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Introduced a new skill for verifying production starters in the NVIDIA Elements CLI. This includes scripts for environment setup, CLI installation, and starter verification processes. The implementation ensures that each starter is validated against production conditions, maintaining strict adherence to defined constraints and reporting mechanisms.

New files added:

  • .agents/skills/agent-starters/SKILL.md: Documentation for the agent-starters skill.
  • .agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/environment.js: Environment setup and command execution utilities.
  • .agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/index.js: Main entry point for running the verification process.
  • .agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/install.js: CLI installation logic.
  • .agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/verify.js: Logic for verifying each starter against production expectations.

Fixes several issues found with starters while creating the skill.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added production verification for starter projects, including isolated runs, dependency checks, build validation, and detailed reports.
    • Starter archives now preserve workspace build permissions for more consistent project setup.
    • Availability reports now verify NVIDIA Elements skill installation and provide progress updates.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved deployment paths and preview behavior for Angular, Eleventy, and Next.js starters.
    • Improved Eleventy handling of base URLs and production environment values.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for starter workspace metadata and cleanup behavior.

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The change adds isolated production starter verification, provenance and inventory checks, evidence reports, controlled repair rules, Elements skill availability validation, workspace build-policy export, and starter build and preview configuration updates.

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Starter verification and packaging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workspace manifest export
projects/internals/tools/src/project/starters.ts, projects/internals/tools/src/project/starters.test.ts
Starter archiving serializes sorted allowBuilds policies and writes pnpm-workspace.yaml when entries exist. Tests cover serialization and Wireit script removal.
Starter build and preview configuration
projects/starters/angular/*, projects/starters/eleventy/*, projects/starters/eleventy-ssr/*, projects/starters/nextjs/package.json
Starter base paths, environment defaults, shared Vite options, watched inputs, lint inputs, and preview commands are updated.
Isolated environment and production CLI setup
.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/environment.js, .agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/install.js
The verifier creates isolated directories, controls processes and caches, discovers tools, installs the production CLI, validates its provenance, and records tool versions.
Starter inventory and plan verification
.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/verify.js
The verifier compares configured and discovered starters, validates generated projects and dependencies, selects ci or build, records failures, and removes only passing projects.
Verification CLI workflow
.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/index.js, .agents/skills/agent-starters/SKILL.md
The CLI validates run directories, executes verification, writes reports, and supports help, JSON output, cleanup, and failure exit codes. The skill defines production checks, failure classification, repair limits, validation order, publishing rules, and stop conditions.

Skill availability reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Elements skill installation and progress reporting
.agents/skills/agent-availability-report/SKILL.md, .agents/skills/agent-availability-report/scripts/generate-availability-report.js
The availability workflow installs and validates the Elements skill in a temporary project, reports progress on stderr, includes skill status in reports, and limits failure exit codes to failed reports.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant VerificationCLI
  participant IsolatedEnvironment
  participant ProductionCLI
  participant StarterProject
  participant ReportFiles
  VerificationCLI->>IsolatedEnvironment: create isolated directories and tool path
  VerificationCLI->>ProductionCLI: install and validate production CLI
  ProductionCLI-->>VerificationCLI: return inventory and provenance
  VerificationCLI->>StarterProject: create starter and install dependencies
  StarterProject-->>VerificationCLI: return project metadata
  VerificationCLI->>StarterProject: run ci or build verification
  StarterProject-->>VerificationCLI: return status and logs
  VerificationCLI->>ReportFiles: write JSON and text reports
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The new production-verification workflow can exhaust memory on verbose commands or incorrectly pass a starter after missing an earlier installation failure. These material verification gaps should be fixed before merge.

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- Line 78: Update runCommand to attach an error handler to the WriteStream
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---
name: agent-starters
description: Verify every starter supported by the stable production NVIDIA Elements CLI from a fresh consumer environment, investigate failures, and prepare at most one focused repair pull request. Use for nightly or scheduled production starter verification and starter availability failures.
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This is the skill that helped catch the issues resolved in #312 as well as the base path issues in the starters.

