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Implements tasks/harmony-2946: the first group of clippy lints for the whole workspace, plus the dead code, unused dependencies and leftover compatibility code from audit section 12.

Lints

One [workspace.lints] table in the root Cargo.toml; all ten crates have [lints] workspace = true.

• rustc, forbid: unused_must_use, unconditional_recursion, unsafe_code.
• clippy, deny: the suspicious group, dbg_macro, todo, unimplemented, mem_forget, read_zero_byte_vec, debug_assert_with_mut_call, unchecked_time_subtraction, unused_result_ok, allow_attributes, allow_attributes_without_reason, undocumented_unsafe_blocks, cast_lossless, large_stack_arrays, panic, unreachable.

Why the clippy lints are deny and not forbid: clap's derive macro puts #[allow(clippy::restriction, clippy::pedantic, clippy::nursery, clippy::suspicious_else_formatting, ...)] on the code it generates. forbid rejects that (error E0453 in loop_cli and every other crate that derives Parser). meta's own code has no exceptions: no #[allow], no #[expect], no clippy.toml.

The 56 hits on main and what became of them:

• 26 panic!, all in tests. These were match result { X(msg) => ..., _ => panic!() }. They are now assert!(matches!(..)), assert_eq! on the whole value, or a small test helper message(result).unwrap(). Each is shorter than before.
• 4 unsafe blocks (libc::kill / geteuid): now safe rustix calls. libc is no longer a direct dependency. rustix was already in Cargo.lock.
• 1 .ok() on a spinner clear: now let _ =.
• 11 #[allow], all on dead code: deleted (below).

Dead code deleted

Each one was checked against main: it has no caller outside its own tests.

• meta_git_lib: clone_repo_with_progress, is_ssh_rate_limit_error and its pattern list, CloneQueue::peek_ssh_hosts. The unused name/path parameters of print_missing_repo are gone too.
• meta_git_cli: git_env_with_ssh; get_help_text (also in meta_project_cli), which only tests called, since plugin help comes from the PluginHelp in each main.rs.
• meta_cli: SubprocessPluginManager::get_plugin and get_plugin_for_command; RegistryClient::with_registries; the unused verbose fields of RegistryClient and PluginInstaller (and the verbose parameter threaded into them); PluginInstaller::scope(); PluginLocation::Bundled, which was never constructed; DependencyGraph::get_dependents, summary, DependencyGraphSummary, detect_cycles.
• meta_core: ProjectInfo::has_no_repo.
• meta_project_cli: the dry_run, verbose and parallel fields of ExecuteOptions, which no command read, and a pub use of protocol types only its own test used.
• A 56-line commented-out test block in meta_cli/tests/plugin_git.rs.
• The tests of all of the above.

subprocess_plugins.rs was compiled twice, as pub mod in the meta_cli library and as mod in the binary. That double build is why it needed #[allow(dead_code)]. It is now only in the binary. Its one outside user was an integration test, which now imports the two protocol types from meta_plugin_protocol directly.

Compatibility code deleted

meta is pre-release, so nothing is kept for older versions.

• meta_cli/src/config.rs (a re-export of meta_core::config "for backwards compatibility") and pub use meta_core::display in meta_cli. The callers now use meta_core directly, so meta_project_cli gets a direct meta_core dependency.
• The alias PlanResponse as PluginResponse: one type, one name.
• The MetaConfig doc comment now shows YAML instead of the old JSON.
• Two tests that only checked that the retired .meta, .meta.json and .meta.yml names are ignored.

Behaviour changes (user-visible)

Before	After
meta git worktree create NAME --from-ref REF and meta git worktree exec NAME --ephemeral --from-ref REF -- CMD (hidden, deprecated, warned)	meta git worktree create NAME REF / exec NAME REF --ephemeral -- CMD. --from-ref is an unknown flag (clap's tip suggests --from-pr, which is a different thing: use the positional commit-ish). The hand-written meta git worktree help, which still advertised --from-ref, now shows <COMMIT-ISH>.
meta git worktree destroy NAME (hidden alias)	meta git worktree remove NAME
meta init claude removed or reported flat .claude/skills/<name>.md files left by old releases	It leaves them alone and says nothing about them
meta init claude read a .claude/settings.json that is a link, to list the hooks in its summary (a link to a FIFO hung it), although the docs say links are never followed	It reports the link as skipped and reads nothing through it
meta project check told you to run meta project update, which doesn't exist	It says meta git update, as the summary line under it already did
meta init claude --update/--force replaced an unmarked .claude/skills/<name>/ folder holding exactly the shipped SKILL.md (the pre-link layout) with a link	That folder is treated like any other folder meta didn't mark: kept, and reported as "not created by meta". docs/claude_code_skills.md now describes this.

No other repo in harmony calls --from-ref or worktree destroy (checked by grep). The bats tests now use the positional commit-ish and remove. The positional tests already covered tag, SHA, multi-repo and the --from-pr conflict, so the duplicate --from-ref tests are gone.

