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Downloaded skill archives are inspected before extraction

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

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.228
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.228,
ImprovementsSection of the release
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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