#!/bin/sh # doctor — report skills-library drift on this host. # # Written because every failure this fleet actually hit was SILENT: 243 # dangling symlinks hidden from git by the **/.claude/skills/ ignore rule, a # checkout that still resolved but was 20 skills behind, a loose .md that # loaded in no harness, and two machines where the library was simply absent. # None of it errored. Exit status here is the signal that was missing. # # doctor human report, non-zero exit on drift # doctor --quiet print only when something is wrong (SessionStart hook) # doctor --json machine-readable findings # # POSIX sh on purpose: it runs on macOS and Linux, before any toolchain is # guaranteed present, and inside a session-start hook where latency shows. # It does no network I/O and never shells out to git for a fetch. # # Test seams: $HOME drives harness paths, $DOCTOR_CHECKOUT names the checkout. set -u QUIET=0 JSON=0 for arg in "$@"; do case "$arg" in --quiet) QUIET=1 ;; --json) JSON=1 ;; -h|--help) sed -n '2,20p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//' exit 0 ;; *) printf 'doctor: unknown option %s\n' "$arg" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac done SELF_DIR=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$(dirname -- "$0")" && pwd) SELF_CHECKOUT=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$SELF_DIR/.." && pwd) # The canonical checkout is whatever ~/.agents/skills resolves to — NOT the # copy doctor happens to be running from. When invoked as a plugin hook, $0 # lives in the plugin cache, which is legitimately a second copy: judging the # harness links against it would flag every one of them as "outside". AGENTS_DIR="$HOME/.agents/skills" SOURCES_FILE="$(dirname -- "$AGENTS_DIR")/$(basename -- "$AGENTS_DIR")-sources" if [ -n "${DOCTOR_CHECKOUT:-}" ]; then CHECKOUT="$DOCTOR_CHECKOUT" elif [ -f "$SOURCES_FILE" ]; then # Since #27 the canonical location is a real directory fed by several # sources, so it can no longer be resolved to a checkout. install.sh records # the list; the first line is always this repo's skills/ directory. CHECKOUT=$(dirname -- "$(head -n 1 "$SOURCES_FILE")") elif [ -L "$AGENTS_DIR" ]; then # Pre-#27 wiring: one link straight at the checkout. Resolve the link FIRST, # then take the parent. "cd X/.." resolves ".." lexically against the link # path, which lands back in ~/.agents. _resolved=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$AGENTS_DIR" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) CHECKOUT=$(dirname -- "$_resolved") else CHECKOUT="$SELF_CHECKOUT" fi SKILLS_DIR="$CHECKOUT/skills" findings=0 report="" # add add() { findings=$((findings + 1)) if [ "$JSON" -eq 1 ]; then report="${report}{\"severity\":\"$1\",\"check\":\"$2\",\"detail\":\"$(printf '%s' "$3" | sed 's/"/\\"/g')\"}," else report="${report}$1 $2: $3 " fi } # count_skills — directories containing a SKILL.md, one level down. # -L on purpose: since #27 the entries are per-skill symlinks, and find does # not descend into a symlinked directory without it. count_skills() { [ -d "$1" ] || { printf '0'; return; } find -L "$1"/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name SKILL.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ' } # under_known_source — 0 when the path lies inside a source # install.sh recorded, or inside the active checkout. under_known_source() { _path=$1 _list="$SKILLS_DIR" [ -f "$SOURCES_FILE" ] && _list="$_list $(cat "$SOURCES_FILE")" printf '%s\n' "$_list" | while IFS= read -r _src; do [ -n "$_src" ] || continue _real=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$_src" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) || continue [ -n "$_real" ] || continue case "$_path" in "$_real"/*|"$_real") printf 'yes'; break ;; esac done | grep -q yes } # --- the checkout itself ---------------------------------------------------- if [ ! -d "$SKILLS_DIR" ]; then add FAIL checkout "no skills/ directory at $CHECKOUT" # Nothing downstream can be judged without it. printf 'FAIL checkout: no skills/ directory at %s\n' "$CHECKOUT" >&2 exit 1 fi EXPECTED=$(count_skills "$SKILLS_DIR") [ "$EXPECTED" -gt 0 ] || add FAIL checkout "skills/ holds no SKILL.md at all" # --- stray entries in the checkout ----------------------------------------- # A loose foo.md where foo/SKILL.md was meant loads in NO harness and errors # in none either. That is exactly how secret-hygiene.md sat dead for months. for entry in "$SKILLS_DIR"/*; do [ -e "$entry" ] || continue name=$(basename "$entry") if [ ! -d "$entry" ]; then add FAIL stray "$SKILLS_DIR/$name is not a directory — it loads nowhere" elif [ ! -f "$entry/SKILL.md" ]; then add FAIL stray "$SKILLS_DIR/$name has no SKILL.md" fi done # --- the canonical directory -------------------------------------------------- # Pre-#27 this was a symlink at the checkout. It is a real directory now, one # per-skill link per skill, fed by every configured source — that is what lets # a second library (Anthropic's official set on flamingo) coexist instead of # being displaced. if [ -L "$AGENTS_DIR" ]; then add WARN legacy "$AGENTS_DIR is the pre-#27 single-link wiring — re-run install.sh to adopt the multi-source layout" elif [ -d "$AGENTS_DIR" ]; then for entry in "$AGENTS_DIR"/*; do [ -e "$entry" ] || [ -L "$entry" ] || continue name=$(basename "$entry") if [ ! -L "$entry" ]; then add FAIL unmanaged "$AGENTS_DIR/$name is not a link into any source — nothing manages it and nothing updates it" continue fi if [ ! -e "$entry" ]; then add FAIL dangling "$entry -> $(readlink "$entry") (target does not exist)" continue fi resolved=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$entry" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) if [ -n "$resolved" ] && ! under_known_source "$resolved"; then add FAIL outside "$entry resolves to $resolved, an unknown source — it works, so nothing complains, while serving content nobody updates" fi done # A per-skill layout can lose one skill without changing any total, so the # invariant is per skill, not a count. for dir in "$SKILLS_DIR"/*/; do [ -f "$dir/SKILL.md" ] || continue name=$(basename "$dir") [ -L "$AGENTS_DIR/$name" ] \ || add FAIL missing "$name is in the checkout but has no link in $AGENTS_DIR — re-run install.sh" done fi # --- harness wiring --------------------------------------------------------- # Crush and OpenCode keep their single directory link at the canonical dir; # Pi reads it directly and needs no link of its own. for dir in \ "$HOME/.config/crush/skills" \ "$HOME/.config/opencode/skills" do [ -L "$dir" ] || [ -d "$dir" ] || continue if [ -L "$dir" ] && [ ! -e "$dir" ]; then add FAIL dangling "$dir -> $(readlink "$dir") (target does not exist)" continue fi # A real directory where a link belongs holds content nothing manages: it # cannot receive new skills and silently shadows the canonical dir. Since # #27 the fix is not only "move it aside" — it can be added as an extra # source instead, which is how flamingo keeps the official Anthropic set. if [ ! -L "$dir" ] && [ -d "$dir" ]; then add FAIL unmanaged "$dir is a real directory, not a link into the canonical dir — it holds $(count_skills "$dir") unmanaged skill(s); add it to SKILLS_EXTRA_SOURCES and re-run install.sh, or move it aside" continue fi resolved=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$dir" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) canonical=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$AGENTS_DIR" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P) if [ -n "$resolved" ] && [ -n "$canonical" ] && [ "$resolved" != "$canonical" ]; then add FAIL outside "$dir resolves to $resolved, not the canonical $canonical" fi done # --- dangling links anywhere under the harness dirs ------------------------- for dir in "$HOME/.config/crush/skills" \ "$HOME/.config/opencode/skills" "$HOME/.claude/skills" do [ -d "$dir" ] || continue # Plain glob, not find|while: a while loop on the right of a pipe runs in a # subshell, so add() would increment a counter that dies with it and doctor # would exit 0 having found faults. for link in "$dir"/*; do [ -L "$link" ] || continue [ -e "$link" ] && continue add FAIL dangling "$link -> $(readlink "$link") (target does not exist)" done done # --- Claude Code: plugin vs leftover per-skill symlinks --------------------- # Plugin skills do NOT override same-named user skills — both