metu ← AXIOM integration

Status: wired and proven end-to-end in dry-run (2026-09-18). Sibling of brivio.md; the difference is that metu has no guard runner, so the profile leans entirely on repo.requireCompanion rules transcribed from the repo’s own skills. The file list below is the 2.x layout; on 3.x the two policy files are still read (with a deprecation warning) and axiom setup migrate --profile folds them into one .axiom/axiom.json (profiles.md).

What was added to metu

File	Purpose
.github/skills/axiom-plan-apply/SKILL.md	The loop Plan → axiom_plan_compile → axiom_check (profile metu) → axiom_apply_dry_run → axiom_apply {confirmDigest}; table of every metu.ripple rule and the skill it came from; worked add-app-page Plan (JSON + .axm); what to do on fail / rolled-back / ERR_PRECONDITION / ERR_LOCKED; rule “never raw multi-file writes when AXIOM is available”.
.github/skills/{add-app-page,add-agent-tool,add-db-migration,add-inngest-function,add-integration,add-sdk-endpoint}/SKILL.md	5–7 line “Land it through AXIOM” footer appended to each, pointing at axiom-plan-apply and naming the repo.requireCompanion rule that enforces that skill’s ripple.
.axiom/profiles/metu.json	Profile metu extends default, facts.allowRepo: true, allowGuards: false. Checks: repo.noOverwriteOf (.git/**, .axiom/**, .github/**, pnpm-lock.yaml, **/*.lock, **/drizzle/meta/**, .env*, **/.env*), content.noSecrets, path.deny (node_modules, .next, dist, .turbo), metu.ripple = 8 repo.requireCompanion rules (below).
.axiom/gate-profile.json	PreToolUse gate: deny .git/**, .axiom/**, .github/**, lockfiles, .env* at any depth, node_modules, .next, dist, drizzle/**/meta/**; noSecrets; maxBytes 262144.
.vscode/mcp.json	Server axiom: stdio npx -y @codai/axiom-mcp mcp --root ${workspaceFolder}. .vscode/ had no mcp.json before; settings/launch/tasks/extensions untouched.
.github/hooks/axiom-gate.json	Copilot CLI PreToolUse hook → axiom gate --stdin via the global bin (5 s timeout; p50 157 ms). Same shape as brivio’s; the gate resolves <cwd>/.axiom/gate-profile.json itself.
.gitignore	.axiom/* runtime state ignored, !.axiom/profiles/ + !.axiom/gate-profile.json tracked; !.vscode/mcp.json added (the file had .vscode/* ignoring everything not allow-listed).

metu.ripple — the skills’ checklists as rules

when	expect	from skill
apps/web/src/app/\(app\)/**/page.tsx	…/**/__tests__/*.test.tsx · apps/web/src/lib/i18n/messages/*.json · apps/web/e2e/**/*.spec.ts	add-app-page
apps/web/src/app/actions/*.ts	apps/web/src/lib/__tests__/*.test.ts	add-app-page §5
packages/db/src/schema/*.ts	packages/db/drizzle/*.sql · packages/db/drizzle/meta/_journal.json	add-db-migration
packages/core/src/agent/tools.ts	packages/core/src/agent/__tests__/*.test.ts	add-agent-tool
apps/web/src/app/api/sdk/v1/**/route.ts	…/**/__tests__/*.test.ts · packages/protocol/src/*.ts · packages/sdk/src/*.ts	add-sdk-endpoint
apps/web/src/inngest/functions/*.ts	…/functions/__tests__/*.test.ts · apps/web/src/app/api/inngest/route.ts · apps/web/src/inngest/client.ts	add-inngest-function
packages/db/src/schema/integrations.ts	packages/types/src/index.ts · packages/db/src/queries/integrations.ts · docs/integrations.md	add-integration
apps/web/src/app/api/webhooks/**/route.ts	apps/web/src/proxy.ts	add-integration §6

The (app) route group was written as \(app\) because picomatch treats bare parentheses as an extglob group; the matcher now escapes plain route groups itself, so app/(app)/** works as written and the manual escape remains valid. Existing repo files satisfy an expect (design: “at least one artifact or one existing repo file”), so rules whose companions are stable singletons (client.ts, proxy.ts, _journal.json) effectively only fire on a fresh clone; the per-feature test globs are what bite in practice. For schema → migration style rules set mustChange: true on the expect so the companion has to be in the plan.

