Manual Review

To prevent manual directory edits from being overwritten during a sync, you must instruct your sync engine to treat the target directory as manual. This excludes it from automatic drift repairs, preserving human edits and stopping automated deletions.

Automated drift repair deletes manually maintained skill directories because the sync engine detects them as drifted artifacts. By marking these directories as manual, you exclude them from drift repair operations and prevent automated overwrites.

Yes, you can protect human oversight in skill management across multiple sync environments by excluding manually maintained directories from drift repair. This ensures human edits persist without automatic interference for both individuals and teams.

The best way to preserve manual reviews across automated sync operations is to flag the relevant skill directories as manual. This stops the sync engine from applying automatic edits, ensuring your human review artifacts remain untouched.

Excluding manual directories from drift repair only prevents automated overwrites on those specific human-maintained paths. The sync engine continues to automatically manage and repair drift on all other non-manual artifacts in your environment.