spec-kit/src/specify_cli/presets/__init__.py

"""
Preset Manager for Spec Kit

Handles installation, removal, and management of Spec Kit presets.
Presets are self-contained, versioned collections of templates
(artifact, command, and script templates) that can be installed to
customize the Spec-Driven Development workflow.
"""

import copy
import json
import hashlib
import os
import tempfile
import zipfile
import shutil
from dataclasses import dataclass
from pathlib import Path
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Dict, List, Any, Union, Set

if TYPE_CHECKING:
    from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import re

import yaml
from packaging import version as pkg_version
from packaging.specifiers import SpecifierSet, InvalidSpecifier

from ..extensions import REINSTALL_COMMAND, ExtensionRegistry, normalize_priority
from .._init_options import (
    MISSING_INIT_OPTIONS_FILE,
    is_ai_skills_enabled,
    load_init_options,
    resolve_active_agent_for_registration,
)
from ..integrations.base import IntegrationBase
from .._utils import dump_frontmatter, version_satisfies
from ..shared_infra import (
    _ensure_safe_shared_destination,
    _ensure_safe_shared_directory,
    _write_shared_bytes,
    _write_shared_text,
    verify_archive_sha256,
)


_CONSTITUTION_PROVENANCE_FILE = ".constitution-template.json"


def _content_sha256(content: bytes) -> str:
    return hashlib.sha256(content).hexdigest()


def _constitution_is_generated(
    project_root: Path,
    memory_constitution: Path,
    resolver: "PresetResolver",
) -> bool:
    """Return whether the live constitution is an unchanged generated file."""
    _ensure_safe_shared_destination(project_root, memory_constitution)
    content = memory_constitution.read_bytes()
    provenance = memory_constitution.parent / _CONSTITUTION_PROVENANCE_FILE
    _ensure_safe_shared_destination(project_root, provenance)

    if provenance.exists():
        try:
            metadata = json.loads(provenance.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
        except (json.JSONDecodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
            return False
        return (
            isinstance(metadata, dict)
            and metadata.get("sha256") == _content_sha256(content)
        )

    # Older projects have no provenance sidecar. Only the immutable bundled or
    # source-checkout core template is safe to treat as generated.
    core = resolver._find_bundled_core(
        "constitution-template", "template", ".md"
    )
    return core is not None and core.read_bytes() == content


def _constitution_provenance_matches_preset(
    project_root: Path,
    memory_constitution: Path,
    pack_id: str,
    pack_version: str,
) -> bool:
    """Return whether provenance identifies a preset as the materialized source."""
    provenance = memory_constitution.parent / _CONSTITUTION_PROVENANCE_FILE
    if not provenance.parent.exists():
        return False
    _ensure_safe_shared_destination(project_root, provenance)
    if not provenance.exists():
        return False
    try:
        metadata = json.loads(provenance.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
    except (json.JSONDecodeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
        return False
    return (
        isinstance(metadata, dict)
        and metadata.get("source") == f"{pack_id} v{pack_version}"
    )


def _materialize_constitution_template(
    project_root: Path,
    memory_constitution: Path,
) -> str | None:
    """Materialize constitution-template content into memory/constitution.md.

    Returns:
        "copied" when the winning layer is ``replace`` and the source file is
        copied verbatim; "composed" when a composing strategy is materialized
        via ``resolve_content``; ``None`` when no constitution template resolves.
    """
    resolver = PresetResolver(project_root)
    layers = resolver.collect_all_layers("constitution-template", "template")
    if not layers:
        return None

    top_layer = layers[0]
    if top_layer["strategy"] == "replace":
        content = top_layer["path"].read_bytes()
        result = "copied"
    else:
        composed_content = resolver.resolve_content("constitution-template", "template")
        if composed_content is None:
            return None
        content = composed_content.encode("utf-8")
        result = "composed"

    _ensure_safe_shared_directory(project_root, memory_constitution.parent)
    _write_shared_bytes(project_root, memory_constitution, content)
    provenance = memory_constitution.parent / _CONSTITUTION_PROVENANCE_FILE
    _write_shared_text(
        project_root,
        provenance,
        json.dumps(
            {
                "sha256": _content_sha256(content),
                "source": top_layer["source"],
            },
            indent=2,
        )
        + "\n",
    )
    return result


def _substitute_core_template(
    body: str,
    cmd_name: str,
    project_root: "Path",
    registrar: "CommandRegistrar",
) -> "tuple[str, dict]":
    """Substitute {CORE_TEMPLATE} with the body of the installed core command template.

    Args:
        body: Preset command body (may contain {CORE_TEMPLATE} placeholder).
        cmd_name: Full command name (e.g. "speckit.git.feature" or "speckit.specify").
        project_root: Project root path.
        registrar: CommandRegistrar instance for parse_frontmatter.

    Returns:
        A tuple of (body, core_frontmatter) where body has {CORE_TEMPLATE} replaced
        by the core template body and core_frontmatter holds the core template's parsed
        frontmatter (so callers can inherit scripts/agent_scripts from it).  Both are
        unchanged / empty when the placeholder is absent or the core template file does
        not exist.
    """
    if "{CORE_TEMPLATE}" not in body:
        return body, {}

    # Derive the short name (strip "speckit." prefix) used by core command templates.
    short_name = cmd_name
    if short_name.startswith("speckit."):
        short_name = short_name[len("speckit."):]

    resolver = PresetResolver(project_root)
    # Resolution order for the core template:
    # 1. resolve_core(cmd_name) — covers tier-1 project overrides and tier-3/4
    #    name-based lookup (file named <cmd_name>.md).  Checked first so that a
    #    local override always wins, even for extension commands.
    # 2. resolve_extension_command_via_manifest(cmd_name) — manifest-based tier-3
    #    fallback for extension commands whose file is named differently from the
    #    command name (e.g. speckit.selftest.extension → commands/selftest.md).
    # 3. resolve_core(short_name) — core template fallback using the unprefixed
    #    name (e.g. specify → templates/commands/specify.md).
    # resolve_core() skips installed presets (tier 2) to prevent accidental nesting
    # where another preset's wrap output is mistaken for the real core.
    core_file = (
        resolver.resolve_core(cmd_name, "command")
        or resolver.resolve_extension_command_via_manifest(cmd_name)
        or resolver.resolve_core(short_name, "command")
    )
    if core_file is None:
        return body, {}

    core_frontmatter, core_body = registrar.parse_frontmatter(core_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
    return body.replace("{CORE_TEMPLATE}", core_body), core_frontmatter


@dataclass
class PresetCatalogEntry:
    """Represents a single entry in the preset catalog stack."""
    url: str
    name: str
    priority: int
    install_allowed: bool
    description: str = ""


class PresetError(Exception):
    """Base exception for preset-related errors."""
    pass


class PresetValidationError(PresetError):
    """Raised when preset manifest validation fails."""
    pass


class PresetCompatibilityError(PresetError):
    """Raised when preset is incompatible with current environment."""
    pass


VALID_PRESET_TEMPLATE_TYPES = {"template", "command", "script"}
VALID_PRESET_STRATEGIES = {"replace", "prepend", "append", "wrap"}
# Scripts only support replace and wrap (prepend/append don't make semantic sense for executable code)
VALID_SCRIPT_STRATEGIES = {"replace", "wrap"}


class PresetManifest:
    """Represents and validates a preset manifest (preset.yml)."""

    SCHEMA_VERSION = "1.0"
    REQUIRED_FIELDS = ["schema_version", "preset", "requires", "provides"]

    def __init__(self, manifest_path: Path):
        """Load and validate preset manifest.

        Args:
            manifest_path: Path to preset.yml file

        Raises:
            PresetValidationError: If manifest is invalid
        """
        self.path = manifest_path
        self.data = self._load_yaml(manifest_path)
        self._validate()

    def _load_yaml(self, path: Path) -> dict:
        """Load YAML file safely."""
        try:
            with open(path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
                data = yaml.safe_load(f)
        except yaml.YAMLError as e:
            raise PresetValidationError(f"Invalid YAML in {path}: {e}")
        except FileNotFoundError:
            raise PresetValidationError(f"Manifest not found: {path}")
        except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Manifest is not valid UTF-8: {path} ({e.reason} at byte {e.start})"
            )
        except OSError as e:
            raise PresetValidationError(f"Could not read manifest {path}: {e}")
        if data is None:
            return {}
        if not isinstance(data, dict):
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Manifest must be a YAML mapping, got {type(data).__name__}: {path}"
            )
        return data

    def _validate(self):
        """Validate manifest structure and required fields."""
        # Check required top-level fields
        for field in self.REQUIRED_FIELDS:
            if field not in self.data:
                raise PresetValidationError(f"Missing required field: {field}")

        # Validate schema version
        if self.data["schema_version"] != self.SCHEMA_VERSION:
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Unsupported schema version: {self.data['schema_version']} "
                f"(expected {self.SCHEMA_VERSION})"
            )

        # Validate preset metadata
        pack = self.data["preset"]
        for field in ["id", "name", "version", "description"]:
            if field not in pack:
                raise PresetValidationError(f"Missing preset.{field}")

        # Validate pack ID format
        if not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9-]+$', pack["id"]):
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Invalid preset ID '{pack['id']}': "
                "must be lowercase alphanumeric with hyphens only"
            )

        # Validate semantic version
        try:
            pkg_version.Version(pack["version"])
        except pkg_version.InvalidVersion:
            raise PresetValidationError(f"Invalid version: {pack['version']}")

        # Validate requires section
        requires = self.data["requires"]
        if "speckit_version" not in requires:
            raise PresetValidationError("Missing requires.speckit_version")

        # Validate provides section
        provides = self.data["provides"]
        if "templates" not in provides or not provides["templates"]:
            raise PresetValidationError(
                "Preset must provide at least one template"
            )

        # Validate templates
        for tmpl in provides["templates"]:
            if "type" not in tmpl or "name" not in tmpl or "file" not in tmpl:
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    "Template missing 'type', 'name', or 'file'"
                )

            if tmpl["type"] not in VALID_PRESET_TEMPLATE_TYPES:
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid template type '{tmpl['type']}': "
                    f"must be one of {sorted(VALID_PRESET_TEMPLATE_TYPES)}"
                )

            # Validate file path safety: must be relative, no parent traversal
            file_path = tmpl["file"]
            normalized = os.path.normpath(file_path)
            if os.path.isabs(normalized) or normalized.startswith(".."):
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid template file path '{file_path}': "
                    "must be a relative path within the preset directory"
                )

            # Validate strategy field (optional, defaults to "replace")
            strategy = tmpl.get("strategy", "replace")
            if not isinstance(strategy, str):
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid strategy value: must be a string, "
                    f"got {type(strategy).__name__}"
                )
            strategy = strategy.lower()
            # Persist normalized value so downstream code sees lowercase
            if "strategy" in tmpl:
                tmpl["strategy"] = strategy
            if strategy not in VALID_PRESET_STRATEGIES:
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid strategy '{strategy}': "
                    f"must be one of {sorted(VALID_PRESET_STRATEGIES)}"
                )
            if tmpl["type"] == "script" and strategy not in VALID_SCRIPT_STRATEGIES:
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid strategy '{strategy}' for script: "
                    f"scripts only support {sorted(VALID_SCRIPT_STRATEGIES)}"
                )

            # Validate template name format
            if tmpl["type"] == "command":
                # Commands use dot notation (e.g. speckit.specify)
                if not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9.-]+$', tmpl["name"]):
                    raise PresetValidationError(
                        f"Invalid command name '{tmpl['name']}': "
                        "must be lowercase alphanumeric with hyphens and dots only"
                    )
            else:
                if not re.match(r'^[a-z0-9-]+$', tmpl["name"]):
                    raise PresetValidationError(
                        f"Invalid template name '{tmpl['name']}': "
                        "must be lowercase alphanumeric with hyphens only"
                    )

    @property
    def id(self) -> str:
        """Get preset ID."""
        return self.data["preset"]["id"]

    @property
    def name(self) -> str:
        """Get preset name."""
        return self.data["preset"]["name"]

    @property
    def version(self) -> str:
        """Get preset version."""
        return self.data["preset"]["version"]

    @property
    def description(self) -> str:
        """Get preset description."""
        return self.data["preset"]["description"]

    @property
    def author(self) -> str:
        """Get preset author."""
        return self.data["preset"].get("author", "")

    @property
    def requires_speckit_version(self) -> str:
        """Get required spec-kit version range."""
        return self.data["requires"]["speckit_version"]

    @property
    def templates(self) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Get list of provided templates."""
        return self.data["provides"]["templates"]

    @property
    def tags(self) -> List[str]:
        """Get preset tags."""
        return self.data.get("tags", [])

    def get_hash(self) -> str:
        """Calculate SHA256 hash of manifest file."""
        with open(self.path, 'rb') as f:
            return f"sha256:{hashlib.sha256(f.read()).hexdigest()}"


class PresetRegistry:
    """Manages the registry of installed presets."""

    REGISTRY_FILE = ".registry"
    SCHEMA_VERSION = "1.0"

    def __init__(self, packs_dir: Path):
        """Initialize registry.

        Args:
            packs_dir: Path to .specify/presets/ directory
        """
        self.packs_dir = packs_dir
        self.registry_path = packs_dir / self.REGISTRY_FILE
        self.data = self._load()

    def _load(self) -> dict:
        """Load registry from disk."""
        if not self.registry_path.exists():
            return {
                "schema_version": self.SCHEMA_VERSION,
                "presets": {}
            }

        try:
            with open(self.registry_path, 'r') as f:
                data = json.load(f)
            # Validate loaded data is a dict (handles corrupted registry files)
            if not isinstance(data, dict):
                return {
                    "schema_version": self.SCHEMA_VERSION,
                    "presets": {}
                }
            # Normalize presets field (handles corrupted presets value)
            if not isinstance(data.get("presets"), dict):
                data["presets"] = {}
            return data
        except (json.JSONDecodeError, FileNotFoundError):
            return {
                "schema_version": self.SCHEMA_VERSION,
                "presets": {}
            }

    def _save(self):
        """Save registry to disk."""
        self.packs_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        with open(self.registry_path, 'w') as f:
            json.dump(self.data, f, indent=2)

    def add(self, pack_id: str, metadata: dict):
        """Add preset to registry.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID
            metadata: Pack metadata (version, source, etc.)
        """
        self.data["presets"][pack_id] = {
            **copy.deepcopy(metadata),
            "installed_at": datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
        }
        self._save()

    def remove(self, pack_id: str):
        """Remove preset from registry.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets")
        if not isinstance(packs, dict):
            return
        if pack_id in packs:
            del packs[pack_id]
            self._save()

    def update(self, pack_id: str, updates: dict):
        """Update preset metadata in registry.

        Merges the provided updates with the existing entry, preserving any
        fields not specified. The installed_at timestamp is always preserved
        from the original entry.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID
            updates: Partial metadata to merge into existing metadata

        Raises:
            KeyError: If preset is not installed
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets")
        if not isinstance(packs, dict) or pack_id not in packs:
            raise KeyError(f"Preset '{pack_id}' not found in registry")
        existing = packs[pack_id]
        # Handle corrupted registry entries (e.g., string/list instead of dict)
        if not isinstance(existing, dict):
            existing = {}
        # Merge: existing fields preserved, new fields override (deep copy to prevent caller mutation)
        merged = {**existing, **copy.deepcopy(updates)}
        # Always preserve original installed_at based on key existence, not truthiness,
        # to handle cases where the field exists but may be falsy (legacy/corruption)
        if "installed_at" in existing:
            merged["installed_at"] = existing["installed_at"]
        else:
            # If not present in existing, explicitly remove from merged if caller provided it
            merged.pop("installed_at", None)
        packs[pack_id] = merged
        self._save()

    def restore(self, pack_id: str, metadata: dict):
        """Restore preset metadata to registry without modifying timestamps.

        Use this method for rollback scenarios where you have a complete backup
        of the registry entry (including installed_at) and want to restore it
        exactly as it was.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID
            metadata: Complete preset metadata including installed_at

        Raises:
            ValueError: If metadata is None or not a dict
        """
        if metadata is None or not isinstance(metadata, dict):
            raise ValueError(f"Cannot restore '{pack_id}': metadata must be a dict")
        # Ensure presets dict exists (handle corrupted registry)
        if not isinstance(self.data.get("presets"), dict):
            self.data["presets"] = {}
        self.data["presets"][pack_id] = copy.deepcopy(metadata)
        self._save()

    def get(self, pack_id: str) -> Optional[dict]:
        """Get preset metadata from registry.

        Returns a deep copy to prevent callers from accidentally mutating
        nested internal registry state without going through the write path.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID

        Returns:
            Deep copy of preset metadata, or None if not found or corrupted
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets")
        if not isinstance(packs, dict):
            return None
        entry = packs.get(pack_id)
        # Return None for missing or corrupted (non-dict) entries
        if entry is None or not isinstance(entry, dict):
            return None
        return copy.deepcopy(entry)

    def list(self) -> Dict[str, dict]:
        """Get all installed presets with valid metadata.

        Returns a deep copy of presets with dict metadata only.
        Corrupted entries (non-dict values) are filtered out.

        Returns:
            Dictionary of pack_id -> metadata (deep copies), empty dict if corrupted
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets", {}) or {}
        if not isinstance(packs, dict):
            return {}
        # Filter to only valid dict entries to match type contract
        return {
            pack_id: copy.deepcopy(meta)
            for pack_id, meta in packs.items()
            if isinstance(meta, dict)
        }

    def keys(self) -> set:
        """Get all preset IDs including corrupted entries.

        Lightweight method that returns IDs without deep-copying metadata.
        Use this when you only need to check which presets are tracked.

        Returns:
            Set of preset IDs (includes corrupted entries)
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets", {}) or {}
        if not isinstance(packs, dict):
            return set()
        return set(packs.keys())

    def list_by_priority(self, include_disabled: bool = False) -> List[tuple]:
        """Get all installed presets sorted by priority.

        Lower priority number = higher precedence (checked first).
        Presets with equal priority are sorted alphabetically by ID
        for deterministic ordering.

        Args:
            include_disabled: If True, include disabled presets. Default False.

        Returns:
            List of (pack_id, metadata_copy) tuples sorted by priority.
            Metadata is deep-copied to prevent accidental mutation.
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets", {}) or {}
        if not isinstance(packs, dict):
            packs = {}
        sortable_packs = []
        for pack_id, meta in packs.items():
            if not isinstance(meta, dict):
                continue
            # Skip disabled presets unless explicitly requested
            if not include_disabled and not meta.get("enabled", True):
                continue
            metadata_copy = copy.deepcopy(meta)
            metadata_copy["priority"] = normalize_priority(metadata_copy.get("priority", 10))
            sortable_packs.append((pack_id, metadata_copy))
        return sorted(
            sortable_packs,
            key=lambda item: (item[1]["priority"], item[0]),
        )

    def is_installed(self, pack_id: str) -> bool:
        """Check if preset is installed.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID

        Returns:
            True if pack is installed, False if not or registry corrupted
        """
        packs = self.data.get("presets")
        if not isinstance(packs, dict):
            return False
        return pack_id in packs


class PresetManager:
    """Manages preset lifecycle: installation, removal, updates."""

    def __init__(self, project_root: Path):
        """Initialize preset manager.

        Args:
            project_root: Path to project root directory
        """
        self.project_root = project_root
        self.presets_dir = project_root / ".specify" / "presets"
        self.registry = PresetRegistry(self.presets_dir)

    def check_compatibility(
        self,
        manifest: PresetManifest,
        speckit_version: str
    ) -> bool:
        """Check if preset is compatible with current spec-kit version.

        Args:
            manifest: Preset manifest
            speckit_version: Current spec-kit version

        Returns:
            True if compatible

        Raises:
            PresetCompatibilityError: If pack is incompatible
        """
        required = manifest.requires_speckit_version
        try:
            SpecifierSet(required)  # Just to validate
        except InvalidSpecifier:
            raise PresetCompatibilityError(f"Invalid version specifier: {required}")

        if not version_satisfies(speckit_version, required):
            raise PresetCompatibilityError(
                f"Preset requires spec-kit {required}, "
                f"but {speckit_version} is installed.\n"
                f"Upgrade spec-kit with: {REINSTALL_COMMAND}"
            )

        return True

    def _extension_installed_for_command(self, command_name: str) -> bool:
        """Whether *command_name* may be materialized in this project.

        Extension command overrides follow ``speckit.<ext-id>.<cmd-name>``;
        they must be skipped everywhere preset artifacts are written —
        registration *and* reconciliation — when the extension isn't
        installed, or reconciliation would materialize files that
        registration refused to track. Core commands (single-dot names,
        e.g. ``speckit.specify``) always pass.
        """
        parts = command_name.split(".")
        if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[0] == "speckit":
            ext_id = parts[1]
            if not (
                self.project_root / ".specify" / "extensions" / ext_id
            ).is_dir():
                return False
        return True

    def _register_commands(
        self,
        manifest: PresetManifest,
        preset_dir: Path
    ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
        """Register preset command overrides with all detected AI agents.

        Scans the preset's templates for type "command", reads each command
        file, and writes it to every detected agent directory using the
        CommandRegistrar from the agents module.

        When a command uses a composition strategy (prepend, append, wrap),
        the content is composed with the lower-priority command before
        registration.

