Formalizing archive decision#83
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Formalizes the April 18 decision to permit type: "archive" entries in skill://index.json as a server-side packaging optimization, reinstating symmetry with the Agent Skills discovery RFC.
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Lets leave this one open until 2026-04-29 (following 10-day lazy consensus per working group governance, in case anyone has any late breaking comments). |
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* docs: add ADR for filesystem as host-side implementation detail Record the proposed decision that skills served over MCP MUST function without a local filesystem, while hosts MAY materialize resources as an optimization, with unified resolution semantics required either way. * docs: link companion archive distribution ADR (#83) * docs: update ADR date to 2026-04-19 --------- Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: olaservo <16480113+olaservo@users.noreply.github.com>
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Recent discussions around this topic made it unclear if we actually want to support this in the skills extension SEP or not. Adding a formalized decision record for this so we can make sure what we have in the SEP lines up with our latest thinking.
Edit: also opened this: #82
Related to this ^^ I was thinking about whether this adds a filesystem requirement. I'm assuming that hosts without a local filesystem would unpack archives in memory into the same
skill://<skill-path>/<file-path>namespace that individual-file distribution populates directly. So the filesystem-agnostic stance of the current SEP seems compatible with either distribution type.