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Two independent fixes from #947, both with the fix shape spelled out in the issue:

  1. merge-and-release/SKILL.md step 7's clean-tree preflight now scopes its
    git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all --ignored check to
    -- .agents/skills/ (all three carried copies), instead of the whole
    checkout. skills_install.py's materialize_global_skills() only ever
    reads .agents/skills/, so a stray ignored file elsewhere (.mypy_cache/,
    a lockfile) has nothing to do with what the preflight guards against, and
    blocking the refresh on it was a false stop confirmed on a real host (see
    the issue).
  2. skills_install.py's final summary line folded two independent install
    outcomes, materializing the global skills directory and registering the
    Claude Code marketplace, into one combined sentence. It now prints two
    separate lines, one per target, leaving room for a future Codex/opencode
    line without further conflating things.

Verification

Ran from the repo root:

  • uvx ruff@latest check . / uvx ruff@latest format --check .
  • uvx mypy@latest
  • uvx coverage@latest run -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests (838 tests, OK)
  • python3 scripts/build_dist.py --check (generated skill distributions current)
  • python3 scripts/repo_gate.py
  • python3 scripts/prose_lint.py . --check charset --check semicolon --check dash --check dupword --check spelling --check comment-wrap --check comment-case --check home-path --check dead-path
  • python3 spec/validate.py
  • python3 scripts/docker_lint.py --linter editorconfig-checker

All clean. Manually confirmed the new summary output reads as two lines,
Skills materialized to <path>. / Claude Code marketplace registered: <bool>.

Part of #947 (the closing keyword belongs on the develop -> main promotion PR).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Skills refreshes now check only supported skill installation locations.
    • Unrelated files elsewhere in the checkout no longer block refreshes.
    • Ignored files within skill locations are handled correctly, preventing unintended content from being installed.
  • Improvements

    • Installation output now separately reports global skills setup and marketplace registration.
    • Updated skill metadata keeps distributed installations synchronized.

merge-and-release/SKILL.md step 7's clean-tree preflight ran
`git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all --ignored` over the
whole checkout, so an ordinary build cache or lockfile anywhere in
the tree blocked the refresh, not only a stray file under
.agents/skills/ where skills_install.py's shutil.copytree() would
actually pick it up. Scope the check to `-- .agents/skills/` in all
three carried copies of the skill.
skills_install.py's final print folded materializing the global
skills directory and registering the Claude Code marketplace, two
independent operations that can each succeed or be skipped on their
own, into one combined sentence. Report them as two separate lines
so a reader can tell which target actually updated, and so a future
Codex/opencode install state has its own line to join.
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PR Summary by Qodo

Scope skills install preflight to .agents/skills and split installer summary output

🐞 Bug fix📝 Documentation🕐 20-40 Minutes

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• Scope clean-tree preflight to .agents/skills/ to avoid false blocks from unrelated ignored
files.
• Update carried copies of merge-and-release/SKILL.md to document the scoped git status check.
• Split skills_install.py’s final summary into separate lines for materialization vs marketplace
registration.
Diagram

graph TD
A["Maintainer"] --> B["SKILL.md preflight"] --> C["git status scoped"]
C --> D[(".agents/skills/")] --> E["skills_install.py"] --> F[("$HOME/skills")] ; E --> G["Claude marketplace"]
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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Ignore gitignored files during install (copytree ignore)
  • ➕ Eliminates the need to preflight for ignored files under .agents/skills/
  • ➕ Makes install behavior align with typical 'ignored means not shipped' expectations
  • ➖ Behavior change: currently any file present under .agents/skills/ (even ignored) is intentionally copied
  • ➖ Requires careful design so genuinely required but ignored artifacts aren’t accidentally dropped
2. Preflight via explicit path allowlist (tracked + selected untracked)
  • ➕ More precise than git status --ignored if only certain untracked files are problematic
  • ➕ Could allow specific benign artifacts without relaxing all checks
  • ➖ Higher maintenance burden (keep allowlist in sync)
  • ➖ Risk of missing new unwanted file categories without updating the list

Recommendation: The PR’s approach is the best incremental fix: the preflight now checks exactly the subtree the installer consumes, preventing false stops without weakening the guard against stray files that would actually be copied. Splitting the summary output matches the independent success/failure modes and keeps the CLI extensible for future targets.

