GH-37: Drop deprecated dependencies and isRequired manifest keys

CLAUDE.md

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ To measure any of this, `qmd bench <fixture.json> -c memories` is usable as ship
 
 **The search call shape is stated in three places, deliberately.** "Typed `lex`+`vec` lines, `rerank: false`, `limit: 6`" appears in `templates/continuous-learning.md` (the only thing that reaches a user's `CLAUDE.md`), `skills/continuous-learning/SKILL.md`, and the `SubagentStart` briefing in `hooks/kb-gate.mts`. No single mechanism reaches all three consumers, so this is three copies rather than one source — change one and check the other two. It matters because the unguided path is measurably worse, not just slower.
 
-**The index's `global_context` is deliberately not a fourth copy.** qmd serves that one string two ways: as the MCP server's `instructions`, once per connection, and as the `context` field of *every* search result. Guidance placed there is therefore paid for per result — at 342 characters it was 38% of a six-result response — while the only consumer it uniquely reaches is a client with no installed `CLAUDE.md` section, which cannot happen because the template is `isRequired`. So it carries identity only ("this is a project memory KB, not external documentation") and the guidance lives in the three copies that are not echoed. Resist putting the call shape back into it.
+**The index's `global_context` is deliberately not a fourth copy.** qmd serves that one string two ways: as the MCP server's `instructions`, once per connection, and as the `context` field of *every* search result. Guidance placed there is therefore paid for per result — at 342 characters it was 38% of a six-result response — while the only consumer it uniquely reaches is a client with no installed `CLAUDE.md` section, which cannot happen because a pack installs every template it declares. So it carries identity only ("this is a project memory KB, not external documentation") and the guidance lives in the three copies that are not echoed. Resist putting the call shape back into it.
 
 **The same three copies carry "retrieve before relying on a result", and the reason is only recorded here.** qmd's MCP snippet is at most five lines and 300 characters (`extractSnippet` in `store.js`, called with a hardcoded `300` from `mcp/server.js`), and it is anchored by literal substring matching of the first `lex` sub-query. When those terms are not in the matched text it falls back to the top of the chunk — in practice the file's first three lines, which for a memory is its title and `Applies to:`. Measured on a 527-document corpus, 28% of results came back title-only. So a search result is a lead, and answering from it is guessing; `get`/`multi_get` is the step that makes the answer real. The instruction is phrased as an absolute in all three copies on purpose — stating the failure condition invites the reader to decide a snippet looks complete this time. Do not "simplify" it back into step 2's old wording (`Read matching memories`), which worked only because the previous backend returned a whole chunk.
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ To measure any of this, `qmd bench <fixture.json> -c memories` is usable as ship
 
 `skills/continuous-learning` (capture) and `skills/memory-audit` (audit) encode the same rules at two different times: capture decides whether to write a memory, audit decides whether to keep one.
 
-**Capture is `isRequired: true`; audit is optional.** Capture must therefore stand alone and can never reference the audit skill's content.
+**Capture must stand alone.** Audit is manual-only and a fork can drop it, so capture can never reference the audit skill's content.
 
 **Examples must be language-neutral.** The pack installs into projects of any stack, and Swift-specific examples have slipped in more than once. `references/templates.md` is the deliberate exception, since a filled-in example has to be concrete in some language.
 

techpack.yaml

@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ components:
   - id: qmd-install
     displayName: qmd
     description: Local search engine over markdown — no daemon, bundled SQLite + sqlite-vec
-    dependencies: [node]
     type: configuration
     shell: "npm install -g @tobilu/qmd@2.8.3"
     doctorChecks:
@@ -91,7 +90,6 @@ components:
   - id: qmd-model
     displayName: Embedding model
     description: Downloads Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B once (~610 MB, shared across all projects)
-    dependencies: [qmd-install]
     type: configuration
     shell: |
       d=$(mktemp -d)
@@ -123,8 +121,6 @@ components:
   # keep in sync with hooks/sync-memories.mts — it writes the index this opens.
   - id: memory-loop
     description: Semantic search over this project's memories, backed by local embeddings
-    isRequired: true
-    dependencies: [node, qmd-install, qmd-model]
     mcp:
       command: /bin/sh
       args:
@@ -203,7 +199,6 @@ components:
   - id: skill-continuous-learning
     displayName: continuous-learning skill
     description: Extracts learnings and decisions from sessions into memory
-    isRequired: true
     skill:
       source: skills/continuous-learning
       destination: continuous-learning
@@ -219,15 +214,13 @@ components:
   - id: hook-helpers
     displayName: Shared hook helpers
     description: Shared filesystem and project-path helpers for the hooks
-    dependencies: [node]
     hook:
       source: hooks/shared.mts
       destination: shared.mts
 
   - id: hook-continuous-learning
     displayName: Memory loop activator
     description: Reminds to evaluate learnings on each prompt
-    isRequired: true
     hookEvent: UserPromptSubmit
     hook:
       source: hooks/memory-loop-activator.sh
@@ -236,7 +229,6 @@ components:
   - id: hook-sync-memories
     displayName: Sync memories hook
     description: Indexes memories into the project's search index on session start
-    dependencies: [qmd-install, hook-helpers]
     hookInterpreter: node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning
     hookEvent: SessionStart
     hookAsync: true
@@ -249,7 +241,6 @@ components:
   - id: hook-reindex-memories
     displayName: Reindex memories hook
     description: Reindexes memories when they have changed mid-session
-    dependencies: [qmd-install, hook-helpers]
     hookInterpreter: node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning
     hookEvent: UserPromptSubmit
     hookAsync: true
@@ -268,7 +259,6 @@ components:
   - id: hook-kb-gate-turn
     displayName: KB gate — turn boundary
     description: Marks each new prompt so the KB check is required again per turn
-    dependencies: [hook-helpers]
     hookInterpreter: node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning
     hookEvent: UserPromptSubmit
     hook:
@@ -287,7 +277,6 @@ components:
   - id: hook-kb-gate-record
     displayName: KB gate — record searches
     description: Records each KB search so delegated discovery can be checked against it
-    dependencies: [hook-helpers]
     hookInterpreter: node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning
     hookEvent: PostToolUse
     hookMatcher: "mcp__memory-loop__query"
@@ -305,7 +294,6 @@ components:
   - id: hook-kb-gate-check
     displayName: KB gate — check sub-agent spawns
     description: Warns or blocks when a discovery sub-agent is spawned without KB findings in its prompt
-    dependencies: [hook-helpers]
     hookInterpreter: node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning
     hookEvent: PreToolUse
     # The spawn tool is `Agent` in current Claude Code and `Task` in older
@@ -323,7 +311,6 @@ components:
   - id: hook-kb-subagent-brief
     displayName: Sub-agent KB brief
     description: Tells discovery sub-agents that the KB exists, so they search it instead of sweeping files
-    dependencies: [hook-helpers]
     hookInterpreter: node --experimental-strip-types --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning
     hookEvent: SubagentStart
     hook: