skills: prompt before fetching so declined skills aren't downloaded

Download mode fetched every skill's bytes up front, then prompted to
overwrite existing dirs at write time — so declining a skill threw away
an already-completed download.

Move the overwrite prompt and invalid-name check ahead of the fetch:
split write_skill into should_download_skill (the disk-only decision,
extracting existing_skill_on_disk) and a pure write_skill, and filter
each schema's leaves through the decision before _fetch_bundles runs.
The per-schema parallel fetch and the sequential location loop are
unchanged, so cross-location same-leaf overwrite prompting still works.

Author: xsh310

src/ucode/skills_download.py

@@ -197,27 +197,36 @@ def _write_bundle(skill_dir: Path, leaf: str, files: dict[str, bytes]) -> None:
         destination.write_bytes(content)
 
 
-def write_skill(roots: list[Path], leaf: str, files: dict[str, bytes], *, location: str) -> bool:
-    """Write ``leaf``'s bundle (``{relpath: bytes}``) into every root.
+def existing_skill_on_disk(roots: list[Path], leaf: str) -> bool:
+    """Whether ``leaf`` already has a skill directory under any root."""
+    return any((root / leaf).exists() for root in roots)
 
-    Prompts before overwriting an existing skill dir. ``location`` is the source
-    ``<catalog>.<schema>``, shown in that prompt. Returns True if the skill was
-    written, False if it was skipped or kept.
+
+def should_download_skill(roots: list[Path], leaf: str, *, location: str) -> bool:
+    """Whether ``leaf`` should be fetched and written into ``roots``.
+
+    Applies the disk-only checks that need no bundle bytes, so a declined or
+    invalid skill is never downloaded: skips invalid leaf names, and prompts
+    before overwriting a skill already on disk (``location`` is the source
+    ``<catalog>.<schema>`` shown in that prompt).
     """
     if not _is_valid_leaf(leaf):
         print_warning(f"Skipping `{leaf}`: not a valid skill name (lowercase a-z, 0-9, -).")
         return False
 
-    already_on_disk = any((root / leaf).exists() for root in roots)
-    if already_on_disk and not prompt_yes_no(
+    if existing_skill_on_disk(roots, leaf) and not prompt_yes_no(
         f"A skill named `{leaf}` already exists. Overwrite it with `{location}.{leaf}`?"
     ):
         print_note(f"Kept existing `{leaf}`.")
         return False
 
+    return True
+
+
+def write_skill(roots: list[Path], leaf: str, files: dict[str, bytes]) -> None:
+    """Write ``leaf``'s bundle (``{relpath: bytes}``) into every root."""
     for root in roots:
         _write_bundle(root / leaf, leaf, files)
-    return True
 
 
 # --- Orchestration ---------------------------------------------------------
@@ -250,9 +259,12 @@ def _fetch_bundles(
 def download_skills(workspace: str, token: str, locations: list[str], path: str | None) -> None:
     """Download every skill in each ``<catalog>.<schema>`` location to disk.
 
-    Bundles are fetched concurrently (with a progress bar) per schema, then
-    written sequentially so overwrite prompts don't interleave. A failure on one
-    skill warns and skips it without aborting the batch.
+    Locations are processed sequentially. Within each, overwrite prompts run
+    first so declined skills are never fetched, then the survivors' bundles are
+    fetched concurrently (with a progress bar) and written. Processing one
+    location fully before the next lets a same-named skill from a later location
+    see the earlier one on disk and prompt. A failure on one skill warns and
+    skips it without aborting the batch.
     """
     roots = skill_dir_roots(path)
     roots_display = " and ".join(str(root) for root in roots)
@@ -266,15 +278,18 @@ def download_skills(workspace: str, token: str, locations: list[str], path: str
             print_note(f"No skills found in `{location}`.")
             continue
 
-        bundles = _fetch_bundles(workspace, token, catalog, schema, leaves)
+        to_download = [
+            leaf for leaf in leaves if should_download_skill(roots, leaf, location=location)
+        ]
+        bundles = _fetch_bundles(workspace, token, catalog, schema, to_download)
         written = 0
-        for leaf in leaves:
+        for leaf in to_download:
             files, reason = bundles[leaf]
             if reason or files is None:
                 print_warning(f"Skipping `{location}.{leaf}`: {reason}.")
                 continue
-            if write_skill(roots, leaf, files, location=location):
-                written += 1
+            write_skill(roots, leaf, files)
+            written += 1
         console.print()
         print_success(
             f"Downloaded {written}/{len(leaves)} skill(s) from `{location}` in {roots_display}."

