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Skills series, part 2 of 3. Proposed in #15823. Part 1: #17513, part 3: #17515.
This PR builds on part 1, so its diff here includes part 1's 8 commits. Its own 38 commits are in this compare view.

Problem

Part 1 shows which agents can use each skill, but fixing a gap still means making links by hand. Claude reads .claude/skills, while Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and Pi read .agents/skills, so a skill installed for one is often missing for another. In one real project, Claude could use 1 of its 36 skills. There is also no way to turn a skill off for one agent, keep one copy of a skill for only some projects, or act on a whole pack of skills at once.

Change

Turning skills on or off (SkillManager service, apps/server/src/skills/)

  • Every skill gets one switch for all agents. Each agent has its own switch a click away.

  • Turning a skill on for an agent that reads a different folder makes a link in that agent's folder to the skill's real folder, so the files stay in one place. Turning it off removes that link and nothing else.

  • An agent that reads the skill's folder directly gets its own setting instead:

    • Claude: skillOverrides in its settings, which for a project is .claude/settings.local.json, kept out of git;
    • Codex: [[skills.config]] written through its app-server;
    • OpenCode: permission.skill deny, preserving comments in opencode.json(c);
    • Pi: its settings file.

    Where a project or organization setting decides, T3 Code says so. Cursor, Grok and Antigravity have no such setting, so their switch is disabled with a reason.

  • It never replaces anything. A real folder, file or different link under the same name is left alone and reported. A link is only removed when it can be proven to point at that skill. Writes are atomic and keep file permissions. Windows uses junctions for global links.

Where a skill is used

  • Use in… offers three choices:
    • This project only;
    • Globally;
    • Only these projects: one Global copy linked into each chosen project, kept out of git with .git/info/exclude, and into the worktrees T3 Code makes for them.
  • Moves are guarded. A move never merges or overwrites, carries the skills CLI's lock record with the skill when it can, and says when it can't.
  • Delete removes a skill's folder and its links after a confirmation.

List (apps/web/src/components/settings/)

  • Skills installed from the same source are grouped under From owner/repo.
  • Select turns on checkboxes and a bar to turn many skills on or off, move them or delete them. Section and group switches act on all of their skills, and ask first before turning many off.

Agents: MCP tools t3_skill_list, t3_skill_get, t3_skill_enable and t3_skill_disable. Agents can't move or delete skills.

Scopes: every change to skills requires filesystem:write, and reading git's tracking requires filesystem:read. Changes in a project require a registered project's folder.

Docs: docs/user/skills.md.

Scope and approval

This is a new feature, and it doesn't have explicit maintainer approval yet. I proposed it in Ideas discussion #15823. On October 6 I posted a working prototype there with a proposed split; two users replied in support, but no maintainer has responded so far. I'm opening the series so the direction can be judged on working code, and I'll reshape, split or close it on your call. It continues the read-only Skills page from #4630, which was closed unmerged.

Verification

CI's checks, on Linux x64 with Node 24, all pass. The last two commits were checked again with the server typecheck, the JsoncSettings tests and the server build:

  • knip, vp check and vpr typecheck;
  • the package tests (10,604 tests), the server suite (5,719) and the web suite (6,660);
  • vp run build:desktop.

The server starts, both bundled and from source, and answers HTTP 200. The bundle inlines every dependency, and jsonc-parser's UMD entry used to stop it at startup; the last two commits fix that.

The branch is rebased onto main at ed4ea1083d.

The fixes for the bot reviews are separate commits at the end of this PR's own commits. Each review thread has a reply naming its commit.
Focused tests, against temp directories:

  • SkillManager, SkillSwitches, SkillLinks and SkillPlacement;
  • SkillLibrary, SkillMove, SkillLockFiles, SkillGitExclude and SkillTracking;
  • JsoncSettings, which preserves comments in opencode.jsonc;
  • the skills MCP handlers;
  • RpcAuthorization;
  • the web logic tests.