        Args:
            manifest: Preset manifest
            preset_dir: Installed preset directory

        Returns:
            Dictionary mapping agent names to lists of registered command names
        """
        command_templates = [
            t for t in manifest.templates if t.get("type") == "command"
        ]
        if not command_templates:
            return {}

        # Filter out extension command overrides if the extension isn't installed.
        filtered = [
            cmd
            for cmd in command_templates
            if self._extension_installed_for_command(cmd["name"])
        ]

        if not filtered:
            return {}

        # Handle composition strategies: resolve composed content for non-replace commands
        resolver = PresetResolver(self.project_root)
        composed_dir = None
        commands_to_register = []
        for cmd in filtered:
            strategy = cmd.get("strategy", "replace")
            if strategy != "replace":
                # Only pre-compose if this preset is the top composing layer.
                # If a higher-priority replace already wins, skip composition
                # here — reconciliation will write the correct content.
                layers = resolver.collect_all_layers(cmd["name"], "command")
                top_layer_is_ours = (
                    layers and layers[0]["path"].is_relative_to(preset_dir)
                )
                if top_layer_is_ours:
                    composed = resolver.resolve_content(cmd["name"], "command")
                    if composed is not None:
                        if composed_dir is None:
                            composed_dir = preset_dir / ".composed"
                            composed_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
                        composed_file = composed_dir / f"{cmd['name']}.md"
                        composed_file.write_text(composed, encoding="utf-8")
                        commands_to_register.append({
                            **cmd,
                            "file": f".composed/{cmd['name']}.md",
                        })
                    else:
                        raise PresetValidationError(
                            f"Command '{cmd['name']}' uses '{strategy}' strategy "
                            f"but no base command layer exists to compose onto. "
                            f"Ensure a lower-priority preset, extension, or core "
                            f"command provides this command before using "
                            f"composition strategies."
                        )
                else:
                    # Not the top layer — register raw file; reconciliation
                    # will overwrite with the correct composed/winning content.
                    # Note: CommandRegistrar may process frontmatter strategy: wrap
                    # from the raw file (legacy compat), but reconciliation runs
                    # immediately after install and corrects the final output.
                    commands_to_register.append(cmd)
            else:
                commands_to_register.append(cmd)

        try:
            from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
        except ImportError:
            return {}

        registrar = CommandRegistrar()

        # Single-active rule (#2948): preset command overrides register for
        # the active integration only. A project without a recorded active
        # integration (init-options.json does not exist at all — a legacy
        # pre-init-options layout or direct library use) falls back to
        # detection-based registration for all agents. A recorded key with
        # no registrar config (e.g. "generic") naturally yields no matches
        # via only_agent instead of falling back.
        #
        # An init-options.json that exists but is corrupted, unreadable, or
        # has a malformed/empty "ai" value must not be treated the same as
        # "no file" — that would silently reintroduce all-agent
        # registration. Fail closed (register nothing) instead.
        resolved_agent = resolve_active_agent_for_registration(self.project_root)
        if resolved_agent is MISSING_INIT_OPTIONS_FILE:
            active_agent = None
        elif resolved_agent is None:
            return {}
        else:
            active_agent = resolved_agent
            # Mirror the extension path's ai_skills guard: when the active
            # agent is a command-backed integration (extension != "/SKILL.md")
            # running in skills mode, its preset command overrides render as
            # skills via _register_skills, not as command files. Command-mode
            # and skills-mode artifacts are mutually exclusive — writing both
            # (e.g. `integration use copilot` with `--skills`) leaves a stale
            # command file alongside the SKILL.md that is actually active.
            init_options = load_init_options(self.project_root)
            agent_config = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(active_agent)
            if (
                agent_config
                and is_ai_skills_enabled(init_options)
                and agent_config.get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
            ):
                return {}

        return registrar.register_commands_for_all_agents(
            commands_to_register,
            manifest.id,
            preset_dir,
            self.project_root,
            create_missing_active_skills_dir=True,
            only_agent=active_agent,
        )

    def register_enabled_presets_for_agent(self, agent_name: str) -> None:
        """Re-register enabled presets' command overrides and skills for ``agent_name``.

        Mirrors ``ExtensionManager.register_enabled_extensions_for_agent`` for
        presets (#2948): ``integration use`` / ``switch`` call this for the
        newly active agent so a preset installed while a different
        integration was active gets rescaffolded on activation, instead of
        writing artifacts for inactive integrations at install time.
        ``_register_commands`` / ``_register_skills`` already resolve the
        active integration from init-options themselves, so this re-runs them
        for every enabled preset and merges the fresh result for
        ``agent_name`` into its stored registry metadata.

        Presets are processed in *reverse* priority order (lowest-precedence
        first). Each pass overwrites the same target command/skill files, so
        writing the highest-precedence preset last is what makes it win when
        two enabled presets override the same command — matching the
        priority stack documented for ``list_by_priority()``.
        """
        if not agent_name:
            return

        # Resolve once: whether agent_name is a command-backed integration
        # (extension != "/SKILL.md") currently running in skills mode, or
        # vice versa. Native skill-only agents (extension == "/SKILL.md",
        # e.g. claude/codex) have no command/skill toggle at all — both
        # registered_commands and registered_skills legitimately co-exist
        # for them by design, so this restriction only applies to
        # command-backed integrations.
        try:
            from ..agents import CommandRegistrar

            agent_config = CommandRegistrar().AGENT_CONFIGS.get(agent_name)
        except ImportError:
            agent_config = None
        is_command_backed = bool(agent_config) and agent_config.get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
        ai_skills_now = is_command_backed and is_ai_skills_enabled(
            load_init_options(self.project_root)
        )

        resolver = PresetResolver(self.project_root)
        affected_cmd_names: set = set()
        presets_by_priority = list(self.registry.list_by_priority())
        winning_pack_by_command: Dict[str, str] = {}
        winning_source_by_command: Dict[str, Path] = {}
        project_override_commands: set[str] = set()
        for candidate_pack_id, _candidate_metadata in presets_by_priority:
            candidate_manifest = resolver._get_manifest(
                self.presets_dir / candidate_pack_id
            )
            if candidate_manifest is None:
                continue
            for template in candidate_manifest.templates:
                command_name = template.get("name")
                if (
                    template.get("type") == "command"
                    and isinstance(command_name, str)
                ):
                    if (
                        resolver.overrides_dir / f"{command_name}.md"
                    ).is_file():
                        project_override_commands.add(command_name)
                    winning_pack_by_command.setdefault(
                        command_name, candidate_pack_id
                    )
                    source_file = template.get("file")
                    if isinstance(source_file, str):
                        winning_source_by_command.setdefault(
                            command_name,
                            self.presets_dir
                            / candidate_pack_id
                            / source_file,
                        )

        pending_command_cleanups: List[
            tuple[
                str,
                Dict[str, List[str]],
                List[str],
                Dict[str, str],
            ]
        ] = []
        successful_skill_replacements: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
        pending_skill_cleanups: List[
            tuple[
                str,
                Path,
                Dict[str, List[str]],
                List[str],
                Dict[str, str],
            ]
        ] = []
        successful_command_replacements: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
        for pack_id, metadata in reversed(presets_by_priority):
            pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
            manifest = resolver._get_manifest(pack_dir)
            if manifest is None:
                continue

            # Registration can write one command and then fail on a later
            # template. Record names first so final reconciliation can repair
            # any partial writes even when _register_commands never returns.
            for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                name = tmpl.get("name")
                if tmpl.get("type") == "command" and isinstance(name, str):
                    affected_cmd_names.add(name)

            # Isolate per-preset failures: one preset that fails to register
            # must not abort registration of the remaining enabled presets.
            try:
                registered_commands = self._register_commands(manifest, pack_dir)
                registered_command_names = set(
                    registered_commands.get(agent_name) or []
                )
                for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                    if tmpl.get("type") != "command":
                        continue
                    primary_name = tmpl.get("name")
                    if (
                        isinstance(primary_name, str)
                        and primary_name in registered_command_names
                    ):
                        successful_command_replacements.add(
                            (pack_id, primary_name)
                        )
                existing_commands = metadata.get("registered_commands", {})
                if not isinstance(existing_commands, dict):
                    existing_commands = {}
                merged_commands = copy.deepcopy(existing_commands)
                # Toggled command -> skills for this same agent:
                # _register_commands's ai_skills guard just made this a
                # no-op, but the command file this preset wrote while
                # command mode was active is still on disk and still
                # tracked. Do NOT unregister it yet — _register_skills()
                # below is an independently fallible replacement step, and
                # deleting the old artifact before it succeeds would leave
                # neither the old command file nor a new skill file if
                # skills registration raises. The old artifact is only
                # removed after the skills phase below completes without
                # raising, preserving command/skill mutual exclusion while
                # never leaving a transient failure with nothing in place
                # (#2948).
                stale_command_names: Optional[List[str]] = None
                if registered_commands.get(agent_name):
                    existing_names = merged_commands.get(agent_name, [])
                    merged_commands[agent_name] = existing_names + [
                        name
                        for name in registered_commands[agent_name]
                        if name not in existing_names
                    ]
                elif ai_skills_now and merged_commands.get(agent_name):
                    stale_command_names = merged_commands[agent_name]
                # Persist the commands phase immediately, mirroring
                # install_from_directory(): _register_skills is an
                # independently fallible phase, and if it raises, the files
                # the commands phase already wrote to disk must still be
                # tracked so preset removal can clean them up (#2948).
                if merged_commands != existing_commands:
                    self.registry.update(pack_id, {"registered_commands": merged_commands})

                registered_skills = self._register_skills(manifest, pack_dir)
                replaced_skill_names = set(registered_skills.get(agent_name) or [])
                for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                    if tmpl.get("type") != "command":
                        continue
                    primary_name = tmpl.get("name")
                    if not isinstance(primary_name, str):
                        continue
                    modern_name, legacy_name = self._skill_names_for_command(
                        primary_name
                    )
                    if (
                        modern_name in replaced_skill_names
                        or legacy_name in replaced_skill_names
                    ):
                        successful_skill_replacements.add(
                            (pack_id, primary_name)
                        )
                raw_existing_skills = metadata.get("registered_skills")
                if isinstance(raw_existing_skills, list) and raw_existing_skills:
                    # Legacy flat-list value: don't assume agent_name wrote
                    # every name (the first post-upgrade operation may be a
                    # direct switch to a different skill-mode agent) —
                    # infer real ownership from on-disk provenance instead
                    # (#2948).
                    existing_skills = self._infer_legacy_skill_provenance(
                        [n for n in raw_existing_skills if isinstance(n, str)],
                        pack_id,
                        fallback_agent=agent_name,
                    )
                else:
                    existing_skills = self._normalize_registered_skills(
                        raw_existing_skills, fallback_agent=agent_name
                    )
                merged_skills = copy.deepcopy(existing_skills)
                if registered_skills.get(agent_name):
                    existing_names = merged_skills.get(agent_name, [])
                    merged_skills[agent_name] = existing_names + [
                        name
                        for name in registered_skills[agent_name]
                        if name not in existing_names
                    ]
                elif is_command_backed and not ai_skills_now and merged_skills.get(agent_name):
                    # Mirror image: toggled skills -> command for this same
                    # agent. _get_skills_dir() no longer resolves a skills
                    # directory once ai_skills is off, so _register_skills
                    # is a no-op — but the SKILL.md this preset wrote while
                    # skills mode was active is still tracked and still on
                    # disk. Restore/remove it narrowly for this agent. This
                    # direction is already register-new-then-remove-old:
                    # _register_commands (the replacement) ran unconditionally
                    # above and only reaches here once it has already
                    # succeeded — but that call can still have returned
                    # empty or partial results (missing source template,
                    # safety-validation skip, corrupted manifest), so only
                    # retire the subset of stale skills whose corresponding
                    # command name was actually returned for this agent;
                    # anything unreplaced stays tracked and on disk (#2948).
                    stale_skill_names = merged_skills[agent_name]
                    skill_to_primary: Dict[str, str] = {}
                    for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                        if tmpl.get("type") != "command":
                            continue
                        primary_name = tmpl.get("name")
                        if not isinstance(primary_name, str):
                            continue
                        modern_name, legacy_name = self._skill_names_for_command(
                            primary_name
                        )
                        skill_to_primary[modern_name] = primary_name
                        skill_to_primary[legacy_name] = primary_name
                    pending_skill_cleanups.append(
                        (
                            pack_id,
                            pack_dir,
                            merged_skills,
                            stale_skill_names,
                            skill_to_primary,
                        )
                    )
                # A legacy flat-list registered_skills value (predating
                # per-agent provenance) must migrate to the dict format on
                # disk even when the rescaffolded names are unchanged from
                # what the list already held — comparing only the
                # *normalized* forms would otherwise treat that as a no-op
                # and leave the raw un-migrated list in the registry, which
                # later removal/switch handling treats as legacy
                # best-effort (restoring only the currently active agent's
                # directory) instead of per-agent provenance (#2948).
                needs_migration = (
                    isinstance(raw_existing_skills, list) and raw_existing_skills
                )
                if merged_skills != existing_skills or needs_migration:
                    self.registry.update(pack_id, {"registered_skills": merged_skills})

                # The skills phase above completed without raising, but a
                # non-raising result can still be empty or partial (missing
                # source template, safety-validation skip, corrupted
                # manifest) — retiring every stale command purely on "did
                # not raise" would delete a command whose replacement skill
                # never actually landed, leaving neither artifact. Only
                # retire the subset of stale commands whose corresponding
                # skill name was actually returned for this agent; anything
                # unreplaced stays tracked and on disk (#2948).
                if stale_command_names:
                    # Commands may carry aliases (CommandRegistrar.register_
                    # commands() tracks and returns primary + alias names
                    # flattened together into one list), but _register_
                    # skills() only ever renders/returns the *primary*
                    # command name's skill — running an alias's own name
                    # through _skill_names_for_command() never matches
                    # anything real, so an alias would stay tracked/on-disk
                    # forever even after its primary's skill replacement
                    # landed. Map each stale name back to its template's
                    # primary via the manifest so the whole primary+alias
                    # group is retired or kept together, based solely on
                    # whether the *primary*'s skill replacement actually
                    # landed (#2948).
                    alias_to_primary: Dict[str, str] = {}
                    for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                        if tmpl.get("type") != "command":
                            continue
                        primary_name = tmpl.get("name")
                        if not isinstance(primary_name, str):
                            continue
                        for alias in tmpl.get("aliases", []):
                            if isinstance(alias, str):
                                alias_to_primary[alias] = primary_name

                    pending_command_cleanups.append(
                        (
                            pack_id,
                            merged_commands,
                            stale_command_names,
                            alias_to_primary,
                        )
                    )
            except Exception as pack_err:
                from .. import _print_cli_warning

                _print_cli_warning(
                    "register preset artifacts for",
                    "preset",
                    pack_id,
                    pack_err,
                    continuing="Continuing with the remaining presets.",
                )
                continue

        # Registration writes each preset's raw layer. Reconcile before
        # retiring opposite-mode artifacts so project overrides and composed
        # winners are materialized first, and so cleanup runs last instead of
        # being undone by skill reconciliation.
        reconciled_commands: set[str] = set()
        reconciled_skills: set[str] = set()
        if affected_cmd_names:
            try:
                reconciled_commands = self._reconcile_composed_commands(
                    list(affected_cmd_names), target_agent=agent_name
                )
                reconciled_skills = self._reconcile_skills(
                    list(affected_cmd_names), target_agent=agent_name
                )
            except Exception as exc:
                import warnings

                warnings.warn(
                    f"Post-rescaffold reconciliation failed for '{agent_name}': "
                    f"{exc}. Agent command files may be stale; re-run "
                    f"'specify integration use {agent_name}' or reinstall "
                    f"affected presets to refresh.",
                    stacklevel=2,
                )

        successfully_replaced_winners = {
            command_name
            for command_name, winning_pack_id in winning_pack_by_command.items()
            if command_name not in project_override_commands
            and (
                (winning_pack_id, command_name)
                in successful_skill_replacements
                or (
                    command_name in reconciled_skills
                    and command_name in winning_source_by_command
                    and winning_source_by_command[command_name].is_file()
                )
            )
        }
        successfully_replaced_winners.update(
            project_override_commands & reconciled_skills
        )

        for (
            pack_id,
            merged_commands,
            stale_command_names,
            alias_to_primary,
        ) in pending_command_cleanups:
            fully_replaced = [
                command_name
                for command_name in stale_command_names
                if alias_to_primary.get(command_name, command_name)
                in successfully_replaced_winners
            ]
            if not fully_replaced:
                continue
            remaining_stale = [
                command_name
                for command_name in stale_command_names
                if command_name not in fully_replaced
            ]
            self._unregister_commands({agent_name: fully_replaced})
            if remaining_stale:
                merged_commands[agent_name] = remaining_stale
            else:
                merged_commands.pop(agent_name, None)
            self.registry.update(
                pack_id, {"registered_commands": merged_commands}
            )

        successfully_replaced_command_winners = {
            command_name
            for command_name, winning_pack_id in winning_pack_by_command.items()
            if command_name not in project_override_commands
            and (
                (winning_pack_id, command_name)
                in successful_command_replacements
                or (
                    command_name in reconciled_commands
                    and command_name in winning_source_by_command
                    and winning_source_by_command[command_name].is_file()
                )
            )
        }
        successfully_replaced_command_winners.update(
            project_override_commands & reconciled_commands
        )

        # Skill restoration walks the priority stack, so retire stale layers
        # from highest to lowest. The last cleanup then restores the true
        # non-preset fallback (or removes the skill) rather than cycling back
        # to a lower-priority preset.
        for (
            pack_id,
            pack_dir,
            merged_skills,
            stale_skill_names,
            skill_to_primary,
        ) in reversed(pending_skill_cleanups):
            fully_replaced = [
                skill_name
                for skill_name in stale_skill_names
                if skill_to_primary.get(skill_name)
                in successfully_replaced_command_winners
            ]
            if not fully_replaced:
                continue
            remaining_stale = [
                skill_name
                for skill_name in stale_skill_names
                if skill_name not in fully_replaced
            ]
            override_sources = {
                skill_name: f"override:{skill_to_primary[skill_name]}"
                for skill_name in fully_replaced
                if skill_name in skill_to_primary
            }
            self._unregister_skills(
                {agent_name: fully_replaced},
                pack_dir,
                additional_owned_sources=override_sources,
            )
            if remaining_stale:
                merged_skills[agent_name] = remaining_stale
            else:
                merged_skills.pop(agent_name, None)
            self.registry.update(
                pack_id, {"registered_skills": merged_skills}
            )

    def unregister_agent_artifacts(self, agent_name: str) -> None:
        """Remove ``agent_name``'s tracked preset command/skill artifacts.

        Mirrors ``ExtensionManager.unregister_agent_artifacts()`` (#2948):
        used by ``integration switch`` when deactivating the previous
        integration, so a preset's command overrides and skill mirrors
        written for that agent don't linger as orphans in its directory
        once a different (possibly not-yet-installed) integration becomes
        active — including custom preset commands and files the registrar
        would otherwise skip as user-modified.

        Scoped strictly to ``agent_name``: only that agent's own tracked
        artifacts and registry entries are touched. Other agents' files,
        tracking, and preset packs themselves are left untouched, and no
        priority-stack reconciliation runs — this is agent-scoped cleanup
        only, not preset removal.
        """
        if not agent_name:
            return

        try:
            from ..agents import CommandRegistrar

            registrar = CommandRegistrar()
            agent_config = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(agent_name)
        except ImportError:
            registrar = None
            agent_config = None
        if agent_config is None or registrar is None:
            return

        for pack_id, metadata in list(self.registry.list().items()):
            updates: Dict[str, Any] = {}

            raw_skills = metadata.get("registered_skills", [])
            if isinstance(raw_skills, list) and raw_skills:
                # Legacy flat-list value predating per-agent provenance:
                # infer real ownership from on-disk markers before removing
                # anything, so only agent_name's actual share is unregistered
                # and the rest migrates to per-agent form instead of either
                # guessing every name belongs to agent_name or blindly
                # leaving other agents' shares unrecoverable (#2948).
                registered_skills_all = self._infer_legacy_skill_provenance(
                    [n for n in raw_skills if isinstance(n, str)],
                    pack_id,
                    fallback_agent=agent_name,
                )
                skills_migrated = True
            elif isinstance(raw_skills, dict):
                registered_skills_all = copy.deepcopy(raw_skills)
                skills_migrated = False
            else:
                registered_skills_all = {}
                skills_migrated = False

            registered_commands = metadata.get("registered_commands", {})
            if not isinstance(registered_commands, dict):
                registered_commands = {}

            agent_command_names = [
                n for n in registered_commands.get(agent_name, []) if isinstance(n, str)
            ]

            # Native SKILL.md agents (claude/codex/agy/…) materialize their
            # preset override in _register_commands(), tracked under
            # registered_commands, not registered_skills — see
            # _register_skills()'s own docstring ("Native skill agents …
            # materialize brand-new preset skills in _register_commands()").
            # A legacy flat-list registered_skills value predating that
            # split can still attribute the very same on-disk file to this
            # agent via provenance inference; unregistering through both
            # paths would double-process the identical directory (delete
            # via the commands path, then no-op "restore" via the skills
            # path since the directory is already gone). Mirror remove()'s
            # own coordination: whenever this agent's artifact is already
            # handled via registered_commands, never additionally treat it
            # as a registered_skills entry for the same agent.
            native_skills_entry_removed = False
            if agent_command_names and agent_config.get("extension") == "/SKILL.md":
                native_skills_entry_removed = agent_name in registered_skills_all
                registered_skills_all.pop(agent_name, None)

            if agent_command_names:
                command_names_to_unregister = agent_command_names
                if agent_config.get("extension") == "/SKILL.md":
                    agent_output = registrar._resolve_agent_dir(
                        agent_name, agent_config, self.project_root
                    )
                    shared_names: set[str] = set()
                    for other_agent, other_names in registered_commands.items():
                        if (
                            other_agent == agent_name
                            or not isinstance(other_names, list)
                        ):
                            continue
                        other_config = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(other_agent)
                        if (
                            not other_config
                            or other_config.get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
                        ):
                            continue
                        other_output = registrar._resolve_agent_dir(
                            other_agent, other_config, self.project_root
                        )
                        if other_output == agent_output:
                            shared_names.update(
                                name
                                for name in other_names
                                if isinstance(name, str)
                            )
                    command_names_to_unregister = [
                        name
                        for name in agent_command_names
                        if name not in shared_names
                    ]
                if command_names_to_unregister:
                    self._unregister_commands(
                        {agent_name: command_names_to_unregister}
                    )
                new_registered_commands = copy.deepcopy(registered_commands)
                new_registered_commands.pop(agent_name, None)
                updates["registered_commands"] = new_registered_commands

            agent_skill_names = registered_skills_all.get(agent_name) or []
            if (
                agent_skill_names
                or skills_migrated
                or native_skills_entry_removed
            ):
                if agent_skill_names:
                    self._delete_agent_preset_skills(
                        agent_name, agent_skill_names, pack_id
                    )
                remaining = {
                    other_agent: names
                    for other_agent, names in registered_skills_all.items()
                    if other_agent != agent_name
                }
                updates["registered_skills"] = remaining

            if updates:
                self.registry.update(pack_id, updates)

    def _unregister_commands(self, registered_commands: Dict[str, List[str]]) -> None:
        """Remove previously registered command files from agent directories.

        Args:
            registered_commands: Dict mapping agent names to command name lists
        """
        try:
            from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
        except ImportError:
            return

        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        registrar.unregister_commands(registered_commands, self.project_root)

    def _merge_pack_registered_commands(
        self, pack_id: str, written: Optional[Dict[str, List[str]]]
    ) -> None:
        """Merge actually-written agent command registrations into a preset's metadata.

