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"""Tests for tools/skill_manager_tool.py — skill creation, editing, and deletion."""
import json
from contextlib import contextmanager
from contextvars import copy_context
from pathlib import Path
from unittest.mock import patch
import pytest
from tools.skill_manager_tool import (
_validate_name,
_validate_category,
_validate_frontmatter,
_validate_file_path,
_create_skill,
_edit_skill,
_patch_skill,
_delete_skill,
_write_file,
_remove_file,
_find_skill,
skill_manage,
)
from agent.skill_utils import (
extract_skill_description,
parse_frontmatter,
SKILL_PROMPT_DESC_LIMIT,
)
@contextmanager
def _skill_dir(tmp_path):
"""Patch both SKILLS_DIR and get_all_skills_dirs so _find_skill searches
only the temp directory — not the real ~/.hermes/skills/."""
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.SKILLS_DIR", tmp_path), \
patch("agent.skill_utils.get_all_skills_dirs", return_value=[tmp_path]):
yield
VALID_SKILL_CONTENT = """\
---
name: test-skill
description: A test skill for unit testing.
---
# Test Skill
Step 1: Do the thing.
"""
VALID_SKILL_CONTENT_2 = """\
---
name: test-skill
description: Updated description.
---
# Test Skill v2
Step 1: Do the new thing.
"""
LONG_DESC_CONTENT = """\
---
name: long-desc
description: Use when deploying multi-region Kubernetes clusters with custom CNI plugins and service mesh.
---
# Long Desc Skill
Step 1.
"""
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# _validate_name
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestValidateName:
def test_valid_names(self):
assert _validate_name("my-skill") is None
assert _validate_name("skill123") is None
assert _validate_name("my_skill.v2") is None
assert _validate_name("a") is None
def test_special_chars_rejected(self):
err = _validate_name("skill/name")
assert "Invalid skill name 'skill/name'" in err
err = _validate_name("skill name")
assert "Invalid skill name 'skill name'" in err
err = _validate_name("skill@name")
assert "Invalid skill name 'skill@name'" in err
class TestValidateCategory:
def test_path_traversal_rejected(self):
err = _validate_category("../escape")
assert "Invalid category '../escape'" in err
def test_absolute_path_rejected(self):
err = _validate_category("/tmp/escape")
assert "Invalid category '/tmp/escape'" in err
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# _validate_frontmatter
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestValidateFrontmatter:
def test_no_frontmatter(self):
err = _validate_frontmatter("# Just a heading\nSome content.\n")
assert err == "SKILL.md must start with YAML frontmatter (---). See existing skills for format."
def test_invalid_yaml(self):
content = "---\n: invalid: yaml: {{{\n---\n\nBody.\n"
assert "YAML frontmatter parse error" in _validate_frontmatter(content)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# _validate_file_path — path traversal prevention
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestValidateFilePath:
def test_valid_paths(self):
assert _validate_file_path("references/api.md") is None
assert _validate_file_path("templates/config.yaml") is None
assert _validate_file_path("scripts/train.py") is None
assert _validate_file_path("assets/image.png") is None
def test_path_traversal_blocked(self):
err = _validate_file_path("references/../../../etc/passwd")
assert err == "Path traversal ('..') is not allowed."
def test_skill_md_traversal_still_rejected(self):
# The SKILL.md exception must not weaken the traversal guard.
err = _validate_file_path("../SKILL.md")
assert err == "Path traversal ('..') is not allowed."
def test_other_root_md_still_rejected(self):
# Only SKILL.md gets the root-level exception, not arbitrary files.
err = _validate_file_path("README.md")
assert "File must be under one of:" in err
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# CRUD operations
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestCreateSkill:
def test_create_skill(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
result = _create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
assert result["success"] is True
assert (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").exists()
def test_create_duplicate_blocked(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
assert result["success"] is False
assert "already exists" in result["error"]
def test_create_rejects_category_traversal(self, tmp_path):
skills_dir = tmp_path / "skills"
skills_dir.mkdir()
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.SKILLS_DIR", skills_dir), \
patch("agent.skill_utils.get_all_skills_dirs", return_value=[skills_dir]):
result = _create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT, category="../escape")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "Invalid category '../escape'" in result["error"]
assert not (tmp_path / "escape").exists()
def test_edit_long_desc_still_allowed_with_preview(self, tmp_path):
"""Edit/patch paths stay permissive so existing over-limit skills
remain maintainable — they warn via system_prompt_preview instead."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _edit_skill("my-skill", LONG_DESC_CONTENT)
assert result["success"] is True
assert "system_prompt_preview" in result
assert "System prompt will show" in result["system_prompt_preview"]
fm, _ = parse_frontmatter(LONG_DESC_CONTENT)
assert extract_skill_description(fm) in result["system_prompt_preview"]
class TestEditSkill:
def test_edit_existing_skill(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _edit_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT_2)
assert result["success"] is True
content = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert "Updated description" in content
def test_edit_existing_skill_by_categorized_path(self, tmp_path):
"""Categorized names (``category/skill``) must resolve in skill_manage.
skill_view's ambiguity hint explicitly tells the caller to use the
full categorized path (``category/skill-name``), and skills_list
reports skills with their category. But ``_find_skill`` only matched
the bare directory name, so every skill_manage call that followed
that hint failed with "not found in active profile" — the agent then
retried repeatedly, burning LLM round trips (top recurring audit
finding). Resolution parity with skill_view is the fix.
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT, category="software-development")
result = _edit_skill("software-development/my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT_2)
assert result["success"] is True, result.get("error")
content = (tmp_path / "software-development" / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert "Updated description" in content
def test_find_skill_accepts_categorized_path(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT, category="mlops")
found = _find_skill("mlops/my-skill")
assert found is not None
assert found["path"] == tmp_path / "mlops" / "my-skill"
def test_find_skill_bare_name_still_resolves_nested_skill(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT, category="mlops")
found = _find_skill("my-skill")
assert found is not None
assert found["path"] == tmp_path / "mlops" / "my-skill"
def test_edit_invalid_content_rejected(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _edit_skill("my-skill", "no frontmatter")
assert result["success"] is False
# Original content should be preserved
content = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert "A test skill" in content
class TestPatchSkill:
def test_patch_unique_match(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _patch_skill("my-skill", "Do the thing.", "Do the new thing.")
assert result["success"] is True
content = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert "Do the new thing." in content
def test_patch_ambiguous_match_rejected(self, tmp_path):
content = """\
---
name: test-skill
description: A test skill.
---
# Test
word word
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", content)
result = _patch_skill("my-skill", "word", "replaced")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "match" in result["error"].lower()
def test_patch_missing_old_string_tells_the_model_how_to_recover(self, tmp_path):
"""#33064 — a bare 'required' error is a dead end.
The model cannot tell whether it omitted old_string or supplied it wrongly,
so it retries blindly and escapes to action='write_file', clobbering the
whole skill file. The error must say how to obtain the exact text, and must
forbid the whole-file rewrite.
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _patch_skill("my-skill", "", "replacement")
assert result["success"] is False
err = result["error"]
assert "read" in err.lower(), "must tell the model to read the file first"
assert "write_file" in err, "must name the escape hatch it is forbidding"
assert "exact" in err.lower()
def test_patch_supporting_file_symlink_escape_blocked(self, tmp_path):
outside_file = tmp_path / "outside.txt"
outside_file.write_text("old text here")
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
link = tmp_path / "my-skill" / "references" / "evil.md"
link.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
try:
link.symlink_to(outside_file)
except OSError:
pytest.skip("Symlinks not supported")
result = _patch_skill("my-skill", "old text", "new text", file_path="references/evil.md")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "escapes" in result["error"].lower()
assert outside_file.read_text() == "old text here"
class TestDeleteSkill:
def test_delete_cleans_empty_category_dir(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT, category="devops")
_delete_skill("my-skill")
assert not (tmp_path / "devops").exists()
def test_delete_with_absorbed_into_equals_self_rejected(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("narrow", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _delete_skill("narrow", absorbed_into="narrow")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "cannot equal" in result["error"]
assert (tmp_path / "narrow").exists()
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# write_file / remove_file
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestWriteFile:
def test_write_reference_file(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _write_file("my-skill", "references/api.md", "# API\nEndpoint docs.")
