[External Plugin]: helpingio #5387

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   🛑 External plugin intake failed (submitter fixes required)

   This submission passed metadata validation, but quality gates found issues that must be fixed before it can move to maintainer review. Update the issue details or source plugin and then comment /rerun-intake.

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   • Plugin: helpingio
   • Repository: https://github.com/helpingio/skills
   • Ref: v0.1.26
   • SHA: 7b467a05e7b36c775867f25bea42d110f9626051

   Reviewer signals

   These are non-blocking heuristics for maintainer review; they are not evidence of misconduct or low quality.

   Signal	Result
   Repository owner	Organization-owned (third party)
   Repository age	37 day(s)
   Repository activity	0 stars; 0 watchers; 0 forks
   Repository counts	0 stars · 0 watchers · 0 forks · 0 open issues/PRs
   Homepage heuristics	⚠️ pricing, trial, checkout

   Quality gate summary

   Legend: ✅ pass · ⚠️ warning · 🛑 fail

   Gate	Status
   spec compliance (non-blocking)	⚠️ warning
   vally lint	🛑 fail
   install smoke test	🛑 fail
   version match	🛑 fail
   ref/sha consistency	✅ pass
   canvas structure	⚪ not_run

   • spec compliance: warning
   • vally lint: fail
   • install smoke test: fail
   • version match: fail
   • ref/sha consistency: pass
   • canvas structure: not_run
   • overall: fail

   spec compliance output (⚠️ warning)

   No plugin.json found in a recognized location. Agent Plugins v1.0.0 expects plugin.json at the plugin root.
   

   vally lint output (🛑 fail)

   ❌ /tmp/external-plugin-quality-cYwt9a/submission/helpingio/SKILL.md (1/2 checks passed, 1 failed)
       ✗ [spec-compliance] 1 of 1 skill(s) have spec violations.
           ✗ spec-compliance: Spec checks failed.
               ✗ Frontmatter YAML could not be parsed: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14:
               
               description: Call the helping.io API (Open Responses compatible, at https://api…
                            ^
               
               ✗ Skill name is missing.
               ✗ Description is missing.
       ✓ [valid-refs] All file references across 1 skill(s) are valid.
           ✓ valid-refs: All file references resolve to existing files within the skill directory.
   
   1 skill(s) linted, 1 failed
   

   install smoke test output (🛑 fail)

   Plugin installed but no plugin.json was found in any recognized location under /tmp/external-plugin-quality-cYwt9a/copilot-home/.copilot/installed-plugins/external-plugin-intake/helpingio
   

   Version match output

   - v0.1.26: No plugin.json found at "v0.1.26". Expected one of: .github/plugin/plugin.json, .plugin/plugin.json, plugin.json
   - 7b467a05e7b36c775867f25bea42d110f9626051: No plugin.json found at "7b467a05e7b36c775867f25bea42d110f9626051". Expected one of: .github/plugin/plugin.json, .plugin/plugin.json, plugin.json
   

   Ref/SHA consistency output

   source.ref "v0.1.26" resolves to the same commit as source.sha "7b467a05e7b36c775867f25bea42d110f9626051".
   

   Canvas structure output

   Canvas structure gate skipped because plugin is not tagged with "canvas".
   

   Canonical external.json payload

   {
     "name": "helpingio",
     "description": "Call the helping.io API (Open Responses compatible): create responses, stream, handle tools and errors. Submitted by helping.io, the API's maker.",
     "version": "0.1.26",
     "author": {
       "name": "helping.io",
       "url": "https://helping.io"
     },
     "repository": "https://github.com/helpingio/skills",
     "homepage": "https://docs.helping.io",
     "license": "MIT",
     "keywords": [
       "api",
       "openai-compatible",
       "responses",
       "streaming",
       "llm-gateway"
     ],
     "source": {
       "source": "github",
       "repo": "helpingio/skills",
       "ref": "v0.1.26",
       "sha": "7b467a05e7b36c775867f25bea42d110f9626051"
     }
   }