fix: scaffold emits type-correct workflow set and derives stale literals

.github/workflows/validate.yml

@@ -204,9 +204,12 @@ jobs:
           grep -q '<!-- standards-version:' /tmp/scaffold-test/ci-test-plugin/AGENTS.md \
             || { echo "::error::AGENTS.md missing standards-version marker"; exit 1; }
 
-          # LICENSE has correct CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 copyright (TM Hospitality Strategies, not TMHSDigital)
-          grep -q 'Copyright (c) 2026 TM Hospitality Strategies' /tmp/scaffold-test/ci-test-plugin/LICENSE \
-            || { echo "::error::LICENSE missing canonical 'TM Hospitality Strategies' copyright line"; exit 1; }
+          # LICENSE has correct CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 copyright (TM Hospitality Strategies, not TMHSDigital).
+          # The year is DERIVED from the current UTC year at generation time, so assert against
+          # that rather than a hardcoded literal (which would itself go stale every January 1).
+          YEAR=$(date -u +%Y)
+          grep -q "Copyright (c) ${YEAR} TM Hospitality Strategies" /tmp/scaffold-test/ci-test-plugin/LICENSE \
+            || { echo "::error::LICENSE missing canonical 'Copyright (c) ${YEAR} TM Hospitality Strategies' line"; exit 1; }
           grep -q 'SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0' /tmp/scaffold-test/ci-test-plugin/LICENSE \
             || { echo "::error::LICENSE missing SPDX-License-Identifier"; exit 1; }
 

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.16.2
+1.16.3

requirements-test.txt

@@ -1 +1,8 @@
 pytest>=8.0,<9.0
+# PyYAML is required by the YAML-validating tests (test_release_doc_sync.py,
+# test_composite_action_shape.py). Without it those tests pytest.importorskip
+# and silently skip in CI, hiding real coverage.
+PyYAML>=6.0,<7.0
+# Jinja2 is required by the born-green scaffold integration test, which renders
+# a repo of each type and runs the drift checker against the output.
+Jinja2>=3.1,<4.0

scaffold/create-tool.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 """
 
 import argparse
+import datetime
 import os
 import re
 import sys
@@ -206,6 +207,7 @@ def main():
         "meta_minor": meta_minor,
         "meta_patch": meta_patch,
         "meta_version": f"{meta_major}.{meta_minor}.{meta_patch}",
+        "year": datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc).year,
     }
 
     print(f"\nScaffolding '{args.name}' ({slug}) into {output_dir}\n")
@@ -214,15 +216,22 @@ def main():
     if args.type == "cursor-plugin":
         write_file(output_dir, ".cursor-plugin/plugin.json", render_template(env, "plugin.json.j2", ctx))
 
-    # GitHub workflows — branched by type
+    # GitHub workflows - emitted set is type-specific and must match the
+    # per-type required_workflows in standards/drift-checker.config.json plus
+    # the two optional-for-both workflows (pages, label-sync). Do NOT emit
+    # cursor-plugin-specific workflows for mcp-server repos: validate.yml's
+    # checks all assume a plugin.json and publish.yml replaces release.yml
+    # (see standards/ci-cd.md "MCP-server Variations").
     if args.type == "mcp-server":
-        write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/validate.yml", render_template(env, "validate.mcp.yml.j2", ctx))
-        write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/release.yml", render_template(env, "release.mcp.yml.j2", ctx))
-        write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/pages.yml", render_template(env, "pages.mcp.yml.j2", ctx))
+        # Required for mcp-server: drift-check, stale, publish.
         write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/publish.yml", render_template(env, "publish.yml.j2", ctx))
+        # Optional-for-both: pages (mcp variant), label-sync.
+        write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/pages.yml", render_template(env, "pages.mcp.yml.j2", ctx))
     else:
+        # Required for cursor-plugin: validate, release, stale, drift-check.
         write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/validate.yml", render_template(env, "validate.yml.j2", ctx))
         write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/release.yml", render_template(env, "release.yml.j2", ctx))
+        # Optional-for-both: pages, label-sync.
         write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/pages.yml", render_template(env, "pages.yml.j2", ctx))
     write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/stale.yml", render_template(env, "stale.yml.j2", ctx))
     write_file(output_dir, ".github/workflows/drift-check.yml", render_template(env, "drift-check.yml.j2", ctx))

scaffold/templates/LICENSE.j2

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {% if license_key == 'mit' %}
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2026 {{ author_name }}
+Copyright (c) {{ year }} {{ author_name }}
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Apache License
 Version 2.0, January 2004
 http://www.apache.org/licenses/
 
-Copyright (c) 2026 {{ author_name }}
+Copyright (c) {{ year }} {{ author_name }}
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ limitations under the License.
 {% else %}
 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
 
-Copyright (c) 2026 TM Hospitality Strategies
+Copyright (c) {{ year }} TM Hospitality Strategies
 
 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons
 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

scaffold/templates/plugin.json.j2

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
   "license": "{{ license_spdx }}",
   "keywords": [
     "cursor-plugin",
-    "developer-tools",
-    "mcp"
+    "developer-tools"{% if has_mcp %},
+    "mcp"{% endif +%}
   ],
   "skills": [
 {% for skill in skills %}