feat: authoring, removal, install, catalog and trigger primitives moved from OpenHuman core

[senamakel]

Summary

This moves the host-independent skill handling that still lived in OpenHuman's core (crates/openhuman-core/src/skills/) into tinyskills, so the host keeps only roots, trust, networking, events and RPC. New modules:

• authoring: slugify, display-name/description validation, YAML scalar quoting, WORKFLOW.md frontmatter/document rendering, and scaffold_bundle (containment, body-preserving edit, legacy-location retirement, resource directories).
• remove: remove_bundle(roots, slug), a defensive uninstall. It validates the slug, rejects symlinked roots and aliases, checks canonical containment and requires a manifest before remove_dir_all.
• install additions: redact_url, validate_fetched_document / check_document_size, and write_installed_document, an atomic SKILL.md write with rollback and mode 0644.
• catalog: CatalogEntry, Hermes catalog parsing, download-URL derivation for Hermes docsPath, GitHub blob/tree, ClawHub and skills.sh, tree-listing lookup, entry lookup with closest-id suggestions, and search filtering. The network fetch and cache stay in the host.
• trigger: TriggerPattern parse and match for domain[:slug] activation patterns.
• discovery: CollisionPolicy / TieBreak / resolve_collisions_with / discover_with. A host can now choose last-writer-wins ties, exclude scopes and set the id noun. The defaults reproduce resolve_collisions exactly.
• document: a public read_document, a bounded read that rejects symlinks and requires UTF-8, for host sidecar reads.
• model: the format constants (SKILL_MD, WORKFLOW_MD, MAX_*, RESOURCE_DIRS, ...) are now public, and there is a new Skill::id().
• resource: read_resource rejects a symlink at any path component on every platform, not only through openat(NOFOLLOW) on Unix.

Related issue

None. This is the upstream half of an OpenHuman core-to-submodule migration; the host PR follows and pins this commit.

API or behavior changes

All additions except these two:

• read_resource now reports an intermediate symlink as ResourceError::Symlink on all platforms. Before, Unix reported an I/O error from openat and other platforms followed the link. ResourceError::Escapes is no longer produced, but it is kept so existing matches still compile.
• resolve_collisions / discover behaviour is unchanged. The new policy is opt-in.

Nothing is breaking.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all -- --check: clean
• cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: clean
• cargo build --all-targets --all-features: ok
• cargo test --all-features: all suites pass
• cargo llvm-cov + .github/scripts/check-file-coverage.sh 90: every source file is at 90% or above

Tests

New integration suites: tests/authoring.rs, catalog.rs, collisions.rs, documents.rs, fetched_documents.rs, remove.rs, resource_symlinks.rs, trigger.rs. Most are ported from OpenHuman core's own tests for the moved code, with the same assertions. The rest cover the new error paths and policies.

Two cases are deliberately untested:

• The non-Unix open_resource branch, since no Windows runner is available locally.
• The race-only canonical-escape guard in remove_bundle.

Documentation

README.md capabilities and the AGENTS.md structure block list the new modules. Every public item has rustdoc.

Checklist

• The change is focused on one logical change (moving host-independent skill logic into the library)
• No new #[allow(...)], #[ignore], or relaxed lints
• No secrets, tokens, or .env contents in the diff or the description

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Browse and search skill catalogs, filter entries, and access available downloads.
  • Create and edit skill bundles, or remove them from their installation locations.
  • Validate and install fetched skill documents, with existing documents left unchanged.
  • Parse and match trigger patterns, and configure skill collision handling.
• Bug Fixes
  • Document and resource reads now reject symlinks and enforce size and file-type limits.
  • Improved validation and error reporting for unsafe paths and incomplete documents.

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Tiny Sweeper review

Tiny Sweeper reviewed this change across 6 lane(s) and found 0 active actionable finding(s). Detailed lane evidence and any incomplete work are listed below.

State: Incomplete
Priority: none
Reviewed head: 6a17a940eb81
Updated: 1790721011 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface	Files	Review signal	Count
Production	14	Active findings	0
Tests	8	Noted findings	0
Documentation	2	Resolved findings	0
Configuration	0	Pending checks/questions	4

Completeness: Incomplete
Test assessment: No supported feature-to-test mapping was available; this does not mean tests are absent or passed.

