LibreChat/api/server
Danny Avila 82173f7b91 🛡️ feat: Persist & enforce disable-model-invocation / user-invocable / allowed-tools (#12745)
* 🧬 feat: Persist `disable-model-invocation` / `user-invocable` / `allowed-tools`

Adds first-class columns mirroring the three runtime-enforced frontmatter
fields, with a `deriveStructuredFrontmatterFields` helper that maps from
frontmatter at create/update time and re-syncs (via `$unset`) when fields
are removed. `listSkillsByAccess` projection includes them so the Phase 6
catalog filter and popover filter can both read off the summary row.

Marks `invocationMode` as @deprecated on `TSkill` and the
`InvocationMode` enum — the runtime now reads the persisted pair instead.

* 🛡️ feat: Enforce frontmatter at runtime (catalog, skill tool, manual resolver, tool union)

Wires the persisted columns into actual runtime behavior across all four
invocation paths:

- `injectSkillCatalog` excludes `disableModelInvocation: true` skills
  before catalog formatting — they cost zero context tokens and stay
  invisible to the model.
- `handleSkillToolCall` rejects with a clear error when the model names
  a skill marked `disable-model-invocation: true` (defends against a
  stale-cache or hallucinated invocation getting past the catalog
  filter).
- `resolveManualSkills` skips `userInvocable: false` skills with a warn
  log so an API-direct caller can't bypass the popover-side filter.
- `unionPrimeAllowedTools` collects skill-declared `allowed-tools` minus
  what's already on the agent; `initialize.ts` re-runs `loadTools` for
  the extras and merges resulting `toolDefinitions` into the agent's
  effective set for the turn. Tool-name resolution is tolerant —
  unknown names silently drop with a debug log so cross-ecosystem
  skills referencing yet-to-be-implemented tools (Claude Code's
  `edit_file`, etc.) import without breaking. The agent document is
  never modified; the union is turn-scoped.

Helper exports (`unionPrimeAllowedTools`) are structured so Phase 5's
always-apply primes flow through the same union (combined
`[...manualPrimes, ...alwaysApplyPrimes]`) once the resolver lands.

Skill handler wire format gains the three fields so clients can render
them on detail / list views.

* 🎛️ feat: `$` popover reads `userInvocable` instead of UI-only `invocationMode`

Replaces the phase-1 UI-only `invocationMode` check with the persisted
`userInvocable` field (mirrors the `user-invocable` frontmatter). Skills
authored with `user-invocable: false` no longer surface in the popover;
the backend resolver enforces the same rule for defense-in-depth.

Default-visible behavior is preserved: skills without an explicit
`userInvocable` value (older rows, freshly imported skills that don't
declare the field) stay visible — only an explicit `false` hides them.

Test fixture updated to reflect the new field.

* 🔧 fix: Address Phase 6 review findings

Codex P2 + reviewer #1: Single `loadTools` call with the union of
`agent.tools + allowed-tools`. The earlier two-call approach dropped
`userMCPAuthMap` / `toolContextMap` / `actionsEnabled` from the
skill-added pass — an MCP tool gained via `allowed-tools` would be
visible to the model but fail at execution without per-user auth
context. Resolution of `manualSkillPrimes` is hoisted before
`loadTools` so the union can be computed up-front; the dropped-tools
debug log now compares loaded vs. requested across the single call.

Codex P3 + reviewer #2: `injectSkillCatalog.activeSkillIds` now
includes `disable-model-invocation: true` skills. The runtime ACL
check in `handleSkillToolCall` previously couldn't reach the explicit
"cannot be invoked by the model" rejection because the broader access
set excluded those skills. Catalog text and tool registration still
gate on the visible subset (zero-context-token guarantee preserved);
only the per-user `isActive` filter is a hard exclusion now.

Reviewer #1 (try/catch around loadTools, MAJOR): A single bad
`allowed-tools` entry from a shared skill could crash the entire turn.
Now wrapped — on failure with extras, retry with just `agent.tools`
and continue (the dropped-tools debug log surfaces what vanished). If
the retry-without-extras still throws, propagate; the agent's own
tools are the load-bearing surface.

Reviewer #3 (integration tests, MAJOR): Added six tests in
`initialize.test.ts` covering the full `allowed-tools` loading path:
union pass-through, no-extras short-circuit, agent-baseline dedup,
loadTools throw + retry, propagated throw without extras, and the
empty-tools edge case.