        Reconciliation (``_reconcile_composed_commands``) can write a
        preset's content into an agent directory the preset never wrote to
        before — most notably a historical (currently inactive) agent
        supplied via ``extra_agents`` when a higher-priority preset is
        removed. If that write isn't reflected back into the winning
        preset's own ``registered_commands``, the registry silently lies
        about which directories the preset owns: a later removal of this
        same preset only cleans up the agents it already knew about,
        orphaning the directory reconciliation just wrote to on its behalf
        (#2948).

        Args:
            pack_id: The preset whose metadata should be updated.
            written: ``{agent_name: [cmd_name, ...]}`` actually written by
                the reconciliation call just made, exactly mirroring
                ``CommandRegistrar.register_commands_for_non_skill_agents``'s
                return value. A falsy value is a no-op.
        """
        if not written:
            return
        metadata = self.registry.get(pack_id)
        if metadata is None:
            return  # pack_id no longer installed (e.g. removed mid-loop)
        existing_commands = metadata.get("registered_commands", {})
        if not isinstance(existing_commands, dict):
            existing_commands = {}
        merged_commands = copy.deepcopy(existing_commands)
        changed = False
        for agent_name, cmd_names in written.items():
            if not cmd_names:
                continue
            existing_names = merged_commands.get(agent_name, [])
            new_names = [n for n in cmd_names if n not in existing_names]
            if new_names:
                merged_commands[agent_name] = existing_names + new_names
                changed = True
        if changed:
            self.registry.update(pack_id, {"registered_commands": merged_commands})

    def _merge_extension_registered_commands(
        self, extension_id: str, written: Optional[Dict[str, List[str]]]
    ) -> None:
        """Merge reconciliation writes into an extension's registry entry."""
        if not written:
            return
        registry = ExtensionRegistry(self.project_root / ".specify" / "extensions")
        metadata = registry.get(extension_id)
        if metadata is None:
            return
        existing_commands = metadata.get("registered_commands", {})
        if not isinstance(existing_commands, dict):
            existing_commands = {}
        merged_commands = copy.deepcopy(existing_commands)
        changed = False
        for agent_name, cmd_names in written.items():
            existing_names = merged_commands.get(agent_name, [])
            new_names = [name for name in cmd_names if name not in existing_names]
            if new_names:
                merged_commands[agent_name] = existing_names + new_names
                changed = True
        if changed:
            registry.update(extension_id, {"registered_commands": merged_commands})

    def _reconcile_composed_commands(
        self,
        command_names: List[str],
        extra_agents: Optional[Set[str]] = None,
        target_agent: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> Set[str]:
        """Re-resolve and re-register composed commands from the full stack.

        After install or remove, recompute the effective content for each
        command name that participates in composition, and write the winning
        content to the agent directories. This ensures command files always
        reflect the current priority stack rather than depending on
        install/remove order.

        Single-active rule (#2948): non-skill command-file registration
        performed by this pass is restricted to the active integration, the
        same as ``_register_commands``. Without this, reconciliation after
        install/remove would write command files for every detected
        non-skill agent even though registration itself is active-only,
        leaving inactive integrations with artifacts that are never
        recorded in ``registered_commands`` (and therefore never cleaned up
        on removal).

        Args:
            command_names: List of command names to reconcile
            extra_agents: Additional agent names to also reconcile besides
                the currently active one. Populated by ``remove()`` with the
                historical agents a just-removed preset's
                ``registered_commands`` actually targeted, so a surviving
                lower-priority preset's content is restored there too — not
                only for the currently active agent (#2948). Install/use
                callers omit this, preserving pure active-only behavior.
            target_agent: If set, report only command names written for this
                agent. Other callers receive the union of all written names.

        Returns:
            Command names successfully written by this reconciliation pass.
        """
        if not command_names:
            return set()

        # Never materialize extension-scoped commands whose extension isn't
        # installed. Registration (_register_commands / _register_skills)
        # already refuses them, so a reconciliation pass writing them would
        # create files no registry entry tracks. Filtering here — the single
        # chokepoint every install/remove/rescaffold reconciliation funnels
        # through — keeps all callers consistent without each one re-applying
        # the filter when seeding names from manifest templates.
        command_names = [
            name
            for name in command_names
            if self._extension_installed_for_command(name)
        ]
        if not command_names:
            return set()

        try:
            from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
        except ImportError:
            return set()

        resolver = PresetResolver(self.project_root)
        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        reconciled_commands: set[str] = set()

        def record_written(written: Dict[str, List[str]]) -> None:
            if target_agent is not None:
                reconciled_commands.update(written.get(target_agent, []))
            else:
                for names in written.values():
                    reconciled_commands.update(names)

        # Resolve the active-only restriction once. MISSING_INIT_OPTIONS_FILE
        # (legacy pre-init-options project) keeps the pre-#2948 fallback of
        # registering every detected non-skill agent; a corrupted/malformed
        # init-options.json fails closed via a sentinel that matches no real
        # agent name instead of silently falling back to "no restriction".
        resolved_agent = resolve_active_agent_for_registration(self.project_root)
        if resolved_agent is MISSING_INIT_OPTIONS_FILE:
            only_agent: Optional[str] = None
        elif resolved_agent is None:
            only_agent = ""
        else:
            only_agent = resolved_agent
            # Mirror _register_commands's ai_skills guard: a command-backed
            # active agent running in skills mode renders preset/extension
            # overrides as skills, not command files, so this non-skill
            # command reconciliation pass must not target it either.
            agent_config = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(only_agent)
            if (
                agent_config
                and is_ai_skills_enabled(load_init_options(self.project_root))
                and agent_config.get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
            ):
                only_agent = ""

        # The active agent's participation is decided exclusively by the
        # only_agent guard above (which encodes the ai_skills mode). A
        # partially failed command→skills toggle can leave the active agent
        # behind in extra_agents via its stale registered_commands entry,
        # and register_commands_for_non_skill_agents admits every
        # extra_agents member even when only_agent excludes the agent —
        # recreating a command file for an agent now running in skills
        # mode. Never re-admit the active agent through the
        # historical-agents side channel (#2948).
        if extra_agents and isinstance(resolved_agent, str):
            extra_agents = set(extra_agents) - {resolved_agent}

        # Cache registry and manifests outside the loop to avoid
        # repeated filesystem reads for each command name.
        presets_by_priority = list(self.registry.list_by_priority())

        for cmd_name in command_names:
            layers = resolver.collect_all_layers(cmd_name, "command")
            if not layers:
                continue

            # If the top layer is replace, it wins entirely — lower layers
            # are irrelevant regardless of their strategies.
            top_is_replace = layers[0]["strategy"] == "replace"
            has_composition = not top_is_replace and any(
                layer["strategy"] != "replace" for layer in layers
            )
            if not has_composition:
                # Pure replace — the top layer wins.
                top_layer = layers[0]
                top_path = top_layer["path"]
                # Try to find which preset owns this layer
                registered = False
                for pack_id, _meta in presets_by_priority:
                    pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                    if top_path.is_relative_to(pack_dir):
                        manifest = resolver._get_manifest(pack_dir)
                        if manifest:
                            for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                                if tmpl.get("name") == cmd_name and tmpl.get("type") == "command":
                                    written = self._register_for_non_skill_agents(
                                        registrar, [tmpl], manifest.id, pack_dir,
                                        only_agent=only_agent, extra_agents=extra_agents,
                                    )
                                    record_written(written)
                                    self._merge_pack_registered_commands(manifest.id, written)
                                    registered = True
                                    break
                        break
                if not registered:
                    # Top layer is a non-preset source (extension, core, or
                    # project override). Register directly from the layer path.
                    source = layers[0]["source"]
                    extension_id = None
                    written: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
                    if source.startswith("extension:"):
                        # Use extension's own registration to preserve context formatting
                        extension_id = source.split(":", 1)[1].split(" ", 1)[0]
                        ext_dir = (
                            self.project_root / ".specify" / "extensions" / extension_id
                        )
                        ext_manifest_path = ext_dir / "extension.yml"
                        if ext_manifest_path.exists():
                            try:
                                from ..extensions import ExtensionManifest
                                ext_manifest = ExtensionManifest(ext_manifest_path)
                                # Filter to only the command being reconciled
                                matching_cmds = [
                                    c for c in ext_manifest.commands
                                    if c.get("name") == cmd_name
                                ]
                                if matching_cmds:
                                    written = registrar.register_commands_for_non_skill_agents(
                                        matching_cmds, extension_id, ext_dir,
                                        self.project_root,
                                        context_note=f"\n<!-- Extension: {extension_id} -->\n<!-- Config: .specify/extensions/{extension_id}/ -->\n",
                                        extension_id=extension_id,
                                        only_agent=only_agent,
                                        extra_agents=extra_agents,
                                    )
                                    record_written(written)
                                    registered = True
                            except Exception:
                                # Extension registration failed; fall back to
                                # generic path-based registration below.
                                pass
                    if not registered:
                        source_id = extension_id or source
                        written = self._register_command_from_path(
                            registrar, cmd_name, top_path,
                            source_id=source_id,
                            only_agent=only_agent, extra_agents=extra_agents,
                        )
                        record_written(written)
                    if extension_id:
                        self._merge_extension_registered_commands(
                            extension_id, written
                        )
            else:
                # Composed command — resolve from full stack
                composed = resolver.resolve_content(cmd_name, "command")
                if composed is None:
                    # Composition no longer possible (e.g. base layer removed).
                    # Unregister any stale command file from non-skill agents.
                    import warnings
                    warnings.warn(
                        f"Cannot compose command '{cmd_name}': no base layer. "
                        f"Stale command files may remain.",
                        stacklevel=2,
                    )
                    registrar._ensure_configs()
                    # Include aliases from the top layer's manifest
                    cmd_names_to_unregister = [cmd_name]
                    for _pid, _meta in presets_by_priority:
                        _pd = self.presets_dir / _pid
                        _m = resolver._get_manifest(_pd)
                        if _m:
                            for _t in _m.templates:
                                if _t.get("name") == cmd_name and _t.get("type") == "command":
                                    for alias in _t.get("aliases", []):
                                        if isinstance(alias, str):
                                            cmd_names_to_unregister.append(alias)
                                    break
                    # Mirror the active-only restriction used elsewhere in
                    # this pass: without it, unregistering a stale composed
                    # command would touch every non-skill agent's directory,
                    # deleting historical artifacts from integrations that
                    # were never active when this preset registered (#2948).
                    registrar.unregister_commands(
                        {
                            agent: cmd_names_to_unregister
                            for agent in registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS
                            if registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS[agent].get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
                            and (
                                only_agent is None
                                or agent == only_agent
                                or agent in (extra_agents or ())
                            )
                        },
                        self.project_root,
                    )
                    continue

                # Write to the highest-priority preset's .composed dir
                registered = False
                for pack_id, _meta in presets_by_priority:
                    pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                    manifest = resolver._get_manifest(pack_dir)
                    if not manifest:
                        continue
                    for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                        if tmpl.get("name") == cmd_name and tmpl.get("type") == "command":
                            composed_dir = pack_dir / ".composed"
                            composed_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
                            composed_file = composed_dir / f"{cmd_name}.md"
                            composed_file.write_text(composed, encoding="utf-8")
                            written = self._register_for_non_skill_agents(
                                registrar,
                                [{**tmpl, "file": f".composed/{cmd_name}.md"}],
                                manifest.id, pack_dir,
                                only_agent=only_agent, extra_agents=extra_agents,
                            )
                            record_written(written)
                            self._merge_pack_registered_commands(manifest.id, written)
                            registered = True
                            break
                    else:
                        continue
                    break
                if not registered:
                    # No preset owns this composed command — write to a
                    # shared .composed dir and register from the top layer.
                    shared_composed = self.presets_dir / ".composed"
                    shared_composed.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
                    composed_file = shared_composed / f"{cmd_name}.md"
                    composed_file.write_text(composed, encoding="utf-8")
                    source = layers[0]["source"]
                    if source.startswith("extension:"):
                        source_id = source.split(":", 1)[1].split(" ", 1)[0]
                    else:
                        source_id = source
                    written = self._register_command_from_path(
                        registrar, cmd_name, composed_file,
                        source_id=source_id,
                        only_agent=only_agent, extra_agents=extra_agents,
                    )
                    record_written(written)
                    if source.startswith("extension:"):
                        self._merge_extension_registered_commands(
                            source_id, written
                        )

        return reconciled_commands

    def _register_command_from_path(
        self,
        registrar: Any,
        cmd_name: str,
        cmd_path: Path,
        source_id: str = "reconciled",
        only_agent: Optional[str] = None,
        extra_agents: Optional[Set[str]] = None,
    ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
        """Register a single command from a file path (non-preset source).

        Used by reconciliation when the winning layer is an extension,
        core template, or project override rather than a preset.

        Args:
            registrar: CommandRegistrar instance
            cmd_name: Command name
            cmd_path: Path to the command file
            source_id: Source attribution for rendered output
            only_agent: If set, restrict registration to this single agent (#2948).
            extra_agents: Additional agent names to register for besides
                ``only_agent`` (post-removal reconciliation only, #2948).

        Returns:
            ``{agent_name: [cmd_name, ...]}`` for every agent this call
            actually registered the command for (empty if the source path
            doesn't exist or nothing was written).
        """
        if not cmd_path.exists():
            return {}
        cmd_tmpl: Dict[str, Any] = {
            "name": cmd_name,
            "type": "command",
            "file": cmd_path.name,
        }
        # Load aliases from extension manifest when the winning layer is an extension
        if source_id and not source_id.startswith("preset:"):
            try:
                from ..extensions import ExtensionManifest
                for ext_dir in (self.project_root / ".specify" / "extensions").iterdir():
                    if not ext_dir.is_dir():
                        continue
                    if cmd_path.is_relative_to(ext_dir):
                        manifest_path = ext_dir / "extension.yml"
                        if manifest_path.exists():
                            ext_manifest = ExtensionManifest(manifest_path)
                            for cmd in ext_manifest.commands:
                                if cmd.get("name") == cmd_name:
                                    aliases = cmd.get("aliases", [])
                                    if isinstance(aliases, list) and aliases:
                                        cmd_tmpl["aliases"] = aliases
                                    break
                        break
            except Exception:
                pass  # best-effort alias loading
        return self._register_for_non_skill_agents(
            registrar, [cmd_tmpl], source_id, cmd_path.parent,
            only_agent=only_agent, extra_agents=extra_agents,
        )

    def _register_for_non_skill_agents(
        self,
        registrar: Any,
        commands: List[Dict[str, Any]],
        source_id: str,
        source_dir: Path,
        only_agent: Optional[str] = None,
        extra_agents: Optional[Set[str]] = None,
    ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
        """Register commands for non-skill agents during reconciliation.

        Skill-based agents (``/SKILL.md`` layout) are handled separately:
        - On removal: ``_unregister_skills()`` restores from core/extension,
          then ``_reconcile_skills()`` re-runs ``_register_skills()`` for the
          next winning preset so SKILL.md files get proper frontmatter and
          descriptions.
        - On install: ``_register_skills()`` writes formatted SKILL.md, then
          ``_reconcile_skills()`` ensures the actual priority winner is used.

        Writing raw command content to skill agents would produce invalid
        SKILL.md files (missing skill frontmatter, descriptions, etc.).

        Args:
            only_agent: If set, restrict registration to this single agent,
                matching the active-only rule applied by ``_register_commands``
                (#2948).
            extra_agents: Additional agent names to register for besides
                ``only_agent``. Used by post-removal reconciliation to also
                restore surviving content into historical agent directories
                a just-removed preset actually wrote to (#2948).

        Returns:
            ``{agent_name: [cmd_name, ...]}`` for every agent this call
            actually registered a command for, mirroring
            ``CommandRegistrar.register_commands_for_non_skill_agents``'s
            return value so callers can merge it into a preset's own
            ``registered_commands`` tracking (#2948).
        """
        return registrar.register_commands_for_non_skill_agents(
            commands, source_id, source_dir, self.project_root,
            only_agent=only_agent, extra_agents=extra_agents,
        )

    class _FilteredManifest:
        """Wrapper that exposes only selected command templates from a manifest.

        Used by _reconcile_skills to avoid overwriting skills for commands
        that aren't being reconciled.
        """

        def __init__(self, manifest: "PresetManifest", cmd_names: set):
            self._manifest = manifest
            self._cmd_names = cmd_names

        def __getattr__(self, name: str):
            return getattr(self._manifest, name)

        @property
        def templates(self) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
            return [
                t for t in self._manifest.templates
                if t.get("name") in self._cmd_names
            ]

    def _merge_pack_registered_skills(
        self, pack_id: str, written: Optional[Dict[str, List[str]]]
    ) -> None:
        """Merge actually-written agent skill registrations into a preset's metadata.

        Mirrors :meth:`_merge_pack_registered_commands` for the skills
        side: ``_reconcile_skills`` can render a preset's SKILL.md content
        into an agent directory the preset never wrote to before — most
        notably a historical (currently inactive) agent restored via
        ``extra_skills_dirs`` when a higher-priority preset is removed. If
        that write isn't reflected back into the winning preset's own
        ``registered_skills``, a later removal of this same preset only
        cleans up the agents it already knew about, orphaning the skill
        directory reconciliation just wrote to on its behalf (#2948).

        Args:
            pack_id: The preset whose metadata should be updated.
            written: ``{agent_name: [skill_name, ...]}`` actually written
                by the ``_register_skills`` call just made. A falsy value
                is a no-op.
        """
        if not written:
            return
        metadata = self.registry.get(pack_id)
        if metadata is None:
            return  # pack_id no longer installed (e.g. removed mid-loop)
        raw_existing_skills = metadata.get("registered_skills")
        if isinstance(raw_existing_skills, list) and raw_existing_skills:
            # Legacy flat-list value: infer real per-agent ownership from
            # on-disk provenance rather than guessing (#2948).
            fallback_agent = next(iter(written)) if written else None
            existing_skills = self._infer_legacy_skill_provenance(
                [n for n in raw_existing_skills if isinstance(n, str)],
                pack_id,
                fallback_agent=fallback_agent,
            )
        else:
            existing_skills = self._normalize_registered_skills(raw_existing_skills)
        merged_skills = copy.deepcopy(existing_skills)
        changed = (
            isinstance(raw_existing_skills, list) and bool(raw_existing_skills)
        )
        for agent_name, skill_names in written.items():
            if not skill_names:
                continue
            existing_names = merged_skills.get(agent_name, [])
            new_names = [n for n in skill_names if n not in existing_names]
            if new_names:
                merged_skills[agent_name] = existing_names + new_names
                changed = True
        if changed:
            self.registry.update(pack_id, {"registered_skills": merged_skills})

    def _reconcile_skills(
        self,
        command_names: List[str],
        extra_skills_dirs: Optional[
            Dict[Path, tuple[Optional[str], List[str]]]
        ] = None,
        target_agent: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> Set[str]:
        """Re-register skills for commands whose winning layer changed.

        After a preset is removed, finds the next preset in the priority
        stack that provides each command and re-runs skill registration
        for that preset so SKILL.md files reflect the current winner.

        Args:
            command_names: List of command names to reconcile skills for
            extra_skills_dirs: Additional
                ``{skills_dir: (renderer_agent, managed_skill_names)}``
                entries restored by ``_unregister_skills``. Reconciliation
                is limited to the names actually managed in each directory.
            target_agent: If set, report only command names written for this
                agent. Other callers receive the union of all written names.

