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feat: sync and reference Very Good Engineering content #6
Description
What
Pull the latest published FFCA standard from Very Good Engineering at session start, and have skills and the auditor read that cache instead of the bundled copy in references/ffca_architecture.md.
Why
references/ffca_architecture.md is a hand-maintained mirror of the FFCA page, and scripts/sync_reference.dart is still a stub. Every change to the standard needs a manual edit plus a plugin release, and plugins are not updated reliably on local machines. The mirror drifts as soon as the source changes. Same approach as VeryGoodOpenSource/vgv-ai-flutter-plugin#158.
How
- A
SessionStarthook runs a sync script before any work begins. - The script compares the locally cached VGE version against the published one.
- Minor difference: download and overwrite the cache.
- Major difference: keep the cached copy and wait for a plugin release, since renamed or new sections may need skills rewired. Skills cite sections by name, such as Dependency Graph Rules and Naming Conventions (Enforced).
- The cache lives outside the plugin directory so it survives reinstalls.
- The bundled
references/ffca_architecture.mdstays as the fallback when no cache exists.
Sync must fail open. A network failure, a slow response, or an offline machine cannot block the session or the hook's time budget.
Sections
FFCA architecture. Layered Architecture too, since the skills defer to it for non-FFCA repos.
Tasks
- Add the sync script and wire it to
SessionStartinhooks/hooks.json - Pin the VGE version this plugin was built against
- Hold on a major difference, sync on a minor one
- Fail open on any network or parse error
- Point skills and
ffca-layer-auditorat the cache, falling back to the bundled reference - Replace or remove the
scripts/sync_reference.dartstub - Check whether
validate_layers.dartrules need to follow the synced standard
Blocked
Waiting on Very Good Engineering to publish FFCA and to ship versioned, downloadable bundles. Nothing here is implementable until that lands.
Activity
Statyk7 commentedon Oct 15, 2026
This issue predates #4 and describes the repo as it was before it. Suggest updating it to match the current layout before anyone picks it up:
references/ffca_architecture.mdno longer exists. The reference is nowreferences/ffca/, a byte mirror of the VGV Engineering FFCA section with one file per page and aREADME.mdmanifest.scripts/sync_reference.dartis no longer a stub. It regeneratesreferences/ffca/from VGV Engineering, and--checkreports drift.reference_driftworkflow already fails when the mirror is stale.project_structure.md.What remains open is the runtime part: a
SessionStarthook that refreshes a cache outside the plugin directory, holds on a major version difference, and fails open. The tasks could be rewritten aroundsync_reference.dartas the sync step, withreferences/ffca/as the bundled fallback.