In a real browser, against the same demo data, there are 27 scripted checks. Each one reads the files on disk after the click:

  • Codex: off writes [[skills.config]] … enabled = false, and on removes it.
  • OpenCode: off writes a permission.skill deny and keeps the file's comments, and on removes it.
  • Claude: on links its folder to the skill.
  • Row switch: turns every agent off, then back on.
  • Use in… → Only these projects:
    • one library copy, linked into both projects;
    • the links are kept out of git;
    • Claude still has the skill in both projects;
    • the row shows a 2 projects badge.
  • Globally: the skill is back in the Global folder, and the project links and exclude lines are gone.
  • Selecting two skills → Global: the confirmation offers the git undo.
  • Group switch: on and off for the whole group, Claude included.
  • Delete: removes the folder and its links.

No console errors and no horizontal overflow. At 390 px, the open row, Use in… and Select have no overflow.

Not checked:

  • Windows junctions: written but not run on Windows.
  • macOS: not run.
  • Pi's setting: Pi isn't installed on the test machine.

Before: part 1's read-only list.

Agent switches Use in…
Agent switches Use in
Only some projects Select
Two projects Select
Group off Phone
Group off confirmation Phone

Implemented by Claude Sonnet 5.5 and reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5, run in T3 Code.

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Walkthrough

This change adds skill discovery and management across the server and web app. It introduces skill contracts, provider integrations, filesystem operations, RPC and MCP access, worktree support, and a settings page for viewing and changing skills.

Changes

Skill lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contracts and provider discovery
packages/contracts/*, packages/provider-core/*, packages/provider-cursor/*, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/*
Adds skill request and result contracts, shared agent folder definitions, provider settings-writer support, and provider discovery updates.
Catalog, library links, and tracking
apps/server/src/skills/SkillCatalog.ts, SkillLibrary.ts, SkillTracking.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.ts
Adds bounded skill discovery and retrieval, reports agent access and copies, identifies tracked project skills, and restores library links in worktrees.
Agent settings and filesystem operations
apps/server/src/skills/*Settings.ts, JsoncSettings.ts, SkillLinks.ts, SkillMove.ts, SkillLockFiles.ts, SkillGitExclude.ts
Adds per-agent skill switches, JSONC and TOML settings edits, safe link and folder operations, lock-file transfers, and Git exclude updates.
Skill management and server interfaces
apps/server/src/skills/SkillManager.ts, SkillPlacement.ts, apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/*, packages/client-runtime/*
Adds enable, disable, placement, deletion, and tracking RPCs, MCP tools, authorization, service wiring, and refresh handling.
Skills settings page
apps/web/src/components/settings/*, apps/web/src/routes/settings.skills.tsx, docs/user/skills.md
Adds the settings route, skill list and detail views, file browsing, bulk actions, placement controls, responsive behavior, and user documentation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SkillsSettings
  participant WebSocketRPC
  participant SkillCatalog
  participant SkillManager
  participant ProviderInstance
  User->>SkillsSettings: Open skills settings
  SkillsSettings->>WebSocketRPC: Request skills or submit a plan
  WebSocketRPC->>SkillCatalog: List or retrieve skills
  WebSocketRPC->>SkillManager: Apply enable, disable, placement, or deletion
  SkillManager->>SkillCatalog: Resolve current skill state
  SkillManager->>ProviderInstance: Refresh affected skill pickers
  WebSocketRPC-->>SkillsSettings: Return skill results
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The change affects 8 systems.

