Toolkit Root Lookup

Authority Claimed

• jbaruch/coding-policy: skill-authoring Script References — a resolved plugin root, for skills that run both from a clone and from an installed mount, under this plugin's own named lookup rule.
• jbaruch/coding-policy: script-delegation Scoped Plugin Contracts — this rule is the named rule its precondition 1 requires.

Lookup

• Input: the absolute path of the loaded SKILL.md.
• Output: speaker_toolkit_root, the plugin root two directories above that file's directory, used as an absolute path.
• The same lookup serves a clone and an installed mount: it reads only the skill's own location.
• Never derive it from the consumer working directory, PATH, an environment variable, or a git remote.
• Every shipped SKILL.md carries this lookup.

Authored Scope and Co-Shipped Targets

• Scope: the skills listed in .tessl-plugin/plugin.json skills, and their references/.
• Targets: files or directories co-shipped in this plugin under skills/ or rules/, named literally in a command after the resolved root.
• A directory target is a co-shipped data directory a command passes as an argument (a pattern catalog, a bundled CLI's source tree).
• Every target, file or directory, resolves inside the plugin root.
• A target outside this plugin's package source does NOT qualify.
• Each target script's module docstring (or header comment) is authoritative for its input/output contract.
• A command's step prose summarizes the inputs, outputs, exit codes and side effects the caller acts on, and leaves internal logic to the script.
• Consumer-owned paths (talk directories, vault paths, shownotes sites) are never rooted here.

No Authority Granted

• The lookup selects a path and nothing else.
• It grants no runtime authority and waives no check after lookup.
• Each target's own contract, the configured-interpreter rule ({python_path}), and every gate the target names still apply.

Regression Coverage

• tests/test_installed_plugin_paths.py verifies the lookup and its output:
  • every shipped SKILL.md declares the lookup;
  • the declared lookup resolves the plugin root, from a clone and from an installed mount copy;
  • every rooted command path names a file or directory that exists and resolves inside that root;
  • no operational toolkit path is left unrooted.