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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds skill-link management for eligible skills through Settings and new WebSocket RPC operations. Also adds a confirmation flow for replacing conflicting catalog links. The changes include contracts, server operations, provider refresh updates, interface tests, and user documentation. ChangesSkills linking and catalog replacement
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SkillLinksPanel
participant SkillLinkRpc
participant ManagedLinkOperations
participant ProviderRefresh
SkillLinksPanel->>SkillLinkRpc: preview or submit link operation
SkillLinkRpc->>ManagedLinkOperations: validate paths and update link state
ManagedLinkOperations-->>SkillLinkRpc: return operation result
SkillLinkRpc->>ProviderRefresh: refresh affected providers
ProviderRefresh-->>SkillLinkRpc: return discovery status
SkillLinkRpc-->>SkillLinksPanel: return result and discovery status
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Linking, unlinking, and catalog replacement are guarded against stale previews and changed paths, and they do not touch source folders unexpectedly. One remaining gap: a single provider skills folder that is a broken link blocks inspect, unlink, and delete for every skill until the link is fixed. The fix is small and localized, and the PR is otherwise mergeable. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Reviewed as part of the #214–#216 stack. Stack-wide items, including the FORK.md blocker, are in the summary on #214.
#216 summary
- A managed link in the
changedstate can't be unlinked or forgotten. That's a one-way door, andctimeMsin the identity makes it easy to reach. - Project-scope links are absolute symlinks with nothing keeping them out of git.
- A project-scope destination can escape the project through a symlinked
.claude. - The refresh-all loop after link and unlink duplicates #214's.
- Nits: an orphaned link on an identity failure, the
_identityround-trip, and a nested ternary. - #184 put project-level installs out of scope. Please record why that changed in the PR body, and mention in the docs that a project-scope link lands inside the repo.
Crew review: code quality, correctness, security, and spec conformance. Severity tags: blocker, should-fix, nit.
| const link = links.find((entry) => entry.id === id); | ||
| if (!link) return undefined; | ||
| const status = await linkStatus(link); | ||
| if (status === "changed") |
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should-fix (reverse state). A record in the changed state throws "will not be removed", and the UI disables the button (SkillLinksPanel.tsx:146), so the record stays in skill-links.json for good. The only way out is deleting the destination by hand, which destroys whatever is there. skillLinkIdentity (skillFileSystem.ts, from #214) includes the symlink's ctimeMs, which changes on chown -h, on a home-directory restore, or when dotfile tools re-create the link, so changed is easy to hit by accident.
Suggested fix: add a "Forget record" action for changed that drops the record without touching the filesystem, consider dropping ctimeMs from the identity (dev, inode, and birthtime are enough), and add a focused test.
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The UI half of the changed one-way door noted in skillLinks.ts:260. The server-side fix needs a matching "Forget record" action here.
| return yield* failure("Linking is supported only for Codex and Claude."); | ||
| if (scope === "project") { | ||
| if (!cwd) return yield* failure("Select an existing project for project scope."); | ||
| return path.join(cwd, instance.driver === "codex" ? ".agents" : ".claude", "skills"); |
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should-fix (security / privacy). Project-scope links are created at <project>/.claude/skills/<name> or <project>/.agents/skills/<name> as symlinks with absolute targets, usually under ~/.claude/skills. Nothing keeps them out of git. Teams often commit .claude/, so git add -A commits a blob like /Users/<name>/.claude/skills/foo. That leaks the local username and path layout, and every other clone gets a dangling link.
Suggested fix: for project scope, add the path to .git/info/exclude on create and remove it on unlink. That file is local-only, so the repo doesn't change. At minimum, run git check-ignore and warn in the preview.
