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@Waishnav Waishnav commented Sep 18, 2026

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Physical skill paths remain the default. This PR adds an opt-in logical skills://<name> namespace behind DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS=1 so we can evaluate it with real MCP hosts without making it the stable DevSpace contract. When enabled, open_workspace advertises skill URIs and read resolves the skill entrypoint and bundled resources; when unset, existing physical-path behavior is preserved.

For experimental shell compatibility, standalone skills:// arguments passed to exec_command or bash are rewritten to their canonical local skill files immediately before execution. This is intentionally a workaround while the MCP Skills extension matures across major hosts and may be removed in favor of the standard protocol surface.

This also corrects the package-install smoke test to keep transitive optional dependencies, since Koffi relies on them for platform native prebuilds.

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  • New Features

    • Skills continue to use filesystem paths by default for compatibility.
    • Added optional experimental skills:// URIs for skills and bundled resources, enabled with DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS=1.
    • Shell commands can resolve standalone skill URIs before execution.
    • Experimental skill URIs validate skill names and prevent access outside a skill’s directory.
  • Documentation

    • Updated skill usage, configuration, and troubleshooting guidance.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for path handling, URI resolution, validation, and workspace resource access.

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The server now keeps filesystem skill paths by default. When DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS=1 is set, it advertises and resolves validated skills:// URIs for skill entry files, bundled resources, and standalone shell arguments.

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Conditional Skills URI contract

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and skill resolution
src/config.ts, src/config.test.ts, src/skills.ts, src/skills.test.ts
The configuration flag controls skill-name filtering and resolution. Default mode uses filesystem paths. Experimental mode validates skill names and resolves skills:// entry and resource URIs.
Workspace and server integration
src/workspaces.ts, src/workspaces.test.ts, src/server.ts, src/server.test.ts
Workspace reads select filesystem or URI resolution from configuration. Server instructions and open_workspace output advertise the matching reference format.
Shell URI expansion
src/tool-surfaces/shared.ts, src/tool-surfaces/claude.ts, src/tool-surfaces/codex.ts, src/server.test.ts
When experimental URI support is enabled, standalone skills:// shell arguments are resolved and quoted before execution.
Documentation and validation
docs/*.md, test/package-install-smoke.test.ts
Documentation describes conditional skill URI behavior. The package installation smoke test no longer passes --omit=optional.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant open_workspace
  participant WorkspaceRegistry
  participant ShellTool
  participant resolveSkillReadPath
  MCPClient->>open_workspace: Open workspace
  open_workspace-->>MCPClient: Return filesystem path or skills:// reference
  MCPClient->>ShellTool: Pass standalone skills:// argument
  ShellTool->>WorkspaceRegistry: Resolve skill URI
  WorkspaceRegistry->>resolveSkillReadPath: Validate and resolve URI
  resolveSkillReadPath-->>WorkspaceRegistry: Return absolute skill path
  WorkspaceRegistry-->>ShellTool: Return shell-quoted path
  ShellTool-->>MCPClient: Execute command
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8c80f

Experimental skill URI commands can alter arguments containing embedded URI text, and the configuration documentation gives conflicting and incomplete activation guidance. Address these bounded issues before relying on the feature.

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- Around line 143-178: Validate skill names against the URI-safe grammar before
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RetriggerConfidence Score: 4/5

Not safe to merge because an advertised skill entrypoint can fail for a skill that discovery accepts.

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  1. P1 Slash-named skills fail

Summary

  • Logical skill URIs do not round-trip for discovered skill names containing /.
  • The workspace can advertise an entrypoint that immediately fails when read.

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Not safe to merge until skill names that cannot be represented by the URI format are rejected or encoded reversibly.

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  • P1 Slash-containing discovered skill names cannot be read through their advertised URI

    • Bug
      • A fixture whose frontmatter is name: foo/bar is discovered despite an invalid-character warning. Current MCP open_workspace advertises skills://foo/bar, but a real MCP read request for that exact returned URI returns isError: true and Unknown skill: foo; the advertised entry cannot round-trip.
    • Cause
      • formatSkillUri in src/skills.ts:176-178 appends the complete skill name, but resolveSkillReadPath in src/skills.ts:145-152 treats the first slash after skills:// as the name/resource delimiter. The dependency's skill loader keeps invalid names after emitting warnings, so foo/bar remains discoverable.
    • Fix
      • Reject or omit names that cannot be represented by the URI grammar before advertising them, or encode/decode skill names and parse the URI unambiguously while preserving resource paths.

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Update: instead of holding this completely, we’ll ship it default-off behind DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS=1 for early testing and revisit/remove it as MCP Skills gets broad host support.

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@Waishnav Waishnav changed the title feat(skills): route skill reads through skills:// feat(skills): add experimental skills:// routing Sep 19, 2026

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🟡 Minor · Document the experimental environment variable in the environment… · configuration.md:208-213

docs/configuration.md:208-213
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Document the experimental environment variable in the environment boundary.

Line 208 says that only two user-facing environment variables remain. Lines 117-123 introduce DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS. Add this variable to the count and table. Otherwise, the same document gives conflicting configuration guidance.

Proposed documentation update
-Only two user-facing DevSpace environment variables remain:
+Three user-facing DevSpace environment variables remain:

 | Variable | Purpose |
 | --- | --- |
 | `DEVSPACE_CONFIG_DIR` | Bootstrap location for `config.jsonc`, `auth.json`, skills, and profiles. |
 | `DEVSPACE_OAUTH_OWNER_TOKEN` | Optional secret override for the owner token stored in `auth.json`. |
+| `DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS` | Enables experimental `skills://` references. |

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In `@docs/configuration.md` around lines 208 - 213, Update the
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DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS alongside DEVSPACE_CONFIG_DIR and
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- Around line 141-143: Update the DEVSPACE_EXPERIMENTAL_SKILL_URIS documentation
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