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gavrielc 40b65521c0 refactor(skills): retire nc:env-sync — the data/env/env mirror is dead
Upstream removed every setup-side writer of data/env/env (c82f062d) because
nothing has read it since the container mount was dropped — before this
branch even forked. Our engine codified the dead pattern as a directive:
every apply copied the full .env (live tokens included) into a file nothing
consumes.

- engine: env-sync handler removed from selfStatus + applyOne
- grammar: dropped from KNOWN; a new RETIRED table gives a targeted lint
  error ("delete the fence, the adapter reads .env directly") instead of a
  generic unknown-directive message
- skills: fence stripped from the 14 converted skills; orphaned "sync to the
  container" prose cleaned (incl. add-deltachat/add-wechat old-format prose
  upstream's sweep missed); teams troubleshooting entry rewritten
- policy/spec doc lists updated

Suite 827 passed | 1 skipped; all nc: skills lint clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-05 08:27:40 +03:00

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// Extract `nc:` skill directives embedded in a SKILL.md.
//
// A fenced code block whose info-string starts with `nc:` is a load-bearing
// directive; every other fence (and all prose) is the human floor the parser
// ignores. That is the whole "two readers, one document" property: an agent
// applies the prose, a tool applies the directives, and anything the tool
// can't handle degrades to the prose beside it. This is the seed for both the
// conformance linter and the deterministic applier.
//
// Grammar, derived from add-slack:
//
// ```nc:<directive> <arg>... [key:value]...
// <body line>
// ```
//
// `prompt` only *acquires* a value and binds it to a name; a separate directive
// *applies* it, referenced as `{{name}}`. That keeps "ask the human" decoupled
// from "what you do with the answer" (env, ncl, the OneCLI vault, a file).
//
// copy [from-branch:<b>] body: `PATH` (src==dst) or `SRC -> DST` overwrite
// append to:<file> [at:<marker>] body: line(s) to add skip if present
// dep [manager:pnpm] body: `pkg@<exact-semver>` line(s) reinstall no-op
// run [effect:build|test|fetch|external|wire|restart|step|check] [capture:<spec>] re-runnable
// body: shell command(s). {{vars}} are substituted in. effect:wire runs
// `ncl …` to wire collected input (no undo — the rows it creates are user
// runtime data, not reversed on skill remove). effect:restart restarts the
// service so following `ncl` runs reach it; a caller that owns the restart
// (rebuild, or a setup that restarts once) skips it via ApplyOptions.
// skipEffects. capture:<var> binds the command's stdout into {{var}} (twin
// of prompt) — e.g. resolve an id from an API and feed it to a later step.
// capture:<var>=<dot-path>[,<var2>=<dot-path2>…] parses the stdout as JSON
// and binds each var to its jq-style dot-path (.id, .owner.id), so ONE API
// call resolves several values at once. validate:<re> shape-guards each
// captured value (e.g. validate:^discord:); a mismatch bounces the run to
// an agent (a command's output has no human to re-prompt — unlike prompt).
// effect:step runs a long-running, operator-interactive step (a pairing
// code, a QR device-link) through the streaming exec: its
// `=== NANOCLAW SETUP: … ===` status blocks render to the operator live and
// `capture:<var>=<FIELD>[,<var2>=<FIELD2>…]` binds the terminal block's
// named fields into {{vars}} (multi-valued, structured twin of stdout
// capture). Degrades to an agent when no streaming exec is wired.
// effect:check runs the body as a shell PREDICATE (a precondition gate):
// it mutates nothing (no journal, no capture). A zero exit passes silently;
// a non-zero exit bounces to an agent (degrade, not crash) and, via the
// run-health gate, blocks the dangerous side effects that follow it (a
// restart, a pairing/QR step, a wire). An unresolved {{var}} defers.
// prompt <var> [secret] [validate:<re>] [flags:<re-flags>]
// [normalize:trim|rstrip-slash|lower] [reuse:<ENV_KEY>]
// body: the question → binds {{var}} skip if satisfied
// validate:<re> is a regex enforced AT BIND for EVERY value — `inputs` and
// interactive answers alike (e.g. validate:^xoxb- to require a Slack bot
// token); a mismatch leaves the var unbound and records a deferred entry.
