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fix(ci): the agent-skills gate's Windows home-path rule can never match - #821

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#820 added a gate that keeps personal coordinates out of the .claude/ and .agents/ trees, since they ship in a public repo. One of its rules cannot fire.

re.compile(r"(?:/Users/(?!<)[\w.-]+|/home/(?!<)[\w.-]+|C:\\\\Users\\\\[\w.-]+)/"),

Two independent reasons, either one sufficient:

  1. The trailing / is outside the alternation, so every branch must be followed by a forward slash. Windows paths are separated by backslashes, so a Windows path never reaches it.
  2. In a raw string \\\\ is two literal backslashes, so the branch is looking for C:\\Users\\, not the C:\Users\ anyone would actually paste.

Demonstrated against the rule as it exists on main:

MATCH   real macOS home    '/Users/ayaan/Documents/x/'
MATCH   real linux home    '/home/ayaan/build/'
MISS    real Windows path  'C:\Users\ayaan\build'

The POSIX branches work, so the gate reads as healthy while the Windows arm is dead. That matters here specifically: the skills describe a Windows ARM64 test box, which is exactly the context where someone pastes C:\Users\<name>\... while debugging, and the gate would pass it through.

The change

Moves the separator inside each branch, fixes the escaping, and accepts any drive letter rather than only C:. Placeholders stay exempt through the same (?!<) guard the POSIX branches already use, so C:\Users\<you>\ does not trip it.

Type of Change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring

Testing

Added scripts/ci/test_agent_skills.py, following the precedent of scripts/validation/gates/test_release_version_coherence.py, whose CI step states this exact rationale:

The step above only proves the tree is coherent today. These prove the gate still rejects the shapes it was added for, so it cannot quietly stop catching them.

14 cases: all three OS home-path shapes, the placeholder form for each, two non-home paths, plus spot checks on the neighbouring tailscale / ssh-key / private-key / RFC1918 rules so a future edit cannot blank them.

Confirmed the test fails on the unfixed rule by restoring only the pattern from main:

agent-skills rule tests FAILED
  absolute path into a personal home directory: should have matched 'C:\Users\alice\build'
  absolute path into a personal home directory: should have matched 'D:\Users\alice\build'

With the fix, both scripts are green against the real trees:

agent-skills gate: 13 tracked files under .claude/skills, .claude/commands, .agents/skills
skills in sync: .agents/skills mirrors .claude/skills
agent-skills gate: OK (mirror in sync, no private coordinates)
agent-skills rule tests: 14 cases OK

so the wider pattern introduces no false positives on the committed content. The workflow's paths: filters gain the new file as well, otherwise editing the tests alone would not trigger the gate.

  • Lint passes locally
  • Added/updated tests for changes

No Python linter is wired up for scripts/ci/; the file is stdlib-only, matching the gate's deliberate no-toolchain constraint.

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(None of the listed SDK labels apply; this is scripts/ci/ + a workflow.)

Checklist

  • Code follows project style guidelines
  • Self-review completed
  • Documentation updated (if needed)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved detection of personal home-directory paths across Unix and Windows environments, including escaped Windows paths and varied drive letters and separators.
  • Tests

    • Added automated checks for private-coordinate detection rules, covering home paths, hostnames, SSH keys, private key material, and private network addresses.
  • Chores

    • Updated continuous integration to run the new rule tests and respond to changes in related validation scripts.

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The change expands Windows home-directory path detection to escaped paths, adds table-driven rule tests, and runs those tests in the agent-skills gate for relevant pull request and push changes.

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Agent skills validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Home-directory path matching
scripts/ci/check_agent_skills.py
The home-directory rule now accepts one or more backslashes after the drive letter, after Users, and at the trailing separator.
Rule test harness and CI wiring
scripts/ci/test_agent_skills.py, .github/workflows/agent-skills-gate.yml
The harness checks positive and negative samples for each private-coordinate rule, including escaped Windows paths. The workflow runs the harness and triggers when the test file changes.

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The red centralization is not from this diff.

One step of that job failed, "Swift distribution repo (runanywhere-swift) is cut at this release". The condition is documented in scripts/release/sync-versions.sh:616:

(scripts/validation/gates/check_swift_dist_repo_sync.sh fails every PR
 once v${NEW_VERSION} exists until that repo carries the ${NEW_VERSION} tag.)

RunanywhereAI/runanywhere-swift is tagged 0.20.30; this repo has published v0.20.31. So it fires on every PR opened since that release, regardless of contents.

The check that actually covers this PR is green: the Mirror in sync, no private coordinates job passed in 6s, and that is the job carrying the new Agent skills rule tests step, so the added test runs and passes in CI as well as locally. Everything else that has finished is passing too.

No fix pushed, since the remedy is cutting the distribution repo rather than anything on this branch.

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In `@scripts/ci/check_agent_skills.py`:
- Line 98: Update the Windows-path alternative in check_private to match one or
more backslashes in raw scanned text, including doubled escaped separators,
while preserving the existing user-directory exclusion. Add regression cases
covering both direct and escaped Windows paths.
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ayaangazali force-pushed the fix/agent-skills-windows-home-rule branch from 1e56c21 to e9cd195 Compare September 1, 2026 21:02
RunanywhereAI#820 added a gate that keeps personal coordinates out of the `.claude/` and
`.agents/` trees, which ship in a public repo. One of its rules cannot fire.

    re.compile(r"(?:/Users/(?!<)[\w.-]+|/home/(?!<)[\w.-]+|C:\\\\Users\\\\[\w.-]+)/")

Two independent reasons, either alone enough:

  - The trailing `/` is outside the alternation, so every branch has to be
    followed by a forward slash. A Windows path is separated by backslashes,
    so it never reaches that.
  - In a raw string `\\\\` is two literal backslashes, so the branch wanted
    `C:\\Users\\`, not the `C:\Users\` anyone would actually paste.

The POSIX branches work, so the gate looks healthy while the Windows arm is
dead. That matters here because the skills describe a Windows ARM64 test box,
which is exactly where someone pastes `C:\Users\<name>\...` while debugging.

Moves the separator inside each branch, fixes the escaping, and accepts any
drive letter. Placeholders like `C:\Users\<you>\` stay exempt via the same
`(?!<)` guard the POSIX branches use.

Adds scripts/ci/test_agent_skills.py, following the precedent of
test_release_version_coherence.py, whose CI step gives this exact rationale:
running a gate proves the tree is clean today, not that the gate still catches
the shape it was added for. Confirmed the test fails on the unfixed rule:

    absolute path into a personal home directory: should have matched 'C:\Users\alice\build'
    absolute path into a personal home directory: should have matched 'D:\Users\alice\build'

The workflow's `paths:` filters gain the new file too, so editing the tests
alone still triggers the gate.
check_private scans raw file contents, so a Windows path written inside a
JSON or shell snippet arrives with its separators already doubled. The rule
now accepts one or more backslashes per separator and the two forms are
covered by tests.
@ayaangazali
ayaangazali force-pushed the fix/agent-skills-windows-home-rule branch from e9cd195 to d358025 Compare September 2, 2026 19:15
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Thanks for this, @ayaangazali! The change looks good -- it fixes a real bug in the Windows home-path rule (verified the before/after regex myself), and the new test script is a solid addition. Because it touches the agent-skills CI gate itself (.github/workflows/agent-skills-gate.yml, scripts/ci/check_agent_skills.py, scripts/ci/test_agent_skills.py), a maintainer will give that part a final look before merging.

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