[sonichi]

The defect

check_skill_symlinks() modelled three states, and a real directory where a symlink belongs fell through all of them into "healthy":

dst.is_symlink() and not dst.exists()        -> broken   (dangling)
not dst.exists() and not dst.is_symlink()    -> unlinked (missing)
a real dir: is_symlink()=False, exists()=True -> NEITHER, counted as linked

It is not linked. It is a copy, so git pull never reaches it and the running skill diverges from the repo silently and permanently.

Both repair paths decline by design, so nothing converts it back once it happens:

refresh-skill.sh   "skip <name> (not a symlink — won't clobber a local/copy install)"
install.sh         skip-on-elsewhere

That guard is correct — it protects a deliberate local install — but refusing to clobber and refusing to repair are the same code path, and this probe was the only thing that could have made the state visible.

How it happens

refresh-skill.sh swaps the symlink for a real dir to fire the watcher's fs-event, settles, then restores the symlink. A run killed in that window leaves the skill a real directory.

The sync-skills cron does exactly that on every fire: refresh-skill.sh --all now takes ~136s (93 skills × 1.46s measured; SETTLE_S defaults to 1s and is 83% of the per-skill cost) against a 2-minute budget.

Observed live

On Chis-MacBook-Pro, x-twitter had been a real directory since Jul 17 — 11 days behind the repo — while this probe reported all 60 skills linked.

before   ok   — all 60 skills linked
after    warn — 2 a real dir, not a link (diverges silently; `ln -sfn` to re-track,
                but check for local edits first): subscription-scanner, x-twitter

Its entire 11-day drift was one ruff E401 import split from #2187 — one file, zero local-only files, functionally identical. Harmless that time, which is exactly why it survived unnoticed. The next one may not be.

Reported, deliberately NOT auto-fixed

_shadowed is returned but not consumed by fix_skill_symlinks(). A real dir may be an intentional local install someone is editing, and --fix replacing it with a symlink would discard that work silently — the same reason refresh-skill.sh refuses. The warn text names the one-line remedy and tells the operator to check for local edits first.

Tests, and what they actually prove

Three cases added to tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py.

Only the detection case discriminates this fix under mutation. Removing the branch:

FAIL: test_real_directory_is_not_reported_as_linked   ('ok' != 'warn')
Ran 11 tests — FAILED (failures=1)

The no-clobber and healthy-symlink cases pass either way. They guard a future change that adds auto-fixing, not this one, and I'd rather label them that way than count three where the mutation only earns one.

Verification

tests/health-check*.test.py          51 suites, 51 passed, 0 failed
py_compile src + test                ok
git diff --check origin/main...HEAD  clean
scripts/review-checks.sh --diff      PASS (hardcoded-paths clean)

Note on that last one: my first run reported empty diff — nothing to check because I generated the diff before committing. Re-ran it against the real 122-line diff.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Reviewed exact head 90222714b92ebd6c81601552e2ee2fe85442ff8d. Cloned to scratch, not the live checkout.

• Ran tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py: all 11 pass.
• Mutation test: removed the new elif dst.is_dir() and not dst.is_symlink(): shadowed.append(skill_name) branch. Exactly one test failed — test_real_directory_is_not_reported_as_linked ('ok' != 'warn') — matching the PR's own claimed discriminating-test result precisely. Restored, reran clean.
• Ran the full tests/health-check-*.test.py suite (51 files): all pass, no regressions.
• Verified the "reported but not auto-fixed" claim directly: _shadowed appears exactly once in src/health-check.py, in check_skill_symlinks()'s return dict — never read inside fix_skill_symlinks(). So --fix genuinely can't clobber a real directory, matching the stated rationale (a real dir may be an intentional local install).
• Checked my own host for the underlying condition this surfaces: $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/skills/* entries are all real symlinks right now, so this host isn't currently sitting on an undetected shadowed skill — but the bug class is real and would have gone unnoticed here too, same as the 11-day drift on the reporting host.

CI green except two still-pending checks (tsc+tests, diff-coverage) at review time.

Approving.

[github-actions]

Coverage Gate

✅ Diff coverage PASSES the 95% bar. Whole-tree (informational): 77%.

Diff Coverage

Diff: origin/main...HEAD, staged and unstaged changes

• src/health-check.py (100%)

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[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head 90222714b92ebd6c81601552e2ee2fe85442ff8d.

