ROB-1258 Live-refresh git-synced skills via first-class skill_repos - #2423
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Skills from git repos previously required a hand-written init container
that cloned once at pod start; picking up pushed changes meant restarting
the pod. Holmes now syncs the repos itself:
- New skill_repos config (SKILL_REPOS env as JSON): a list of repos
{url, name, branch, sub_path, token_env, username}. Holmes clones each
repo and re-pulls it on the existing periodic refresh loop (default 5
minutes), so multiple repos are supported and pushed changes go live
without a restart. Each checkout is published through an atomic
symlink flip (detached worktree per commit), so a catalog scan never
sees a half-updated tree. Credentials come from the env var named by
token_env and are never written to disk.
- fetch_skill now re-reads filesystem skills from disk per invocation
instead of serving the snapshot taken at toolset construction - the
prompt catalog already re-scanned per request, so a new skill was
advertised but failed to fetch and an edited one served stale content.
- The HolmesCustomSkills mirror labels skills from a synced repo as
"git:<repo url>" so the UI can show which repo a skill syncs from;
older UIs fall back to the plain custom label.
- The skill catalog prompt header no longer calls filesystem skills
"local skills" (models parroted that into chat answers).
- Helm chart: new skillRepos value renders SKILL_REPOS plus per-repo
token env vars from Secrets; docs rewritten to use it for the GitHub
PAT and Bitbucket flows (GitHub App keeps the init-container flow, as
it needs hourly token minting).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
skill_repos previously only took a static token (token_env), so GitHub App
users were left on the restart-based init-container flow. GitHub Apps have
no static credential - the App's private key signs a JWT that is exchanged
for an installation token valid one hour - so Holmes now runs that mint
flow itself (PyJWT[crypto] is already a dependency):
- GitSkillRepo grows github_app_id, github_app_installation_id and
github_app_private_key_env (all-or-none, mutually exclusive with
token_env), plus github_api_url for GitHub Enterprise Server. The minted
token is cached until 5 minutes before expiry, so the periodic re-pull
re-mints roughly hourly. A mint failure surfaces as that repo's sync
error and keeps the previous checkout serving, like any fetch failure.
- Helm chart: skillRepos entries accept githubApp {appId, installationId,
privateKeySecret, apiUrl}; the chart injects the private key from the
Secret and renders the matching SKILL_REPOS fields.
- Docs: the GitHub App section now uses skillRepos/skill_repos like the
PAT flow - the init-container recipe is gone, and GitHub App users get
the same live refresh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Never re-raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired from git: its message embeds the full command line, credential-bearing fetch URL included, and sync() logs the exception - replace it with a sanitized RuntimeError. - Reject duplicate repo names at manager construction: two repos deriving the same name (same URL basename) would share one checkout, fight every sync, and mislabel each other's skills in the mirror. - Prune superseded worktrees at the START of the next sync instead of right after the symlink flip, so a catalog scan that resolved 'current' just before a flip finishes on an intact tree; the test now pins the one-cycle grace period. - Pace repo re-pulls to the configured refresh interval inside the server loop, so the MCP failure backoff (30/60/120s cycles) does not multiply network git fetches. - Helm: validate tokenSecret name/key with 'required', matching the githubApp.privateKeySecret sibling, so an incomplete Secret ref fails at template time with an actionable message. - Document why a never-synced repo's path stays in skill_paths (it keeps the mirror from pruning that repo's rows while it is broken), and hoist test-local imports to file top per repo convention. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- GitSkillRepoManager owns its own rate limit (min_sync_interval_seconds, first sync always runs) instead of the server loop tracking a timestamp; the lazy first sync is double-checked under the lock so concurrent cold requests do one sync, not one each; ensure_synced is private. - Server startup warms the checkouts in a daemon thread so the first chat request never pays the initial clone; the refresh loop just calls sync(). - reload_toolsets keeps the manager when skill_repos is unchanged, preserving synced state and cached GitHub App tokens across reloads. - fetch_skill resolves remote UUIDs from the cached catalog before the filesystem re-scan, so remote fetches no longer pay a disk walk. - load_from_env routes CUSTOM_SKILL_PATHS/SKILL_REPOS through the same _apply_env_fallbacks as load_from_file instead of a parallel copy. - toolset_manager applies dirname() only to real SKILL.md file paths; a not-yet-synced repo path passes through so scans report it unreadable instead of walking the checkout's internals. - GIT_TIMEOUT via environ_get_safe_int (a malformed env var no longer aborts import); removesuffix over regex; repo_for_path down to one resolve per repo; skip 'git worktree prune' when nothing was removed. - Helm renders each repo's SKILL_REPOS entry and its secret env vars in one pass, so the names cannot drift between two loops. - The make-a-git-skill-repo test fixture lives once in tests/git_skill_repo_utils.py instead of three copies; new test pins the manager's rate limiting. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 7 remain after this review. WalkthroughHolmes now syncs configured Git repositories into managed skill paths, supports PAT and GitHub App authentication, refreshes repositories during runtime, reloads filesystem skills per invocation, labels Git-sourced skills, and exposes Helm and CLI configuration. ChangesGit Skill Repository Support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds live credentialed repository syncing and new Helm secret wiring, but plaintext HTTP could expose credentials, startup status may be delayed by sync contention, and rotated credentials can remain stale in running pods until rollout. These bounded security and operational risks require explicit owner attention before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Server
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Server->>GitSkillRepoManager: warm up and periodically sync repositories
GitSkillRepoManager->>GitRepository: fetch latest commit
GitRepository-->>GitSkillRepoManager: update checkout
GitSkillRepoManager->>SkillCatalog: expose current skill paths
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In `@helm/holmes/templates/holmes.yaml`:
- Around line 223-227: Update the SKILL_REPO_GH_APP_KEY environment variable’s
secretKeyRef to require .privateKeySecret.key, while preserving the existing
required validation for privateKeySecret and its name.
- Around line 209-228: Update the skill repository template validation around
the tokenSecret and githubApp blocks to fail Helm rendering when both are
configured for the same $repo entry. Add a required/template error using the
existing validation style before emitting either authentication configuration,
while preserving entries that configure only one or neither.
In `@holmes/plugins/skills/git_skill_repos.py`:
- Around line 92-132: Update GitSkillRepo._normalize to reject non-HTTPS values
of url when token_env or any complete GitHub App authentication configuration is
present, and reject non-HTTPS github_api_url whenever GitHub App authentication
is configured; preserve unauthenticated URL handling. Add tests covering both
invalid credentialed repository URL and invalid GitHub App API URL
configurations.
Apply the same fix in `@holmes/config.py` around lines 142 - 145: Covers the
GitHub API URL validation required for App authentication.
In `@server.py`:
- Around line 208-217: The startup warmup in the config.skill_repos block still
blocks readiness because holmes_sync_toolsets_status() reaches
Config.all_skill_paths and waits on the manager lock; change the
skill-repository initialization flow around config.skill_repo_manager.sync and
Config.all_skill_paths so stable checkout paths are available without waiting
for the first sync, or defer toolset/skill mirror work until warmup completes.
Ensure dal.enabled startup remains non-blocking even when repository fetching is
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| @model_validator(mode="after") | ||
| def _normalize(self) -> "GitSkillRepo": | ||
| url = self.url.strip() | ||
| if "://" not in url: | ||
| url = f"https://{url}" | ||
| split = urlsplit(url) | ||
| if split.username or split.password: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "skill repo url must not embed credentials; " | ||
| "use token_env to name an environment variable instead" | ||
| ) | ||
| self.url = url | ||
| if not self.name: | ||
| last_segment = split.path.rstrip("/").rsplit("/", 1)[-1] | ||
| self.name = last_segment.removesuffix(".git") | ||
| if not re.fullmatch(r"[A-Za-z0-9._-]+", self.name) or self.name in (".", ".."): | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| f"skill repo name {self.name!r} must be a plain directory name " | ||
| "(letters, digits, '.', '_', '-')" | ||
| ) | ||
| if self.sub_path: | ||
| sub = self.sub_path.strip("/") | ||
| if ".." in Path(sub).parts: | ||
| raise ValueError(f"skill repo sub_path {self.sub_path!r} must not contain '..'") | ||
| self.sub_path = sub | ||
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| app_fields = ( | ||
| self.github_app_id, | ||
| self.github_app_installation_id, | ||
| self.github_app_private_key_env, | ||
| ) | ||
| if any(app_fields) and not all(app_fields): | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| f"skill repo {self.name}: GitHub App auth needs github_app_id, " | ||
| "github_app_installation_id and github_app_private_key_env together" | ||
| ) | ||
| if any(app_fields) and self.token_env: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| f"skill repo {self.name}: set either token_env or the github_app_* " | ||
| "fields, not both" | ||
| ) |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Require HTTPS for credential-bearing endpoints.
