ROB-1258 Live-refresh git-synced skills via first-class skill_repos - #2434
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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).
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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.
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- 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>
- 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>
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>
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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…tokens out of argv Three findings from review of the skill_repos work, plus the smaller ones that were cheap to fix alongside them. Bound the git object store. 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 -- on the Helm deployment inside a /tmp emptyDir with a sizeLimit, which the kubelet enforces by EVICTING the pod. `git gc --prune=now` now runs after a flip (only on a flip, so the cost lands once per push), with the worktrees as the reachability roots: this repo has no refs at all, and git counts every worktree's detached HEAD, so the active checkout and the one still 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 results: when skillRepos is set it mounts a dedicated emptyDir at /var/holmes/skill-repos (skillReposVolumeSize, default 1Gi) and points SKILL_REPOS_DIR at it, so a big repo cannot evict the pod by starving the volume Holmes writes tool results to. Stop a broken repo from wedging mirror pruning. 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, cluster-wide, for every other skill source too. A typo'd sub_path or a revoked token froze the Knowledge page silently and indefinitely. Now a repo is 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, and the mirror sync logs it so the omission is visible outside the git-sync logs. Keep the credential out of 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 via 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 if the remote redirects to another host. Also: - 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; errors(include_input=False) keeps the actionable part. - _ensure_synced waits a bounded 5s (SKILL_REPOS_FIRST_SYNC_WAIT_SECONDS) rather than holding for the whole cold sync. A chat request arriving during the startup warmup used to block on the lock for up to a git timeout per repo. - Default git timeout 120s -> 60s: it also bounds the CLI's inline sync, which sits in front of every `holmes ask`. - URL scheme allowlist, and ssh:// / git@host:path rejected with a message that says SSH is unsupported instead of "use token_env". - The mirror reports the stable `current`-based source_path instead of the resolved worktree path, which carried a commit sha that changed on every push and is shown verbatim in the UI. - Chart: `set` instead of `merge` when building each SKILL_REPOS entry, and privateKeySecret is bound once so a missing block errors with its own message rather than a Go nil dereference. - Fixed the two mypy errors this feature introduced (name is always set after validation, so type it `str` and drop three type: ignores). - Tests for all of the above, including one that fails if the gc is removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
Found while driving the manager against a real authenticated https git server: the sandbox it ran in already sets GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=3 (credential.interactive plus two url.insteadOf rewrites), and writing GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0 with COUNT=1 replaced the first of those and dropped the other two. The mechanism is a shared numbered list, so the credential entry has to land at the next free index. Corporate proxies, CA paths and insteadOf rewrites are all commonly injected this way, and losing them makes the fetch fail in a way that looks like a network fault rather than a config one. Also improve the diagnostic when the credential is refused. With the token in a header there is no username/password for git to retry with, so a rejected credential surfaces as "could not read Username ... terminal prompts disabled", which reads like no auth was configured at all. Append a note pointing at the token instead. Tests: the credential-env assertions now clear ambient GIT_CONFIG_* through an autouse fixture (they were silently environment-dependent), and two new tests cover appending after existing entries and tolerating a non-numeric count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
