[civilian7]

CLAUDE.md rule 8 (from #16) says a render gate with no browser prints SKIPPED and exits 0, and that the agent must set DS_REQUIRE_BROWSER=1 to trust a single gate. On a plugin install the kit's CLAUDE.md is not in the user's context, so the skill is the only instruction the agent reads before it runs the gate. design-screen carries the rule; nine other skills name render gates and did not.

Found while vendoring a11y-audit into a project on its own: the skill told the agent to run measure_render.mjs and verify_states.mjs, and nothing in what it read said a SKIPPED exit 0 is not a pass.

Change

• The same three-line note after the Step 0 block in a11y-audit, critique, data-dashboard, design-code, design-component, design-qa, gate, image-to-code and ship. No script default changes.
• A guard test in tests/meta/guards.test.mjs: every SKILL.md that names a browser gate (the same BROWSER_GATES list the file already derives) must mention DS_REQUIRE_BROWSER.

Output

On main (skills unchanged, test added):

not ok 11 - every skill that names a browser gate tells the agent a skip is not a pass
    skills run a render gate without DS_REQUIRE_BROWSER: a11y-audit, critique, data-dashboard, design-code, design-component, design-qa, gate, image-to-code, ship

With the fix, node --test tests/meta/guards.test.mjs under PYTHONUTF8=1:

# pass 11
# fail 0

PYTHONUTF8=1 is needed only because two existing guards fail on a Korean-locale Windows machine; that is a separate fix, sent as its own PR. scripts/check_no_emoji.py passes. I did not run accuracy_report.mjs: this machine has no Playwright browser, and the change touches no gate.

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[plugin87]

Thanks for this. The problem is real, and the next release fixes it in a different place: instead of a note in each skill, scripts/gate.mjs forces DS_REQUIRE_BROWSER=1 for every render gate, so a missing browser fails rather than printing SKIPPED, and the skill validator rejects a skill that runs a render gate without going through it. A note asks the model to remember; the runner takes the choice away. This branch also edits the same nine skill files, so it would conflict with that change. Closing for those two reasons.