Explicit http:// values are currently accepted for authenticated repository fetches and for github_api_url. Static tokens, installation tokens, or App JWTs can therefore cross the network in cleartext, and an intercepted response can publish modified skill content into runtime consumers. Reject non-HTTPS repository URLs whenever authentication is configured and reject non-HTTPS github_api_url for GitHub App authentication; add validation tests for both paths.
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In `@holmes/plugins/skills/git_skill_repos.py` around lines 92 - 132, Update
GitSkillRepo._normalize to reject non-HTTPS values of url when token_env or any
complete GitHub App authentication configuration is present, and reject
non-HTTPS github_api_url whenever GitHub App authentication is configured;
preserve unauthenticated URL handling. Add tests covering both invalid
credentialed repository URL and invalid GitHub App API URL configurations.
Apply the same fix in `@holmes/config.py` around lines 142 - 145: Covers the
GitHub API URL validation required for App authentication.
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| if config.skill_repos: | ||
| # Warm the git skill repo checkouts off the request path: the first | ||
| # all_skill_paths access would otherwise clone them inside whichever | ||
| # request happens to arrive first. A daemon thread so a slow or broken | ||
| # remote cannot hold up startup. | ||
| threading.Thread( | ||
| target=config.skill_repo_manager.sync, | ||
| daemon=True, | ||
| name="skill-repo-warmup", | ||
| ).start() |
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Do not block startup behind the warmup sync.
If dal.enabled, this daemon thread does not move the first sync off the startup path. holmes_sync_toolsets_status() immediately creates a tool executor, which reaches Config.all_skill_paths and waits for the same manager lock held by this thread. A slow or failing repository fetch can delay server availability.
Expose stable checkout paths without forcing the initial sync during startup, or defer the toolset and skill mirror operations until warmup completes without blocking readiness.
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In `@server.py` around lines 208 - 217, The startup warmup in the
config.skill_repos block still blocks readiness because
holmes_sync_toolsets_status() reaches Config.all_skill_paths and waits on the
manager lock; change the skill-repository initialization flow around
config.skill_repo_manager.sync and Config.all_skill_paths so stable checkout
paths are available without waiting for the first sync, or defer toolset/skill
mirror work until warmup completes. Ensure dal.enabled startup remains
non-blocking even when repository fetching is slow or fails.
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- Reject an authenticated repo URL that is not https://, and a non-https github_api_url: authenticated fetches embed the token in the URL and the App JWT rides a header, so neither may cross the network in cleartext. Unauthenticated http/file URLs stay allowed (nothing to leak). - Helm: fail at template time when one skillRepos entry sets both tokenSecret and githubApp (the Python validator would otherwise reject the pair only at runtime, silently dropping every repo), and require privateKeySecret name and key like the tokenSecret sibling. - Move the startup skills-mirror sync into the repo warmup daemon thread: holmes_sync_skills_status reads all_skill_paths, which triggers the first clone, so a slow or unreachable remote could previously delay server readiness and trip liveness probes. The mirror now publishes right after the warmup clone instead, seeing fresh checkouts rather than recording them unreadable. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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42-42: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRoll Holmes when a
skillReposSecret changes.
