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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions .agents/journal/bolt.md
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Expand Up @@ -174,3 +174,9 @@ of items in a loop. Use `Clone` bounds on iterators to support backtracking with
**Learning:** Evaluating technology detection rules on many nested projects (workspaces) was performing redundant directory walking (`RepoMetadata::collect`) and parsing of files even when all candidate technologies had already been identified in previous discovery phases. By filtering rules to only undetected technologies upfront and checking if any remain undetected before proceeding, we can completely bypass expensive nested walks and terminate the scan early.

**Action:** In discovery systems processing multiple hierarchical targets, always filter candidates to the undetected subset at each level, and break early when no targets remain to avoid redundant CPU and filesystem I/O.

## 2026-05-26 - Memoized Embedded Skill Catalog and Binary Search Policy Lookups

**Learning:** `EmbeddedSkillCatalog::default()` and `load_catalog(None)` were re-parsing `catalog.v1.toml` and validating policy rules against 199+ skill IDs on every invocation. Additionally, policy validation was performing an $O(N)$ linear scan over `APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS`. Sorting and deduplicating `APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS` allowed using $O(\log N)$ `binary_search`, while memoizing the parsed baseline using `std::sync::OnceLock` completely eliminated redundant TOML parsing and policy validation across CLI commands.

**Action:** Use `std::sync::OnceLock` to cache embedded static metadata structures parsed from compile-time assets (`include_str!`). Ensure static slice lookup tables are sorted alphabetically to leverage zero-allocation `binary_search`.
100 changes: 55 additions & 45 deletions src/skills/catalog.rs
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Expand Up @@ -51,28 +51,20 @@ const APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS: &[&str] = &[
"bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills/pydantic",
"bobmatnyc/claude-mpm-skills/sqlalchemy",
"clerk/skills/clerk",
"clerk/skills/clerk-custom-ui",
"clerk/skills/clerk-nextjs-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-orgs",
"clerk/skills/clerk-setup",
"clerk/skills/clerk-testing",
"clerk/skills/clerk-webhooks",
"clerk/skills/clerk-astro-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-chrome-extension-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-custom-ui",
"clerk/skills/clerk-expo-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-nextjs-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-nuxt-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-orgs",
"clerk/skills/clerk-react-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-react-router-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-setup",
"clerk/skills/clerk-tanstack-patterns",
"clerk/skills/clerk-testing",
"clerk/skills/clerk-vue-patterns",
"cloudflare/skills/agents-sdk",
"cloudflare/skills/building-ai-agent-on-cloudflare",
"cloudflare/skills/building-mcp-server-on-cloudflare",
"cloudflare/skills/cloudflare",
"cloudflare/skills/durable-objects",
"cloudflare/skills/sandbox-sdk",
"cloudflare/skills/web-perf",
"cloudflare/skills/workers-best-practices",
"clerk/skills/clerk-webhooks",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-animation",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-fundamentals",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-geometry",
Expand All @@ -83,22 +75,21 @@ const APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS: &[&str] = &[
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-postprocessing",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-shaders",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-textures",
"cloudflare/skills/agents-sdk",
"cloudflare/skills/building-ai-agent-on-cloudflare",
"cloudflare/skills/building-mcp-server-on-cloudflare",
"cloudflare/skills/cloudflare",
"cloudflare/skills/durable-objects",
"cloudflare/skills/sandbox-sdk",
"cloudflare/skills/web-perf",
"cloudflare/skills/workers-best-practices",
"cloudflare/skills/wrangler",
"cloudflare/vinext/migrate-to-vinext",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-animation",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-fundamentals",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-geometry",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-interaction",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-lighting",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-loaders",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-materials",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-postprocessing",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-shaders",
"cloudai-x/threejs-skills/threejs-textures",
"currents-dev/playwright-best-practices-skill/playwright-best-practices",
"davila7/claude-code-templates/scikit-learn",
"davila7/claude-code-templates/senior-data-scientist",
"delexw/claude-code-misc/oxlint",
"delexw/claude-code-misc/tauri-v2",
"denoland/skills/deno-deploy",
"denoland/skills/deno-expert",
"denoland/skills/deno-frontend",
Expand All @@ -121,7 +112,6 @@ const APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS: &[&str] = &[
"github/awesome-copilot/java-docs",
"github/awesome-copilot/java-springboot",
"github/awesome-copilot/openapi-to-application-code",
"jeffallan/claude-skills/pandas-pro",
"giuseppe-trisciuoglio/developer-kit/tailwind-css-patterns",
"googlecloudplatform/devrel-demos",
"greensock/gsap-skills/gsap-core",
Expand All @@ -135,11 +125,12 @@ const APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS: &[&str] = &[
"hashicorp/agent-skills",
"hashicorp/agent-skills/terraform",
"huggingface/skills",
"inferen-sh/skills/python-executor",
"hyf0/vue-skills/vue-best-practices",
"hyf0/vue-skills/vue-debug-guides",
"inferen-sh/skills/elevenlabs-music",
"inferen-sh/skills/elevenlabs-tts",
"inferen-sh/skills/python-executor",
"jeffallan/claude-skills/pandas-pro",
"kadajett/agent-nestjs-skills/nestjs-best-practices",
"krutikJain/android-agent-skills/android-architecture-clean",
"krutikJain/android-agent-skills/android-compose-foundations",
Expand All @@ -154,28 +145,25 @@ const APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS: &[&str] = &[
"laravel/boost/laravel-boost",
"microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-ai",
"microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-cost-optimization",
"midudev/autoskills/bun",
"microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-deploy",
"microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure/azure-diagnostics",
"mindrally/skills/deno-typescript",
"mindrally/skills/fastapi-python",
"midudev/autoskills/bun",
"midudev/autoskills/react-three-fiber",
"mindrally/skills/chrome-extension-development",
"mindrally/skills/deno-typescript",
"mindrally/skills/fastapi-python",
"mongodb/agent-skills",
"mindrally/skills/chrome-extension-development",
"neondatabase/agent-skills/neon-postgres",
"delexw/claude-code-misc/tauri-v2",
"nrwl/nx-ai-agents-config",
"openai/skills",
"openai/skills/cloudflare-deploy",
"prisma/skills/prisma-cli",
"pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-python/machine-learning",
"pluginagentmarketplace/custom-plugin-python/pandas-data-analysis",
"prisma/skills/prisma-client-api",
"prisma/skills/prisma-database-setup",
"pproenca/dot-skills/react-hook-form",
"pproenca/dot-skills/zod",
"prisma/skills/prisma-cli",
"prisma/skills/prisma-client-api",
"prisma/skills/prisma-database-setup",
"prisma/skills/prisma-postgres",
"pulumi/agent-skills",
"pytorch/pytorch",
Expand All @@ -189,28 +177,28 @@ const APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS: &[&str] = &[
"stripe/ai/stripe-best-practices",
"stripe/ai/upgrade-stripe",
"supabase/agent-skills/supabase-postgres-best-practices",
"tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills/tanstack-start",
"sveltejs/ai-tools/svelte-code-writer",
"tanstack-skills/tanstack-skills/tanstack-start",
"vercel-labs/agent-skills/deploy-to-vercel",
"vercel-labs/agent-skills/vercel-composition-patterns",
"vercel-labs/agent-skills/vercel-react-best-practices",
"vercel-labs/json-render/react-three-fiber",
"vercel-labs/next-skills/next-best-practices",
"vercel-labs/next-skills/next-cache-components",
"vercel-labs/next-skills/next-upgrade",
"vercel-labs/json-render/react-three-fiber",
"vercel/ai/ai-sdk",
"vercel/ai/use-ai-sdk",
"vercel/turborepo/turborepo",
"vintasoftware/django-ai-plugins/django-expert",
"vuejs-ai/skills/vue-pinia-best-practices",
"wispbit-ai/skills/sqlalchemy-alembic-expert-best-practices-code-review",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wordpress-router",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-block-development",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-block-themes",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-performance",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-plugin-development",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-project-triage",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-rest-api",
"vintasoftware/django-ai-plugins/django-expert",
"wispbit-ai/skills/sqlalchemy-alembic-expert-best-practices-code-review",
"wordpress/agent-skills/wp-wpcli-and-ops",
"wshobson/agents/fastapi-templates",
"wshobson/agents/python-background-jobs",
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -340,10 +328,7 @@ pub struct EmbeddedSkillCatalog(ResolvedSkillCatalog);