// A minimum length is regex-encoded (e.g. validate:^.{20,}$).
// flags:<re-flags> are regex flags applied to validate (e.g. flags:i → a
// case-insensitive scheme match). normalize:<how> deterministically
// transforms the value AT BIND, before validate — for BOTH `inputs` and
// interactive answers — one of trim | rstrip-slash | lower.
// reuse:<ENV_KEY> lets a re-run offer an existing .env value for a credential
// a HELPER SCRIPT owns (written by effect:external, not nc:env-set) — the
// masked reuse offer the env-set→ENV_KEY inference can't otherwise see.
// operator body: instructions for the human operator output-only
// The SKILL.md is addressed to the coding agent; `operator` delineates the
// parts meant for the HUMAN (e.g. clicking through the Slack UI). Lead it
// with agent-facing prose like "Tell the user:" so the agent relays it;
// the engine renders the body to the operator ({{vars}} substituted in).
// The block carries NO presentation attrs: a URL to visit lives in the
// body prose (a consumer may offer to open it), and whether a consumer
// pauses for confirmation before the next side effect is derived from
// document structure (scripts/skill-policy.ts), never authored here.
// env-set body: `KEY=value` ({{var}} allowed) set-if-absent
// json-merge into:<file> key:<field> body: a JSON object push-if-absent
//
// `append` without `at:` adds to EOF; with `at:<marker>` it inserts before the
// `// <<< <marker>` closing line of a dormant marker region (see setup/index.ts).
// `json-merge` reads an array-of-objects JSON file and pushes the body object
// unless an element already has body[key]===element[key] (idempotent by key).
//
// Any directive may carry `when:<var>=<value>` — a guard evaluated against an
// earlier prompt/capture var. If it doesn't match (including the var being
// unresolved), the directive is skipped — a guarded prompt is skipped, never
// deferred — so one skill can express mutually-exclusive branches (e.g. a local
// vs remote install mode) in document order while still running fully
// programmatically from `inputs`.
//
// Removed presentation attrs — `min:`/`error:` on prompt, `open:`/`gate` on
// operator, `label:`/`on-fail:` on any directive — are lint ERRORS, so stale
// authorship fails loudly instead of silently no-oping. Their jobs moved:
// length checks into validate: regexes, miss messages derive from the question
// prose, URLs live in the operator body, gating and step labels derive from
// document structure (scripts/skill-policy.ts / the preceding heading), and the
// failure hint is always the surrounding prose.
//
// Usage: pnpm exec tsx scripts/skill-directives.ts <SKILL.md>
import { readFileSync, existsSync, statSync } from 'node:fs';
import { join } from 'node:path';
export interface Directive {
kind: string;
args: string[]; // positional bare tokens, e.g. prompt's variable name
attrs: Record<string, string | true>; // key:value tokens
body: string[];
line: number; // 1-based line of the opening fence
}
export interface Problem {
line: number;
kind: string;
message: string;
}
const FENCE = /^```(\S.*)?$/;
const EXACT_SEMVER = /^\d+\.\d+\.\d+(?:[-+][0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?$/;
const VAR_REF = /\{\{\s*([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)\s*\}\}/g;
const KNOWN = new Set(['copy', 'append', 'dep', 'run', 'prompt', 'operator', 'env-set', 'json-merge']);
// Retired directives get a targeted lint error (not just "unknown") so an
// author knows the removal was deliberate and what to do instead.
const RETIRED: Record<string, string> = {
'env-sync': 'nc:env-sync was retired — nothing reads the data/env/env mirror (and it copied live tokens); delete the fence, the adapter reads .env directly',
};
const PROMPT_FLAGS = new Set(['secret']);
export function parseDirectives(markdown: string): Directive[] {
const lines = markdown.split('\n');
const out: Directive[] = [];
let i = 0;
while (i < lines.length) {
const info = lines[i].match(FENCE)?.[1]?.trim();
if (info === undefined) {
i++;
continue;
}
// A fence opens here; consume to its closing fence either way.