Files changed (5) +30 / -19

Bug fix (1) +5 / -3
skills_install.pySplit install summary into separate materialization vs marketplace lines+5/-3

Split install summary into separate materialization vs marketplace lines

• Replaces the combined final print with two distinct lines: one confirming skills materialization location, one reporting Claude marketplace registration status. Adds comments documenting why these outcomes are independent and future-proofing for additional targets.

scripts/skills_install.py

Documentation (3) +24 / -15
SKILL.mdScope clean-tree preflight to '.agents/skills/' in release instructions+8/-5

Scope clean-tree preflight to '.agents/skills/' in release instructions

• Updates step 7 to run 'git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all --ignored -- .agents/skills/' instead of checking the entire repo. Clarifies that only '.agents/skills/' content is relevant to what the installer will copy, so unrelated ignored files should not block the refresh.

.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md

SKILL.mdPropagate scoped preflight instructions into plugin-carried skill copy+8/-5

Propagate scoped preflight instructions into plugin-carried skill copy

• Mirrors the documentation change so the plugin’s carried copy instructs a scoped clean-tree check under '.agents/skills/' only.

.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md

SKILL.mdPropagate scoped preflight instructions into GitHub skill copy+8/-5

Propagate scoped preflight instructions into GitHub skill copy

• Mirrors the documentation change in the GitHub-distributed copy of the skill, keeping all published variants consistent.

.github/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md

Other (1) +1 / -1
.source-digestBump fleet-skills source digest for updated skill content+1/-1

Bump fleet-skills source digest for updated skill content

• Updates the stored digest to reflect the modified skill source content carried into the plugin distribution.

.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digest

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The Skills refresh preflight now checks tracked, untracked, and ignored content under .agents/skills/ and .claude-plugin/. The installer now prints separate status lines for Skills materialization and Claude Code marketplace registration.

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Skills refresh and installation

Layer / File(s)Summary
Scoped Skills refresh preflight
.agents/skills/..., .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/..., .github/skills/...
The preflight checks tracked, untracked, and ignored content under both installation sources. The stored source digest is updated.
Separate installation status output
scripts/skills_install.py
The installer prints separate status lines for global Skills materialization and Claude Code marketplace registration.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to e6072

The preflight now checks only .agents/skills, while marketplace registration also uses CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DIR; changes in that directory could bypass the clean-tree safeguard, so the PR should not merge until that path is included or the behavior is explicitly accepted.

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1. Title uses lowercase to✗ Dismissed📘 Rule violation⚙ Maintainability
Description
The PR title contains to in lowercase even though it is not in the allowed lowercase bind-word set
for Title Case. This violates the Title Case requirement and reduces consistency across PR titles.
Code

.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md[106]

+ --untracked-files=all --ignored -- .agents/skills/` is empty, and stop and report rather than
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●●● Strong

Recent accepted precedent supports enforcing capitalization and title consistency as routine
maintainability fixes.

PR-#12
PR-#71

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Evidence
PR Compliance ID 2826422 requires Title Case with only these mid-title bind words lowercased:
{and, or, in, of, the, a}. The PR title `Scope Install Preflight to .agents/skills and
Split Its Summary uses to` lowercased in the middle, which is not in that set.

Rule 2826422: Enforce Title Case for Pull Request Titles with Lowercase Short Bind Words



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2. Three-line comment block added 📜 Skill insight⚙ Maintainability
Description
A new three-line explanatory comment block was added where a single-line comment is the default.
This violates the comment-length rule and increases prose density in code.
Code

scripts/skills_install.py[R285-287]

+ # Materializing skills and registering the marketplace are independent operations.+ # Each can succeed or be skipped on its own (`claude` missing skips only the second).+ # Separate lines keep that distinction once a third target (Codex/opencode) joins them.
Relevance

● Weak

A recent matching comment-style suggestion was explicitly rejected, including newly added multi-line
explanatory prose.