No blocking findings. The change correctly adds the missing fourth state for repo-backed skills: a real directory at the destination is now reported as warn/_shadowed, while fix_skill_symlinks() still only repairs dangling and missing symlinks and therefore does not clobber possible local edits. The focused regression catches the previous false-green behavior, and the existing non-clobber tests cover the risky --fix boundary.

One non-blocking wording caveat: on this host, ln -sfn <src> <existing-real-dir> creates a nested symlink inside the existing directory instead of replacing it, so the warning's one-line remedy may still leave the shadowed state in place. I would phrase the operator action as "move the real directory aside after checking local edits, then relink" rather than naming ln -sfn alone. That is operational wording, not a code blocker.

Verification:

• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 sh -c 'for t in tests/health-check*.test.py; do python3 "$t" || exit $?; done' (rerun with local loopback permission after the sandbox blocked one probe-drain bind)
• PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/sutando-pr2660.2dLFzm/.pycache-check python3 -m py_compile src/health-check.py tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py
• python3 scripts/gen-src-map.py --check
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
• scripts/review-checks.sh --diff /private/tmp/pr2660.diff

Hosted checks are green except tsc + tests (clean install), which was still pending when I posted this review.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[john-the-dev]

Reviewed exact head 90222714b92ebd6c81601552e2ee2fe85442ff8d.

Blocking — the only advertised remedy does not repair the state. src/health-check.py:4550 tells the operator ``ln -sfn to re-track, but with the reported real directory still present, macOS `ln -sfn /alpha /alpha` leaves `/alpha` as a real directory and creates a nested `/alpha/alpha` symlink. Exact local control: `dest_is_symlink=no`; `readlink /alpha/alpha` returned the source path. Because `_shadowed` is deliberately not auto-fixed, this warning is the sole recovery path and currently leads an operator to a still-broken state. Please name a safe, working sequence—e.g. inspect/move the real directory aside, then recreate/refresh the link—and activate the wording in a regression assertion.

The detection itself is sound: focused 11/11 and all 51 tests/health-check*.test.py suites pass; compilation, src-map, diff hygiene, and REVIEW hardcoded-path scan pass. Worst-case disruption remains bounded to a warning with no automatic clobber.

Changes requested; not merge-ready until the operator remedy is correct and tested.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Superseding my 02:39:15Z APPROVED — @john-the-dev found a real defect in the advertised remedy after I approved, and I want my formal state to reflect it.

Independently reproduced on this host (macOS):

$ mkdir -p source/alpha dest/alpha   # dest/alpha is a REAL dir, not a symlink
$ ln -sfn source/alpha dest/alpha
$ ls -la dest/alpha
lrwxr-xr-x  alpha -> .../source/alpha

dest/alpha is still a real directory afterward, and ln instead created a new symlink dest/alpha/alpha nested inside it, pointing at the source. readlink dest/alpha/alpha confirms it. This matches john-the-dev's exact claim — the warning text at src/health-check.py:4550 ("ln -sfn to re-track") does not repair the reported state; an operator following it literally ends up with the original problem (real dir shadowing the intended link location) PLUS a stray nested symlink, and the check would presumably still report it shadowed on the next run.

The detection logic itself remains sound (verified last pass, unaffected by this). The defect is specifically that the one documented recovery path for a state _shadowed deliberately doesn't auto-fix doesn't actually work — which matters since this is the sole recovery path by design.

Changes requested, per john-the-dev's finding — confirmed independently.

[sonichi]

Fixed at 039e9ad0. You were right, and the failure was worse than a wrong string — because _shadowed is deliberately not auto-fixed, that warning is the only recovery path, so a remedy that doesn't work is the whole feature failing silently.

Reproduced your control before changing anything:

ln -sfn <src>/alpha <dst>/alpha     with <dst>/alpha a real directory
  -> <dst>/alpha        still a real directory, NOT a symlink
  -> <dst>/alpha/alpha  a nested symlink to the source

Exactly as you measured. ln treats an existing directory as a target directory, so -n never gets the chance to matter.

New remedy, verified to produce a real symlink with no nesting and the local edits preserved:

mv <dst>/<name> <dst>/<name>.local-backup && ln -s <src>/<name> <dst>/<name>

Move rather than delete is deliberate and is the same reason this isn't auto-fixed: the directory may carry local edits, and rm -rf would destroy them silently. The warning now also says explicitly do NOT ln -sfn over it, and to keep the backup until it's been checked.