checksum/toolset-confighashes Secret names and keys, not Secret data. In-place rotation therefore leaves the pod-template checksum and the runningSKILL_REPO_TOKEN_*orSKILL_REPO_GH_APP_KEY_*environment value unchanged. Periodic synchronization can use a revoked credential or fail until the pod restarts. Include referenced Secret data in the rollout checksum, or add an explicit credential-rotation trigger.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@helm/holmes/templates/holmes.yaml`:
- Line 42: The checksum behind checksum/toolset-config must change when
referenced skillRepos Secret data changes, not merely when Secret names or keys
change. Update the Helm checksum inputs around .Values.skillRepos to include the
referenced Secret data, or use an explicit credential-rotation trigger, while
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The token / private-key env vars come from secretKeyRef, so a Secret data change alone never reaches a running pod. Checksum the looked-up Secret data of every skillRepos credential into a pod-template annotation, using the same lookup pattern as the kubernetes-remediation auth-token checksum: rotation rolls the Deployment, a stable secret produces a stable checksum, and 'helm template' without a cluster stays deterministic. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@helm/holmes/templates/_helpers.tpl`:
- Around line 89-106: Update the checksum construction in
holmes.skillRepoSecretsChecksum to preserve individual Secret boundaries: append
structured records containing each referenced Secret’s name, key, and value for
both tokenSecret and privateKeySecret entries, then hash the JSON representation
with toJson instead of joining values directly. Keep the existing lookup and
conditional inclusion behavior unchanged.
In `@helm/holmes/templates/holmes.yaml`:
- Around line 43-47: Add automatic reconciliation for changes to skill-repo
credential Secrets so existing pods roll out when Secret data rotates; the
current holmes.skillRepoSecretsChecksum annotation only changes during Helm
rendering and is insufficient for external updates. Update the skill-repository
configuration around the skillRepos condition to use the chart’s supported
Secret-rotation mechanism, or clearly document that a Helm upgrade is required
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| {{- if .Values.skillRepos }} | ||
| # Rolls the pod when a skill repo credential Secret's DATA rotates — | ||
| # the token env vars come from secretKeyRef, which a Secret update | ||
| # alone does not refresh. | ||
| checksum/skill-repo-secrets: {{ include "holmes.skillRepoSecretsChecksum" . }} |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Ensure Secret rotation updates the pod template.
If a referenced Secret changes outside a Helm render, lookup is not re-evaluated. Kubernetes keeps existing pods and their secretKeyRef environment values. The chart's operator watches Deployment rollouts, not Secret changes, and cannot patch the Deployment. Add automatic reconciliation for Secret rotation or document that a Helm upgrade is required.
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In `@helm/holmes/templates/holmes.yaml` around lines 43 - 47, Add automatic
reconciliation for changes to skill-repo credential Secrets so existing pods
roll out when Secret data rotates; the current holmes.skillRepoSecretsChecksum
annotation only changes during Helm rendering and is insufficient for external
updates. Update the skill-repository configuration around the skillRepos
condition to use the chart’s supported Secret-rotation mechanism, or clearly
document that a Helm upgrade is required if no such mechanism exists.
Hash structured {name, key, value} records via toJson instead of joining
raw values, so two adjacent secrets whose contents merely shift a shared
boundary cannot produce the same checksum. Document in values.yaml and the
skills docs that the checksum refreshes at helm upgrade: a Secret edit
alone does not reach running pods, so rotation is Secret update + upgrade
(or a manual Deployment restart).
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In `@docs/reference/skills.md`:
- Line 21: Update the Helm credential-rotation guidance in the skills
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Pod eviction risk: the git object store is never GC'd, on a 256Mi emptyDir
Worktrees get pruned; /git never does. Every fetch adds objects (~288/day at the 5-min cadence) into the same /tmp emptyDir that ephemeral tool results share, and blowing an emptyDir sizeLimit evicts the pod. A monorepo + subPath can exceed 256Mi on the first clone alone. Needs a git gc --prune=now after the flip, and/or its own sized volume.
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authenticated_url is passed via argv with an authorization token.
