Everything I just posted is incorrect. I thought that the skills were separate from each other. So it was not that both skills were being triggered at once, it was that I did not understand that the sprite can only use one skill and must wait for the cool down from any one skill before using another skill. That wasn't clear to me before.
I appologize, and this thread can be deleted since I cannot delete this myself.
While on the Breaking in the New Recruits mission my seraphyx reached level 15 and unlocked it's Heart Attack Skill. Immediately after closing the window for tinkering with my sprite's abilities it autocasted both skills (Ray of Light and Heart Attack). The timer for each started counting down from 60 seconds. The cool down for Ray of Light should be 18 seconds with maxed out Focus. Before leveling up my sprite it was not auto using its skills.
My sprite continued to spam both skills at the same time as soon as the timer reached zero.
I have been trying to use an xbox controller to save my wrists some wear and tear. Remapping the keys in the SK options menu hasn't shown any conflicts.
I haven't tried another mission to see if this is still happening with the Xbox controller with current mapping, changing the mapping for sprite skills to different buttons, or unplugging the controller and seeing if the same results will happen with nothing but a keyboard and mouse.