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Skill visibility filtering and config parsing fixes

Cluster 127829 · skills. Data as of

2 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

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

These items address bugs and features related to how skills are enabled, disabled, and filtered—covering disagreements between config and skill index, allowlist/blocklist logic, and reading external skill directory include/exclude settings.

Open issues1

  • Issue#127829[Bug]: skill_view and the config UIs disagree with the skill index on skills.disabled (essential skill refused, bare name is a substring match, JSON-list string misread)

Open PRs1

  • PR#127835feat(skills): skills.enabled allowlists and external_dirs filters on one shared visibility check

1 PR closed without merging

From the close comments: superseded by another PR 1

  • #114088 feat(skills): read external_include/external_exclude for the external skill index · superseded by another PR → #127835, #100254, #127829
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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(structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.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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