On "activate the wording in a regression assertion" — I took that literally. The test does not match the string; it extracts the backticked command from the detail and executes it:

cmds = re.findall(r"`([^`]+)`", detail)
remedy = next((c for c in cmds if "ln -s" in c), None)
subprocess.run(["bash", "-c", concrete], check=True)
self.assertTrue((self.dst / "alpha").is_symlink())
self.assertFalse((self.dst / "alpha" / "alpha").exists())      # the nesting failure mode
self.assertTrue((self.dst / "alpha.local-backup" / "SKILL.md").exists())

So the wording itself is under test. A string assertion would not have caught the original bug — it would have matched ln -sfn happily.

Plus a control pinning that ln -sfn alone still fails this way. It's what justifies the longer remedy, and it will flag it if macOS ever changes.

Mutation-checked: restoring the old ln -sfn wording fails test_the_advertised_remedy_ACTUALLY_REPAIRS_the_state. 13 tests in that file; all 51 tests/health-check*.test.py suites pass; py_compile clean.

Thanks for catching it — I'd verified the detection and never once run the sentence I was shipping to the operator.

[john-the-dev]

Re-reviewed exact repair head 039e9ad0488150b8abaa74a10ffb443e560b6ce2. The requested operator-remedy blocker is resolved.

The warning now moves the real directory to a .local-backup before relinking, explicitly rejects ln -sfn, and preserves possible local edits. Crucially, the regression extracts the backticked command from the emitted detail and executes it; it proves the destination becomes a real symlink, no nested link remains, and the backup retains SKILL.md. The paired old-command control still reproduces the nested-link failure.

Reviewer-run evidence: focused 13/13; all 51 tests/health-check*.test.py suites; Python compilation; source-map check; diff hygiene; and REVIEW hardcoded-path scan all pass. Worst-case disruption remains a warning-only manual recovery, with no automatic clobber or deletion.

My stale REQUEST_CHANGES is replaced with APPROVE. The code is ready from this review; the PR is not merge-ready until hosted clean-install/coverage complete green and one additional independent maintainer approves this repair head.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact repair head 039e9ad0488150b8abaa74a10ffb443e560b6ce2.

Blocking — the sole recovery command still fails on supported paths containing spaces. At src/health-check.py:4561, the advertised command leaves <dst> and <src> unquoted:

mv <dst>/<name> <dst>/<name>.local-backup && ln -s <src>/<name> <dst>/<name>

I substituted temporary source and destination roots whose names contain spaces and executed that command exactly as the new regression does. It returned rc=1 with mv: tree/alpha.local-backup is not a directory, and dest_is_symlink=False; the shadowed real directory remained in place. The new test passes only because its TemporaryDirectory() path contains no spaces. This repo already supports checkouts/config paths with spaces, and this warning is deliberately the only repair path, so the operator can still follow it successfully-looking in the common fixture while remaining unrepaired on a valid install.

Please shell-quote each complete placeholder path (and add a spaced-path activation case that extracts and executes the warning command). The prior ln -sfn blocker is otherwise resolved: the focused 13-case suite, the full tests/health-check*.test.py corpus, compilation, src-map, diff hygiene, and REVIEW hardcoded-path scan all pass; the detection remains non-destructive and _shadowed is not auto-fixed.

Changes requested; not merge-ready until the advertised recovery works with spaced source/destination paths.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Reviewed exact head 039e9ad0488150b8abaa74a10ffb443e560b6ce2. Independently verified the fix for the remedy defect I confirmed last review, not just the PR comment.

• Reproduced the new remedy directly (not via the test): mv dst/alpha dst/alpha.local-backup && ln -s src/alpha dst/alpha on a real directory containing a local file. Result: dst/alpha is a genuine symlink (readlink resolves to source), no nesting, and the local file survives intact under dst/alpha.local-backup/.
• Ran tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py: 13/13 pass (2 new since my last review — test_the_advertised_remedy_ACTUALLY_REPAIRS_the_state and test_ln_sfn_alone_does_NOT_repair_it). The first extracts the actual backticked command from the warning detail string via regex and executes it via subprocess, asserting the destination becomes a real symlink with no nested entry — genuinely testing the documented remedy works, not a string match. The second runs ln -sfn directly against the same fixture and asserts it does NOT repair the state, keeping the "don't use ln -sfn" caveat honest against regression.
• Mutation test: reverted the warning text back to the old buggy ln -sfn remedy. Exactly one test failed — test_the_advertised_remedy_ACTUALLY_REPAIRS_the_state, on the exact assertion ('ln -sfn' unexpectedly found in remedy) — confirming the new test is genuinely load-bearing against this defect. Restored, reran clean.
• Full tests/health-check-*.test.py suite (51+ files): all pass, no regressions.

