## Why
Direct executor skill discovery used unrestricted filesystem access, bypassing the turn's permission context. Cached catalogs also needed to account for changes in filesystem access within a turn.
## What changed
- Bind selected capability roots to callback-scoped filesystem access through `AccessedSelectedCapabilityRoot`.
- Pass accessors built with the turn's granted permissions into skill preparation and discovery, removing the executor skill provider's environment lookup and unrestricted accessor.
- Include filesystem access keys in the direct discovery cache so permission changes trigger rediscovery.
## Testing
Extend tests to verify that restricted discovery returns no skills when sandbox access is unavailable, restoring access restores discovery, and changing or restoring access invalidates the catalog cache.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0f7aa7646f65923f65f0cfc0b387d94bd7f2db05
## Why
Repository skill discovery must reflect current filesystem access, including newly approved grants and narrower permissions. Previously listed skills can remain in conversation history after a turn-scoped grant expires, so catalog updates need to tell the model when availability changes.
## What changed
- Discover repository skills through the selected executor's permission-aware filesystem accessor and refresh snapshots when the working directory or access changes. Use the current step's snapshot for skill selection and invocation.
- Preserve repository boundaries even when project markers are hidden by read restrictions, and report unsupported sandbox backends as skill-loading errors.
- Track grant-dependent catalog entries and emit availability notices when skills disappear or return, even when the metadata budget is exhausted.
- Resolve implicit skill paths through their owning filesystem and exclude remote repository skills from local implicit command attribution.
## Testing
Add coverage for turn and session grants, grant expiry and restoration, hidden and newly created repository markers, cached read denials on Windows, unsupported remote sandboxes, and executor-backed implicit skill paths.
GitOrigin-RevId: ac1af483e73e3130524aeeabe218630435054028
## Why
Skill discovery and metadata loading used raw filesystem handles with unrestricted reads, and cache keys distinguished filesystems without accounting for captured permissions.
## What changed
- Pass borrowed `EnvironmentAccess` accessors through skill root resolution, discovery, canonicalization, and metadata reads.
- Include captured permissions in skill snapshot and empty remote root cache keys.
- Add fixed-path watches to `EnvironmentAccess`, falling back to live discovery when read restrictions prevent using unsandboxed executor watches.
- Keep user and plugin roots under host filesystem authority independently of the selected repository executor.
## Testing
Extend remote root cache coverage to verify that changing captured permissions triggers a fresh scan and that restricted accessors decline unsandboxed watches.
GitOrigin-RevId: 97d4bfdfcba78a93fc8845773c6397d4364494e3
## What changed
Add the disabled-by-default `omit_skill_descriptions` feature flag to omit descriptions from model-visible host, executor, and cloud skill catalogs while retaining names and locators. Adapt catalog introductions, usage instructions, and alias budget accounting to the selected policy.
Persist the description policy in catalog snapshots and refresh usage instructions when it changes. Ignore description-only edits in catalog deltas while descriptions are omitted.
## Testing
Add coverage for alias token budgets, policy changes with older snapshots, and suppressed description-only updates. Extend scenario snapshots to cover plugin visibility and catalog deduplication with descriptions omitted.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5bf1dcee8c04059c7a78998affc1efcdef8ec883
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `skill_catalog_deltas` feature flag to append new and updated skills without repeating unchanged catalog entries.
- Share a cumulative metadata budget across executor, cloud, and host catalogs, preserving usage across turns and resume. Removals emit no update and do not refund budget.
- Rebuild the current catalog and reset its budget after compaction, including any required skill root mappings in updates.
## Testing
Add unit and integration coverage for update costs, shared source budgets, feature rollback, and catalog updates across resume and compaction, with a request-history snapshot.
GitOrigin-RevId: e88b4265d7361498113d43fdc2e0260a9f930bbc
## Why
A skill can be available from Cloud and multiple executor environments. Reading its instructions needs to expose where supporting files live and allow discovery of locations omitted by response limits. Package aliases also need to keep identifying the same roots as catalogs change.
## What changed
- With executor capability discovery V2, add `skills.installations` to list enabled locations with source filtering and pagination, without reading skill contents.
- Let `skills.read` select Cloud or a specific executor environment through `source`. Return bounded installation metadata and an `installations_truncated` flag so callers can retrieve omitted locations.
- Share bounded, append-only alias assignments between catalog rendering and tools within a live thread. Preserve each step's alias snapshot and render only root mappings used by its catalog entries.
