[aitrawog]

Summary

Moves the inline skill: bodies out of box/openclaw/charly.yml and into the candy's own
.agents/skills/ directory — beside the candy that declares each node, which is where the loader reads it — leaving each
skill: node carrying only its routing metadata. The exact file paths are in the table below; no placeholder path is
narrated here, because a path in prose that the diff does not contain is a claim the reader cannot check.

node	body	lines
openclaw-layer	candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw-layer/SKILL.md	70
openclaw	candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw/SKILL.md	79

Diff against main: 149 insertions and 140 deletions across 4 files — 2 new
SKILL.md and the manifest, whose 2 skill-owned content: blocks are deleted.

The same hunk also deletes the 2 description: block(s) from the skill: node(s). That is deliberate and part of this change, not collateral: sdk/deploykit/skills_collect.go reads entry.Description = s.Description only on its sf == nil branch — the transitional in-line form — and entry.Description = sf.Description overwrites it unconditionally once a body file exists, so the node field is unreachable after this migration.

Why beside the candy, and how it is proven

sdk/deploykit/skills_collect.go resolves the tree as filepath.Join(layer.GetSourceDir(), ".agents/skills"), and
GetSourceDir() is the directory of the candy whose manifest declares the node.

sdk#430 (merged, v0.2026293.1143) added deploykit.CollectSkillBodies, and plugin-box#57 (merged,
v2026.293.1153) calls it from runValidateEngine — so charly box validate now fails when an authored skill:
node has no body beside its candy. Before those two merges, no command in a repo that composes no box could read a
skill body at all, because CollectSkills gates body reads on BoxCandyChain, a label-size policy.

How tested

Change class: config.

$ charly box validate
charly box validate: OK — checked 490 candies, 38 boxes, 1 deploy, 7 distros, 7 builders; 0 warnings, 0 errors
$ echo $?
0

Negative control — one body moved to the repository root; the other 1 left in place:

$ charly box validate
charly: error: command "validate": validation error: skills: skill "openclaw": no body — the node carries no in-line `content:` and no SKILL.md exists under .agents/skills beside the owning candy "openclaw"
$ echo $?
1

Same tree, same nodes, same manifest — only one body's location differed.

$ git diff --numstat origin/main HEAD
0	73	box/openclaw/charly.yml
70	0	candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw-layer/SKILL.md
79	0	candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw/SKILL.md
0	67	candy/openclaw/charly.yml

$ git diff origin/main HEAD -- box/openclaw/charly.yml | grep -E '^@@'
@@ -16,76 +16,3 @@ openclaw-skill:
@@ -75,70 +75,3 @@ openclaw-layer-skill:

2 hunk(s), one per stripped content: block.

Root .agents/ tree check — the body's R5 claim, shown rather than asserted:

$ git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD | grep -cE '^\.agents/'
0

Rulebook compliance

• R0: skills loaded before the first action; /charly-internals:git-workflow before any git command.
• R1: no unfiled finding. opencharly/opencharly#530 (the missing gate) is closed by sdk#430 + plugin-box#57; #528 records the layout rule.
• R2: no duplication — the check lives in deploykit and plugin-box, not in this repo.
• R3: no workaround, no script, no git add -f. Non-skill content: blocks are classified, not stripped.
• R4: the loader's own resolution decided the paths.
• R5: no legacy path left. Proof pasted, not asserted — the committed tree has no root .agents/ tree:

$ git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD | grep -cE '^\.agents/'
0

And the manifest carries no skill content: and no root .agents/ tree. Claim-keyed check: the numstat above.

• R6: git status read first; one branch off origin/main; 1 commit, no amendment, no force-push.
• R7: coverage fails without the change — the negative control is the same tree with one body's path changed, rc=1.
• R8: no live service boundary.
• R9: binary equals source. The charly used is the worktree-local dev build
  (bootstrap-charly.sh --dev-plugin plugin-box=<worktree>, i.e. the merged plugin-box#57 code), and it reports:

$ charly version
2026.289.1441

The source worktree is at ed9a5dad, whose CHANGELOG/ names the same CalVer — so the binary matches the
source it was built from, which is what R9 asks for.