Changed systems: apps/server, apps/web, packages/client-runtime, packages/contracts, packages/provider-core, docs, packages/provider-cursor, packages/shared

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  • observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 50 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — apps/web (ui) was modified; 17 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — packages/client-runtime (library) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — packages/contracts (library) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/skills/tools.ts: Adds imports for skill result and reference types, Effect schemas and AI tools, and the project, thread, skill, and MCP context services used by the toolkit.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/skills/tools.ts: Defines shared failure handling and dependencies, an optional project ID, skill-reference batches limited to 1–200 entries, agent lists limited to 1–64 IDs, and descriptions of agent naming and batch outcomes.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/skills/tools.ts: Adds read-only, non-destructive t3_skill_list and t3_skill_get tools. Both accept an optional project ID and use the skill catalog; the list returns skill access information, while get accepts a skill reference and returns its details.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/skills/tools.ts: Adds non-destructive t3_skill_enable and t3_skill_disable batch tools using the skill manager. Enable accepts "all" or a 1–64-agent list; disable requires an agent list. Their descriptions document link and settings changes, blockers, outcomes, and the full-access requirement.


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apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts (1)

3524-3529: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move the library-link restore out of the Git driver.

createWorktree now imports from ../skills/SkillLibrary.ts and runs skill filesystem work. As a result, the VCS driver depends on the skills domain. The repository rule says: "A server capability is a method on a service in its domain folder ... Extend the service that already owns the domain." Call restoreLibraryLinks from the service that creates a thread's worktree (the worktree setup flow), not from the Git driver. With that change, GitVcsDriver stays a Git adapter, and the restore stays next to the other skill code.

As per coding guidelines: "A server capability is a method on a service in its domain folder (project/, workspace/, git/, provider/, ...). Extend the service that already owns the domain."

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Move the restoreLibraryLinks call out of GitVcsDriverCore’s createWorktree flow
and into the service that sets up a thread’s worktree, keeping the restore
alongside the skills-domain code. Remove the skills-domain dependency and
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts:
- Around line 310-316: Update materializeCodexShadowHome to include config.toml
among the entries linked into the shadow home, so the writer and
SkillManager.switchCodex use the same shared configuration file.

Review comments at @apps/server/src/skills/SkillLibrary.ts:
- Line 164: Update the link creation path in SkillLibrary using the repository
prefix resolved from input.project, so links are created beneath the project’s
subfolder within the worktree. In SkillPlacement, apply the same prefix
resolution using link.project when constructing the restored-link path, so
removal and restoration target the correct location.

Review comments at @apps/server/src/ws.ts:
- Around line 2183-2184: Update the serverListSkills and serverGetSkill handlers
to validate any supplied cwd against registered projects before calling
skillCatalog.list or skillCatalog.get, preventing unregistered directories from
being scanned or passed to Git; preserve global reads when cwd is omitted and
retain the existing get check that home matches a discovered skill.

Review comments at @docs/user/skills.md:
- Around line 29-33: Update the skill-switch description in the user skills
documentation to omit explanations of visible icons and controls, including the
sparkle and row-click behavior. Keep the task-relevant behavior: a skill switch
applies to every agent, opening a skill allows switching one agent at a time,
and a project, global, or group switch changes all its skills and asks before
turning many off.

Review comments at @packages/contracts/src/clientRpcPermissions.ts:
- Line 40: Update the authorization mappings for serverPlaceSkills and
serverDeleteSkills to require AuthFilesystemWriteScope instead of
AuthOrchestrationOperateScope, and import AuthFilesystemWriteScope if needed.
Leave unrelated RPC permissions unchanged.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:
- Around line 3524-3529: Move the restoreLibraryLinks call out of
GitVcsDriverCore’s createWorktree flow and into the service that sets up a
thread’s worktree, keeping the restore alongside the skills-domain code. Remove
the skills-domain dependency and filesystem work from the Git driver while
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Addressed the bot reviews in new commits at the end of this PR's own commits:

  • 6dd68c6: skill changes require filesystem:write, and tracking requires filesystem:read and a registered project.
  • 2a8a5ae: a Codex switch is read from the home Codex runs with (its shadow home).
  • 1446d5b: linking library skills into a new worktree moved from the Git driver to GitManager (the CodeRabbit nitpick).
  • f8437ea: those links go to the project's folder inside the worktree.
  • bd022a0: the user docs say what the switches do, not what is on screen.
  • a32bf06: a change in a folder that is gone is now refused with a reason instead of crashing the request, following docs/internals/effect-services.md.

