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netlify init now syncs the hosted Netlify skills manifest into the project's agent skills directory, verifying every file's SHA-256 and applying the stale/renamed/deprecated rules so repeat runs are no-ops. --skip-agent-setup opts out; failures warn and never block init. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review fixes: 10s per-request and 120s overall fetch deadline, follow a symlinked skills root and never touch symlinked skill entries, sweep staging and backup directories from an interrupted install, reinstall over an empty skill directory, refuse unknown manifest schemas, and install relative to the repository root. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Leftover staging and backup directories are removed only when they carry this command's ownership marker and are at least ten minutes old, so a user directory with a matching name or another run's in-flight install is never deleted. The staged tree is hash-verified before it replaces anything, and active manifest skills must carry a tree hash. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Init only installs and refreshes skills. Copies under a prior or deprecated name are reported and left in place, and leftover directories are not swept; those actions move to the sync work in EX-3055. Removes the ownership marker, overall deadline and signal plumbing, duplicate detection and staged re-hash that defended them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A skill directory is replaced only if, at swap time, it is empty or its tree hash matches a release we shipped. This stops a user directory that differs only by case on a case-insensitive filesystem, or one edited during the download, from being renamed aside and deleted. A refused swap is reported and the rest of the sync goes on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Matches the fetch-stubbing pattern the other unit tests use instead of starting a local http server. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 422-431: Update the per-skill install handling in install to
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[blocking] On Windows stat.mode & 0o111 is always 0, so a skill with anything in executable never matches its tree_hash once it's installed.
That's what three of the four Windows unit failures are. netlify-deploy installs, then reads as "edited locally" on the very next run and never updates after that. Only the mode assertion at test line 228 is a test-only problem. The description says no live skill ships an executable today, but the fixture does and CI is red on it.
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Fixed in 3536976. On win32 hashSkillTree now takes the manifest's executable list as the mode source instead of stat.mode; both callers (classification and the pre-swap check) pass it. The mode assertion in the test is skipped on Windows. The fixture keeps its executable file so the Windows job exercises this path. One edge remains on Windows only: if a file's executable bit flips between two releases, a copy of the older release reads as edited rather than stale and is kept instead of updated. Fail-safe, and no live skill has an executable file today.
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Follow-up: the Windows job on the previous push had one remaining failure, a test asserting unsorted readdir order, which NTFS returns differently. Sorted in the test. The three real Windows failures are gone on that run.
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[blocking] verify-docs is failing here. It's green on main and the other open PRs, so something in this branch doesn't match what the generator produces. This line looks right to me, so the diff is somewhere else.
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Fixed in 7c51cee. I had placed the flag alphabetically after manual; the generator's sortOptions puts base flags last and everything else before them, so the regenerated page lists it after auth. Ran ./site/scripts/docs.js locally and git status is clean on docs/.
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[follow-up] Any error that isn't a conflict (a 404 on one file, a hash mismatch) stops the whole sync.
Every skill after it and any remaining agent directory gets skipped. And because the outer catch returns installed: false with an empty summary, telemetry says nothing was installed even when earlier skills landed.
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Done in 3536976. syncSkills now records any non-conflict install error as a failed action with the message and keeps going with the next skill and the next directory. setupAgentSkills reports installed: true with a failed count in the summary, so telemetry shows what actually landed. Test: a 404 on one file of netlify-functions fails only that skill while netlify-deploy installs.
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[follow-up] These hashes come from the same manifest, on the same host, as the files, so they catch a bad download but not a bad host.
Nothing's signed, and this runs by default (CI included), writing files agents treat as instructions, some of them executable. Is the skills site being the whole trust boundary the call we want to make here?
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Agreed that the hashes bound the download, not the host. Today the trust boundary is TLS to netlify-agent-skills.netlify.app, which is the same boundary the recipes ai-context command has had for its context files, and the same one npx @netlify/skills has for the package. Signing the manifest is a producer-side change in context-and-tools (EX-3049 owns the manifest format). I'd rather take that there than block this PR on it. Happy to open the ticket if you agree.
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[follow-up] Nothing tests this. Deleting isSafeFilePath outright still passes the suite, and it's the only thing keeping a manifest path like ../../x inside the staged skill folder.
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Added in 3536976: a manifest whose files includes ../../escape.md is refused with unsafe manifest file path, nothing is written, and the skills dir is not created.
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[consider] A symlinked .claude/.agents/.grok is followed wherever it points, including outside the repo. I know that's on purpose, but a cloned repo can ship .claude -> ~/somewhere and init will create skill folders there by default. Is that okay?
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Good question. I kept following symlinked roots because a user who links .agents/skills to a shared folder did it on purpose, and the same edit protection applies there. The cloned-repo case you describe is real though: a repo could ship .claude -> ~/somewhere and init would write there. I'd propose refusing a root whose symlink target resolves outside the repository root, and following links that stay inside. That's a small follow-up; say the word and I'll add it here instead.
