fix: reclaim skill links from a moved install, and stop setup failing in silence (0.6.4) - #39
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Reported from an AVD desktop. Skills had been installed from a checkout in
Downloads. The checkout was later deleted. Every skill link then pointed at a path
that no longer existed, and no command in this tool could repair it:
doctor -> "leftovers from an uninstall; remove them or run `agent-memory setup`"
uninstall -> "[kept] ...\.agents\skills\handoff (not ours)" x12
setup -> no output at all, exit to prompt, nothing changed
A closed loop. Each command named another as the fix.
The ownership test was the cause. unlinkSkills decided a link was ours by asking
whether it resolved to the skills directory we are packaged in right now:
resolve(readlinkSync(link)) === join(packaged, name)
which is false for every link made by an install that has since moved, and false
for every link whose target was deleted. A disowned link is unreclaimable: the
uninstall keeps it, and setup cannot replace what it will not clear. The links most
in need of removal were the exact set the check refused to touch.
Ownership is now: a link at a path we manage is ours if it points at our packaged
skills, or if it dangles, or if it points into another agent-memory tree -- the
last recognised by its parent holding all three of our skills, which a hand-written
skill directory would not. Reclaiming a link that points nowhere costs nothing and
is the whole difference between a recoverable machine and a deadlocked one. A live
link to a directory outside any agent-memory tree is still kept, and a test now
pins both halves so widening ownership cannot quietly swallow a skill the user
wrote themselves.
The silent setup is the second half, and I could not reproduce it. A dangling link
on POSIX is cleared correctly and setup recovers, so the failure is specific to a
Windows junction or to that desktop. Rather than claim a root cause I have not
seen, this makes setup survivable and legible:
- clear() now verifies the removal actually happened. `rmSync` with `force` swallows
ENOENT, and a junction whose target is gone can answer that stat with ENOENT while
the reparse point stays on disk -- the removal reports success, changes nothing,
and the symlink that follows fails EEXIST. This is my best candidate for the
reported silence, and it is a real bug either way.
- Each skill installs inside its own try. One wedged path used to abort the run and
discard the report with it, so eleven successes and one failure produced no output
and no hint that anything had worked.
- compact runs last and touches every registered skill path, which is the set most
likely to hold a stale entry. Its failure no longer throws away the linking report;
it is reported alongside it, with the two commands that retry just that step.
- setup names what failed, with the path and the error, and points at uninstall.
Four tests: a vanished install's link is reclaimed, a hand-made skill is not, setup
replaces a stale link, and a throwing compact does not sink the run.
Figures re-measured for ARCHITECTURE.md: 3,574 lines, 97 tests, cli.js 980,
setup.js 282. Still zero runtime and zero dev dependencies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe release updates version metadata to 0.6.4. Setup now removes stale links, isolates installation and compaction failures, preserves successful results, and reports errors through the CLI. Integration tests cover these behaviors. ChangesSetup resilience
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Cleanup can misclassify a valid user-created skill link that uses a relative target and remove it, causing unintended loss of the user's link. Fix the path resolution and add the requested regression test before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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cmdSetup->>setup: Start setup
setup->>compactFn: Generate compact output
compactFn-->>setup: Return output or error
setup-->>cmdSetup: Return results and failure fields
cmdSetup-->>cmdSetup: Display errors and recovery commands
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In `@src/setup.js`:
- Around line 79-90: Update the link-target resolution in the unlinkSkills flow
to resolve relative readlinkSync(link) results against dirname(link), while
preserving absolute-target handling and existing packaged-link checks. Add a
regression test for my-own-skills/handoff that verifies the user link remains in
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| let dest; | ||
| try { | ||
| dest = resolve(readlinkSync(link)); | ||
| } catch { | ||
| // A link sitting at one of our paths whose target cannot even be read is ours to | ||
| // clear. Nothing downstream can use it either. | ||
| return true; | ||
| } | ||
| if (dest === join(packagedSkillsDir(), name)) return true; | ||
| // Dangling. Nothing is lost by reclaiming a link that points nowhere, and leaving it | ||
| // is precisely what deadlocks both commands. | ||
| if (!existsSync(dest)) return true; |
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import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path';
const link = '/tmp/agent-home/.agents/skills/handoff';
const storedTarget = '../../my-own-skills/handoff';
console.log(JSON.stringify({
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Resolve relative link targets from the link directory.
When readlinkSync(link) returns a relative target, resolve it with resolve(dirname(link), readlinkSync(link)). Otherwise, unlinkSkills() can classify a live user link as dangling and remove it. Add a regression test for my-own-skills/handoff and assert that the link remains in kept.
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In `@src/setup.js` around lines 79 - 90, Update the link-target resolution in the
unlinkSkills flow to resolve relative readlinkSync(link) results against
dirname(link), while preserving absolute-target handling and existing
packaged-link checks. Add a regression test for my-own-skills/handoff that
verifies the user link remains in kept.
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Reported from an AVD desktop. Skills had been installed from a checkout in
Downloads. The checkout was later deleted. Every skill link then pointed at a path that no longer existed, and no command in this tool could repair it:doctoragent-memory setup"uninstall[kept] ...\.agents\skills\handoff (not ours)— ×12setupA closed loop: each command named another as the fix.
Bug 1 — ownership was tied to where we live now
unlinkSkillsdecided a link was ours by asking whether it resolved to the skills directory we are packaged in at this moment:That is false for every link made by an install that has since moved, and false for every link whose target was deleted. A disowned link is unreclaimable —
uninstallkeeps it, andsetupcannot replace what it will not clear. The links most in need of removal were exactly the set the check refused to touch.Ownership is now: a link at a path we manage is ours if it points at our packaged skills, or if it dangles, or if it points into another agent-memory tree — the last recognised by its parent holding all three of our skills, which a hand-written skill directory would not. A live link to a directory outside any agent-memory tree is still kept, and tests pin both halves so widening ownership cannot quietly swallow a skill the user wrote.
Bug 2 — setup failed silently
I could not reproduce this. A dangling link on POSIX is cleared correctly and setup recovers, so the failure is specific to a Windows junction or to that desktop. Rather than claim a root cause I have not observed, this makes setup survivable and legible:
clear()verifies the removal happened.rmSyncwithforceswallows ENOENT, and a junction whose target is gone can answer that stat with ENOENT while the reparse point stays on disk — the removal reports success, changes nothing, and thesymlinkSyncthat follows fails EEXIST. Best candidate for the reported silence, and a real bug regardless.try. One wedged path used to abort the run and discard the report with it, so eleven successes and one failure produced no output and no hint anything had worked.compactfailure no longer sinks the run. It runs last and touches every registered skill path — the set most likely to hold a stale entry. Reported alongside the linking summary now, with the commands that retry just that step.setupnames what failed, with path and error, and points atuninstall.Tests
Four new (93 → 97): a vanished install's link is reclaimed; a hand-made skill is not;
setupreplaces a stale link; a throwingcompactdoes not sink the run.Figures re-measured for ARCHITECTURE.md: 3,574 lines, 97 tests,
cli.js980,setup.js282. Still zero runtime and zero dev dependencies.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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