assert result["success"] is True
assert (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "references" / "api.md").exists()
def test_write_symlink_escape_blocked(self, tmp_path):
outside_dir = tmp_path / "outside"
outside_dir.mkdir()
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
link = tmp_path / "my-skill" / "references" / "escape"
link.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
try:
link.symlink_to(outside_dir, target_is_directory=True)
except OSError:
pytest.skip("Symlinks not supported")
result = _write_file("my-skill", "references/escape/owned.md", "malicious")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "escapes" in result["error"].lower()
assert not (outside_dir / "owned.md").exists()
class TestRemoveFile:
def test_remove_existing_file(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
_write_file("my-skill", "references/api.md", "content")
result = _remove_file("my-skill", "references/api.md")
assert result["success"] is True
assert not (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "references" / "api.md").exists()
def test_remove_symlink_escape_blocked(self, tmp_path):
outside_dir = tmp_path / "outside"
outside_dir.mkdir()
outside_file = outside_dir / "keep.txt"
outside_file.write_text("content")
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
link = tmp_path / "my-skill" / "references" / "escape"
link.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
try:
link.symlink_to(outside_dir, target_is_directory=True)
except OSError:
pytest.skip("Symlinks not supported")
result = _remove_file("my-skill", "references/escape/keep.txt")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "escapes" in result["error"].lower()
assert outside_file.exists()
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# skill_manage dispatcher
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestSkillManageDispatcher:
@pytest.mark.parametrize("old_string", [None, ""])
def test_patch_missing_old_string_carries_recovery_guidance(self, tmp_path, old_string):
"""#33064 — the actionable error must survive the public dispatch path.
The dispatcher used to return its own bare "old_string is required"
before ever reaching _patch_skill, so the guidance below was
unreachable through the tool the model actually calls. Assert on the
serialized public result, not the helper's dict.
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
raw = skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
old_string=old_string, new_string="replacement")
result = json.loads(raw)
assert result["success"] is False
err = result["error"]
assert "read" in err.lower(), "must tell the model to read the file first"
assert "write_file" in err, "must name the escape hatch it is forbidding"
assert "exact" in err.lower()
def test_full_create_via_dispatcher(self, tmp_path):
"""Foreground create does NOT mark the skill as agent-created.
Skills created by user-directed foreground turns belong to the user;
only the background self-improvement review fork should mark its
own sediment as agent-created (so the curator can later consolidate
or prune it).
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
raw = skill_manage(action="create", name="test-skill", content=VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
from tools.skill_usage import load_usage
usage = load_usage()
result = json.loads(raw)
assert result["success"] is True
# No provenance marker on a foreground create — record either missing
# entirely (telemetry best-effort) or present with created_by unset.
rec = usage.get("test-skill") or {}
assert rec.get("created_by") in {None, "", False}
def test_successful_mutations_emit_lifecycle_with_correlation(self, tmp_path):
with (
_skill_dir(tmp_path),
patch("tools.skill_provenance.is_background_review", return_value=False),
patch("tools.skill_usage.record_created") as record_created,
patch("tools.skill_usage.bump_patch") as bump_patch,
):
created = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="create",
name="test-skill",
content=VALID_SKILL_CONTENT,
task_id="task-mutation",
session_id="session-mutation",
))
patched = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="patch",
name="test-skill",
old_string="Step 1: Do the thing.",
new_string="Step 1: Do the thing safely.",
task_id="task-mutation",
session_id="session-mutation",
))
edited = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="edit",
name="test-skill",
content=VALID_SKILL_CONTENT_2,
task_id="task-mutation",
session_id="session-mutation",
))
assert created["success"] is True
assert patched["success"] is True
assert edited["success"] is True
record_created.assert_called_once_with(
"test-skill",
agent_created=False,
task_id="task-mutation",
session_id="session-mutation",
)
assert [call.kwargs for call in bump_patch.call_args_list] == [
{
"action": "patch",
"task_id": "task-mutation",
"session_id": "session-mutation",
},
{
"action": "edit",
"task_id": "task-mutation",
"session_id": "session-mutation",
},
]
assert all(call.args == ("test-skill",) for call in bump_patch.call_args_list)
def test_failed_mutations_do_not_emit_lifecycle(self, tmp_path):
with (
_skill_dir(tmp_path),
patch("tools.skill_usage.record_created") as record_created,
patch("tools.skill_usage.bump_patch") as bump_patch,
):
create_result = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="create",
name="test-skill",
))
patch_result = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="patch",
name="test-skill",
))
assert create_result["success"] is False
assert patch_result["success"] is False
record_created.assert_not_called()
bump_patch.assert_not_called()
def test_background_review_delete_refuses_bundled_even_with_absorbed_into(self, tmp_path):
from tools.skill_provenance import (
BACKGROUND_REVIEW,
reset_current_write_origin,
set_current_write_origin,
)
token = set_current_write_origin(BACKGROUND_REVIEW)
try:
with _skill_dir(tmp_path), \
patch("tools.skill_usage.is_protected_builtin", return_value=False), \
patch("tools.skill_usage.is_hub_installed", return_value=False), \
patch("tools.skill_usage.is_bundled",
side_effect=lambda skill_name: skill_name == "bundled"):
skill_manage(action="create", name="umbrella", content=VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
skill_manage(action="create", name="bundled", content=VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
raw = skill_manage(
action="delete",
name="bundled",
absorbed_into="umbrella",
)
finally:
reset_current_write_origin(token)
result = json.loads(raw)
assert result["success"] is False
assert "bundled" in result["error"].lower()
assert (tmp_path / "bundled" / "SKILL.md").exists()
class TestPatchRecoveryLoop:
"""#33064 — the recovery guidance must be FOLLOWABLE, not just well-worded.