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- Around line 154-155: Update the argument parsing branches for --output-dir and
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GOPATH: 'go-path',
HUGO_CACHEDIR: 'hugo',
NEXT_CACHE_DIR: 'next',
NUXT_DATA_DIR: 'nuxt'

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We track the cache dir so we can ensure each run is a new generation of the starter


export function createProgressReporter({ clock = Date.now, stream = process.stderr } = {}) {
return message => stream.write(`${new Date(clock()).toISOString()} [agent-starters] ${message}\n`);
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These can take a while to run so there is a bit extra progress logging in the scripts to help narrow down any hanging processes sooner

return url;
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async function fetchTo(url, destination, expectedSha256) {

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Extra checks to ensure the hosted install script matches the latest checkout

if (!packageJson) reasons.push('Generated package.json was missing or unreadable.');
if (hasDependencies(packageJson) && !hasNodeModules) {
reasons.push('Dependency installation did not produce node_modules.');
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The script tries to catch as many common failure points early so the agent can focus on why it failed and not what failed.

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🟠 Major · Bound child-process evidence logs. · environment.js:96-103

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Bound child-process evidence logs.

When options.logFile is set, both handlers pass every stdout and stderr chunk to logStream.write(chunk). appendOutputTail bounds only in-memory capture. Production installer, starter creation, and verification commands set logFile, so a verbose command can fill the evidence volume. The resulting stream error can terminate the child and fail verification. Bound persisted logs while retaining a tail and truncation marker.

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const DOCS_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
const MAX_COMMAND_OUTPUT_LENGTH = 600;
const PROGRESS_INTERVAL_MS = 30_000;
const SKILL_INSTALL_ARGS = ['skills', 'add', 'https://github.com/nvidia/elements', '--skill', 'elements', '-y'];

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For the npm version bundled with Node.js 26.7.0, does npx skills add ...withoutskills@ resolve and execute the current npm registry-selected version?

