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[bug] bl skill add installs paths exceeding Windows MAX_PATH (259 chars), breaking the host agent's entire skill library

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Difficulty
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Estimated time
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65/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
node.js, typescript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

The issue is in the skill installation path generation logic, likely in the code that handles the bailian-docs-llm-wiki skill's raw doc tree. Look at the bl skill add command implementation and the skill packaging/unpacking process. Focus on Windows path length checks and the concatenation of parent and child slugs. Test by installing the skill and verifying the generated directory paths against MAX_PATH. The fix should ensure paths stay under 260 characters, possibly by truncating/hashing long slugs or using the \\?\ prefix.

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Description

Environment

  • CLI: bl 2.0.1
  • Skill: bailian-docs-llm-wiki (registry publishedAt: 2026-09-23T04:37:22+08:00)
  • Node: v24.14.1
  • OS: Windows 11 (NTFS), no long-path opt-in (LongPathsEnabled not set)
  • Region: cn (cn-beijing)

Reproduce

# 1) install (or let any `bl` command auto-sync the skill family)
bl skill add --name bailian-docs-llm-wiki

# 2) from the host agent that owns <agent-skills-dir>, walk the installed tree
python -c "import os; os.listdir(r'C:\Users\<user>\.hermes\skills\bailian-docs-llm-wiki\raw\application-user-guide\application-gallery\official-application-lingque-ccai-dialogue-analysis-aio\api-reference-2\api-contactcenterai-2024-06-03-dir\api-contactcenterai-2024-06-03-dir-hot-word-management')"

Expected

bl skill add installs bailian-docs-llm-wiki into the detected agent skill directories; the host agent can enumerate / load them normally.

Actual

The installed tree contains directories whose full path is 259 characters long (Windows MAX_PATH = 260, and the install does not use a \\?\ prefix). os.path.exists() on the directory itself returns True, but any child entry exceeds the limit, so traversal raises:

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] 系统找不到指定的路径。: 'C:\Users\<user>\.hermes\skills\bailian-docs-llm-wiki\raw\application-user-guide\application-gallery\official-application-lingque-ccai-dialogue-analysis-aio\api-reference-2\api-contactcenterai-2024-06-03-dir\api-contactcenterai-2024-06-03-dir-hot-word-management'

Impact: the host agent's skill loader walks its skills directory on every skill operation (list / view / manage). One over-long path therefore takes down the entire skill library — not just this skill — until bailian-docs-llm-wiki is removed. Measured on this machine: 35 MB / 2,776 files; the deepest directory name is generated by concatenating the parent slug (api-contactcenterai-2024-06-03-dir- + hot-word-management).

Deterministic: reproduced on repeated installs; bl skill remove --name bailian-docs-llm-wiki (removed 59 symlinks) restores the host agent immediately.

Suggested fix

  • Cap the generated segment length / total depth for the raw/ doc tree of bailian-docs-llm-wiki (e.g. truncate and hash long slugs instead of concatenating parent+child slugs), or
  • Flatten deeply nested doc dirs when packaging the skill, or
  • Create files with the \\?\ long-path prefix (and/or warn) on Windows, or
  • Skip / slim this doc-heavy skill by default on Windows.

Already tried

  • bl skill update / bl skill list — same install shape (auto-sync on an ordinary bl auth status re-installed it)
  • bl skill remove --name bailian-docs-llm-wiki → problem disappears

Notes

  • Frequency: always (deterministic on Windows)
  • Invoked via: terminal + agent (Hermes Agent on Windows 11)
  • Nothing else in the bailian-* family triggers this: only bailian-docs-llm-wiki reaches the 260 boundary
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