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fix: deduplicate delivered skill context and gate input-only roles - #607

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What & why

Closes #604.

An ordinary session's first request repeated its entire skill catalog in both startup and live context. The augmenter tracked only its own previous rendered output, so startup delivery never established a comparison point. It also recorded catalogs during preparation, before the provider confirmed receiving them. Separately, input-only daemon roles excluded tool guidance but still received situation context and skill catalogs they could not use.

This change moves catalog compaction to the ACP delivery boundary. Preparation retains the full filtered current catalog plus its equivalent startup rendering. The wire request uses the existing unchanged marker only when that equivalent startup is being delivered or the same ACP process has acknowledged that catalog. Successful, uncanceled responses establish the record; failures and cancellation invalidate uncertain context. Recovery retains full input and a new process starts with no acknowledged sections. The old session-wide catalog LRU is removed.

The existing input-only role predicate now excludes startup and live skills and situation context for memory extraction, automatic titles, and checkpoint summaries. Ordinary sessions retain useful context. Runtime identity, authored instructions, current filtering, and explicit skill invocation retain their existing paths.

Measured receiver payloads

The same production harness/session-manager fixture ran against the base daemon files through a Go overlay and against the fix. Diagnostics come from an actual ACP fixture subprocess, with 23 seeded skills plus the bundled skill. Input-only fixtures use common instructions and input to isolate harness overhead.

Prompt Before bytes After bytes Skill entries before → after
First ordinary turn 22,751 19,947 48 → 24
Unchanged ordinary turn 1,656 1,655 0 → 0
Changed ordinary turn 4,523 4,523 25 → 25
Memory extractor 11,192 1,452 50 → 0
Auto title 11,186 1,452 50 → 0
Checkpoint summary 11,097 1,450 50 → 0

The first-turn reduction is 2,804 measured bytes; input-only reductions are 9,647–9,740 bytes. The one-byte unchanged-turn difference is generated metadata variation. These are measured UTF-8 payloads, not token, billing, or production transcript projections. The baseline scenario reproduces first-turn duplication and all three role failures; the corrected scenario passes.

How you verified it

Final delivery gates run in GitHub CI on the current PR head. The earlier local evidence below remains valid for unchanged code.

  • Focused race tests cover native/prefixed startup delivery, unchanged/changed catalogs, failed preparation, provider errors, cancellation, empty context, fresh processes, filtering, activation, and role policy.
  • go test -race -tags=integration ./internal/daemon -run '^TestHarnessContextIntegrationScopesToolGuidanceForInternalCallers$' -count=1: passed, including persisted-role resume with skills enabled and disabled.
  • go test -race -tags=integration ./internal/daemon -run '^TestHarnessContextIntegrationMeasuresDeliveredSkillCatalogs$' -count=1: passed; produces the receiver measurements above.
  • go test -race -tags=integration ./internal/daemon -run '^TestDaemonE2EExtensionPublishedAgentSessionCommandsAndPrompt$' -count=1: passed through the real daemon, HTTP, hosted MCP, and ACP fixture subprocess, including explicit skill invocation.
  • make gate: passed with zero lint issues; all affected ACP, daemon, session, and input-queue race suites passed. The consolidated review-remediation commit passed locally before delivery gates moved to GitHub CI. The subsequent preview-install correction is validated remotely.
  • A supplementary temporary overlay of the same receiver scenario also passed live skill removal, description editing, and the unchanged turn after editing; no production code was overlaid in this additional run.
  • Addressed CodeRabbit finding discussion_r3983936133 in 91995c030: compare complete receiver skill lists for first, unchanged, and changed turns. The strengthened integration scenario and make gate passed.
  • Reviewed the changed diff. Changed daemon suites pass the repository test-shape checker; its four findings in the ACP file also exist unchanged at the base revision.

Runtime tests used isolated temporary homes and owned process cleanup. No host-daemon restart, live inference-provider billing/model behavior, or Windows validation is claimed. Authored and verified by Codex (GPT-6 Astra).

Reproducible preview installation

Vercel's default Bun 1.3.14 installer cannot read this repository's version-2 lockfile. It ignored
the lockfile and resolved newer Fumadocs/Zod packages, causing type errors even though the locked
GitHub frontend build passed. packages/site/vercel.json now uses
bunx [email protected] install --frozen-lockfile, matching the existing root packageManager and
Vercel's documented version-pinning method.
This makes the preview use the committed dependency graph and fail explicitly on lockfile drift.
No dependency versions, shared project settings, or application type checks are changed.
Validation for this CI correction runs in the remote preview and current-head GitHub CI.

The complete first CodeRabbit review is addressed in one remediation commit, and Greptile
reported no actionable findings. No repeat review round is required.

Impact

No public CLI/HTTP/UDS/native-tool schema, permission, runtime configuration, extension, or persisted-data shape changes. Compaction metadata stays internal and never enters provider-visible structured metadata. Context hashes belong to one ACP process, preserving workspace/profile/process isolation and fresh recovery semantics. No migration or user action is required.

The bundled-skills guide and ET-049 document the behavior. The official skill's existing unchanged-marker/latest-full-catalog guidance remains valid. The full cross-surface audit and measurement methodology are in docs/qa/reports/2026-09-10-skills-prompt-dedup.md. No rendered UI changes.


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  • New or changed behavior is covered by tests
  • Agent authorship and verification are identified above

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Walkthrough

The change adds ACP prompt-section tracking and compaction. Skill catalogs now use this mechanism, refresh after changes, and avoid duplicate startup content. Input-only harness roles omit situation and skills context.

