## 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
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