Smaller cleanups bundled in:
- Reviewer #4: Moved `logger` import to the package-imports section
  (was wedged among local imports).
- Reviewer #5: Removed unused index on `disableModelInvocation`
  (filtering happens application-side in `injectSkillCatalog`; index
  cost write overhead for zero query benefit).
- Reviewer #6: Swapped order of `userInvocable` and body checks in
  `resolveManualSkills` so the more authoritative author-decision
  reason surfaces first when both apply.
- Reviewer #8: Documented the `allowedTools` enforcement gap on the
  schema + type — model-invoked skills (mid-turn `skill` tool calls)
  do NOT trigger tool union, since adding tools after the graph
  starts would require a rebuild. Manual / always-apply (Phase 5)
  primes are the supported paths.
- Reviewer #9: Renamed `dmi` / `ui` / `at` locals to
  `disableModelInvocationRaw` / `userInvocableRaw` / `allowedToolsRaw`
  in `deriveStructuredFrontmatterFields`.

Reviewer #7 (DRY shared `getSkillByName` return type) deferred —
field sets diverge meaningfully across the three call sites (handler
needs `body + fileCount`; resolver needs `author + allowedTools +
userInvocable`; the InitializeAgentDbMethods contract needs the
superset). A `Pick<>`-based consolidation is a follow-up cleanup.

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 2 — catalog quota + duplicate-name dedup

P1: `injectSkillCatalog` cap now counts only model-visible skills, not
the merged active set. The previous behavior let a tenant with many
`disable-model-invocation: true` rows near the top of the cursor
exhaust the 100-slot quota before any invocable skill got scanned —
the catalog could end up empty even though invocable skills existed
further down the paginated results. `MAX_CATALOG_PAGES` stays the
ceiling on scan budget; only `visibleCount` drives the early-exit on
quota fill.

P2: When an invocable and a `disable-model-invocation: true` skill
share a name, drop the disabled doc(s) from `activeSkillIds`. Without
this dedup, `getSkillByName` (which sorts by `updatedAt` desc) could
pick the disabled doc and every model call to the cataloged name
would fail with "cannot be invoked by the model" instead of executing
the visible skill. When ONLY a disabled doc exists for a name, it
stays in `activeSkillIds` so the explicit-rejection error path still
fires for hallucinated invocations.

Tests: 3 new cases in `injectSkillCatalog` covering (a) cap counted
on visible skills only, (b) same-name collision drops disabled doc,
(c) sole-disabled-name case keeps the disabled doc.

* 🔒 fix: Apply `disable-model-invocation` gate to read_file too (codex iter 3 P1)

`activeSkillIds` is shared between the `skill` and `read_file` handlers.
The skill-tool gate was applied last iteration, but `handleReadFileCall`
authorized purely on `getSkillByName(..., accessibleIds)` — so a model
that learned a hidden skill's name (stale catalog or hallucination)
could still read its `SKILL.md` body or bundled files via `read_file`,
defeating the contract. Same explicit rejection now fires from both
handlers; no change needed to the ACL set itself (disabled docs stay
in `activeSkillIds` so the explicit error path keeps firing).

Two new tests in `handlers.spec.ts` cover the read_file gate and
regression-protect the happy path.

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 4 — manual-prime exception + legacy frontmatter backfill

P1: Scope the `read_file` `disableModelInvocation` gate to AUTONOMOUS
model probes only. A user-invoked `$` skill that is also marked
`disable-model-invocation: true` had its bundled `references/*` /
`scripts/*` files unreadable, leaving the manually-primed skill body
referencing files the model couldn't load. Now the handler bypasses
the gate when the skill name appears in `manualSkillNames` (the
per-turn allowlist threaded from `manualSkillPrimes` →
`agentToolContexts` → `enrichWithSkillConfigurable` →
`mergedConfigurable`). Defense-in-depth: the bypass is scoped to the
specific names in the allowlist; a different disabled skill name is
still rejected.

