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The hey-cli bot deleted the Basecamp skills #5
Description
Both the basecamp and basecamp-doctor skills have gone, there is only the hey skill.
08ef7ea
symptoms
$ yarn dlx skills add basecamp/skills
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➤ YN0085: │ + skills@npm:1.5.23, @isaacs/fs-minipass@npm:4.0.1, chownr@npm:3.0.0, minipass@npm:7.1.3, minizlib@npm:3.1.0, tar@npm:7.5.22, yallist@npm:5.0.0, yaml@npm:2.9.0
➤ YN0000: └ Completed
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➤ YN0013: │ 8 packages were added to the project (+ 4.12 MiB).
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➤ YN0000: · Done in 0s 278ms
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┌ skills
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◇ Source: https://github.com/basecamp/skills.git
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◇ Repository cloned
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◇ Found 1 skill
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● Skill: hey
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│ Interact with HEY via the HEY CLI. Read and send emails, manage contacts, boxes, labels, collections, calendars, todos, habits, time tracking, and journal entries. Use for ANY HEY-related question or action.
Workaround: manually download and install the skills from https://github.com/basecamp/basecamp-cli/tree/main/skills/basecamp
Reacted by Gert de Pagter
Activity
Sync only the skills this CLI owns to basecamp/skills
Sync only the skills this CLI owns to basecamp/skills
jeremy commentedon Sep 13, 2026
Thanks for the report, and sorry it sat. Confirmed, and the root cause is in the publishers, not this repo.
What happens. basecamp-cli and hey-cli each run a
scripts/sync-skills.shon release that copies its ownskills/here and records the names it published in one shared file,.managed-skills. On the next run, each script deletes every name in that file that is not in its own skill set, so it treats the other product's skills as stale: hey-cli v0.1.1 removedbasecampandbasecamp-doctor(08ef7ea, what you hit), basecamp-cli v0.10.0 and v0.11.0 removedhey(728a916, 42716d7). Todayskills/holds only the basecamp skills.Fix. Each CLI now owns a per-source manifest (
.managed-skills.basecamp-cli,.managed-skills.hey-cli) and only ever deletes directories listed in its own; a name claimed by another manifest is never deleted; there is no first-run fallback; and the legacy.managed-skillsis kept as a comment-only tombstone so a CLI still running the old script deletes nothing, which makes rollout order irrelevant.heyis absent right now: Reposition as agent skills for all 37signals products #6Once #434 merges, the first hey-cli release restores
skills/heyautomatically (the PR carries a dry-run walkthrough against this repo's currentmainshowing exactly that). Until then,hey skill installinstalls the skill from the CLI itself, or take it from https://github.com/basecamp/hey-cli/tree/main/skills/hey. I'll close this when both CLI fixes have merged.Sync only the skills this CLI owns to basecamp/skills
Sync only the skills this CLI owns to basecamp/skills
Send the token as a github.com-scoped Authorization header, not a URL…
Send the token as a github.com-scoped Authorization header, not a URL…
Send the token as a github.com-scoped Authorization header, not a URL…
Sync only the skills this CLI owns to basecamp/skills (#708)
Publish the fizzy skill to basecamp/skills on release (#214)
Reposition as agent skills for all 37signals products (#6)
Seed the skills sync with per-source manifests and the skills/ layout (…
Sync only the skills this CLI owns to basecamp/skills (#434)
robzolkos commentedon Oct 22, 2026
Fixed. Every publisher now syncs with per-source manifests and deletes only names in its own: basecamp-cli#708, hey-cli#434, fizzy-cli#214 and the cli#78 seed all merged on Sep 14. The fix holds on main today:
skills/holdsbasecamp,basecamp-connect,basecamp-doctorandhey, alongside.managed-skills.basecamp-cliand.managed-skills.hey-cli, and the legacy.managed-skillsis the comment-only tombstone.heycame back with the hey-cli v1.10.0 sync (408d225) and survived the basecamp-cli v0.15.1, v0.16.0 and v0.17.0 syncs after it.