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The Skills list (Tools/Prompts views) has been dead for anyone with at least one file under skills/: it always rendered "Could not load skills." with a Try again that reran the identical failure.

One shadowed variable: loadSkills reads the container as var box = document.getElementById("skills"), and the per-skill callback declared its checkbox as var box = document.createElement("input"). The closing box.appendChild(card) therefore appended the card into its own checkbox — a hierarchy cycle the DOM refuses with HierarchyRequestError. The throw landed in the fetch chain's .catch, so a rendering bug spent its whole life dressed as a network failure; only an empty skills list ever drew. The checkbox is check now, and the card lands in the container.

Verified: ui/app/core/skills.test.mjs (new, wired into zig build test) drives the shipped loadSkills source over lib/dom-stub.mjs with a stubbed fetch — control run against the unfixed code fails (zero cards reach the container), the fixed code renders both cards with each checkbox inside its card, and the empty state still works.

Also ships docs/reports/investigations/2026-08-18-bounded-chat-abort-test-hangs.md: zig build test intermittently parks forever at ~0% CPU in llm.client's bounded-chat abort test (client.zig:1624). Confirmed on pristine main (a64bd7e, detached control worktree, no diff) — 4 hangs in 4 runs on this base vs 3 green runs on earlier bases the same day, so it worsened somewhere in 20fe562..a64bd7e. Recovery: kill the test binary by cwd and rerun.

Gate on this branch (on a64bd7e): zig build, zig build tools, then zig build test --summary all — 307/307 steps succeeded; 1626/1637 tests passed (11 skipped), exit 0 (the flaky test passed on this roll; earlier attempts wedged in it, see the investigation).

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed the Skills panel so populated skill lists load and display correctly instead of showing an error.
    • Preserved correct checkbox state updates and empty-list messaging.
    • Improved provider validation, configuration output, job and memory handling, CLI diagnostics, and runtime error reporting.
  • Performance & Accessibility

    • Improved interface accessibility and lazy loading for a smoother experience.
  • Documentation

    • Updated release information and documented the Skills panel fix and intermittent chat-abort test investigation.

loadSkills' per-skill callback declared its checkbox as 'var box', shadowing
the #skills container, so the closing box.appendChild(card) appended the
card into its own checkbox: a DOM hierarchy cycle the browser refuses. The
throw landed in the fetch chain's catch, so any non-empty skills list
rendered 'Could not load skills.' with a Try again that reran the same
failure; only an empty list ever displayed. The checkbox is 'check' now and
the card lands in the container.

ui/app/core/skills.test.mjs (new, wired into zig build test) drives the
shipped loadSkills over the DOM stub; it fails against the old code and
passes now.

Also records docs/reports/investigations/2026-08-18-bounded-chat-abort-test-hangs.md:
zig build test intermittently parks forever at 0% CPU in llm.client's
bounded-chat abort test, confirmed on pristine main by a control worktree.
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The change fixes Skills panel rendering, adds regression coverage and test integration, centralizes host-test build wiring, and records bounded-chat abort and checkout-diff investigations.

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Skills rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Skills rendering fix and validation
ui/app/core/tools.js, ui/app/core/skills.test.mjs, build.zig, docs/reviews/webui.md, CHANGELOG.md
Renames the checkbox variable to prevent invalid DOM nesting. Tests cover populated and empty skill lists. The test runs through zig build test. Documentation records the fix and coverage.

Build and test wiring

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Host-test and tool-build integration
build.zig
Centralizes linked helper imports, expands host-tested helpers, excludes them from WASM discovery, adds Node test commands, and reuses the UTF-8 comparator.

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Abort hang investigation record
docs/reports/investigations/2026-08-18-bounded-chat-abort-test-hangs.md, docs/reports/README.md
Documents intermittent bounded-chat abort test hangs and adds the stale post-promotion checkout-diff investigation to the inventory.

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Possibly related PRs

  • maci0/clanker#2: Related build.zig host-test configuration and additional test modules.
  • maci0/clanker#3: Related build.zig host-test module construction and execution.
  • maci0/clanker#227: Related build and test integration for the write_goal tool.

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- Around line 5-7: Update the investigation report’s TL;DR to clearly label the
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Comment on lines +5 to +7
- **Question:** llm.client's 'bounded chat aborts a provider that never sends a response' (client.zig:1624) intermittently never returns: the test binary sits at ~0% CPU indefinitely. Seen twice in four otherwise-green runs of one tree on 2026-08-18 (arm64 macOS), once for 3 hours. Suspect: the 2026-08-17 request watchdog sometimes fails to unblock the parked read. Recovery: kill the test binary (match by cwd) and rerun.
- **Finding:** Investigating on 2026-08-18.
- **Resolution:** Investigating on 2026-08-18.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Refresh the TL;DR after the August 19, 2026 control run.

Line 5 records two hangs in four runs on August 18, 2026. Line 40 adds a later result: four hangs in four runs on a64bd7e2, and reruns no longer converge. The TL;DR is now stale. Mark it as an August 18 snapshot or update it with the August 19 result.

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In `@docs/reports/investigations/2026-08-18-bounded-chat-abort-test-hangs.md`
around lines 5 - 7, Update the investigation report’s TL;DR to clearly label the
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outcome from the later findings, including four hangs in four runs on a64bd7e2
and non-converging reruns; keep the existing question and recovery context
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## Trigger and scope

## Evidence

## Hypotheses and tests

## Finding

## Resolution or handoff

## References

- Related bug: none yet
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the report body with its section structure.

Trigger and scope, Hypotheses and tests, Finding, Resolution or handoff, and References are empty. The run evidence is appended under a second ## Evidence heading at Line 26. Move the content into the intended sections and keep one ## Evidence heading. This also resolves the reported MD024 violation.

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In `@docs/reports/investigations/2026-08-18-bounded-chat-abort-test-hangs.md`
around lines 13 - 26, Reorganize the report content so each section—Trigger and
scope, Evidence, Hypotheses and tests, Finding, Resolution or handoff, and
References—contains its intended material. Keep a single Evidence heading,
remove the duplicate heading, and preserve the report’s existing information
while eliminating the MD024 violation.

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