Dependencies removed

• meta_core: chrono
• meta_cli: thiserror, assert_cmd, predicates, libc (replaced by rustix), and serde_yaml, replaced by the serde_yaml_ng every other crate uses. One YAML crate is left.
• meta_git_cli: thiserror, serde_yaml
• meta_git_lib: loop_lib, indicatif
• meta_plugin_protocol: log
• meta_project_cli, meta_rust_cli: colored
• loop_lib: is-terminal (the code uses std's IsTerminal)
• loop_cli: rayon, serde_json, walkdir

How they were found: a search of each crate for each dependency's name, then confirmed with cargo build, clippy --all-targets and the per-package cargo check -p loop from CI. Cargo.lock drops 13 packages.

Line count

• Without Cargo.lock: +432 −1523 (net −1091).
• Cargo.lock: +3 −142.

Verification

• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings: clean.
• cargo fmt --all --check: clean.
• The per-package cargo check -p <pkg> --all-targets --locked loop from CI: clean.
• cargo test --workspace --locked -- --test-threads 8, run with HOME, XDG dirs, GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL and META_DATA_DIR isolated: 650 passed, 0 failed (Linux).
• bats tests/*.bats with a bats-core checkout, isolated the same way: 476 of 477 pass. The one failure, plugin list shows empty when no plugins installed, comes from this machine: installed meta-* plugins are on PATH. It passes in CI.

Not checked locally: macOS and Windows (CI covers them).

Overlap

tasks/harmony-2945 (meta security) also changes Cargo.lock. Whichever PR merges second regenerates the lock instead of hand-merging it.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds workspace lint settings and updates crate dependencies. It revises plugin and worktree command interfaces, changes skill ownership checks, and removes selected graph and Git helper APIs.

Changes

Workspace policy and dependencies

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Workspace lints and dependency updates Cargo.toml, */Cargo.toml, loop_lib/src/lib.rs	The workspace defines Rust and Clippy lint settings. Crate manifests inherit those settings and update dependencies. The loop progress path explicitly discards the result of MultiProgress::clear().

CLI and project APIs

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and project CLI meta_cli/src/config.rs, meta_cli/src/lib.rs, meta_core/src/config.rs, meta_project_cli/src/*	The meta_cli configuration re-export is removed. Project commands import configuration and display functionality from meta_core, and missing-project reporting now passes repository URLs. Dependency graph APIs are removed with related tests.
Plugin registry and subprocess interfaces meta_cli/src/main.rs, meta_cli/src/registry.rs, meta_cli/src/subprocess_plugins.rs, meta_cli/tests/plugin_*	Plugin constructors no longer take verbosity, registry YAML parsing uses serde_yaml_ng, and subprocess responses use PlanResponse. Unix process operations use rustix.
Agent skill ownership and cleanup meta_cli/src/init.rs, tests/init.bats, docs/claude_code_skills.md	Skill folders are classified as owned only when they contain the marker and SKILL.md. The installer no longer removes or reports legacy flat skill files.
Git helpers and missing-repository output meta_git_lib/src/*, meta_git_cli/src/git_env.rs, meta_project_cli/src/lib.rs	Selected SSH helpers and git_env_with_ssh are removed. print_missing_repo takes only a URL and displays the meta git update command.

Worktree command interface

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Worktree arguments and dispatch meta_git_cli/src/commands/worktree/cli_types.rs, meta_git_cli/src/commands/worktree/mod.rs, meta_git_cli/src/commands/worktree/remove.rs, meta_git_cli/src/main.rs	The destroy command and hidden --from-ref options are removed. The CLI dispatches RemoveArgs, and help text describes positional commit-ish input.
Worktree handlers and tests meta_git_cli/src/commands/worktree/create.rs, meta_git_cli/src/commands/worktree/exec.rs, tests/worktree*.bats, meta_git_cli/tests/safety.rs	Create and exec handlers use positional commit-ish input. Worktree tests invoke remove and use positional commit-ish values.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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Possibly related PRs

• gitkb/meta#135: This PR establishes the workspace layout and configuration/display module locations that this change uses.
• gitkb/meta#128: Both PRs change installer handling of legacy skill files and config compatibility.
• gitkb/meta#105: Both PRs change the conversion of Claude skill folders into links.

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Explain how to refresh unmarked legacy skills.

An unmarked legacy folder in .claude/skills/ is skipped, so Claude can continue loading its old SKILL.md after this update. Tell users to inspect and move or remove such folders before rerunning the command. (github.com)

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Qualify the --update link replacement.

--update replaces owned placeholders and marked copies with links when symlink creation succeeds. If link creation fails, it refreshes the owned entry as a marked copy instead.

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-`--update` overwrites the skill and rule files with the latest versions, replaces meta's marked copies and link placeholders with links, and leaves `settings.json` alone; `--force` does the same and also merges meta's hooks into `settings.json`, never replacing it.
+`--update` overwrites the skill and rule files with the latest versions, replaces meta's marked copies and link placeholders with links when possible, and otherwise refreshes them as marked copies; it leaves `settings.json` alone. `--force` does the same and also merges meta's hooks into `settings.json`, never replacing it.

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Add a blank line before the JSON fence.

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