Asserting that an error string contains 'read' proves nothing about whether
a model obeying it reaches a working patch. These tests walk the loop end to
end through the public tool: bad call -> read the error -> do what it says ->
patch succeeds, without ever touching action='write_file'.
"""
CONTENT = """\
---
name: test-skill
description: A test skill.
---
# Test Skill
Step 1: Do the thing.
Step 2: Do the other thing.
"""
def test_recovery_loop_reaches_a_working_patch(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", self.CONTENT)
# The half-formed call that used to dead-end.
bad = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
new_string="Step 1: Do it better."))
assert bad["success"] is False
assert "read" in bad["error"].lower()
# Do exactly what the error says: read the file, copy verbatim, retry.
on_disk = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
snippet = "Step 1: Do the thing."
assert snippet in on_disk
good = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
old_string=snippet,
new_string="Step 1: Do it better."))
assert good["success"] is True, f"guided retry must succeed, got {good}"
after = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert "Step 1: Do it better." in after
# The recovery must be surgical — that is the whole point of not
# falling back to a whole-file rewrite.
assert "Step 2: Do the other thing." in after, "unrelated content lost"
assert after.startswith("---"), "frontmatter destroyed"
def test_recovery_never_requires_write_file(self, tmp_path):
"""The forbidden escape hatch must never be *necessary* to recover."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", self.CONTENT)
bad = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
old_string="", new_string="x"))
assert "write_file" in bad["error"]
ok = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
old_string="Step 2: Do the other thing.",
new_string="Step 2: Done."))
assert ok["success"] is True, f"recovery required write_file? {ok}"
@pytest.mark.parametrize("kwargs", [
{"old_string": None, "new_string": "x"},
{"old_string": "", "new_string": "x"},
{"old_string": "Step 1: Do the thing.", "new_string": "Step 1: Do the thing."},
])
def test_rejected_patch_leaves_file_byte_identical(self, tmp_path, kwargs):
"""A rejected patch must not partially mutate the skill."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", self.CONTENT)
before = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
result = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill", **kwargs))
after = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert result["success"] is False
assert before == after, "rejected patch mutated the file"
def test_validation_precedes_skill_lookup(self, tmp_path):
"""Centralizing validation must not reorder it behind the skill lookup.
A missing old_string on a nonexistent skill should still report the
argument error — reporting 'skill not found' first would send the model
chasing the wrong problem.
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
result = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="does-not-exist",
new_string="x"))
assert result["success"] is False
assert "old_string" in result["error"].lower()
assert "not found" not in result["error"].lower()
def test_empty_new_string_still_deletes(self, tmp_path):
"""new_string='' is legal (delete matched text) and must NOT be rejected."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", self.CONTENT)
result = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
old_string="Step 2: Do the other thing.\n",
new_string=""))
after = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert result["success"] is True, f"empty new_string wrongly rejected: {result}"
assert "Step 2:" not in after
def test_missing_new_string_still_rejected(self, tmp_path):
"""The dispatcher also guarded new_string; _patch_skill must still catch it."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", self.CONTENT)
result = json.loads(skill_manage(action="patch", name="my-skill",
old_string="Step 1: Do the thing."))
assert result["success"] is False
assert "new_string" in result["error"]
class TestSecurityScanGate:
"""_security_scan_skill is gated by skills.guard_agent_created config flag."""
def test_scan_noop_when_flag_off(self, tmp_path):
"""Default config (flag off) short-circuits before running scan_skill."""
