[goldyfruit]

Skill resource lookup repeated the same filesystem work on every call, and the cost grows with the number of locales a skill ships times the number of languages the runtime serves. On a hub serving 11 languages with skills shipping about 65 locales, py-spy on a real 18-skill boot put resource lookup at 26% of the skill loader's wall time. On This Day spent 70% of its own load there.

Three repeated costs, each memoized:

1. match_lang_directories listed every subdirectory of locale/ and language-matched each one, for every (language, resource type). Listings are memoized on (path, inode, mtime), and lang_matches/lang_distance results are lru-cached.
2. ResourceFile._locate ran an os.walk of the language directory for every intent, vocab and dialog file. It now looks the name up in a per-directory file index, memoized the same way. When several subdirectories hold the same name, the index keeps the one the walk reached last, which is what the old loop returned. The user override directory is still walked on every lookup.
3. SkillResources._locale_vocabularies walked the vocabulary tree and read and expanded every .voc again for each .intent and .blacklist the skill loaded. It is now kept per directory identity and handed out as a copy. Nothing is cached when a user override directory exists.

Package directories do not change while installed, and a reinstall replaces them with a new inode and mtime.

Measured on that runtime with a local harness (the hub's own venv, 11 languages), cumulative on top of OpenVoiceOS/ovos-bus-client#386:

• (1) and (2): skill loading 73.5 s to 69.8 s;
• (3), with the bus fixes from Tests docs automations #386 and Release 8.0.1a5 #387 also applied: 28.7 s to 25.1 s.

Tests: test/unittests/test_resource_lookup_cache.py covers equivalence with the uncached result, reuse, a new language directory being picked up, one walk per directory, and the vocabulary memo with its user-directory bypass. The full unit suite passes (768).

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  • Resource and vocabulary lookups are faster, especially when repeatedly accessing the same language-specific resources.
• Reliability
  • Newly created language directories are recognized, and user-provided vocabulary overrides continue to be respected.

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Resource lookup now caches directory listings, file indexes, and language-distance results. Vocabulary loading memoizes results when no user override directory exists. New unit tests cover cache reuse, refresh, missing paths, and copied vocabulary results.

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Resource Lookup Caching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Directory and resource lookup caches ovos_workshop/resource_files.py, test/unittests/test_resource_lookup_cache.py	Language matching uses cached subdirectory names and distances. Skill and workshop resource searches use cached file indexes; user overrides retain the existing walk. Tests cover cache reuse, refreshed directory listings, and missing paths.
Vocabulary memoization ovos_workshop/resource_files.py, test/unittests/test_resource_lookup_cache.py	Vocabulary results are memoized when no user override exists. Cache hits return copied member lists. Tests cover reuse, caller mutation, and traversal after the user directory changes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Suggested reviewers: jarbasal

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e5d15

New or updated skill resources and vocabulary may remain invisible until the caches are reset. Fix cache freshness before merging unless that limitation is explicitly accepted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e5d15

The change preserves existing resource permissions and user-override precedence. Its main design risk is stale package resources after an in-place update or rollback: checking a directory’s identity does not detect every change beneath it. No exploitable authorization bypass was established.

Retained concerns

• Low · architecture · inferred: Recursive resource freshness now depends on an unestablished immutable-installation contract. Changes within existing subdirectories or edits to existing vocabulary files can leave cache keys unchanged, retaining obsolete resource selection or inline blacklist expansions on later loads. This can undermine update and rollback consistency if installed resources are mutable; attacker write access and an authorization impact were not established.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A stale skill-directory index affects its consumers within the process; a stale shared workshop-directory index can affect multiple skills using that directory. Attackability requires influence over the selected filesystem resources or their availability, and deployment evidence does not establish who has that authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The reviewed change replaces traversal with basename-index lookup inside already-selected resource directories. It adds no new attacker-controlled path construction, preserves override precedence, and leaves downstream registration authority unchanged relative to the base.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — A traversal that silently skips an inaccessible subtree can produce a cacheable incomplete result. Restoring subtree access without changing the indexed root’s identity may not restore resource discovery on repeated calls, unlike the base’s repeated traversal.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish an explicit immutable-resource generation contract, or connect resource updates and rollback to index and vocabulary-memo invalidation. Avoid retaining incomplete traversal results as valid generations after transient access failures.

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[JarbasAl]

#414 this PR is targeting code marked for deprecation

doesn't hurt, but half pointless

[goldyfruit]

Thanks for merging, and noted on #414. Any further work on resource loading will go to the non-deprecated path rather than this one.