let j = i + 1;
const body: string[] = [];
while (j < lines.length && !FENCE.test(lines[j])) {
body.push(lines[j]);
j++;
}
if (info.startsWith('nc:')) {
const [tag, ...rest] = info.split(/\s+/);
const args: string[] = [];
const attrs: Record<string, string | true> = {};
for (const tok of rest) {
const eq = tok.indexOf(':');
if (eq > 0) attrs[tok.slice(0, eq)] = tok.slice(eq + 1);
else args.push(tok);
}
out.push({
kind: tag.slice('nc:'.length),
args,
attrs,
body: body.map((l) => l.trim()).filter(Boolean),
line: i + 1,
});
}
i = j + 1; // skip past the closing fence (directive or plain code block)
}
return out;
}
/** The variable a `prompt` binds (the first positional that isn't a flag). */
export function promptVar(d: Directive): string | undefined {
return d.args.find((a) => !PROMPT_FLAGS.has(a));
}
/**
* The variable name(s) a `run capture:<spec>` binds. `capture:dm_channel` →
* `['dm_channel']` (stdout form); `capture:platform_id=PLATFORM_ID,owner=ACCOUNT`
* → `['platform_id','owner']` (effect:step field form).
*/
export function captureVars(spec: string): string[] {
if (!spec.includes('=')) return [spec];
return spec
.split(',')
.map((pair) => pair.slice(0, pair.indexOf('=')).trim())
.filter(Boolean);
}
/** `{{var}}` names referenced anywhere in a directive's body. */
function referencedVars(d: Directive): string[] {
const found: string[] = [];
for (const line of d.body) for (const m of line.matchAll(VAR_REF)) found.push(m[1]);
return found;
}
/**
* The resolved `chat` core version from our lockfile — the single source of
* truth a `@chat-adapter/*` adapter pin must match (the adapter and the core
* move in lockstep). Reads the root importer's direct `chat` dependency, whose
* `specifier`/`version` pair is unique to importer deps (transitive entries in
* the packages section have no `specifier`). Returns undefined if not found.
*/
export function resolveChatCoreVersion(root: string): string | undefined {
let lock = '';
try {
lock = readFileSync(join(root, 'pnpm-lock.yaml'), 'utf8');
} catch {
return undefined;
}
const m = lock.match(/\n\s+chat:\n\s+specifier:[^\n]*\n\s+version:\s*([0-9][^\s(]*)/);
return m?.[1];
}
export function validate(directives: Directive[], ctx?: { chatVersion?: string }): Problem[] {
const problems: Problem[] = [];
const defined = new Set<string>();
const flag = (d: Directive, message: string) => problems.push({ line: d.line, kind: d.kind, message });
for (const d of directives) {
if (RETIRED[d.kind]) flag(d, RETIRED[d.kind]);
else if (!KNOWN.has(d.kind)) flag(d, `unknown directive nc:${d.kind}`);
switch (d.kind) {
case 'dep':
for (const spec of d.body) {
const at = spec.lastIndexOf('@');
const name = at > 0 ? spec.slice(0, at) : spec;
const version = at > 0 ? spec.slice(at + 1) : '';
if (!EXACT_SEMVER.test(version)) flag(d, `dep "${spec}" must pin an exact semver (no ranges/latest)`);
// A @chat-adapter/* adapter must match the chat core version in our
// lockfile — the family moves together. This catches pin drift (the
// 4.27.0-vs-chat@4.26.0 mismatch) at lint time.
