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Skills sync stops early when it is switched off or the policy answer has not arrived

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Skills

Account skill syncing now stops cleanly when it's switched off or your org's answer hasn't loaded yet.

What

A round of syncing account skills now bails out in two cases instead of doing work. If sync is off it clears any placeholder skills and records the round as gate_closed. If your organization's answer for allow_account_skills_sync has not been cached yet it defers the round rather than guessing.

Details
  • The two short-circuits log skills_sync_gate_closed and skills_sync_policy_verdict_pending.
  • Round telemetry now carries whether the account opted in and how long the round took.
  • Separately, invoking a skill that came from account sync can be vetoed, in which case the model is told it is an unknown skill and the event skill_invoke_sync_vetoed is recorded.
Evidence

skills_sync_gate_closed

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