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| `Shared scripts (${scripts.slice(0, 5).join(", ")}${scripts.length > 5 ? ", …" : ""}) may require runtimes or packages in this environment.`, | ||
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| const destinationPath = NodePath.join(await canonicalSkillRoot(root), skillName); |
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nit (containment). canonicalSkillRoot follows symlinks in the destination's parent directories, so a repo that commits .claude -> /elsewhere makes a project-scope link land outside the project. The impact is low, since the code only creates a new symlink, refuses on conflict, and shows the resolved path in the preview. Still, for project scope, please reject a canonical root that isn't under the project root's realpath.
| scope: request.scope, | ||
| ...(request.projectId ? { projectId: request.projectId } : {}), | ||
| status: "linked", | ||
| identity: await skillLinkIdentity(entry.linkPath), |
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nit. record is only assigned after this lstat succeeds. If it throws, the if (record && …) rollback is skipped, and the symlink applyPlan just created stays on disk with no ownership record: preview then reports a conflict, and Unlink can't see it. #214's applyPlan has the same gap: it pushes "added" and then calls lstat for the identity. Suggested fix: reuse result.applied[0].identity instead of calling lstat again, and in the catch, roll back whenever the link exists and matches the target.
| ): Effect.fn.Return<SkillLinkMutationResult["discovery"]> { | ||
| return yield* Effect.gen(function* () { | ||
| const snapshots = yield* providers.getProviders; | ||
| const results = yield* Effect.forEach( |
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should-fix (performance). This refreshes every enabled provider, and with #214's refreshOneSource every cached workspace too, after a single link or unlink. It's also a near-duplicate of #214's loop in skillCatalogRpc.ts. Please refresh only the target instance plus preview.sharedWith, through one shared helper.
| ): Promise<ReadonlyArray<ManagedSkillLink>> { | ||
| return readSkillsConcurrently( | ||
| await loadManagedSkillLinks(stateDir), | ||
| async ({ identity: _identity, ...link }) => ({ |
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nit. This destructures identity: _identity only to rebuild {...link, identity: _identity}, so it can pass the original link instead. The decodeMetadata at :25 re-decodes a value that's already typed, so it's a no-op.
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| action, | ||
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| message: `${action === "created" ? "Link created" : "Link already exists"}. ${discovery === "detected" ? "Detected by provider; this does not verify compatibility." : discovery === "failed" ? "Discovery refresh failed; the link remains created. Retry Refresh." : discovery === "not-checked" ? "Provider discovery has not checked this destination." : "Not detected by provider. Refresh or restart the provider session."}`, |
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nit. This four-way nested ternary builds the message inline. A small discoveryMessage(discovery) helper would read better.
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In `@apps/server/src/j5/skills/skillLinkRpc.ts`:
- Around line 336-342: Update linkRoots so a failed canonicalSkillRoot call
drops only that root instead of failing the entire operation; retain
successfully canonicalized roots and omit entries whose roots have no canonical
value. Preserve the existing containment checks so unlink and delete reject
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| const canonical = new Map( | ||
| yield* Effect.forEach( | ||
| [...new Set(roots.map((entry) => entry.root))], | ||
| (root) => attempt(async () => [root, await canonicalSkillRoot(root)] as const), | ||
| { concurrency: 4 }, | ||
| ), | ||
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One broken provider root stops every inspect, unlink, and delete operation.
linkRoots wraps each canonicalSkillRoot(root) call in attempt. That call throws Skill root is a broken link when a root is a dangling symlink. For example, one instance can have a ~/.codex/skills link whose target is gone. When that happens, Effect.forEach fails the whole call. inspect, unlink (through rootsByProject), deletePreview, and delete then fail for all skills, including skills under healthy roots.
preview already handles the same failure in sharedWith with Effect.orElseSucceed. Drop roots that cannot be canonicalized and keep the other roots. Unlink and delete stay safe because a destination under a dropped root fails the containment check (Destination changed / outside this provider's skill directories).
