diff --git a/PORTING.md b/PORTING.md
index c1098a7..85b9ae0 100644
--- a/PORTING.md
+++ b/PORTING.md
@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ Everything below `pstack/skills` and `pstack/agents` is outside this port. The b
 `.cursor-plugin/plugin.json` is not vendored and never was in the current build: it sits outside the
 two subtrees `omp-port/lib.sh` archives, and omp never read it. Nothing in the tree parses it.
 
+`pstack/plugin.json`, upstream's Agent Plugins manifest, is not carried either. At the plugin root it
+makes omp's `agent-plugins` provider claim the package, and that provider checks skill frontmatter
+against a closed field set. It skipped every skill with `disable-model-invocation`, `icon`, `color`,
+or `globs`, 54 of 56 at 0.15.25 on omp 18.12.2. Without it, the `omp-plugins` provider reads the
+plugin root's `skills/` directory and loads all of them. The `plugin manifest` gate asserts the absence.
+
 ## Install, the two live shapes
 
 `omp plugin link <checkout>/plugins/pstack` is the maintainer shape. It registers the checkout as an
diff --git a/omp-port/check-port.sh b/omp-port/check-port.sh
index 720a05c..7039d8f 100755
--- a/omp-port/check-port.sh
+++ b/omp-port/check-port.sh
@@ -522,25 +522,14 @@ else
 	report "owned" "PASS  $ownn owned path(s) present"
 fi
 
-# Upstream ships an Agent Plugins manifest so the plugin loads in any harness. The port copies it
-# through rather than rewriting it, because it is pure metadata: it names the plugin and says
-# nothing about how a task is spawned. Its absence is not visible anywhere else, so it is asserted
-# here. A manifest whose version disagrees with the pin means one of the two was written by hand.
-mfbad=""
-if [ ! -f plugin.json ]; then
-	mfbad="plugins/pstack/plugin.json missing; upstream's Agent Plugins manifest is not carried through"
-elif ! jq -e . >/dev/null 2>&1 <plugin.json; then
-	mfbad="plugins/pstack/plugin.json is not valid JSON"
-elif [ "$(jq -r '.version // empty' <plugin.json)" != "$(jq -r '.version' <package.json)" ]; then
-	mfbad="plugin.json version $(jq -r '.version // "none"' <plugin.json) disagrees with package.json $(jq -r '.version' <package.json)"
-elif [ "$(jq -r '.name // empty' <plugin.json)" != "pstack" ]; then
-	mfbad="plugin.json name is $(jq -r '.name // "none"' <plugin.json), not pstack"
-fi
-if [ -n "$mfbad" ]; then
+# omp's agent-plugins provider claims a package with plugin.json at its root, checks skill
+# frontmatter against a closed field set, and skips every skill that carries
+# disable-model-invocation, icon, color, or globs.
+if [ -e plugin.json ]; then
 	report "plugin manifest" "FAIL"
-	while read -r m; do [ -n "$m" ] && violate "$m"; done <<<"$mfbad"
+	violate "plugins/pstack/plugin.json present; omp's agent-plugins provider skips every skill with an omp-only frontmatter field"
 else
-	report "plugin manifest" "PASS  Agent Plugins manifest present and version-matched"
+	report "plugin manifest" "PASS  no Agent Plugins manifest, so omp-plugins loads every skill"
 fi
 
 # Owning a path makes an upstream edit to it vanish silently, so the count is surfaced on every gate
diff --git a/omp-port/lib.sh b/omp-port/lib.sh
index 5c70bf3..b4f2370 100644
--- a/omp-port/lib.sh
+++ b/omp-port/lib.sh
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ ensure_canon() {
 # Step 1, upstream text as it is, with pstack/ stripped so skills and agents land at the root.
 extract_upstream() {
 	local sha="$1" work="$2"
-	git -C "$CANON" archive "$sha" pstack/skills pstack/agents pstack/plugin.json |
+	git -C "$CANON" archive "$sha" pstack/skills pstack/agents |
 		tar -x --strip-components=1 -C "$work" || return 1
 	[ -d "$work/skills" ] && [ -d "$work/agents" ]
 }
@@ -139,11 +139,6 @@ install_tree() {
 	done < <(owned_paths)
 	rm -rf "$REPO_ROOT/plugins/pstack/skills" "$REPO_ROOT/plugins/pstack/agents" || return 1
 	mv "$work/skills" "$work/agents" "$REPO_ROOT/plugins/pstack/" || return 1
-	# Copied verbatim: upstream added this so the plugin loads in any harness, and it is pure
-	# metadata, so there is nothing in it to substitute.
-	if [ -f "$work/plugin.json" ]; then
-		cp -a "$work/plugin.json" "$REPO_ROOT/plugins/pstack/plugin.json" || return 1
-	fi
 	while IFS= read -r p; do
 		src="$REPO_ROOT/plugins/pstack/$p"
 		if [ -e "$keep/$p" ]; then
diff --git a/omp-port/sync-upstream.sh b/omp-port/sync-upstream.sh
index 1483725..63b2839 100755
--- a/omp-port/sync-upstream.sh
+++ b/omp-port/sync-upstream.sh
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@ do_build() {
 
 	read -r n p k < <(port_counts plugins/pstack)
 	write_json plugins/pstack/package.json --arg v "$version" '.version = $v'
-	# Overwritten so the two manifests cannot disagree; upstream only bumps its own copy.
-	[ -f plugins/pstack/plugin.json ] &&
-		write_json plugins/pstack/plugin.json --arg v "$version" '.version = $v'
 	write_json .omp-plugin/marketplace.json --arg v "$version" \
 		--arg d "$n skills, $p playbooks, $k principles, the poteto-mode pin, and two agents. Upstream cursor/plugins pstack at ${sha:0:7}." \
 		'.metadata.version = $v
diff --git a/plugins/pstack/plugin.json b/plugins/pstack/plugin.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 199469f..0000000
--- a/plugins/pstack/plugin.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
-  "name": "pstack",
-  "version": "0.15.25",
-  "description": "if you want to go fast, go deep first. pstack helps you write less, but higher quality code. rigorous agent workflows you can parallelize with confidence.",
-  "author": {
-    "name": "Lauren Tan"
-  },
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/cursor/plugins/tree/main/pstack",
-  "repository": "https://github.com/cursor/plugins",
-  "license": "MIT",
-  "keywords": [
-    "pstack",
-    "poteto-mode",
-    "workflow",
-    "principles",
-    "agent-style",
-    "subagents",
-    "unslop"
-  ]
-}