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No, npx (which uses npm exec) does not guarantee that it will always fetch and execute the latest version from the registry when you run a command like npx skills add ... without a version specifier [1]. When you run npx &lt;package&gt;, the behavior is as follows: 1. Local Resolution: npx first checks for the package in your local environment, specifically looking at the current project&#39;s node_modules/.bin and the environment&#39;s PATH [2][3][4]. If a version of the package is already found there, npx will generally execute that existing version rather than fetching a new one from the registry [2][3][4]. 2. Cache Usage: If the package is not found locally, npx checks its internal cache [2][5]. If the package exists in the cache, it may reuse that cached version [5][1]. Because of this caching mechanism, npx does not inherently perform a network request to check for a newer "latest" version unless the specific version you requested is missing or if you force it to ignore existing versions [5][1]. 3. No "Latest" Guarantee: Official documentation and npm maintainers have clarified that npx is not guaranteed to always fetch the latest version [1]. If you require the absolute latest version, it is recommended to explicitly use the @latest suffix (e.g., npx skills@latest add ...) to force npx to treat it as a request for the most recent version available in the registry [1]. In summary, running npx skills add without a version specifier prioritizes existing local or cached versions, meaning it will not necessarily execute the current version available on the npm registry [2][1][4]. Node.js 26.7.0, released on August 5, 2026, bundles a version of npm that adheres to these established npx execution behaviors [6][7].
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<title>[BUG] npx isn&`#39`;t using latest version of package</title> GitHub issue 4108 in npm/cli (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) redwoodjs ... codemods ... `@red` ... Ok to proceed? (y) y 0 ... $ npx `@redwoodjs/codemods`@latest ... version 0.39.2 ``` This issue is very similar https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/2329 but it&`#39`;s closed. So either this problem has come back again, or it wasn&`#39`;t truly fixed in ... As long as the given package is not installed, I expect npx to always use the latest version ... > If I temporarily rename `~/.npm/_npx` I will get the latest version if I do just `npx package-name`, but if I rename it back again I get the old version again. > > I don&`#39`;t know how the caching works exactly, but maybe the checksum (or whatever it is) is calculated wrongly sometimes or something. > > ``` > $ npx `@redwoodjs/codemods` --version > Need to install the following packages: > `@redwoodjs/codemods` > Ok to proceed? (y) y > 0.38.3 > > $ cat _npx/f174a06391103c7e/package.json > { > "dependencies": { > "`@redwoodjs/codemods`": "^0.38.3" > } > } > > $ mv _npx __npx > > $ npx `@redwoodjs/codemods` --version > Need to install the following packages: > `@redwoodjs/codemods` > Ok to proceed? (y) y > 0.39.2 > > $ cat _npx/f174a06391103c7e/package.json > { > "dependencies": { > "`@redwoodjs/codemods`": "^0.39.2" > } > } > ``` > > IDK, but I just found it a little weird that `f174a06391103c7e` is used for both versions ... > I had the same issue with a cli that I&`#39`;m developing. > > When I called npx, it used an old version instead of the new one until I deleted the npx cache (~/.npm/_npx). After cache deletion I tried first to use an old version to download it and after the new one but now it is working as expected. So try to remove the npx cache. > > Actually I&`#39`;m developing an e2e test using a private registry to test that cli and it is not working as expected. I publish the package without updating the version to the private registry (without any package and without proxy this package to the official registry), then when I call npx with the private registry it uses the version of the official registry because it is in the cache. > > I fixed this issue removing the npx cache before the e2e test. > > The bug that I see (similar to this opened issue) is that npx cache don&`#39`;t have the registry used, so when you want to use a package from one registry that is cached from another it gets the cached version from another registry instead of the version of the desired registry. ... > Hi `@Tobbe`, thanks for taking the time to report this! > > From my understanding of the internals and the documentation `npm exec` or `npx` are not guaranteed to always fetch the latest version of a package. If you want that to be the behavior I believe the best thing is for you to always run the commands with a `@latest` suffix attached to the package name, that should guarantee you have the latest version available. > > > I don&`#39`;t know how the caching works exactly, but maybe the checksum (or whatever it is) is calculated wrongly sometimes or something. > > Here&`#39`;s the relevant bit in case you&`#39`;re interested into digging more 😊 > > https://github.com/npm/cli/blob/76afe15fd1fed0ef55031427e2449530e1f88159/workspaces/libnpmexec/lib/cache-install-dir.js#L14-L18 > > With that in mind, since this is working as intended I&`#39`;m going to close this issue. But feel free to open a new ones in case you find any other bug. In case you would like to propose a different behavior to `npx`, feel free to open an issue or discussion in our RFC repo with some details on how you could/would like to see this changed? > > Thanks again! ... > I had the same problem, when I was at [`@v1.0.1`]; exec `npx ` , Later, when upgraded to v1.0.2, I exec `npx [`@latest`]` , then i exec `npx ` once again; the application is not the latest version of the packa…[truncated] <title>npx</title> https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx `npx [options] [`@version`] [command-arg]...