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Giles Odigwe 25ec4c3b5c Python: Support archive-type MCP skills (source, toolbox, sample) (#7121)
* Python: Support archive-type MCP skills in MCPSkillsSource

Add `archive`-type skill support to `MCPSkillsSource` so an MCP server can
advertise packaged skills (ZIP / TAR / gzip-compressed TAR) that are
downloaded, safely unpacked to a local directory, and served like file-based
skills, while keeping the guarantee that MCP-delivered scripts are never
executed.

- Dispatch `skill://index.json` entries by `type`: `skill-md` (existing,
  fetched on demand) and `archive` (new). Unknown types are skipped.
- `_ArchiveEntryLoader` downloads, extracts, and prunes archive skills and
  delegates discovery to an internal `FileSkillsSource` created with no
  script extensions and no runner, so bundled scripts surface as read-only
  resources only.
- Hardened stdlib extraction: path-traversal (zip-slip) guard, non-regular
  TAR member skipping, and file-count / uncompressed-size / download-size
  limits.
- Configure via `archive_*` constructor kwargs (no options object, per Python
  conventions); use `CachingSkillsSource` for refresh rather than a source
  level refresh interval.
- Fix `FileSkillsSource` to treat `None` extensions as "use defaults" and an
  empty tuple as "discover none" (an empty tuple previously fell back to
  defaults).

Port of .NET PR #6631.

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* Propagate non-not-found archive download errors in MCPSkillsSource

Only swallow "resource not found" MCP errors when downloading an archive
resource; re-raise every other error (auth failure, INTERNAL_ERROR,
connection drop, timeout) so a transient transport failure is not silently
turned into a missing skill. This matches the existing failure model used by
`_try_read_index` and `MCPSkill.get_resource`, and avoids a failed
`CachingSkillsSource` refresh overwriting a previously cached list with a
partial result.

Add tests asserting archive-download INTERNAL_ERROR and ConnectionError
propagate out of `get_skills`.

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* Python: Expose archive skill options on FoundryToolbox and demo in sample

- FoundryToolbox.as_skills_provider() now forwards the MCPSkillsSource archive
  options (archive_skills_directory, archive_resource_extensions,
  archive_resource_search_depth, archive_max_file_count, archive_max_size_bytes,
  archive_max_uncompressed_size_bytes). Only explicitly-set options are
  forwarded so unset ones keep the MCPSkillsSource defaults. This lets a hosted
  toolbox agent redirect archive extraction to a writable directory (the default
  is under the cwd, which may be read-only in a container).
- Add unit tests covering default (no options forwarded) and override forwarding.
- Update the 12_foundry_toolbox_mcp_skills sample to demonstrate all three
  progressive-disclosure stages with an archive skill: escalation-policy now
  ships a references/refund-matrix.md resource and is uploaded as a ZIP archive;
  main.py disables load_skill and read_skill_resource approval and points
  archive extraction at a temp directory. README, toolbox.yaml, and ignore files
  updated accordingly.

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* Python: Fix ty type error in toolbox archive-option test

Cast provider._source to _FoundryToolboxSkillsSource before accessing the
private _archive_options, so the ty checker (which runs over tests) resolves
the concrete type instead of the SkillsSource base. Replaces the mypy-style
type: ignore that ty did not honor.

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* Rework archive-type skill support in MCPSkillsSource to unpack archives
entirely in memory instead of extracting them to a local directory, and
apply reviewer feedback.

* Python: Raise on archive member path-traversal (zip-slip)

Treat a `..` path-traversal member in an archive skill as a hostile archive
and reject the whole skill, matching how the file-count and uncompressed-size
limits reject a malformed archive (previously the member was silently skipped
while the rest of the skill still loaded).

- `_normalize_archive_member_name` now raises `ValueError` on a `..` escape;
  benign degenerate entries (empty, `.`, `/`) still return None (skipped) and
  absolute paths are still neutralized to relative. The raise propagates to
  `_ArchiveEntryLoader._build_skill`, which already skips the skill on error.
- Update tests: traversal cases now assert a raise, and add an end-to-end test
  that a zip-slip archive drops the whole skill.

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* Python: Revert archive skill demo in toolbox MCP skills sample

Restore the 12_foundry_toolbox_mcp_skills sample to its pre-PR, skill-md-only
form (matching the .NET Agent_Step26_FoundryToolboxMcpSkills sample, which uses
skill-md and no ZIP archive):

- Revert main.py, toolbox.yaml, README.md, .azdignore, .dockerignore, and
  escalation-policy/SKILL.md to the single-file SKILL.md version.
- Remove the archive demo files added by this PR (.gitignore and
  escalation-policy/references/refund-matrix.md).
- Soften two README notes so they no longer claim archive skills are
  unsupported/silently dropped (this PR adds archive support); instead frame
  single-file SKILL.md as a focus choice and point to the archive_* options.

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* Python: Clarify archive framing in mcp_based_skill sample README

The mcp_based_skill sample is a generic MCP consumer that discovers whatever
the server advertises; it does not itself demonstrate archive skills. Reword
the archive note so it reads as an MCPSkillsSource capability rather than a
sample feature, and fix the stale "unpacked to a local directory" claim to
"unpacked in memory" (matching the in-memory extraction implementation).

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