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _security_scan_skill
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool._guard_agent_created_enabled", return_value=False), \
patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.scan_skill") as mock_scan:
result = _security_scan_skill(tmp_path)
assert result is None
mock_scan.assert_not_called() # scan never ran
def test_scan_blocks_dangerous_when_flag_on(self, tmp_path):
"""Dangerous verdict + flag on → returns an error string for the agent."""
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _security_scan_skill
from tools.skills_guard import ScanResult, Finding
finding = Finding(
pattern_id="test", severity="critical", category="exfiltration",
file="SKILL.md", line=1, match="curl $TOKEN", description="test",
)
fake_result = ScanResult(
skill_name="test",
source="agent-created",
trust_level="agent-created",
verdict="dangerous",
findings=[finding],
summary="dangerous",
)
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool._guard_agent_created_enabled", return_value=True), \
patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.scan_skill", return_value=fake_result):
result = _security_scan_skill(tmp_path)
assert result is not None
assert "Security scan blocked" in result
def test_guard_flag_handles_config_error(self):
"""If load_config raises, _guard_agent_created_enabled defaults to False (fail-safe off)."""
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _guard_agent_created_enabled
with patch("hermes_cli.config.load_config", side_effect=RuntimeError("boom")):
assert _guard_agent_created_enabled() is False
def test_guard_flag_quoted_false_stays_disabled(self):
"""Quoted 'false' from YAML edits must not enable the guard."""
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _guard_agent_created_enabled
for quoted in ("false", "False", "0", "no", "off"):
with patch("hermes_cli.config.load_config",
return_value={"skills": {"guard_agent_created": quoted}}):
assert _guard_agent_created_enabled() is False, \
f"guard_agent_created={quoted!r} must coerce to False"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# External skills directories (skills.external_dirs) — mutations in place
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@contextmanager
def _two_roots(local_dir: Path, external_dir: Path):
"""Patch the skill manager so local SKILLS_DIR = local_dir and
get_all_skills_dirs() returns [local_dir, external_dir] in order."""
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.SKILLS_DIR", local_dir), \
patch("agent.skill_utils.get_all_skills_dirs",
return_value=[local_dir, external_dir]):
yield
def _write_external_skill(external_dir: Path, name: str = "ext-skill") -> Path:
skill_dir = external_dir / name
skill_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
(skill_dir / "SKILL.md").write_text(
f"---\nname: {name}\ndescription: An external skill.\n---\n\n"
"# External\n\nBody with OLD_MARKER here.\n"
)
return skill_dir
class TestExternalSkillMutations:
"""Verify skill_manage can patch/edit/write/remove/delete skills that live
under skills.external_dirs — in place, without duplicating to local.
Regression for issues #4759 and #4381: the read-only gate used to refuse
with 'Skill X is in an external directory and cannot be modified', which
caused agents to create duplicate copies in ~/.hermes/skills/ as a
workaround.
"""
def test_patch_external_skill_writes_in_place(self, tmp_path):
local = tmp_path / "local"
external = tmp_path / "vault"
local.mkdir(); external.mkdir()
skill_dir = _write_external_skill(external)
with _two_roots(local, external):
result = _patch_skill("ext-skill", "OLD_MARKER", "NEW_MARKER")
assert result["success"] is True, result
assert "NEW_MARKER" in (skill_dir / "SKILL.md").read_text()
# No duplicate in local
assert not (local / "ext-skill").exists()
def test_background_review_refuses_to_patch_pinned_skill(self, tmp_path):
"""#25839: the autonomous review fork respects pin like the curator
does — a pinned skill is off-limits to background maintenance, even
for patch/edit (which a foreground user-directed call is allowed to
perform). Without a user in the loop there is no one to consent."""
from tools.skill_provenance import (
BACKGROUND_REVIEW,
reset_current_write_origin,
set_current_write_origin,
)
def _fake_get_record(skill_name):
return {"pinned": True} if skill_name == "my-skill" else {"pinned": False}
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
token = set_current_write_origin(BACKGROUND_REVIEW)
try:
with patch("tools.skill_usage.get_record", side_effect=_fake_get_record):
raw = skill_manage(
action="patch",
name="my-skill",
old_string="Do the thing.",
new_string="Do the new thing.",
)
finally:
reset_current_write_origin(token)
result = json.loads(raw)
assert result["success"] is False
assert "pinned" in result["error"].lower()
def test_background_review_fails_closed_when_ownership_lookup_errors(self, tmp_path):
from tools.skill_provenance import (
BACKGROUND_REVIEW,
reset_current_write_origin,
set_current_write_origin,
)
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("manual-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
token = set_current_write_origin(BACKGROUND_REVIEW)
try:
with patch(
"tools.skill_usage.load_usage",
side_effect=ValueError("corrupt usage data"),
):
raw = skill_manage(
action="patch",
name="manual-skill",
old_string="Do the thing.",
new_string="Changed.",
)
finally:
reset_current_write_origin(token)
result = json.loads(raw)
assert result["success"] is False
assert "ownership" in result["error"].lower()
assert "Do the thing." in (
tmp_path / "manual-skill" / "SKILL.md"
).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
class TestBackgroundOwnershipPolicyConsistency:
"""The autonomous write policy must not depend on its own side effects.