` ... Executes ` ` either from a local `node_modules/.bin`, or from a central cache, installing any packages needed in order for ` ` to run. ... By default, `npx` will check whether ` ` exists in `$PATH`, or in the local project binaries, and execute that. If ` ` is not found, it will be installed prior to execution. ... Unless a `--package` option is specified, `npx` will try to guess the name of the binary to invoke depending on the specifier provided. All package specifiers understood by `npm` may be used with `npx`, including git spec ... , remote tarballs, local directories, or scoped packages ... If a full specifier is included, or if `--package` is used, npx will always use a freshly-installed, temporary version of the package. This can also be forced with the `--ignore-existing` flag. ... * `-p, --package ` - define the package to be installed. This defaults to the value of ` `. This is only needed for packages with multiple binaries if you want to call one of the other executables, or where the binary name does not match the package name. If this option is provided ` ` will be executed as-is, without interpreting `@version` if it&`#39`;s there. Multiple `--package` options may be provided, and all the packages specified will be installed. ... * `--ignore-existing` - If this flag is set, npx will not look in `$PATH`, or in the current package&`#39`;s `node_modules/.bin` for an existing version before deciding whether to install. Binaries in those paths will still be available for execution, but will be shadowed by any packages requested by this install. ... or anything else ... npx -p ... You can configure `npx` to run as your default fallback command when you type something in the command line with an `@` but the command is not found. This includes installing packages that were not found in the local prefix either. <title>npx | npm Docs</title> https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npx/ npx | npm Docs # npx Run a command from a local or remote npm package Table of contents ## Synopsis npx -- < pkg> [@< version>] [args...] npx --package=< pkg> [@< version>] -- < cmd> [args...] npx -c &`#39`; [args...]&`#39`; npx --package= foo -c &`#39`; [args...]&`#39`; ## Description This command allows you to run an arbitrary command from an npm package (either one installed locally, or fetched remotely), in a similar context as running it via `npm run`. Whatever packages are specified by the `--package` option will be provided in the `PATH` of the executed command, along with any locally installed package executables. The `--package` option may be specified multiple times, to execute the supplied command in an environment where all specified packages are available. If any requested packages are not present in the local project dependencies, then they are installed to a folder in the npm cache, which is added to the `PATH` environment variable in the executed process. A prompt is printed (which can be suppressed by providing either `--yes` or `--no`). Package names provided without a specifier will be matched with whatever version exists in the local project. Package names with a specifier will only be considered a match if they have the exact same name and version as the local dependency. If no `-c` or `--call` option is provided, then the positional arguments are used to generate the command string. If no `--package` options are provided, then npm will attempt to determine the executable name from the package specifier provided as the first positional argument according to the following heuristic: - If the package has a single entry in its `bin` field in `package.json`, or if all entries are aliases of the same command, then that command will be used. - If the package has multiple `bin` entries, and one of them matches the unscoped portion of the `name` field, then that command will be used. - If this does not result in exactly one option (either because there are no bin entries, or none of them match the `name` of the package), then `npm exec` exits with an error. To run a binary other than the named binary, specify one or more `--package` options, which will prevent npm from inferring the package from the first command argument. ## `npx` vs `npm exec` When run via the `npx` binary, all flags and options must be set prior to any positional arguments. When run via `npm exec`, a double-hyphen `--` flag can be used to suppress npm&`#39`;s parsing of switches and options that should be sent to the executed command. For example: `$ npx foo@latest bar --package=`@npmcli/foo`` In this case, npm will resolve the `foo` package name, and run the following command: `$ foo bar --package=`@npmcli/foo`` Since the `--package` option comes after the positional arguments, it is treated as an argument to the executed command. In contrast, due to npm&`#39`;s argument parsing logic, running this command is different: `$ npm exec foo@latest bar --package=`@npmcli/foo`` In this case, npm will parse the `--package` option first, resolving the `@npmcli/foo` package. Then, it will execute the following command in that context: `$ foo@latest bar` The double-hyphen character is recommended to explicitly tell npm to stop parsing command line options and switches. The following command would thus be equivalent to the `npx` command above: `$ npm exec -- foo@latest bar --package=`@npmcli/foo`` ## Examples Run the version of `tap` in the local dependencies, with the provided arguments: $ npm exec -- tap --bail test/foo.js $ npx tap --bail test/foo.js Run a command other than the command whose name matches the package name by specifying a `--package` option: $ npm exec --package= foo -- bar --bar-argument # ~ or ~ $ npx --package= foo bar --bar-argument Run an arbitrary shell script, in the context of the current project: $ npm x -c &`#39`;eslint && say "hooray, lint passed"&`#39`; $ npx -c &`#39`;eslint && say …[truncated] <title>[BUG] npx won&`#39`;t execute the latest version of a package</title> GitHub issue 5262 in npm/cli (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) # [BUG] npx won&`#39`;t execute the latest version of a package - State: closed - Author: nullromo - Created: 2022-08-04T17:42:37Z - Updated: 2022-08-11T14:37:45Z - Repository: npm/cli - Number: `#5262` ## Labels - Release 8.x - Bug - Needs Triage --- ### Is there an existing issue for this? - [X] I have searched the existing issues ### This issue exists in the latest npm version - [X] I am using the latest npm ### Current Behavior I tried running `npx ts-node@latest`, but npx decided to execute a version of `ts-node` that is not the latest. ```text $ rm -rf ~/.npm $ node --version v18.7.0 $ npm --version 8.16.0 $ npx ts-node --version v9.1.1 $ npx ts-node@latest --version Need to install the following packages: ts-node@10.9.1 Ok to proceed? (y) y v9.1.1 ``` It even asks me if I want to install version 10.9.1, but then it runs version 9.1.1 anyway 😕 ### Expected Behavior I expect `npx `@latest`` to always run the latest version of a package. _Similarly, I expect `npx @ ` to always run the specified version. For example, `npx ts-node@10` should run `ts-node` version 10_ ### Steps To Reproduce 1. Update node and npm to the latest versions. 2. Try running `npx ts-node@latest --version`. 3. It runs an older version 4. Try deleting `~/.npm`; same problem. 