P2: Read-time fallback for legacy skills authored before Phase 6
landed the structured columns. `user-invocable: false` /
`disable-model-invocation: true` set in `frontmatter` (the validator
already accepted those keys) but with no derived column would
incorrectly evaluate as "user-invocable / model-allowed" until a save
backfilled the columns. New `backfillDerivedFromFrontmatter` helper
fills undefined columns from frontmatter at read time in both
`getSkillByName` and `listSkillsByAccess` — column wins when both are
set, frontmatter fills the gap when only it's set. No DB writes; the
next `updateSkill` naturally persists. `listSkillsByAccess` projection
expanded to include `frontmatter` (bounded by validator, payload
impact small) so summaries can also be backfilled.

Sticky-primed disabled skills (ones invoked in prior turns of the
same conversation) are not yet in the manual-prime allowlist — same-
turn manual invocation is the load-bearing path codex flagged; the
sticky-turn case is a known limitation tracked for a follow-up.

Tests: 2 new in handlers.spec.ts (manual-prime allows + name-scoped
block holds), 3 new in skill.spec.ts (legacy backfill via
getSkillByName + listSkillsByAccess + column-wins precedence).

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 5 — propagate manualSkillNames + keep read_file

P1: `enrichWithSkillConfigurable` is also called from `openai.js` and
`responses.js` (the OpenAI Responses + completions endpoints). Both
were ignoring the new `manualSkillNames` parameter, which meant the
manual-prime exception in the `read_file` gate (iter 4) only worked
on the agents endpoint. Now all three call sites pass
`primaryConfig.manualSkillPrimes?.map(p => p.name)` so manual `$`
invocations of disabled skills work consistently across endpoints.

P2: When every accessible skill is `disable-model-invocation: true`,
the catalog text and `skill` tool are correctly omitted (no model-
reachable targets) — but `read_file` and `bash_tool` MUST still be
registered. A user manually invoking such a skill gets its SKILL.md
body primed into context; if the body references `references/foo.md`
or `scripts/run.sh`, those reads need a registered tool. Restructured
`injectSkillCatalog` so `skill` registration is gated on
`catalogVisibleSkills.length > 0` while `read_file` (always) and
`bash_tool` (when codeEnvAvailable) register whenever any active
skill is in scope.

Tests: existing all-disabled test rewritten to assert read_file IS
registered + skill is NOT; new test confirms bash_tool joins it
when codeEnvAvailable.

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 6 — name-collision consistency via preferInvocable

P2a (resolveManualSkills): a name collision between an older
user-invocable doc and a newer non-user-invocable doc made manual `$`
invocation silently no-op. The popover surfaced the older invocable
doc; resolver looked it up by name; `getSkillByName` returned the
newer non-invocable doc; resolver skipped on `userInvocable: false`.

P2b (handler / runtime ACL): with same-name duplicates (e.g. older
invocable + newer disabled), the manual prime resolved to one doc
while later `read_file` / `skill` execution resolved a different doc
through `activeSkillIds`. Model could follow one SKILL.md body while
reading files from a different skill.

Both root-cause: `getSkillByName` always returned the newest match
and let the caller filter, but with collisions the newest can be
something the caller didn't want.

Fix: extend `getSkillByName` with `options.preferInvocable`. When
true, prefer the newest doc satisfying BOTH `userInvocable !== false`
AND `disableModelInvocation !== true` (with frontmatter backfill);
fall back to the newest match otherwise. Fast path preserved when
caller doesn't opt in.

Callers passing `preferInvocable: true`:
- `resolveManualSkills` — picks the popover-visible invocable doc
  even when a newer disabled / non-user-invocable duplicate exists.
- `handleSkillToolCall` — keeps execution aligned with the catalog;
  falls back to the disabled doc only when no invocable variant
  exists (so the explicit "cannot be invoked by the model" gate
  still fires for the hallucinated-disabled-name case).
- `handleReadFileCall` — same alignment, plus the manual-prime
  exception added in iter 4 still applies.

Tests:
- 2 new in skill.spec.ts (preferInvocable picks invocable when
  collision exists; falls back to newest when no clean-invocable
  exists).
- 1 new in skills.test.ts (resolver passes preferInvocable through).
- 2 new in handlers.spec.ts (skill tool + read_file pass it).
- Existing initialize.test.ts assertion updated for the new option.

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 7 — split preferInvocable into per-axis flags

The previous unified `preferInvocable` filter required BOTH
`userInvocable !== false` AND `disableModelInvocation !== true`. That
was wrong for the model paths: `userInvocable: false` skills are
model-only and remain valid `skill` / `read_file` invocation targets.
A duplicate-name scenario where the newer cataloged doc was model-
only would let the older user-invocable variant shadow it on every
model call.