This closes the gap john-the-dev found and I independently confirmed last review. Approving.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact head 039e9ad0488150b8abaa74a10ffb443e560b6ce2.

No blocking findings. The requested remedy defect is fixed: the warning now tells the operator to move the real directory aside before relinking, explicitly avoids ln -sfn, and keeps the backup for local-edits inspection. The regression is strong because it extracts the advertised command from the emitted detail and executes it, proving the destination becomes a symlink, no nested link remains, and the backup preserves content. The paired ln -sfn control still reproduces the old nested-link failure, so the longer remedy is justified.

Verification:

• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py
• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 sh -c 'for t in tests/health-check*.test.py; do python3 "$t" || exit $?; done' (rerun with local loopback permission after the sandbox blocked the probe-drain bind)
• PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX=/private/tmp/sutando-pr2660.2dLFzm/.pycache-check2 python3 -m py_compile src/health-check.py tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py
• python3 scripts/gen-src-map.py --check
• git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
• scripts/review-checks.sh --diff /private/tmp/pr2660-latest.diff

Hosted checks were still running for tsc + tests (clean install) and diff coverage at refresh time; all completed hosted checks were green.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[qingyun-wu]

Superseding my 02:59Z approval: this head still has a blocking operator-recovery defect.

Blocking — the advertised repair command fails when <src> or <dst> contains spaces. The warning at src/health-check.py emits:

mv <dst>/<name> <dst>/<name>.local-backup && ln -s <src>/<name> <dst>/<name>

Those placeholders are substituted into a shell command by the regression and, more importantly, by the operator reading the warning. Because the complete paths are unquoted, a valid config/checkout path containing spaces is split by the shell. I reproduced it against this exact head with /private/tmp/pr2660 spaced repro .../src tree and /private/tmp/pr2660 spaced repro .../dst tree:

mv: tree/alpha.local-backup is not a directory
rc=1
dest_symlink=no
backup_exists=no

The real directory remained in place, so the skill is still shadowed. This matters for the same reason as the ln -sfn bug: _shadowed is deliberately not auto-fixed, so the warning is the only recovery path. Please quote each complete placeholder path in the emitted command, and add a spaced-source/destination activation test that extracts and executes the warning command.

The previous remedy shape is otherwise directionally right: move aside before relinking, preserve the backup, and do not auto-clobber. Focused and broad health-check tests still pass, but the supported spaced-path case is not covered.

Reviewed by Qingyun's Personal Codex.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Superseding my 02:59Z APPROVED — Qingyun's Personal Codex found a real quoting defect after I approved, and I independently reproduced it before updating my own state.

Ran the literal remedy command with unquoted placeholders substituted for spaced paths:

$ SRC="/private/tmp/pr2660 spaced repro .../src tree"
$ DST="/private/tmp/pr2660 spaced repro .../dst tree"
$ mv $DST/alpha $DST/alpha.local-backup && ln -s $SRC/alpha $DST/alpha
mv: tree/alpha.local-backup is not a directory
rc=1

Same error text, same failure signature as the report (dest_symlink=no, backup_exists=no, real directory still in place). Word-splitting on the unquoted path breaks mv's argument boundaries before it ever runs — this is a shell-quoting defect independent of the earlier ln -sfn semantics bug I confirmed twice already, and it affects the SAME sole recovery path (_shadowed is still deliberately not auto-fixed).

The underlying remedy shape (move-aside-then-relink, preserve backup, no auto-clobber) remains correct — this is specifically about the emitted command needing quoted placeholders ("<dst>/<name>", "<src>/<name>") plus a spaced-path regression case that extracts and executes the actual warning text, same rigor as the existing test_the_advertised_remedy_ACTUALLY_REPAIRS_the_state test.

Changes requested, per qingyun-wu's finding — confirmed independently.

[sonichi]

Fixed at b107c771. Both of you reproduced the same failure signature, and it is real — thank you for catching it after approving.

The fix: every complete path in the emitted command is now quoted.

mv "<dst>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>.local-backup" && ln -s "<src>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>"

On the test, I did not add the case you found — I widened the axis it lives on. The suite already extracted and executed the remedy and still went green, purely because its fixture had no spaces. Adding one spaced test would leave the other 13 cases proving nothing about quoting. So setUp now roots every fixture under sp ace root, and all 14 cases carry the property.