5. Try globally uninstalling ts-node; same problem. 6. Try locally uninstalling ts-node; same problem. ### Environment - npm: 8.16.0 - Node.js: 18.7.0 - OS Name: WSL ```ini ; node bin location = /usr/local/bin/node ; node version = v18.7.0 ; npm local prefix = /home/kkovacs/oss_97542 ; npm version = 8.16.0 ; cwd = /home/kkovacs/oss_97542 ; HOME = /home/kkovacs ; Run `npm config ls -l` to show all defaults. ``` ## Timeline - nullromo added label "Bug" - nullromo added label "Needs Triage" - nullromo added label "Release 8.x" **nullromo** commented on 2022-08-04T17:57:55Z: > I just learned about `npx which`. > > ```text > $ npx which ts-node > /home/kkovacs/oss_97542/node_modules/.bin/ts-node > ``` > > So I found out that `npx` was actually using my local version of `ts-node` for some reason. Apparently both `ts-node` versions 9 and 10 were sub-dependencies in the project. > > After I discovered that, I found out that I have a subproject which had a dev dependency of `ts-node` version 9 (not the latest). After updating that one to version 10, `npm list --depth=1` shows all the `ts-node` dependencies at the latest version. Now `npx` runs the right version. > > Again, it&`#39`;s still a bug that `npx ts-node@latest` doesn&`#39`;t run the latest version, but now I have a better understanding of what happened. I had a non-latest version installed locally buried inside `node_modules` in addition to the latest version installed locally and also buried inside `node_modues`. For some reason, `npx` chose to execute the non-latest one no matter what I specified. **wraithgar** commented on 2022-08-10T15:17:19Z: > `npx` looks in your local tree to see if the package you asked for is there, if so it runs the bin for it. If you have two different versions in your local tree this can mean npm runs whichever of the two "won" and put itself in the bin folder. There&`#39`;s not a lot npm can do about this, as there is no mechanism for discovering which version of the package "won". The solution you came up with was correct: to fix your local tree. > > Once https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/5291 is merged and released you should be able to also specify a `--prefix` that points to an empty directory to be sure npm ignores any tree it finds in the current working directory. - wraithgar closed **nullromo** commented on 2022-08-10T18:45:18Z: > What you said makes sense. The part that doesn&`#39`;t make sense is why npx allows `@ ` if it&`#39`;s not even going to use that part. > > If it&`#39`;s not using that version specifier at all, then I at least expect some kind of warning like "you have specified a …[truncated] <title>[BUG] npx does not fetch latest possible semvar match</title> GitHub issue 7838 in npm/cli (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) > We are aware of that, but we don&`#39`;t want to use `@latest` because it will automatically install versions that may be backwards incompatible with what the user is currently using. > > Besides, it seems like a bug that this behavior is a) non-deterministic across machines and b) different from what is advertised in the official docs: > > ``` > Package names with a specifier will only be considered a match if they have the exact same name and version as the local dependency. > ``` ... > `npx` will first check in local project/workspaces from where you are running the command to see if matching range version is found, if not then check globally and then pull from registry. So if you are running `npx` command in a folder where this package is already installed or part of node_modules then it would use that if it&`#39`;s matching. ... > - `npx momentic@1.0.12 init` > - `npx momentic@^1 init` > > These are different entries in the npx cache. The npx cache is indexed by the entire package arg. > > > Within a given npx cache entry, if the spec (everything after the @) is a range it will look to see if a newer version exists. It will not consider other entries in its cache. > > In order to get the behavior you want you need to give npx the same package arg each time. If you want latest, just give it the package name with no spec. If you want a version, use that version every time. You can also use a dist-tag. ... > The entire argument as given on the cli is used. If multiple packages are given (i.e. with the `-p` flag) they are all combined and used. > > No cli commands are going to be able to clear the npx cache. It&`#39`;s isolated from npm&`#39`;s normal cache. There is also no way to inspect the npx cache. It&`#39`;s located at `~/.npm/_npx/` and its existence is probably the reason for perceived inconsistencies. ... > OK, but that doesn&`#39`;t seem to explain the original issue, where running `npx package@^range` did *not* look for the latest entry against `npm`&`#39`;s registry? Your comment would seem to imply that would happen: > > ``` > Within a given npx cache entry, if the spec (everything after the @) is a range it **will look to see if a newer version exists**. It will not consider other entries in its cache. > ``` ... > Here is where npm determines whether or not it can find the package locally installed. > > Here it looks in the global namespace. > > Here is where npm looks in the npx cache. ... > when using a range, npm is supposed to use whatever it finds, but ONLY if it&`#39`;s present in local or global. The npx cache inspection is supposed to look only at the resolved version. > > > This line is likely where the bug is. It&`#39`;s supposed to make npm NOT match by range or tag if we&`#39`;re checking the npx cache, and fall through to an identical version ... > The behavior requested by `@jeff-an` is the opposite of the behavior I would expect. The npm package json dependencies documentation says > > > `^version` "_Compatible_ with version" > > and the npm node-semver package&`#39`;s section on caret ranges says > > > _Allows_ changes that do not modify the left-most non-zero element in the `[major, minor, patch]` tuple. > > The italicized emphasis is mine in both quotes. Based on the documentation, I would expect `npx foo@^1` to use _any_ version it finds where the major version is 1. The semver spec itself doesn&`#39`;t appear to discuss ranges at all. > > Neither of the documentation linked above discusses what version to _prefer_ when provided with a range. I think that might be the source of the relevant nuance here. > > For example, if I have this in a `package.json` file: > > ```json > "dependencies": { > "express": "^4" > } > ``` ... > > and express is not installed, the `npm install` command will favor the …[truncated]