Issue #67140: the ownership guard keyed on ``isinstance(usage_rec, dict)``,
so a local skill with NO usage record passed. The successful write then
called ``bump_patch()``, creating a ``created_by: null`` record — and the
identical write was refused from then on. "Allowed exactly once" is a race
with our own bookkeeping, not a policy.
"""
@staticmethod
def _bg_patch(tmp_path, name, old, new):
from tools.skill_manager_tool import mark_background_review_skill_read
from tools.skill_provenance import (
BACKGROUND_REVIEW,
reset_current_write_origin,
set_current_write_origin,
)
token = set_current_write_origin(BACKGROUND_REVIEW)
try:
mark_background_review_skill_read(tmp_path / name / "SKILL.md")
return json.loads(skill_manage(
action="patch", name=name, old_string=old, new_string=new,
))
finally:
reset_current_write_origin(token)
def test_repeated_identical_write_gets_the_same_answer(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""The real #67140 shape: no stubbing of load_usage, so the first write's
telemetry side effect is live. Both attempts must agree."""
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path / ".hermes"))
(tmp_path / ".hermes" / "skills").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("flip-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
first = self._bg_patch(
tmp_path, "flip-skill", "Do the thing.", "Do the new thing.",
)
second = self._bg_patch(
tmp_path, "flip-skill", "Do the thing.", "Do the new thing.",
)
assert first["success"] == second["success"], (
"autonomous write policy flipped between two identical attempts: "
f"first={first.get('success')} second={second.get('success')}"
)
assert first["success"] is False
def test_foreground_write_to_unmanaged_skill_still_allowed(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Fail-closed applies to AUTONOMOUS writes only. A user-directed
foreground edit to their own skill must keep working."""
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path / ".hermes"))
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("no-record", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
with patch("tools.skill_usage.load_usage", return_value={}):
res = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="patch", name="no-record",
old_string="Do the thing.", new_string="Do the new thing.",
))
assert res["success"] is True
def test_adopted_skill_becomes_writable_by_autonomous_curation(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Adoption is the documented path from refused to allowed."""
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(tmp_path / ".hermes"))
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("adopt-me", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
with patch("tools.skill_usage.load_usage", return_value={}):
before = self._bg_patch(
tmp_path, "adopt-me", "Do the thing.", "Do the new thing.",
)
with patch(
"tools.skill_usage.load_usage",
return_value={"adopt-me": {"created_by": "agent"}},
), patch(
"tools.skill_usage.get_record",
side_effect=lambda n: {"created_by": "agent", "pinned": False},
):
after = self._bg_patch(
tmp_path, "adopt-me", "Do the thing.", "Do the new thing.",
)
assert before["success"] is False
assert after["success"] is True, after
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Pinned-skill guard — skill_manage refuses only `delete` on pinned skills.
# Patches and edits go through so pinned skills can still evolve as pitfalls
# come up. The user unpins via `hermes curator unpin <name>` to delete.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestPinnedGuard:
"""Delete is refused on pinned skills; patch/edit/write_file/remove_file are allowed."""
@staticmethod
def _pin(name: str):
"""Return a patch context that marks *name* as pinned in skill_usage."""
def _fake_get_record(skill_name, _name=name):
return {"pinned": True} if skill_name == _name else {"pinned": False}
return patch("tools.skill_usage.get_record", side_effect=_fake_get_record)
def test_edit_allowed_when_pinned(self, tmp_path):
"""Pin does NOT block edit — agent can still improve pinned skills."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
with self._pin("my-skill"):
result = _edit_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT_2)
assert result["success"] is True, result
# Content updated
content = (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").read_text()
assert "A test skill" not in content
def test_delete_refuses_pinned(self, tmp_path):
"""Delete is the one action pin still blocks — it's the irrecoverable one."""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
with self._pin("my-skill"):
result = _delete_skill("my-skill")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "pinned" in result["error"].lower()
assert "cannot be deleted" in result["error"]
assert "hermes curator unpin my-skill" in result["error"]
# Skill still exists
assert (tmp_path / "my-skill" / "SKILL.md").exists()
def test_broken_sidecar_fails_open(self, tmp_path):
"""If skill_usage.get_record raises, we allow delete through.
