create-standard

name	create-standard
description	Create a new technical standard at a plugin's canonical constitution/standards root using meta.md, scan.md, write.md, and per-rule guides. Use when establishing new coding standards, documenting technical requirements, or creating compliance guidelines for reusable policy with explicit dependencies, detection, compliant patterns, and stable rule IDs. Route existing-standard revisions to update-standard.
model	opus
allowed-tools	Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, Task
argument-hint	<plugin>/<standard-name> [--detail=...]

Create Standard

Create exactly one new directory at plugins/<plugin>/constitution/standards/<standard-name>/ holding the three-tier standard (meta.md, scan.md, write.md, rules/). update-standard owns revisions to existing standards.

Boundaries

• Use for: establishing a missing reusable policy as a new three-tier standard with a unique rule-ID prefix.
• Do not use for: revising an existing standard (update-standard), creating skills (write-skill), writing to a repository-level shorthand root, overwriting an existing directory, or policy that belongs to an existing owner.

Inputs

• Required: the target plugin and a lowercase kebab-case standard name, plus enough policy intent to define scope and rules.
• Optional: --detail=... with domain specifics that shape examples and rule guidance.
• Prerequisites: the installed governance templates resolvable from ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../constitution/templates/ — standard-meta.md, standard-scan.md, and standard-write.md (one per target tier file).

Workflow

1. Read all three tier templates, the target plugin's constitution references, and neighboring standards. Search every standard under plugins/*/constitution/standards/ for the proposed prefix and rule IDs. Reject a duplicate target, duplicate prefix/ID, unknown plugin, missing templates, or policy that belongs to an existing owner.
2. Define scope, non-goals, dependent standards, stricter requirements, exception policy, rule groups, and stable IDs before drafting examples. The rule prefix is a unique short uppercase mnemonic.
3. Create the target directory and rules/. Populate meta.md from the meta template: dependencies use standard:<name> within the plugin or plugin:<plugin>:standard:<name> across plugins; every declared group matches the chosen prefix.
4. Populate scan.md from the scan template. Every quick-scan item and matrix row names one declared rule ID and describes a mechanically or reviewably detectable violation.
5. Populate write.md from the write template. Every rule ID has actionable compliant guidance; patterns and decisions do not contradict scan criteria.
6. Create rules/<lowercase-rule-id>.md for every rule that requires detail. Link it from the tiers using relative links and ensure no guide introduces an undeclared ID.
7. Remove all template placeholders and instructions. Keep examples only when they disambiguate detection or compliance.
8. Run the verification below; when a check fails, fix the cause and re-run that check. Repeat until every check passes or a concrete blocker remains, then report the blocker instead of looping.

Verification

• Cross-tier consistency: build sets of IDs from meta groups, scan bullets/matrix, write summaries, and rule filenames. Fail when an ID is undeclared, missing from scan or write, duplicated, uses another prefix, or links to a missing guide.
• Resolve every local Markdown link from its containing file. Verify dependent-standard targets exist and no dependency cycle is introduced.
• Run claude plugin validate --strict plugins/<plugin> and python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../write-skill/scripts/quick_validate.py" plugins/<plugin> for repository policy checks.
• Exercise at least one violating and one compliant example per rule group against the scan/write guidance.

Completion

Return the target path, source templates, prefix, complete rule-ID list, dependency and link check results, validation commands with their results, and any unresolved policy questions.