**Verification reads were unbounded.** The 512-entry limit is checked by
`checkSkillConformance` — as a warning, since the SEP makes it an
interoperability bound rather than a MUST — but checking it constrains
nothing, so a hostile server advertising a million entries had the tool
perform a million sequential reads after the report already knew the manifest
was over. Capped at `SKILL_MAX_RESOURCE_ENTRIES`, with the finding still
reported so bounding the work does not silence the reason it was
unnecessary. `manifestListsSelf` is computed over the READ slice, so a
self-entry pushed past the cap still reaches the fallback: the frontmatter
comparison is mandatory and must not be lost to a limit that bounds other
files.
**A malformed skill URI still produced a directory root.** `skillUriIdentity`
falls back to the raw string, so `not a uri/SKILL.md` yielded the root `not a
uri` and enabled the Directory section — letting the UI build a request from
a URI the conformance checks had already rejected. The comment above it
claimed otherwise. `normalizeSkillUri` now, with the rule written down:
identity is for COMPARING two spellings, not for deciding a URI is
well-formed enough to build a request from.
The existing regression test passed against a weaker input that failed for
lacking the suffix and never reached the fallback; it is a table of three
shapes now.
**The test-server guide overstated its own coverage,** claiming four of the
five conformance scenarios map onto fixtures. Three do: there is no
size-mismatch fixture, because the fixture can override an advertised digest
and nothing else, so that path is covered by unit tests. Corrected, with what
adding one would take.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ND46Ci64DC3tzBy9aG81Nc
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>