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  • Protobuf design rules were being rediscovered in every review, so contracts drifted between services that should read alike.
  • JSON consumers often have no schema, so a field name has to carry what the type alone cannot.
  • Renames and type changes kept slipping past wire-only checks and broke JSON and generated code downstream.

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Documentation-only plugin and marketplace/release wiring; no changes to auth, data paths, or deployed services.

Overview
Adds a new trogonstack-protobuf agent plugin (v0.0.1) and registers it in the Claude/Cursor marketplaces and release-please so it can be installed and versioned like the other TrogonStack plugins.

The plugin ships two skills: protobuf-design-messages (naming for JSON readers, value objects, enums, validation, event-sourced contract shape, file layout) and protobuf-evolve-schemas (compatibility surfaces, renames/reserved, buf breaking in CI, package versioning), each with reference docs and review checklists. No application or service runtime code changes—only plugin metadata, README, and skill content.

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  • plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/SKILL.md
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This pull request adds and registers a trogonstack-protobuf plugin. It contains two skills: one for designing protobuf messages and fields, and one for evolving schemas with existing consumers. Each skill includes guidance, examples, and review checklists.

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Protobuf Plugin

Layer / File(s) Summary
Plugin registration and metadata
.claude-plugin/marketplace.json, .cursor-plugin/marketplace.json, .github/release-please-config.json, .github/release-please-manifest.json, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/*
Adds the plugin to both marketplaces and release configuration. Adds plugin metadata, manifests, and a README.
Message and field design
plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/SKILL.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/*
Adds guidance and examples for field naming, identifiers, references, enums, validation, units, and naming collisions. Includes a message-design review checklist.
Event contracts and project schema
plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/event-sourced-contracts.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/example-project-schema.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/review-checklist.md
Adds event-sourced contract guidance and a project schema example with commands, events, validation, and typed faults. The checklist includes event-sourced contract checks.
Compatibility and reserved fields
plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/SKILL.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/compatibility-surfaces.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/renames-and-reserved.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/review-checklist.md
Adds compatibility guidance for binary wire, JSON, and generated source. Examples and checklist items cover renames, field-type changes, and reserved field numbers and names.
Breaking-change governance and package versions
plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/ci-and-governance.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/package-versioning.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/example-schema-evolution.md, plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/review-checklist.md
Adds guidance for buf breaking checks, reviewed opt-outs, and package-version progression. Examples show schema changes across versions; checklist items cover CI governance and versioning.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 06d81

The plugin is mergeable with bounded risk, but its examples and compatibility guidance should be corrected so teams do not apply misleading rules to their protobuf contracts.

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: adding guidance to keep protobuf contracts readable and evolvable, including support for schema-less consumers.
Description check Passed The description directly explains the problems addressed by the changes: inconsistent protobuf design, unclear JSON field names, and compatibility gaps beyond wire format.
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Review comments at
@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/enums-and-presets.md:
- Line 48: Update the “UNSPECIFIED” guidance in this passage to match the
established rule that code must reject UNSPECIFIED, removing the implication
that services may resolve it to a conservative default.

Review comments at
@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/example-project-schema.md:
- Line 38: Update the currency_code field contract: enforce membership in the
recognized ISO 4217 code set with validation, or explicitly identify the check
as application-level and require it to be enforced there; retain string.len = 3
only as a length constraint.
- Around line 61-62: Update the Project schema so parent and access_preset are
not presented as event-folded aggregate state: remove them from Project, or
rename them as creation snapshots and clarify that status; alternatively,
document Project as an enriched read model and identify the external events that
update those values.

Review comments at
@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-design-messages/references/naming-collisions.md:
- Line 29: Update the naming guidance around generated-code exclusions to
clarify that names are freely changeable only before any consumer depends on the
schema or its JSON output; do not imply that disabling code generation means
there are no contract consumers.

Review comments at
@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/ci-and-governance.md:
- Line 47: Update the package-exclusion guidance for `buf breaking` to require
evidence that the package has no consumers on any compatibility surface,
including JSON clients, before excluding it; otherwise keep breaking checks
enabled. Preserve the guidance to establish a baseline and enforce checks once
code generation is first wired in.
- Line 10: Update the buf breaking command in the schema-evolution guidance to
compare against the pull request’s base ref instead of hard-coded main, and
ensure CI fetches that ref or uses a remote Git input that resolves it.

Review comments at
@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/compatibility-surfaces.md:
- Around line 28-29: Update the buf breaking examples to identify the
`breaking.use` configuration in `buf.yaml` required for each result, or
explicitly state that the results assume separate configurations. Do not present
`WIRE` and `WIRE_JSON` as selected by the command’s category labels.

Review comments at
@plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/renames-and-reserved.md:
- Around line 20-21: Update the field rename example to reserve the removed name
“title” and the enum rename example to reserve “PROJECT_STATE_DONE” in
renames-and-reserved.md (lines 20–21 and 42–43). Update review-checklist.md
(lines 14–17) to require reserving old names when renaming fields and enum
values.
- Line 73: Update the rename-check question to require reservation checks only
for field and enum-value renames; handle message renames separately as
compatibility planning, since message type names cannot be reserved.

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  • plugins/trogonstack-protobuf/skills/protobuf-evolve-schemas/references/example-schema-evolution.md
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