Changes

Prompt section delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
ACP prompt section contract and compaction
internal/acp/prompt_sections.go, internal/acp/agent_process.go, internal/acp/client_prompt.go, internal/acp/types.go, internal/acp/client_prompt_contract_test.go
Prompt requests collect sections. Delivered sections use SHA-256 signatures. Confirmed sections use unchanged markers. Canceled, failed, or uncertain delivery forgets recorded sections.
Session prompt propagation and recovery
internal/session/manager_prompt_submit.go, internal/session/manager_prompt_recovery.go
Prompt preparation forwards collected sections through submission and clones the section slice during recovery.
Skill catalog and harness role integration
internal/daemon/prompt_skills.go, internal/daemon/prompt_skills_test.go, internal/daemon/harness_context_policy.go, internal/daemon/harness_context.go, internal/daemon/harness_context_test.go, internal/daemon/harness_context_integration_test.go, internal/daemon/daemon_extension_agent_fixture_e2e_integration_test.go
The skills augmenter registers startup and current catalog sections. Catalog updates resend full content. Input-only roles omit situation and skills sections and augmenters. Integration tests validate unchanged, refreshed, and role-scoped prompts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HarnessContextResolver
  participant skillsCatalogAugmenter
  participant SessionManager
  participant ACPClient
  participant AgentProcess
  HarnessContextResolver->>skillsCatalogAugmenter: resolve skills augmenter
  skillsCatalogAugmenter->>SessionManager: register catalog PromptSection
  SessionManager->>ACPClient: submit PromptRequest with Sections
  ACPClient->>AgentProcess: compact delivered catalog content
  AgentProcess-->>ACPClient: return prompt response
  ACPClient->>AgentProcess: mark catalog section delivered
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 91995

This increment only adds a test that measures delivered skill catalogs during harness context integration; no production behavior changes are included in this slice, so there is no material merge risk to flag here.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 8.70% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 23 functions across 14 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #604. They compact duplicate skill catalogs at ACP delivery, preserve full catalogs after skill changes or uncertain delivery, retain unchanged markers, and exclude situation…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and tests remain within the linked issue scope. The added prompt-section transport, recovery handling, delivery-state tracking, and integration coverage directly support catalog ded…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the two primary changes: deduplicating delivered skill context and gating context for input-only roles.
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Greptile Summary

The PR moves skill-catalog deduplication to the ACP delivery boundary and suppresses unusable context for input-only daemon roles.

  • Tracks catalog delivery per ACP process and acknowledges sections only after successful, uncanceled responses.
  • Preserves complete prompt sections for retries, recovery, changed catalogs, and fresh processes.
  • Excludes skill and situation context from memory extraction, automatic-title, and checkpoint-summary roles.
  • Adds focused contract, integration, and E2E coverage plus QA and user documentation.
  • Pins Vercel preview installation to the repository’s declared Bun version and frozen lockfile.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge, with no actionable correctness, security, or repository-rule violations identified.

Delivery acknowledgment, retry and recovery behavior, fresh-process isolation, catalog changes, and input-only role gating are coherently implemented and covered at contract and integration boundaries. The subsequent Vercel configuration change aligns with the repository’s declared Bun version and frozen installation policy.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
internal/acp/prompt_sections.go Introduces process-scoped section compaction and delivery acknowledgment without mutating retryable prompt input.
internal/acp/client_prompt.go Applies compaction at the wire boundary and records delivery only after successful, uncanceled responses.
internal/session/manager_prompt_submit.go Collects prompt-section metadata during augmentation and carries it into ACP dispatch requests.
internal/daemon/prompt_skills.go Replaces preparation-time session caching with full catalog registration for transport-controlled compaction.
internal/daemon/harness_context_policy.go Gates skill and situation startup/live context for the three input-only roles.
internal/daemon/harness_context_integration_test.go Verifies delivered catalogs and role-specific context through the production assembler and ACP fixture.
packages/site/vercel.json Pins preview dependency installation to Bun 1.4.0 with frozen-lockfile enforcement.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
    participant D as Daemon augmenter
    participant M as Session manager
    participant A as ACP process
    participant P as Provider

    D->>D: Resolve current filtered skill catalog
    D->>M: Full prompt plus section metadata
    M->>A: Dispatch retryable full input
    A->>A: Compare startup or acknowledged catalog
    alt Startup contains equivalent catalog
        A->>P: Startup catalog plus unchanged marker
    else Catalog previously acknowledged
        A->>P: Unchanged marker
    else New, changed, or uncertain catalog
        A->>P: Full current catalog
    end
    alt Successful and uncanceled response
        P-->>A: Completed response
        A->>A: Record catalog signature
    else Error or cancellation
        P-->>A: Failure or cancellation
        A->>A: Invalidate uncertain section state
    end
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Disposition for the Docstring Coverage warning in the review summary: no code change is needed. All newly introduced exported identifiers in internal/acp/prompt_sections.go have GoDoc: PromptSection, CollectPromptSections, and RegisterPromptSection. The remaining introduced helpers are private implementation methods or named test cases in the existing suites; their behavior and delivery ownership are covered by the contract/integration tests and the scoped QA report. The aggregate warning counts touched functions across 14 files and does not identify an undocumented public contract. Applying its generic 80% threshold to private helpers and test functions would add redundant comments beyond the repository's established Go conventions. This is a documented non-actionable heuristic warning; the concrete catalog-completeness finding is fixed in 91995c0.

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Skills catalog is sent twice on every session's first turn, and input-only daemon sessions receive sections they cannot use

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