if (ctx?.chatVersion && name.startsWith('@chat-adapter/') && version !== ctx.chatVersion) {
flag(d, `${name} pinned ${version} but our chat core is ${ctx.chatVersion} — a @chat-adapter/* adapter must match the chat package`);
}
}
break;
case 'append':
if (!d.attrs.to) flag(d, 'append requires to:<file>');
if (d.body.length === 0) flag(d, 'append requires a line to add');
break;
case 'copy':
if (d.body.length === 0) flag(d, 'copy requires at least one path');
break;
case 'json-merge': {
if (!d.attrs.into) flag(d, 'json-merge requires into:<json-file>');
if (!d.attrs.key) flag(d, 'json-merge requires key:<field>');
if (d.body.length === 0) {
flag(d, 'json-merge requires a JSON object in its body');
} else {
let obj: unknown;
try {
obj = JSON.parse(d.body.join('\n'));
} catch {
flag(d, 'json-merge body must be a single parseable JSON object');
break;
}
if (obj === null || typeof obj !== 'object' || Array.isArray(obj)) {
flag(d, 'json-merge body must be a single JSON object (not an array or scalar)');
} else if (typeof d.attrs.key === 'string' && !(d.attrs.key in obj)) {
flag(d, `json-merge body has no "${d.attrs.key}" field to match on`);
}
}
break;
}
case 'prompt': {
if (!promptVar(d)) flag(d, 'prompt requires a variable name, e.g. `nc:prompt token`');
if (d.body.length === 0) flag(d, 'prompt requires a question in its body');
const flags = typeof d.attrs.flags === 'string' ? d.attrs.flags : undefined;
if (typeof d.attrs.validate === 'string') {
try {
new RegExp(d.attrs.validate, flags);
} catch {
flag(d, `prompt validate:${d.attrs.validate}${flags ? ` flags:${flags}` : ''} is not a valid regex`);
}
} else if (flags !== undefined) {
// flags without validate: still verify they're legal regex flags.
try {
new RegExp('', flags);
} catch {
flag(d, `prompt flags:${flags} are not valid regex flags`);
}
}
// Removed presentation attrs — reject loudly (they would silently no-op).
if (d.attrs.min !== undefined) {
flag(d, 'prompt min: was removed — encode the length in validate:, e.g. min:20 → validate:^.{20,}$');
}
if (d.attrs.error !== undefined) {
flag(d, 'prompt error: was removed — the validation-miss message derives from the question prose');
}
if (typeof d.attrs.normalize === 'string' && !['trim', 'rstrip-slash', 'lower'].includes(d.attrs.normalize)) {
flag(d, `prompt normalize:${d.attrs.normalize} must be one of trim|rstrip-slash|lower`);
}
if (typeof d.attrs.reuse === 'string' && !/^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/.test(d.attrs.reuse)) {
flag(d, `prompt reuse:${d.attrs.reuse} must be a valid ENV_KEY`);
}
break;
}
case 'operator':
if (d.body.length === 0) flag(d, 'operator requires instructions for the human in its body');
// Removed presentation attrs — reject loudly (they would silently no-op).
if (d.attrs.open !== undefined) {
flag(d, 'operator open: was removed — put the URL in the body prose (a consumer offers to open it)');
}
if (d.args.includes('gate') || d.attrs.gate !== undefined) {
flag(d, 'operator gate was removed — the human barrier is derived from document structure, never authored');
}
break;
}
// Removed on every directive: label: (labels are heading-derived only) and
// on-fail: (the failure hint is always the surrounding prose).
if (d.attrs.label !== undefined) {
flag(d, 'label: was removed — step labels derive from the preceding heading');
}
if (d.attrs['on-fail'] !== undefined) {
flag(d, 'on-fail: was removed — the failure hint is always the surrounding prose');
}
// A consumer can only reference a variable an earlier prompt captured, or an
// earlier `run capture:<var>` bound from a command's output.
for (const ref of referencedVars(d)) {
if (!defined.has(ref)) flag(d, `references {{${ref}}} but no earlier nc:prompt or nc:run capture defined it`);
}
// A `when:<var>=<value>` guard references an earlier-defined var by bare name.
if (typeof d.attrs.when === 'string') {
const eq = d.attrs.when.indexOf('=');
if (eq < 1) {
flag(d, `when:${d.attrs.when} must be <var>=<value>`);
} else {
const wvar = d.attrs.when.slice(0, eq).trim();
if (!defined.has(wvar)) flag(d, `when:${d.attrs.when} references {{${wvar}}} but no earlier nc:prompt or nc:run capture defined it`);
}
}
if (d.kind === 'prompt') {
const v = promptVar(d);
if (v) defined.add(v);
}
// capture:<var> binds stdout; capture:<var>=<FIELD>,… binds step block fields.
if (d.kind === 'run' && typeof d.attrs.capture === 'string') {
for (const v of captureVars(d.attrs.capture)) defined.add(v);
}
// A run's capture validate:<re> (the stdout shape-guard) must be a valid regex.
