skill: note global naming and non-interactive shell gotchas#193
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Add a short Naming section explaining that VM names are globally unique,
and the error message agents will see when they collide.
Extend the non-interactive shells section with two workarounds learned
from running provisioning scripts through agent harnesses:
- heredocs collapse when passed as a quoted argument to ssh; use
bash -s over stdin (or base64) instead
- ssh exe.dev ssh <vm> bypasses per-VM known_hosts entirely, which
is convenient for one-shot commands in non-interactive scripts
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Summary
Two small additions to
skill/SKILL.md, both motivated by getting an agent productive against exe.dev for the first time:New "Naming" section. VM names are globally unique across customers. The first time an agent picks a generic slug (
app-test,demo-1, etc.) and sees the"this VM name is not available"error, it has no way to know whether it collided with one of its own VMs or someone else's. Three lines of skill text save a confused round-trip.Two extensions to "Working in non-interactive and sandboxed environments":
ssh <vm>.exe.xyz "<cmd>"from many shells. The fix isbash -sover stdin (or base64 transport for binaries / whitespace-sensitive payloads). Hit this multiple times when provisioning a VM via an agent harness.ssh exe.dev ssh <vm> "<cmd>"is a useful escape hatch for non-interactive scripts — the lobby's host key is already trusted, so there's no per-VMknown_hostsplumbing oraccept-newprompt. It's already documented inssh exe.dev help, but pulling it forward into the skill (alongside the existingaccept-newadvice) makes it discoverable for agents that read the skill but not the help.Tone matches the existing skill (terse, no list-of-pitfalls, brief explanation of the why).
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skill/SKILL.md.Test plan
ssh exe.devCLI (Trial plan).