fix(skills): run the picked skill when two share a name#19702

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Picking a skill must run that file when another skill has the same name. Discovery and the web/desktop and mobile menus now retain each local file, show its path, and carry the selected path through composer edits, drafts, history, and provider dispatch. Skill descriptions wrap so long paths stay distinguishable.

Codex receives structured skill inputs for start and steer. Other providers receive an instruction bound to the selected file, without accidental native name dispatch. Enabled agent-only collisions also require an exact-file pick; unique names and native URI skills retain plain mentions. No wire or schema field was added.

Rebuilt from floklein's contribution in #19702, preserving the contributor commits and merging main.

Scope and approval

Fixes https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/11161

Maintainer takeover authorized in this comment. This is one selection-to-dispatch concern. Human approval of the provider behavior remains required. For providers other than Codex, an exact-file pick means read and follow that file; it does not apply native skill-command behavior such as Claude $ARGUMENTS substitution or allowed-tools frontmatter. Skill mentions pasted inside historical handoff context can be invoked again, as plain mentions already can on main; fixing historical invocation across providers is outside this PR. Macroscope's eligibility decision is not a code approval. Landing belongs to the coordinator. No merge was performed.

Verified head: b063b50, base f740a97.

Verification

  • Comparable final coverage: 693 → 692 cases, 14 → 13 files; PR-specific cases 14 → 14. The original 678 → 676 focused reduction was extended with the existing 15 → 16 mobile-context suite to prove chip tapping. Replaced helper-only tests with actual manager boundaries, outbound Codex start/steer frames, editor editing/copy/rehydration, and mobile menu selection. Ten assertions fail with exact main production sources; two compatibility cases stay green. Restoring the rebuild passes the selected cases.
  • The enabled agent-only collision assertion separately failed before the fix, then passed in the existing case. The original 676-case focused set and the 16-case mobile-context suite pass; targeted lint/formatting and seven affected package typechecks pass. The final collision/layout fixes also pass affected checks. The mobile chip-tap regression failed before its parser/path fix, then passed with all 29 targeted mobile cases and mobile typecheck.
  • Review rounds: round 1 Sol clean; Opus found the enabled agent-only collision, now fixed. Round 2 Sol clean; Opus found the mobile linked-chip details gap, now fixed with exact-file parsing and retained-path fallback. Round 3 Sol and Opus found no new blocking PR defect. Both independently passed all 692 cases; Sol also passed targeted lint and all seven package typechecks. The reported inline-handoff reinvocation also occurs with plain skill mentions on main and remains outside this exact-file fix.
  • Actual Codex and Claude each ran both same-name synthetic files and returned their distinct markers. The full T3 web app also returned PROOF_BETA then PROOF_ALPHA for the respective picks, and reload retained both exact-file links in persisted history. Draft reload and View instructions retained the chosen beta file. Proof and limits.

Before — actual main, one collapsed choice:

Before: same-name skill files collapse to one choice

After — current head, two readable exact-file choices:

After: both same-name skill paths are visible and selectable

Live result — each selected file returns its own marker:

Live web run retains both selected file links and distinct provider results

Not run live: Cursor, Grok, Antigravity, OpenCode, Pi, ACP; their common dispatch and relevant discovery paths were traced/tested. Windows paths were tested as data. macOS, Windows, Electron, iOS and Android were not run. Native URI skills remain name-based. Existing all-chip Markdown delimiter adjacency is outside this change.

Tests: GPT-6 Astra; implementation: GPT-6.1 Sol; independent reviews: GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5, through Codex and Claude Code in T3 Code.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a cross-cutting linked-skill protocol that changes menus, persisted composer content, provider discovery, and turn dispatch across multiple providers. The behavior is covered by tests, but its new user-facing capability and provider-specific runtime impact extend beyond a small isolated fix.

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  • apps/mobile/src/features/threads/use-composer-command-menu.ts
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📝 Walkthrough

Skill discovery and selection now preserve file paths when skills share a name. Composer mentions carry the selected path, and provider input handling converts linked mentions into provider-specific text or structured skill inputs.

