Glossary · Agents & tools
Skill Discovery
A runtime pipeline that searches configured roots, identifies candidate skill directories, validates their package contract, attaches scope and provenance, resolves collisions, and publishes eligible catalog entries.
Why it matters
Deterministic discovery makes missing, malformed, shadowed, and unsafe packages diagnosable before model routing begins.
In practice
Declare search scopes and duplicate behavior, decide how symlinks are handled, reject resource escapes, and log why each candidate was accepted or rejected.
Common confusion
Skill discovery is not an unrestricted recursive search for filenames called `SKILL.md`; installation locations and precedence are runtime policy.
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