        Returns:
            Command names whose skill output was successfully written.
        """
        if not command_names:
            return set()

        command_names = [
            name
            for name in command_names
            if self._extension_installed_for_command(name)
        ]
        if not command_names:
            return set()

        resolver = PresetResolver(self.project_root)
        active_skills_dir = self._get_skills_dir()

        from .. import load_init_options

        init_opts = load_init_options(self.project_root)
        active_ai = init_opts.get("ai") if isinstance(init_opts, dict) else None
        if not isinstance(active_ai, str) or not active_ai:
            active_ai = None

        # Cache registry once to avoid repeated filesystem reads
        presets_by_priority = list(self.registry.list_by_priority())

        # Group command names by winning preset to batch _register_skills calls
        # while only registering skills for the specific commands being
        # reconciled. This resolution (which preset/content wins) is
        # directory-independent, so it's computed once and then applied to
        # every affected directory below.
        preset_cmds: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
        non_preset_skills: List[tuple] = []
        managed_skill_names: set = set()
        reconciled_skill_commands: set[str] = set()

        for cmd_name in command_names:
            layers = resolver.collect_all_layers(cmd_name, "command")
            if not layers:
                continue

            skill_name, legacy_skill_name = self._skill_names_for_command(
                cmd_name
            )
            candidate_skill_names = {skill_name, legacy_skill_name}
            # Track whether any preset previously registered this skill
            # (i.e., it was actively managed), so a not-yet-existing skill
            # dir can be re-created per affected directory below.
            for _pid, meta in presets_by_priority:
                if not isinstance(meta, dict):
                    continue
                recorded = meta.get("registered_skills", [])
                if isinstance(recorded, dict):
                    recorded_names = {
                        name
                        for names in recorded.values()
                        if isinstance(names, list)
                        for name in names
                    }
                elif isinstance(recorded, list):
                    recorded_names = set(recorded)
                else:
                    recorded_names = set()
                recorded_candidates = (
                    candidate_skill_names & recorded_names
                )
                if recorded_candidates:
                    managed_skill_names.update(recorded_candidates)

            top_path = layers[0]["path"]
            # Find the preset that owns the winning layer
            found_preset = False
            for pack_id, _meta in presets_by_priority:
                pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                if top_path.is_relative_to(pack_dir):
                    preset_cmds.setdefault(pack_id, []).append(cmd_name)
                    found_preset = True
                    break
            if not found_preset:
                # Winner is a non-preset source (core/extension/override).
                # Track the winning layer path for skill restoration.
                non_preset_skills.append((skill_name, cmd_name, layers[0]))

        core_ext_skills = [s for s in non_preset_skills if s[2]["source"] != "project override"]
        override_skills = [s for s in non_preset_skills if s[2]["source"] == "project override"]

        def apply_to_dir(
            skills_dir: Path,
            dir_agent: Optional[str],
            *,
            is_active: bool,
            managed_names: Optional[Set[str]] = None,
        ) -> None:
            dir_managed_names = (
                managed_skill_names if managed_names is None else managed_names
            )
            # Restore skills for commands whose winner is non-preset.
            # _unregister_skills_in_dir can rmtree the skill dir, so
            # overrides must be handled directly (create dir + write)
            # without that call.
            dir_core_ext_names = [
                candidate
                for _skill_name, cmd_name, _top_layer in core_ext_skills
                for candidate in self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name)
                if candidate in dir_managed_names
            ]
            if dir_core_ext_names:
                self._unregister_skills_in_dir(
                    dir_core_ext_names, skills_dir, dir_agent
                )

            for _skill_name, cmd_name, top_layer in override_skills:
                target_skill_names = [
                    name
                    for name in self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name)
                    if name in dir_managed_names
                ]
                if not target_skill_names:
                    continue
                try:
                    from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
                    from .. import SKILL_DESCRIPTIONS
                    from ..shared_infra import _write_shared_text
                    registrar = CommandRegistrar()
                    content = top_layer["path"].read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                    fm, body = registrar.parse_frontmatter(content)
                    short_name = cmd_name
                    if short_name.startswith("speckit."):
                        short_name = short_name[len("speckit."):]
                    desc = fm.get("description", "") or SKILL_DESCRIPTIONS.get(
                        short_name.replace(".", "-"),
                        f"Command: {short_name}",
                    )
                    selected_ai = dir_agent if isinstance(dir_agent, str) else ""
                    if selected_ai:
                        body = registrar.resolve_skill_placeholders(
                            selected_ai, fm, body, self.project_root
                        )
                        body = self._resolve_skill_command_refs(
                            body, registrar, selected_ai, self.project_root
                        )
                    from ..integrations import get_integration
                    integration = get_integration(selected_ai) if selected_ai else None
                    skill_title = self._skill_title_from_command(cmd_name)
                    wrote_override = False
                    for target_skill_name in target_skill_names:
                        skill_subdir = skills_dir / target_skill_name
                        # Same symlink guard as _register_skills's
                        # registration path (#2948).
                        if not self._validate_skill_subdir(
                            skill_subdir,
                            create=True,
                            skills_root=skills_dir,
                        ):
                            continue
                        fm_data = registrar.build_skill_frontmatter(
                            selected_ai,
                            target_skill_name,
                            desc,
                            f"override:{cmd_name}",
                        )
                        registrar.apply_argument_hint(
                            fm, fm_data, integration
                        )
                        fm_text = dump_frontmatter(fm_data)
                        skill_content = (
                            f"---\n{fm_text}\n---\n\n"
                            f"# Speckit {skill_title} Skill\n\n{body}\n"
                        )
                        if integration is not None and hasattr(
                            integration, "post_process_skill_content"
                        ):
                            skill_content = (
                                integration.post_process_skill_content(
                                    skill_content
                                )
                            )
                        _write_shared_text(
                            skills_dir,
                            skill_subdir / "SKILL.md",
                            skill_content,
                        )
                        wrote_override = True
                    if (
                        wrote_override
                        and (
                            target_agent is None
                            or dir_agent == target_agent
                        )
                    ):
                        reconciled_skill_commands.add(cmd_name)
                except Exception:
                    pass  # best-effort override skill restoration

            # Register skills only for the specific commands being
            # reconciled, not all commands in each winning preset's
            # manifest.
            for pack_id, cmds in preset_cmds.items():
                dir_cmds = [
                    cmd
                    for cmd in cmds
                    if any(
                        name in dir_managed_names
                        for name in self._skill_names_for_command(cmd)
                    )
                ]
                if not dir_cmds:
                    continue
                pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"
                if not manifest_path.exists():
                    continue
                try:
                    manifest = PresetManifest(manifest_path)
                except PresetValidationError:
                    continue
                cmds_set = set(dir_cmds)
                filtered_manifest = self._FilteredManifest(manifest, cmds_set)
                # Not dead code: _register_skills only *overwrites* skill
                # subdirectories that already exist (plus brand-new ones for
                # the active ai_skills agent). For a restore into a
                # historical directory, _unregister_skills has just deleted
                # the retiring preset's subdirectory, so pre-create the
                # tracked (dir_managed_names) subdirectories here — under
                # the same symlink guard — or the surviving preset's
                # override would be silently skipped (#2948).
                for cmd_name in dir_cmds:
                    for skill_name in self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name):
                        if skill_name not in dir_managed_names:
                            continue
                        skill_subdir = skills_dir / skill_name
                        if not self._validate_skill_subdir(
                            skill_subdir,
                            create=True,
                            skills_root=skills_dir,
                        ):
                            continue
                if is_active:
                    # Preserve exact prior behaviour for the currently
                    # active directory (including the ability to create
                    # brand-new skill subdirectories when ai_skills is on).
                    written = self._register_skills(filtered_manifest, pack_dir)
                else:
                    written = self._register_skills(
                        filtered_manifest, pack_dir,
                        target_dir=skills_dir, target_agent=dir_agent or "",
                    )
                if target_agent is None:
                    written_names = {
                        name
                        for names in written.values()
                        for name in names
                    }
                else:
                    written_names = set(written.get(target_agent, []))
                for cmd_name in dir_cmds:
                    if written_names.intersection(
                        self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name)
                    ):
                        reconciled_skill_commands.add(cmd_name)
                # The winning preset may not have previously written to
                # this directory's agent (most notably a historical agent
                # reconciliation just restored content into via
                # extra_skills_dirs). If that write isn't merged back into
                # the preset's own registered_skills, its registry entry
                # silently lies about which directories it owns and a
                # later removal of this same preset orphans the directory
                # reconciliation just wrote to on its behalf (#2948).
                self._merge_pack_registered_skills(pack_id, written)

        extra_dirs = extra_skills_dirs or {}
        if active_skills_dir:
            active_provenance = extra_dirs.get(active_skills_dir)
            if extra_skills_dirs is None or active_provenance:
                apply_to_dir(
                    active_skills_dir,
                    active_ai,
                    is_active=True,
                    managed_names=(
                        set(active_provenance[1])
                        if active_provenance
                        else None
                    ),
                )

        for extra_dir, (extra_agent, extra_names) in extra_dirs.items():
            if extra_dir == active_skills_dir:
                continue  # already reconciled above as the active directory
            apply_to_dir(
                extra_dir,
                extra_agent,
                is_active=False,
                managed_names=set(extra_names),
            )

        return reconciled_skill_commands

    def _resolve_agent_skills_dir(self, agent_name: str) -> Path:
        """Resolve the real skill output directory for an integration."""
        from .. import _get_skills_dir as _project_skills_dir
        from ..agents import CommandRegistrar

        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        agent_config = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(agent_name)
        if agent_config and agent_config.get("extension") == "/SKILL.md":
            return registrar._resolve_agent_dir(
                agent_name, agent_config, self.project_root
            )
        return _project_skills_dir(self.project_root, agent_name)

    def _skills_validation_root(self, skills_dir: Path) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Return the trusted root containing a project or user skill dir."""
        for root in (self.project_root, Path.home()):
            if skills_dir.is_relative_to(root):
                return root
        return None

    def _get_skills_dir(self) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Return the active skills directory for preset skill overrides.

        Uses :func:`resolve_active_skills_dir` for activation/detection,
        then resolves native skill agents through the registrar's output
        directory so integrations such as Hermes write to their global
        skills path rather than their project-local detection marker.

        Returns ``None`` (instead of raising) when the directory cannot
        be created due to symlink, containment, or permission issues so
        that callers can fall back gracefully.
        """
        from .. import (
            _print_cli_warning,
            load_init_options,
            resolve_active_skills_dir,
        )
        from ..shared_infra import _ensure_safe_shared_directory
        try:
            skills_dir = resolve_active_skills_dir(self.project_root)
        except (ValueError, OSError) as exc:
            _print_cli_warning(
                "resolve", "skills directory", None, exc,
                continuing="Continuing without skill registration.",
            )
            return None
        if skills_dir is None:
            return None

        opts = load_init_options(self.project_root)
        selected_ai = opts.get("ai") if isinstance(opts, dict) else None
        if not isinstance(selected_ai, str) or not selected_ai:
            return skills_dir

        agent_skills_dir = self._resolve_agent_skills_dir(selected_ai)
        if agent_skills_dir == skills_dir:
            return skills_dir

        validation_root = self._skills_validation_root(agent_skills_dir)
        if validation_root is None:
            _print_cli_warning(
                "resolve",
                "skills directory",
                str(agent_skills_dir),
                ValueError("skills directory is outside trusted roots"),
                continuing="Continuing without skill registration.",
            )
            return None
        try:
            _ensure_safe_shared_directory(
                validation_root,
                agent_skills_dir,
                context="preset skills directory",
            )
        except (ValueError, OSError) as exc:
            _print_cli_warning(
                "resolve", "skills directory", str(agent_skills_dir), exc,
                continuing="Continuing without skill registration.",
            )
            return None
        return agent_skills_dir

    @staticmethod
    def _skill_names_for_command(cmd_name: str) -> tuple[str, str]:
        """Return the modern and legacy skill directory names for a command."""
        raw_short_name = cmd_name
        if raw_short_name.startswith("speckit."):
            raw_short_name = raw_short_name[len("speckit."):]

        modern_skill_name = f"speckit-{raw_short_name.replace('.', '-')}"
        legacy_skill_name = f"speckit.{raw_short_name}"
        return modern_skill_name, legacy_skill_name

    @staticmethod
    def _skill_title_from_command(cmd_name: str) -> str:
        """Return a human-friendly title for a skill command name."""
        title_name = cmd_name
        if title_name.startswith("speckit."):
            title_name = title_name[len("speckit."):]
        return title_name.replace(".", " ").replace("-", " ").title()

    @staticmethod
    def _resolve_skill_command_refs(
        body: str,
        registrar: "CommandRegistrar",
        selected_ai: str,
        project_root: "Path | None" = None,
    ) -> str:
        """Render ``__SPECKIT_COMMAND_*__`` tokens in a skill body as invocations.

        Looks up the agent's invoke separator and rewrites each
        ``__SPECKIT_COMMAND_<NAME>__`` placeholder into the matching
        slash-command invocation — ``/speckit-<cmd>`` for a ``-`` separator,
        ``/speckit.<cmd>`` for ``.`` — the same rendering the command layer
        applies via ``CommandRegistrar.register_commands()``.

        For dual-layout agents (e.g. Bob) the separator depends on the
        project's persisted skills state, so — when *project_root* is provided
        — the separator is resolved from the integration via
        ``invoke_separator_for_mode`` rather than the single static
        ``AGENT_CONFIGS`` value.
        """
        separator = None
        if project_root is not None and isinstance(selected_ai, str):
            try:
                from .. import load_init_options
                from ..integrations import get_integration

                integration = get_integration(selected_ai)
                if integration is not None:
                    separator = integration.invoke_separator_for_mode(
                        is_ai_skills_enabled(load_init_options(project_root))
                    )
            except Exception:
                separator = None
        if separator is None:
            separator = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(selected_ai, {}).get(
                "invoke_separator", "."
            )
        return IntegrationBase.resolve_command_refs(body, separator)

    def _build_extension_skill_restore_index(self) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Index extension-backed skill restore data by skill directory name."""
        from ..extensions import ExtensionManifest, ValidationError

        resolver = PresetResolver(self.project_root)
        extensions_dir = self.project_root / ".specify" / "extensions"
        restore_index: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]] = {}

        for _priority, ext_id, _metadata in resolver._get_all_extensions_by_priority():
            ext_dir = extensions_dir / ext_id
            manifest_path = ext_dir / "extension.yml"
            if not manifest_path.is_file():
                continue

            try:
                manifest = ExtensionManifest(manifest_path)
            except (ValidationError, TypeError, AttributeError):
                continue

            ext_root = ext_dir.resolve()
            for cmd_info in manifest.commands:
                cmd_name = cmd_info.get("name")
                cmd_file_rel = cmd_info.get("file")
                if not isinstance(cmd_name, str) or not isinstance(cmd_file_rel, str):
                    continue

                cmd_path = Path(cmd_file_rel)
                if cmd_path.is_absolute():
                    continue

                try:
                    source_file = (ext_root / cmd_path).resolve()
                    source_file.relative_to(ext_root)
                except (OSError, ValueError):
                    continue

                if not source_file.is_file():
                    continue

                restore_info = {
                    "command_name": cmd_name,
                    "source_file": source_file,
                    "source": f"extension:{manifest.id}",
                    "extension_id": manifest.id,
                    "extension_dir": ext_root,
                }
                modern_skill_name, legacy_skill_name = self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name)
                restore_index.setdefault(modern_skill_name, restore_info)
                if legacy_skill_name != modern_skill_name:
                    restore_index.setdefault(legacy_skill_name, restore_info)

        return restore_index

    def _register_skills(
        self,
        manifest: "PresetManifest",
        preset_dir: Path,
        *,
        target_dir: Optional[Path] = None,
        target_agent: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
        """Generate SKILL.md files for preset command overrides.

        For every command template in the preset, checks whether a
        corresponding skill already exists in any detected skills
        directory.  If so, the skill is overwritten with content derived
        from the preset's command file.  This ensures that presets that
        override commands also propagate to the agentskills.io skill
        layer when skills mode was used during project initialisation.

        Args:
            manifest: Preset manifest.
            preset_dir: Installed preset directory.
            target_dir: Explicit skills directory to render into, instead
                of resolving the currently active one. Used by
                ``_reconcile_skills`` to restore a surviving preset's
                override into a historical (currently inactive) agent's
                directory that removal of a higher-priority preset just
                reverted (#2948).
            target_agent: Explicit agent name to render for, paired with
                ``target_dir``. When set, skills are only ever restored
                into already-tracked directories/names — brand-new skill
                subdirectories are never created for a non-active,
                explicitly targeted directory (that creation path is only
                meaningful for the currently active agent).

        Returns:
            ``{agent_name: [skill_name, ...]}`` for the single active
            agent skills were written for (empty if none were written),
            matching the shape ``registered_commands`` already uses so the
            two can be tracked/restored consistently (#2948).
        """
        command_templates = [
            t for t in manifest.templates if t.get("type") == "command"
        ]
        if not command_templates:
            return {}

        # Filter out extension command overrides if the extension isn't installed,
        # matching the same logic used by _register_commands().
        filtered = [
            cmd
            for cmd in command_templates
            if self._extension_installed_for_command(cmd["name"])
        ]

        if not filtered:
            return {}

        skills_dir = target_dir if target_dir is not None else self._get_skills_dir()
        if not skills_dir:
            return {}

        from .. import SKILL_DESCRIPTIONS, load_init_options
        from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
        from ..integrations import get_integration
        from ..shared_infra import _write_shared_text

        init_opts = load_init_options(self.project_root)
        if not isinstance(init_opts, dict):
            init_opts = {}
        selected_ai = target_agent if target_agent is not None else init_opts.get("ai")
        if not isinstance(selected_ai, str) or not selected_ai:
            return {}
        # A target_dir/target_agent call reconciles an explicitly-known,
        # already-tracked directory (see _reconcile_skills) rather than the
        # currently active agent, so ai_skills_enabled must not be derived
        # from the *current* project-wide toggle for that other agent — it
        # only controls whether brand-new skill subdirectories may be
        # created below, which is only meaningful for the active agent.
        ai_skills_enabled = target_agent is None and is_ai_skills_enabled(init_opts)
        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        integration = get_integration(selected_ai)
        agent_config = registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(selected_ai, {})
        # Native skill agents (e.g. codex/kimi/agy/trae) materialize brand-new
        # preset skills in _register_commands() because their detected agent
        # directory is already the skills directory. This flag is only for
        # command-backed agents that also mirror commands into skills.
        create_missing_skills = ai_skills_enabled and agent_config.get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"

        written: List[str] = []

        for cmd_tmpl in filtered:
            cmd_name = cmd_tmpl["name"]
            cmd_file_rel = cmd_tmpl["file"]
            source_file = preset_dir / cmd_file_rel
            if not source_file.exists():
                continue

            # Use composed content if available (written by _register_commands
            # for commands with non-replace strategies), otherwise the original.
            composed_file = preset_dir / ".composed" / f"{cmd_name}.md"
            if composed_file.exists():
                source_file = composed_file

            # Derive the short command name (e.g. "specify" from "speckit.specify")
            raw_short_name = cmd_name
            if raw_short_name.startswith("speckit."):
                raw_short_name = raw_short_name[len("speckit."):]
            short_name = raw_short_name.replace(".", "-")
            skill_name, legacy_skill_name = self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name)
            skill_title = self._skill_title_from_command(cmd_name)

            # Only overwrite skills that already exist under skills_dir,
            # including Kimi native skills when ai_skills is false.
            # If both modern and legacy directories exist, update both.
            target_skill_names: List[str] = []
            if (skills_dir / skill_name).is_dir():
                target_skill_names.append(skill_name)
            if legacy_skill_name != skill_name and (skills_dir / legacy_skill_name).is_dir():
                target_skill_names.append(legacy_skill_name)
            if not target_skill_names and create_missing_skills:
                missing_skill_dir = skills_dir / skill_name
                if not missing_skill_dir.exists():
                    target_skill_names.append(skill_name)
            if not target_skill_names:
                continue

            # Parse the command file
            content = source_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
            frontmatter, body = registrar.parse_frontmatter(content)

            if frontmatter.get("strategy") == "wrap":
                body, core_frontmatter = _substitute_core_template(body, cmd_name, self.project_root, registrar)
                frontmatter = dict(frontmatter)
                for key in ("scripts", "agent_scripts"):
                    if key not in frontmatter and key in core_frontmatter:
                        frontmatter[key] = core_frontmatter[key]

            original_desc = frontmatter.get("description", "")
            enhanced_desc = original_desc or SKILL_DESCRIPTIONS.get(
                short_name,
                f"Spec-kit workflow command: {short_name}",
            )
            frontmatter = dict(frontmatter)
            frontmatter["description"] = enhanced_desc
            body = registrar.resolve_skill_placeholders(
                selected_ai, frontmatter, body, self.project_root
            )
            body = self._resolve_skill_command_refs(body, registrar, selected_ai, self.project_root)

            for target_skill_name in target_skill_names:
                skill_subdir = skills_dir / target_skill_name
                if skill_subdir.exists() and not skill_subdir.is_dir():
                    continue
                # Validate (and create, if missing) the skill's own
                # subdirectory under the same symlink guard as its parent —
                # is_dir() above follows symlinks, so a symlinked subdir
                # with a real parent would otherwise slip through and have
                # SKILL.md written through it to an arbitrary location (#2948).
                if not self._validate_skill_subdir(
                    skill_subdir, create=True, skills_root=skills_dir
                ):
                    continue
                frontmatter_data = registrar.build_skill_frontmatter(
                    selected_ai,
                    target_skill_name,
                    enhanced_desc,
                    f"preset:{manifest.id}",
                )
                registrar.apply_argument_hint(frontmatter, frontmatter_data, integration)
                frontmatter_text = dump_frontmatter(frontmatter_data)
                skill_content = (
                    f"---\n"
                    f"{frontmatter_text}\n"
                    f"---\n\n"
                    f"# Speckit {skill_title} Skill\n\n"
                    f"{body}\n"
                )
                if integration is not None and hasattr(integration, "post_process_skill_content"):
                    skill_content = integration.post_process_skill_content(
                        skill_content
                    )

                skill_file = skill_subdir / "SKILL.md"
                _write_shared_text(
                    skills_dir, skill_file, skill_content
                )
                written.append(target_skill_name)
                self._merge_pack_registered_skills(
                    manifest.id, {selected_ai: [target_skill_name]}
                )

        return {selected_ai: written} if written else {}

    def _infer_legacy_skill_provenance(
        self, skill_names: List[str], pack_id: str, fallback_agent: str
    ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
        """Infer per-agent ownership of a legacy flat-list ``registered_skills`` value.

        Pre-#2948 registries recorded ``registered_skills`` as a flat list
        with no record of which agent directory each name was actually
        written under. Blindly attributing every name to ``fallback_agent``
        (the agent currently being processed) loses the real writer whenever
        the *first* operation after upgrading is a direct switch to a
        *different* agent — e.g. a legacy Copilot override (written while
        Copilot was active with ``ai_skills`` enabled) followed directly by
        ``integration use claude``, with no intervening rescaffold for
        Copilot — permanently orphaning Copilot's override on later
        removal.