PR-#959

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Evidence
PR Compliance ID 2826677 requires comments to be one line by default, allowing a second line only
for genuine constraints. The added block at scripts/skills_install.py[285-287] is three full lines
of explanatory prose.

scripts/skills_install.py[285-287]
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## Issue description
`scripts/skills_install.py` introduces a new three-line comment block, but comments should be one line by default, with a second line only for genuine constraints.
## Issue Context
This comment explains rationale for splitting the summary output. The same intent can be conveyed in a single line (or removed if the code is self-explanatory).
## Fix Focus Areas
- scripts/skills_install.py[285-287]

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3. Preflight scope is misleading✓ Resolved🐞 Bug≡ Correctness
Description
The updated SKILL.md claims scoping git status to .agents/skills/ is sufficient because that is
“the only content this install step reads”, but scripts/skills_install.py also uses
.claude-plugin/ (and runs from the repo’s scripts) to register/install the Claude marketplace.
This can let local changes outside .agents/skills/ silently affect the install/registration while
the preflight passes, contradicting the step’s goal of avoiding “mixing in anything local.”
Code

.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md[R110-113]

+ paths) would pass this preflight while one still rides along into the install. Scoped to+ `.agents/skills/` rather than the whole tree, since that is the only content this install+ step reads, an ignored file elsewhere in the checkout (a build cache, a lockfile) is not this+ preflight's concern and should not block the refresh on it. Then `git fetch origin main`, `git checkout main`
Relevance

● Weak

The team recently rejected broadening this exact install preflight despite the same working-tree
contamination rationale.

PR-#936

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The SKILL.md change explicitly asserts the installer only reads .agents/skills/, but the
installer’s own documentation and implementation show it also registers a Claude marketplace/plugin
using .claude-plugin/ content and the repo root, making the scoping claim inaccurate and
potentially allowing local modifications outside .agents/skills/ to affect the install while the
preflight passes.

.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md[104-125]
scripts/skills_install.py[1-14]
scripts/skills_install.py[79-88]
scripts/skills_install.py[160-197]

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### Issue description
The merge-and-release SKILL.md step 7 now scopes the “clean tree” preflight to `-- .agents/skills/` and states that’s the only content the install step reads. However, `scripts/skills_install.py` also reads/uses `.claude-plugin/` for Claude marketplace registration and executes from the repo’s `scripts/`. This means the preflight can pass while local modifications elsewhere still influence the install/registration, undermining the step’s stated purpose (“without discarding or mixing in anything local”).
### Issue Context
The change was intended to avoid false stops from unrelated ignored files elsewhere in the checkout, but it over-narrows the safety check.
### Fix Focus Areas
Update the docs to preserve the original safety intent while avoiding false positives:
- Use a whole-repo cleanliness check for tracked+untracked changes (no `--ignored`) so unrelated ignored caches don’t block.
- Additionally, keep a scoped `--ignored` check for `.agents/skills/` (and consider `.claude-plugin/` when Claude registration is part of the run) to prevent gitignored files from being copied/packaged.
- Apply the same correction to all three carried copies of the skill doc.
- .agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md[104-125]
- .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md[104-125]
- .github/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md[104-125]

