"Verify the eol-normalizer hook's runtime prerequisites and configuration for this repository. Use when: 'set up eol-normalizer', 'configure eol-normalizer', 'is eol-normalizer working', line endings silently aren't normalizing, or the hook reported a missing prerequisite. Actions: check (read-only verification, default) | apply (resolve what check found). Re-runnable and safe."
Install
npx skillscat add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/plugins-eol-normalizer-skills-setup Install via the SkillsCat registry.
This skill verifies the eol-normalizer hook's runtime prerequisites and configuration for a repository. It checks for required system tools and reports compliance, distinguishing between failures and informational notes when the hook is disabled. It helps diagnose issues like missing dependencies or misconfigurations affecting line ending normalization.
Purpose
Thin check-centric setup per the uniform contract: check inspects and reports, apply
resolves. This plugin owns no consumer-project configuration — the normalization policy is
the repository's own .gitattributes, and the only tunable is the native userConfig
toggle. Every prerequisite is a system tool (Bash, jq, git), so apply is pure guidance and
writes nothing.
Action routing: no argument or check runs the check; apply runs the check first, then
points at each remediation. Both are non-interactive — never prompt when the action is given.
check (read-only)
The hook is the single source of truth for what it requires and how it resolves things.
Read it first — the entry script (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/eol-normalizer.sh) sources${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/normalize-eol.sh, and that sourced library is where the real
resolution lives (the git check-attr calls, the repo-root anchoring, and the NUL-byte
binary guard). Read both, probe what they actually do, don't recite this file. Then run each
probe via Bash and report a PASS/FAIL/INFO table with one remediation line per FAIL. Do not
modify anything.
When the plugin's toggle is disabled, every prerequisite absence downgrades from FAIL to
INFO — the hook exits through its enabled-gate before probing anything, so a deliberately
disabled plugin is not broken. Report the probes informationally and note that re-enabling
restores the FAIL semantics.
- Bash version — check against the hook's documented floor (README Requirements),
noting any features the hook degrades without (for example telemetry'sEPOCHREALTIME,
Bash 5.0+). jq—command -v jq. FAIL if absent: the hook then skips with a visible
once-per-session notice instead of normalizing.git—command -v git. FAIL if absent: unlike jq, the hook emits NO visible notice
when git is missing —git check-attrand repo-root resolution silently fail and the
hook no-ops, so this probe is the only visibility. Distinguish the two non-failure cases
the hook treats differently: git present but the path is not inside a git repository →
INFO (not applicable — nothing to normalize against, per the README), and git present
inside a repo but noeol=rule governs any path → INFO (inert by design, the opt-in
analog: resolution is entirely.gitattributes-driven).- Consumer
.gitattributeseol=policy — using the hook's own resolver
(git check-attr eolanchored at the repo root), confirm whether anyeol=lf/eol=crlf
rule governs paths the hook would touch.check-attranswers for ANY candidate path,
tracked or not — the hook normalizes a first write to a brand-new file the same as an
edit to a tracked one — so probe representative candidate paths (or report the declared
patterns), never a tracked-files listing that would miss untracked matches. Report what
governs, or INFO that none does — absence is the opt-out by design, so the plugin is
inert (INFO, not FAIL), matching the README's "ships no policy of its own" stance. - Hook toggle — report the effective
eol_normalizer_enabledvalue:${user_config.eol_normalizer_enabled}(unexpanded or empty means defaulttrue). - Hook registration — INFO: confirm the plugin is enabled for this project
(/plugin→ Installed) rather than parsing settings files.
apply (idempotent)
Run check, then for each FAIL point at the resolution. Every prerequisite here is a system
tool, so apply installs nothing and writes nothing — it only points:
- missing
jq/ Bash / git: platform install instructions from the README Requirements
section; this skill never installs system packages. - toggle off: direct to
/plugin configure eol-normalizer(interactive, any
time). Headless:--configonly applies on a fresh install (ignored once installed), so
reconfigure viaclaude plugin uninstall eol-normalizer -s <scope>thenclaude plugin install eol-normalizer@<marketplace> -s <scope> --config eol_normalizer_enabled=true;
this skill never writes user settings orpluginConfigs. Both commands default to-s user—
pass the scopeclaude plugin listreports for this plugin, and run from that project's
directory for aproject/localscope. Defaulting instead uninstalls a separate user-scope
record while the effective install stays in place, so the reinstall lands at a scope that
does not load. - no
eol=policy: this is the opt-out, not a defect. Point at the repository's own.gitattributesas the place to declare policy; this skill never writes.gitattributes,
because that would impose a repo-wide line-ending policy the plugin has no mandate to
choose.
Re-running apply after everything passes changes nothing and reports "already configured".
What this skill does NOT do
- Normalize any file — editing a file exercises the hook end-to-end.
- Write
.gitattributes, the plugin cache, Claude Code user settings, orpluginConfigs. - Install any tool, during either
checkorapply— all prerequisites are system tools
resolved with guidance only.