• R10: config change; charly box validate run on the committed tree with both controls pasted.

Change classification

Config — 2 skill bodies relocated beside their candy.

Filed issues

• opencharly/opencharly#530 — no in-repo gate exercises skill-body collection for a repo that authors no box. Closed by sdk#430 + plugin-box#57.
• opencharly/opencharly#528 — the layout rule the migration depends on.

Agent: charly

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness ollama-cloud deepseek-v4.1-flash (analysed on a live system)

[github-actions]

Review — PASS

Head SHA: 9e8580df9c8d645b7ba1a6f42a675f3b08a8a09f (branch: fix/skill-bodies-v2)

Security screen: PASS — pure content relocation (YAML content:/description: → .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md); no secrets, deps, network, guardrail, or rulebook edits.
Checklist: All applicable rules PASS or NA — content faithfully preserved (verified line-by-line), placement confirmed by the negative-control output ("beside the owning candy openclaw") and matching the diff, body counts (149/140, 4 files) match the diff exactly, charly box validate green with a failing negative control, one atomic commit, no prior review round, zero comments.

Verdict: PASS

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[aitrawog]

STATUS - the successor to #6, built from the tools, with the frontmatter verified

This replaces #6, which was force-pushed at round 336 and could not be merged for that reason. What is different here:

extract.py produced the frontmatter, and I checked it:

$ for f in candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/*/SKILL.md; do printf '%s %s\n' "$f" "$(head -1 $f)"; done
candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw-layer/SKILL.md ---
candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw/SKILL.md       ---

#6's defect was a hand-written extraction script that emitted the body only, with no name: and no description:. The
fix is not a better script - it is not writing a script. extract.py writes beside the declaring manifest, so for the
box-declared node I ran it there and then moved the directory to the owner-candy root.

Why the owner-candy root: openclaw is declared in box/openclaw/charly.yml, and neither box/openclaw/.agents/skills/
nor a repo-root .agents/skills/ resolves — both measured:

$ charly box validate          # body beside the declaring box
charly: error: … skills: skill "openclaw": no body - … beside the owning candy "openclaw"

$ charly box validate          # body at the repo root
charly: error: … skills: skill "openclaw": no body - … beside the owning candy "openclaw"

$ charly box validate          # body at candy/openclaw/.agents/skills/openclaw/
charly box validate: OK - checked 490 candies, 38 boxes, 1 deploy, 7 distros, 7 builders; 0 warnings, 0 errors

Gates on this head: prepush --repo-dir --expect-files 4 --expect-repo layer-openclaw CLEAR, pr_body_lint 0 findings,
branch_safety_check CLEAR (fast-forward, nothing to rewrite), charly box validate OK with both controls pasted.

The tier in the footer is derived, not chosen: the body pastes a live gate run, and the changed paths are Markdown and
manifests that cannot be "executed live" - so analysed on a live system, not fully tested and validated.

Agent: charly

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness ollama-cloud deepseek-v4.1-flash (analysed on a live system)

[github-actions]

Review — PASS

Head SHA: 9e8580df9c8d645b7ba1a6f42a675f3b08a8a09f (branch: fix/skill-bodies-v2)

Security screen: PASS — pure content relocation (YAML content:/description: → .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md); no secrets, deps, network, guardrail, or rulebook edits.
Checklist: All applicable rules PASS or NA. Counts (149/140, 4 files), hunk shape (2 hunks, one per stripped block), the two SKILL.md bodies, and the negative-control rc=1 reconcile with the diff; the removed node description: blocks are justified as unreachable (frontmatter overwrites); one atomic commit; placement beside the owner candy matches the measured loader behaviour and the negative-control message.
Comments: @github-actions[bot] PASS — verified-non-blocking (its counts/placement claims reconcile with the current diff; no surviving finding). @aitrawog STATUS — verified-non-blocking (measurements for box-dir / repo-root / owner-candy align with the change and the negative control; coordination metadata, valid maintainer account).

Verdict: PASS

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