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In @.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md:
- Around line 106-113: Extend the merge-and-release preflight to cover the
installer's full watched source boundary by including CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DIR or
adding a separate clean-source check alongside the existing .agents/skills/
check. Apply the same change at .agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md lines
106-113, .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md lines
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Comment thread.agents/skills/merge-and-release/SKILL.md Outdated
skills_install.py reads two paths, not one: .agents/skills/ via
shutil.copytree() for Codex/opencode, and .claude-plugin/ via
`claude plugin marketplace add` for Claude Code. Its own source_ref()
dirty check already watches both (watched = [SKILLS_SRC,
CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DIR]). Scoping the preflight to .agents/skills/ alone
left a stray gitignored file under .claude-plugin/ free to ride into
the Claude Code marketplace install undetected, the same failure mode
the preflight exists to catch. Add .claude-plugin/ to the preflight's
pathspec in all three carried copies.
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ptr727 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
qodo, reviewing the develop -> main promotion PR #982, correctly caught
that PR #981's install-summary comment was three lines where the repo's
comment style caps one line by default. Condenses it to one line
carrying
the same why.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Clarified installer messaging to distinguish global skill setup from
marketplace registration status.
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ptr727 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
CodeRabbit, reviewing the develop -> main promotion PR #982, correctly
flagged that #981/#983's two-line install-summary output had no
regression coverage: MainExitCodeCase only asserted the exit code.
Adds a case that captures stdout and asserts both lines are present
and separate.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
- **Tests**
- Added coverage verifying that skills materialization and marketplace
registration results are displayed on separate output lines.
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ptr727 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Promotes #981 (issue #947) to `main`.
## What
- `merge-and-release/SKILL.md` step 7's clean-tree preflight now scopes
its
`git status --porcelain --untracked-files=all --ignored` check to
`-- .agents/skills/ .claude-plugin/` (all three carried copies), instead
of
the whole checkout, matching `skills_install.py`'s own `source_ref()`
watched-path list. An ordinary build cache or lockfile elsewhere in the
tree no longer blocks the refresh.
- `skills_install.py`'s install summary prints two separate lines, one
per
install target's own outcome, instead of folding both into one sentence.
## Review
PR #981 went through two review rounds:
- qodo flagged the PR title's lowercase "to" as a title-case violation.
Declined: `to` is an allowed lowercase title-case bind word per the
fleet's
own convention, and this exact false positive is already documented in
`docs/pr-reviewer-evaluation.md`.
- CodeRabbit correctly caught that the first pass under-scoped the
preflight
to `.agents/skills/` alone, missing `.claude-plugin/`, which
`skills_install.py` also reads (`claude plugin marketplace add` installs
from it). Fixed, and CodeRabbit's re-review on the fixed head came back
clean ("No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.").
Copilot's review account is still quota-exhausted repo-wide (confirmed
again
this session, consistent with recent PRs #974-980), so PR #981 merged to
`develop` on qodo + CodeRabbit coverage alone, both clean on the final
head,
CI green (8/8), `mergeStateStatus: CLEAN`.
Closes#947
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Bug Fixes**
* Refined Skills refresh checks to include tracked, untracked, and
ignored files in all relevant installation paths.
* Unrelated ignored files no longer block Skills refreshes.
* **Improvements**
* Installation results now separately report global Skills setup and
marketplace registration for clearer status visibility.
* **Documentation**
* Updated Skills refresh guidance to clarify which installation paths
are checked and how ignored files are handled.
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## What
`copilot_history` reads the Copilot reviewer's own review and comment
history from the repository's 20 most-recently-updated pull requests
(`HISTORY_PRS`), feeding both `wait`'s auto-request bot id and its
repo-wide quota signal. An outage that outlasts that window leaves
every one of those pull requests silent, so both readings fall back to
blind polling for the rest of the outage with no way to tell that
outage apart from a repository that has simply never seen a Copilot
review.
Reproduced today on PRs #981-984: the fast exit-46/47 quota detection
worked for the first two waits, then the 20-PR window emptied out and
every wait after it fell back to a full ~2700s blind poll before
reporting `PENDING`.
Fixes#985: `copilot_history` now retries once at a wider
`HISTORY_PRS_WIDE` (100, GitHub's own per-connection ceiling) whenever
the narrow window comes back with nothing at all, and only then, so
the ordinary case still costs one call. `Q_BOT_ID` takes its PR count
as a GraphQL variable instead of a baked-in literal, so the narrow and
wide reads share one query text.
Also addresses #973 in the same pass, since it sits in the same
digest/`Q_FULL` code the widen fix touches: `reviewThreads(first:100)`
carried no `hasNextPage` tracking at all, so a pull request with more
than 100 review threads silently undercounted `threads=`/`unresolved=`
with no signal anything was cut. `threads=` now prints a trailing `+`
and a `THREADS TRUNCATED` block names the gap, rather than a full
cursor-paginated read of the connection (the heavier of the two fixes
the issue suggested), since the tracked reviewers on this repository
have never come close to 100 open threads on one pull request.
## Verification
- `python3 -m unittest discover -s scripts/tests`: 846 passed (7 new,
covering the widen retry at both the `copilot_history` and `wait`
CLI level, and the truncation guard at both the `threads_truncated`
and `digest` level).
- `uvx ruff@latest format --check .` / `check .`: clean.
- `uvx mypy@latest`: clean.
- `python3 scripts/prose_lint.py scripts/pr_review.py
scripts/tests/test_pr_review.py`: clean.
- `python3 scripts/repo_gate.py --check eol` / `--check sha-pin`: clean.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* Review summaries now indicate when results are incomplete due to
thread limits.
* Repository-wide history checks automatically search a broader
pull-request range when recent activity is not found.
* Status messages clearly report the search ranges being checked.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved detection and reporting of incomplete review-thread results.
* More reliably identifies available Copilot history across pull
requests.
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