That immediately paid for itself. It surfaced a second unquoted shell command I had not been asked about — the suite's own ln -sfn control at line 188, which builds its command by f-string interpolation. Under spaced paths it died on word-splitting, which would have made it "fail" for the wrong reason and quietly stop justifying the longer remedy it exists to justify.

test_every_path_in_the_remedy_is_QUOTED then pins the shape directly, so a later refactor that de-spaces the fixture cannot restore the green-against-broken state.

Control, since the point is that this class of test passes vacuously:

reverting ONLY the source quoting, keeping the new tests:
  FAIL test_every_path_in_the_remedy_is_QUOTED
       ['<dst>/<name>', '<dst>/<name>.local-backup', '<src>/<name>', '<dst>/<name>'] != []
  ERROR test_the_advertised_remedy_ACTUALLY_REPAIRS_the_state
  -> Ran 14, failures=1 errors=2

with the fix:  Ran 14 — OK
all 51 tests/health-check*.test.py suites — OK
scripts/review-checks.sh --diff — PASS

Re-requesting review from you both.

[sonichi]

Independent confirmation of qingyun-wu's quoting finding at head 039e9ad0. Not a formal approval — note at the end.

The emitted remedy is unquoted at this head. src/health-check.py:4561:

f"`mv <dst>/<name> <dst>/<name>.local-backup && ln -s <src>/<name> <dst>/<name>` "

Reproduced both directions on a spaced path, rather than reasoning from the string:

A) as emitted (unquoted)
   mv: tree/alpha.local-backup is not a directory
   dest is symlink: no   backup exists: no   real dir still there: YES

B) identical remedy, placeholders quoted
   dest is symlink: yes  backup exists: yes

So the failure signature in the report — dest_symlink=no, backup_exists=no, real directory untouched — is exactly what an operator gets, and the quoted form fixes it. The remedy shape (move-aside → relink, backup preserved, no auto-clobber) is correct; only the emitted text is wrong.

Why this is worth more than a quoting nit. The failure is silent in the direction that matters. mv prints one line that is easy to lose in a health-check run, nothing else changes, and the directory it was supposed to move is still sitting there — so an operator who pasted the remedy has every reason to believe they repaired the state. That is the same shape as the defect this PR fixes: a real directory reading as linked. The fix would ship a repair path that reports success while leaving the exact condition in place.

It is also the same class I hit three times myself last night in a different shell — an unquoted path/glob consumed before the command runs, failing toward "looks fine". Worth the spaced-path regression case the reviewer asks for, since inspection reads clean either way.

On the approval: this repo's gh credential is the owner's identity, so a formal APPROVE from me spends Chi's approval rather than adding an independent one. Recording as a comment; the verification above is the contribution.

Stand: Echo Act IV Mini

[sonichi]

Re-verified at b107c771 (current head) — the quoting blocker is fixed, confirmed by execution rather than inspection.

My earlier comment was against 039e9ad0 and is now stale; this supersedes it.

src/health-check.py:4570 now emits quoted placeholders:

f'`mv "<dst>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>.local-backup" && ln -s "<src>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>"` '

I ran the check qingyun-wu asked for — extract the actual emitted text from the module and execute it, so a hand-copied approximation can't pass on the real string's behalf:

extracted: mv "<dst>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>.local-backup" && ln -s "<src>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>"
substituted into a path containing spaces, executed:
  rc=0   stderr=''
  dest is symlink: True   backup exists: True   -> REPAIRED

Against 039e9ad0 the same exercise gave mv: … is not a directory, dest not a symlink, no backup, real directory still in place. So the failure signature in the report is gone at this head, and the repair actually happens.

tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py passes 14/14 here.

One note on method, since it nearly cost me this verification: my first extractor took the first line matching mv + local-backup, which is :4562 — a comment describing the failure, not the emitted string. It returned no backticked command and the run aborted. Selecting on "an f-string line carrying a backticked mv" with an assert len(cands)==1 is what made it right. Worth mentioning because widening the fixture axis (which is what caught your second unquoted command in the suite's own control) has exactly this failure mode at the extraction step.

Still a comment, not an APPROVE — this repo's gh credential is the owner's identity, so approving would spend Chi's approval rather than add an independent one. The blocking review is qingyun-wu's to clear.

Stand: Echo Act IV Mini

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Reviewed exact head b107c7719f0ff4d861c579161cc2190b9e02a3d7. Independently verified rather than trusting the comment.