impl Default for EmbeddedSkillCatalog {
fn default() -> Self {
Self(
parse_embedded_catalog(EMBEDDED_CATALOG_METADATA)
.expect("embedded recommendation catalog must remain valid"),
)
Self(load_catalog(None).expect("embedded recommendation catalog must remain valid"))
}
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -498,8 +483,13 @@ pub fn parse_catalog(
}

pub fn load_catalog(provider: Option<&dyn Provider>) -> Result<ResolvedSkillCatalog> {
let baseline = parse_embedded_catalog(EMBEDDED_CATALOG_METADATA)
.context("failed to initialize embedded recommendation catalog")?;
static BASELINE: std::sync::OnceLock<ResolvedSkillCatalog> = std::sync::OnceLock::new();
let baseline = BASELINE
.get_or_init(|| {
parse_embedded_catalog(EMBEDDED_CATALOG_METADATA)
.expect("failed to initialize embedded recommendation catalog")

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve fallible catalog initialization.

load_catalog still returns Result, and callers such as suggest propagate that result. This expect now turns malformed embedded TOML or strict policy-validation failures into a process panic during the first load. Keep the cached initialization fallible so callers can report the existing error instead of terminating.

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In `@src/skills/catalog.rs` at line 490, Update load_catalog’s cached catalog
initialization to remain fallible instead of calling expect on initialization
errors. Preserve the Result returned by catalog parsing and policy validation so
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})
.clone();

let Some(provider) = provider else {
return Ok(baseline);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -738,7 +728,10 @@ fn classify_embedded_recommendation_source(
return EmbeddedRecommendationSource::LocalCurated;
}

if APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS.contains(&provider_skill_id) {
if APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS
.binary_search(&provider_skill_id)
.is_ok()
{
return EmbeddedRecommendationSource::ApprovedExternal;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1142,3 +1135,20 @@ fn validate_provider_skill_id(provider_skill_id: &str) -> Result<()> {

Ok(())
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;

#[test]
fn test_approved_external_skill_ids_is_strictly_sorted_and_unique() {
for window in APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS.windows(2) {
assert!(
window[0] < window[1],
"APPROVED_EMBEDDED_EXTERNAL_SKILL_IDS must be strictly sorted and unique, but '{}' >= '{}'",
window[0],
window[1]
);
}
}
}
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