What changed

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Features

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Tests

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• Unreviewed: tinysweeper/tests

Findings

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Could not review: crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs, tinysweeper/description, tinysweeper/tests

Before merge

• Complete the critique review for crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs.
• Complete the security review for crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs.
• Complete the tests review for tinysweeper/tests.
• Complete the description review for tinysweeper/description.

How this fits together

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critique

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: incomplete; unanswered: crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs
• Lane summary: Reviewed 0 files; 0 findings. 1 file could not be reviewed: crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs.

security

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: incomplete; unanswered: crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs
• Lane summary: Reviewed 0 files; 0 findings. 1 file could not be reviewed: crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs.

tests

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: incomplete; unanswered: tinysweeper/tests
• Lane summary: No reviewer could be consulted.

commits

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: incomplete; unanswered: tinysweeper/description
• Lane summary: No reviewer could be consulted.

e2e

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: No end-to-end harness in this repository: no e2e test files and no e2e workflow.

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📒 Files selected for processing (6)

• crates/tinyskills/src/authoring.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/download.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/install.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/authoring.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/catalog.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The crate adds public APIs for catalog parsing and search, bundle authoring, fetched-document validation and installation, bundle removal, configurable discovery collisions, trigger matching, and bounded document and resource access. It also expands public exports, documentation, and integration tests.

Changes

Crate capabilities

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Public API surface AGENTS.md, README.md, crates/tinyskills/src/lib.rs	The crate exports the added APIs and documents the expanded modules, capabilities, and tests.
Catalog parsing, lookup, and download resolution crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/*, crates/tinyskills/tests/catalog.rs	The catalog API defines entries, parses Hermes data, derives download URLs, locates skills in repository trees, and supports search, filtering, and lookup errors. Tests cover parsing, URL resolution, and query behavior.
Bounded document reads and resource symlink checks crates/tinyskills/src/model.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/document.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/resource.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/documents.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/resource_symlinks.rs	Document limits and filename constants become public, and Skill::id is added. Document reads are bounded, and resource reads reject symlinked path components.
Fetched-document validation and installation crates/tinyskills/src/install.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/documents.rs	Fetched documents are size-checked, decoded, parsed, and checked for required fields and a safe slug. Installation validates target paths and writes through a temporary file before renaming.
Bundle authoring and scaffolding crates/tinyskills/src/authoring.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/authoring.rs	Authoring APIs validate metadata and slugs, render frontmatter, and create or edit bundle directories. Edits preserve parsed document bodies and can locate bundles under legacy roots.
Defensive bundle removal crates/tinyskills/src/remove.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/remove.rs	remove_bundle validates bundle names and paths, checks bundle documents and symlinks, and removes the selected bundle.
Configurable discovery collisions crates/tinyskills/src/discovery.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/collisions.rs	Discovery and collision resolution accept policies for tie-breaking, excluded scopes, and warning labels.
Trigger-pattern parsing and matching crates/tinyskills/src/trigger.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/trigger.rs	TriggerPattern parses domain and optional slug values and matches them case-insensitively.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 08ca8

Editing a bundle whose WORKFLOW.md cannot be parsed can silently replace its body with SKILL.md's body and then delete SKILL.md, losing hand-written content. Catalog entries with unusual GitHub source URLs can resolve to the wrong file. Concurrent installs of the same skill can interfere with each other. The body-loss issue should be fixed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 08ca8

The new lifecycle APIs have concrete containment and commit-semantics weaknesses. Bundle editing can follow a manifest symlink outside the bundle, and competing installations can interfere with each other’s document publication. Actual exposure depends on the embedding application’s trust checks, filesystem permissions and concurrency policy; remote exploitation is not established.