- Use discovery-root metadata when constructing executor skill locators, with a fallback when it is absent. Preserve the legacy read response and tool set outside discovery V2.
## Testing
Add coverage for installation filtering and pagination, response budgets, source-specific reads and cursors, and alias stability across catalog and plugin changes. Add an end-to-end scenario that discovers an omitted installation and reads its instructions from the selected environment.
GitOrigin-RevId: a04e51e8242b21288d9d7b822780f9f1e093151d
## What changed
- Build executor skill catalogs from discovery V2 inventories without reopening host paths or falling back to legacy discovery.
- Merge Cloud and executor skills by remote plugin identity and skill name, retaining Cloud metadata and accepted provider read routes. Apply plugin selection and disablement before merging.
- Share a stable catalog across each step's rendering, list/read tools, and explicit and implicit skill invocations.
- Preserve unmatched executor entries when Cloud catalogs are unavailable or partial; only complete Cloud catalogs disable unmatched remote entries.
- Bind discovery caches to captured environments and executor sessions, and refresh MCP when V2 inventories change. Preserve pending invalidations when forced MCP refreshes fail.
## Testing
Add regression coverage for V2 inventory sharing and refresh, environment isolation, catalog merging, partial Cloud results, disabled plugins, and catalog consistency across steps and read routes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 842bdcbc9e19364dd69a9abf9e48330b7425a76c
## Why
Contextual fragments and extension-owned world-state sections currently return strings, limiting them to text content.
## What changed
- Return `ContentItem` from fragment bodies and rendering, preserving classification and attribution. Apply text markers only to `InputText`; pass other content through unchanged.
- Allow extension prompt and world-state contributions to carry typed content, and preserve media in context-window hints.
- Hash non-text world-state fragments by their serialized content and role while retaining the existing text hashing behavior.
- Add shared content-to-tool-output conversion that preserves image references, image detail, and audio.
## Testing
Add coverage for typed world-state hashing and preservation of image content and attribution. Expand code-mode output tests to cover input text, output text, file-backed and inline images, and audio.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2ed00d466a3f169b151202f3eef71e667ea64be1
## What changed
- Add the disabled-by-default `executor_capability_discovery_v2` feature to acquire `capabilities/discoverV2` inventories from supporting remote executors using each selected environment's working directory and sandbox.
- Share snapshots with MCP and world-state contributors and skill providers without activating discovered plugins or publishing discovered skills to the model.
- Cache inventories by environment instance, executor session, working directory, and sandbox. Coalesce concurrent requests, refresh the cache at turn start, retry transient failures, and refresh MCP projections after recovery.
- Resolve the system skills root in the executor and pass it explicitly to capability location discovery.
## Testing
Add coverage for feature gating, unsupported executors, inert inventories, cache reuse and eviction, turn refreshes, failure recovery, executor replacement, and system skill locations.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1bdca28fa7f17622b27e2713ab3dcc0c13426889
## Why
Skills available from both cloud and executor providers consume duplicate catalog space, leaving less room for descriptions of unique skills.
## What changed
- Prefer model-visible cloud skills over executor listings with the same `plugin:skill` name before allocating the metadata budget.
- Preserve aliases from the full visible executor inventory so filtering duplicates does not renumber remaining packages. Continue choosing full locators when they fit the budget better.
- Keep executor packages available through `skills.list` and `skills.read`, and retain executor listings when cloud skills are disabled.
## Testing
Add regression tests and a model-request snapshot covering description retention, stable aliases across turns, executor availability changes, package reads, and full-locator selection after deduplication.
GitOrigin-RevId: 477e4cf16b8968dbe61438dd5af1eca9cbfa78c8
## What changed
- Replace the built-in orchestrator skill provider with a host-supplied cloud provider, using `cloud` authority and `c` root aliases in skill tools and prompts.
- Add `cloud.skills.enabled`, defaulting to true but requiring a supplied provider. Keep `orchestrator.skills` accepted as a legacy no-op setting, and remove the app server's automatic orchestrator provider registration.
- Discover cloud skills once per turn during cancellable startup. Serve catalog snapshots to prompts and tools without triggering discovery or retries.
- Scope cached catalogs and resources to authentication state. Preserve them on refresh failures within the same scope, invalidate them when that scope changes, and reject late discovery or read results from replaced cache generations.
- Reuse executor discovery catalogs only when successful discovery inputs and bundled-skill settings match.
## Testing
Add coverage for per-turn refresh, skill removal, same-account failures and reconnects, authentication changes, and stale in-flight results. Update configuration and tool tests for cloud authority, provider gating, and resource reads without an executor.
