| name | count-registry |
| description | Provides canonical entity counts from count-manifest.json. Use when agents need to reference how many agents, skills, instructions, or validators exist. Prevents hard-coded counts. WHEN: agent count, skill count, how many agents, how many skills, entity inventory, project statistics. |
Count Registry
Single source of truth for project entity counts.
Source of Truth
All counts live in tools/registry/count-manifest.json. Validators auto-compute actual
values from filesystem globs. No other file should hard-code these numbers.
How to Reference Counts
When generating documentation or artifacts that mention entity quantities:
- Prefer descriptive language — "a set of specialized agents and subagents",
"the full skill catalog", "the multi-step workflow"
- When exact numbers are needed, read
tools/registry/count-manifest.json and state
the number with a parenthetical source: "16 primary agents (per count-manifest.json)"
- Never hard-code a count into prose that will be committed to the repo
Canonical Phrasing Patterns
| Entity | Canonical phrase |
|---|
| Agents | "specialized agents and subagents" |
| Skills | "the skill catalog" or "available skills" |
| Instructions | "instruction files" |
| Validators | "the validation suite" |
| Workflow steps | "the multi-step workflow" (never count steps — Step 3.5 makes any number ambiguous) |
| MCP tools | "pricing query tools" |
| VS Code extensions | "pre-installed extensions" |
Computed Entities
The manifest defines computed_from globs for each entity. The
validate-no-hardcoded-counts.mjs validator resolves these globs against
the filesystem and reports any drift between documented and actual counts.
Entities with a static value field (e.g., golden principles = 10) are
genuinely fixed and exempt from the no-hard-coding rule.