Retained concerns

• High · security · inferred: The authoring API checks the bundle directory but does not protect the selected manifest write. During overwrite, a symlinked WORKFLOW.md can fail parsing while a regular SKILL.md supplies the preserved body; fs::write then follows the WORKFLOW.md symlink and can truncate or replace a file outside the bundle using the embedding process’s authority. This requires an attacker-prepared bundle and a host-authorized edit, not merely control of the slug. The directory-symlink test does not cover this path. The newly exposed library contract contains this weakness; whether it also existed in the former host implementation is unresolved.
• Medium · security · inferred: The installation contract promises atomic publication and an existing document that is never overwritten, but it does not reserve ownership of a slug. Concurrent callers can both pass the absent-target check, reuse SKILL.md.tmp and write the same temporary inode. One caller can publish bytes supplied or still being modified by another, so instruction integrity and publication atomicity do not hold for competing installs. Sequential idempotency is demonstrated; concurrent host reachability is not. This affects the new public writer contract, with historical host behavior unverified.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: Authoring does not have a single authoritative commit state. It truncates the selected document directly, ignores alternate-document retirement failures and creates resource directories afterward. An interruption can expose a partial document; an error can occur after the edit is visible; and an unsuccessful WORKFLOW.md retirement can leave an old document shadowing a new SKILL.md despite success. Hosts own trust-related sidecars, cache invalidation and notifications, so these outcomes require explicit reconciliation rather than treating success or failure as an unambiguous state transition. Whether the former host had equivalent behavior is unresolved.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The strongest supported write-path exposure is the embedding process’s filesystem authority. A prepared manifest symlink can redirect an authorized edit beyond the selected bundle. Competing installs affect the same root and slug. No verified production caller establishes tenant-wide, service-wide, credential or environment exposure.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The authoring attack path requires control of a bundle’s selected manifest symlink, a parseable alternate manifest, a host-authorized overwrite and write permission on the symlink destination. Read-time symlink rejection does not terminate this path because parsing falls back to the alternate document before the selected path is written.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Catalog derivation is not network authorization. Most derivations constrain origins or path components, while download_base_override remains caller-controlled. Separate install validators check URL policy and resolved addresses, but their use by a downstream fetcher is unverified. Tree matching rejects incomplete or ambiguous selection without authenticating the listing’s producer.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Instruction publication and host-owned sidecar, cache and notification state can diverge when an edit becomes visible before an error, alternate-document retirement fails, or competing installers share a temporary file. The inspected library does not provide a transaction spanning those responsibilities; actual host reconciliation remains unverified.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define a consistent lifecycle commit protocol: pin directory identity, prevent symlink-following writes, establish exclusive per-slug ownership, publish from independently owned temporary files and expose committed versus incomplete outcomes that hosts can reconcile after interruption.
• proposed — Make the embedding-host integration contract explicit: URL candidates remain untrusted until network authorization, validated addresses must constrain the actual connection, redirects require equivalent checks, and tree-listing provenance must be established before selecting install content. This is a proposal addressing unresolved coverage, not an observed SSRF finding.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the main change: moving authoring, removal, installation, catalog, and trigger primitives from OpenHuman core into tinyskills. It is concise and specific.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 84.77% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 151 functions across 22 files. (2 skipped: …
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tinysweeper found nothing blocking, but could not review everything, so this is not an approval: AGENTS.md, README.md, crates/tinyskills/src/authoring.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/download.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/entry.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/mod.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/parse.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/query.rs and 18 more.

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Review comments at @crates/tinyskills/src/authoring.rs:
- Around line 410-415: Update the body-selection logic around parse_skill so it
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parsed, return AuthoringError::UnparseableBody without falling back. Add a
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the edit to stop without overwriting or deleting either body.

Review comments at @crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/download.rs:
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• AGENTS.md
• README.md
• crates/tinyskills/src/authoring.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/download.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/entry.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/mod.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/parse.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/query.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/discovery.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/document.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/install.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/lib.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/model.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/remove.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/resource.rs
• crates/tinyskills/src/trigger.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/authoring.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/catalog.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/collisions.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/documents.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/remove.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/resource_symlinks.rs
• crates/tinyskills/tests/trigger.rs

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tinysweeper found nothing blocking, but could not review everything, so this is not an approval: crates/tinyskills/src/authoring.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/catalog/download.rs, crates/tinyskills/src/install.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/authoring.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/catalog.rs, crates/tinyskills/tests/fetched_documents.rs, tinysweeper/description, tinysweeper/tests.

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