stay visible. So # leftover links from the pre-plugin era mean every skill appears twice. CLAUDE_SKILLS="$HOME/.claude/skills" if [ -d "$CLAUDE_SKILLS" ]; then legacy=$(find "$CLAUDE_SKILLS"/ -maxdepth 1 -type l 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' ') if [ "$legacy" -gt 0 ]; then add FAIL legacy "$CLAUDE_SKILLS holds $legacy per-skill symlink(s) from the pre-plugin wiring — remove them or every skill loads twice" fi fi # Two delivery mechanisms means two copies that can drift apart: the plugin # (Claude Code) and the checkout the other harnesses link to. Same host, # different skill sets, no error — compare them. # Skipped when DOCTOR_CHECKOUT is set: that scopes doctor to an explicit # target, so comparing it against whatever copy the script lives in is # meaningless rather than informative. if [ -z "${DOCTOR_CHECKOUT:-}" ] && [ -f "$SELF_DIR/../.claude-plugin/plugin.json" ] \ && [ "$SELF_CHECKOUT" != "$CHECKOUT" ]; then plugin_count=$(count_skills "$SELF_CHECKOUT/skills") if [ "$plugin_count" != "$EXPECTED" ]; then add FAIL drift "Claude Code plugin serves $plugin_count skills, the other harnesses see $EXPECTED — the two copies have diverged" fi fi INSTALLED="$HOME/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json" if [ -f "$INSTALLED" ]; then grep -q '"skills@mathias"' "$INSTALLED" 2>/dev/null \ || add WARN plugin "skills@mathias is not installed for Claude Code — /plugin marketplace add https://git.d-ma.be/mathias/skills.git" fi # --- Claude Code: which GENERATION of the plugin is installed --------------- # Every check above is about symlink paths, which is the wrong shape for the # plugin: it is the only channel Claude Code has, and Claude Code gates updates # on plugin.json's version. A host that never picked up a release loads all the # skills successfully and is simply a generation behind — silently. Found on # koala 2026-08-29: installed 0.6.0, marketplace clone 0.7.0, repo 0.8.5, # doctor said "clean" (#30). # # Offline by construction, like the rest of doctor: "available" means the # newest manifest already on this host — the active checkout and any # marketplace clone — never a fetch. manifest_version() { [ -f "$1" ] || return 1 grep -q '"name"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"skills"' "$1" || return 1 sed -n 's/.*"version"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' "$1" | head -1 } # newer_version a b — echoes whichever sorts higher on major.minor.patch. newer_version() { printf '%s\n%s\n' "$1" "$2" | awk -F. ' { raw[NR] = $0; for (i = 1; i <= 3; i++) n[NR, i] = ($i == "" ? 0 : $i + 0) } END { for (i = 1; i <= 3; i++) { if (n[1, i] > n[2, i]) { print raw[1]; exit } if (n[1, i] < n[2, i]) { print raw[2]; exit } } print raw[1] }' } installed_v='' if [ -f "$INSTALLED" ]; then installed_v=$(sed -n '/"skills@mathias"/,/\]/p' "$INSTALLED" \ | sed -n 's/.*"version"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' | head -1) fi available_v='' for manifest in "$CHECKOUT/.claude-plugin/plugin.json" \ "$HOME"/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/*/.claude-plugin/plugin.json do v=$(manifest_version "$manifest") || continue [ -n "$v" ] || continue if [ -z "$available_v" ]; then available_v=$v else available_v=$(newer_version "$available_v" "$v") fi done if [ -n "$installed_v" ] && [ -n "$available_v" ] && [ "$installed_v" != "$available_v" ]; then add FAIL plugin-version "Claude Code has skills@mathias $installed_v installed but $available_v is available on this host — /plugin update skills@mathias (a host stale enough to matter is running the old doctor, so the first detection may need this run by hand)" fi # --- output ----------------------------------------------------------------- if [ "$JSON" -eq 1 ]; then printf '{"checkout":"%s","expected":%s,"plugin":{"installed":"%s","available":"%s"},"findings":[%s]}\n' \ "$CHECKOUT" "$EXPECTED" "$installed_v" "$available_v" "${report%,}" elif [ "$findings" -gt 0 ]; then printf 'skills doctor — %s finding(s), checkout %s\n\n%s\n' \ "$findings" "$CHECKOUT" "$report" elif [ "$QUIET" -eq 0 ]; then printf 'skills doctor: clean — %s skills, checkout %s\n' "$EXPECTED" "$CHECKOUT" fi [ "$findings" -eq 0 ]