fix: prefer CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR for plugin detection to avoid wrong-profile selection

[jcasimir]

Problem

When multiple Claude profiles are installed (e.g., ~/.claude and ~/.claude-jsl), the plugin detection logic:

PLUGIN_DIR=$(find "$HOME/.claude" "$HOME/.claude-"* -path "*/compound-engineering/*/agents/review" -type d 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed 's|/agents/review$||')

always resolves to ~/.claude alphabetically because find lists it first and head -1 takes that. Users running from a non-default profile (e.g., ~/.claude-jsl) end up with the wrong PLUGIN_DIR, pointing at the default profile's plugin installation instead of their active one.

Fix

Claude Code exposes CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR as an environment variable pointing to the active profile directory. The fix checks that variable first:

# Prefer the active Claude profile ($CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) over a global search
if [ -n "$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR" ]; then
  PLUGIN_DIR=$(find "$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR" -path "*/compound-engineering/*/agents/review" -type d 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed 's|/agents/review$||')
fi
# Fall back to searching all Claude profiles if not found via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
if [ -z "$PLUGIN_DIR" ]; then
  PLUGIN_DIR=$(find "$HOME/.claude" "$HOME/.claude-"* -path "*/compound-engineering/*/agents/review" -type d 2>/dev/null | head -1 | sed 's|/agents/review$||')
fi

The fallback preserves backward compatibility with:

• The default ~/.claude profile (where CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR may equal ~/.claude or be unset)
• Older Claude Code versions that don't set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
• Running from source repo (which falls through to plugins/compound-engineering relative path)

Files changed

• skills/refresh/SKILL.md — Step 1: Locate plugin (searches for agents/review)
• skills/ce-run/SKILL.md — Step 2: Locate plugin (searches for orchestrators)
• skills/ce-user-scenarios/SKILL.md — Step 2: Locate plugin (searches for agents/user)

Test plan

• Running /ce:refresh from the JSL profile resolves PLUGIN_DIR to ~/.claude-jsl/plugins/... instead of ~/.claude/plugins/...
• Running from the default profile still resolves correctly (fallback path)
• Running without CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR set falls back to the find pattern unchanged

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