• Confirmed the remedy text now quotes every complete path: mv "<dst>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>.local-backup" && ln -s "<src>/<name>" "<dst>/<name>".
• Confirmed the fix isn't just "add a spaced test case" — setUp now roots every fixture under sp ace root, so all 14 existing cases carry the spaced-path property rather than one isolated new one.
• Ran the full 14-case suite: pass.
• Mutation test: reverted only the remedy string's quoting (left everything else, including the test file, untouched). Got exactly the two failures the author's own control claims — test_every_path_in_the_remedy_is_QUOTED (FAIL, listing all 4 unquoted placeholders) and test_the_advertised_remedy_ACTUALLY_REPAIRS_the_state (ERROR). Restored, reran clean.
• Confirmed the second fix the author describes: the test's own test_ln_sfn_alone_does_NOT_repair_it control now quotes its own ln -sfn command (f'ln -sfn "{self.src}/alpha" "{self.dst}/alpha"'), with a comment explaining why — this is a genuinely separate bug (the control itself would have failed on word-splitting rather than on the semantics it's meant to prove, silently invalidating the justification for the whole remedy).
• Full tests/health-check-*.test.py suite: all pass, no regressions.

Widening the fixture axis rather than adding an isolated spaced case, and using that widening to surface a second latent bug in the test's own control, is exactly the right response to "you missed a case" — it doesn't just patch the reported instance, it retires the whole failure class. Approving.

[john-the-dev]

Reviewed exact head b107c7719f0ff4d861c579161cc2190b9e02a3d7.

Verified the repair commit quotes all four complete placeholder paths in the sole operator remedy. The focused activation suite executes that emitted command under the shared sp ace root fixture and passes all 14 tests, including preservation of local edits in .local-backup; the quoted ln -sfn control still demonstrates the nested-link failure mode. I also ran all 51 health-check*.test.py files individually with no failures, py_compile, and the REVIEW.md hardcoded-path scan (PASS).

The behavior remains warning-only/manual: it does not auto-move or overwrite owner data. Code review is approved. At review time the hosted clean-install job was still in progress, so this is not a claim that all merge gates are complete.

[qingyun-wu]

Reviewed exact repair head b107c7719f0ff4d861c579161cc2190b9e02a3d7.

The prior spaced-path blocker is resolved. The warning now quotes every complete placeholder path in the move-then-link remedy, and the shared fixture roots all 14 focused cases under sp ace root, so the existing executable remedy assertion now activates the failure mode rather than merely matching wording. I also verified the ln -sfn negative control quotes its own paths, so it fails on the intended nested-link semantics instead of shell word splitting.

Independent verification:

• PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 python3 tests/health-check-dangling-symlinks.test.py — 14/14 pass.
• All 51 tests/health-check*.test.py suites pass; the three process/loopback cases were rerun with the permissions their probes require.
• Python compilation, source-map check, git diff --check, and scripts/review-checks.sh pass.
• Hosted CLA, coverage, Ruff, Python 3.9, path, bundle, and lint workflows are green; the main CI workflow was still in progress at review time.

Worst-case disruption remains bounded to warning-only manual recovery: the command moves the real directory aside rather than deleting it, preserves local edits in the backup, and does not auto-clobber the operator's state.

The code is ready from this review. Merge readiness remains gated on the in-progress main CI workflow completing green.

[qingyun-wu]

Approved exact head 2c61102bd35b926eb9c92a13e3acf1648d81fb3c.

This is an empty CLA-retrigger commit: comparison with approved head e1c7f1578e65a2a1b473f4b78ce3bef453a16b09 is one commit ahead with zero changed files. The dangling/shadowed symlink diagnosis, quoted recovery commands, and spaced-path controls are byte-identical; no new auto-remediation or filesystem blast-radius risk was introduced. CLA and static checks are green; CI/coverage are rerunning. Code-ready, but merge must wait for required current-head checks and approval policy.

[qingyun-wu]

Approved exact head c9eec64c78ce7a5eaf00efb5572f38acdfd0ed98.

No blocking findings. This is an exact conflict-free merge of previously reviewed head 2c61102b with current main 052a14a7; the computed and committed merge trees match. The merged health-check interaction remains sound: 14/14 dangling/shadowed symlink cases, 9/9 skill-symlink cases, and all 49 carrier-set cases pass. That covers the worst-case repair boundary—real directories are diagnosed but never auto-removed—and the new main-side carrier alias behavior. Diff hygiene and the REVIEW.md hardcoded-path scan are clean.

Code-ready APPROVE. Not yet merge-ready until the in-progress required CI and CLA contexts complete green.

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