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hermes-agent/tools/skill_manager_guards.py
Maciej Lisiewski 2ff58849f4 ci: ruff UP037 fixes
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"""Write/delete guards for ``skill_manage``. Every guard returns ``None`` when the
operation may proceed, else a refusal (error dict or message). Origin-owned state
(``_find_skill``, ``_skills_dir``) is reached lazily via ``tools.skill_manager_tool``
so test patches keep working."""
import contextvars as _ctxvars
import logging
import threading
from contextlib import suppress
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
logger = logging.getLogger("tools.skill_manager_tool")
def _refusal(message: str, **extra: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
return {"success": False, "error": message, **extra}
def _is_background_review() -> bool:
"""True inside the autonomous curator review fork; False on any lookup failure."""
try:
from tools.skill_provenance import is_background_review
return bool(is_background_review())
except Exception:
return False
def _resolved_str(path: Path) -> str:
with suppress(Exception):
return str(path.resolve())
return str(path)
class _BackgroundReviewReadMarks:
"""Read marks shared by copied tool contexts within one review run."""
def __init__(self) -> None:
self._lock = threading.Lock()
self._paths: set[str] = set()
def add(self, path: str) -> None:
with self._lock:
self._paths.add(path)
def contains(self, path: str) -> bool:
with self._lock:
return path in self._paths
_background_review_read_paths: _ctxvars.ContextVar[Optional[_BackgroundReviewReadMarks]] = (
_ctxvars.ContextVar("background_review_read_paths", default=None))
def mark_background_review_skill_read(path: Path) -> None:
"""Record that the active background-review fork has read a skill file. The fork must not
patch content it only inferred from the transcript: skill_view/read_file call this, and
the write guards require the mark."""
if not _is_background_review():
return
if (marks := _background_review_read_paths.get()) is None:
_background_review_read_paths.set(marks := _BackgroundReviewReadMarks())
marks.add(_resolved_str(path))
def _background_review_has_read(path: Path) -> bool:
marks = _background_review_read_paths.get()
return marks is not None and marks.contains(_resolved_str(path))
def _reset_background_review_read_marks() -> None:
"""Start a fresh, isolated read set for the current review context."""
_background_review_read_paths.set(_BackgroundReviewReadMarks())
def _resolved_roots(skill_path: Path):
"""``(resolved skill_path, [(root, resolved_root), ...])`` over every resolvable skills root."""
from agent.skill_utils import get_all_skills_dirs
try:
resolved = skill_path.resolve()
except OSError:
resolved = skill_path
roots = []
for root in get_all_skills_dirs():
with suppress(OSError):
roots.append((root, root.resolve()))
return resolved, roots
def _containing_skills_root(skill_path: Path) -> Path:
"""Skills root (local or external_dirs) containing ``skill_path``; local dir if none match."""
from tools import skill_manager_tool as _smt
resolved, roots = _resolved_roots(skill_path)
return next((root for root, r in roots if resolved.is_relative_to(r)), _smt._skills_dir())
def _is_path_redirect(path: Path) -> bool:
"""Symlink or (Windows 3.12+) junction — either lets a poisoned tree redirect rmtree outside."""
try:
return path.is_symlink() or (hasattr(path, "is_junction") and path.is_junction())
except OSError:
return False
def _validate_delete_target(skill_dir: Path) -> Optional[str]:
"""Last-line guard before rmtree: even a poisoned tree must never delete (1) a path outside
every known skills root, (2) a skills root itself, (3) a symlink/junction (rmtree follows it).
``_find_skill`` already restricts ``skill_dir`` to a real ``SKILL.md`` parent discovered by walking the
skills roots, so the agent cannot inject an arbitrary path the way Kilo Code's HTTP endpoint could
(their issue 11227: a built-in-skill sentinel resolved to the server cwd and a recursive delete wiped
the user's entire working directory). This is the matching defense-in-depth for our agent-facing
``skill_manage`` delete path: even if discovery or a poisoned tree hands us a bad directory, never
recursively delete See #11227.
"""
if _is_path_redirect(skill_dir):
return (f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': the skill directory is a "
f"symlink/junction. Remove the link target manually if intended.")
try:
skill_dir.resolve()
except OSError as exc:
return f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': could not resolve path ({exc})."
resolved, roots = _resolved_roots(skill_dir)
for _root, root in roots:
if resolved == root:
return (f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': resolves to the skills root "
f"itself, which would remove every installed skill.")
if resolved.is_relative_to(root):
return None
return f"Refusing to delete '{skill_dir}': path does not resolve inside any known skills root."
def _is_pinned(name: str, what: str) -> Optional[bool]:
"""skill_usage pinned flag; None (logged at debug) when the record is unreadable."""
try:
from tools import skill_usage
return bool(skill_usage.get_record(name).get("pinned"))
except Exception:
logger.debug("%s lookup failed for %s", what, name, exc_info=True)
return None
def _pinned_guard(name: str) -> Optional[str]:
"""Refusal message if *name* is pinned or essential, else None. Pin only guards DELETION;
patches/edits stay allowed. ESSENTIAL_SKILLS are permanently pinned (the system prompt
references them). Best-effort: an unreadable sidecar lets the delete through."""