GitOrigin-RevId: c57e38ec7dcc880c0d4c8a2995adfd3e28301079
## What changed
Stop emitting a warning when skill descriptions are shortened to fit the skills context budget. Continue warning when skills are omitted from the model-visible list.
Update the app-server warning test to set `skills.max_context_tokens` to `1_000` and expect the omitted-skills warning. Remove assertions and tests for the description-shortening warning.
GitOrigin-RevId: feac10b3d159d73648a786120d477b7fe4e082d7
## Why
Repeated skill locator roots can make catalog prompts larger even when the
catalog fits within its metadata budget.
## What changed
Evaluate aliased catalogs regardless of budget pressure and select them when
they preserve skill inclusion and description content while reducing prompt
size. Apply the same selection to combined host, executor, and orchestrator
catalogs.
## Testing
Add coverage for alias selection in full host-only catalogs and update skill,
symlink, and orchestrator resource tests to expect shortened locators and their
root mappings.
GitOrigin-RevId: ccedd3f3f6c7efaa1e5177a2d8c3d81d59239f52
## What changed
- Add `[skills].max_context_tokens` to override the token budget used to render the available-skills catalog.
- Require a positive value and cap configured budgets at 10,000 tokens.
- Preserve the existing default of 2% of the model context window when the option is unset.
## Testing
- Cover configuration parsing, override behavior, the 10,000-token cap, and catalog rendering within the configured budget.
GitOrigin-RevId: f29ddcb57fc2d800c0006d03e1c33cbe3ab6272d
## Why
Skill catalogs can present shortened package locators, but callers previously had
to expand those aliases before reading a skill.
## What changed
- Resolve catalog aliases automatically when `skills.read` looks up a
model-visible executor or orchestrator skill package.
- Update skill prompts and tool documentation to tell models to pass the listed
package locator directly.
## Testing
- Exercise reading an executor skill through its shortened package locator when
the skills catalog exceeds its context budget.
GitOrigin-RevId: d1cdfd64002510b616146929deb5b7077850b951
## Why
Executor skills required a `skills.list` lookup before their contents could be
read, even when the catalog already identified the skill.
## What changed
- Render executor skill catalog entries as package locators, including shortened
locators when skill roots are aliased.
- Tell the model to pass those packages directly to `skills.read`, while keeping
`skills.list` as the fallback when no package is available.
- Use the shorter package locators when applying the skills context budget.
## Testing
Update catalog, aliasing, budget-pressure, and selected-skill coverage, including
an executor package ID containing a literal backslash.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2ace5e527dc4f29651a8f3214475ccc90d52c73f
## What changed
- Make `package` the only required argument to `skills.read`, resolving the
owning orchestrator or executor catalog automatically.
- Default omitted `resource` values to the package's main `SKILL.md`.
- Render orchestrator skills as package locators and instruct the model to read
them directly without first calling `skills.list`.
- Update skill extension and app-server coverage for direct main-resource
reads, referenced resources, aliases, and the revised tool schema.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9faf57a8d0935566a15094931eaabaa8f0613e9e
## What changed
- Add `HostSkillsSnapshot::load_skill_prompts` so the skills extension owns reading and rendering selected host skills.
- Keep explicit invocation telemetry, unreadable-skill warnings, plugin prompt ordering, and suppression of host prompts superseded by provider prompts.
- Remove the legacy prompt injection and fragment implementation from `codex-core-skills`.
## Testing
- Cover prompt truncation without an installed skills extension, skill/plugin ordering, selective provider supersession, unreadable skills, and contextual fragment detection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9c8b84ad54b90d174abc287ab49cc5a231e9e1aa
## Why
Long executor and orchestrator resource identifiers can consume enough of the
skills context budget to omit otherwise available skills.
## What changed
- Add source-aware root aliases for executor, orchestrator, and host skill
catalogs, including catalogs with a single shared root.
- Select the best combination of aliased catalogs under the shared metadata
budget while accounting for root tables and alias usage instructions.
- Explain how to expand shortened `skill://` locators and accept the resulting
description-shortening warning in app-server coverage.
## Testing
- Add rendering and production-turn coverage for singleton, executor,
orchestrator, host, and combined catalog aliases.
GitOrigin-RevId: c1bc1f3d371eae9526232674060235272cc28f16
## What changed
- Compact executor and orchestrator skill locators under metadata pressure, using provider-specific `e` and `o` aliases alongside host `r` aliases.
- Derive alias roots from executor discovery paths and orchestrator namespaces while preserving host plugin root handling.