        Every project-local configured integration's skills directory is probed (via
        the same safe, symlink-validated helpers used for
        restore/removal), not only agents whose registrar config is
        statically ``/SKILL.md``-only: a command-backed agent (e.g.
        Copilot, whose command extension is ``.agent.md``) renders its
        preset overrides as ``SKILL.md`` files exactly like a native
        skill-only agent whenever it was the active agent with
        ``ai_skills`` enabled, so excluding it would miss real,
        preset-owned provenance and misattribute it to whichever agent
        happens to be processed first. Each directory is probed for a
        ``SKILL.md`` whose frontmatter records this exact preset as the
        owner (``metadata.source == "preset:<pack_id>"``, the same marker
        :meth:`_register_skills` writes) — this marker check is what keeps
        the broadened probe from falsely attributing ownership to an
        agent's directory that never actually held this preset's override
        (e.g. a command-mode agent that never rendered skills, or an
        unrelated skill of the same name). A name can legitimately be
        found under more than one agent's directory — the preset may have
        been active while the user switched between several agents before
        provenance tracking existed — so every matching agent is recorded,
        not just the first. Names that can't be matched to any directory
        (e.g. the file was deleted out of band) fall back to
        ``fallback_agent``, preserving the previous best-effort behaviour
        for the unrecoverable case.
        """
        from ..agents import CommandRegistrar

        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        candidate_agents = sorted(registrar.AGENT_CONFIGS)

        # Multiple agent names can resolve to the same physical directory
        # (e.g. agy/amp/codex/zed all use .agents/skills); group by
        # directory so each is probed once and attributed to a single
        # deterministic canonical agent name, matching the tie-break
        # already used by _unregister_skills's directory grouping. Deliberately
        # keep the unresolved path (matching what _safe_skills_dir_for_agent
        # already validated) rather than calling .resolve() here: on macOS
        # /var is itself a symlink to /private/var, so resolving would make
        # this path diverge from self.project_root's own resolution state
        # and make every subsequent containment check in
        # _validate_skill_subdir() spuriously fail.
        dir_to_agents: Dict[Path, List[str]] = {}
        for agent_name in candidate_agents:
            skills_dir = self._safe_skills_dir_for_agent(agent_name)
            if skills_dir is None:
                continue
            # Only project-local skills directories are eligible: the
            # legacy provenance markers don't record which project owns a
            # skill under a home directory, so deletion stays restricted
            # to the project root. Revisit if provenance ever records the
            # owning project.
            if not Path(os.path.abspath(skills_dir)).is_relative_to(
                Path(os.path.abspath(self.project_root))
            ):
                continue
            dir_to_agents.setdefault(skills_dir, []).append(agent_name)

        marker = f"preset:{pack_id}"
        # Filter unsafe names once, up front, rather than only inside the
        # matching loop: any name skipped there would otherwise still
        # land in "unmatched" below and get blindly attributed to
        # fallback_agent anyway, defeating the guard entirely (#2948).
        safe_skill_names = [
            name for name in skill_names if self._is_safe_registry_skill_name(name)
        ]
        inferred: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
        matched_names: set = set()
        for resolved_dir, agents in dir_to_agents.items():
            canonical_agent = fallback_agent if fallback_agent in agents else sorted(agents)[0]
            for name in safe_skill_names:
                skill_subdir = resolved_dir / name
                if not self._validate_skill_subdir(
                    skill_subdir, create=False, skills_root=resolved_dir
                ):
                    continue
                skill_file = skill_subdir / "SKILL.md"
                if not skill_file.is_file():
                    continue
                try:
                    content = skill_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
                    continue
                frontmatter, _ = registrar.parse_frontmatter(content)
                skill_metadata = frontmatter.get("metadata")
                source = (
                    skill_metadata.get("source")
                    if isinstance(skill_metadata, dict)
                    else None
                )
                if source == marker:
                    inferred.setdefault(canonical_agent, []).append(name)
                    matched_names.add(name)

        unmatched = [name for name in safe_skill_names if name not in matched_names]
        if unmatched and fallback_agent:
            fallback_names = inferred.setdefault(fallback_agent, [])
            for name in unmatched:
                if name not in fallback_names:
                    fallback_names.append(name)

        return inferred

    @staticmethod
    def _normalize_registered_skills(
        value: Any, fallback_agent: Optional[str] = None
    ) -> Dict[str, List[str]]:
        """Normalize a ``registered_skills`` registry value to per-agent form.

        The registry stores ``registered_skills`` as ``Dict[str, List[str]]``
        (agent name -> skill names actually written for that agent),
        mirroring ``registered_commands``. Older registries predate that
        provenance and stored a flat ``List[str]`` with no record of which
        agent directory the names were written under; since that can't be
        recovered, ``fallback_agent`` (when given) attributes the legacy
        list to the agent currently being processed so the format
        self-migrates on the next write. Without a fallback agent, legacy
        lists are dropped rather than guessed at.

        Callers that can identify the owning preset (i.e. have a
        ``pack_id``) should prefer :meth:`_infer_legacy_skill_provenance`
        for a legacy flat-list value instead, which probes on-disk
        provenance rather than assuming ``fallback_agent`` wrote every name.
        """
        if isinstance(value, dict):
            return {
                agent: list(names)
                for agent, names in value.items()
                if isinstance(agent, str) and isinstance(names, list)
            }
        if isinstance(value, list) and value and fallback_agent:
            return {fallback_agent: [n for n in value if isinstance(n, str)]}
        return {}

    def _safe_skills_dir_for_agent(self, agent_name: str) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Resolve ``agent_name``'s skills directory, validated for safety.

        Unlike :meth:`_get_skills_dir` (which resolves only the *currently
        active* integration via init-options), this resolves an arbitrary
        agent's directory from persisted provenance so a preset's skill
        registrations can be restored/cleaned up under an agent that isn't
        currently active. The candidate directory is validated through the
        project's shared symlink/containment guard before any file in it is
        touched; directories that don't exist or fail validation are
        skipped rather than raising.
        """
        from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
        from ..shared_infra import _ensure_safe_shared_directory

        if agent_name not in CommandRegistrar.AGENT_CONFIGS:
            return None
        skills_dir = self._resolve_agent_skills_dir(agent_name)
        validation_root = self._skills_validation_root(skills_dir)
        if validation_root is None:
            return None
        try:
            _ensure_safe_shared_directory(
                validation_root, skills_dir,
                create=False, context="preset skills directory",
            )
        except (ValueError, OSError):
            return None
        return skills_dir

    @staticmethod
    def _is_safe_registry_skill_name(name: Any) -> bool:
        """Validate a registry-provided skill name is a single safe path component.

        ``registered_skills`` entries are persisted registry data, not
        derived from the current preset manifest, so a corrupted or
        maliciously edited registry could contain an absolute path, a
        multi-segment path (containing ``/`` or ``\\``), or a traversal
        component (``"."``/``".."``) instead of a plain skill directory
        name. Any of these — if joined directly onto a skills directory —
        can escape the intended skill subtree while still resolving to a
        location inside the project root, which is enough to pass the
        parent-directory containment/symlink check alone (#2948). This
        centralizes the single boundary check every preset cleanup and
        provenance loop that consumes registry-provided skill names must
        apply before ever constructing a path from one.
        """
        if not isinstance(name, str) or not name:
            return False
        if name in (".", ".."):
            return False
        candidate = Path(name)
        if candidate.is_absolute():
            return False
        if len(candidate.parts) != 1:
            return False
        if candidate.name != name:
            return False
        return True

    def _validate_skill_subdir(
        self,
        skill_subdir: Path,
        *,
        create: bool,
        skills_root: Optional[Path] = None,
    ) -> bool:
        """Validate a single skill's subdirectory is symlink-free.

        Unlike :meth:`_safe_skills_dir_for_agent` (which only validates the
        *parent* skills directory), this validates the skill's own
        subdirectory — e.g. ``.claude/skills/speckit-specify`` — so a
        symlink planted at that level (with a safe parent) can't be used to
        write or delete through to a location outside the project. Shared by
        both the registration path (``create=True``, so a missing directory
        is created component-by-component under the same guard) and the
        restore/removal path (``create=False``, so a missing directory is
        left for the caller's own existence check to skip). Returns
        ``False`` rather than raising when the path escapes the project
        root or crosses a symlink. ``skills_root`` supplies the trusted
        agent output boundary for native global skill integrations such as
        Hermes; project-local callers default to ``self.project_root``.
        """
        from ..shared_infra import _ensure_safe_shared_directory, _validate_safe_shared_directory

        validation_root = skills_root or self.project_root
        if validation_root.is_symlink():
            return False
        try:
            if create:
                _ensure_safe_shared_directory(
                    validation_root, skill_subdir,
                    create=True, context="preset skill directory",
                )
            else:
                _validate_safe_shared_directory(
                    validation_root, skill_subdir
                )
        except (ValueError, OSError):
            return False
        return True

    def _unregister_skills(
        self,
        registered_skills: Union[Dict[str, List[str]], List[str]],
        preset_dir: Union[Path, str],
        *,
        additional_owned_sources: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
    ) -> Dict[Path, tuple[Optional[str], List[str]]]:
        """Restore original SKILL.md files after a preset is removed.

        For each skill that was overridden by the preset, attempts to
        regenerate the skill from the core command template.  If no core
        template exists, the skill directory is removed.

        ``registered_skills`` records exactly which agent directories this
        preset actually wrote to (see :meth:`_register_skills`), so removal
        restores precisely those directories rather than guessing at every
        skill-mode agent that happens to exist on disk. Each directory is
        re-resolved and safety-validated at removal time (see
        :meth:`_safe_skills_dir_for_agent`) since it may belong to an agent
        that isn't currently active.

        Args:
            registered_skills: Per-agent skill names written by the preset
                (``{agent_name: [skill_name, ...]}``), or a legacy flat
                ``List[str]`` from a registry written before this
                provenance tracking existed.
            preset_dir: The preset's installed directory (may already be deleted).
            additional_owned_sources: Generated non-preset source markers
                that this cleanup may also replace for specific skill names.

        Returns:
            ``{skills_dir: (renderer_agent, managed_skill_names)}`` for
            every directory and skill name actually restored or removed.
        """
        if not registered_skills:
            return {}

        pack_id = preset_dir if isinstance(preset_dir, str) else preset_dir.name

        if isinstance(registered_skills, dict):
            from .. import load_init_options

            init_opts = load_init_options(self.project_root)
            active_agent = init_opts.get("ai") if isinstance(init_opts, dict) else None
            if not isinstance(active_agent, str) or not active_agent:
                active_agent = None

            # Multiple integration keys can share the same physical
            # directory (e.g. agy/codex/zed all resolve to
            # ``.agents/skills``). Restoring that directory once per
            # recorded agent would have each pass's agent-specific
            # rendering (frontmatter, post-processing) overwrite the
            # previous one, with whichever agent is iterated *last* silently
            # winning regardless of which agent is actually active. Group
            # provenance by resolved directory so each physical directory is
            # restored exactly once, using the active agent's renderer when
            # it shares that directory (otherwise any recorded owner,
            # chosen deterministically).
            groups: Dict[Path, Dict[str, Any]] = {}
            for agent_name, skill_names in registered_skills.items():
                if not skill_names:
                    continue
                skills_dir = self._safe_skills_dir_for_agent(agent_name)
                if skills_dir is None:
                    continue
                group = groups.setdefault(skills_dir, {"agents": [], "names": []})
                group["agents"].append(agent_name)
                for name in skill_names:
                    if (
                        self._is_safe_registry_skill_name(name)
                        and name not in group["names"]
                    ):
                        group["names"].append(name)

            restored: Dict[Path, tuple[Optional[str], List[str]]] = {}
            for skills_dir, group in groups.items():
                agents = group["agents"]
                renderer_agent = (
                    active_agent if active_agent in agents else sorted(agents)[0]
                )
                mutated_names = self._unregister_skills_in_dir(
                    group["names"],
                    skills_dir,
                    renderer_agent,
                    pack_id=pack_id,
                    additional_owned_sources=additional_owned_sources,
                )
                if mutated_names:
                    restored[skills_dir] = (
                        renderer_agent,
                        mutated_names,
                    )
            return restored

        # Legacy flat-list format: no record of which agent directory these
        # names were written under, so best-effort restore is limited to the
        # currently active agent's directory (the pre-provenance behaviour).
        skills_dir = self._get_skills_dir()
        if not skills_dir:
            return {}
        from .. import load_init_options

        init_opts = load_init_options(self.project_root)
        if not isinstance(init_opts, dict):
            init_opts = {}
        selected_ai = init_opts.get("ai")
        selected_ai = selected_ai if isinstance(selected_ai, str) else None
        safe_names = [
            name
            for name in registered_skills
            if self._is_safe_registry_skill_name(name)
        ]
        mutated_names = self._unregister_skills_in_dir(
            safe_names,
            skills_dir,
            selected_ai,
            pack_id=pack_id,
            additional_owned_sources=additional_owned_sources,
        )
        return (
            {skills_dir: (selected_ai, mutated_names)}
            if mutated_names
            else {}
        )

    def _delete_agent_preset_skills(
        self, agent_name: str, skill_names: List[str], pack_id: str
    ) -> None:
        """Delete still-preset-owned skills when an agent is deactivated."""
        skills_dir = self._safe_skills_dir_for_agent(agent_name)
        if skills_dir is None:
            return

        from ..agents import CommandRegistrar

        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        marker = f"preset:{pack_id}"
        override_sources: Dict[str, str] = {}
        manifest = PresetResolver(self.project_root)._get_manifest(
            self.presets_dir / pack_id
        )
        if manifest is not None:
            for template in manifest.templates:
                command_name = template.get("name")
                if (
                    template.get("type") == "command"
                    and isinstance(command_name, str)
                ):
                    for skill_name in self._skill_names_for_command(
                        command_name
                    ):
                        override_sources[skill_name] = (
                            f"override:{command_name}"
                        )
        for skill_name in skill_names:
            if not self._is_safe_registry_skill_name(skill_name):
                continue
            skill_subdir = skills_dir / skill_name
            if not self._validate_skill_subdir(
                skill_subdir, create=False, skills_root=skills_dir
            ):
                continue
            skill_file = skill_subdir / "SKILL.md"
            if not skill_file.is_file():
                continue
            try:
                content = skill_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
            except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
                continue
            frontmatter, _ = registrar.parse_frontmatter(content)
            metadata = frontmatter.get("metadata")
            source = (
                metadata.get("source")
                if isinstance(metadata, dict)
                else None
            )
            owned_sources = {marker}
            override_source = override_sources.get(skill_name)
            if override_source:
                owned_sources.add(override_source)
            if source in owned_sources:
                shutil.rmtree(skill_subdir)

    def _unregister_skills_in_dir(
        self,
        skill_names: List[str],
        skills_dir: Path,
        selected_ai: Optional[str],
        *,
        pack_id: Optional[str] = None,
        additional_owned_sources: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
    ) -> List[str]:
        """Restore original SKILL.md files within a single skills directory.

        Args:
            skill_names: List of skill names written by the preset.
            skills_dir: The skills directory to restore within.
            selected_ai: The agent name that owns ``skills_dir``, used for
                placeholder resolution and argument-hint formatting.
            additional_owned_sources: Generated non-preset source markers
                accepted as owned for specific skill names.

        Returns:
            Skill names whose files were restored or removed.
        """
        from .. import SKILL_DESCRIPTIONS
        from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
        from ..integrations import get_integration
        from ..shared_infra import _write_shared_text

        # Locate core command templates from the project's installed templates
        core_templates_dir = self.project_root / ".specify" / "templates" / "commands"
        registrar = CommandRegistrar()
        integration = get_integration(selected_ai) if isinstance(selected_ai, str) else None
        extension_restore_index = self._build_extension_skill_restore_index()
        mutated_names: List[str] = []

        for skill_name in skill_names:
            # Guard against a corrupted/malicious registry entry: a
            # registered_skills name is persisted data, not derived from
            # the current manifest, so it must be validated as a single,
            # relative, non-"."/".." path component before ever being
            # joined onto skills_dir. Without this, an absolute name
            # discards skills_dir entirely (Path's "/" operator drops the
            # left side for an absolute right side) or a multi-component
            # name containing ".." can resolve to a different, unrelated
            # directory that still happens to be inside the project root
            # — passing the containment-only symlink guard below and
            # letting removal overwrite/delete it (#2948).
            if not self._is_safe_registry_skill_name(skill_name):
                continue

            # Derive command name from skill name (speckit-specify -> specify)
            short_name = skill_name
            if short_name.startswith("speckit-"):
                short_name = short_name[len("speckit-"):]
            elif short_name.startswith("speckit."):
                short_name = short_name[len("speckit."):]

            skill_subdir = skills_dir / skill_name
            skill_file = skill_subdir / "SKILL.md"
            if not skill_subdir.is_dir():
                continue
            # is_dir() follows symlinks, so a symlinked skill subdirectory
            # (with a safe, non-symlinked parent) would otherwise slip past
            # _safe_skills_dir_for_agent's parent-only check and have
            # write_text/rmtree operate through it (#2948).
            if not self._validate_skill_subdir(
                skill_subdir, create=False, skills_root=skills_dir
            ):
                continue
            if not skill_file.is_file():
                # Only manage directories that contain the expected skill entrypoint.
                continue
            if pack_id is not None:
                try:
                    current_content = skill_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError):
                    continue
                current_frontmatter, _ = registrar.parse_frontmatter(current_content)
                current_metadata = current_frontmatter.get("metadata")
                current_source = (
                    current_metadata.get("source")
                    if isinstance(current_metadata, dict)
                    else None
                )
                owned_sources = {f"preset:{pack_id}"}
                if additional_owned_sources:
                    additional_source = additional_owned_sources.get(
                        skill_name
                    )
                    if additional_source:
                        owned_sources.add(additional_source)
                if current_source not in owned_sources:
                    continue

            # Try to find the core command template
            core_file = core_templates_dir / f"{short_name}.md" if core_templates_dir.exists() else None
            if core_file and not core_file.exists():
                core_file = None

            if core_file:
                # Restore from core template
                content = core_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                frontmatter, body = registrar.parse_frontmatter(content)
                if isinstance(selected_ai, str):
                    body = registrar.resolve_skill_placeholders(
                        selected_ai, frontmatter, body, self.project_root
                    )
                    body = self._resolve_skill_command_refs(
                        body, registrar, selected_ai, self.project_root
                    )

                original_desc = frontmatter.get("description", "")
                enhanced_desc = original_desc or SKILL_DESCRIPTIONS.get(
                    short_name,
                    f"Spec-kit workflow command: {short_name}",
                )

                frontmatter_data = registrar.build_skill_frontmatter(
                    selected_ai if isinstance(selected_ai, str) else "",
                    skill_name,
                    enhanced_desc,
                    f"templates/commands/{short_name}.md",
                )
                registrar.apply_argument_hint(frontmatter, frontmatter_data, integration)
                frontmatter_text = dump_frontmatter(frontmatter_data)
                skill_title = self._skill_title_from_command(short_name)
                skill_content = (
                    f"---\n"
                    f"{frontmatter_text}\n"
                    f"---\n\n"
                    f"# Speckit {skill_title} Skill\n\n"
                    f"{body}\n"
                )
                if integration is not None and hasattr(integration, "post_process_skill_content"):
                    skill_content = integration.post_process_skill_content(
                        skill_content
                    )
                _write_shared_text(skills_dir, skill_file, skill_content)
                mutated_names.append(skill_name)
                continue

            extension_restore = extension_restore_index.get(skill_name)
            if extension_restore:
                content = extension_restore["source_file"].read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                frontmatter, body = registrar.parse_frontmatter(content)
                # Mirror the register-time rewrite (#2101): resolve
                # extension-relative subdir references (agents/,
                # knowledge-base/, etc.) to their installed location before
                # the generic placeholder resolution below, otherwise
                # restoring after a preset override removal would leave
                # bare, unresolvable paths in the skill body.
                body = registrar.rewrite_extension_paths(
                    body,
                    extension_restore["extension_id"],
                    extension_restore["extension_dir"],
                )
                if isinstance(selected_ai, str):
                    body = registrar.resolve_skill_placeholders(
                        selected_ai, frontmatter, body, self.project_root
                    )
                    body = self._resolve_skill_command_refs(
                        body, registrar, selected_ai, self.project_root
                    )

                command_name = extension_restore["command_name"]
                title_name = self._skill_title_from_command(command_name)

                frontmatter_data = registrar.build_skill_frontmatter(
                    selected_ai if isinstance(selected_ai, str) else "",
                    skill_name,
                    frontmatter.get("description", f"Extension command: {command_name}"),
                    extension_restore["source"],
                )
                registrar.apply_argument_hint(frontmatter, frontmatter_data, integration)
                frontmatter_text = dump_frontmatter(frontmatter_data)
                skill_content = (
                    f"---\n"
                    f"{frontmatter_text}\n"
                    f"---\n\n"
                    f"# {title_name} Skill\n\n"
                    f"{body}\n"
                )
                if integration is not None and hasattr(integration, "post_process_skill_content"):
                    skill_content = integration.post_process_skill_content(
                        skill_content
                    )
                _write_shared_text(skills_dir, skill_file, skill_content)
                mutated_names.append(skill_name)
            else:
                # No core or extension template — remove the skill entirely
                shutil.rmtree(skill_subdir)
                mutated_names.append(skill_name)

        return mutated_names

    def install_from_directory(
        self,
        source_dir: Path,
        speckit_version: str,
        priority: int = 10,
    ) -> PresetManifest:
        """Install preset from a local directory.

        Args:
            source_dir: Path to preset directory
            speckit_version: Current spec-kit version
            priority: Resolution priority (lower = higher precedence, default 10)

        Returns:
            Installed preset manifest

        Raises:
            PresetValidationError: If manifest is invalid or priority is invalid
            PresetCompatibilityError: If pack is incompatible
        """
        # Validate priority
        if priority < 1:
            raise PresetValidationError("Priority must be a positive integer (1 or higher)")

        manifest_path = source_dir / "preset.yml"
        manifest = PresetManifest(manifest_path)

        self.check_compatibility(manifest, speckit_version)

        if self.registry.is_installed(manifest.id):
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset '{manifest.id}' is already installed. "
                f"Use 'specify preset remove {manifest.id}' first."
            )

        dest_dir = self.presets_dir / manifest.id
        if dest_dir.exists():
            shutil.rmtree(dest_dir)

        shutil.copytree(source_dir, dest_dir)

        # Pre-register the preset so that composition resolution can see it
        # in the priority stack when resolving composed command content.
        self.registry.add(manifest.id, {
            "version": manifest.version,
            "source": "local",
            "manifest_hash": manifest.get_hash(),
            "enabled": True,
            "priority": priority,
            "registered_commands": {},
            "registered_skills": {},
        })

        registered_commands: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
        registered_skills: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
        try:
            # Register command overrides with AI agents and persist the result
            # immediately so cleanup can recover even if installation stops
            # before later phases complete.
            registered_commands = self._register_commands(manifest, dest_dir)
            self.registry.update(manifest.id, {
                "registered_commands": registered_commands,
            })

            # Update corresponding skills when skills mode was previously used
            # and persist that result as well.
            registered_skills = self._register_skills(manifest, dest_dir)
            self.registry.update(manifest.id, {
                "registered_skills": registered_skills,
            })
        except Exception:
            # Roll back all side effects. _register_skills persists each
            # successful write immediately, so reload that partial map when
            # a later template fails before the call can return.
            if registered_commands:
                self._unregister_commands(registered_commands)
            persisted_metadata = self.registry.get(manifest.id) or {}
            persisted_skills = persisted_metadata.get(
                "registered_skills", registered_skills
            )
            if persisted_skills:
                self._unregister_skills(persisted_skills, dest_dir)
            try:
                if dest_dir.exists():
                    shutil.rmtree(dest_dir)
            except OSError:
                pass  # best-effort cleanup; don't mask the original error
            self.registry.remove(manifest.id)
            raise

        # Reconcile all affected commands from the full priority stack so that
        # install order doesn't determine the winning command file.
        cmd_names = [
            t["name"]
            for t in manifest.templates
            if t.get("type") == "command"
        ]
        if cmd_names:
            try:
                self._reconcile_composed_commands(cmd_names)
                self._reconcile_skills(cmd_names)
            except Exception as exc:
                import warnings
                warnings.warn(
                    f"Post-install reconciliation failed for {manifest.id}: {exc}. "
                    f"Agent command files may not reflect the current priority stack.",
                    stacklevel=2,
                )

        # Seed/re-seed memory/constitution.md from a preset-provided
        # constitution-template. The constitution is the only template that is
        # materialized to a live file rather than resolved on demand, so a
        # preset that ships one (e.g. strategy: replace with a ratified
        # constitution) must be propagated here. Guard against clobbering an
        # already-authored constitution by only replacing a file whose recorded
        # hash (or exact legacy core-template content) proves it was generated.
        self._seed_constitution_from_preset(manifest, dest_dir)

        return manifest

    def _seed_constitution_from_preset(
        self, manifest: PresetManifest, preset_dir: Path
    ) -> None:
        """Seed memory/constitution.md from a preset constitution-template.