try:
from agent.skill_utils import ESSENTIAL_SKILLS
if name in ESSENTIAL_SKILLS:
return (
f"Skill '{name}' is essential to Hermes (the agent's own "
f"operating manual referenced by the system prompt) and "
f"cannot be deleted. Patches and edits are still allowed.")
except Exception:
logger.debug("essential-guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
if _is_pinned(name, "pinned-guard"):
return (
f"Skill '{name}' is pinned and cannot be deleted by skill_manage. Ask the user to "
f"run `hermes curator unpin {name}` if they want to delete it. Patches and edits "
f"are allowed on pinned skills; only deletion is blocked.")
return None
def _background_review_delete_guard(name: str, skill_dir: Path) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Refuse autonomous deletes of anything but curator-owned sediment. Content writes are not
gated by ownership: the review fork exists to improve every skill it learns from, and every
write is ledgered and reversible, while an archive removes a skill the user relies on."""
if not _is_background_review():
return None
refuse = "Refusing background curator delete for"
if _is_pinned(name, "pinned skill guard"):
return _refusal(
f"{refuse} pinned skill '{name}': pinned skills "
f"are off-limits to autonomous maintenance. Ask the user to run `hermes curator "
f"unpin {name}` if they want it changed.")
try:
from agent.skill_utils import is_external_skill_path
if is_external_skill_path(skill_dir):
return _refusal(
f"{refuse} skill '{name}': the skill lives in skills.external_dirs, which are "
f"externally owned and read-only to autonomous curation.")
except Exception:
logger.debug("external skill guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
try:
from tools import skill_usage
for predicate, label in (
(skill_usage.is_protected_builtin, "protected built-in"),
(skill_usage.is_hub_installed, "hub-installed"),
(skill_usage.is_bundled, "bundled")):
if predicate(name):
return _refusal(f"{refuse} {label} skill '{name}'.")
# Not curator-managed (no `created_by: "agent"`) => user-owned, never archived
# autonomously. A MISSING record and `created_by: null` must resolve identically:
# keying on presence let the guard's own bookkeeping flip the verdict (#67140).
usage_rec = skill_usage.load_usage().get(name)
if not skill_usage._is_curator_managed_record(usage_rec):
_detail = (f"created_by={usage_rec.get('created_by')!r}" if isinstance(usage_rec, dict)
else "no usage record")
return _refusal(
f"{refuse} skill '{name}': the skill is not "
f"curator-managed ({_detail}). Only curator-managed skills may be archived "
f"autonomously. Run `hermes curator adopt {name}` to opt it in.")
except Exception:
logger.warning("owned skill guard lookup failed for %s", name, exc_info=True)
return _refusal(
f"{refuse} skill '{name}': agent ownership could not "
f"be verified because the provenance record is unavailable or unreadable.")
return None
def _background_review_read_before_write_guard(
name: str, target: Path, action: str, file_label: str) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Require review forks to load the exact target before mutating it."""
if not _is_background_review() or _background_review_has_read(target):
return None
return _refusal(
f"Refusing background curator {action} for skill '{name}': the current {file_label} "
f"content has not been loaded in this review turn. Call skill_view(name) for SKILL.md, or "
f"skill_view(name, file_path=...) for a supporting file, then retry the write using the "
f"content just returned.",
_read_before_write_required=True)
def _background_review_preflight(action: str, name: str) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
if action != "delete":
return None
from tools import skill_manager_tool as _smt
existing = _smt._find_skill(name)
return _background_review_delete_guard(name, existing["path"]) if existing else None
def _curator_consolidation_delete_guard(
name: str, absorbed_into: Optional[str]) -> Optional[dict[str, Any]]:
"""Fail closed on unverified deletes during the curator consolidation pass. The fork's only
legitimate delete is a consolidation declared via ``absorbed_into=<umbrella>`` (existence
validated in ``_delete_skill``); the deterministic inactivity prune never calls skill_manage,
so a bare delete here can only be the LLM pass pruning without evidence.
A delete with no forwarding target — ``absorbed_into`` omitted (``None``) or empty (``""``) — is the
fail-open behavior reported in #29912: the consolidation pass archived whole clusters of active skills
with zero verified consolidations (``consolidated_this_run == 0``), leaving active automations pointing
at names that no longer resolve. Refuse it; keep the skill active.
"""
if not _is_background_review() or (isinstance(absorbed_into, str) and absorbed_into.strip()):
return None
return _refusal(
f"Refusing background curator delete of skill '{name}': the consolidation pass may only "
f"archive a skill it has absorbed into an umbrella. Pass absorbed_into=<umbrella> (the "
f"umbrella must already exist) to record a verified consolidation. Pruning a skill with no "
f"forwarding target is not permitted here — the deterministic inactivity prune handles "
f"staleness archival separately. Keeping '{name}' active.",
_fail_closed=True)