Two problems found while driving the running stack against a real git repo. A DELETED skill stayed fetchable. The freshness fix re-read filesystem skills from disk per invocation but fell back to the toolset-construction snapshot on a miss (`self._find_filesystem_skill(...) or cached`), so a skill removed upstream kept being served for the life of the process. Verified end to end: with the skill deleted from the repo and gone from the checkout, fetch_skill still returned its body. That matters most for the skill someone deleted precisely because it was wrong. _find_filesystem_skill now reports whether disk was decisive, and the snapshot answers only when it was not -- an SDK caller that handed in a catalog with no search paths, or a scan that actually failed. A miss on an authoritative scan is a real miss. Gating that on the scan 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: pod-oom", which tells the model nothing. The remote lookup is now gated on the id looking like a UUID, so a missing name gets "Skill 'pod-oom' not found. Available: etcd-latency, dns-debug". Also: skill_paths() no longer logs. It runs on every request and several times per toolset build, so the unsynced-repo warning I added produced 8+ identical lines per second during startup in the live stack. _sync_all_locked reports it once per sync cycle instead. Widened the skill-path parameters to Sequence, clearing the two pre-existing mypy invariance errors in skills_fetcher.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
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WalkthroughHolmes now syncs skills from configured Git repositories. Helm and CLI configuration support token and GitHub App credentials. Runtime loading, status reporting, startup warming, periodic refresh, and checkout safety cover repository-backed skills. ChangesGit skill repository integration
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Live git-synced skill refresh can republish an unsafe checkout after cleanup fails, potentially allowing skills to read files outside the repository; this security risk should be fixed before merging. Duplicate repository names can also cause request-time initialization failures. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Server
participant Config
participant GitSkillRepoManager
participant SkillsFetcher
participant SkillFilesystem
Server->>Config: start repository warm-up
Config->>GitSkillRepoManager: sync repositories
GitSkillRepoManager-->>Config: publish checkout paths
SkillsFetcher->>SkillFilesystem: scan configured search paths
SkillFilesystem-->>SkillsFetcher: return current skill files
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In `@helm/holmes/templates/holmes.yaml`:
- Line 213: Update the skillRepos rendering logic around the $entry construction
to reject credential-bearing repository URLs before serializing SKILL_REPOS;
require the configured tokenSecret or githubApp authentication instead, while
preserving valid unauthenticated URLs and existing URL validation.
In `@holmes/config.py`:
- Around line 208-211: Update Config validation before GitSkillRepoManager is
lazily created to derive each repository’s effective name and reject duplicate
names, including entries whose names are inferred from URLs. Ensure invalid
duplicate configurations fail during configuration initialization rather than
allowing GitSkillRepoManager construction to fail later.
In `@holmes/plugins/skills/git_skill_repos.py`:
- Line 591: Update the symlink creation around os.symlink to pass
worktree.resolve() as the target, ensuring current resolves correctly when
root_dir is relative. Add a regression test covering a relative root_dir and
verify that skill_paths() returns a valid linked path.
In `@holmes/plugins/toolsets/skills/skills_fetcher.py`:
- Line 170: Update the skill lookup around load_filesystem_skills_by_name so
filesystem scan health is checked before marking the result authoritative:
preserve and return the cached skill when the configured source is unreadable,
while treating a successful scan with a missing skill as authoritative and
unavailable. Use load_filesystem_skills with its sources_ok value or inspect
problems, and add a regression test covering a cached skill whose configured
root becomes unreadable.
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All four reproduced first, then fixed, then re-run against the reproduction. Reject credential-bearing skill repo urls in the chart. A url with userinfo was serialized verbatim into the SKILL_REPOS env value in the pod spec -- readable by anyone who can get the Deployment, which is far more common RBAC than reading Secrets, and retained in Helm release history and any GitOps repo. Holmes rejects such a url too, but only once the pod is running, by which point the token has already leaked. The template now refuses to render it and names the fix (tokenSecret / githubApp). A repo-name collision no longer breaks every request. An omitted `name` is derived from the url's last path segment, so .../team-a/skills.git and .../team-b/skills.git both become "skills"; GitSkillRepoManager rejects that, and because the manager is built lazily from a property reached per request through all_skill_paths, the failed construction was retried on every chat. Reproduced: two consecutive all_skill_paths calls both raised ValueError, i.e. a skills misconfiguration became a total outage. The property now logs the reason and serves no git-synced skills instead. Absolute symlink target. A relative root_dir (a relative SKILL_REPOS_DIR) made `current` a relative symlink, which is resolved against the LINK's directory, not the cwd -- so it pointed at <root>/<name>/<root>/<name>/worktrees/... Reproduced: target exists? False, zero skills loaded, and sources_ok False, which also holds off HolmesCustomSkills pruning. root_dir is now absolutized in __init__. An incomplete scan is no longer authoritative. This one is against my own previous commit. load_filesystem_skills_by_name turns a missing or unreadable configured path into a partial result rather than raising, so a scan can come back INCOMPLETE and look exactly like a clean miss -- and I reported it as decisive, which skipped the snapshot. Reproduced with a vanished second search path: a skill that still existed upstream returned "Skill 'pod-oom' not found. Available: dns-debug, pod-oom", contradicting itself. Now uses load_filesystem_skills and its sources_ok, so only a clean scan is decisive. A test pins both halves: the partial scan falls back, and a genuine deletion on a readable source still wins. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
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except Exceptionalso catches unexpected programming and filesystem failures. The handler then installs an empty manager, so Git-synced skills disappear while requests continue without them. Catch the expected validation error, or document and test why every constructor failure must degrade to an empty manager.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/plugins/toolsets/test_skills.py`:
- Line 442: Update the tuple unpacking in the test around _find_filesystem_skill
to explicitly discard the unused skill value by renaming it to _skill or _,
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In `@holmes/config.py`:
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CodeRabbit's follow-up on c910adc, both points taken. The `except Exception` around GitSkillRepoManager construction was too broad: the only thing that constructor rejects is the repo list itself, so a genuine bug or filesystem fault would have been swallowed and git-synced skills would quietly vanish instead of surfacing. Narrowed to ValueError. Verified both directions: duplicate names still degrade to no repos with the log line, and an injected RuntimeError now propagates. Also renamed an unused tuple binding in a test to `_skill`. Worth noting this one is not a CI gate -- the repo pins ruff v0.7.2 in pre-commit with no [tool.ruff] config, so the default E4,E7,E9,F ruleset applies and RUF059 neither exists in 0.7.2 nor is enabled by default; CodeRabbit ran its own ruff 0.16.2 with a broader set. Applied anyway because the underscore states the deliberate discard. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
CodeRabbit's risk summary mentioned in passing that "symlinks may read outside
the configured repository". It never filed that as an inline finding, so I went
to check it, and it is real.
scan_skill_directory walks with followlinks=True -- it has to, because a
Kubernetes ConfigMap mount surfaces each key as a symlink chain. Nothing stopped
a symlink committed in a skills repo from being checked out as a real link, so
the scan followed it and read the target as a "skill": into the per-request LLM
prompt catalog AND into the HolmesCustomSkills mirror in the platform database.
Anyone who can push to a configured skills repo could point one at /etc or at a
mounted service-account token. That is a wider set of people than cluster
admins, which is the point of the feature.
Reproduced with an absolute symlink committed in a repo:
escape-abs islink: True | resolves: True -> .../secret
skills loaded: ['escape-abs', 'legit']
OUT-OF-REPO CONTENT LOADED: True ['escape-abs']
The shipped image happens to be protected, because the Dockerfile sets
core.symlinks=false globally for CVE-2024-32002 and git then materializes a
plain text file holding the target path. But that is an unrelated mitigation
which nothing ties to this feature, and it does not cover the CLI or a
non-image deployment. Relying on it is not a security property.
So the worktree checkout now pins core.symlinks=false itself, through the same
GIT_CONFIG_* env mechanism the credential already uses. Re-ran the reproduction
with ambient git config cleared: the entry lands as a regular file, only 'legit'
loads, nothing outside the repo is read.
Factored the GIT_CONFIG_* builder out as git_config_env() so both callers append
after ambient entries rather than each reimplementing the offset.
The regression test is calibrated: with the extra_env removed it fails on "the
checkout must not materialize a real symlink".
