The packaged skills had grown into a second copy of the documentation.
`runtime` and `react-core` were roughly 60% transcribed API surface, and
most of their remaining "Common Mistakes" prose already existed on a docs
page. A cached copy of an API goes stale silently: four claims in the
deleted skills contradicted the source they cited, and one of them reached
a shipped PR before it was caught.
Replace them with two skills that look the answer up instead of restating
it:
- `copilotkit` — the four search tools and two explore tools of the
bundled `copilotkit-docs` MCP server, which corpus answers which
question, and the instruction not to answer from memory.
- `copilotkit-cli` — the CLI, led by `copilotkit verify --json`. Since
#1180 `verify` covers version skew, CORS, and transcription, which is
what most of the old `copilotkit-debug` skill described by hand.
Deleted: copilotkit-setup, copilotkit-develop, copilotkit-integrations,
copilotkit-debug, copilotkit-upgrade, copilotkit-agui, copilotkit-contribute,
copilotkit-self-update, and the three package-generated skills (react-core,
runtime, a2ui-renderer).
The `skills` directory is dropped from the `files` field of the three
packages that shipped one, so the tarballs no longer carry a copy.
`public-skill-drift.test.ts` guarded wording in files that no longer exist.
It is now a link guard: every `docs.copilotkit.ai` path named by a packaged
skill has to resolve to a page in this repo, and the two entry points have
to stay free of a transcribed API surface.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three defects, all in the credential this branch renames.
Twelve integration quickstarts read `CPK_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY=your_license_key`,
eleven of them under "The runtime reads the license key from step 1". The project
API key and the self-hosted license token are different credentials with
different lifetimes, and ENT-1151 exists to take the license token out of managed
setup -- so a reader who goes looking for a license key to paste finds a dead end
on the very page meant to connect them. Now `cpk-...`, and "reads the project API
key from step 1".
The placeholder prefix was wrong in the other direction on five pages, and newly
pinned that way by a test: `cpk_...`, with `cpk-...` asserted absent. A
provisioned key is `cpk-<projectId>_<short>_<long>` -- see the `cpk-` keyPrefix
in Intelligence's `apps/app-api/src/api-keys.ts` and the `parseApiKeyToken`
fixtures. No key the platform issues starts with `cpk_`, so the placeholder
taught a reader to distrust their own key. Both assertions are flipped.
The new copy guard scans every MDX page rather than listing the twelve, so a page
added next month is covered the day it lands. It reports the offending file and
value, which is how the twelve above were enumerated.
Finally, the retired-name boundary check is extracted to an exported
`retiredNameReference` and unit-tested. It is the load-bearing half of that rule
and it fails in one direction only: the canonical name ends with the retired one,
so a plain substring match reports all ~250 correct sites and the guard gets
switched off. The repo-wide scan cannot cover this -- it can say "clean", not
that the boundary is what made it clean, and it goes green either way once the
last old name is gone.
Verified: guard script exit 0; guard tests 20 passed; managed-starter-docs 10
passed (was 9); oxfmt and oxlint clean on the three changed TypeScript files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CopilotKitIntelligence resolves apiUrl/wsUrl to the managed hosts when they are
omitted, and its own docstring says leaving both unset is always correct against
the managed service. Every starter's runtime route supplied
`?? "http://localhost:4201"` instead, so a managed reader who copied the block
got a runtime aimed at a local stack that is not running -- the failure the
starter's own .env.example warns about two files away.
Replace the fallbacks with the conditional spread these same starters already use
in channel-host.mts, so a self-hosted override still works and the managed
default applies when it is absent. Three .env.example files also set the values
uncommented, two of them directly under a comment telling the reader to leave
them unset; comment those out to match the other nineteen starters.
Guard both shapes in validate-intelligence-env-names.ts, which already polices
the canonical Intelligence key name and hosts and runs unfiltered on every PR.
The rule is the pattern rather than the literal, so a staging host substituted
for localhost fails the same way. Local e2e harnesses and demo stacks that
genuinely target a local deployment are allowlisted with their reasons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
DNS is case-insensitive, so a capitalized host in prose would have slipped the
literal match. Env var names stay case-sensitive — `ignoreCase` is opt-in per
rule. The per-host reason moves onto the constant so adding a third host cannot
silently inherit the wrong message.
Also restores the TSDoc's original framing of what an override is for
("non-production or future self-hosted"), matching the runtime skill's wording
rather than diverging from it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The packaged runtime skill up to v1.62.2 prescribed `api.copilotkit.ai` /
`realtime.copilotkit.ai`. The first host is a CNAME onto the legacy Copilot
Cloud ALB, where no listener rule matches it, so every request gets the ALB
default action: a 404 with an empty body. The second has no DNS record at all.
A reader who followed that page converted a working OSS install into a 502.
The hosts themselves were corrected in v1.64.0, but two shipped surfaces still
carried stale claims about the same step, and nothing stopped the hosts from
coming back a third time:
- The debug skill said Intelligence "requires ... `apiUrl`, `wsUrl`, `apiKey`,
`tenantId`". Three errors in one line: `apiUrl`/`wsUrl` have been optional
with managed defaults since v1.64.0, and `tenantId` has never existed on
`CopilotKitIntelligenceConfig` — the API key carries the project (its token
format is `cpk-{projectId}_...`) and the platform resolves the organization
server-side, so there is no org or tenant field for a caller to pass.
- `CopilotKitIntelligence`'s own TSDoc showed only `*.internal` placeholders,
so the class's hover docs never named the pair that actually serves prod.
`validate-intelligence-env-names` — already the unfiltered guard for this same
config surface (OSS-881) — now also fails on either dead host. The
channels-intelligence realtime test is allowlisted: it needs a hostname that
genuinely does not resolve, since `getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND` is the condition
under test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three names for one value were live in CopilotKit's own documentation, and
following the wrong one with a CLI-provisioned project yields an undefined
key:
- `INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY` — what `copilotkit project select` writes, used by
all 34 integration examples and the docs site.
- `COPILOTKIT_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY` — the seven Channels package READMEs and
the packaged skills. Nothing ever read it.
- `COPILOTKIT_API_KEY` — the Slack and Teams examples, and the TSDoc on
`CopilotKitIntelligence` itself, which is what an IDE shows on hover.
`INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY` wins, because it is the name the CLI provisions and
changing it would break every scaffolded project in the wild.
`COPILOTKIT_INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY` is retired outright — no code read it.
`COPILOTKIT_API_KEY` stays readable as a deprecated alias in the two
examples that consume it, so an existing `.env` keeps working, and is
documented as deprecated everywhere it appears.
The skills reference also documented `organizationId`, sourced from a fourth
and fifth env name, as a `CopilotKitIntelligence` option. It is not one:
`CopilotKitIntelligenceConfig` has no such field, so the copy-pasteable
sample it appeared in would not compile. Removed from the samples, and the
prose that told readers to fetch a value for it corrected.
The Intelligence wiring itself was published only inside
`node_modules/@copilotkit/runtime/skills/`, and the only docs pages showing
`CopilotKitIntelligence` were the two Channels frontends — so a developer on
the plain web path had no page to reach it from. Adds
`/premium/connect-your-runtime`, which covers the wiring, how to confirm the
credential is actually consumed, and the self-hosted two-URL rule.
`scripts/validate-intelligence-env-names.ts` keeps this from drifting back.
It runs unfiltered in CI on purpose: the two workflows that would otherwise
cover it filter paths, and static/quality ignores `examples/**` — exactly
where the deprecated alias lives.
Benjamin Taylor