~/.agents/skills/ lives in the ephemeral container layer and is rebuilt by
entrypoint-user.sh on every start from two sources, so an edit made through the
symlink may vanish on the next recreate. Adds to §1 (persistence tiers):
- `readlink -f ~/.agents/skills/<name>` as the first move, with a tier table:
resolves under /workspace/skillset → edit in place; resolves under
/usr/local/share/pi-devbox/skills → image layer, edit the canonical repo and
`sudo cp` to activate for the running session.
- Canonical owner per baked skill (pi-devbox-environment → this repo;
pi-extensions → the package repo's skill/, plus this repo's floor snapshot;
mempalace → the private skillset repo), pointing at VENDORED.md as
authoritative.
- The shadowing gotcha: image-baked links are created first and only when
absent, and deploy-skills.sh --prune-stale leaves foreign links alone, so for
a name present in BOTH sources the image copy wins and a skillset edit has no
effect in the container. Documented with the live example found while writing
this: the baked mempalace snapshot carries a Temporal grounding section
(904fe85) that skillset at its snapshot point (8e8db64) lacks.
- Checklist gets a matching line.
Found while adding session findings to the pi-extensions skill (e73cb9f), where
the same resolve-first step was what kept the edit out of the image layer.
joakimp
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