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Downloaded skill archives are inspected before extraction

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Skills

Downloaded skill archives are checked before unpacking so they cannot write outside the skills folder.

What

The path that downloads a session's skills now checks the archive before unpacking it, so a malicious or malformed bundle cannot write outside the skills directory.

Details
  • Zip versus tar is detected by magic bytes rather than filename.
  • The archive is listed first and refused outright if any member has an absolute path or a .. component, or is a symlink, hardlink or device entry.
  • Extraction goes to a staging directory, and a skill whose name would resolve outside the skills directory is refused.
  • The skill version must resolve to a concrete numeric version before the download starts.
  • Reached only through the environment worker's skill setup.
Evidence

refusing to extract archive with symlink/hardlink/device member

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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