        Only runs when the preset declares a ``type: template`` entry named
        ``constitution-template`` or provides one at a convention path, and the
        live memory file is either missing or is an unchanged generated file.
        Authored constitutions are never overwritten.
        """
        provides_constitution = any(
            t.get("type") == "template" and t.get("name") == "constitution-template"
            for t in manifest.templates
        ) or any(
            (preset_dir / relative_path).is_file()
            for relative_path in (
                "templates/constitution-template.md",
                "constitution-template.md",
            )
        )
        if not provides_constitution:
            return

        self.reconcile_constitution(
            f"Failed to seed constitution from preset {manifest.id}",
            create_if_missing=True,
        )

    def reconcile_constitution(
        self, failure_context: str, *, create_if_missing: bool = False
    ) -> None:
        """Reconcile generated constitution content without failing a persisted change."""
        try:
            self._reconcile_constitution(create_if_missing=create_if_missing)
        except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError, PresetValidationError, ValueError) as exc:
            import warnings

            warnings.warn(
                f"{failure_context}: {exc}.",
                stacklevel=2,
            )

    def _reconcile_constitution(self, *, create_if_missing: bool = False) -> None:
        """Materialize the winning constitution layer when the live file is generated."""
        memory_constitution = (
            self.project_root / ".specify" / "memory" / "constitution.md"
        )
        if not memory_constitution.exists() and not create_if_missing:
            return
        resolver = PresetResolver(self.project_root)
        if memory_constitution.exists() and not _constitution_is_generated(
            self.project_root, memory_constitution, resolver
        ):
            return
        _materialize_constitution_template(self.project_root, memory_constitution)

    def install_from_zip(
        self,
        zip_path: Path,
        speckit_version: str,
        priority: int = 10,
    ) -> PresetManifest:
        """Install preset from ZIP file.

        Args:
            zip_path: Path to preset ZIP file
            speckit_version: Current spec-kit version
            priority: Resolution priority (lower = higher precedence, default 10)

        Returns:
            Installed preset manifest

        Raises:
            PresetValidationError: If manifest is invalid or priority is invalid
            PresetCompatibilityError: If pack is incompatible
        """
        # Validate priority early
        if priority < 1:
            raise PresetValidationError("Priority must be a positive integer (1 or higher)")

        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
            temp_path = Path(tmpdir)

            with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zf:
                temp_path_resolved = temp_path.resolve()
                for member in zf.namelist():
                    member_path = (temp_path / member).resolve()
                    try:
                        member_path.relative_to(temp_path_resolved)
                    except ValueError:
                        raise PresetValidationError(
                            f"Unsafe path in ZIP archive: {member} "
                            "(potential path traversal)"
                        )
                zf.extractall(temp_path)

            pack_dir = temp_path
            manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"

            if not manifest_path.exists():
                subdirs = [d for d in temp_path.iterdir() if d.is_dir()]
                if len(subdirs) == 1:
                    pack_dir = subdirs[0]
                    manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"

            if not manifest_path.exists():
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    "No preset.yml found in ZIP file"
                )

            return self.install_from_directory(pack_dir, speckit_version, priority)

    def remove(self, pack_id: str) -> bool:
        """Remove an installed preset.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID

        Returns:
            True if pack was removed
        """
        if not self.registry.is_installed(pack_id):
            return False

        metadata = self.registry.get(pack_id)
        # Restore original skills when preset is removed
        registered_skills = metadata.get("registered_skills", []) if metadata else []
        if isinstance(registered_skills, list) and registered_skills:
            # Legacy flat-list registries predate per-agent provenance
            # tracking. Migration to the per-agent dict form previously
            # only happened during a rescaffold (register_enabled_presets_
            # for_agent); if the *first* post-upgrade operation is instead
            # `preset remove` (no intervening use/upgrade), the legacy
            # branch of _unregister_skills restores only the currently
            # active agent's directory, leaving this preset's overrides in
            # every previously active agent's directory orphaned. Infer
            # real per-agent ownership from the on-disk preset marker now,
            # while pack_id is still known, and hand the resulting mapping
            # through the same dict-based cleanup path already used for
            # non-legacy registries (#2948).
            from .. import load_init_options

            init_opts = load_init_options(self.project_root)
            fallback_agent = init_opts.get("ai") if isinstance(init_opts, dict) else None
            if not isinstance(fallback_agent, str):
                fallback_agent = ""
            registered_skills = self._infer_legacy_skill_provenance(
                [name for name in registered_skills if isinstance(name, str)],
                pack_id,
                fallback_agent=fallback_agent,
            )
        registered_commands = metadata.get("registered_commands", {}) if metadata else {}
        pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id

        # Record which historical agents this preset's registered_commands
        # actually targeted, *before* any filtering below, so post-removal
        # reconciliation can restore a surviving lower-priority preset's
        # override into every one of those directories too — not only the
        # currently active agent's. Without this, removing a preset that
        # was rendered under a previously-active (now inactive) agent
        # deletes that agent's command file via _unregister_commands below,
        # but active-only reconciliation would only recreate the surviving
        # winner for the current agent, leaving the inactive integration
        # with a missing/stale file (#2948).
        try:
            from ..agents import CommandRegistrar as _CommandRegistrarForScope
        except ImportError:
            _CommandRegistrarForScope = None
        affected_command_agents = {
            agent_name
            for agent_name in registered_commands
            if _CommandRegistrarForScope is None
            or _CommandRegistrarForScope.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(agent_name, {}).get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
        }

        # Collect ALL command names before filtering for reconciliation,
        # so commands registered only for skill-based agents are also
        # reconciled. Every command-type template's primary name is added
        # unconditionally (not just aliases) since ai_skills-mode presets
        # never populate registered_commands for command-backed
        # integrations (see _register_commands's ai_skills guard) — without
        # this, removing a skills-mode preset that overrides a command no
        # other preset registered "the normal way" would skip reconciliation
        # entirely and _unregister_skills would restore core/extension
        # content instead of a surviving lower-priority preset's override.
        removed_cmd_names = set()
        removed_constitution = any(
            path.exists()
            for path in (
                pack_dir / "templates" / "constitution-template.md",
                pack_dir / "constitution-template.md",
            )
        )
        if metadata and isinstance(metadata.get("version"), str):
            memory_constitution = (
                self.project_root / ".specify" / "memory" / "constitution.md"
            )
            removed_constitution = removed_constitution or (
                _constitution_provenance_matches_preset(
                    self.project_root,
                    memory_constitution,
                    pack_id,
                    metadata["version"],
                )
            )
        for cmd_names in registered_commands.values():
            removed_cmd_names.update(cmd_names)
        manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"
        if manifest_path.exists():
            try:
                manifest = PresetManifest(manifest_path)
                for tmpl in manifest.templates:
                    if (
                        tmpl.get("type") == "template"
                        and tmpl.get("name") == "constitution-template"
                    ):
                        removed_constitution = True
                    if tmpl.get("type") == "command":
                        name = tmpl.get("name")
                        if isinstance(name, str):
                            removed_cmd_names.add(name)
                        for alias in tmpl.get("aliases", []):
                            if isinstance(alias, str):
                                removed_cmd_names.add(alias)
            except PresetValidationError:
                # Invalid manifest — skip alias extraction; primary command
                # names from registered_commands are still unregistered.
                pass

        affected_skill_dirs: Dict[
            Path, tuple[Optional[str], List[str]]
        ] = {}
        if registered_skills:
            restorable_skills = registered_skills
            # A skill tracked for a command-backed agent whose ai_skills is
            # now off is a leftover from a partially failed skills→command
            # toggle. Restoring it via _unregister_skills (and letting
            # _reconcile_skills reapply a surviving lower preset through
            # extra_skills_dirs) would hand the active command-mode agent a
            # skill artifact it must not have — its current representation
            # is the command file handled via registered_commands above.
            # Delete the preset-owned skill instead and keep its directory
            # out of restoration/reconciliation entirely (#2948). Inactive
            # agents' entries still restore as before.
            # The legacy branch above locally imports load_init_options,
            # shadowing the module-level name for this whole function.
            from .._init_options import load_init_options as _load_init_options

            resolved_active = resolve_active_agent_for_registration(
                self.project_root
            )
            if (
                isinstance(registered_skills, dict)
                and isinstance(resolved_active, str)
                and resolved_active in registered_skills
                and _CommandRegistrarForScope is not None
                and _CommandRegistrarForScope.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(
                    resolved_active, {}
                ).get("extension") != "/SKILL.md"
                and not is_ai_skills_enabled(
                    _load_init_options(self.project_root)
                )
            ):
                raw_names = registered_skills.get(resolved_active)
                stale_names = [
                    name
                    for name in (
                        raw_names if isinstance(raw_names, list) else []
                    )
                    if isinstance(name, str)
                ]
                restorable_skills = {
                    agent_name: names
                    for agent_name, names in registered_skills.items()
                    if agent_name != resolved_active
                }
                if stale_names:
                    self._delete_agent_preset_skills(
                        resolved_active, stale_names, pack_id
                    )
            override_sources = {
                skill_name: f"override:{command_name}"
                for command_name in removed_cmd_names
                for skill_name in self._skill_names_for_command(command_name)
            }
            affected_skill_dirs = self._unregister_skills(
                restorable_skills,
                pack_dir,
                additional_owned_sources=override_sources,
            )
            try:
                from ..agents import CommandRegistrar
            except ImportError:
                CommandRegistrar = None
            if CommandRegistrar is not None:
                skill_coverage = (
                    registered_skills
                    if isinstance(registered_skills, dict)
                    else {}
                )
                commands_to_unregister: Dict[str, List[str]] = {}
                for agent_name, cmd_names in registered_commands.items():
                    is_native_skill_agent = (
                        CommandRegistrar.AGENT_CONFIGS.get(
                            agent_name, {}
                        ).get("extension")
                        == "/SKILL.md"
                    )
                    if not is_native_skill_agent:
                        commands_to_unregister[agent_name] = cmd_names
                        continue

                    raw_skill_names = skill_coverage.get(agent_name, [])
                    covered_skill_names = {
                        name
                        for name in (
                            raw_skill_names
                            if isinstance(raw_skill_names, list)
                            else []
                        )
                        if isinstance(name, str)
                    }
                    uncovered_commands = [
                        cmd_name
                        for cmd_name in cmd_names
                        if not isinstance(cmd_name, str)
                        or covered_skill_names.isdisjoint(
                            self._skill_names_for_command(cmd_name)
                        )
                    ]
                    if uncovered_commands:
                        commands_to_unregister[agent_name] = (
                            uncovered_commands
                        )
                registered_commands = commands_to_unregister

        # Unregister non-skill command files from AI agents.
        if registered_commands:
            self._unregister_commands(registered_commands)

        if pack_dir.exists():
            shutil.rmtree(pack_dir)

        self.registry.remove(pack_id)

        # Reconcile: if other presets still provide these commands,
        # re-resolve from the remaining stack so the next layer takes effect.
        if removed_cmd_names:
            try:
                self._reconcile_composed_commands(
                    list(removed_cmd_names), extra_agents=affected_command_agents
                )
                self._reconcile_skills(
                    list(removed_cmd_names), extra_skills_dirs=affected_skill_dirs
                )
            except Exception as exc:
                import warnings
                warnings.warn(
                    f"Post-removal reconciliation failed for {pack_id}: {exc}. "
                    f"Agent command files may be stale; reinstall affected presets "
                    f"or run 'specify preset add' to refresh.",
                    stacklevel=2,
                )

        if removed_constitution:
            try:
                self._reconcile_constitution()
            except (OSError, UnicodeDecodeError, PresetValidationError, ValueError) as exc:
                import warnings

                warnings.warn(
                    f"Post-removal constitution reconciliation failed for {pack_id}: "
                    f"{exc}. The live constitution may be stale.",
                    stacklevel=2,
                )

        return True

    def list_installed(self) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """List all installed presets with metadata.

        Returns:
            List of preset metadata dictionaries
        """
        result = []

        for pack_id, metadata in self.registry.list().items():
            # Ensure metadata is a dictionary to avoid AttributeError when using .get()
            if not isinstance(metadata, dict):
                metadata = {}
            pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
            manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"

            try:
                manifest = PresetManifest(manifest_path)
                result.append({
                    "id": pack_id,
                    "name": manifest.name,
                    "version": metadata.get("version", manifest.version),
                    "description": manifest.description,
                    "enabled": metadata.get("enabled", True),
                    "installed_at": metadata.get("installed_at"),
                    "template_count": len(manifest.templates),
                    "tags": manifest.tags,
                    "priority": normalize_priority(metadata.get("priority")),
                })
            except PresetValidationError:
                result.append({
                    "id": pack_id,
                    "name": pack_id,
                    "version": metadata.get("version", "unknown"),
                    "description": "⚠️ Corrupted preset",
                    "enabled": False,
                    "installed_at": metadata.get("installed_at"),
                    "template_count": 0,
                    "tags": [],
                    "priority": normalize_priority(metadata.get("priority")),
                })

        return result

    def get_pack(self, pack_id: str) -> Optional[PresetManifest]:
        """Get manifest for an installed preset.

        Args:
            pack_id: Preset ID

        Returns:
            Preset manifest or None if not installed
        """
        if not self.registry.is_installed(pack_id):
            return None

        pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
        manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"

        try:
            return PresetManifest(manifest_path)
        except PresetValidationError:
            return None


class PresetCatalog:
    """Manages preset catalog fetching, caching, and searching.

    Supports multi-catalog stacks with priority-based resolution,
    mirroring the extension catalog system.
    """

    DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/spec-kit/main/presets/catalog.json"
    COMMUNITY_CATALOG_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/spec-kit/main/presets/catalog.community.json"
    CACHE_DURATION = 3600  # 1 hour in seconds

    def __init__(self, project_root: Path):
        """Initialize preset catalog manager.

        Args:
            project_root: Root directory of the spec-kit project
        """
        self.project_root = project_root
        self.presets_dir = project_root / ".specify" / "presets"
        self.cache_dir = self.presets_dir / ".cache"
        self.cache_file = self.cache_dir / "catalog.json"
        self.cache_metadata_file = self.cache_dir / "catalog-metadata.json"

    def _validate_catalog_url(self, url: str) -> None:
        """Validate that a catalog URL uses HTTPS (localhost HTTP allowed).

        Args:
            url: URL to validate

        Raises:
            PresetValidationError: If URL is invalid or uses non-HTTPS scheme
        """
        from urllib.parse import urlparse

        try:
            parsed = urlparse(url)
            hostname = parsed.hostname
        except ValueError:
            raise PresetValidationError(f"Catalog URL is malformed: {url}") from None
        is_localhost = hostname in ("localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1")
        if parsed.scheme != "https" and not (
            parsed.scheme == "http" and is_localhost
        ):
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Catalog URL must use HTTPS (got {parsed.scheme}://). "
                "HTTP is only allowed for localhost."
            )
        # Check hostname, not netloc: netloc is truthy for host-less URLs like
        # "https://:8080" or "https://user@", so the host guarantee this error
        # promises would not actually hold. hostname is None in those cases (#3209).
        if not hostname:
            raise PresetValidationError(
                "Catalog URL must be a valid URL with a host."
            )

    def _make_request(self, url: str):
        """Build a urllib Request, adding auth headers when a provider matches.

        Delegates to :func:`specify_cli.authentication.http.build_request`.
        """
        from specify_cli.authentication.http import build_request
        return build_request(url)

    def _open_url(
        self,
        url: str,
        timeout: int = 10,
        extra_headers: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
        redirect_validator=None,
    ):
        """Open a URL with provider-based auth, trying each configured provider.

        Delegates to :func:`specify_cli.authentication.http.open_url`.
        *redirect_validator*, when provided, is invoked as ``(old_url, new_url)``
        before EACH redirect hop, so an HTTPS host guarantee can be enforced on
        every intermediate URL, not just the terminal one.
        """
        from specify_cli.authentication.http import open_url
        return open_url(
            url,
            timeout,
            extra_headers=extra_headers,
            redirect_validator=redirect_validator,
        )

    def _resolve_github_release_asset_api_url(
        self,
        download_url: str,
        timeout: int = 60,
    ) -> Optional[str]:
        """Resolve a GitHub release asset URL to its REST API asset URL.

        Passes the ``github`` provider hosts from ``auth.json`` so GitHub
        Enterprise Server release assets resolve via ``/api/v3``.
        """
        from specify_cli._github_http import resolve_github_release_asset_api_url
        from specify_cli.authentication.http import github_provider_hosts

        return resolve_github_release_asset_api_url(
            download_url,
            self._open_url,
            timeout=timeout,
            github_hosts=github_provider_hosts(),
        )

    def _validate_catalog_payload(self, catalog_data: Any, url: str) -> None:
        """Validate a parsed preset-catalog payload's shape.

        Applied to both network-fetched and cache-loaded payloads so a
        once-poisoned cache (older spec-kit version, manual edit, upstream
        served a bad payload before the network-side guards were added)
        cannot re-crash ``_get_merged_packs`` on subsequent calls.

        Checking only key presence would let a payload like
        ``{"presets": []}`` or ``{"presets": null}`` slip through here and
        then crash with ``AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute
        'items'`` deep inside ``_get_merged_packs``. The sibling
        integration catalog reader already guards both the root object and
        the nested mapping (see ``integrations/catalog.py``); the preset
        catalog must stay consistent so a malformed payload surfaces as
        the user-facing ``Invalid preset catalog format`` error instead of
        a raw Python traceback.

        Args:
            catalog_data: Parsed JSON payload from the catalog source.
            url: Source URL — used in the error message so the user can
                tell which catalog in a multi-catalog stack is malformed.

        Raises:
            PresetError: If the payload's shape is invalid.
        """
        if not isinstance(catalog_data, dict):
            raise PresetError(
                f"Invalid preset catalog format from {url}: "
                "expected a JSON object"
            )
        if (
            "schema_version" not in catalog_data
            or "presets" not in catalog_data
        ):
            raise PresetError(f"Invalid preset catalog format from {url}")
        if not isinstance(catalog_data.get("presets"), dict):
            raise PresetError(
                f"Invalid preset catalog format from {url}: "
                "'presets' must be a JSON object"
            )

    def _load_catalog_config(self, config_path: Path) -> Optional[List[PresetCatalogEntry]]:
        """Load catalog stack configuration from a YAML file.

        Args:
            config_path: Path to preset-catalogs.yml

        Returns:
            Ordered list of PresetCatalogEntry objects, or None if file
            doesn't exist or contains no valid catalog entries.

        Raises:
            PresetValidationError: If any catalog entry has an invalid URL,
                the file cannot be parsed, or a priority value is invalid.
        """
        if not config_path.exists():
            return None
        try:
            data = yaml.safe_load(config_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")) or {}
        except (yaml.YAMLError, OSError, UnicodeError) as e:
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Failed to read catalog config {config_path}: {e}"
            )
        if not isinstance(data, dict):
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Invalid catalog config {config_path}: expected a mapping at root, got {type(data).__name__}"
            )
        catalogs_data = data.get("catalogs", [])
        if not catalogs_data:
            return None
        if not isinstance(catalogs_data, list):
            raise PresetValidationError(
                f"Invalid catalog config: 'catalogs' must be a list, got {type(catalogs_data).__name__}"
            )
        entries: List[PresetCatalogEntry] = []
        for idx, item in enumerate(catalogs_data):
            if not isinstance(item, dict):
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid catalog entry at index {idx}: expected a mapping, got {type(item).__name__}"
                )
            url = str(item.get("url", "")).strip()
            if not url:
                continue
            self._validate_catalog_url(url)
            raw_priority = item.get("priority", idx + 1)
            # Reject bools explicitly: ``bool`` is a subclass of ``int`` so
            # ``int(True)`` silently returns 1, which would let a YAML
            # ``priority: true`` slip through as a valid priority of 1. The
            # sibling integration-catalog reader in ``catalogs.py`` already
            # guards this; mirror the check here so the three catalog
            # validators stay consistent.
            if isinstance(raw_priority, bool):
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid priority for catalog '{item.get('name', idx + 1)}': "
                    f"expected integer, got {raw_priority!r}"
                )
            try:
                priority = int(raw_priority)
            except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
                # OverflowError: int(float("inf")) — a YAML ``priority: .inf``
                # would otherwise escape as an uncaught traceback instead of the
                # clean validation error (mirrors catalogs.py).
                raise PresetValidationError(
                    f"Invalid priority for catalog '{item.get('name', idx + 1)}': "
                    f"expected integer, got {raw_priority!r}"
                )
            raw_install = item.get("install_allowed", False)
            if isinstance(raw_install, str):
                install_allowed = raw_install.strip().lower() in ("true", "yes", "1")
            else:
                install_allowed = bool(raw_install)
            entries.append(PresetCatalogEntry(
                url=url,
                name=str(item.get("name", f"catalog-{idx + 1}")),
                priority=priority,
                install_allowed=install_allowed,
                description=str(item.get("description", "")),
            ))
        entries.sort(key=lambda e: e.priority)
        return entries if entries else None

    def get_active_catalogs(self) -> List[PresetCatalogEntry]:
        """Get the ordered list of active preset catalogs.

