orca/src
Brennan Benson 49cfbf014c
fix(skills): stop OS sidecars marking an untouched skill as modified (#11471)
* fix(skills): stop OS sidecars marking an untouched skill as modified

Package identity compared a live user directory against a tree read from a
clean checkout, so anything the OS deposited counted as drift. One Finder
visit writes .DS_Store, which sorts before SKILL.md and misaligns the
index-aligned snapshot comparison — the copy became 'unrecognized', was
reported as "may be modified... Remove it", and left out of the update.
Running the update could not clear it either: the updater compares its lock
to the source and never reads disk, so it correctly reports "up to date"
and writes nothing.

Ignore OS-authored names on both sides of the comparison. The generator
half is not hypothetical: a stray sidecar in a working tree made the
committed artifacts read as stale, failing lint for that developer.

Scoped to OS-authored names only. Tolerating unexpected files in general
would let an injected payload ride along beside a clean SKILL.md; these are
safe because an official SKILL.md never references them, so no agent can be
routed into one. Mode bits are deliberately untouched — that would weaken
identity for real scripts.

* fix(skills): keep guarding a directory or link wearing an OS metadata name

The name-only skip dropped any entry matching an OS metadata name, so a
directory named .DS_Store or ._scripts took its whole subtree out of
identity and a symlink wearing one stopped tripping the link guard — a
skill hiding either read as pristine. The OS writes these as plain files
only, so the entry type decides, still ahead of the case-fold map.

Also compares both walkers over the same fixture: an asymmetric skip is
worse than none, since one side would bake in content the other can
never observe.

* chore: ignore the OS metadata names skill identity already skips

Both skill-identity walkers ignore these names, but .gitignore covered only
.DS_Store and Thumbs.db — so a stray ._SKILL.md showed as untracked and
`git add -A` could commit it. That is the one way the two walkers can
disagree: the disk walker skips such a file while the git-tree producer
(collectGitPackageFiles, used by the unreferenced --rebuild-from-tags path)
does not, so a committed sidecar would make released history and observation
describe different content.

Ignoring them keeps that asymmetry unreachable rather than adding a second
skip to the released-history path, which is load-bearing and provably never
sees one today: no committed sidecar exists on any ref.

Nothing tracked matches the new patterns.

* chore: correct the skill-identity ignore comment

The previous wording claimed these names cannot be committed, which
overstates what .gitignore provides: `git add -f` and `git apply --index`
both bypass it, so a cherry-pick, rebase or fork branch already carrying a
sidecar is unaffected. That clause was load-bearing — it was the stated
reason for leaving the released-history producer unhardened — so it should
not read as a structural guarantee.

Also fixes the producer count (three, not two: two disk walkers plus the
git-tree producer, which does not skip) and says plain file, since the skip
is isFile()-gated so a directory or link wearing the name is still walked.
2026-07-30 13:20:47 -07:00
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cli feat(cli): add `orca account add` / `account list` for headless hosts (Claude + Codex) (#9177) 2026-07-30 12:50:07 -07:00
main fix(skills): stop OS sidecars marking an untouched skill as modified (#11471) 2026-07-30 13:20:47 -07:00
preload fix(native-chat): mirror multi-line launch drafts into the chat composer (#11253) 2026-07-30 11:08:56 -07:00
relay fix(pty): do not create unused Pi/OMP home dirs on bare shells (#10198) 2026-07-30 12:57:45 -07:00
renderer feat(cli): add orca skills install and orca skills update for headless skill setup (#9201) 2026-07-30 11:20:29 -07:00
shared fix(pty): do not create unused Pi/OMP home dirs on bare shells (#10198) 2026-07-30 12:57:45 -07:00
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