Rebased onto main at a1db449fe4. At this tip, CI's checks pass on Linux x64: knip, vp check, typecheck, every test suite and vp run build:desktop. The browser checks pass again against the demo data.

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n0mahd and others added 19 commits October 9, 2026 23:18
Add `server.listSkills` and `server.getSkill`, which read the skill folders of the enabled
provider instances straight from disk: no agent is asked to rescan, and nothing is written.

An agent loads one skill per name, the first it finds in its folders, so the catalog walks each
instance's folders in that order and a shadowed copy is `none` for that instance. Copies of a
name that differ, in one scope or across scopes, are reported. A SKILL.md header that Claude Code
can't parse marks the skill as skipped by Claude, using Claude's own header parser.

Folders follow each instance's config: a Claude instance's config directory or
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, `CODEX_HOME`, and `GROK_HOME`. Folders that exist but can't be read are
returned with the list. Descriptions are cut at 160 characters with a trailing "…". A SKILL.md
that is a link out of the skill's folder isn't read, and the file walk is bounded in files,
folders and entries per folder.

The Claude, Cursor and Antigravity scanners now read their folders from the same table, and
tests pin each scanner's folders and their order.

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Settings → Skills lists the skills in This project and Global, and shows which of your enabled
agents can use each one. Search and a Needs attention filter surface skills an agent doesn't
use, copies that conflict, and skills Claude can't read. Opening a skill shows its description,
which agents use it, any scripts it includes, and its files in a read-only viewer, with Copy
path in a menu. Escape in a skill returns to the list.

The agents are the enabled provider instances, named and drawn like everywhere else in the app,
so two instances of one driver are told apart.

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Listing skills and reading a skill return folder listings and SKILL.md text, which are file
contents. They took the orchestration read scope that thread readers hold, where the other file
reads (project files, folder listings, folder browsing) take the filesystem read scope. Use that
one for both.

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The skill list and a single skill took any absolute folder as the project and scanned the skill
folders under it, so a client could have the server read the folders of any path on the machine.
A given folder must now be the workspace root of a project the environment knows, the same check
the skill writes make, or the read is refused with `projectNotRegistered`. Global reads, which
have no folder, are unchanged.

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…ed by Claude

The list reported Claude as reaching a skill that Claude's own `skillOverrides` turn off, though
the `$` picker already greys out the same skill. The list now reads the overrides the way the
picker does (user, project, project-local, then managed policy) and shows such a skill as not
used by Claude, the same as for any other copy Claude doesn't load. The override names the skill
by folder name, so it applies to every copy of the name.

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When the settings scope's environment was offline, the Skills page fell back to the primary
environment (or the first one) and showed its skills as the picked project's, and could send that
checkout's folder to the wrong server. The page now stays on the scope's own environment and says
it is offline; only a scope that names no environment falls back to the primary one.

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The refresh button's request set state after its page was left, where the first load already
drops a result that arrives late. Guard it the same way.

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A skill reaches an agent through a link in the agent's own folder. Add
enable, disable and remove for that: a link is made with a bare create and
removed only when it is still the link that was inspected, so a real
folder or another skill's link is never replaced or deleted. Every write
re-reads the folders, refuses a skill whose home moved since the list was
read, and needs a registered project folder for project skills. Results
are one outcome per skill, so one bad skill doesn't stop a bulk request.
The three RPCs need the operate scope.

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The "Used by" chips in a skill become switches, rows get checkboxes with a
bulk bar (turn on for all agents, turn off for one agent, remove), and a
row in Needs attention offers a one-click turn on. Turning off asks first
only when another agent loses the skill too, and remove always asks. After
every change the page reads the list from the server again instead of
predicting it.