Split the option into two independent axes:
- `preferUserInvocable` — for manual paths (`$` popover). Skips docs
  with `userInvocable: false`. Disable-model-invocation status is
  irrelevant; iter 4 explicitly supports manual prime of disabled
  skills.
- `preferModelInvocable` — for model paths (`skill` / `read_file`
  handlers). Skips docs with `disableModelInvocation: true`. User-
  invocable status is irrelevant; model-only skills are valid here.

Both flags fall back to the newest match when no preferred doc
exists, so the explicit-rejection error paths still fire correctly
in the sole-disabled-name case.

Callers updated:
- `resolveManualSkills` → `preferUserInvocable: true`
- `handleSkillToolCall` / `handleReadFileCall` → `preferModelInvocable: true`

Tests:
- New spec test for preferModelInvocable not filtering on userInvocable.
- Existing preferInvocable test renamed/split to cover the new axes.
- New test asserts preferUserInvocable still returns disabled docs
  (preserves iter 4 manual-disabled support).
- Caller tests assert each path passes the right single flag and
  does NOT pass the wrong one.

* 🔧 fix: TypeScript type-check failure in handlers.spec.ts (CI green)

`jest.fn(async () => ...)` without explicit args infers an empty tuple
for the call signature, so `mock.calls[0][2]` flagged as "Tuple type
'[]' has no element at index '2'." Cast to `unknown[]` then narrow to
the expected option shape. Behavior unchanged.

Caught by the `Type check @librechat/api` CI step
(.github/workflows/backend-review.yml).

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 8 — undefined-result fallback + read_file alignment

P1 (loadTools returning undefined): Production loaders
(`createToolLoader` in `initialize.js` / `openai.js` /
`responses.js`) wrap `loadAgentTools` in try/catch and return
`undefined` on failure rather than throwing. Without explicit
handling, my iter-1 try/catch only fired for thrown errors — a
silent-failure on a skill-added tool would fall through to the
empty fallback and silently DROP the agent's baseline tools for
the turn (much worse than just losing the extras). Added an
`undefined`-result branch that retries with just `agent.tools`,
mirroring the throw branch. Test pins both behaviors.

P2 (read_file alignment with manual prime): When a skill is in
this turn's `manualSkillNames`, the `read_file` handler now uses
`preferUserInvocable` instead of `preferModelInvocable`. Same
name-collision rule as `resolveManualSkills`, so the doc whose
files get read is the same doc whose body got primed. For
autonomous probes (skill not in `manualSkillNames`), the handler
keeps `preferModelInvocable` to align with the catalog the model
saw. Two new tests cover both branches and regression-protect that
the wrong flag isn't passed.

* 🔧 fix: Address codex iter 9 — pin read_file lookup to primed skill _id

P1 (manually-primed disabled IDs were dropped from activeSkillIds):
The `executableSkills` dedup in `injectSkillCatalog` correctly drops
`disable-model-invocation: true` duplicates when an invocable doc
shares the name — but `resolveManualSkills` legitimately primes
disabled docs (iter 4 supports manual `$` invocation of disabled
skills). When the resolver primed a disabled doc, the read_file
handler couldn't find it in the (deduped) `activeSkillIds` and
either resolved a different same-name skill or returned not-found.

Fix: `ResolvedManualSkill` now carries `_id`; the legacy `initialize.js`
/ `openai.js` / `responses.js` controllers build a
`manualSkillPrimedIdsByName` map and `enrichWithSkillConfigurable`
passes it into `mergedConfigurable`. `handleReadFileCall` now pins
its lookup's `accessibleIds` to `[primedId]` whenever the requested
skill is in the map. The constrained set guarantees the lookup
returns the EXACT doc the resolver primed — body/files come from the
same source even when same-name duplicates exist or the dedup
removed the prime's id from `activeSkillIds`.

Autonomous read_file probes (skill not in the manual-primed map)
keep the full ACL set + `preferModelInvocable` so they align with
the catalog the model saw and the disabled-only case still fires
the explicit-rejection gate.

Test fixture changes flow from `_id` becoming required on
`ResolvedManualSkill`. `buildSkillPrimeContentParts` /
`injectManualSkillPrimes` widen their param types to `Pick<...>`
because they only read `name` / `body` and shouldn't force test
literals to invent placeholder ids.

