[Jammy2211]

What

One line in scripts/validate_structure.py:

 ALLOWED_TOP_DIRS = {
+    ".claude",  # agent tooling (session hooks, settings), not content
     ".git",
     ".github",

Why

main is red. Commit 498e1a8 added a tracked .claude/ directory (hooks/session-start.sh, settings.json) without adding it to ALLOWED_TOP_DIRS, so the structure lint reports:

ERROR: unexpected top-level directory: .claude/ (content belongs under wiki/ or bibliography/)
Repository structure is invalid (1 problem(s)).

One root cause, both legs of validate.yml:

• make validate → validate-structure exits 1
• make test → tests/test_validate_structure.py::test_actual_repository_layout_is_valid, which asserts the live repo layout validates

So every PR opened against main was red on arrival, regardless of its contents.

.claude/ is agent tooling, not knowledge content — it belongs beside .git/.github in the allowlist rather than being relocated under wiki/ or bibliography/, which are the two content homes the lint exists to protect.

Verification

Locally, on this branch:

• make validate → "Repository structure is valid."
• python -m pytest tests/ -q → 69 passed

Both red without the change, green with it.

Scope

Deliberately one line. .claude/ is a generated artifact — per 498e1a8's own message the hook's canonical source is PyAutoMind/policy/session_start_hook.sh, installed by PyAutoMind/scripts/repos_sync.py. I checked PyAutoMind and PyAutoBrain for a template copy of validate_structure.py carrying the same allowlist; there is none, so this is a genuine single-site fix with no template drift following from it.

Worth noting for later: repos_sync can install .claude/ into any repo without knowing about that repo's structure lint. PyAutoMemory is the only one that has such a lint today, which is why it is the only one that broke.

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