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…skill changes

Settings → Skills can only turn skills on or off for an agent. Moving a skill
between a project and Global, or deleting it, meant doing it by hand, and the
chat composer's `$` picker could lag behind any change.

`server.moveSkills` moves a skill's folder to the other scope's shared folder:
one rename on one filesystem; across filesystems a copy next to the
destination under a hidden name, checked against the original, then renamed
into place before the original goes. It never merges into or replaces a skill
with the same name, and a failed copy leaves no half-made skill. The agents'
old links are removed and recreated at the new scope with the same rules as
turning a skill on. `server.deleteSkills` deletes a skill's own folder and the
links to it. Both only act on a folder that sits in an agent's skill folder
itself, never a synced library behind a link, and both need Operate scope.

After any write that changed what an agent can use, the agents involved have
their composer skill list refreshed in the background, once, and nothing is
refreshed when nothing was written.

The skill list says which skills have a real folder, so the page can offer a
move only where it works. `server.skillsTracked` says which project skills git
tracks, with one `git ls-files` for the skills in a confirmation, so the page
promises an undo with git only where there is one. Listing still spawns nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds Move to Global, Move to this project and Delete to a skill's menu and to
the bar over ticked skills. Each asks first and names what goes; Delete says it
can't be undone, and Remove from agents says the original isn't deleted. A
confirmation says "You can undo this with git" once the server has said git
tracks the folder, and not when that check fails.

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… driver kind

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…ools

Adds t3_skill_list, t3_skill_get, t3_skill_enable and t3_skill_disable. Reads need any
orchestration credential; changes need a full-access caller, like project changes. Removing,
deleting and moving skills stay out of reach of agents.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ills in projects

The skill contracts gain what the next steps build on:

- An agent can be `off` for a skill: it can see the skill, but its own settings
  switch it off. An agent T3 Code can't switch for a skill is `fixed`, so a
  client can disable that switch.
- A skill can carry `source` (`owner/repo` from the installer's record, for
  grouping) and `projects` (the projects a Global skill is used in, when that
  isn't all of them).
- `server.placeSkills` replaces `server.moveSkills`. It puts skills in one
  project, in Global, or in Global but used only in some projects. Every
  project named must be registered.
- `server.removeSkills` is gone: turning a skill off for every agent covers it,
  so the page no longer offers "Remove from agents".
- A skill can be left as it is with `setElsewhere`: a project or organization
  setting decides it, so the agent's switch can't.

Enable, disable, place and delete are guarded client mutations, and the
permission tests cover them and the reads that stay open. The server still moves
skills between a project and Global as before; placing in only some projects is
refused until it is built.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…permissions on atomic writes

The picker's reader of Claude Code's skillOverrides now exposes the settings
files it merges one layer at a time, so the Skills page can write the right
layer and tell which one decides a skill. Skill headers also report their
declared name. Atomic writes can keep a file's permissions, for settings files
that hold credentials.

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…ir app-server

A provider instance can open a writer for the agent's own per-skill settings.
Codex's goes through the app-server's skills/config/write and stays open for
the scope that asked, so a request that changes many skills starts Codex once.

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n0mahd and others added 25 commits October 9, 2026 23:18
An agent that reads a skill's folder directly used to be locked on. Where the
agent has a per-skill setting T3 Code can write, Off now writes it and On takes
it away:

- Claude Code: skillOverrides in the user's settings.json (Global skills) or the
  project's settings.local.json (project skills)
- Codex: [[skills.config]] in config.toml, written by Codex itself through the
  app-server and read from the file, so listing never starts Codex
- OpenCode: permission.skill in the global config
- Pi: an exact exclusion in the user's settings.json, for Global skills

The list shows such an agent as off. An agent T3 Code can't switch for a skill
(Cursor, Grok, Antigravity, and Pi for project skills) is marked fixed and keeps
reporting alwaysOn. When a project or organization setting would still decide
the skill, nothing is written and the agent is reported as setElsewhere. A
settings file that doesn't parse is never written and is reported as failed.
Agents that reach a skill through a link still get the link made or removed.

