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The $ skill picker uses a per-folder skill list (workspaceSnapshots) that the server builds the first time a folder is opened and keeps until it restarts. A skill installed after that, global or project-level, never shows up in that folder's picker even though the agent can run it.

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After each provider refresh (the existing health check, 5 minutes by default, or a manual refresh), the registry rebuilds the folder lists it already holds. This happens in the background, at most once per refresh, and publishes only when a folder's skills actually changed. Opening a chat does no extra work.

Drivers opt in through a new optional snapshotsForCwds hook:

Provider Rebuild
Codex One app-server skills/list call covering every held folder
Claude Rescans each held folder's skill directories (file reads)
Cursor Rescans skill directories, then writes to its command catalog once
Grok Not included: its scan starts a grok inspect process per folder
OpenCode Not included: it has no scheduled refresh
Antigravity Not included: its own provider snapshot owns its folder lists

Testing

  • ProviderRegistry.test.ts: held folder lists are rebuilt through one batched call after a provider refresh. This test does not complete on the base branch.
  • CursorProvider.test.ts: the catalog skips the write when nothing changed and updates only the changed folders in one write.
  • Checked probeCodexSkillsForCwds against a real codex binary: one app-server answered every folder, including one that no longer exists.
  • tsc --noEmit passes for apps/server, and vp lint is clean on the changed files.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds cross-provider background workspace rescanning to existing refresh flows, including new registry orchestration and provider-specific filesystem/app-server work that changes user-visible skill lists. The asynchronous implementation also has an unresolved freshness race in the Cursor path, so the change warrants human review.

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Provider instances can return snapshots for multiple working directories. After provider syncs, the registry rebuilds stale workspace snapshots and publishes changed provider lists. Cursor scans update held workspace skills when the scan is newer than the stored snapshot.

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Workspace Snapshot Refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multi-directory snapshot callbacks
apps/server/src/provider/ProviderDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CodexProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts
ProviderInstance gains an optional snapshotsForCwds callback. Claude builds a map by calling its per-directory snapshot function. Codex probes skills for multiple directories in one request and combines each result with the machine snapshot.
Cursor workspace skills
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CursorProvider.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/CursorProvider.test.ts
The Cursor catalog updates changed workspace skills in one write when the scan timestamp is newer than the held entry. The Cursor driver probes requested directories and passes successful results with a timestamp to the catalog. Tests cover unchanged skills, stale scans, and updated snapshots.
Registry snapshot refresh
apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.test.ts
After provider sync, the registry requests snapshots for stale workspaces from supported instances. It skips obsolete or unchanged results and publishes changed provider lists. The test checks a batched request and refreshed snapshots.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderRegistry
  participant ProviderInstance
  participant ProviderListStream
  ProviderRegistry->>ProviderInstance: snapshotsForCwds(cwds)
  ProviderInstance-->>ProviderRegistry: Map of cwd snapshots
  ProviderRegistry->>ProviderListStream: Publish changed provider list
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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 606d7

Workspace skill lists for managed Codex can stay stale after a provider refresh, which the PR aims to fix. Add the batch callback to the managed path before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 606d7

Automatic rescans are limited to already-held folders and reuse existing provider permissions. Publication has ownership and freshness checks. No new exploit path was established, but Codex now starts the batched scan from a different working directory, whose effect on configuration isolation remains unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The registry retains at most 16 workspace snapshots per provider instance and supplies only stale held CWDs to a rebuild. This bounds one instance’s registry-selected folder set, not the deployment-wide number of instances or downstream tenant exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Codex batch results require an exact requested-CWD response entry before parsing, avoiding the parser’s unmatched-CWD fallback that combines response entries. Registry publication additionally requires a currently held CWD and the same live provider instance. These controls constrain result mixing but do not establish upstream tenant authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Failed or missing rebuild results retain existing workspace state rather than replacing it with incomplete data. A claimed rebuild is not retried for the same provider timestamp; later refreshes provide recovery. This contains publication failures but can leave discovery metadata stale.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Validate and document how supported Codex versions resolve configuration and credentials when app-server starts outside the requested folders, including conflicting application-directory and workspace configuration. This would close the working-directory isolation gap; it is not an observed vulnerability.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: refreshing held workspace skill lists during provider refreshes.
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🟡 Minor · Reject stale rebuild results from older provider generations. · ProviderRegistry.ts:502-562

apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.ts:502-562
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject stale rebuild results from older provider generations.

syncProvider starts each workspace rebuild in a background fiber. If generation t1 finishes after generation t2 updates providersRef, the t1 result can pass the current guards and replace a held snapshot because the callback does not compare the current provider generation. If the t2 scan fails, its ignored error leaves the older skills published.

