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Teknium b10e38e392 fix(skills): pin protects against deletion only, not edits (#20220)
Previously, pinning a skill blocked every skill_manage write action
(edit, patch, delete, write_file, remove_file). The 'hard fence'
design conflated two concerns:

  1. Pin as deletion protection — don't let the curator archive
     or the agent delete a stable skill.
  2. Pin as content freeze — don't let the agent rewrite it mid-conversation.

In practice (1) is what users pin for: they want a skill to survive
curator passes. (2) created friction — agents finding a new pitfall
in a pinned skill had to ask the user to unpin, then the agent
patches, then the user re-pins. The dance discouraged skill
maintenance and pinned skills went stale.

This narrows the _pinned_guard to skill_manage(action='delete') only.
Patches, edits, and supporting-file writes go through on pinned
skills so the agent can keep improving them. The curator's own
pinned-skip behavior (agent/curator.py:271 for auto-archive,
line 349 for the LLM review prompt) is unchanged — curator still
never touches pinned skills.

Changes:
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py: remove _pinned_guard calls from
  _edit_skill, _patch_skill, _write_file, _remove_file; keep on
  _delete_skill. Updated _pinned_guard docstring and error message.
- tools/skill_manager_tool.py: updated skill_manage model-facing tool
  description to reflect the new semantic.
- website/docs/user-guide/features/curator.md: updated pinning
  section.
- tests/tools/test_skill_manager_tool.py: flipped refuses-pinned
  tests for edit/patch/write_file/remove_file into allowed-when-pinned;
  kept test_delete_refuses_pinned (strengthened assertion to check the
  'cannot be deleted' wording).

Closes #18354
2026-05-05 05:43:10 -07:00
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