https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/99ac66fe4c2401992695d1ee
Added Files:
.claude/skills/synchronet-control/SKILL.md .claude/skills/synchronet-javascript/SKILL.md .claude/skills/synchronet-logs/SKILL.md .claude/skills/synchronet-menus/SKILL.md .claude/skills/synchronet-mqtt/SKILL.md
Log Message:
.claude/skills: add Synchronet authoring skills for Claude Code

Five Claude Code skills covering the day-to-day sysop / developer
workflows on a Synchronet install. The skills are self-contained
reference docs that the Claude Code CLI auto-discovers when working in
the sbbs tree; they trigger on natural-language descriptions of common
tasks and load only the relevant body on demand.

- synchronet-menus: authoring text/menu/* files, Ctrl-A and @-codes,
the file-extension priority by terminal type, .Xcol width variants,
language overlays, security gating, mouse hotspots.

- synchronet-logs: locating the right log file or stream on Windows or
*nix Ä per-category files in data/, the per-day Terminal Server log,
the Web Server access log, the lprintf console stream and its routing
to syslog/journalctl/console depending on daemon mode and init
system, the sbbsctrl-on-Windows-only data/logs/{TS,WS,MS,FS}*.LOG
trap, multi-instance traps when sibling BBSes share a text/
directory across hosts, the ip.can/ip-silent.can field format.

- synchronet-mqtt: discovering whether MQTT is enabled (the [MQTT]
section of ctrl/main.ini, not sbbs.ini), reading the broker config,
connecting with mosquitto_sub/pub (anonymous / user+pass / four TLS
modes), full topic hierarchy, retained vs event semantics, and the
control-plane topics (recycle/pause/resume/clear/node-set/input/msg)
with production-impact warnings.

- synchronet-control: controlling a running Synchronet instance via
cross-platform semaphore files in ctrl/ and data/ (recycle, shutdown,
pause, clear, with per-server .<service> and per-host .<hostname>
suffix variants for shared-ctrl/ setups), POSIX signals to sbbscon,
OS service managers (systemctl, service, launchctl, sc.exe), the
Windows front-ends (sbbsctrl, sbbsNTsvcs, sbbs.exe), the node rerun
utility, the won't-recycle-while-in-use gotcha, and the NO_RECYCLE
flag. Cross-references synchronet-mqtt for situations where MQTT
control is preferable even on the same host.

- synchronet-javascript: the SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 dialect, the host
object model (MsgBase, FileBase, User, system, msg_area/file_area,
Socket, MQTT, etc.), how those APIs actually behave (including the
get_all_msg_headers() lazy-field gotcha Ä touch a non-NULL field
before any *_NULL field, with bracket-access as an escape hatch),
writing tests in exec/tests/, and the stock exec/*.js ecosystem.

Each skill is host-agnostic Ä no embedded local hostnames, IP
addresses, BBSIDs, systemd unit names, or absolute filesystem paths.
All four new-from-scratch skills (logs, mqtt, control, javascript-fix)
were subagent-tested against realistic retrieval and diagnostic tasks
on a live install before being committed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/60bc25ddd5ee3f1d1b8364b7
Added Files:
.claude/skills/synchronet-text/SKILL.md
Modified Files:
.claude/skills/synchronet-logs/SKILL.md .claude/skills/synchronet-menus/SKILL.md
Log Message:
.claude/skills: add synchronet-text; refine menus & logs

Add a new synchronet-text skill that covers the runtime text[] string
database (ctrl/text.dat), the v3.20+ ctrl/text.ini runtime override
file (default-section by-ID overrides, [substr] global substitution,
[JS] for gettext()-wrapped strings), and ctrl/text.<lang>.ini
per-language overlays. Sysop-focused; the developer-only textgen
workflow for adding new string IDs stays in the CLAUDE.md
instructions, not in this skill.

synchronet-menus: trim the description to drop the text.dat reference
(now covered by synchronet-text), update the intro to clarify that
this skill owns the display-file side while synchronet-text owns the
string database, and add a prominent redirect block inside the
Ctrl-A section pointing readers at text.ini [substr] for BBS-wide
Ctrl-A colour retheming -- a real failure path observed in testing
where sysops (and agents) reach for attr.ini, find that it can't
remap literal embedded Ctrl-A bytes, and conclude the goal is
impossible when in fact text.ini [substr] does exactly that.

synchronet-logs: correct the csts.tab description -- it's
tab-separated ASCII with a header row, readable with cat/awk/a
spreadsheet, not the 'binary-ish' file the original entry implied.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/b8d19ee45e2a91bd5198427f
Added Files:
.claude/skills/synchronet-jsexec/SKILL.md
Log Message:
.claude/skills: add synchronet-jsexec

Migrated from the personal ~/.claude/skills/synchronet-jsexec/ version
with one section rewritten for the public repo.

The skill covers driving the jsexec runner: the two invocation modes
(-r inline expression, scripted), the flags worth remembering, the jsexec-vs-BBS-session global surface (system/User/MsgBase/etc.
available; bbs/console/client are not), a minimal MsgBase probe,
step-tagged crash tracing with log() vs print() and the -A merge,
when to use jsexec vs smbutil, runtime constraints, common pitfalls,
and the Windows / debug-build invocation gotchas.

The Windows section was rewritten to scrub local install layout
(replaced literal C:/sbbs and S:/sbbs paths with <sbbs-src> and
<install> placeholders) and to generalize the 'live BBS is holding
the debug DLL lock' situation -- the personal version was scoped to
the specific host VERT, the public version explains the same lesson
in platform-neutral terms (three escalation options: switch
configuration, build in an isolated git worktree, or stop the BBS
briefly). Added a cross-reference to synchronet-control for the
graceful-drain mechanism in the stop-restart option.

Cross-references synchronet-javascript (the JS language and host
API), synchronet-smbutils (storage-layer message-base repair), and synchronet-build (compiling Synchronet).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/ce4321c83a01b36d00db2968
Added Files:
.claude/skills/synchronet-smbutils/SKILL.md
Log Message:
.claude/skills: add synchronet-smbutils

Migrated from the personal ~/.claude/skills/synchronet-smbutils/
version. The skill covers the three SMB-level command-line tools that
operate on Synchronet Message Base files directly (below the level of
the BBS itself or the JS MsgBase API):

* smbutil -- inspect/list/view/import/pack/renumber/lock/unlock
operations on a base, plus the verbose-dump V command
and the per-user mail-extraction recipe.
* chksmb -- integrity scan; reports header / data / index / hash
anomalies without modifying anything.
* fixsmb -- destructive repair that rebuilds indexes/hashes and
can renumber; covers when (not) to reach for it.

Includes the SMB on-disk format references (wiki ref:smb, the 1993
historical spec, the SMBLIB C source), the filespec convention shared
by all three tools (path with no extension, or with a specific .shd /
.sdt / .sid / .sha component), the [n] index-pitfall warning, a full investigate-a-corrupt-base workflow, and the boundary on when to use
these tools versus the in-BBS interface or the MsgBase JS API.

Only one host-specific bit needed scrubbing: an example Windows install
path was S:\sbbs\ctrl (the personal versions drive letter); the
in-repo version uses the conventional C:\sbbs\ctrl plus the Git
Bash / MSYS mount-point form. Otherwise the personal SKILL.md was
already host-agnostic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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