diff --git a/projects/aube.jdx.dev/package.yml b/projects/aube.jdx.dev/package.yml
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+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/jdx/aube/archive/refs/tags/{{version.tag}}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+provides:
+  - bin/aube
+  - bin/aubr
+  - bin/aubx
+
+versions:
+  github: jdx/aube/tags
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    rust-lang.org: '>=1.91'
+    rust-lang.org/cargo: '*'
+    cmake.org: ^3
+  script: cargo install --locked --path crates/aube --root {{prefix}}
+
+test:
+  - aube --version | grep {{version}}
+  # exercise the core job: scaffold a project and install a real npm package
+  - aube init
+  - aube add is-number
+  - test -f node_modules/is-number/package.json
+  - grep '"is-number"' package.json
diff --git a/projects/communique.jdx.dev/package.yml b/projects/communique.jdx.dev/package.yml
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+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/jdx/communique/archive/refs/tags/{{version.tag}}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+provides:
+  - bin/communique
+
+versions:
+  github: jdx/communique/tags
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    rust-lang.org: '>=1.85' # edition 2024
+    rust-lang.org/cargo: '*'
+  script: cargo install --locked --path . --root {{prefix}}
+
+test:
+  dependencies:
+    git-scm.org: '*' # communique reads git history
+  script:
+    - communique --version | grep {{version}}
+    # init generates a config file in a real repo
+    - git init
+    - communique init
+    - test -f communique.toml
diff --git a/projects/fnox.jdx.dev/package.yml b/projects/fnox.jdx.dev/package.yml
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+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/jdx/fnox/archive/refs/tags/{{version.tag}}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+provides:
+  - bin/fnox
+
+versions:
+  github: jdx/fnox/tags
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    rust-lang.org: '>=1.91.1'
+    rust-lang.org/cargo: '*'
+    perl.org: '*' # openssl-sys vendored build
+    linux:
+      systemd.io: '*' # hidapi (via ctap-hid-fido2) requires libudev
+  script: cargo install --locked --path . --root {{prefix}}
+
+test:
+  - fnox --version | grep {{version}}
+  # init writes a config fnox can then discover and load back
+  - fnox init
+  - test -f fnox.toml
+  - fnox config-files | grep fnox.toml
diff --git a/projects/hk.jdx.dev/package.yml b/projects/hk.jdx.dev/package.yml
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+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/jdx/hk/archive/refs/tags/{{version.tag}}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+provides:
+  - bin/hk
+
+versions:
+  github: jdx/hk/tags
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    rust-lang.org: '>=1.88'
+    rust-lang.org/cargo: '*'
+    cmake.org: ^3 # git2 vendored-libgit2
+  # --bin hk: the crate also has a `generate-docs` dev bin we don't ship
+  script: cargo install --locked --path . --bin hk --root {{prefix}}
+
+test:
+  dependencies:
+    git-scm.org: '*' # hk operates on a git repo
+  script:
+    - hk --version | grep {{version}}
+    # generate a config in a real repo, then parse+validate it
+    - git init
+    - hk init
+    - test -f hk.pkl
+    - hk validate
diff --git a/projects/pitchfork.jdx.dev/package.yml b/projects/pitchfork.jdx.dev/package.yml
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+distributable:
+  url: https://github.com/jdx/pitchfork/archive/refs/tags/{{version.tag}}.tar.gz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+provides:
+  - bin/pitchfork
+
+versions:
+  github: jdx/pitchfork/tags
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    rust-lang.org: '>=1.88'
+    rust-lang.org/cargo: '*'
+    # the binary embeds ui/dist via rust-embed, so the vue/vite web UI
+    # (pnpm-lock.yaml) must be built before cargo — upstream does the same
+    # (mise `build:ui`: aube install && aube run build)
+    nodejs.org: '*'
+    pnpm.io: '*'
+  script:
+    - run:
+        - pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
+        - pnpm build
+      working-directory: ui
+    # package is `pitchfork-cli`; the bin it produces is `pitchfork`
+    - cargo install --locked --path . --root {{prefix}}
+
+test:
+  - pitchfork --version | grep {{version}}
+  # parse a real daemon config and list it back (no daemon is started)
+  - printf '[daemons.hello]\nrun = "sleep 1"\n' > pitchfork.toml
+  - pitchfork daemons | grep hello