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Noop Overlay by dojocodinglabs — Agent Skill

Name: Noop Overlay
Author: dojocodinglabs

Noop Overlay

No-op overlay fixture used to exercise the IDT Base + Overlay discovery contract. Returns the input draft unchanged plus a single demonstration warning string. Use when validating the overlay-protocol runtime, debugging discovery, or when an external-consumer simulation needs an installed-but-inert overlay.

File contents

noop-overlay (fixture)

This skill exists to demonstrate the IDT overlay discovery contract end-to-end without changing the output of any IDT command. It is intentionally trivial.

Behavior

When invoked by the IDT runtime per assets/runtime/overlay-protocol.md:

Receive an OverlayInput ({ command, baseDraft, context }).
Return an OverlayOutput:
- draft: the same baseDraft value, deep-copied to make the no-mutation contract obvious. Any future change you make to the returned object MUST NOT touch Layer 1 immutable fields (see the protocol doc).
- warnings: a single demonstration entry — "noop-overlay invoked at priority 75; no transforms applied." — so observers can confirm discovery fired without affecting content.

Why frontmatter looks like this

Field	Value	Why
`overlay_target`	`new-course`, `course-audit`, `slides-preview`	The three IDT commands wired in DOJ-3707 (Phase 1). Listing all three lets fixture consumers pick any of them when running the simulation.
`overlay_priority`	`75`	Generic tier (annotation-only). Sits between structural (50) and voice (100). For a true no-op, the value barely matters — but choosing 75 makes the fixture useful for ordering tests where structural/voice overlays exist alongside it.

How to use as a fixture

From a fresh sandbox directory:

mkdir -p sandbox && cd sandbox
cp -R /path/to/instructional-design-toolkit/examples/overlay-noop-example/. .
# Now sandbox/.claude-plugin/plugin.json + sandbox/skills/noop-overlay/SKILL.md exist.
# Run any IDT command from inside sandbox/:
#   /idt:new-course "Test Course"
#   /idt:course-audit some-existing-course
#   /idt:slides-preview some-existing-course
# Discovery should pick up noop-overlay; the user-facing response should
# include the demonstration warning above; the resulting course.json should
# be byte-identical to the run made from a directory with no overlays.

Out of scope for this fixture

Real transforms. See dojo-academy/skills/academy-philosophy and dojo-academy/skills/content-standards (DOJ-3710) for production overlay examples.
Any kind of test runner. This is a fixture, not a test suite.

---name: noop-overlaydescription: No-op overlay fixture used to exercise the IDT Base + Overlay discovery contract. Returns the input draft unchanged plus a single demonstration warning string. Use when validating the overlay-protocol runtime, debugging discovery, or when an external-consumer simulation needs an installed-but-inert overlay.---# noop-overlay (fixture)This skill exists to demonstrate the IDT overlay discovery contract end-to-endwithout changing the output of any IDT command. It is intentionally trivial.## BehaviorWhen invoked by the IDT runtime per `assets/runtime/overlay-protocol.md`:1. Receive an `OverlayInput` (`{ command, baseDraft, context }`).2. Return an `OverlayOutput`: - `draft`: the **same** `baseDraft` value, deep-copied to make the no-mutation contract obvious. Any future change you make to the returned object MUST NOT touch Layer 1 immutable fields (see the protocol doc). - `warnings`: a single demonstration entry — `"noop-overlay invoked at priority 75; no transforms applied."` — so observers can confirm discovery fired without affecting content.## Why frontmatter looks like this| Field | Value | Why ||---|---|---|| `overlay_target` | `new-course`, `course-audit`, `slides-preview` | The three IDT commands wired in DOJ-3707 (Phase 1). Listing all three lets fixture consumers pick any of them when running the simulation. || `overlay_priority` | `75` | Generic tier (annotation-only). Sits between structural (50) and voice (100). For a true no-op, the value barely matters — but choosing 75 makes the fixture useful for ordering tests where structural/voice overlays exist alongside it. |## How to use as a fixtureFrom a fresh sandbox directory:```bashmkdir -p sandbox && cd sandboxcp -R /path/to/instructional-design-toolkit/examples/overlay-noop-example/. .# Now sandbox/.claude-plugin/plugin.json + sandbox/skills/noop-overlay/SKILL.md exist.# Run any IDT command from inside sandbox/:# /idt:new-course "Test Course"# /idt:course-audit some-existing-course# /idt:slides-preview some-existing-course# Discovery should pick up noop-overlay; the user-facing response should# include the demonstration warning above; the resulting course.json should# be byte-identical to the run made from a directory with no overlays.```## Out of scope for this fixture- Real transforms. See `dojo-academy/skills/academy-philosophy` and `dojo-academy/skills/content-standards` (DOJ-3710) for production overlay examples.- Any kind of test runner. This is a fixture, not a test suite.

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