End-to-end proof (VERIFIED 2026-09-18, metu tree untouched — dry-run only)

Script: E:\gh\axiom\.copilot-tmp\metu-e2e.ps1; plans .copilot-tmp/metu-plan.json (9 artifacts: page, toolbar, list, lib helper, __tests__/page.test.tsx, e2e/axiom-smoke.spec.ts, en.json + ro.json overwrite, nav-config.ts overwrite) and metu-plan-negative.json (same minus test, e2e and both message files). Output verbatim, whitespace collapsed:

=== 1. compile metu-plan.json
node cli.js compile metu-plan.json -o metu-bundle.json --root E:\gh\metu
{ "manifestDigest": "sha256:04893270fd3b0a921e9f21b239f2d25f6897939bada7c6e2f4a96d6b7e8b98f6",
  "artifacts": 9 }
--- exit=0 elapsed=0.4s

=== 2. check --root E:\gh\metu --profile metu --json
{ "kind": "CheckReport", "profile": "metu", "verdict": "pass", "findings": [],
  "providers": [ manifest ok, content ok, repo ok 8ms, guard skipped ], "durationMs": 34 }
--- exit=0 elapsed=0.3s

=== 3. apply --dry-run --profile metu
{ "kind": "ApplyResult", "mode": "dry-run", "status": "applied", "root": "E:\\gh\\metu",
  "files": [
    apps/web/e2e/axiom-smoke.spec.ts                                  create written
    apps/web/src/app/(app)/axiom-smoke/__tests__/page.test.tsx        create written
    apps/web/src/app/(app)/axiom-smoke/page.tsx                       create written
    apps/web/src/components/axiom-smoke/axiom-smoke-list.tsx          create written
    apps/web/src/components/axiom-smoke/axiom-smoke-toolbar.tsx       create written
    apps/web/src/components/sidebar/nav-config.ts                     overwrite written
    apps/web/src/lib/axiom-smoke.ts                                   create written
    apps/web/src/lib/i18n/messages/en.json                            overwrite written
    apps/web/src/lib/i18n/messages/ro.json                            overwrite written ],
  "diff": "--- /dev/null\n+++ b/apps/web/e2e/axiom-smoke.spec.ts ..." }
--- exit=0 elapsed=0.5s

=== 4. NEGATIVE compile (page without companions)
{ "manifestDigest": "sha256:5d88bbdaf539ef09a76b480a7bbfd2b311ac77a10cc2c056f06d1b7c8bf2b894",
  "artifacts": 5 }
--- exit=0

=== 5. NEGATIVE check (expect repo.requireCompanion fail)
{ "verdict": "fail", "findings": [ {
    "id": "repo.requireCompanion.page-test", "severity": "error",
    "predicate": "repo.requireCompanion",
    "message": "\"apps/web/src/app/\\(app\\)/**/page.tsx\" changed but no companion matches
                \"apps/web/src/app/\\(app\\)/**/__tests__/*.test.tsx\" (page-test)",
    "facts": { "name": "page-test", "triggers": [ "apps/web/src/app/(app)/axiom-smoke/page.tsx" ] } } ] }
--- exit=1 elapsed=1s

=== 6. GATE: Copilot create_file → E:\gh\metu\.env  (expect exit 2)
echo '{"cwd":"E:\\gh\\metu","toolName":"create_file","toolArgs":"{\"filePath\":\"E:\\\\gh\\\\metu\\\\.env\",\"content\":\"X=1\"}"}'
  | node cli.js gate --stdin --root E:\gh\metu --profile E:\gh\metu\.axiom\gate-profile.json
stdout: {"hookSpecificOutput":{"hookEventName":"PreToolUse","permissionDecision":"deny",
         "permissionDecisionReason":"AXIOM GATE DENY path.deny: path matches a denied glob (.env)"}}
stderr: AXIOM GATE DENY path.deny: path matches a denied glob (.env)
--- exit=2 elapsed=0.3s

=== metu tree after dry-run
git -C E:\gh\metu status --short -- apps/web/src/app apps/web/src/components .env   → (empty)

Only page-test fires in step 5 because apps/web/e2e/smoke.spec.ts and apps/web/src/lib/i18n/messages/{en,ro}.json already exist in the repo and satisfy e2e-spec / i18n-messages. A new page still cannot land without its own colocated test.

A real finding surfaced on the first run of step 2: the test fixture used workspaceId: '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' and content.noSecrets flagged it as content.noSecrets.card (a 16+-digit run looks like a PAN), so check → fail and apply → status: "failed", error.code: "ERR_CHECKS_FAILED" with nothing written. Changing the fixture to 'ws_fresh_test' made it pass. Since fixed: card now requires a Luhn-valid, non-repeated digit run outside any UUID, so the zero-UUID fixture passes as-is.

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See also

• Checks — repo.requireCompanion and mustChange
• brivio — the sibling integration with a guard runner
• Hooks — the gate profile schema
• Harnesses — the mcp.json and hook file shapes