Convert to pi format creates conflicts

[hrbrmstr]

after a completely fresh install of pi:

npm install -g @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent
pi install npm:pi-subagents

running the command from the README:

# convert to Pi format
bunx @every-env/compound-plugin install compound-engineering --to pi

causes these errors and warnings:

Launching Pi...

Failed to load extension "/Users/x/.pi/agent/extensions/compound-engineering-compat.ts": Tool "subagent" conflicts with /Users/x/.local/share/mise/installs/node/23.6.1/lib/node_modules/pi-subagents/index.ts

 pi v0.64.0
 escape to interrupt
 ctrl+c to clear
 ctrl+c twice to exit
 ctrl+d to exit (empty)
 ctrl+z to suspend
 ctrl+k to delete to end
 shift+tab to cycle thinking level
 ctrl+p/shift+ctrl+p to cycle models
 ctrl+l to select model
 ctrl+o to expand tools
 ctrl+t to expand thinking
 ctrl+g for external editor
 / for commands
 ! to run bash
 !! to run bash (no context)
 alt+enter to queue follow-up
 alt+up to edit all queued messages
 ctrl+v to paste image
 drop files to attach

 Pi can explain its own features and look up its docs. Ask it how to use or
 extend Pi.


[Context]
  ~/.pi/agent/AGENTS.md

[Skills]
  user
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/adversarial-document-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/adversarial-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/agent-browser/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/agent-native-architecture/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/agent-native-audit/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/agent-native-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/andrew-kane-gem-writer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ankane-readme-writer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/api-contract-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/architecture-strategist/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/best-practices-researcher/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/bug-reproduction-validator/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-brainstorm/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-compound/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-ideate/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-plan/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-review/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-work-beta/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-work/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/changelog/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/claude-permissions-optimizer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/cli-agent-readiness-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/code-simplicity-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/coherence-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/correctness-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/data-integrity-guardian/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/data-migration-expert/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/data-migrations-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/deploy-docs/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/deployment-verification-agent/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/design-implementation-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/design-iterator/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/design-lens-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/dhh-rails-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/dhh-rails-style/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/document-review/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/dspy-ruby/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/every-style-editor/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/feasibility-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/feature-video/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/figma-design-sync/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/framework-docs-researcher/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/gemini-imagegen/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/git-clean-gone-branches/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/git-commit-push-pr/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/git-commit/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/git-history-analyzer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/git-worktree/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/issue-intelligence-analyst/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/julik-frontend-races-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/kieran-python-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/kieran-rails-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/kieran-typescript-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/learnings-researcher/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/lfg/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/lint/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/maintainability-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/orchestrating-swarms/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/pattern-recognition-specialist/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/performance-oracle/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/performance-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/pr-comment-resolver/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/product-lens-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/project-standards-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/proof/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/rclone/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/reliability-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/repo-research-analyst/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/report-bug-ce/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/reproduce-bug/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/resolve-pr-feedback/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/schema-drift-detector/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/scope-guardian-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/security-lens-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/security-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/security-sentinel/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/setup/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/slfg/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/spec-flow-analyzer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/test-browser/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/test-xcode/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/testing-reviewer/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/todo-create/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/todo-resolve/SKILL.md
    ~/.pi/agent/skills/todo-triage/SKILL.md

[Extensions]
  user
    ~/.pi/agent/extensions/compound-engineering-compat.ts
    npm:@ollama/pi-web-search
      index.ts
    npm:pi-subagents
      index.ts
      notify.ts

[Skill conflicts]
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-brainstorm/SKILL.md
    name "ce:brainstorm" does not match parent directory "ce-brainstorm"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-brainstorm/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-compound/SKILL.md
    name "ce:compound" does not match parent directory "ce-compound"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-compound/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md
    name "ce:compound-refresh" does not match parent directory
"ce-compound-refresh"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-compound-refresh/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-ideate/SKILL.md
    name "ce:ideate" does not match parent directory "ce-ideate"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-ideate/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-plan/SKILL.md
    name "ce:plan" does not match parent directory "ce-plan"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-plan/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-review/SKILL.md
    name "ce:review" does not match parent directory "ce-review"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-review/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-work/SKILL.md
    name "ce:work" does not match parent directory "ce-work"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-work/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-work-beta/SKILL.md
    name "ce:work-beta" does not match parent directory "ce-work-beta"
  auto (user) ~/.pi/agent/skills/ce-work-beta/SKILL.md
    name contains invalid characters (must be lowercase a-z, 0-9, hyphens only)

[hrbrmstr]

I did just notice this exists: https://www.npmjs.com/package/compound-engineering-pi but I can't immediately tell how well it syncs with the latest parent CE changes.

And it seems to still have some issues:

[Extension issues]
  npm:pi-subagents (user) index.ts
    Tool "subagent" conflicts with
/Users/x/.pi/npm/node_modules/compound-engineering-pi/extensions/compoun
d-engineering-compat.ts

[iuriguilherme]

#398 changed folder names and some agents seem to be matching skill names against the folder structure, sounds like skill names with colons are not portable as well.

I noticed this in some models' thinking outputs too - they struggle to find what the skill they're being told to use is if there's trivial naming conflicts across ACPs, markdown files, full paths, etc. - for example lots of them can't figure out that ce:brainstorm and compound-engineering-workflows-brainstorm is the same thing

[tmchow]

Plan is to remove colon from skill names. We have had many issues pop up cross model so the plan to to move to a consistent “ce-“ prefix.