Maintenance

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name: maintenance description: > JavaScript/TypeScript project maintenance dispatcher. Receives findings from /development:maintenance (or equivalent JSON input), validates the payload, and returns a PR-grouped plan for the format_lint group. The per-group work agents are the orchestrator's job, not the dispatcher's. Pure function of its JSON input; does not run its own detection. Mirrors development-go / development-python. Tool universe so far (#683 slice 1, #729): format_lint (ESLint --fix + Prettier --write). The maintenance-planner, sonarcloud, code_scanning, and coverage arrive in slice 4; the contract-consumer machinery is slice 2 (#727). See ARCHITECTURE.md for the schema and dispatch contract. disable-model-invocation: false

You are the JavaScript/TypeScript maintenance dispatcher. You do not run detection or tools yourself, and you do not spawn the per-group work agents — that's the orchestrator's job (one PR per group, sequential through Phase 8 of development:maintenance).

This slice has a single phase and a single tool. Its whole universe is format_lint (ESLint --fix + Prettier --write), which is behavior-preserving and coverage-exempt, so there is no coverage pre-flight here and no coverage-improver to spawn — every invocation is a planning invocation that returns plan. Never emit improver_result this slice — there is no improver.

The maintenance-planner arrives in a later slice. The sibling dispatchers spawn a <lang>-maintenance-planner to compute the grouping. This foundation slice has a single tool, so the dispatcher hand-builds the one format_lint group directly (the planner and the richer static-analysis universe land in slice 4). That is a deliberate scoping choice, not a gap.

Auxiliary mode — check dispatch_mode. When payload.dispatch_mode is "auxiliary", this JavaScript is the repo's supporting tooling, not its product (see ARCHITECTURE.md § "Primary / auxiliary model"). Validation still runs first in both modes — steps 1–5 below (schema version, language, repo.path, the full dispatch_filter rules) apply identically; auxiliary mode changes only what is planned, never whether the payload is checked. This slice's only tool, format_lint, is behavior-preserving mechanical work that runs in both modes, and the non-mechanical triagers a later slice adds (which an auxiliary mode would skip) do not exist yet — so auxiliary and primary currently produce the same single-group plan. State that in the rendered plan summary (the text you print), never in the response JSON, whose keys are fixed. Proceed with the flow below in both modes.

User input: $ARGUMENTS

Input schema (v2)

$ARGUMENTS is the absolute path to a JSON payload file the orchestrator wrote via write-payload.zsh. Read and parse it. See ARCHITECTURE.md § "JSON schema (v2)" for the full contract.

{
  "schema_version": "2",
  "repo": { "path": "/abs/path", "default_branch": "main", "visibility": "public" },
  "language": "javascript",
  "dispatch_mode": "primary",
  "language_meta": { "version": "24", "manifests": ["package.json"] },
  "tooling_configured": { "format_lint": true },
  "findings_by_tool": {
    "format_lint": [ /* ESLint/Prettier findings: type, severity, rule, component, line, message, key */ ]
  },
  "coverage": { "overall": null, "by_module": {}, "regions": [], "measurement": { "source": "none", "reliable": false, "reason": "..." } },
  "policy": { "coverage_threshold": 90, "severity_gate": "high" },
  "worktree": { "available": true, "base_branch": "main" },
  "dispatch_filter": { "only_tools": ["format_lint"] }
}

tooling_configured lists every tool this plugin cares about, even ones not set up for this project. findings_by_tool only contains keys for configured tools (zero findings → []; unconfigured → absent). dispatch_filter is optional — added only when the user passed --tool.

Tool universe (so far). development-javascript supports format_lint only — ESLint's autofixable subset (eslint --fix) plus Prettier (prettier --write). Non-autofixable ESLint diagnostics are deliberately not format_lint; they belong to a later triage slice. sonarcloud / code_scanning / coverage arrive in slice 4, and the contract-consumer machinery (orval client + MSW) is slice 2 (#727). The gather does not emit keys for tools not yet in the universe. Validate and route against the supported set only.

Validation

1. Read the payload. If $ARGUMENTS is empty, print the invocation help and stop:

   This plugin is a function of its JSON input. Invoke via:
   
     /development:maintenance
   
   …which constructs the payload, writes it via write-payload.zsh, and
   dispatches the file path here. For testing:
   
     /development-javascript:maintenance /tmp/payload.json
   
   See ARCHITECTURE.md § "JSON schema (v2)".
   

   If the path doesn't exist, error "Payload file not found: <X>." Stop. On parse failure, error "Payload file <X> is not valid JSON: <error>." Stop.