Rationale: a corrupted telemetry file shouldn't lock the agent out
of skills it would otherwise be allowed to touch.
"""
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("my-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
with patch("tools.skill_usage.get_record",
side_effect=RuntimeError("sidecar broken")):
result = _delete_skill("my-skill")
assert result["success"] is True
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# _delete_skill — recursive-delete safety (port of Kilo Code #11240)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class TestDeleteSkillRmtreeGuard:
"""Defense-in-depth before ``shutil.rmtree`` in ``_delete_skill``.
Mirrors the Kilo Code #11227 fix: never let a recursive skill delete
escape the skills tree, target a skills root, or follow a symlink.
"""
def test_normal_delete_still_works(self, tmp_path):
with _skill_dir(tmp_path):
_create_skill("good-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _delete_skill("good-skill", absorbed_into="")
assert result["success"] is True, result
assert not (tmp_path / "good-skill").exists()
def test_symlinked_skill_dir_refused(self, tmp_path):
"""A skill dir that is a symlink must not be rmtree'd — rmtree would
otherwise follow it and delete the link target's contents."""
victim = tmp_path.parent / "precious_victim"
victim.mkdir()
(victim / "important.txt").write_text("DO NOT DELETE")
skills = tmp_path / "skills"
skills.mkdir()
evil = skills / "evil-skill"
evil.symlink_to(victim, target_is_directory=True)
try:
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.SKILLS_DIR", skills), \
patch("agent.skill_utils.get_all_skills_dirs", return_value=[skills]), \
patch("tools.skill_manager_tool._find_skill",
return_value={"path": evil}):
result = _delete_skill("evil-skill", absorbed_into="")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "symlink" in result["error"].lower()
assert (victim / "important.txt").exists()
finally:
import shutil as _sh
_sh.rmtree(victim, ignore_errors=True)
def test_out_of_tree_path_refused(self, tmp_path):
"""A path that resolves outside every known skills root is refused."""
skills = tmp_path / "skills"
skills.mkdir()
outside = tmp_path / "outside_skill"
outside.mkdir()
(outside / "SKILL.md").write_text("x")
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.SKILLS_DIR", skills), \
patch("agent.skill_utils.get_all_skills_dirs", return_value=[skills]), \
patch("tools.skill_manager_tool._find_skill",
return_value={"path": outside}):
result = _delete_skill("outside", absorbed_into="")
assert result["success"] is False
assert "skills root" in result["error"].lower()
assert outside.exists()
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Curator consolidation-pass fail-closed delete guard (#29912)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@contextmanager
def _curator_pass(tmp_path, *, monkeypatch):
"""Run the body as the curator/background-review fork.
Points HERMES_HOME at ``tmp_path/.hermes`` so skill_usage's archive path
(``get_hermes_home()``) resolves into the same tree the skill manager
searches, and flips ``is_background_review()`` → True so the consolidation
guard fires.
Also stubs the ownership check to report every skill as curator-managed.
The ownership guard runs BEFORE the consolidation / read-before-write
guards these tests target, and since #67140 a skill with no usage record
fails closed — so without this, every test in this class would be refused
by ownership and never reach the guard under test. The real curator only
ever operates on managed sediment, so "managed" is the correct premise
here; tests that specifically exercise the ownership guard set their own
records instead.
"""
hermes_home = tmp_path / ".hermes"
skills_root = hermes_home / "skills"
skills_root.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
monkeypatch.setenv("HERMES_HOME", str(hermes_home))
with patch("tools.skill_manager_tool.SKILLS_DIR", skills_root), \
patch("tools.skills_tool.SKILLS_DIR", skills_root), \
patch("agent.skill_utils.get_all_skills_dirs", return_value=[skills_root]), \
patch("tools.skill_usage._is_curator_managed_record", return_value=True), \
patch("tools.skill_provenance.is_background_review", return_value=True):
yield skills_root
def _skill_content(name: str) -> str:
"""SKILL.md whose frontmatter ``name:`` matches the directory name.
