| name | repair-private-skills |
| description | Partial Skill: invoke by name only — the ACED manage-gateway engine that validates and repairs repo-private skill hygiene — loaded in-session by the ACED manage gateway, not user-triggered. |
| user-invocable | false |
| metadata | {"internal":true} |
repair-private-skills
The concrete engine for repo-private skill hygiene under .agents/skills. It catches two problems
a private skill can drift into:
- a stray symlink whose target resolves into the public
skills/ tree (should be a real
repo-private directory, not a link into the public one)
- a SKILL.md missing
metadata.internal: true in its YAML frontmatter (the marker that keeps a
repo-private skill from leaking as a public one)
A directory holding only SKILL.local.md / SKILL.project.md (no SKILL.md) is an
augmentation-only entry and is never flagged. Loaded in-session by the manage gateway
(Config runners / hygiene group); it carries a self-contained .mts script (the repo's
node-≥23.6 / no-deps convention).
Run an operation
node "<skill>/scripts/repair-private-skills.mts" [--root .] <validate|repair> [--format json]
| Operation | Effect |
|---|
validate | read-only; reports every issue found; makes no filesystem changes; exits nonzero when issues exist, 0 when clean |
repair | writes fixes — deletes a stray public-tree symlink, inserts the missing metadata.internal: true; exits 0 |
--format json | (either operation) emit the result as a single JSON object instead of one line per entry |
Issue kinds validate reports: public_skill_symlink, missing_skill_file, missing_frontmatter,
missing_metadata_internal. Action kinds repair records: removed_public_symlink,
updated_metadata, already_internal, local_augmentation_only, skipped_missing_skill,
skipped_no_frontmatter.
Curate with validate first. The intended flow: run validate to see what is wrong, then run
repair to fix it. repair is idempotent — a clean tree makes no writes.
Boundaries
validate performs zero filesystem writes — it only reads and reports. repair writes/deletes
only under .agents/skills — it never creates, modifies, or deletes anything under the public
skills/ tree, even though it reads that tree (via a resolved realpath comparison) to detect a stray
symlink pointing into it.
repair-private-skills does not discover skills across all sources — that is list-skills. It does
not maintain the per-model runner-def family — that is manage-model-runners.
When node is absent, an agent performs the same checks by hand: for each entry under
.agents/skills, lstat it — if it is a symlink whose realpath resolves inside the public skills/
tree, delete it; otherwise read SKILL.md (skip if absent and a SKILL.local.md /
SKILL.project.md exists instead; flag if neither exists), skip if its first line is not ---
(malformed frontmatter is never auto-fixed), and insert metadata.internal: true under an existing
metadata: block (or append a new one) when it is missing.