* 🧹 fix: Address independent reviewer findings (DRY + types + tests + docs)

Sanity-pass review surfaced 7 findings; addressed 6 (the 7th — DRY
on inline `getSkillByName` return types — is acknowledged tech debt
deferred to a follow-up).

#1 [MAJOR, DRY]: The 4-line `manualSkillPrimedIdsByName` map
construction was duplicated across 4 CJS call sites (openai.js,
responses.js x2, initialize.js). Extracted `buildManualSkillPrimedIdsByName`
helper in `skillDeps.js`; all four sites now call the helper. If
`ResolvedManualSkill` ever renames `_id` or gains identifying fields,
only the helper changes.

#2 [MINOR, type safety]: `handleReadFileCall` was casting a hex string
to `Types.ObjectId[]` via `as unknown as`, relying on mongoose's
auto-cast in `$in` queries. Replaced with `new Types.ObjectId(...)`
so any future consumer comparing with `.equals()` / `===` gets the
correct value type. Imported `Types` as a value (was type-only).

#5 [MINOR, test gap]: Added a test for the worst-case silent-failure
path — both the union and base-only `loadTools` calls return undefined.
The agent gets no tools but the turn doesn't crash hard; pinning
that contract.

#4 [MINOR, performance]: Added a TODO on the `listSkillsByAccess`
projection noting the `frontmatter` field can be dropped once a
write migration backfills all pre-Phase-6 skills' columns. ~2KB/skill
× 100/page is wasted bandwidth post-backfill.

#6 [NIT, docs]: `backfillDerivedFromFrontmatter` JSDoc said "Pure"
right before "mutates its undefined fields in place". Replaced with
"Side-effect-free w.r.t. the DB (no writes), but mutates its argument
in place" which describes both halves accurately.

#7 [NIT, test determinism]: Replaced `await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 5))`
in two same-name collision tests with explicit `updateOne` setting
`updatedAt: new Date(Date.now() - 1000)` on the older doc. Removes
the wall-clock race on fast CI runners. The pagination test (line
480) still uses setTimeout — that test is pre-existing and order
is incidental, not load-bearing.

Existing test fixtures updated to use valid 24-char hex ObjectIds
(required by the iter-9 test that constructs a real `ObjectId`).

#3 [MINOR, deferred]: Inline `getSkillByName` return type duplicated
across `handlers.ts`, `initialize.ts`, `skills.ts`. Reviewer
acknowledged this as deferred; field sets diverge across call sites
(handler needs `fileCount`, resolver needs `author`/`allowedTools`).
A `Pick<>`-based consolidation is a clean follow-up.
2026-04-25 04:02:00 -04:00
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controllers 🛡️ feat: Persist & enforce disable-model-invocation / user-invocable / allowed-tools (#12745) 2026-04-25 04:02:00 -04:00
middleware 🧬 feat: Scaffold Skills CRUD with ACL Sharing and File Schema (#12613) 2026-04-25 04:01:59 -04:00
routes 🎚️ feat: Per-User Skill Active/Inactive Toggle with Ownership-Aware Defaults (#12692) 2026-04-25 04:02:00 -04:00
services 🛡️ feat: Persist & enforce disable-model-invocation / user-invocable / allowed-tools (#12745) 2026-04-25 04:02:00 -04:00
utils 📜 feat: Skills UI + Initial E2E CRUD / Sharing (#12580) 2026-04-25 04:02:00 -04:00
cleanup.js 🧹 refactor: Tighten Config Schema Typing and Remove Deprecated Fields (#12452) 2026-03-29 01:10:57 -04:00
experimental.js 🧬 feat: Scaffold Skills CRUD with ACL Sharing and File Schema (#12613) 2026-04-25 04:01:59 -04:00
index.js 🧬 feat: Scaffold Skills CRUD with ACL Sharing and File Schema (#12613) 2026-04-25 04:01:59 -04:00
index.spec.js 🚦 fix: 404 JSON Responses for Unmatched API Routes (#11976) 2026-02-27 22:49:54 -05:00
socialLogins.js 🔐 feat: Admin Auth Support for SAML and Social OAuth Providers (#12472) 2026-03-30 22:49:44 -04:00