Changes: File-specific skill selection

Layer / File(s)Summary
Retain skills by file path
packages/client-runtime/src/providerSkills.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/providerSkills.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/*Skills.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/*Skills.test.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.ts, packages/provider-cursor/src/server/skills.test.ts, packages/provider-grok/src/server/skills.ts, packages/provider-grok/src/server/skills.test.ts, apps/web/src/providerSkillSearch.ts, apps/web/src/providerSkillSearch.test.ts
Shared skill utilities and provider discovery now deduplicate by path, retaining same-name skills from different files. Search and slash-menu tests expect separate entries for those files.
Carry skill paths through composers
packages/shared/src/composerInlineTokens.ts, apps/web/src/composer-editor-mentions.ts, apps/web/src/composer-rich-text-doc.ts, apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx, apps/web/src/components/chat/ChatComposer.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/use-composer-command-menu.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/providerSkills.test.ts
Linked mentions encode a skill path. Web and mobile menus use path-based IDs and formatted mentions; editor segments and nodes preserve the path for lookup and serialization.
Process linked mentions for provider inputs
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/linkedSkillMentions.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/linkedSkillMentions.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProviderSessionManager.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/CodexAdapterV2.test.ts
Turn-start and turn-steer inputs expand linked mentions for non-Codex providers. Codex input conversion rewrites linked mentions and adds deduplicated structured skill inputs by path.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid
1sequenceDiagram
2 participant User
3 participant ChatComposer
4 participant ProviderSessionManager
5 participant linkedSkillMentions
6 participant CodexAdapterV2
7 participant ProviderRuntime
8 User->>ChatComposer: Select a provider skill
9 ChatComposer->>ProviderSessionManager: Send text with linked skill mention
10 alt Codex
11 ProviderSessionManager->>CodexAdapterV2: Pass linked mention unchanged
12 CodexAdapterV2->>ProviderRuntime: Send rewritten text and structured skill input
13 else Non-Codex
14 ProviderSessionManager->>linkedSkillMentions: Expand linked mention to name and file instruction
15 linkedSkillMentions->>ProviderRuntime: Send expanded turn input
16 end

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#16788: Both changes implement exact-file selection for same-name skills through path-based discovery, composer mentions, and provider dispatch.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#11166: Both changes preserve the selected skill path when names collide across composer and provider flows.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 27b06

Users can select a specific same-name skill, and its path reaches provider input. The reviewed changes leave no concrete material merge risk in that flow.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 27b06

The change preserves which skill file the user selected without an identified new permission grant. However, providers differ in how strongly they enforce that choice, and recovery behavior is only partially verified.

Retained concerns No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A selected skill supplies instructions to the provider conversation and can influence actions available to that agent. For the inspected Claude path, tool and approval authority remains determined by the existing runtime policy, not by the linked file path. Broader tenant or environment authority expansion was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — A manually authored linked token can name a local SKILL.md outside the discovered menu entries: the common conversion helper does not validate discovery membership or eligibility. For non-Codex drivers this becomes user-prompt text, not a new permission grant. The inspected Claude user-message and runtime-policy behavior predates the PR, so this observation alone does not establish an introduced security vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Linked destinations are percent-decoded, malformed encodings are rejected, external URI schemes are excluded except Windows drive paths, and accepted destinations must end in SKILL.md. These are syntax controls, not filesystem containment or authorization checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Common non-Codex normalization copies the input rather than mutating the stored message. It consumes linked tokens during expansion and deduplicates appended instructions by path. Existing session failure cleanup still marks a failed start idle, so this conversion adds no separate reservation or cleanup state.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Where provider capabilities permit, prefer structured file binding over natural-language selection guidance. Define explicit behavior for a selected file that disappears or becomes ineligible before dispatch, without silently substituting another same-name skill. This would strengthen selection integrity; it is not evidence of a verified permission bypass.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4
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Linked Issues checkPassedIssue [#11161] requires one picker row per enabled skill file and execution of the selected file across Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok, and Antigravity. The change deduplicates discovery and menu rows by…
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe changes stay within [#11161]. Client, mobile, composer, token parsing, provider discovery, adapter, session, and test changes support path-based skill selection and dispatch. The PR explicitly lea…
Title checkPassedThe title clearly identifies the primary fix: running the exact selected skill when multiple skills share a name.
Description checkPassedThe description provides the problem and change summary, detailed scope and approval information, verification results, limitations, test coverage, UI evidence, and implementation/review details. It d…
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Explanation

Issue [#11161] requires one picker row per enabled skill file and execution of the selected file across Codex, Claude, Cursor, Grok, and Antigravity. The change deduplicates discovery and menu rows by normalized file path, retains same-name files, and shows the path for shared names. Shared picks use linked SKILL.md mentions. CodexAdapterV2 converts those mentions to structured { type: "skill", name, path } inputs. ProviderSessionManager rewrites them for non-Codex startTurn and steerTurn calls. Focused tests cover discovery, path deduplication, linked mentions, Codex dispatch, and non-Codex dispatch.

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Explanation

The changes stay within [#11161]. Client, mobile, composer, token parsing, provider discovery, adapter, session, and test changes support path-based skill selection and dispatch. The PR explicitly leaves sent-message chip rendering and provider-result verification for follow-up work. No unrelated product change is established.

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The description provides the problem and change summary, detailed scope and approval information, verification results, limitations, test coverage, UI evidence, and implementation/review details. It does not use separate "## Problem" and "## Change" headings, but the required information is present and the description is otherwise complete.