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const canonical = new Map(
- yield* Effect.forEach(
- [...new Set(roots.map((entry) => entry.root))],
- (root) => attempt(async () => [root, await canonicalSkillRoot(root)] as const),
- { concurrency: 4 },
- ),
+ (
+ yield* Effect.forEach(
+ [...new Set(roots.map((entry) => entry.root))],
+ (root) =>
+ attempt(async () => [[root, await canonicalSkillRoot(root)] as const]).pipe(
+ Effect.orElseSucceed(() => []),
+ ),
+ { concurrency: 4 },
+ )
+ ).flat(),
);
- return roots.map((entry) => ({ ...entry, root: canonical.get(entry.root)! }));
+ return roots.flatMap((entry) => {
+ const root = canonical.get(entry.root);
+ return root === undefined ? [] : [{ ...entry, root }];
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In `@apps/server/src/j5/skills/skillLinkRpc.ts` around lines 336 - 342, Update
linkRoots so a failed canonicalSkillRoot call drops only that root instead of
failing the entire operation; retain successfully canonicalized roots and omit
entries whose roots have no canonical value. Preserve the existing containment
checks so unlink and delete reject destinations under omitted roots.
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Carried from j5/main 79b3f47 onto the upstream V2 candidate. Conflict: docs/user/composer.md stays upstream and the PR's linking/unlinking text lands in docs/user/skills.md; FORK.md adds the skills linking case as 44 (inventory 45), referencing case 42. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Joins fork head 2cf4ad7 (j5/main, including #247, #241, #244, #242, #214, #215, #216, #248, #249, #250, #251) with the reviewed candidate (j5/upstream-sync-20260924-candidate), which descends from frozen upstream 67a2be0. Upstream force-rewrote history, so per FORK.md's rewrite runbook the candidate was built from the upstream tree with pin 62aef85 as the content base, then carried each j5/main PR since 8f56083 onto it and adapted it to upstream V2. This merge's tree equals the candidate tree exactly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Standalone skills need a reversible way to share their source folder with another provider. Add separate Link… and Unlink… actions, environment-scoped previews, batch unlink, confirmed original-folder deletion, and forget-only recovery to Settings → Skills. Creation and provider detection have separate results. Changed destinations can be forgotten without touching their files. Link removal checks the selected path, target, and identity before changing it.
Unlink inspects existing provider links on demand, including links created elsewhere, and removes only the exact paths and identities selected in the preview. It supports partial failures and remains usable after restarting. Catalog conflicts offer Use this catalog… with current and replacement targets and per-link selection. Confirmation replaces only the selected symlinks, including dangling links, and records ownership for later removal. Fresh validation rejects changed links, files, directories, changed selections, and destinations outside configured provider roots before mutation. Source folders remain intact; state-save failures roll back replacements. Original Personal or Project skills can be permanently deleted only after previewing their folder path and confirming the warning; symlinks and plugin, built-in, or catalog sources cannot authorize deletion.
Links reuse catalog root resolution and affected-provider refresh, including shared roots and relative configured homes. Mutations release the filesystem permit before discovery. Project destinations must resolve inside the selected project, and preview checks Git ignore rules and warns when an absolute machine path could be committed. Ownership uses the creation identity and rolls back if recording it fails.
Scope decision: #184 excluded project-level catalog installation, which remains out of scope. Individual standalone links can target an existing project so a user can expose one skill only to that workspace, without installing a catalog there. These links live inside the repository and share local source files rather than copying them; the preview explains Git exposure and compatibility limits.
The Settings flow is web/desktop only and targets Codex or Claude. Mobile retains skill use in chat; Cursor, Grok, OpenCode, and Antigravity retain existing discovery without link-target controls. Plugins and built-in skills cannot be linked individually.
Stack 3/3, based on #215.
Validation: 144 focused tests across eight files on the completed stack after merging j5/main; server and web typechecks. The maintainer is handling the local UI check; no new browser, desktop, or mobile verification was run.
Model: GPT-6. Harness: Codex.
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