Catalog vs structural inventory: how do you treat same-name skills across repos?

[yuehua1213]

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I read the AAS Core framing around complete local catalog search, agent-owned selection, compose_stack, and keeping aas-stack.json plus evidence reviewable — without ranking or certifying semantic completeness.

One adjacent boundary I’d like corrected if wrong: AAS helps an agent choose and validate exact catalog IDs, while builders may still need a repo-local pass that asks “what Skill/MCP-like units are already present in these agent repos, where are their source files, and which short names collide across repos?”

Do you see cross-repo same-name discovery as part of AAS Core / inspect_stack, or intentionally as a separate structural-inventory concern?

A one-line correction would help. Thanks for making the supported vs experimental boundaries unusually explicit.

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[sickn33]

That boundary is correct by design. The AAS Core tools search_skills, get_skill, compose_stack, and inspect_stack operate on the verified AAS catalog and the agent-selected aas-stack.json; they do not scan arbitrary repositories or resolve same-name collisions across repos. Cross-repo source/file inventory should remain a separate structural-inspection concern, with its findings available to the agent before it selects catalog IDs.

[yuehua1213]

Thanks — that clarifies the boundary cleanly.

Takeaway on my side: AAS Core stays on the verified catalog + aas-stack.json; cross-repo / same-name structural inventory is a separate concern and should feed the agent before catalog ID selection.

I won’t treat that inventory job as something AAS should absorb. If I write up a short “pre-selection inventory” note (what inputs, what collisions it surfaces, what it explicitly does not claim), I’ll keep it complementary to AAS rather than overlapping Core tools.

Appreciate the correction.