fix: make a marketplace install actually work - #10

Two things were broken for anybody installing this the documented way.

1. The install command could not work

setup and install.sh both printed:

$ claude plugin install vta-agent-memory
✗ Failed to install plugin "vta-agent-memory": Plugin "vta-agent-memory" not found in any configured marketplace

install resolves against configured marketplaces, so it needs two commands and the qualified name:

claude plugin marketplace add OpenVTC/vta-agent-memory
claude plugin install vta-agent-memory@vta-agent-memory

Verified — both now succeed.

2. …and the install produced a plugin that could not run

.mcp.json and hooks/hooks.json invoke ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/vta-agent-memory. When installed from a marketplace that directory is a fresh git clone — and bin/ was gitignored, because it held a copied build artifact.

So the MCP server and the SessionStart hook both pointed at a file that does not exist. Verified against the real installed copy:

$ ls ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/vta-agent-memory
Cargo.lock  Cargo.toml  CLAUDE.md  commands  hooks  LICENSE
README.md   scripts     skills     src       tests
                                      ← no bin/

The plugin installs, reports "enabled", and does nothing.

The fix

bin/vta-agent-memory is now a committed shell shim that execs the real binary: $VTA_AGENT_MEMORY_BIN, then ~/.cargo/bin, then a local target/, then PATH. install.sh does cargo install instead of copying into bin/.

Its exit code differs by subcommand, because the two callers have opposite contracts:

$ ./bin/vta-agent-memory recall --format json   # no binary installed
recall exit=0   ← a missing binary must never fail a session at start-up
$ ./bin/vta-agent-memory serve
serve  exit=1   ← everything else fails loudly

with a message naming the fix.

CI guards

The Rust build cannot see any of this, so three checks were added:

• the shim is tracked, executable, and git mode 100755 — if bin/ is ever gitignored again, CI fails rather than the plugin silently doing nothing
• every ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path in .mcp.json and hooks.json resolves in a clean checkout, which is exactly what a marketplace install is

Testing

cargo test — 84 pass, clippy clean, fmt clean. Shim behaviour verified in an isolated directory with no binary reachable. New CI steps dry-run locally. claude plugin marketplace add + install verified end to end against the real repo.