``skill_usage._find_skill_dir`` (used by ``archive_skill``) resolves a
skill by its frontmatter ``name:`` field, so archive-path tests must keep
the two in sync.
"""
return (
"---\n"
f"name: {name}\n"
"description: A test skill for unit testing.\n"
"---\n\n"
f"# {name}\n\n"
"Step 1: Do the thing.\n"
)
def _create_curator_skill(name: str, content: str):
"""Create a skill and record the agent ownership a real curator create has."""
from tools.skill_usage import mark_agent_created
result = _create_skill(name, content)
assert result["success"] is True, result
mark_agent_created(name)
return result
class TestCuratorConsolidationDeleteGuard:
"""The curator's LLM consolidation pass must fail CLOSED on unverified
deletes — it may only archive a skill it absorbed into an umbrella.
Reproduces #29912: the pass archived clusters of active skills with zero
verified consolidations (``consolidated_this_run == 0``) because a bare
prune from the LLM pass was accepted. With the guard, a delete without a
valid ``absorbed_into`` is refused and the skill stays active; a verified
consolidation is archived RECOVERABLY (not rmtree'd).
"""
def test_bare_prune_during_curator_pass_refused(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
with _curator_pass(tmp_path, monkeypatch=monkeypatch) as skills_root:
_create_curator_skill("active-skill", VALID_SKILL_CONTENT)
result = _delete_skill("active-skill", absorbed_into="")
assert result["success"] is False
assert result.get("_fail_closed") is True
# Skill must remain active on disk — fail closed, no archive.
assert (skills_root / "active-skill").exists()
def test_background_review_read_survives_copied_tool_contexts(
self, tmp_path, monkeypatch
):
"""A view in one tool worker authorizes a patch in the next worker."""
from tools.skills_tool import skill_view
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _reset_background_review_read_marks
_reset_background_review_read_marks()
with _curator_pass(tmp_path, monkeypatch=monkeypatch):
_create_curator_skill("reviewed", _skill_content("reviewed"))
viewed = copy_context().run(skill_view, "reviewed")
assert json.loads(viewed)["success"] is True
patched = copy_context().run(
skill_manage,
action="patch",
name="reviewed",
old_string="Step 1: Do the thing.",
new_string="Step 1: Do the thing safely.",
)
assert json.loads(patched)["success"] is True
_reset_background_review_read_marks()
def test_background_review_read_marks_stay_isolated_between_reviews(
self, tmp_path, monkeypatch
):
"""Copied tool contexts share only their own review's read marks."""
from tools.skills_tool import skill_view
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _reset_background_review_read_marks
_reset_background_review_read_marks()
with _curator_pass(tmp_path, monkeypatch=monkeypatch):
_create_curator_skill("reviewed", _skill_content("reviewed"))
first_review = copy_context()
_reset_background_review_read_marks()
second_review = copy_context()
viewed = first_review.run(skill_view, "reviewed")
assert json.loads(viewed)["success"] is True
blocked = second_review.run(
skill_manage,
action="patch",
name="reviewed",
old_string="Step 1: Do the thing.",
new_string="Step 1: Do the thing safely.",
)
result = json.loads(blocked)
assert result["success"] is False
assert result.get("_read_before_write_required") is True
_reset_background_review_read_marks()
def test_background_review_support_file_overwrite_requires_that_file_read(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
from tools.skills_tool import skill_view
from tools.skill_manager_tool import _reset_background_review_read_marks
_reset_background_review_read_marks()
with _curator_pass(tmp_path, monkeypatch=monkeypatch):
_create_curator_skill("reviewed", _skill_content("reviewed"))
ref = tmp_path / ".hermes" / "skills" / "reviewed" / "references"
ref.mkdir()
(ref / "workflow.md").write_text("old workflow\n", encoding="utf-8")
# Reading SKILL.md does not authorize overwriting a linked file.
assert json.loads(skill_view("reviewed"))["success"] is True
blocked = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="write_file",
name="reviewed",
file_path="references/workflow.md",
file_content="new workflow\n",
))
assert blocked["success"] is False
assert blocked.get("_read_before_write_required") is True
assert json.loads(skill_view("reviewed", "references/workflow.md"))["success"] is True
allowed = json.loads(skill_manage(
action="write_file",
name="reviewed",
file_path="references/workflow.md",
file_content="new workflow\n",
))
assert allowed["success"] is True, allowed
_reset_background_review_read_marks()