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Safely modify environment serialization, reload data, and view layout persistence. Use when changing env save/load formats or storage behavior.

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Skill: Environment Persistence

When to Use

Use this skill for persistence format changes and env reload/view layout behavior.

Core Workflow

  1. Map data writes/reads for jsons and reload structures.
  2. Apply changes in server utility/handler paths that serialize or restore env state.
  3. Keep backward compatibility with existing env JSON files.
  4. Preserve view/layout behavior and environment tree organization.
  5. Validate save/fork/delete and restart/reload workflows end-to-end.

Guardrails

  • Do not introduce breaking env format changes without migration handling.
  • Keep env path handling sanitized and scoped.
  • Preserve compare and standard env behaviors.

Documentation

  • Skill reference
  • py/visdom/utils/server_utils.py
  • py/visdom/server/handlers/web_handlers.py
  • py/visdom/server/app.py
  • AGENTS.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md

Assets

  • See assets/README.md and store templates/resources in assets/.

Tests

  • Follow the default flow in references/TESTS.md.