        Resolution order:
        1. SPECKIT_PRESET_CATALOG_URL env var — single catalog replacing all defaults
        2. Project-level .specify/preset-catalogs.yml
        3. User-level ~/.specify/preset-catalogs.yml
        4. Built-in default stack (default + community)

        Returns:
            List of PresetCatalogEntry objects sorted by priority (ascending)

        Raises:
            PresetValidationError: If a catalog URL is invalid
        """
        import sys

        # 1. SPECKIT_PRESET_CATALOG_URL env var replaces all defaults
        if env_value := os.environ.get("SPECKIT_PRESET_CATALOG_URL"):
            catalog_url = env_value.strip()
            self._validate_catalog_url(catalog_url)
            if catalog_url != self.DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL:
                if not getattr(self, "_non_default_catalog_warning_shown", False):
                    print(
                        "Warning: Using non-default preset catalog. "
                        "Only use catalogs from sources you trust.",
                        file=sys.stderr,
                    )
                    self._non_default_catalog_warning_shown = True
            return [PresetCatalogEntry(url=catalog_url, name="custom", priority=1, install_allowed=True, description="Custom catalog via SPECKIT_PRESET_CATALOG_URL")]

        # 2. Project-level config overrides all defaults
        project_config_path = self.project_root / ".specify" / "preset-catalogs.yml"
        catalogs = self._load_catalog_config(project_config_path)
        if catalogs is not None:
            return catalogs

        # 3. User-level config
        user_config_path = Path.home() / ".specify" / "preset-catalogs.yml"
        catalogs = self._load_catalog_config(user_config_path)
        if catalogs is not None:
            return catalogs

        # 4. Built-in default stack
        return [
            PresetCatalogEntry(url=self.DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL, name="default", priority=1, install_allowed=True, description="Built-in catalog of installable presets"),
            PresetCatalogEntry(url=self.COMMUNITY_CATALOG_URL, name="community", priority=2, install_allowed=False, description="Community-contributed presets (discovery only)"),
        ]

    def get_catalog_url(self) -> str:
        """Get the primary catalog URL.

        Returns the URL of the highest-priority catalog. Kept for backward
        compatibility. Use get_active_catalogs() for full multi-catalog support.

        Returns:
            URL of the primary catalog
        """
        active = self.get_active_catalogs()
        return active[0].url if active else self.DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL

    def _get_cache_paths(self, url: str):
        """Get cache file paths for a given catalog URL.

        For the DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL, uses legacy cache files for backward
        compatibility. For all other URLs, uses URL-hash-based cache files.

        Returns:
            Tuple of (cache_file_path, cache_metadata_path)
        """
        if url == self.DEFAULT_CATALOG_URL:
            return self.cache_file, self.cache_metadata_file
        url_hash = hashlib.sha256(url.encode()).hexdigest()[:16]
        return (
            self.cache_dir / f"catalog-{url_hash}.json",
            self.cache_dir / f"catalog-{url_hash}-metadata.json",
        )

    def _is_url_cache_valid(self, url: str) -> bool:
        """Check if cached catalog for a specific URL is still valid."""
        cache_file, metadata_file = self._get_cache_paths(url)
        if not cache_file.exists() or not metadata_file.exists():
            return False
        try:
            metadata = json.loads(metadata_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
            cached_at = datetime.fromisoformat(metadata.get("cached_at", ""))
            if cached_at.tzinfo is None:
                cached_at = cached_at.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
            age_seconds = (
                datetime.now(timezone.utc) - cached_at
            ).total_seconds()
            return age_seconds < self.CACHE_DURATION
        except (
            json.JSONDecodeError,
            OSError,
            UnicodeError,
            ValueError,
            KeyError,
            TypeError,
            AttributeError,
        ):
            # Cache validity is best-effort: invalid/missing fields, an
            # unreadable metadata file (permissions / disk), a wrongly
            # encoded one (written by a tool using the system locale
            # codec), or a metadata payload that parses to a non-mapping
            # like ``[]`` or ``"oops"`` (so ``metadata.get(...)`` raises
            # ``AttributeError``) all degrade to "cache invalid" so the
            # caller falls through to a network refetch instead of
            # crashing.
            return False

    def _fetch_single_catalog(self, entry: PresetCatalogEntry, force_refresh: bool = False) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Fetch a single catalog with per-URL caching.

        Args:
            entry: PresetCatalogEntry describing the catalog to fetch
            force_refresh: If True, bypass cache

        Returns:
            Catalog data dictionary

        Raises:
            PresetError: If catalog cannot be fetched
        """
        cache_file, metadata_file = self._get_cache_paths(entry.url)

        # Use cache if valid. A previously-cached payload must clear the
        # same shape checks as a freshly-fetched one — otherwise a once-
        # poisoned cache would re-crash on every invocation despite the
        # cache being "valid" by age. If validation fails on the cached
        # read, fall through to the network fetch path so the cache gets
        # refreshed.
        if not force_refresh and self._is_url_cache_valid(entry.url):
            try:
                cached_data = json.loads(cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
                self._validate_catalog_payload(cached_data, entry.url)
                return cached_data
            except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError, UnicodeError, PresetError):
                # Cache is best-effort: a JSON-decode failure, an OS-level
                # read failure (permissions / disk / handle limit), or a
                # text-encoding failure on a cache file written by an
                # older client all fall through to the network fetch path.
                # Only the network failure is surfaced to the caller.
                pass

        try:
            # Validate EVERY redirect hop (not just the terminal URL): an
            # https -> http -> attacker-controlled-https chain would pass a
            # final-URL-only check while the insecure intermediate hop lets a
            # network attacker rewrite the next redirect. redirect_validator runs
            # before each hop; the final geturl() check is retained as a
            # belt-and-braces guard. Mirrors bundler/services/adapters.py.
            def _validate_redirect(_old_url: str, new_url: str) -> None:
                self._validate_catalog_url(new_url)

            with self._open_url(
                entry.url, timeout=10, redirect_validator=_validate_redirect
            ) as response:
                final_url = response.geturl()
                if final_url != entry.url:
                    self._validate_catalog_url(final_url)
                catalog_data = json.loads(response.read())

            self._validate_catalog_payload(catalog_data, entry.url)

            # Both files are written explicitly as UTF-8 to match the
            # ``read_text(encoding="utf-8")`` on the read side and the
            # ``integrations/catalog.py`` precedent. Without this,
            # platforms whose default encoding isn't UTF-8 would write
            # locale-encoded bytes the read path can't decode, forcing an
            # unnecessary refetch on every invocation. The write itself
            # is best-effort like the read side: an unwritable cache dir
            # (read-only checkout, permissions) must not be re-raised as
            # a ``PresetError`` for a payload that was already fetched
            # and validated.
            try:
                self.cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
                cache_file.write_text(
                    json.dumps(catalog_data, indent=2), encoding="utf-8"
                )
                metadata = {
                    "cached_at": datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
                    "catalog_url": entry.url,
                }
                metadata_file.write_text(
                    json.dumps(metadata, indent=2), encoding="utf-8"
                )
            except OSError:
                pass  # Cache is best-effort; proceed with fetched data

            return catalog_data

        except (ImportError, Exception) as e:
            if isinstance(e, PresetError):
                raise
            raise PresetError(
                f"Failed to fetch preset catalog from {entry.url}: {e}"
            )

    def _get_merged_packs(self, force_refresh: bool = False) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Fetch and merge presets from all active catalogs.

        Higher-priority catalogs (lower priority number) win on ID conflicts.

        Returns:
            Merged dictionary of pack_id -> pack_data
        """
        active_catalogs = self.get_active_catalogs()
        merged: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]] = {}

        for entry in reversed(active_catalogs):
            try:
                data = self._fetch_single_catalog(entry, force_refresh)
                for pack_id, pack_data in data.get("presets", {}).items():
                    # Per-entry guard: ``_fetch_single_catalog`` already
                    # validates that ``data["presets"]`` is a mapping, but it
                    # does not (and should not) validate every entry shape
                    # there — one malformed entry shouldn't poison an
                    # otherwise valid catalog. Skip non-mapping entries here
                    # so a payload like ``{"presets": {"foo": [], "bar":
                    # {...}}}`` still merges the valid entries without
                    # crashing on ``**pack_data``. Mirrors
                    # ``integrations/catalog.py:245``.
                    if not isinstance(pack_data, dict):
                        continue
                    pack_data_with_catalog = {**pack_data, "_catalog_name": entry.name, "_install_allowed": entry.install_allowed}
                    merged[pack_id] = pack_data_with_catalog
            except PresetError:
                continue

        return merged

    def is_cache_valid(self) -> bool:
        """Check if cached catalog is still valid.

        Returns ``False`` for any read/decoding failure on the metadata
        file (missing fields, malformed JSON, permissions / disk errors,
        wrong text encoding) so callers fall through to a network refetch
        instead of crashing. Treating cache validity as best-effort
        matches the contract used by ``_is_url_cache_valid`` above.

        Returns:
            True if cache exists and is within cache duration
        """
        if not self.cache_file.exists() or not self.cache_metadata_file.exists():
            return False

        try:
            metadata = json.loads(
                self.cache_metadata_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
            )
            cached_at = datetime.fromisoformat(metadata.get("cached_at", ""))
            if cached_at.tzinfo is None:
                cached_at = cached_at.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
            age_seconds = (
                datetime.now(timezone.utc) - cached_at
            ).total_seconds()
            return age_seconds < self.CACHE_DURATION
        except (
            json.JSONDecodeError,
            OSError,
            UnicodeError,
            ValueError,
            KeyError,
            TypeError,
            AttributeError,
        ):
            # ``AttributeError`` covers the case where the metadata file
            # parses to a non-mapping (``[]``, ``"oops"``, ``42``) so
            # ``metadata.get(...)`` would otherwise crash. All decode /
            # shape failures degrade to "cache invalid" so the caller
            # falls through to a network refetch.
            return False

    def fetch_catalog(self, force_refresh: bool = False) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        """Fetch preset catalog from URL or cache.

        Args:
            force_refresh: If True, bypass cache and fetch from network

        Returns:
            Catalog data dictionary

        Raises:
            PresetError: If catalog cannot be fetched
        """
        catalog_url = self.get_catalog_url()

        # Match the ``_fetch_single_catalog`` cache contract: a poisoned
        # or unreadable cache silently falls through to a network refetch
        # rather than crashing the caller. ``_validate_catalog_payload``
        # is reused here so a cache written by an older client
        # (pre-validation) is rejected and refreshed instead of returning
        # the stale malformed payload.
        if not force_refresh and self.is_cache_valid():
            try:
                metadata = json.loads(
                    self.cache_metadata_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                )
                if metadata.get("catalog_url") == catalog_url:
                    cached_data = json.loads(
                        self.cache_file.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                    )
                    self._validate_catalog_payload(cached_data, catalog_url)
                    return cached_data
            except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError, UnicodeError, PresetError):
                # Cache is corrupt, unreadable, or fails the shape check;
                # fall through to network fetch.
                pass

        try:
            # Same redirect hardening as _fetch_single_catalog: validate every
            # redirect hop AND the final URL so this legacy single-catalog path
            # is not vulnerable to an HTTPS->HTTP redirected payload either.
            def _validate_redirect(_old_url: str, new_url: str) -> None:
                self._validate_catalog_url(new_url)

            with self._open_url(
                catalog_url, timeout=10, redirect_validator=_validate_redirect
            ) as response:
                final_url = response.geturl()
                if final_url != catalog_url:
                    self._validate_catalog_url(final_url)
                catalog_data = json.loads(response.read())

            # Validate catalog structure. Reuses the same helper as
            # ``_fetch_single_catalog`` so all three branches (root type,
            # missing keys, nested-mapping type) stay consistent.
            self._validate_catalog_payload(catalog_data, catalog_url)

            # Save to cache. Explicit UTF-8 on both writes mirrors the
            # ``read_text(encoding="utf-8")`` on the read side and the
            # ``integrations/catalog.py`` precedent — otherwise platforms
            # whose default encoding isn't UTF-8 would write
            # locale-encoded bytes the read path can't decode, forcing an
            # unnecessary refetch on every invocation. Like the read
            # side, the write is best-effort: an unwritable cache dir
            # must not be re-raised as a ``PresetError`` for a payload
            # that was already fetched and validated.
            try:
                self.cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
                self.cache_file.write_text(
                    json.dumps(catalog_data, indent=2), encoding="utf-8"
                )

                metadata = {
                    "cached_at": datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat(),
                    "catalog_url": catalog_url,
                }
                self.cache_metadata_file.write_text(
                    json.dumps(metadata, indent=2), encoding="utf-8"
                )
            except OSError:
                pass  # Cache is best-effort; proceed with fetched data

            return catalog_data

        except (ImportError, Exception) as e:
            if isinstance(e, PresetError):
                raise
            raise PresetError(
                f"Failed to fetch preset catalog from {catalog_url}: {e}"
            )

    def search(
        self,
        query: Optional[str] = None,
        tag: Optional[str] = None,
        author: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Search catalog for presets.

        Searches across all active catalogs (merged by priority) so that
        community and custom catalogs are included in results.

        Args:
            query: Search query (searches name, description, tags)
            tag: Filter by specific tag
            author: Filter by author name

        Returns:
            List of matching preset metadata
        """
        try:
            packs = self._get_merged_packs()
        except PresetError:
            return []

        results = []

        for pack_id, pack_data in packs.items():
            if author and pack_data.get("author", "").lower() != author.lower():
                continue

            if tag and tag.lower() not in [
                t.lower() for t in pack_data.get("tags", [])
            ]:
                continue

            if query:
                query_lower = query.lower()
                searchable_text = " ".join(
                    [
                        pack_data.get("name", ""),
                        pack_data.get("description", ""),
                        pack_id,
                    ]
                    + pack_data.get("tags", [])
                ).lower()

                if query_lower not in searchable_text:
                    continue

            results.append({**pack_data, "id": pack_id})

        return results

    def get_pack_info(
        self, pack_id: str
    ) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Get detailed information about a specific preset.

        Searches across all active catalogs (merged by priority).

        Args:
            pack_id: ID of the preset

        Returns:
            Pack metadata or None if not found
        """
        try:
            packs = self._get_merged_packs()
        except PresetError:
            return None

        if pack_id in packs:
            return {**packs[pack_id], "id": pack_id}
        return None

    def download_pack(
        self, pack_id: str, target_dir: Optional[Path] = None
    ) -> Path:
        """Download preset ZIP from catalog.

        Args:
            pack_id: ID of the preset to download
            target_dir: Directory to save ZIP file (defaults to cache directory)

        Returns:
            Path to downloaded ZIP file

        Raises:
            PresetError: If pack not found or download fails
        """
        import urllib.error

        pack_info = self.get_pack_info(pack_id)
        if not pack_info:
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset '{pack_id}' not found in catalog"
            )

        # Bundled presets without a download URL must be installed locally
        if pack_info.get("bundled") and not pack_info.get("download_url"):
            from ..extensions import REINSTALL_COMMAND
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset '{pack_id}' is bundled with spec-kit and has no download URL. "
                f"It should be installed from the local package. "
                f"Use 'specify preset add {pack_id}' to install from the bundled package, "
                f"or reinstall spec-kit if the bundled files are missing: {REINSTALL_COMMAND}"
            )

        if not pack_info.get("_install_allowed", True):
            catalog_name = pack_info.get("_catalog_name", "unknown")
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset '{pack_id}' is from the '{catalog_name}' catalog which does not allow installation. "
                f"Use --from with the preset's repository URL instead."
            )

        download_url = pack_info.get("download_url")
        if not download_url:
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset '{pack_id}' has no download URL"
            )

        from urllib.parse import urlparse

        # A malformed authority (e.g. an unterminated IPv6 bracket
        # "https://[::1") makes urlparse / hostname access raise ValueError.
        # The download_url comes from catalog payload data, so surface a clean
        # PresetError rather than leaking a raw ValueError past the command
        # handler (which only catches PresetError). Mirrors catalogs (#3435)
        # and workflows/catalog.py (#3484).
        try:
            parsed = urlparse(download_url)
            hostname = parsed.hostname
        except ValueError:
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset download URL is malformed: {download_url}"
            ) from None
        is_localhost = hostname in ("localhost", "127.0.0.1", "::1")
        if parsed.scheme != "https" and not (
            parsed.scheme == "http" and is_localhost
        ):
            raise PresetError(
                f"Preset download URL must use HTTPS: {download_url}"
            )

        if target_dir is None:
            target_dir = self.cache_dir / "downloads"
        target_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

        version = pack_info.get("version", "unknown")
        zip_filename = f"{pack_id}-{version}.zip"
        zip_path = target_dir / zip_filename

        extra_headers = None
        resolved_download_url = self._resolve_github_release_asset_api_url(download_url)
        if resolved_download_url:
            download_url = resolved_download_url
            extra_headers = {"Accept": "application/octet-stream"}

        try:
            with self._open_url(download_url, timeout=60, extra_headers=extra_headers) as response:
                zip_data = response.read()

            verify_archive_sha256(
                zip_data, pack_info.get("sha256"), pack_id, PresetError
            )

            zip_path.write_bytes(zip_data)
            return zip_path

        except urllib.error.URLError as e:
            raise PresetError(
                f"Failed to download preset from {download_url}: {e}"
            )
        except IOError as e:
            raise PresetError(f"Failed to save preset ZIP: {e}")

    def clear_cache(self):
        """Clear all catalog cache files, including per-URL hashed caches."""
        if self.cache_dir.exists():
            for f in self.cache_dir.iterdir():
                if f.is_file() and f.name.startswith("catalog"):
                    f.unlink(missing_ok=True)


class PresetResolver:
    """Resolves template names to file paths using a priority stack.

    Resolution order:
    1. .specify/templates/overrides/          - Project-local overrides
    2. .specify/presets/<preset-id>/          - Installed presets
    3. .specify/extensions/<ext-id>/templates/ - Extension-provided templates
    4. .specify/templates/                    - Core templates (shipped with Spec Kit)
    """

    def __init__(self, project_root: Path):
        """Initialize preset resolver.

        Args:
            project_root: Path to project root directory
        """
        self.project_root = project_root
        self.templates_dir = project_root / ".specify" / "templates"
        self.presets_dir = project_root / ".specify" / "presets"
        self.overrides_dir = self.templates_dir / "overrides"
        self.extensions_dir = project_root / ".specify" / "extensions"
        self._manifest_cache: Dict[str, Optional["PresetManifest"]] = {}

    def _get_manifest(self, pack_dir: Path) -> Optional["PresetManifest"]:
        """Get a cached preset manifest, parsing it on first access."""
        key = str(pack_dir)
        if key not in self._manifest_cache:
            manifest_path = pack_dir / "preset.yml"
            if manifest_path.exists():
                try:
                    self._manifest_cache[key] = PresetManifest(manifest_path)
                except PresetValidationError:
                    self._manifest_cache[key] = None
            else:
                self._manifest_cache[key] = None
        return self._manifest_cache[key]

    def _manifest_declared_template(
        self, pack_dir: Path, template_name: str, template_type: str
    ) -> tuple[dict | None, Path | None]:
        """Resolve a preset's manifest-declared template entry and usable file.

        Returns ``(entry, candidate)``:
        - ``entry`` is the matching ``provides.templates`` mapping, or ``None`` if
          the manifest is absent or does not list this ``(name, type)``.
        - ``candidate`` is the declared ``file:`` resolved under ``pack_dir`` IFF
          it is a regular file (``is_file()``); ``None`` otherwise — a missing,
          empty, or non-file (e.g. directory) declaration yields ``(entry, None)``.

        The manifest is authoritative: when it declares a template (``entry`` is
        not ``None``) but the file is unusable (``candidate`` is ``None``),
        callers must NOT fall back to the convention lookup — that would mask a
        typo or pick up an undeclared file. Shared by ``resolve()`` and
        ``collect_all_layers()`` so their manifest-first resolution cannot
        silently diverge again (the divergence this fix addressed).
        """
        manifest = self._get_manifest(pack_dir)
        if not manifest:
            return None, None
        for tmpl in manifest.templates:
            if tmpl.get("name") == template_name and tmpl.get("type") == template_type:
                file_path = tmpl.get("file")
                if file_path:
                    manifest_candidate = pack_dir / file_path
                    return tmpl, (
                        manifest_candidate if manifest_candidate.is_file() else None
                    )
                return tmpl, None
        return None, None

    def _get_all_extensions_by_priority(self) -> list[tuple[int, str, dict | None]]:
        """Build unified list of registered and unregistered extensions sorted by priority.

        Registered extensions use their stored priority; unregistered directories
        get implicit priority=10. Results are sorted by (priority, ext_id) for
        deterministic ordering.

        Returns:
            List of (priority, ext_id, metadata_or_none) tuples sorted by priority.
        """
        if not self.extensions_dir.exists():
            return []

        registry = ExtensionRegistry(self.extensions_dir)
        # Use keys() to track ALL extensions (including corrupted entries) without deep copy
        # This prevents corrupted entries from being picked up as "unregistered" dirs
        registered_extension_ids = registry.keys()

        # Get all registered extensions including disabled; we filter disabled manually below
        all_registered = registry.list_by_priority(include_disabled=True)

        all_extensions: list[tuple[int, str, dict | None]] = []

        # Only include enabled extensions in the result
        for ext_id, metadata in all_registered:
            # Skip disabled extensions
            if not metadata.get("enabled", True):
                continue
            priority = normalize_priority(metadata.get("priority") if metadata else None)
            all_extensions.append((priority, ext_id, metadata))

        # Add unregistered directories with implicit priority=10
        for ext_dir in self.extensions_dir.iterdir():
            if not ext_dir.is_dir() or ext_dir.name.startswith("."):
                continue
            if ext_dir.name not in registered_extension_ids:
                all_extensions.append((10, ext_dir.name, None))

        # Sort by (priority, ext_id) for deterministic ordering
        all_extensions.sort(key=lambda x: (x[0], x[1]))
        return all_extensions

    @staticmethod
    def _core_stem(template_name: str) -> Optional[str]:
        """Extract the stem for core command lookup.

        Commands use dot notation (e.g. ``speckit.specify``), but core
        command files are named by stem (e.g. ``specify.md``).  Returns
        the stem if *template_name* follows the ``speckit.<stem>`` pattern,
        or ``None`` otherwise.
        """
        if template_name.startswith("speckit."):
            return template_name[len("speckit."):]
        return None

    def resolve(
        self,
        template_name: str,
        template_type: str = "template",
        skip_presets: bool = False,
    ) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Resolve a template name to its file path.

        Walks the priority stack and returns the first match.

        Args:
            template_name: Template name (e.g., "spec-template")
            template_type: Template type ("template", "command", or "script")
            skip_presets: When True, skip tier 2 (installed presets). Use
                resolve_core() as the preferred caller-facing API for this.