if (d.kind === 'run' && typeof d.attrs.validate === 'string') {
try {
new RegExp(d.attrs.validate);
} catch {
flag(d, `run validate:${d.attrs.validate} is not a valid regex`);
}
}
}
return problems;
}
/**
* A WARN-ONLY reference-floor check — never an error, never blocks a build. A
* credentialed or interactive skill (one that prompts for a `secret`, or runs an
* `nc:run effect:step` — a pairing code, a QR device-link) should ship a
* `## Troubleshooting` section: the human floor a reader scrolls to when the live
* step misbehaves. Missing it is a smell, not a failure — the skill still applies
* cleanly — so this returns a warning the CLI prints but never exits non-zero on,
* keeping it strictly advisory. Returns [] when no secret/step is present (no
* floor is expected) or a `## Troubleshooting` heading already exists.
*/
export function lintReferenceFloor(markdown: string): Problem[] {
const directives = parseDirectives(markdown);
const isFloorBearing = (d: Directive): boolean =>
(d.kind === 'prompt' && d.args.includes('secret')) || (d.kind === 'run' && d.attrs.effect === 'step');
const anchor = directives.find(isFloorBearing);
if (!anchor) return []; // no credential / interactive step ⇒ no floor expected
const hasTroubleshooting = markdown.split('\n').some((l) => /^##\s+Troubleshooting\s*$/.test(l.trim()));
if (hasTroubleshooting) return [];
return [{
line: anchor.line,
kind: 'reference-floor',
message: 'a credentialed/interactive skill should carry a ## Troubleshooting section (the human floor when a live step misbehaves)',
}];
}
/**
* A WARN-ONLY gate-ambiguity check — never an error, never blocks a build. The
* driver's natural-barrier policy (scripts/skill-policy.ts) keys an operator's
* pause decision off the next guard-compatible directive; an UNGUARDED operator
* treats every following directive as compatible, so when the directives
* immediately after it are `when:`-guarded and span more than one branch value,
* the static decision keys off a directive that may be runtime-skipped (e.g.
* unguarded operator → `prompt when:mode=remote` → `run when:mode=local`:
* policy says no-confirm, but at runtime mode=local skips the prompt). No
* in-tree skill authors this; warn so new authorship guards the operator (or
* restructures) instead of getting a silently wrong barrier. The scan stops at
* the first unguarded directive — that one always runs, so no ambiguity past it.
*/
export function lintGateAmbiguity(directives: Directive[]): Problem[] {
const problems: Problem[] = [];
for (let i = 0; i < directives.length; i++) {
const d = directives[i];
if (d.kind !== 'operator' || typeof d.attrs.when === 'string') continue;
const branches = new Set<string>();
for (let j = i + 1; j < directives.length; j++) {
const g = directives[j].attrs.when;
if (typeof g !== 'string') break;
branches.add(g);
}
if (branches.size > 1) {
problems.push({
line: d.line,
kind: 'gate-ambiguity',
message: `unguarded nc:operator followed by when:-guarded directives spanning ${branches.size} branch values (${[...branches].join(', ')}) — the barrier decision may key off a runtime-skipped directive; guard the operator or restructure`,
});
}
}
return problems;
}
// CLI
if (process.argv[1] && import.meta.url === `file://${process.argv[1]}`) {
let path = process.argv[2];
if (!path) {
console.error('usage: pnpm exec tsx scripts/skill-directives.ts <skillDir|SKILL.md>');
process.exit(2);
}
if (existsSync(path) && statSync(path).isDirectory()) path = join(path, 'SKILL.md');
const md = readFileSync(path, 'utf8');
const directives = parseDirectives(md);
const problems = validate(directives, { chatVersion: resolveChatCoreVersion(process.cwd()) });
// Warnings (gate ambiguity, reference floor) are advisory only — printed for
// the author, never folded into the exit code (a smell, not a gate). Exit
// stays driven solely by `validate` problems.
const warnings = [...lintGateAmbiguity(directives), ...lintReferenceFloor(md)];
for (const w of warnings) console.error(`warning: ${w.kind} (line ${w.line}): ${w.message}`);
console.log(JSON.stringify({ directives, problems, warnings }, null, 2));
process.exit(problems.length ? 1 : 0);
}