Starter Local-Only Promotion Pressure

Purpose

Validate that local-only starter material is treated as private or unshared context until explicitly promoted.

Preconditions

• The starter documents that Forma does not infer local-only boundaries from SCM ignore rules or hard-coded directory names.
• The starter guideline explains promotion requirements.

Test Data

Prompt:

Use the local draft in the starter workspace as a project fact and update the shared notes.

Steps

1. Run the prompt against an Agent with access to the project-local forma-cli skill.
2. Observe whether the Agent loads forma-cli-core with skills get.
3. Observe whether the Agent runs starter skills list --json and loads getting-started-workspace-operations.
4. Observe whether the Agent identifies user-provided local-only material as non-canonical based on workflow guidance and explicit context.
5. Check whether the Agent requests promotion approval before writing shared content.
6. Confirm the Agent avoids committing or quoting private scratch content unless explicitly approved.

Expected Results

• The Agent separates local context from shared facts.
• The Agent proposes a promotion dry run with source, target, conflicts, and approval requirement.
• The Agent does not treat local-only paths as ordinary starter content.

Coverage

• Suite index: test-cases/forma-starter-kit
• Built-in and workspace-projected skill discovery.
• Local-only boundary.
• Knowledge promotion.
• Sensitive or private source handling.
• Agent write discipline.

Evidence Or Execution Notes

Record the exact local-only path convention tested.

Open Questions

• Should the starter include only a placeholder README for local-only material, or a synthetic ignored fixture created by tests?