prefer passing the authorization token via env vars and only the unauthenticated url via argv
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…2434) Replaces #2423, whose head branch is on a fork this session cannot push to. Carries all 8 of its commits plus review fixes, and merges current `master` so CI actually runs (#2423 never got a pytest run — only DCO and the docs preview). ## What Skills from git repos previously required a hand-written init container that cloned once at pod start; picking up pushed changes meant restarting the pod. Holmes now syncs the repos itself — see #2423 for the original description of `skill_repos`, GitHub App auth, the `fetch_skill` freshness fix, the `git:` mirror labels, and the Helm `skillRepos` value. ## What changed in review **The git object store was unbounded, inside a 256Mi emptyDir.** Every `fetch --depth 1` of a new commit added its objects and nothing removed the previous commit's, so a long-running pod grew one checkout's worth of objects per push — and exceeding an emptyDir `sizeLimit` gets the pod **evicted** by the kubelet. `git gc --prune=now` now runs after a flip (only on a flip, so the cost lands once per push), with the worktrees as reachability roots: this repo has no refs at all, and git counts every worktree's detached HEAD, so the active checkout and the one in its grace period both survive. Measured over 30 pushes of a 200KB skill: **3.5MB / 124 object files before, 231KB / 5 after.** The chart also stops sharing `/tmp` with tool-result files — when `skillRepos` is set it mounts a dedicated emptyDir at `/var/holmes/skill-repos` (`skillReposVolumeSize`, default 1Gi) and points `SKILL_REPOS_DIR` at it. **A broken repo wedged mirror pruning cluster-wide.** `skill_paths()` listed every configured repo including ones that had never produced a checkout, whose missing `current` made `load_filesystem_skills` report `sources_ok=False` — which stops the `HolmesCustomSkills` mirror from pruning **any** row, for every other skill source too. A typo'd `sub_path` or a revoked token froze the Knowledge page silently and indefinitely. A repo is now listed once it has ever published a checkout: the transient case keeps its old behaviour (last good worktree keeps serving; a vanished checkout still holds pruning off), while a never-synced repo is omitted — it has contributed no rows, so omitting it can prune nothing of its own. `unsynced_repos()` reports the reason once per sync cycle. **The credential sat in argv.** The token was injected into the fetch URL, which puts it in `/proc/<pid>/cmdline` (mode 444) and in `ps` output for every process in the pod, including exec-auditing agents. It now rides an `http.<url>.extraHeader` config passed through `GIT_CONFIG_*` env vars — `environ` is mode 400 and `ps` does not show it, and the URL-scoped key means git will not attach the header on a cross-host redirect. The entry **appends** to any ambient `GIT_CONFIG_COUNT` rather than overwriting index 0, so an inherited proxy, CA path or `url.insteadOf` rewrite survives. **A deleted skill stayed fetchable.** The freshness fix fell back to the toolset-construction snapshot on a miss, so a skill removed upstream kept being served for the life of the process — worst for the skill someone deleted precisely because it was wrong. The disk scan now reports whether it was decisive, and the snapshot answers only when it was not (an SDK caller that passed a catalog with no search paths, or a scan that failed). Gating that exposed a second thing: a missing plain name fell through to the UUID-keyed remote table and came back as `invalid input syntax for type uuid`, so the remote lookup is now gated on the id looking like a UUID. Smaller ones: `parse_skill_repos_env` no longer logs the rejected entry (pydantic renders the input into its error string, so the generic `logging.exception` path printed the very credential the url-must-not-embed-credentials check exists to refuse); `_ensure_synced` waits a bounded 5s instead of holding for a whole cold sync, so a request arriving during startup warmup cannot block for a git timeout per repo; default git timeout 120s → 60s since it also bounds the CLI's inline sync; a URL scheme allowlist, with `ssh://` and `git@host:path` rejected with a message that says SSH is unsupported; the mirror reports the stable `current`-based `source_path` instead of the worktree path that carried a commit sha; `set` instead of `merge` when building each `SKILL_REPOS` entry, and `privateKeySecret` bound once so a missing block errors with its own message rather than a Go nil dereference; and the feature's two mypy errors are fixed. ## Testing **Unit:** 145 tests across the affected suites pass (`tests/plugins/skills`, `tests/plugins/toolsets/test_skills.py`, `tests/test_holmes_sync_skills.py`, `tests/config_class/test_custom_skill_paths.py`), including new regression tests for every fix above. The gc test is calibrated to fail if the gc is removed. Full `pytest tests -m "not llm"`: 3604 passed; the 16 failures are pre-existing and unrelated (version-check/model-list/conversation-worker tests that need network or a live LLM — 7 fail at #2423's head, 6 on this branch, same set, count varies per run). **End-to-end**, against a real authenticated HTTPS git server (`git http-backend` behind