skills: trim two descriptions to a routing sentence, and assert their pointers
Every skill's name and description sit in the system prompt of EVERY request -- that block is the routing index -- while bodies are fetched on demand through the read tool. Measured on this device: 24 discoverable skills cost 10,609 description chars (~2,652 tokens) per request, against 474,656 chars of bodies (~119k tokens) that cost nothing until used. Bodies are 45x the descriptions, which is what the spec's 1024-char description limit is protecting. credential-incident-response (1022, two characters under the limit) and pi-devbox-environment (923) were each carrying a table of contents of what their body covers. Trimmed to what a description is actually for -- answering "should I load this?" -- reclaiming 1,087 chars (~271 tokens) of permanent context. 4,154 -> 3,067 across the five baked skills. WHY ONLY THESE TWO. Both are named BY PATH from the always-loaded managed block, so neither depends on description-matching to be found. pi-extensions is left alone deliberately: check-skill-floor.sh compares the vendored copy to the package repo by DIRECTORY HASH, so trimming ours alone registers as drift and turns that gate red; and it is the one skill that also ships in the skillset repo, where it runs on hosts with no pi-devbox managed block and genuinely needs its description. pi-devbox-firstboot stays fuller than needed because it is the skill a device with nothing else has to find. NOTHING WAS DELETED, ONLY RELOCATED -- and that was checked rather than assumed: all 18 enumerated items were confirmed present in the bodies BEFORE cutting (frontmatter stripped, so the description's own line could not score its own claim), and `git diff --stat` confirms both bodies are byte-identical. THE TRIM CREATES A DEPENDENCY, SO IT IS NOW ASSERTED. smoke-test.sh checks both pointers by path, next to the firstboot one. The premise of the cut is "the block names them", which holds only while those lines exist -- reword the block, drop a pointer, and the skill silently stops being reachable for a device that did not already know it was there. Verified discriminating: a reworded block fails the grep. An instrument failure caught on the way, and the reason the coverage check was re-run: my first pass used `grep -E 'a\|b'`, where \| is a LITERAL pipe in ERE, so 8 of 18 items read as 0 hits. Every zero was a pattern containing \| and every non-zero lacked one -- that correlation, not the content, was the finding. With real alternation all 18 are present. Loader re-verified on both trimmed skills: rc=0, no skill diagnostics.
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@@ -304,6 +304,17 @@ run "mempalace session-start pointer merged into global AGENTS.md" \
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# rewording the paragraph must not be able to silently break the link.
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run "firstboot skill pointer merged into global AGENTS.md" \
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"grep -q 'pi-devbox-firstboot/SKILL.md' /opt/pi-toolkit/pi-global-AGENTS.md"
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# Same path assertion for the two skills whose descriptions were deliberately
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# TRIMMED to a routing sentence. Their frontmatter no longer enumerates what
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# they cover, on the explicit premise that this block names them by path and so
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# they never depend on description-matching to be found. That premise is only
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# true while these lines exist, which is exactly why it is asserted rather than
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# trusted: reword the block, drop a pointer, and the skill silently stops being
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# reachable for a device that did not already know it was there.
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run "pi-devbox-environment pointer merged into global AGENTS.md" \
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"grep -q 'pi-devbox-environment/SKILL.md' /opt/pi-toolkit/pi-global-AGENTS.md"
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run "credential-incident-response pointer merged into global AGENTS.md" \
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"grep -q 'credential-incident-response/SKILL.md' /opt/pi-toolkit/pi-global-AGENTS.md"
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# Vendored fallback skills (so a no-skillset container still resolves the
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# AGENTS.md 'read the pi-extensions skill' pointer).
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run "image-baked pi-extensions fallback skill" \
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