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Fix infinite symlink cycles in skills directory scan

Cluster 104316 · skills. Data as of

1 open item. Fix attempted, not merged.

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0open issues
1open PR
3items grouped
Known?
Yes. 3 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. 1 PR closed without merging; see the attempts below.
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0 issues and 1 PR.

These items address a bug where the skills scanner follows self-referential or cyclic symlinks unbounded, silently bloating the system prompt. The fixes prune already-visited real directories and symlink cycles during the index walk.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs1

  • PR#104344fix(skills): prune symlink cycles from the skills scan instead of walking them unbounded

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: done elsewhere 1

  • #104327 fix(skills): prune already-visited real dirs in the skill index walk · done elsewhere → #69248, #18815, #20658
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#104316Skills scanner follows self-referential symlinks and silently quadruples the system prompt
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  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.67: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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