Learning — Plugin Bundle Delivery Constraints

delivery

1 What happened

Built and shipped the first digital-talent plugin bundle (talent-factory-toolkit) as the foundry delivery channel. Three issues surfaced only by running the real feedback loop (claude plugin validate + headless claude -p probe), not by inspection:

2 What we learned

  • claude plugin validate is the cheap, authoritative feedback loop. A schema-invalid manifest fails silently at runtime — never ship a bundle without the validator passing. It is now a hard gate in scripts/package-talent.ps1.

3 Applies to

  • /deploy-package (Diego) — primary channel is the validated .zip + --plugin-dir