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7Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx:
8- Around line 354-356: Update the skill chip’s View instructions action to use
9the retained skillPath when the skill lookup finds no match, while continuing to
10use the matched skill’s path when available. Do not fall back to another skill
11with the same name.
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13Review comments at @packages/shared/src/composerInlineTokens.ts:
14- Line 47: Update LINKED_SKILL_TOKEN_REGEX to accept the same name grammar as
15formatLinkedSkillMention, including dotted names, and recognize linked mentions
16adjacent to Markdown bold delimiters. Add round-trip tests covering a dotted
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packages/shared/src/composerInlineTokens.tsline 47Outdated · fd03733Open thread
……@@ -37,6 +39,13 @@ const SKILL_TOKEN_REGEX = new RegExp(`${SKILL_MENTION_SOURCE}(?=\\s)`, "gu");
44+ * shares the name. formatLinkedSkillMention percent-encodes the destination,
45+ * so it holds no whitespace or parentheses.
46+ */
47+const LINKED_SKILL_TOKEN_REGEX = /(^|\s)\[\$([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9:_-]*)\]\(([^()\s]+)\)(?=\s)/gu;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Recognize every linked mention that the formatter can emit.

formatLinkedSkillMention accepts names such as review.v2, but this pattern does not. The pattern also rejects a linked skill followed immediately by Markdown bold delimiters. In either case, the server receives no linked skill token and cannot bind the turn to the selected file. Make the formatter and parser use the same name grammar, and recognize links next to rich-text delimiters. Add round-trip tests for both cases.

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6Review comment at @packages/shared/src/composerInlineTokens.ts at line 47:
7Update LINKED_SKILL_TOKEN_REGEX to accept the same name grammar as
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9adjacent to Markdown bold delimiters. Add round-trip tests covering a dotted
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✅ Confirmed as addressed by @floklein

Dotted names: fixed in 43b690696d. The brackets already delimit the name, so the linked pattern now accepts any name without whitespace or brackets. That covers every name the formatter emits. The round-trip test now includes review.v2.

Bold delimiters: not changed here. Chips next to Markdown delimiters already fail to round-trip on main, for plain $name skills as well as @file mentions, because every token pattern needs whitespace or the start of the line before it. Fixing that for linked skills alone would make them behave differently from every other chip. It fits better in its own PR that fixes all chips together. A bold link also degrades safely: it stays an ordinary Markdown link to the SKILL.md file.

@floklein Thanks for the clarification. The updated pattern accepts review.v2 and addresses the dotted-name issue.

I agree that Markdown-delimiter support belongs in a separate change for all chip types. My request to fix linked skills alone was too narrow. No further change is needed for this finding.

Would you like a follow-up issue for Markdown-delimiter support across all chip types?


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5Learning: In packages/shared/src/composerInlineTokens.ts, composer token parsing uses whitespace boundaries for plain skill mentions, linked skill mentions, and file mentions. Markdown-delimiter support should be evaluated across these token types rather than required only for linked skills.

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apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsxlines 354–356Outdated · fd03733Open thread
……@@ -348,7 +349,11 @@ function ComposerSkillNodeView({ node }: NodeViewProps) {
353+ // A linked mention names its SKILL.md; a plain `$name` takes the first skill with that name.
354+ const skill = skillPath
355+ ? skills.find((candidate) => candidate.path === skillPath)
356+ : skills.find((candidate) => candidate.name === skillName);
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the selected file available when the skill list changes.

If a draft contains a linked skill from another provider or workspace, the path lookup returns no skill. The chip still retains skillPath, but its View instructions action disappears because that action checks skill?.path. Use skillPath for the action when the lookup has no match. Do not fall back to a different same-name skill.

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6Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/ComposerPromptEditorTiptap.tsx around
7lines 354 - 356:
8Update the skill chip’s View instructions action to use the retained skillPath
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✅ Addressed in commit 43b6906

Fixed in 43b690696d. The chip falls back to its own skillPath when the file is not in the current skill list. It never looks up another skill with the same name.

@floklein Thanks for the fix. The supplied code keeps View instructions available through skill?.path ?? skillPath, without falling back to another same-name skill.


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  • fix(skills): keep dotted names and missing files on linked skill picks43b6906

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  • Merge branch 'main' of github.com:pingdotgg/t3code into fix/issue-11161-linked-skill5e7eb99
  • merge: resolve mobile skill picker conflict with main27b0686
  • Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/issue-11161-linked-skill4d3a3b5

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch scheduler-tasks-04. I will preserve contributor history, merge main, minimize tests and rebuild exact-file skill selection, then run independent reviews and current proof. Landing stays with the coordinator; no merge is planned.

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  • fix(skills): preserve picked files through provider dispatchf3c1ae4
  • fix(skills): preserve hidden collisions and show full choice paths04dabeb
  • fix(mobile): open linked skill details by selected fileb063b50