uipath-ai-skills Wiki

Documentation of code structure learnings and design friction observed in the uipath-core skill.

Code Structure

• Pipeline Architecture — The four-layer pipeline and how the layers chain
• Generator Dispatch — _REGISTRY, _GenEntry, _auto_dispatch
• Container Generators — Leaf vs container, factory pattern, _ALL_CHILD_KEYS
• Namespace Strategy — Option B, sd: prefix collision, post-processing
• Scope and IdRef — ScopeGuid vs ScopeIdentifier, _IdRefCounter
• TextExpression and Boilerplate — VB.NET expression compilation requirements
• Type System — TYPE_MAP_BASE, type inference, _VAR_TYPE_LOOKUP
• Plugin Architecture — Plugin API v1, runtime extension points
• Compound Emission — Generators that emit multi-element structures

Asset Lineage and Testing

• Asset Lineage — Studio export → stripped → f-strings → snapshots
• Snapshot Testing — What snapshot tests validate and what they don't

Design Friction

• Generators as Registry — Attribute knowledge fused with assembly logic
• xNull Verbosity — Inherited Studio defensive serialization
• No Version Awareness — Hardwired to Studio 24.10
• Structural Knowledge in F-Strings — Child placement, wrapping rules, mandatory boilerplate

External

• External Registry and Validation Pipeline — uips-fixtures catalog, uipath pack CI/CD validation