git:20260826.8532cec to git:20260826.913fa23

6 added, 3 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: skill-persistence-guard

description: Detects missing or vanished skill directories in the local library and restores them from the latest local tar.gz artifacts or known Drive/GitHub sources. Use when skills disappear between turns, after environment cleanup, on startup health checks, or when autonomous-skill-forge or beta-unlocker report missing critical skills. High autonomy default — restore critical skills (forge, unlocker, evolver, orchestrator) automatically and report. Makes the ecosystem more resilient to ephemeral filesystem behavior.

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# Skill Persistence Guard

## Overview

Fixes the recurring problem of skill directories vanishing from `/home/workdir/.grok/skills/` between conversation turns or environment resets. Provides auto-detection and restore so critical feral skills stay available.

## Core Rules

- Critical skills list (always try to keep present): autonomous-skill-forge, beta-unlocker, skill-evolver, multi-agent-orchestrator, drive-persistence-bridge, natural-language-to-skill, skill-researcher.

- Prefer local artifact tars first (fastest), then Drive download if available, then GitHub.

- Log every restore action.

- Do not claim success until the SKILL.md is present and validates.

## Instructions

1. **Detect**

- `ls /home/workdir/.grok/skills/` and compare against expected critical set.

- Flag any missing critical skill.

2. **Restore Priority**

- - Local: look in `/home/workdir/artifacts/` for matching `*-feral.tar.gz` or dated tars and extract.

+ - Local: look in `/home/workdir/artifacts/` for matching `*-feral.tar.gz` or dated tars and extract. Prefer the newest version tar when multiple exist.

- If local missing: use google_drive_download_artifact or search for the latest package in the skills folder ID `1jEivRtcNo-x9sd--2l1qe1bVox-TSnYK`.

- Fallback: pull SKILL.md content from GitHub via github___get_file_contents and rewrite locally + re-init structure.

3. **Validate after restore**

- Run validate-skill.sh on restored skill.

- Confirm directory and SKILL.md exist.

4. **Report**

- List what was missing, what was restored, source used, and remaining gaps.

5. **Integration**

- Call at the start of any autonomous-skill-forge or beta-unlocker run.

- Can be triggered by multi-agent-orchestrator health checks.

- After restore, re-run the original job if it depended on the missing skill.

## Autonomy

High by default for critical skills. For non-critical, report and ask or batch under honest limits.

+ ## Level-Up Note

+ Prefer the newest dated tar (v1.2, v1.3, etc.) when multiple versions exist. Always restore the strongest available version of each critical skill.

## Version

- 1.0 — 2026-08-26

- Initial guard to stop the vanishing-skill problem and increase reliability for agentic / multi-skill runs.

+ 1.1 — 2026-08-26

+ Added newest-tar preference so level-ups stick. Stronger integration with the forge self-leveling protocol.