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Skill size-limit handling and actionable oversize guidance

Cluster 51470 · skills. Data as of

3 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

0open issues
3open PRs
4items grouped
Known?
Yes. 4 related items grouped here, 1 issue already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
0 issues and 3 PRs.

The members appear to center on how skill management behaves when a SKILL.md exceeds the size limit, including one bug report of repeated small-trim retries and several fix-titled changes aimed at making oversize refusals or recovery guidance more actionable. Details of the changes and their outcomes are not stated in the titles.

Open issues0

No open issues.

Open PRs3

  • PR#51499fix(skills): make size-limit recovery actionable
  • PR#51526fix(skills): make oversize skill refusal actionable
  • PR#52054fix(skills): harden oversized skill guidance
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#51470Bug: skill_manage retry loop on SKILL.md >100k chars — agent ignores split suggestion and burns tool calls shaving ~200 chars at a time
How this cluster was grouped
  • Link evidence (structural links throughout): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
  • Pairwise link density 0.50: 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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skills
Closed issues
1
Attempts
0 PRs closed without merging

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