The four document skill names were code in the contract, the hint for
binary files kept its own list of formats and libraries, and the chat
boundary rewrote the old arguments of one add-on by its ID.
A skill that shadows a name can now declare the slot it serves: kind,
file extensions, name words and a library hint. A tool can declare
legacyArgs, the arguments it refuses now, each with a hint. Both need
manifest api 2. The four default slots move to a data file that the
contract reads, so a manifest that declares nothing keeps working.
The host takes the replaceable names, the files a skill covers and the
hint for a script from the skills the add-ons list. It compares no
format or add-on ID. A guard spec fails when it does again. The Office
manifest declares its slots and legacy arguments and accepts api 2.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-5-5 go gofmt
read_file and edit_file answered "X.docx is not a text file (43963
bytes)" and gave the model nothing to go on.
Make the error typed and let the chat's tool list add the hint. If the
chat has a skill for the file type (docx, xlsx, pptx, pdf), the error
names it. Otherwise it suggests a script run with the commands tool, with
a library for office types, when the chat can run commands. A chat with
neither is told that no tool opens the file. The skills are resolved only
when a read fails.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-sonnet-5-5
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Ettore Di Giacinto