Basic auth with a self-signed cert) and the full local stack (Holmes + frontend + staging platform): - Cold clone over authenticated https succeeds; the server-side audit log shows `Authorization: Basic …` arriving on the first request, and the fetch argv contains no token. - A skill pushed **after** Holmes started was fetched by the running agent (same PID) and it quoted the unique marker from the file — proving the sync, the per-request prompt catalog, and the `fetch_skill` freshness fix together. - An edited skill served its new content; a **deleted** skill returned `Skill 'pod-oom' not found. Available: etcd-latency, dns-debug`. - `HolmesCustomSkills` rows carried `source = git:https://…/skills.git` and a `source_path` under `current/` with no commit sha. - With a permanently-broken second repo configured (nonexistent branch), deleting a skill upstream still pruned its mirror row (3 rows → 2) — the wedge fix. - A revoked token left the last good checkout serving, and the recorded error contained neither the token nor its base64 form. - Object store stayed at 5 files / 88KB across 18 commits. Verified in the browser: the Knowledge page → External tab shows all three skills as "Synced from Git", and the drawer shows the repo URL and the stable path. ## Companion PR robusta-dev/robusta-frontend#3570 renders the `git:` source labels. Its `custom-skill-source.ts` contract is unchanged by this PR. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG --- _Generated by [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG)_ <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added automatic skill synchronization from GitHub and Bitbucket repositories. * Supports token and GitHub App authentication, branch and subpath selection, and configurable storage. * Repositories refresh every five minutes by default. * Previously synced skills remain available if a refresh fails. * Skill status now identifies repository sources and stable paths. * **Bug Fixes** * Filesystem skills now reflect additions, edits, and deletions without requiring a restart. * Improved handling of unavailable or partially scanned skill sources. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev> Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Skills from git repos previously required a hand-written init container that cloned once at pod start; picking up pushed skill changes meant restarting the pod. Holmes now syncs the repos itself:
skill_reposconfig (SKILL_REPOSenv as JSON): a list of repos{url, name, branch, sub_path, token_env, username}. Holmes clones each repo and re-pulls it on the periodic refresh loop (default 5 minutes), so multiple repos are supported and pushed changes go live without a restart. Each checkout publishes through an atomic symlink flip (detached worktree per commit), so a catalog scan never sees a half-updated tree; superseded worktrees survive one sync cycle so in-flight scans finish on an intact tree. Credentials come from the env var named bytoken_envand are never written to disk (fetch-by-URL, sanitized errors, timeout messages scrubbed).github_app_id/github_app_installation_id/github_app_private_key_envmint a short-lived installation token per sync (cached ~55 min), withgithub_api_urlfor GitHub Enterprise — so GitHub App users get the same live refresh as PAT users.fetch_skillfreshness fix: filesystem skills are re-read from disk per invocation instead of served from the snapshot taken at toolset construction — previously a newly-pushed skill was advertised by the per-request prompt catalog but failed to fetch, and an edited skill served stale content until restart. Remote (UUID) skills still resolve from the cached catalog without a disk scan.HolmesCustomSkillsrows from a synced repo reportsource: "git:<repo url>"so the Robusta UI can show which repo a skill syncs from; older UIs treat the value as plain custom. No schema change.skillReposvalue rendersSKILL_REPOSplus per-repo token / private-key env vars from Secrets, withrequiredvalidation on the secret refs. Docs for the GitHub PAT, GitHub App, and Bitbucket flows rewritten to use it; the init-container recipes are gone.Robustness details: duplicate repo names are rejected (they would share one checkout), the manager rate-limits its own syncs (the server loop's MCP-failure backoff cannot multiply git fetches), the first sync is warmed at startup off the request path, concurrent cold callers do one sync (double-checked lock), and a config reload keeps the manager (and cached App tokens) when the repo list is unchanged.
Testing
tests/plugins/skills/test_git_skill_repos.pyagainst realfile://git repos: clone, re-sync picks up edits/additions/deletions, worktree grace-period pruning, sub_path scoping, failed fetch keeps the previous checkout, token injection/escaping, GitHub App mint flow (real RSA key, mocked GitHub API), token caching, mint-failure containment, validation rules, sync rate-limiting.fetch_skillfreshness tests, mirror-labeling tests, and Config-level wiring tests (env + file, throughget_skill_catalog).helm templateverified with token, GitHub App, mixed, and emptyskillReposvalues.Companion PR
robusta-dev/robusta-frontend#3570 renders the new
git:<url>source labels on the Knowledge page.Summary by CodeRabbit
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