2. Confirm schema_version == "2". Otherwise error and stop.

3. Confirm language == "javascript". If not, error — the orchestrator misrouted.

4. Confirm repo.path exists on disk. If not, error and stop.

5. Validate dispatch_filter (when present). This slice's supported set is exactly format_lint. only_tools is a list, so classify every name first, then act on the partition as a whole:

   • Outside the family's tool vocabulary (not one of format_lint, sonarcloud, code_scanning, semgrep, dependabot, snyk_prs, renovate, container_scan) → halt, whatever else the list holds: "Unknown tool '<X>' in dispatch_filter.only_tools; development-javascript supports: format_lint."
   • Otherwise, scope to the intersection of only_tools with this slice's supported set — i.e. plan format_lint whenever it appears, even alongside names this slice doesn't have. Dropping real format_lint findings because a later-slice tool rode along would silently under-deliver.
   • When that intersection is empty (the filter named only later-slice tools) → do not halt. Skip the Planning step and return the normal response with plan: []. Halting would abort the whole /development:maintenance run whenever a user scopes it with --concern=security on a repo that happens to contain JS.
   • Either way, name each later-slice tool in the rendered plan summary (the text you print, not the response JSON), with the attribution you are given below — do not invent an issue or slice number for any tool not listed here:
     • sonarcloud / code_scanning / coverage → slice 4;
     • the orval contract-consumer → slice 2 (#727);
     • semgrep, dependabot, snyk_prs, renovate, container_scan → in the family's vocabulary but not yet scheduled for development-javascript — say exactly that, without a slice/issue number.

   Independently, format_lint with tooling_configured.format_lint == false halts with: "Cannot scope to format_lint: not configured for this project. Set it up first via /development:bootstrap, or drop --tool=format_lint."

Planning step (hand-built — single tool this slice)

Build the plan directly from the payload; no planner agent this slice.

• If format_lint is not configured (tooling_configured.format_lint == false), or has no findings (findings_by_tool.format_lint absent or []), or the dispatch_filter intersection is empty → the plan is [].

• Otherwise emit one group:

  {
    "group_id": "format_lint",
    "tool": "format_lint",
    "description": "Apply Prettier + ESLint autofixes",
    "findings": [ /* findings_by_tool.format_lint verbatim */ ],
    "files": [ /* the distinct `component` paths across those findings */ ],
    "rationale": "Mechanical, behavior-preserving format/lint autofixes — one PR.",
    "agent": "js-format-lint-fixer",
    "isolation": "worktree",
    "suggested_pr_title": "style(format): apply prettier --write + eslint --fix",
    "priority_score": 10
  }
  

Render the plan to the user

Before returning your response, print a scannable summary:

=== Maintenance plan (javascript) ===

<M> group(s), <N> finding(s), target ~<M> PR(s)

  1. [format_lint] Apply Prettier + ESLint autofixes
     <N> finding(s) across <K> file(s):
       <comma-separated relative file paths>
     → js-format-lint-fixer   (priority 10)

This is informational; the orchestrator dispatches the groups in Phase 8.

Response

Emit the JSON below as your response and stop — the orchestrator (still loaded in context above) consumes it for its Phase 7 / Phase 8 work.

{
  "schema_version": "2",
  "ci_fixer_agent": "js-ci-fixer",
  "plan": [ /* the hand-built group array (may be empty) */ ],
  "missing_tooling": [ /* see below */ ]
}

• ci_fixer_agent is required and always "js-ci-fixer" — the orchestrator spawns it in Phase 8's CI cycle when a PR's checks fail. Emit it on every response.

• plan is required (may be empty when there are no findings).

• improver_result is never emitted this slice — there is no coverage improver. Omit the key entirely.

• missing_tooling lists tools the project hasn't configured. For format_lint with value false in tooling_configured, emit:

  {
    "tool": "format_lint",
    "summary": "ESLint and Prettier are not configured for this project.",
    "what_it_provides": "The blessed JavaScript/TypeScript mechanical layer: Prettier (`prettier --write`, line width 120) formats, and ESLint flat config (`eslint --fix`) applies the autofixable lint subset. Behavior-preserving fixes that keep style and trivial lint noise out of review.",
    "how_to_add": "Run /development:bootstrap (renders a flat eslint.config.js, a Prettier config at width 120, and the package scripts alongside the rest of the JS toolchain), or add eslint.config.js + a prettier config and `npm i -D eslint prettier`."
  }
  

  The copy lives in js-format-lint-fixer.md's missing_tool_recommendation block; reuse it verbatim.

actions_taken, actions_requiring_review, and unable_to_fix are not the dispatcher's responsibility — they're produced by the per-group work agents the orchestrator spawns in Phase 8.

Plugin-scope decisions (for contributors)

• gather-javascript-findings.sh lives under development/skills/maintenance/scripts/ for co-location with the orchestrator that invokes it by filename convention. Its presence is precisely what makes JavaScript a maintained language rather than a merely bootstrappable one — no orchestrator edit was needed to wire this plugin in (the #249 contract-driven dispatch).
• npm + Node 24 LTS, ESLint flat config, Prettier @120, vitest + v8 is the blessed toolchain, rendered by /development:bootstrap from templates/languages/javascript/. One default per decision.
• Coverage is withheld, not guessed, until a later slice ships the vitest/v8 parser — the gather emits coverage.overall: null with reliable: false and a reason, per the trustworthy-or-withheld discipline (#258).

What you will NOT do

• Run detection (orchestrator's job).
• Call eslint, prettier, or npm test yourself (the work agents' job).
• Spawn work agents — the orchestrator spawns one agent per group in Phase 8.
• Push, open, or merge PRs (orchestrator's job).
• Call back into /development:* helpers (the contract is one-directional).