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[consider] The 10s timeout is per request and every file downloads one after another, so a slow host can hold init up for 10s per file. The overall cap went out in 0c19dda.
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Right, the overall cap went out with the scope trim. Worst case today is 38 requests at 10 s each if a host is slow on every single one; a dead host fails at the manifest in 10 s. I left it because a host that is slow on every request is also a host whose files we'd rather not install from, and the warn-and-continue path means init still completes. If you'd prefer the overall cap back it is about 15 lines; I can add it.
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[consider] treeHashOf is the same formula as hashSkillTree, written twice. If both disagree with whatever builds the hosted manifest, every test still passes. The live run in the description is the only thing tying them to the real producer.
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Fair. The formula is frozen for schema_version: 1 in context-and-tools' build-manifest.mjs, and the live runs against the hosted manifest (15 skills current on the second run) are what tie this implementation to the producer. A fixture-based test against a hash copied from the real manifest would pin it without the duplication; I'll add that in EX-3055 when the sync work lands, since that's where drift would bite.
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[nit] New telemetry event here, plus skipAgentSetup in the analytics payload below. Neither is in the PR description.
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Added to the description in the Changes section: the sites_agentSkillsSetup event with per-directory counts and skipAgentSetup in the analytics payload.
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[nit] When nothing's added or updated this prints "up to date", then lists kept skills right under it. On Windows that's every run: "up to date" followed by netlify-deploy: edited locally.
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Adjusted in 3536976: the summary line now carries the counts, so it reads up to date (1 kept) before the per-skill lines. The Windows case that made this show up every run is fixed by the executable-bit change.
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Windows has no executable bit, so the manifest's executable list stands in for it when hashing; this was failing the Windows unit run. A skill whose download fails is recorded as failed and the rest of the sync continues. The replaceability check also runs after staging, right before the rename. Adds tests for an escaping manifest path and for a directory written mid-download. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
installed now means at least one skill is current, added or updated, not merely that the manifest was fetched. A failed backup cleanup after a successful swap no longer reports the install as failed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 91-112: Update fetchBytes to reject redirects by setting an
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A refused redirect or DNS failure now reads "fetch failed: <cause>" instead of the bare message. Locally edited copies count as installed since the skills are present on disk. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
#### Summary [EX-3055](https://linear.app/netlify/issue/EX-3055/cli-keeps-installed-skills-in-sync-with-the-hosted-manifest). Stacked on #8555, so review that first. #8555 makes `netlify init` install the Netlify skills and refresh outdated copies, but it leaves copies under deprecated or prior names in place and gives the user no way to put an edited skill back to the shipped release. This PR adds the rest of the sync: re-running `init` deletes an unedited deprecated skill, migrates an unedited copy under a prior name to its current name, and cleans up what an interrupted run left behind. Anything the user edited is kept and listed, and `--reset-context` replaces, migrates or deletes it. This is the first path that deletes directories in a user's repo. A directory is removed only when its tree hash matches a release we shipped, re-hashed right before the `rm`, or under `--reset-context` when it sits at a manifest name. Nothing else is touched: unknown directories, symlinks, and a directory that differs from a skill name only by case on macOS are all left alone, with or without the flag. <details> <summary>Changes</summary> - **`src/utils/init/agent-skills.ts`:** `syncSkills` takes `reset`. New rules per directory: - *deprecated*, unedited: removed. Edited: kept and reported, removed with `--reset-context`. - *prior name*, unedited: the current name is installed if absent and the old directory removed. If either copy is edited, both stay until `--reset-context`. - *modified*: kept, replaced with `--reset-context`. A symlink or file at the skill's own name is replaced too; only the link is removed, never its target. - *leftovers*: `.netlify-skill-<name>-*` staging directories older than ten minutes and `<name>.old-*` backups that hash to a shipped release are removed when `<name>` is in the manifest. Younger staging directories belong to a run that may still be writing them. - **Guards:** before any forced replace, every entry in the skills directory is checked by inode against the target name, so a case twin (`Netlify-Deploy` next to `netlify-deploy`) is never renamed away, with or without `SKILL.md`. The assembled staging tree must hash to the manifest `tree_hash` before it is swapped in. A directory without `SKILL.md` under a prior or deprecated name is ignored. Every hash call passes the manifest's `executable` set, so the Windows path from #8555 holds here. - **Output:** the summary line counts `reset`, `renamed` and `removed` alongside `added`, `updated` and `failed`. Kept and failed copies are listed, with a `--reset-context` hint only when reset would act on one of them. - **`src/commands/init/index.ts`, `init.ts`:** the `--reset-context` flag, passed through `InitExtraOptions`; `resetContext` is added to the analytics payload and the `sites_agentSkillsSetup` event. `dev` and `watch` are unchanged. - **`docs/commands/init.md`:** regenerated with the new flag. **Testing** - `tests/unit/utils/init/agent-skills.test.ts` (54 tests, `fetch` stubbed): deprecated removed by exact and by prior name, edited deprecated kept then removed on reset, an edit made mid-run (while another skill downloads) keeps the deprecated copy; prior name migrated, removed as superseded, kept when either copy is edited, two prior names in one run; modified kept then reset, symlink reset without touching its target; leftover cleanup incl. a fresh staging directory left alone, an aged staging directory under a non-manifest name left alone, an edited backup kept; staged tree-hash mismatch refused; case twin with and without `SKILL.md` never replaced, with assertions for both case-sensitive and case-insensitive filesystems; an exact-name directory without `SKILL.md` left alone on reset; a backup kept while its skill is missing and removed once it is back; a prior name differing only by case renamed in place; a failed download recorded next to what landed; summary and hint lines. - `tests/integration/commands/init/init.test.ts`: the mock skills host now takes a manifest spec; shared init helpers hoisted. New test runs `init` against a stale, an edited and a deprecated copy (1 updated, 1 removed, 1 kept), then `init --reset-context` (1 reset). 9 tests pass. - `npm run test:unit` (717 tests), `npm run typecheck`, `npm run lint` and `npm run format:check` are clean. **Known gaps** - The live manifest has no deprecated or renamed skill yet, so those paths are exercised by tests only. - Two `netlify init` runs in the same repo at once are not serialized. The age guard and the staged hash check turn that race into a failed install rather than a corrupt one; the next run completes it. </details> --- - [x] Open a [bug/issue](https://github.com/netlify/cli/issues/new/choose) before writing your code 🧑💻 (tracked in Linear as EX-3055) - [x] Read the [contribution guidelines](../CONTRIBUTING.md) 📖 - [x] Update or add tests (if any source code was changed or added) 🧪 - [x] Update or add documentation (if features were changed or added) 📝 - [ ] Make sure the status checks below are successful ✅ 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The best local setup for agents today is the CLI plus hand-copied Netlify skills, and the copies go stale as soon as they land. This makes
netlify initinstall the skills itself, from the hosted manifest atnetlify-agent-skills.netlify.app(netlify/context-and-tools#137), so docs can give one instruction everywhere and every developer gets current agent context for free. Runninginitagain is a no-op,--skip-agent-setupopts out, and a failed download warns and letsinitcontinue.Changes
src/utils/init/agent-skills.ts(new): fetchesmanifest.json, verifies every skill file against its SHA-256, stages the skill and swaps it in by rename. Stale copies are replaced, locally edited copies are kept, missing skills are added. Copies under a prior or deprecated name are reported and left in place; removing them is sync work for EX-3055. Symlinked roots are followed; symlinked entries are never replaced. Each request times out after 10 s.src/commands/init/init.ts,index.ts: the--skip-agent-setupflag and the call, placed after login and before the "already initialized" exit. Only theinitcommand passes the option;devandwatchstill callinit()without it. Telemetry: a newsites_agentSkillsSetupevent with the per-directory outcome counts, andskipAgentSetupadded to theinitanalytics payload.failedand reported; the other skills and directories still sync, and telemetry counts what landed..claude/,.agents/,.grok/) gets askills/sync. With none present, a run inside Claude Code writes.claude/skills/; otherwise.agents/skills/, which Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Copilot read.executablelist stands in for it when hashing.initin CI is rare, and there is no reliable signal to tell them apart, so default-on with--skip-agent-setupas the opt-out.docs/commands/init.md: the new flag.Testing
tests/unit/utils/init/agent-skills.test.ts(28 tests,fetchstubbed with a fake manifest): install with verified bytes and modes, idempotent second run with no requests, stale replaced and edited kept, prior-name copy reported and left beside the new install (both runs), deprecated reported and left, empty directory reinstalled, hash mismatch leaves no partial install, one failing skill does not stop the others, a manifest path that escapes the skill directory is refused, a same-name directory with user content refused, a directory written mid-download is kept, a case-variant user directory survives, symlinked root and entries, schema and tree-hash validation, directory resolution, host validation, unreachable host with its cause, timeout message. Redirects from the skills host are refused.tests/integration/commands/init/init.test.ts: existing tests pass--skip-agent-setup; a new test runsinitthree times against a local manifest server (installs, then makes exactly one manifest request and changes nothing, then skips with the flag).initcontinues.npm run typecheck,npm run lintandnpm run format:checkare clean.Known gaps
.netlify-skill-*staging directory or a<name>.old-*backup behind; the next run reinstalls cleanly and ignores them. Cleanup belongs to EX-3055.--reset-contextand version pinning belong to EX-3055, which touches the same module and will rebase onto this.🤖 Generated with Claude Code