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Amaury Levé 592a53008e skill-validator: restore 15K aggregate cap as the real Copilot CLI skill-menu budget (#803)
* skill-validator: restore 15K aggregate cap, document it as the real Copilot CLI skill-menu budget

The per-plugin aggregate description cap had been raised 15,000 -> 20,000
-> 22,000 under the belief that 15K was 'a local repo policy, NOT a
documented Copilot constraint'. That belief was wrong: the GitHub Copilot
CLI renders the model-facing <available_skills> menu under a hard 15,000-
char budget (the agent SDK's SKILL_CHAR_BUDGET, default 15e3, confirmed in
CLI 1.0.36 and 1.0.61). Skills are listed alphabetically and emitted with
their full <description> only until the budget is exhausted; every skill
past the cut-off collapses to a bare name with no description and can no
longer be reliably model-activated. Raising the validator cap merely
masked this silent menu truncation — e.g. dotnet-test's run-tests and
test-* skills stopped activating in plugin eval runs because they fell
into the name-only overflow.

Changes:
- SkillProfiler.MaxAggregateDescriptionLength: 22,000 -> 15,000, with the
  comment rewritten to document the real Copilot CLI budget (and correct
  the prior 'not a documented constraint' claim).
- CheckCommand aggregate now excludes skills marked
  'disable-model-invocation: true' — the CLI drops those from the menu, so
  they do not consume the budget. This makes the cap satisfiable by hiding
  reference / agent-orchestrated primitives rather than only by trimming.
- InvestigatingResults.md: document plugin-arm-only non-activation caused
  by skill-menu budget overflow, and how to fix it.

Note: dotnet-test currently exceeds 15K and must be slimmed below it
(via disable-model-invocation on reference/primitive skills plus
description trims) before this cap can go green repo-wide.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* skill-validator: use source-generated regex for disable-model-invocation check

Address review: replace Regex.IsMatch(pattern-string) with a
[GeneratedRegex] partial method (AOT-friendly, no per-call cache lookup),
matching FrontmatterParser's style. Runs once per skill during checks.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* skill-validator: parse disable-model-invocation via YAML to avoid block-scalar false positives

The regex-based check matched any line in the frontmatter, so a block-scalar description that merely mentioned 'disable-model-invocation: true' on its own line was wrongly treated as disabling model invocation. Parse the frontmatter with the existing YAML deserializer (which correctly handles block scalars) by adding a DisableModelInvocation field to SkillFrontmatter, and drop the regex entirely.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-25 14:59:05 +02:00
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