better/，已有插件修复保留原归属
• Usage category is set independently of publisher ownership / 用途分类 category 已填写，与维护归属分开：productivity
• Plugin type and affected names are declared above / 已在上方声明插件类型与涉及的插件名称
• version bumped in BOTH plugin.json and marketplace.json (artifacts are immutable) / plugin.json 与 marketplace.json 两处版本号已同步升级：0.2.2
• README.md (EN) and README_CN.md (中文) both updated and equivalent / 中英文 README 均已更新且语义一致
• description_i18n has both en and zh-CN / description_i18n 包含 en 与 zh-CN
• No secrets, machine-specific paths, or private dependencies / 不含密钥、机器专属路径或私有依赖
• Model/API/network dependencies documented / 模型、API、网络依赖已写明（见上方依赖小节与两个 README）
• python3 scripts/validate.py passes on this branch, and the plugin artifact was built through the same build_zip() code path CI uses (size and sha256 in the comment below). The full python3 scripts/build_dist.py needs the repo's UI-plugin pnpm build and fails identically on upstream main (excalidraw: incomplete build), so CI runs it here — see the note above. / 本地 validate.py 通过，本插件产物用 CI 同一条 build_zip() 路径打出（体积与 sha256 见下方评论）；完整 build_dist.py 依赖仓库自带 UI 插件的 pnpm build，在 main 上同样失败，交由 CI 执行

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0.2.2 — verification (2026-11-04)

Environment: ZCode CLI 0.17.1, macOS 27.0.1 arm64, Python 3.14.4, Node 24.15.0.

Installed from a local marketplace → make-it-a-bit-better@0.2.2; the skill resolves from the plugin cache (make-it-a-bit-better/0.2.2/skills/make-it-a-bit-better/SKILL.md), not from a repo checkout.

This plugin is a prompt protocol, so the only meaningful test is a real round. Run against a throwaway 4-line Python tool:

Step	Observed
Round 1, no focus	three lens subagents spawned in parallel; each returned candidates
Selection	one angle: a multi-word message was silently truncated to its first word
Implementation	msg = sys.argv[2] → msg = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
Verification	py_compile clean; python3 log.py WARN hello world foo bar → full message; bare python3 log.py still defaults to INFO
Record	commit af3e69c, ledger written at <target>/.agents/mabb/ledger.md with dimension / angle / who feels it / change / commit / evidence, plus Dimensions touched and a Next round hint

Payload gates: plugin_acceptance.py PASS make-it-a-bit-better@0.2.2, marketplace_check.py OK. The repo has no automated test suite by design — there is no code to unit-test; the round above is the acceptance path.

Not covered: multi-round behaviour (ledger-driven rotation across several rounds) and the icebox path — both are prompt-level and were only exercised once here.

[panda920]

✅ Internal validation passed. A ZCode maintainer will review the change next; after acceptance, release checks run separately and this PR is closed automatically.

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Third round — review & simplification (2026-11-05)

No new features. Two repo-hygiene items:

Release history was stored twice and had drifted. The README carried its own "What's new" list (0.2.1 / 0.2.0 / 0.1.0) while CHANGELOG.md had only 0.2.2 — so the two disagreed about which releases existed. The changelog is now the single history (all four entries), and both READMEs keep one line of news plus a link.

package.json declares engines.dsh and the skill-filesystem peer, so an incompatible harness blocks install and activation instead of failing at runtime. The other six plugins already declared this; this one did not.

The skill itself was left alone: at 117 lines it is under the 150-line soft cap it sets for itself, and the protocol clauses have all been paid for by earlier rounds.

Verification: tools/plugin_acceptance.py make-it-a-bit-better passes (schema, icon, skill frontmatter, no machine-local paths, ZCode manifest validation); tools/simplify_gate.py is clean.

Payload: re-synced, 10 files, verified blob-by-blob against Lumos-789/make-it-a-bit-better@154d72d.

[panda920]

✅ Internal validation passed. A ZCode maintainer will review the change next; after acceptance, release checks run separately and this PR is closed automatically.

[Lumos-789]

Re-pushed this branch as ef7f809a and fixed two classes of defect that were ours, not the repository's. Nothing about the plugin's behaviour changed.

1. The PR now follows .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md. The body had drifted into hand-written prose and lost the two parts a reviewer checks first: the Plugin type declaration and the Self-check list. Both are back, the five sections CONTRIBUTING asks for are filled in (problem / visible behaviour and testing / version and marketplace registration / dependencies and side effects / licensing), and the title carries the (<plugin-name>) scope the template requires for the squash commit on main.

2. The entry named the repo-root assets/make-it-a-bit-better/icon.png, but that file was never uploaded with the branch — the catalogue would have shown a broken icon. It is committed now (512×512) and the entry uses the same absolute CDN form as every other icon-bearing entry in marketplace.json.

Re-verified against the branch itself (not a local checkout):

check	result
python3 scripts/validate.py @ ef7f809a	OK: 53 plugin(s) validated
plugin artifact via build_zip() — the same code path CI runs	30416 B, sha256 8a0f711f8b11d87dace0bceadaf41cec19d1e914ffde1de5c5dbd3b77bc6bab1
assets/make-it-a-bit-better/icon.png	present, 512×512
README.md + README_CN.md in the payload	both present

Request: the earlier validate status was bound to 1a789d39, so it is stale after this push. Could you re-run the external validation on ef7f809a? The full build_dist.py still needs the repository's UI-plugin pnpm build and fails identically on main (excalidraw: incomplete build; run pnpm build first), which is why I am relying on CI for that step.

中文摘要：本轮只补元数据与载荷完整性 —— 恢复了模板要求的插件类型声明与自查清单、标题加上 (插件名) scope（模板说明该标题会成为 main 上的 squash commit）、把条目引用的根级图标真正提交并以 CDN 绝对地址引用。分支上 validate.py 通过，插件产物按 CI 同一代码路径打包成功（体积与 sha256 见上表）。旧的 validate 状态绑定在 1a789d39 上已失效，请在 ef7f809a 上重跑一次校验。

[Lumos-789]

Update: payload bumped to 0.2.4 (head 1fe56d3). Payload refreshed to the current main repo (byte-identical, verified MATCH). This round is a behavior-preserving cleanup: redundant comments and dead code removed, docs re-aligned with the code. Full test suite, packaging gates (plugin acceptance / simplify / public release) and the install lifecycle matrix all pass locally.