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In `@holmes/plugins/skills/git_skill_repos.py`:
- Line 605: The _sync_repo() flow must rebuild or migrate an existing worktree
before accepting an unchanged fetched SHA, ensuring core.symlinks=false is
applied and committed symlinks cannot persist; preserve scan_skill_directory()
behavior and add a regression test covering an upgraded root_dir with an
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Two follow-ups on the previous commit's symlink containment, both from CodeRabbit and both verified before fixing. The regression test was vacuous in the one environment that matters most. The fixture cleared ambient GIT_CONFIG_* but not git's global and system config FILES, and the shipped image runs `git config --global core.symlinks false` (for CVE-2024-32002) -- so inside that image the test would pass with our own override deleted, protecting nothing. Confirmed by putting core.symlinks=false in ~/.gitconfig: the test passed with the fix removed. The fixture now also sets GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 and points GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL at an empty file. Both symlink tests are now calibrated with that global config in place: each fails without its fix and passes with it. Pinning core.symlinks at checkout only covers trees we create. _sync_repo returns early when the fetched sha is unchanged, reusing the existing worktree, so a tree created before the pin -- on a root that outlives the process, a PersistentVolume or the CLI's temp dir -- would keep serving and keep following its symlinks out of the repo, indefinitely after an upgrade. A one-time per-repo marker (.symlinks-safe) now records that a root only holds guaranteed checkouts; without it, every checkout there is dropped once and rebuilt. Worth stating plainly: the exposure window is narrow. The Helm chart mounts an emptyDir, wiped per pod, and no released version ever had the unpinned behaviour -- both landed in this PR -- so realistically only someone who ran the intermediate dev images against a custom persistent SKILL_REPOS_DIR is affected. The guard is here because the invariant should hold unconditionally rather than depend on that argument, and it is a no-op on a fresh root. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
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CodeRabbit on b00001c, and it is right about my own guard. The migration swallowed OSError from shutil.rmtree and logged a warning, then the caller wrote the .symlinks-safe marker unconditionally. The marker is precisely what stops the migration re-running, so a checkout that could not be removed would have been recorded as safe, kept serving, and never retried -- defeating the guard it belongs to. Two changes. The removal is now unguarded, so a failure aborts this repo's sync before the marker is written: the error lands in last_errors and the migration is attempted again next cycle. And `current` is unlinked FIRST, so if a removal does fail, nothing is left pointing at a tree we could not prove safe -- skill_paths omits the repo rather than publishing it. The test drives it through a monkeypatched rmtree that raises: the error is recorded, the marker stays absent, skill_paths is empty, and a following sync with removal working completes the migration and serves the skill. It fails against the previous swallow-and-mark behaviour. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YXEK51EPAbfcgnJaDyW9fG Signed-off-by: Naomi <naomi@robusta.dev>
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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
masterso 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, thefetch_skillfreshness fix, thegit:mirror labels, and the HelmskillReposvalue.What changed in review
The git object store was unbounded, inside a 256Mi emptyDir. Every
fetch --depth 1of 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 emptyDirsizeLimitgets the pod evicted by the kubelet.git gc --prune=nownow 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/tmpwith tool-result files — whenskillReposis set it mounts a dedicated emptyDir at/var/holmes/skill-repos(skillReposVolumeSize, default 1Gi) and pointsSKILL_REPOS_DIRat it.A broken repo wedged mirror pruning cluster-wide.
skill_paths()listed every configured repo including ones that had never produced a checkout, whose missingcurrentmadeload_filesystem_skillsreportsources_ok=False— which stops theHolmesCustomSkillsmirror from pruning any row, for every other skill source too. A typo'dsub_pathor 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 inpsoutput for every process in the pod, including exec-auditing agents. It now rides anhttp.<url>.extraHeaderconfig passed throughGIT_CONFIG_*env vars —environis mode 400 andpsdoes 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 ambientGIT_CONFIG_COUNTrather than overwriting index 0, so an inherited proxy, CA path orurl.insteadOfrewrite 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_envno longer logs the rejected entry (pydantic renders the input into its error string, so the genericlogging.exceptionpath printed the very credential the url-must-not-embed-credentials check exists to refuse);_ensure_syncedwaits 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, withssh://andgit@host:pathrejected with a message that says SSH is unsupported; the mirror reports the stablecurrent-basedsource_pathinstead of the worktree path that carried a commit sha;setinstead ofmergewhen building eachSKILL_REPOSentry, andprivateKeySecretbound 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. Fullpytest 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-backendbehind Basic auth with a self-signed cert) and the full local stack (Holmes + frontend + staging platform):Authorization: Basic …arriving on the first request, and the fetch argv contains no token.fetch_skillfreshness fix together.Skill 'pod-oom' not found. Available: etcd-latency, dns-debug.HolmesCustomSkillsrows carriedsource = git:https://…/skills.gitand asource_pathundercurrent/with no commit sha.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.
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