This is in a vanilla exe.dev machine. When adding a custom agent config for use by the pre-installed pi agent specifying a relative path like .agents/skills/ results in the swamp skills not being provisioned during repo init in the project folder.

Steps to Reproduce

1.swamp agent setup (input prompt)-> pi -> AGENTS.md -> -> .agents/skills/

2.swamp repo init --tool pi

3.ls .agents/skills/ -> (is empty)

Environment

swamp version:20260821.132528.0-sha.a18f55df
OS:exeuntu
Shell:exe.dev web terminal

Additional Context

AGENTS.md is also specified relatively but is generated correctly.
Creating folder first doesn't make difference.
If absolute path is specified then skills are created on init.

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hmcrum commented 8/21/2026, 10:27:37 PM

Same root cause reaches the built-in tools, with no swamp agent setup and no custom path involved — so this is not limited to user-configured agents. Reproduced on 20260820.072114.0-sha.05d20b6a, macOS 15, zsh.

copilot

mkdir demo && cd demo && swamp init --tool copilot

The generated AGENTS.md managed block instructs the agent to read .agents/skills/swamp/SKILL.md and .agents/skills/swamp-getting-started/SKILL.md. Neither is created in the repo; both are installed to ~/.agents/skills/:

MISSING .agents/skills/swamp/SKILL.md
MISSING .agents/skills/swamp-getting-started/SKILL.md
global: ~/.agents/skills/swamp
global: ~/.agents/skills/swamp-getting-started

kiro

mkdir demo && cd demo && swamp init --tool kiro

.kiro/steering/* references .kiro/skills/swamp/SKILL.md, also absent, also installed to ~/.kiro/skills/:

MISSING .kiro/skills/swamp/SKILL.md
MISSING .kiro/skills/swamp-getting-started/SKILL.md
global: ~/.kiro/skills/swamp
global: ~/.kiro/skills/swamp-getting-started

claude is unaffected, and I think it shows the fix: CLAUDE.md refers to "the swamp skill" by name rather than by path, so wherever Claude Code resolves skills from, the reference still lands.

swamp repo upgrade --tool <t> behaves the same as init here.

Impact is quiet rather than loud: nothing errors. The agent is simply told to read a file that is not there, so it proceeds without the guidance the block intends to give it — which looks like the agent ignoring repo rules rather than a missing file.

Either emitting the skills into the repo path, or writing the reference as the resolved absolute/global path, would close it. The by-name approach claude uses seems the most robust of the three.

stack72 commented 8/22/2026, 9:57:17 PM

Thanks @ben_lutq for reporting this! The fix has been merged and a release is on its way. We appreciate your contribution to swamp.

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