feat(skills): advanced skills system with conditional activation, forked execution, and visibility controls

[toreleon]

Summary

• Enhanced frontmatter parser: FrontmatterValue enum supporting scalars, inline arrays [a, b], block arrays (- item), and boolean parsing
• Extended SkillMetadata: 7 new fields (paths, context, effort, allowed_tools, disable_model_invocation, user_invocable, hooks) and 3 new enums (SkillContext, SkillEffort, SkillHookDef)
• Conditional activation via paths globs: Skills with path patterns stay hidden until matching files are touched in the session. Uses globset for efficient multi-pattern matching
• Forked execution context: Skills with context: fork return metadata for the ReAct loop to spawn isolated sub-agents with effort-based step limits and tool restrictions
• Token budgeting & visibility controls: Budgeted skill index (1% of context window), 3-tier descriptions (builtin full / non-builtin truncated / overflow name-only), disable-model-invocation hides from model, user-invocable controls slash command access
• Embedded hooks & runtime variables: Skills can define lifecycle hooks in frontmatter, runtime variable substitution for ${SKILL_DIR}, ${SESSION_ID}, ${WORKING_DIR} in both {{var}} and ${VAR} syntax

Example skill using all features

---
name: typescript-fixer
description: "Use when TypeScript compilation fails"
namespace: typescript
context: fork
effort: high
paths: ["**/*.ts", "**/*.tsx"]
allowed-tools: [Read, Edit, Bash, Grep]
disable-model-invocation: false
user-invocable: true
hooks: ["PostToolUse:Edit:npx tsc --noEmit 2>&1 | head -20"]
---

Test plan

• 99 skills tests pass in opendev-agents (parsing, metadata, loader, discovery)
• 31 invoke_skill tests pass in opendev-tools-impl (fork, visibility, hooks)
• cargo clippy -p opendev-agents -p opendev-tools-impl -- -D warnings passes
• cargo check -p opendev-tools-impl passes (full downstream)
• cargo build --release -p opendev-cli succeeds

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[bdqnghi]

Thanks for this — there's a lot of solid work here, and the frontmatter parser upgrade, the extended SkillMetadata, and the visibility filtering are close to mergeable. But as a single PR it can't land yet, for three reasons:

1. Three advertised features ship with no production wiring. notify_file_touched (conditional activation) has no caller; invocation_source (the user-invocation escape hatch) is never set; skill_hooks metadata is parsed but never executed. This is worse than inert: a paths-scoped skill becomes invisible in the Skill tool list and suggestions with no way to activate it, and a disable_model_invocation skill becomes uninvokable by anyone, since the user path that should bypass the filter doesn't exist yet.

2. The forked-execution path drops its own contract. The fork ignores the skill's effort, max_steps, and allowed_tools settings, and it bypasses the dispatch-level fast-abort — cancellation still propagates cooperatively via the child token, but the "Interrupted by user" result path never fires, so a cancelled fork reports as if it completed.

3. Two concrete bugs: expand_dollar_variables matches on substring boundaries (e.g. $FOO also expands inside $FOOBAR), and truncate_desc slices at a byte offset and will panic on multi-byte UTF-8.

Suggested split: (a) parser + SkillMetadata fields + visibility filtering + tests, with the two bugs fixed — that can merge quickly; (b) forked execution and hooks as a follow-up once the activation/invocation wiring exists end-to-end. Happy to review both promptly. Note the branch is also well behind main now and will need a rebase.