Settings files are edited in place with jsonc-parser, so comments, key order and
permissions survive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…came from

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…se them

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A skill row now has one switch that turns the skill on for every agent or off
for every agent, and a click on the row opens a panel with a small switch for
each agent. Sections get a switch too, which asks before turning many skills
off. Agents T3 Code can't switch show a disabled switch and say why when
pointed at, instead of a lock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…o act on together

Skills from the same source sit under one row with its own switch and a
count, showing the first three and a row for the rest. Select in the page
header turns on checkboxes on rows and groups, and a bar at the bottom
turns the ticked skills on or off or deletes them. The checkboxes that
only showed on hover are gone.

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Use in… on an opened skill, on the skill view, and on the bar for selected
skills puts them in this project only, in every project, or in just the
projects you tick. Applying asks first, and says you can undo it with git
when a project skill leaves its project. A Global skill used in only some
projects shows a badge such as 2 projects. Skills held back for the same
agent now get one line in the result instead of one each.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…through its project links

A Global skill used in only some projects lives in the library and is linked into
each of those projects. Its agents are now the skill's own, whichever project is
open: an agent that reads `.agents/skills` has it in every project that uses it, and
one with a folder of its own (Claude, Grok) has it where it has a link.

- Turning such an agent on adds its link, and the exclude lines that keep it out of
  git, in each project that uses the skill. It no longer links into the global
  folders, which made the skill Global for that agent everywhere. Turning it off
  takes those links away again.
- An agent that reads the shared folder is switched through its own setting: Codex
  keys it by the library's SKILL.md, OpenCode by name. Pi's list only covers the
  user-level folders, so Pi stays fixed for these skills.
- The row's turn-on and turn-off for every agent work the same way.
- A library skill's links in the projects' folders are read once per project folder,
  however many library skills there are, and the same read gives the projects badge.
- When a library skill's links go (placing it out of a project, deleting it), the
  same links in that project's git worktrees go with them. Only a link that leads to
  that library skill is removed.
- The manager's test harnesses now provide what the merged services need.

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…rce record is lost

Two things travel with a skill when its real folder moves, and neither did all the way.

- Codex names a skill it switches off by the real path of its SKILL.md, so a move left
  that entry pointing at a folder that was gone and the skill on again. Every placement
  that moves the folder (project, Global, only some projects) now asks Codex, through
  the same writer as a switch, to switch the new path off and to clear the old entry.
  An entry that names the skill by name needs no change. An instance Codex can't be
  asked for is reported as blocked, and the skill still moves.
- When a skill's record in the `skills` CLI's lock can't go along (Global to project,
  when the folder isn't exactly what was recorded), the skill ends up with no source.
  The outcome now says so with `sourceDropped`, so a client can tell.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e creates it

Switching a project skill off for Claude writes `.claude/settings.local.json`. Claude
Code keeps that file out of git when it creates it
(https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings, "Settings files"), by adding it to the
global git excludes the first time it writes the file in a repository that doesn't
already ignore it. T3 Code now does the same when its own write creates the file, in the
repository's `info/exclude` since it doesn't edit the user's global git configuration, in a
block of its own. A file that was there already, one the repository ignores or tracks,
and a project that isn't in a git repository are left alone.

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When a placement can't carry a skill's installer record along, the result line now
says so in plain words, for example "write-a-prd won't update from mattpocock/skills
any more." Several skills are counted in one sentence.

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The server takes at most 200 skills in one turn-on, turn-off, placement or delete, so a
switch on a section with more than that failed whole. The page now sends the change in
batches of 200, one after the other, and puts the outcomes together into one result. If a
batch fails, what was done before it is still told, with the error after it.