- Centralize alias ordering, deduplication, and longest-prefix matching across skill providers.
## Testing
- Cover alias planning, cross-platform executor roots, and host plugin discovery.
GitOrigin-RevId: e7d15bd3891c08ae20170e96c4ad45c76d353707
## What changed
- Use `HostSkillRoot` throughout host root resolution and loading, including plugin roots.
- Remove the duplicate loader, root snapshot, and product-filtering implementation from `core-skills` now that loading is owned by the skills extension.
- Move and expand loader coverage for discovery, namespaces, filesystem routing, root merging, symlinks, and frontmatter parsing.
## Testing
- Added focused unit and integration tests under `ext/skills` and `skills` for the consolidated loader behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: 214d06d59bf3033ee0f220ea5959ee4feff66782
## What changed
- Load ordinary recursive host skill roots with the skills extension's host loader.
- Keep plugin-specific roots on the existing loader so plugin snapshot caching and namespacing continue to work.
- Merge both kinds of root snapshots through the existing precedence and deduplication logic, including discovery paths and source filesystem mappings.
- Move `HostSkillsSnapshot` into the skills extension as the owner of host skill loading.
## Testing
- Cover merged host and plugin catalogs, precedence for symlinked roots, discovery paths, and end-to-end rendering and invocation of host, repository, and plugin skills.
GitOrigin-RevId: c18080afb917c33c57bc17e36b40dd0f3c72d1d7
## What changed
- Move the orchestrator skill catalog from thread context into its own
`orchestrator_skills` world-state section so unchanged catalogs remain
incremental across turns.
- Discover executor, orchestrator, and host catalogs together and render them
against one context-window-aware metadata budget, preserving executor entries
before orchestrator and host entries under pressure.
- Emit catalog metrics and budget warnings when each world-state section is
rendered.
## Testing
- Cover incremental orchestrator catalogs across production turns, combined
catalog budgeting, disabled and unavailable providers, caching, warnings, and
metrics.
GitOrigin-RevId: a0fb25d39dcaf43c978aff9da7972a1206f736e4
## What changed
- Make the skills extension own the catalog prompt templates and rendering path.
- Remove the duplicate core fallback that injected available skills into initial context.
- Update core integration tests to install the skills extension explicitly when they expect model-visible skill context.
GitOrigin-RevId: bbe6b15c4e776a09c98b7f4166426fe4e58434ba
## Why
Host skill path aliases should follow the core skill loader's root discovery
order, independent of how catalog entries are sorted for rendering.
## What changed
- Propagate each host skill root's discovery position into its catalog entries.
- Assign `r0`, `r1`, and subsequent aliases from that position while leaving
entries without an explicit root order last.
## Testing
Added coverage for alias ordering in extension rendering and across consecutive
production turns.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9085a3843c91bf2ce78a378cf5ce4926e9c38eb8
## What changed
- Load and cache the host skill provider catalog during world-state contribution.
- Render host skill listings from that catalog with Core-compatible budgeting, while preserving Core's full prompt injection for selected host skills.
- Reuse the cached host catalog for shadow selection, including when skill listings are disabled.
- Preserve an empty Core-compatible skills fragment when every entry exceeds the metadata budget, and make budget warnings independent of the configured percentage.
## Testing
- Cover provider-backed host listings, selected-skill prompt injection, shadow selection, disabled listings, oversized prompts, empty fragments, metrics, and warnings.
GitOrigin-RevId: b6b2d8ea14386356094cff5783d121d74657e9e3
## What changed
- Allocate 2% of the resolved model context window to skill metadata without
imposing the previous 4,000-token ceiling.
- Keep the 8,000-character fallback when no context window is available.
- Extend catalog rendering coverage to verify that a 400,000-token context
window receives an 8,000-token metadata budget and includes more skills.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5120d462de22fbfe5f9c4ab0d1bb97e51950d4b2
## Why
Rendering host and executor skill catalogs independently allows their combined
metadata to exceed the skills context budget.
## What changed
- Allocate one budget across both catalogs when both contain model-visible
skills.
- Prefer retaining executor skills when budget pressure requires omissions,
while preserving an executor omission marker and reporting when all host
skills were omitted.
- Evaluate absolute and aliased host paths under the shared budget and select
the rendering that best preserves executor entries, total entries, and
descriptions, in that order.