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             const nextProviders = currentProviders.map((candidate) => {
-              if (candidate.instanceId !== instanceId) return candidate;
+              if (
+                candidate.instanceId !== instanceId ||
+                candidate.checkedAt !== provider.checkedAt
+              ) {
+                return candidate;
+              }
               let next = candidate;
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.ts` around lines 502 - 562,
Update the provider filter in rebuildWorkspaceSnapshots so rebuilt snapshots are
applied only when the current candidate’s checkedAt matches the generation
captured before the background rebuild; otherwise leave that candidate
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.ts`:
- Around line 502-562: Update the provider filter in rebuildWorkspaceSnapshots
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Workspace skill snapshots were built the first time a folder was opened
and kept for the life of the server, so skills installed later never
reached the `$` picker for that folder.

After each provider refresh, the registry now rebuilds the workspace
snapshots it holds through a new optional `snapshotsForCwds` driver hook,
once per refresh and in the background, publishing only when a folder's
skills changed. Codex answers all folders from one app-server
`skills/list` call; Claude and Cursor rescan their skill directories.
Grok, OpenCode and Antigravity keep their existing behavior.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…uild

A background rebuild only replaces workspace entries older than its scan
start, so a workspace refreshed while the probes run keeps its newer
skills.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorDriver.ts (1)

259-263: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log probe failures at a higher level than debug.

The Effect.catch handler swallows every probeCursorSkills failure and logs it at debug level only. Failures such as EACCES or ENOTDIR therefore stay invisible in normal logs. The affected folder silently keeps its stale skill list. This follows the learning that only ENOENT is a legitimate empty result and other errors must be surfaced.

The omission itself is sound, because it preserves the held entry. Raise the level to logWarning so real failures show up.

Proposed change
-                  Effect.logDebug("Cursor workspace skills rebuild failed", { cwd, cause }).pipe(
+                  Effect.logWarning("Cursor workspace skills rebuild failed", { cwd, cause }).pipe(

Based on learnings: only ENOENT is a legitimate empty result; other directory-read errors must be surfaced as diagnostics.

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In the Effect.catch handler for probeCursorSkills, change the failure diagnostic
from debug to warning level while preserving its message, cwd and cause fields,
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- Line 396: Add snapshotsForCwds to the managed instance returned by
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with probeCodexSkillsForCwds, as in the standard Codex path, so ProviderRegistry
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '120,150p' apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts
sed -n '235,290p' apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexManagedProvider.ts
rg -n 'snapshotsForCwds|snapshotForCwd' apps/server/src/provider

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printf '%s\n' '--- ProviderDriver contract ---'
sed -n '55,100p' apps/server/src/provider/ProviderDriver.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- ProviderRegistry rebuild path ---'
sed -n '490,545p' apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- ProviderRegistry single-CWD path ---'
sed -n '905,940p' apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderRegistry.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Codex standard callbacks ---'
sed -n '235,310p' apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Codex managed provider structure ---'
ast-grep outline apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexManagedProvider.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Codex managed provider implementation ---'
sed -n '1,95p' apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexManagedProvider.ts
sed -n '180,285p' apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexManagedProvider.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant diff from requested base ---'
git diff --unified=25 c2fa9fc911daeac97df4760f95fc57dca42b84c8 606d7ded50217aaa7bea9fb42bce9692506ceb1e -- apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexManagedProvider.ts

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Expose snapshotsForCwds for managed Codex.

When config.setupMode === "managed", CodexDriver.create returns before it attaches the batch callback. CodexManagedProvider exposes only snapshotForCwd, although it already resolves the runtime configuration and environment for workspace skill probing.

ProviderRegistry skips instances without snapshotsForCwds during refreshes. Managed Codex workspace snapshots can therefore remain stale after skills are installed.

Add snapshotsForCwds to the managed instance. Use the resolved runtime configuration and environment with probeCodexSkillsForCwds, as the standard Codex path does.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts at line 396:
Add snapshotsForCwds to the managed instance returned by CodexDriver.create,
using the resolved runtime configuration and environment with
probeCodexSkillsForCwds, as in the standard Codex path, so ProviderRegistry can
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Thanks for working on this. We merged the orchestrator V2 rewrite in #2829, and we are closing this PR as part of that transition.

The patch conflicts with the rewrite in apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CodexDriver.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/CursorDriver.ts and 1 other files. Even where the conflict is small enough to rebase, we are asking for fresh PRs against the new base so we can review and verify the behavior in V2.

Sorry for the extra work this creates. If the change is still needed on V2, please rebuild it on current main, verify it there, and open a new PR linking back here. We're closing the current implementation without assuming the underlying request is resolved.

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