tests/test_skills_download.py

@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@
 import pytest
 
 import ucode.skills_download as sd
-from ucode.skills_download import skill_dir_roots, write_skill
+from ucode.skills_download import (
+    existing_skill_on_disk,
+    should_download_skill,
+    skill_dir_roots,
+    write_skill,
+)
 
 WS = "https://example.databricks.com"
 
@@ -237,50 +242,56 @@ def test_missing_directory_rejected(self, tmp_path):
             skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path / "nope"))
 
 
-def _write(roots, leaf, files, *, location="main.default"):
-    return write_skill(roots, leaf, files, location=location)
-
-
-class TestWriteSkill:
-    def test_writes_bundle_into_every_root(self, tmp_path):
+class TestShouldDownloadSkill:
+    def test_new_skill_is_downloaded(self, tmp_path):
         roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
-        files = {"SKILL.md": b"# skill", "scripts/run.py": b"print(1)"}
-
-        _write(roots, "triage", files)
 
-        for root in roots:
-            assert (root / "triage/SKILL.md").read_bytes() == b"# skill"
-            assert (root / "triage/scripts/run.py").read_bytes() == b"print(1)"
+        assert should_download_skill(roots, "triage", location="main.default")
 
     def test_existing_skill_prompt_keep(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
         roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
-        _write(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"from-main"}, location="main.default")
+        write_skill(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"from-main"})
 
         monkeypatch.setattr(sd, "prompt_yes_no", lambda _: False)
-        _write(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"from-ml"}, location="ml.prod")
 
-        assert (roots[0] / "triage/SKILL.md").read_bytes() == b"from-main"
+        assert not should_download_skill(roots, "triage", location="ml.prod")
 
     def test_existing_skill_prompt_overwrite(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
         roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
-        _write(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"from-main"}, location="main.default")
+        write_skill(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"from-main"})
 
         monkeypatch.setattr(sd, "prompt_yes_no", lambda _: True)
-        _write(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"from-ml"}, location="ml.prod")
 
-        assert (roots[0] / "triage/SKILL.md").read_bytes() == b"from-ml"
+        assert should_download_skill(roots, "triage", location="ml.prod")
 
     def test_invalid_leaf_is_skipped(self, tmp_path):
         roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
 
-        _write(roots, "Bad_Name", {"SKILL.md": b"x"})
+        assert not should_download_skill(roots, "Bad_Name", location="main.default")
+
+    def test_existing_skill_on_disk_checks_every_root(self, tmp_path):
+        roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
+        assert not existing_skill_on_disk(roots, "triage")
+
+        (roots[1] / "triage").mkdir(parents=True)
+        assert existing_skill_on_disk(roots, "triage")
+
+
+class TestWriteSkill:
+    def test_writes_bundle_into_every_root(self, tmp_path):
+        roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
+        files = {"SKILL.md": b"# skill", "scripts/run.py": b"print(1)"}
+
+        write_skill(roots, "triage", files)
 
-        assert not (roots[0] / "Bad_Name").exists()
+        for root in roots:
+            assert (root / "triage/SKILL.md").read_bytes() == b"# skill"
+            assert (root / "triage/scripts/run.py").read_bytes() == b"print(1)"
 
     def test_path_traversal_is_rejected(self, tmp_path):
         roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
 
-        _write(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"ok", "../escape.md": b"nope", "/abs.md": b"nope"})
+        write_skill(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"ok", "../escape.md": b"nope", "/abs.md": b"nope"})
 
         assert (roots[0] / "triage/SKILL.md").read_bytes() == b"ok"
         assert not (tmp_path / "escape.md").exists()
@@ -322,6 +333,23 @@ def test_list_failure_skips_location(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
 
         assert called == []
 
+    def test_declined_skill_is_not_fetched(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        roots = skill_dir_roots(str(tmp_path))
+        write_skill(roots, "triage", {"SKILL.md": b"kept"})
+        monkeypatch.setattr(sd, "list_schema_skills", lambda *a, **k: (["triage"], None))
+        monkeypatch.setattr(sd, "prompt_yes_no", lambda _: False)
+        fetched = []
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            sd,
+            "fetch_skill_bundle",
+            lambda ws, tok, c, s, leaf: fetched.append(leaf) or ({"SKILL.md": b"new"}, None),
+        )
+
+        sd.download_skills(WS, "token", ["main.default"], str(tmp_path))
+
+        assert fetched == []
+        assert (roots[0] / "triage/SKILL.md").read_bytes() == b"kept"
+
     def test_bundle_failure_skips_that_skill_only(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
         monkeypatch.setattr(sd, "list_schema_skills", lambda *a, **k: (["good", "bad"], None))
         monkeypatch.setattr(