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Fix stale facts in AGENTS.md found by Claude's prompt-audit tool - #783

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This is the result from Claude's prompt-audit tool (/claude-api prompt-audit, part of the claude-api skill in Claude Code) on this repo. It reads every file Claude treats as instructions and checks each line against how current models behave and against the code itself.

In this repo that's just AGENTS.md, which CLAUDE.md imports. The audit didn't flag anything about how it's written, but it found four statements that are no longer true of the code. Agents load AGENTS.md at the start of every session and take what it says as fact, so these are worth correcting.

Changes in this PR

  • JS bundles. AGENTS.md said the directory plugin builds a single bundle. Pattern directory: have the pattern preview report its own height #779 added a second one, src/preview-height.js, which runs inside the sandboxed preview frame and posts its height to the parent page.
  • PHP namespaces. It said all four projects share WordPressdotorg\Pattern_Directory\*. Only the directory plugin does. The creator, translations plugin, and theme each have their own namespace under WordPressdotorg\.
  • CI triggers. It said unit tests run when .wp-env.test.json changes. That file isn't in the workflow's trigger paths. CI also doesn't use wp-env. It runs PHPUnit against the WordPress nightly build, with the test library from a sparse wordpress-develop checkout, which is worth knowing when a test passes locally and fails in CI.
  • .editorconfig. It said each project has one. None exists anywhere in the repo, so I dropped the mention.

The first three sentences are rewritten to match the code. The .editorconfig mention is removed.

Affected flows

None. Only AGENTS.md changes.

Test instructions

  1. git diff --stat trunk lists only AGENTS.md.
  2. Spot-check each claim against the repo:
    • jq .scripts.build public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-directory/package.json shows two entries.
    • git grep -h '^namespace ' -- '*.php' | sort -u shows each project under its own WordPressdotorg\ namespace.
    • .github/workflows/unit-tests.yml trigger paths don't include .wp-env.test.json.
    • git ls-files | grep editorconfig returns nothing.

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  • Documentation
    • Clarified which workflow changes trigger PHP and JavaScript unit tests, and how PHPUnit tests run against WordPress nightly.
    • Updated workspace guidance to distinguish the two preview-related JavaScript bundles and identify each project’s namespace.
    • Clarified that shared root lint configurations define the JavaScript and CSS style rules.

The directory plugin builds two JS bundles, each project has its own
namespace under WordPressdotorg\, the unit-test workflow doesn't trigger
on .wp-env.test.json and runs PHPUnit outside wp-env, and the repo has
no .editorconfig.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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AGENTS.md now describes CI test triggers and PHPUnit execution, pattern-directory bundles, component-specific namespaces, and shared root lint configurations.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
CI test guidance
AGENTS.md
The CI description lists paths that trigger PHP and JS tests. It states that PHPUnit runs against WordPress nightly, using the test library from a sparse wordpress-develop checkout.
Workspace and component guidance
AGENTS.md
The workspace description identifies two pattern-directory bundles and describes the preview-height bundle's role. The architecture section assigns separate namespaces to the directory, creator, translations, and theme projects. The conventions section refers to shared root JS/CSS lint configurations.

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The guidance could cause future translations-plugin strings to miss their translations. This is a localized documentation issue; merge is possible with the correction tracked.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @AGENTS.md:
- Line 28: Update the CI description in AGENTS.md to clarify that changes to
.wp-env.test.json alone do not trigger PHP or JavaScript unit tests because it
is omitted from the workflow path filters; preserve the existing description of
which changes do trigger those tests.
- Line 28: Update the CI description in AGENTS.md to state that PHPUnit tests
run against WordPress core from the nightly build at /tmp/wordpress, while the
sparse wordpress-develop checkout supplies PHPUnit test-library files; preserve
that CI does not use wp-env.

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🟡 Changes recommended

The CI description incorrectly identifies the wordpress-develop checkout as the tested WordPress core build.

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What changed in this PR

Updates AGENTS.md to reflect the repository’s current architecture and CI configuration.

Changes:

  • Documents both directory-plugin JavaScript bundles.
  • Corrects project namespaces and removes .editorconfig references.
  • Updates CI trigger and execution details.
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AGENTS.md Refreshes repository guidance and architecture facts.

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The sparse wordpress-develop checkout only supplies the PHPUnit test
library; WP_CORE_DIR points at the nightly build.

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🟡 Minor · Scope the text-domain guidance by project. · AGENTS.md:50

AGENTS.md:50
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Scope the text-domain guidance by project.

AGENTS.md:50 incorrectly applies wporg-patterns to the translations plugin. The translations plugin declares wporg-plugins as its text domain, while the directory, creator, and theme use wporg-patterns. This guidance can cause new gettext calls in the translations plugin to use the wrong domain and bypass its extracted translations.

Suggested fix
-... and translatable strings use the `wporg-patterns` text domain.
+... and the directory plugin, creator plugin, and theme use the `wporg-patterns` text domain. The translations plugin uses `wporg-plugins`.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @AGENTS.md at line 50:
Update the text-domain guidance in the project overview: specify that the
directory plugin, creator plugin, and theme use `wporg-patterns`, while the
translations plugin uses `wporg-plugins`.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @AGENTS.md:
- Line 50: Update the text-domain guidance in the project overview: specify that
the directory plugin, creator plugin, and theme use `wporg-patterns`, while the
translations plugin uses `wporg-plugins`.

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