post-merge-retrospective depends on a project-local skill-activation-audit script that isn't shipped; activation evidence too weak to confirm gates ran

[intel352]

Scenario

post-merge-retrospective instructs the agent to confirm which pipeline gates fired, using tests/skill-activation-audit.sh "(this repo)" plus .claude/autodev-state/in-progress.jsonl. In a consuming project (where the kit is installed, not developed) that audit script does not exist — it lives in the kit's own test suite, not the user's repo. As a result the retro's "Missed skill activations" table comes out as a column of "no evidence / script does not exist" every single time.

Separately, several pipeline gates (e.g. alignment-check, requesting-code-review) leave no durable activation artifact at all, so even reading in-progress.jsonl does not reliably confirm whether they ran. The retro therefore cannot distinguish "gate was skipped" from "gate ran but left no trace."

Impact

• "Missed activation" findings are unreliable — the retro can't tell skipped-vs-unrecorded.
• Users are told to run a script that isn't present in their repository (confusing, looks broken).

Recommendation

• Don't point the retro at a project-local script. Ship the activation-audit capability with the kit itself (script under the plugin's own path, or a retro step that reads only .claude/autodev-state/*.jsonl).
• Make every pipeline gate append a compact activation record (skill, phase, timestamp, pass/fail) to one state file under .claude/autodev-state/, so the retro has a single source of truth.
• Have the retro degrade gracefully ("activation log unavailable") instead of emitting "script does not exist" rows.

[intel352]

Fixed in v6.4.0 (PR #73). post-merge-retrospective now reads .claude/autodev-state/in-progress.jsonl (written by the record-activity hook in any repo) as the primary activation source; the kit-dev-only tests/skill-activation-audit.sh is demoted across all 3 sites (Step 5 + format template + Reads); absent log degrades to 'activation log unavailable', never 'script does not exist'.