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…ects

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Buttons sit on the chips' line in the expanded panel, and group rows
hide their agent icons below the sm breakpoint so the source fits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…k tracking's folder

Turning skills on or off, moving them and deleting them make and remove links, write the agents'
own settings files and move and delete skill folders, but took the orchestration operate scope.
They now take the filesystem write scope, as writing a project file does, and the Skills page's
switches follow it, since they read the same grant.

The git tracking check ran `git ls-files` in any absolute folder it was given. It now takes the
filesystem read scope, and the skill catalog's lookup that it goes through refuses a folder that
isn't a registered project's workspace root, like the list and a single skill do.

The skills MCP tools keep their own gate: reads are open to any caller, and changes need a live
full-access thread or a client approved above read-only, which is stricter than the scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An instance with a shadow home runs Codex there, so the app-server writes the skill setting to the
shadow home's config.toml, but the switch was read back from the shared home's. When the shared
config.toml didn't exist as the instance started, the shadow home keeps a file of its own, so the
write landed there and the read-back reported `failed`. The catalog now gives the switches the
home Codex runs in, which the page's own "is Codex switched off" check reads too. The skill
folders still follow the instance's home, and the shadow home's links are untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…t manager

The Git driver imported the skills domain and linked a project's library skills into every new
worktree it made. The worktree flows (the Git action, thread launch, turn start, the MCP tool and
a pull request thread) all reach the driver through GitManager, which already owns worktree policy
(the folder, submodules, the setup script), so the link step lives there now and the driver is
git only again. The driver files are back to what they are upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n folder

A worktree is a checkout of the whole repository, so when a project is a folder inside its
repository (a monorepo's apps/site) its folder in the worktree is under the worktree's root. The
links a new worktree gets, and the ones removed from a project's worktrees when it stops using the
skill, were joined onto the worktree's root, so they landed in or were looked for in the wrong
folder. Both now go through the project's folder in the repository, as `git rev-parse
--show-prefix` gives it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…screen

The Skills guide described the sparkle and the icons beside a switch, clicking a row, a bar at the
bottom, badges and the buttons on a row. Keep what the switches do and where they apply, and drop
the rest.

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…f dying

The manager looked up the project with `orDie`, so a folder that no longer exists (which can't be
normalized) was a defect instead of the `projectNotRegistered` refusal every other unknown folder
gets. The manager now asks the catalog, which holds the rule for what a project is: a missing
folder is refused, and only a failure of the lookup itself is a defect. The placement's `refuse`
helper that only built its error is gone, per the service conventions.

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`restoreLibraryLinks` resolved a project link's target against the link's folder to see if it leads
into the library, then wrote the raw target into the worktree. A relative target leads somewhere
else from a worktree at another depth. The new link now names the library skill's absolute path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`editExcludeBlock` documented that a block with a start marker and no end is left alone, but it
appended a second complete block. A later edit then paired the dangling start with the new end and
could not remove T3 Code's markers. The text is now returned unchanged, so the exclude file isn't
written and the link stays visible to git; callers already treat an unchanged file as done.

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@n0mahd
n0mahd force-pushed the feat/skills-manage branch from a32bf06 to b5814df Compare October 10, 2026 07:38
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…arts

The server bundle inlines its dependencies. jsonc-parser's main entry is UMD, whose
require("./impl/format") calls the bundler leaves as they are, so the bundled server, and with it
the desktop app, exited at startup with "Cannot find module './impl/format'".

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…s before

Importing jsonc-parser/lib/esm/main.js got the bundle to start, but that build imports its own
files without extensions, so the server no longer started from source under Node. The import is
back to "jsonc-parser", which Node and the tests load as they did, and the bundle config points
the bundler at the ESM build. Both the bundled server and the one run from source now start.

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