        Returns:
            Path to the resolved template file, or None if not found
        """
        # Determine subdirectory based on template type
        if template_type == "template":
            subdirs = ["templates", ""]
        elif template_type == "command":
            subdirs = ["commands"]
        elif template_type == "script":
            subdirs = ["scripts"]
        else:
            subdirs = [""]

        # Determine file extension based on template type
        ext = ".md"
        if template_type == "script":
            ext = ".sh"  # scripts use .sh; callers can also check .ps1

        # Priority 1: Project-local overrides
        if template_type == "script":
            override = self.overrides_dir / "scripts" / f"{template_name}{ext}"
        else:
            override = self.overrides_dir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
        if override.exists():
            return override

        # Priority 2: Installed presets (sorted by priority — lower number wins)
        if not skip_presets and self.presets_dir.exists():
            registry = PresetRegistry(self.presets_dir)
            for pack_id, _metadata in registry.list_by_priority():
                pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                # The preset manifest is authoritative: if it declares this
                # template with an explicit ``file:``, resolve to that path —
                # and do NOT fall back to convention when it's missing, to
                # avoid masking typos or picking up an undeclared file. Only
                # when the manifest is absent or doesn't list this template do
                # we use the convention-based subdir lookup. Mirrors
                # collect_all_layers()/resolve_content() so resolve() and
                # resolve_with_source() agree with them instead of returning
                # the core template (or a stray convention file).
                entry, manifest_candidate = self._manifest_declared_template(
                    pack_dir, template_name, template_type
                )
                if manifest_candidate is not None:
                    return manifest_candidate
                if entry is not None:
                    # Manifest declares this template but the file is missing,
                    # non-file (e.g. a directory), or an empty/falsey ``file``
                    # value. The manifest is authoritative, so skip this pack's
                    # convention fallback rather than mask a typo — mirrors
                    # collect_all_layers().
                    continue
                for subdir in subdirs:
                    if subdir:
                        candidate = pack_dir / subdir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
                    else:
                        candidate = pack_dir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
                    if candidate.exists():
                        return candidate

        # Priority 3: Extension-provided templates (sorted by priority — lower number wins)
        for _priority, ext_id, _metadata in self._get_all_extensions_by_priority():
            ext_dir = self.extensions_dir / ext_id
            if not ext_dir.is_dir():
                continue
            for subdir in subdirs:
                if subdir:
                    candidate = ext_dir / subdir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
                else:
                    candidate = ext_dir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
                if candidate.exists():
                    return candidate

        # Priority 4: Core templates
        if template_type == "template":
            core = self.templates_dir / f"{template_name}.md"
            if core.exists():
                return core
        elif template_type == "command":
            core = self.templates_dir / "commands" / f"{template_name}.md"
            if core.exists():
                return core
            # Fallback: speckit.<stem> → <stem>.md
            stem = self._core_stem(template_name)
            if stem:
                core = self.templates_dir / "commands" / f"{stem}.md"
                if core.exists():
                    return core
        elif template_type == "script":
            core = self.templates_dir / "scripts" / f"{template_name}{ext}"
            if core.exists():
                return core

        # Priority 5: Bundled core_pack (wheel install) or repo-root templates
        # (source-checkout / editable install).  This is the canonical home for
        # speckit's built-in command/template files and must always be checked
        # so that strategy:wrap presets can locate {CORE_TEMPLATE}.
        from specify_cli import _locate_core_pack, _repo_root  # local import to avoid cycles
        _core_pack = _locate_core_pack()
        if _core_pack is not None:
            # Wheel install path
            if template_type == "template":
                candidate = _core_pack / "templates" / f"{template_name}.md"
            elif template_type == "command":
                candidate = _core_pack / "commands" / f"{template_name}.md"
                if not candidate.exists():
                    stem = self._core_stem(template_name)
                    if stem:
                        candidate = _core_pack / "commands" / f"{stem}.md"
            elif template_type == "script":
                candidate = _core_pack / "scripts" / f"{template_name}{ext}"
            else:
                candidate = _core_pack / f"{template_name}.md"
            if candidate.exists():
                return candidate
        else:
            # Source-checkout / editable install: templates live at repo root
            repo_root = _repo_root()
            if template_type == "template":
                candidate = repo_root / "templates" / f"{template_name}.md"
            elif template_type == "command":
                candidate = repo_root / "templates" / "commands" / f"{template_name}.md"
                if not candidate.exists():
                    stem = self._core_stem(template_name)
                    if stem:
                        candidate = repo_root / "templates" / "commands" / f"{stem}.md"
            elif template_type == "script":
                candidate = repo_root / "scripts" / f"{template_name}{ext}"
            else:
                candidate = repo_root / f"{template_name}.md"
            if candidate.exists():
                return candidate

        return None

    def resolve_core(
        self,
        template_name: str,
        template_type: str = "template",
    ) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Resolve while skipping installed presets (tier 2).

        Searches tiers 1, 3, 4, and 5 (bundled core_pack / repo-root fallback).
        Use when resolving {CORE_TEMPLATE} to guarantee the result is actual
        base content, never another preset's wrap output.
        """
        return self.resolve(template_name, template_type, skip_presets=True)

    def resolve_extension_command_via_manifest(self, cmd_name: str) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Resolve an extension command by consulting installed extension manifests.

        Walks installed extension directories in priority order, loads each
        extension.yml via ExtensionManifest, and looks up the command by its
        declared name to find the actual file path.  This is necessary because
        the manifest's ``provides.commands[].file`` field is authoritative and
        may differ from the command name
        (e.g. ``speckit.selftest.extension`` → ``commands/selftest.md``).

        Returns None if no manifest maps the given command name, so the caller
        can fall back to the name-based lookup.
        """
        if not self.extensions_dir.exists():
            return None

        from ..extensions import ExtensionManifest, ValidationError

        for _priority, ext_id, _metadata in self._get_all_extensions_by_priority():
            ext_dir = self.extensions_dir / ext_id
            manifest_path = ext_dir / "extension.yml"
            if not manifest_path.is_file():
                continue
            try:
                manifest = ExtensionManifest(manifest_path)
            except (ValidationError, OSError, TypeError, AttributeError):
                continue
            for cmd_info in manifest.commands:
                if cmd_info.get("name") != cmd_name:
                    continue
                file_rel = cmd_info.get("file")
                if not file_rel:
                    continue
                # Mirror the containment check in ExtensionManager to guard against
                # path traversal via a malformed manifest (e.g. file: ../../AGENTS.md).
                cmd_path = Path(file_rel)
                if cmd_path.is_absolute():
                    continue
                try:
                    ext_root = ext_dir.resolve()
                    candidate = (ext_root / cmd_path).resolve()
                    candidate.relative_to(ext_root)  # raises ValueError if outside
                except (OSError, ValueError):
                    continue
                if candidate.is_file():
                    return candidate
        return None

    def resolve_with_source(
        self,
        template_name: str,
        template_type: str = "template",
    ) -> Optional[Dict[str, str]]:
        """Resolve a template name and return source attribution.

        Args:
            template_name: Template name (e.g., "spec-template")
            template_type: Template type ("template", "command", or "script")

        Returns:
            Dictionary with 'path' and 'source' keys, or None if not found
        """
        # Delegate to resolve() for the actual lookup, then determine source
        resolved = self.resolve(template_name, template_type)
        if resolved is None:
            return None

        resolved_str = str(resolved)

        # Determine source attribution
        if str(self.overrides_dir) in resolved_str:
            return {"path": resolved_str, "source": "project override"}

        if str(self.presets_dir) in resolved_str and self.presets_dir.exists():
            registry = PresetRegistry(self.presets_dir)
            for pack_id, _metadata in registry.list_by_priority():
                pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                try:
                    resolved.relative_to(pack_dir)
                    meta = registry.get(pack_id)
                    version = meta.get("version", "?") if meta else "?"
                    return {
                        "path": resolved_str,
                        "source": f"{pack_id} v{version}",
                    }
                except ValueError:
                    continue

        for _priority, ext_id, ext_meta in self._get_all_extensions_by_priority():
            ext_dir = self.extensions_dir / ext_id
            if not ext_dir.is_dir():
                continue
            try:
                resolved.relative_to(ext_dir)
                if ext_meta:
                    version = ext_meta.get("version", "?")
                    return {
                        "path": resolved_str,
                        "source": f"extension:{ext_id} v{version}",
                    }
                else:
                    return {
                        "path": resolved_str,
                        "source": f"extension:{ext_id} (unregistered)",
                    }
            except ValueError:
                continue

        return {"path": resolved_str, "source": "core"}

    def collect_all_layers(
        self,
        template_name: str,
        template_type: str = "template",
    ) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
        """Collect all layers in the priority stack for a template.

        Returns layers from highest priority (checked first) to lowest priority.
        Each layer is a dict with 'path', 'source', and 'strategy' keys.

        Args:
            template_name: Template name (e.g., "spec-template")
            template_type: Template type ("template", "command", or "script")

        Returns:
            List of layer dicts ordered highest-to-lowest priority.
        """
        if template_type == "template":
            subdirs = ["templates", ""]
        elif template_type == "command":
            subdirs = ["commands"]
        elif template_type == "script":
            subdirs = ["scripts"]
        else:
            subdirs = [""]

        ext = ".md"
        if template_type == "script":
            ext = ".sh"

        layers: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []

        def _find_in_subdirs(base_dir: Path) -> Optional[Path]:
            for subdir in subdirs:
                if subdir:
                    candidate = base_dir / subdir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
                else:
                    candidate = base_dir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
                if candidate.exists():
                    return candidate
            return None

        # Priority 1: Project-local overrides (always "replace" strategy)
        if template_type == "script":
            override = self.overrides_dir / "scripts" / f"{template_name}{ext}"
        else:
            override = self.overrides_dir / f"{template_name}{ext}"
        if override.exists():
            layers.append({
                "path": override,
                "source": "project override",
                "strategy": "replace",
            })

        # Priority 2: Installed presets (sorted by priority — lower number = higher precedence)
        if self.presets_dir.exists():
            registry = PresetRegistry(self.presets_dir)
            for pack_id, metadata in registry.list_by_priority():
                pack_dir = self.presets_dir / pack_id
                # Read strategy and manifest file path from preset manifest
                strategy = "replace"
                manifest_has_strategy = False
                entry, manifest_candidate = self._manifest_declared_template(
                    pack_dir, template_name, template_type
                )
                if entry is not None:
                    strategy = entry.get("strategy", "replace")
                    manifest_has_strategy = "strategy" in entry
                # Use the manifest's declared file when it's a usable regular file;
                # only fall back to convention-based lookup when the manifest
                # doesn't list this template at all, so preset.yml stays
                # authoritative (a declared-but-unusable file skips convention —
                # parity with resolve()).
                candidate = None
                if manifest_candidate is not None:
                    candidate = manifest_candidate
                elif entry is None:
                    candidate = _find_in_subdirs(pack_dir)
                if candidate:
                    # Legacy fallback: if manifest doesn't explicitly declare a
                    # strategy, check the command file's frontmatter for any valid
                    # strategy. Skip when the manifest entry includes strategy key
                    # (even if it's "replace") to avoid overriding explicit declarations.
                    if not manifest_has_strategy and strategy == "replace" and template_type == "command":
                        try:
                            cmd_content = candidate.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
                            lines = cmd_content.splitlines(keepends=True)
                            if lines and lines[0].rstrip("\r\n") == "---":
                                fence_end = -1
                                for fi, fline in enumerate(lines[1:], start=1):
                                    if fline.rstrip("\r\n") == "---":
                                        fence_end = fi
                                        break
                                if fence_end > 0:
                                    fm_text = "".join(lines[1:fence_end])
                                    fm_data = yaml.safe_load(fm_text)
                                    if isinstance(fm_data, dict):
                                        fm_strategy = fm_data.get("strategy")
                                        if isinstance(fm_strategy, str) and fm_strategy.lower() in VALID_PRESET_STRATEGIES:
                                            strategy = fm_strategy.lower()
                        except (yaml.YAMLError, OSError):
                            # Best-effort legacy frontmatter parsing: keep default
                            # strategy ("replace") when content is unreadable/invalid.
                            pass
                    version = metadata.get("version", "?") if metadata else "?"
                    layers.append({
                        "path": candidate,
                        "source": f"{pack_id} v{version}",
                        "strategy": strategy,
                    })

        # Priority 3: Extension-provided templates (always "replace")
        for _priority, ext_id, ext_meta in self._get_all_extensions_by_priority():
            ext_dir = self.extensions_dir / ext_id
            if not ext_dir.is_dir():
                continue
            # Try convention-based lookup first
            candidate = _find_in_subdirs(ext_dir)
            # If not found and this is a command, check extension manifest
            if candidate is None and template_type == "command":
                ext_manifest_path = ext_dir / "extension.yml"
                if ext_manifest_path.exists():
                    try:
                        from ..extensions import ExtensionManifest, ValidationError as ExtValidationError
                        ext_manifest = ExtensionManifest(ext_manifest_path)
                        for cmd in ext_manifest.commands:
                            if cmd.get("name") == template_name:
                                cmd_file = cmd.get("file")
                                if cmd_file:
                                    c = ext_dir / cmd_file
                                    if c.exists():
                                        candidate = c
                                break
                    except (ExtValidationError, yaml.YAMLError):
                        # Invalid extension manifest — fall back to
                        # convention-based lookup (already attempted above).
                        pass
            if candidate:
                if ext_meta:
                    version = ext_meta.get("version", "?")
                    source = f"extension:{ext_id} v{version}"
                else:
                    source = f"extension:{ext_id} (unregistered)"
                layers.append({
                    "path": candidate,
                    "source": source,
                    "strategy": "replace",
                    "extension_id": ext_id,
                    "extension_dir": ext_dir,
                })

        # Priority 4: Core templates (always "replace")
        core = None
        if template_type == "template":
            c = self.templates_dir / f"{template_name}.md"
            if c.exists():
                core = c
        elif template_type == "command":
            c = self.templates_dir / "commands" / f"{template_name}.md"
            if c.exists():
                core = c
            else:
                # Fallback: speckit.<stem> → <stem>.md
                stem = self._core_stem(template_name)
                if stem:
                    c = self.templates_dir / "commands" / f"{stem}.md"
                    if c.exists():
                        core = c
        elif template_type == "script":
            c = self.templates_dir / "scripts" / f"{template_name}{ext}"
            if c.exists():
                core = c
        if core:
            layers.append({
                "path": core,
                "source": "core",
                "strategy": "replace",
            })
        else:
            # Priority 5: Bundled core_pack (wheel install) or repo-root
            # templates (source-checkout), matching resolve()'s tier-5 fallback.
            bundled = self._find_bundled_core(template_name, template_type, ext)
            if bundled:
                layers.append({
                    "path": bundled,
                    "source": "core (bundled)",
                    "strategy": "replace",
                })

        return layers

    def _find_bundled_core(
        self,
        template_name: str,
        template_type: str,
        ext: str,
    ) -> Optional[Path]:
        """Find a core template from the bundled pack or source checkout.

        Mirrors the tier-5 fallback logic in ``resolve()`` so that
        ``collect_all_layers()`` can locate base layers even when
        ``.specify/templates/`` doesn't contain the core file.
        """
        try:
            from specify_cli import _locate_core_pack, _repo_root
        except ImportError:
            return None

        stem = self._core_stem(template_name)
        names = [template_name]
        if stem and stem != template_name:
            names.append(stem)

        core_pack = _locate_core_pack()
        if core_pack is not None:
            for name in names:
                if template_type == "template":
                    c = core_pack / "templates" / f"{name}.md"
                elif template_type == "command":
                    c = core_pack / "commands" / f"{name}.md"
                elif template_type == "script":
                    c = core_pack / "scripts" / f"{name}{ext}"
                else:
                    c = core_pack / f"{name}.md"
                if c.exists():
                    return c
        else:
            repo_root = _repo_root()
            for name in names:
                if template_type == "template":
                    c = repo_root / "templates" / f"{name}.md"
                elif template_type == "command":
                    c = repo_root / "templates" / "commands" / f"{name}.md"
                elif template_type == "script":
                    c = repo_root / "scripts" / f"{name}{ext}"
                else:
                    c = repo_root / f"{name}.md"
                if c.exists():
                    return c
        return None

    def resolve_content(
        self,
        template_name: str,
        template_type: str = "template",
    ) -> Optional[str]:
        """Resolve a template name and return composed content.

        Walks the priority stack and composes content using strategies:
        - replace (default): highest-priority content wins entirely
        - prepend: content is placed before lower-priority content
        - append: content is placed after lower-priority content
        - wrap: content contains {CORE_TEMPLATE} placeholder replaced
                with lower-priority content (or $CORE_SCRIPT for scripts)

        Composition is recursive — multiple composing presets chain.

        Args:
            template_name: Template name (e.g., "spec-template")
            template_type: Template type ("template", "command", or "script")

        Returns:
            Composed content string, or None if not found
        """
        layers = self.collect_all_layers(template_name, template_type)
        if not layers:
            return None

        def _read_layer_content(layer: Dict[str, Any]) -> str:
            """Read a layer's raw text, rewriting extension-relative subdir
            references (agents/, knowledge-base/, etc.) to their installed
            location when the layer is extension-provided (#2101).

            Extension layers are always inserted with strategy "replace"
            (see collect_all_layers), so a layer only ever needs this
            rewrite when it wins outright above or serves as the
            composition base below — never as a mid-stack composing
            (append/prepend/wrap) layer.
            """
            text = layer["path"].read_text(encoding="utf-8")
            extension_id = layer.get("extension_id")
            extension_dir = layer.get("extension_dir")
            if extension_id and extension_dir:
                from ..agents import CommandRegistrar

                text = CommandRegistrar.rewrite_extension_paths(
                    text, extension_id, extension_dir
                )
            return text

        # If the top (highest-priority) layer is replace, it wins entirely —
        # lower layers are irrelevant regardless of their strategies.
        if layers[0]["strategy"] == "replace":
            return _read_layer_content(layers[0])

        # Composition: build content bottom-up from the effective base.
        # The base is the nearest replace layer scanning from highest priority
        # downward. Only layers above the base contribute to composition.
        #
        # layers is ordered highest-priority first. We process in reverse.
        reversed_layers = list(reversed(layers))

        # Find the effective base: scan from highest priority (layers[0]) downward
        # to find the nearest replace layer. Only compose layers above that base.
        # layers is highest-priority first; reversed_layers is lowest first.
        base_layer_idx = None  # index in layers[] (highest-priority first)
        for idx, layer in enumerate(layers):
            if layer["strategy"] == "replace":
                base_layer_idx = idx
                break

        if base_layer_idx is None:
            return None  # no replace base found

        # Convert to reversed_layers index
        base_reversed_idx = len(layers) - 1 - base_layer_idx
        content = _read_layer_content(layers[base_layer_idx])
        # Compose only the layers above the base (higher priority = lower index in layers,
        # higher index in reversed_layers). Process bottom-up from base+1.
        start_idx = base_reversed_idx + 1

        # For command composition, strip frontmatter from each layer to avoid
        # leaking YAML metadata into the composed body. The highest-priority
        # layer's frontmatter will be reattached at the end.
        is_command = template_type == "command"
        top_frontmatter_text = None
        base_frontmatter_text = None

        def _split_frontmatter(text: str) -> tuple:
            """Return (frontmatter_block_with_fences, body) or (None, text).

            Uses line-based fence detection (fence must be ``---`` on its
            own line) to avoid false matches on ``---`` inside YAML values.
            """
            lines = text.splitlines(keepends=True)
            if not lines or lines[0].rstrip("\r\n") != "---":
                return None, text

            fence_end = -1
            for i, line in enumerate(lines[1:], start=1):
                if line.rstrip("\r\n") == "---":
                    fence_end = i
                    break

            if fence_end == -1:
                return None, text

            fm_block = "".join(lines[:fence_end + 1]).rstrip("\r\n")
            body = "".join(lines[fence_end + 1:])
            return fm_block, body

        if is_command:
            fm, body = _split_frontmatter(content)
            if fm:
                top_frontmatter_text = fm
                base_frontmatter_text = fm
                content = body

        # Apply composition layers from bottom to top
        for layer in reversed_layers[start_idx:]:
            layer_content = layer["path"].read_text(encoding="utf-8")
            strategy = layer["strategy"]

            if is_command:
                fm, layer_body = _split_frontmatter(layer_content)
                layer_content = layer_body
                # Track the highest-priority frontmatter seen;
                # replace layers reset both top and base frontmatter since
                # they replace the entire command including metadata.
                if strategy == "replace":
                    top_frontmatter_text = fm
                    base_frontmatter_text = fm
                elif fm:
                    top_frontmatter_text = fm

            if strategy == "replace":
                content = layer_content
            elif strategy == "prepend":
                content = layer_content + "\n\n" + content
            elif strategy == "append":
                content = content + "\n\n" + layer_content
            elif strategy == "wrap":
                if template_type == "script":
                    placeholder = "$CORE_SCRIPT"
                else:
                    placeholder = "{CORE_TEMPLATE}"
                if placeholder not in layer_content:
                    raise PresetValidationError(
                        f"Wrap strategy in '{layer['source']}' is missing "
                        f"the {placeholder} placeholder. The wrapper must "
                        f"contain {placeholder} to indicate where the "
                        f"lower-priority content should be inserted."
                    )
                content = layer_content.replace(placeholder, content)

        # Reattach the highest-priority frontmatter for commands,
        # inheriting scripts/agent_scripts from the base if missing
        # and stripping the strategy key (internal-only, not for agent output).
        if is_command and top_frontmatter_text:
            def _parse_fm_yaml(fm_block: str) -> dict:
                """Parse YAML from a frontmatter block (with --- fences)."""
                lines = fm_block.splitlines()
                # Parse only interior lines (between --- fences)
                if len(lines) >= 2:
                    yaml_lines = lines[1:-1]
                else:
                    yaml_lines = []
                try:
                    return yaml.safe_load("\n".join(yaml_lines)) or {}
                except yaml.YAMLError:
                    return {}

            top_fm = _parse_fm_yaml(top_frontmatter_text)

            # Inherit scripts/agent_scripts from base frontmatter if missing
            if base_frontmatter_text and base_frontmatter_text != top_frontmatter_text:
                base_fm = _parse_fm_yaml(base_frontmatter_text)
                for key in ("scripts", "agent_scripts"):
                    if key not in top_fm and key in base_fm:
                        top_fm[key] = base_fm[key]

            # Strip strategy key — it's an internal composition directive,
            # not meant for rendered agent command files
            top_fm.pop("strategy", None)

            if top_fm:
                top_frontmatter_text = (
                    "---\n"
                    + dump_frontmatter(top_fm)
                    + "\n---"
                )
            else:
                # Empty frontmatter — omit rather than emitting {}
                top_frontmatter_text = None

            if top_frontmatter_text:
                content = top_frontmatter_text + "\n\n" + content

        return content