## Testing
Added renderer and production-turn coverage for shared-budget description
shortening, host-first omission, executor omission markers, and alias selection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 30041736a76aa173cb641aa98a876a306cb437d2
## Why
Repeated absolute path prefixes consume the bounded skill catalog and can leave
less room for descriptions or later skills.
## What changed
- Track the discovery root for host skills and render shared roots as `r0`,
`r1`, and similar aliases when doing so improves the bounded catalog.
- Include a skill-roots table and alias-aware usage instructions whenever
compact paths are selected.
- Keep absolute, authority-aware locators when aliases provide no benefit or
the catalog contains non-host skills.
## Testing
Added unit and extension coverage for unpressured catalogs, constrained shared
paths, mixed-source catalogs, and plugin-cache root selection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4196df2c52be27338796065cb2e6434efcfac6d5
## Why
Skill catalog rendering can shorten descriptions or omit enabled skills to fit
the model context budget. Surface these reductions so users know when the
model-visible catalog has lost detail.
## What changed
- Emit a warning with the omitted skill count whenever entries do not fit.
- Warn when description shortening averages more than 100 characters per skill.
- Deduplicate executor catalog warnings across repeated world-state builds in a
turn.
## Testing
- Cover the description-shortening threshold and omission warning text.
- Verify warnings through extension and production-turn catalogs, including
per-turn deduplication.
GitOrigin-RevId: bd7fc3482e5dfd8c79072f772a2f54aa502478d9
## Why
Core-compatible skill catalog output should match the core renderer when the
metadata budget omits entries.
## What changed
- Emit the bounded-catalog omission notice only for `ExtensionCompatible`
rendering.
- Continue tracking omitted entries in `SkillRenderReport` for both policies,
even when `CoreCompatible` produces no fragment because every entry is
omitted.
## Testing
Cover policy-specific omission notices and the case where no minimum skill line
fits within the metadata budget.
GitOrigin-RevId: 79883c15a49c02ff83444ddc272030cb4ddb53c0
## What changed
- Return a `SkillRenderReport` with total, included, and omitted skill counts,
plus truncated description counts and character totals.
- Keep fragment construction separate from rendering so callers can inspect the
report even when the metadata budget is too small to emit a fragment.
## Testing
- Cover partial description truncation, fully omitted entries, and catalogs
whose omission marker does not fit the budget.
GitOrigin-RevId: e73fdbcf77ac73c7209100ff6c9b5862b6a59a54
## Why
Core-compatible catalog rendering needs to preserve the core renderer's skill
priority, including when metadata budgets omit lower-priority entries.
## What changed
- Carry each host skill's `SkillScope` into its catalog entry.
- Under `CoreCompatible`, order visible skills by system, admin, repo, and user
scope, then by name and prompt resource ID.
- Preserve insertion order under `ExtensionCompatible`.
## Testing
Add coverage for propagating host skill scope and for both rendering policies.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9594a177edb2166abf1b5719c51a46fcee000600
## Why
Long skill descriptions can consume the catalog's metadata budget before later
skills are listed, hiding otherwise usable skills from the model.
## What changed
- Reserve space for every skill's name and locator when those minimum lines fit.
- Distribute the remaining token or character budget across descriptions in
round-robin order.
- Fall back to omitting entries only when the minimum catalog cannot fit.
## Testing
Added extension and production-turn coverage that verifies moderate budget
pressure keeps every catalog entry, shortens descriptions evenly, and avoids an
omission marker.
GitOrigin-RevId: 41971e4b47a86863b3839707b5cffcd8d83b888c
## Why
A fixed character limit does not account for the different context-window sizes supported by models.
## What changed
- Budget extension-rendered skill metadata at 2% of the resolved model context window, capped at 4,000 tokens.
- Keep the existing 8,000-character fallback when model context metadata is unavailable.
- Include the omission marker in the budget and still emit it when no skill entry fits.
- Apply the same resolved budget to executor and host skill catalogs assembled for a turn.
## Testing
- Cover proportional and capped budgets, multibyte fallback accounting, and omission-marker behavior.
- Verify through the production turn path that larger model context windows include more catalog entries without exceeding the computed budget.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4667293f1594de4dd605b32b9fa4255d26772c0f
## What changed
- Parameterize skill catalog rendering with explicit core- and extension-compatible description policies.
- Use full skill descriptions for core-compatible output, while extension-compatible output prefers `short_description` and falls back to the full description.
- Keep extension prompt and world-state rendering on the extension-compatible policy.
## Testing
- Add a renderer test covering description selection and fallback for both policies.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5382075f88c25a49a715feb0702a9ab888ec0123
Dmitriy Kovalenko