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- Line 522: Update the availability report entry generated alongside
checkSkillInstallation to display skillInstallation.command instead of the
hardcoded skills.sh URL, so the status identifies the target actually verified
by the workflow.

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- Around line 98-102: Update the child stdout/stderr data handling around
logStream.write in the command execution flow to honor writable-stream
backpressure: when a logStream.write call returns false, pause both child.stdout
and child.stderr, then resume both after logStream emits drain. Preserve
output-tail accumulation and the existing logError guard.
- Around line 97-102: Update runCommand and its interaction with
evaluateCreation so required creation and installation failure markers are
detected from complete command output before appendOutputTail truncation, either
by tracking markers incrementally or preserving a full log for verification;
retain the existing 64 KiB tail behavior for returned stdout and stderr.

In @.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/index.js:
- Around line 35-36: Update createProgressReporter to write each progress update
as a JSON record with named timestamp, component, and message fields, while
continuing to write to the configured stream (defaulting to standard error) and
preserving the injected clock behavior.

In `@projects/internals/tools/src/project/starters.ts`:
- Line 270: Update the package ordering sort comparator in the starter
generation flow to use deterministic code-unit string ordering instead of
localeCompare(), preserving equality handling so identical names compare as
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…t setup

Introduced a new skill for verifying production starters in the NVIDIA Elements CLI. This includes scripts for environment setup, CLI installation, and starter verification processes. The implementation ensures that each starter is validated against production conditions, maintaining strict adherence to defined constraints and reporting mechanisms.

New files added:
- `.agents/skills/agent-starters/SKILL.md`: Documentation for the agent-starters skill.
- `.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/environment.js`: Environment setup and command execution utilities.
- `.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/index.js`: Main entry point for running the verification process.
- `.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/install.js`: CLI installation logic.
- `.agents/skills/agent-starters/scripts/verify.js`: Logic for verifying each starter against production expectations.

Fixes several issues found with starters while creating the skill.

Signed-off-by: Cory Rylan <crylan@nvidia.com>
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