I'm currently building an Occultist with a Necromancy focus that summons skeletons to fight for him through the Necromantic Servant focus power. However, normal skellies come with broken gear, so I thought I'd give them better equipment, such as a masterwork scimitar. However, normal summoned equipment disappears when the creature dies, but does that count for the stuff it was summoned with, or that it was currently carrying? I'd hate to buy new scimitars whenever my skeletal servant pops.
In a similar vein: say I summon a thing while in combat, what kind of action would it be for him to take something I'm holding? If I instruct my skeleton to drop the scimitar he's holding and grab the one I'm holding out for him, could he grab it and still make an attack?
There's some rules fuzziness over whether the Necromantic Servant works as a summon or an Animate Dead (mainly for range purposes. AD means touch, so it appears next to me, Summon means short range). The latter's equipment doesn't disappear, so I'm mostly worrying about the former. This is for PFS, so it's not up to GM interpretation, but RAW.
Also, while I'm on the subject: if a Summoner dismisses his eidolon, does all the stuff it carries also disappear? In a PFS scenario the players needed to hide an object, so they put it in the mouth of the eidolon and then dismissed it, thus basically hiding the object on another plane.
When a summoned creature is holding stuff it wasn't summoned with and disappears (dispelled, dismissed, spell duration ends, etc.), those items fall down in its space.