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Summary

An agent asked to work from one named knowledge record, or from a knowledge list, could stop there and miss records inherited from the client and the agency, including required ones.

• Server instructions: before advising on, planning or drafting work for a site, call get_site_knowledge_v1 if it is available; for client-wide work, call get_client_knowledge_v1, then each site's summary. If the summary cannot be loaded, the agent tells the user that client and agency knowledge was not loaded.
• The bundled skill's "Retrieve before acting" rule says the same.
• The server instructions length test now allows 2048 characters, the smallest per-server limit among known MCP clients. The instructions are now 1233 characters.
• The fixture Dashboard carries the matching knowledge notice and record and list descriptions, plus a required agency skill.
• A new agent scenario, agent-named-record-inherits-required, checks that a named-record request also loads the site summary and opens the required skill. It and agent-site-knowledge-first also run with compact schemas.

Compatibility

The instruction applies only when the knowledge tools are available, so Dashboards without them see no change. It does not depend on the matching Dashboard notice change.

Testing

• format:check, lint, typecheck, check-version, check-plugin, check-skill-sync, build, test:evals and the unit tests pass.
• test:acceptance:fixture passes.
• agent-named-record-inherits-required and its compact variant, three runs each against the fixture: all six runs loaded the site summary and opened the required skill. With the previous instructions and descriptions, one of six did.
• Manual checks against a development Dashboard with two MCP clients, in both schema modes: generic, named-record, required-rule, client/site conflict and update-hold requests, plus a named-record request with the site summary tool blocked.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Knowledge Handling

  • Assistants check relevant site knowledge before advising on, planning, or drafting site work—not only before troubleshooting or making changes.
  • For client-wide work, assistants review the client summary and each site’s summary before making site-specific decisions. Reading a single record or list does not replace checking which knowledge applies.
  • If a summary cannot be loaded, assistants identify which knowledge was unavailable. Showing a requested single record still requires only that record.
  • Required agency guidance is considered when assistants draft work from a named knowledge record.

• Testing

  • Added coverage for named-record knowledge checks and compact response formats.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The instructions now require applicable site and client knowledge before site-related advice, planning, or drafting. The acceptance fixtures add a required agency skill and test retrieval of that skill alongside a named record and site summary.

Changes

Site knowledge guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retrieval instructions and checks .agents/skills/mainwp-dashboard/SKILL.md, plugins/mainwp/skills/mainwp-dashboard/SKILL.md, src/index.ts, src/index.test.ts, tests/evals/fixtures/abilities-full.json, tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.ts, tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.test.ts	Instructions and knowledge notices cover retrieving site summaries before site work, loading client and site summaries for client-wide work, and reporting failed loads. Record and list descriptions clarify that they do not identify applicable site knowledge.
Fixture knowledge record and verification tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.ts, tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.test.ts	The fixture adds verified, required agency skill record 7 with a maintenance-note rule. Related checks verify its scope and contents and use record ID 8 for subsequent create, update, and delete expectations.
Named-record acceptance scenario and grading tests/acceptance/agent-run.ts, tests/acceptance/lib/harness.test.ts, docs/acceptance-testing.md	The new scenario reads a named record, site summary, and required agency skill, then checks the final answer and unchanged fixture state. Grading tests cover missing, incorrect, failed, or uncorrelated reads. Compact-schema variants are documented and tested, and run records now include the scenario’s serverEnv.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dcca5

The acceptance fixture can direct agents to unavailable tools, causing knowledge-dependent runs to miss required summaries or records. Align its labels with the callable names; production guidance is unaffected.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to dcca5

The change broadens knowledge retrieval without granting new permissions or weakening approval requirements. Remaining uncertainty concerns production access controls and resistance to malicious knowledge content, which the fixture coverage does not establish.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — More site-work conversations will consume inherited knowledge, and client-wide work can consume summaries across multiple target sites. Agency records intentionally apply across the Dashboard. This expands contextual exposure, but the inspected change does not establish a new credential scope or cross-tenant execution route.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Knowledge content remains subordinate to user approval and execution policy. The fixture checks site/client existence and models scope ownership, but has no authenticated tenant principal; its filtering is not evidence of production tenant authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The new fixture seed occupies record ID 7 and advances allocation to ID 8. Existing fixture mutation controls remain: previews do not commit, required records cannot be changed through abilities, and stale revisions reject updates or deletions. The added retrieval workflow does not introduce a persistent multi-step write transition.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate the expanded retrieval workflow against production tenant access boundaries and malicious knowledge results, including unavailable or partially loaded summaries. Confirm that inherited content cannot induce an unauthorized write or misrepresent unloaded knowledge as complete.

Pre-merge checks · 4

Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: requiring site knowledge summary loading before advising on site work.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.ts:
- Line 2: Update KNOWLEDGE_NOTICE in the fixture so references to
get-site-knowledge, get-client-knowledge, and get-knowledge-record use the
callable MCP tool names get_site_knowledge_v1, get_client_knowledge_v1, and
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• src/index.ts
• tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.test.ts
• tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.ts

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This is the canonical cross-agent skill, read by Codex CLI and other agent-skills clients and mirrored into plugins/mainwp/skills by npm run sync-skill.

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Linked repositories findings

mainwp/docs

• mcp-server/safety.mdx:108-110 documents the knowledge contract: summaries provide Dashboard-defined rules across agency, client, and site scopes; required records override more-specific records, while unverified records are informational only. This supports the PR’s summary-loading and required-skill behavior. [::mainwp/docs::]

mainwp/mainwp

• No Dashboard implementation or ability references to the new site/client knowledge-summary tools were found, so no cross-repository API mismatch was identified. [::mainwp/mainwp::]

🔇 Additional comments (1)

tests/acceptance/fixture-knowledge.ts (1)

2-2: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The claim depends on whether the Dashboard notice labels are intended to be MCP tool names or Dashboard ability names. The inspected excerpts show both forms are used: MCP calls use underscore names such as get_site_knowledge_v1, while the fixture adapter routes hyphenated Dashboard abilities such as mainwp/get-site-knowledge-v1.

The registration and adapter binding are needed to decide whether the hyphenated labels in the notice are callable aliases. That evidence is not available yet.