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fix(server): recover skill frontmatter Claude Code itself accepts - #7814
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughClaude skill discovery now repairs a supported YAML dialect difference before retrying the real YAML parser. Parsed frontmatter fields, including boolean options, use shared conversion logic. Discovery tests cover recovery and rejection of malformed fields. ChangesClaude frontmatter parsing
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Skills with a recovered description ending in a YAML comment can display the comment as part of the description. This is a bounded metadata regression that should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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ApprovabilityVerdict: Approved at Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Straightforward bug fix that adds lenient fallback parsing for skill frontmatter when strict YAML fails, ensuring T3 discovers the same skills Claude Code accepts. Limited scope, defensive implementation that rejects real YAML errors, and comprehensive test coverage for edge cases. You can add or adjust custom eligibility rules. Learn more. |
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Good catch, both of you — the per-line recovery was independent per field, so a document with one genuinely broken line (in a recognized field or not) alongside a fine one still surfaced the skill with the broken bit silently dropped, exactly the case this was supposed to exclude. Fixed: any top-level line with broken-looking YAML structure now fails the whole document as malformed before recovering anything, regardless of which field it's in. Added regression tests for both scenarios. |
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Good catch — the fallback was copying everything after the colon verbatim, so a trailing YAML comment or quote escaping wasn't handled. Switched to parsing the isolated value with the real YAML parser: it strips comments and unescapes quotes correctly, and the one case this fallback exists for (an unquoted value with its own embedded ": ") still parses as a one-entry mapping in isolation, not a string, so it correctly falls through to the raw text as before. |
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Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp). The structural-value guard rejects valid metadata too. A colon-containing description plus The fallback also loses current invocation metadata. With |
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.test.ts`:
- Around line 243-246: Update the expected name in the discoverClaudeSkills
assertion to "commented", matching the directory-based command name instead of
the frontmatter name "demo".
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts`:
- Around line 108-109: Update the fallback frontmatter filter in the relevant
ClaudeSkills parsing flow to retain disable-model-invocation and user-invocable
alongside name and description. Parse both scalar values with
parseFrontmatterBoolean before returning parsed, preserving them as
userInvocationOnly and userInvocable metadata.
- Around line 123-125: Update the isolated YAML parsing catch in ClaudeSkills so
scalar values that fail strict parsing return the existing malformed indicator
instead of preserving raw text. Keep the supported embedded-colon case, which
parses successfully as a non-string value, unchanged and ensure the fallback
does not accept malformed descriptions.
- Around line 105-106: Update the structural-value guard in ClaudeSkills parsing
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Expect the directory-based command name.
discoverClaudeSkills publishes the directory name, not frontmatter name. This assertion receives "commented" but expects "demo", so the test fails. Change the expected name to "commented".
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.test.ts` around lines 243 -
246, Update the expected name in the discoverClaudeSkills assertion to
"commented", matching the directory-based command name instead of the
frontmatter name "demo".
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parseSkillFrontmatter strict-YAML-parsed SKILL.md frontmatter and dropped the entry entirely on any parse failure. Claude Code's own frontmatter parser is more lenient: an unquoted description containing a "word: " sequence (e.g. a URL or clause with a colon) is valid there but strict YAML rejects it as an ambiguous nested mapping. A skill that demonstrably loads in Claude Code was invisible in T3's own scanner. Add a fallback that recovers name/description as flat "key: value" scalars when strict parsing fails, but only when the value doesn't look like broken YAML syntax (an unterminated flow collection, block scalar, anchor, alias, or tag) — those still count as malformed, matching existing behavior for frontmatter Claude Code wouldn't load either. Fixes pingdotgg#7757
Both Macroscope and Codex caught a real gap in the lenient fallback: it recovered name/description per-line independently, so a document with one genuinely broken field (e.g. name: [unclosed) alongside a fine one (description: ...) surfaced the skill anyway with the broken field silently dropped — exactly the case the fallback was supposed to exclude, since Claude Code wouldn't load that file at all. A broken line in a field this scanner doesn't even read had the same gap. Any top-level line whose value looks like broken YAML structure now fails the whole document as malformed, regardless of which field it's in, before recovering name/description from the rest.
… rules Macroscope caught a real gap: the lenient fallback copied everything after the colon verbatim, so "name: demo # display label" recovered as "demo # display label" instead of "demo" — no comment stripping, no quote-escape handling. Parse the isolated value with the real YAML parser instead of manual trimming. This also keeps the one case the fallback exists for working correctly: an unquoted value with its own embedded ": " parses as a one-entry mapping in isolation (not a string), so it falls through to the untouched raw text exactly as before.
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The bug is real and worth fixing, but the fallback needs a different shape.
parseSkillFrontmatterLenientlyis a second parser. The structural-character guard (^[[{|>&*!]) fails the whole document when any top-level value starts with one of those, soallowed-tools: [Read, Write]next to a colon-bearing description makes strict parse fail on the description, then the fallback fails on the valid flow-sequence line, and the skill is still dropped. The "skips the whole skill when an unread field has broken YAML syntax" test enshrines this false negative.- The fallback returns only name/description, so a recovered skill loses
disable-model-invocation/user-invocable, which main applies atClaudeSkills.ts:91-97. A skill that Claude Code treats as user-invocable-only becomes model-invocable in T3. nameis dead: commands are keyed by directory on main.
Suggested replacement, roughly 10 lines and no second parser: on strict-parse failure, for each top-level key: value line whose unquoted scalar contains : , wrap the value in double quotes (escaping \\ and ") and re-run the real YAML parser on the whole document. Every other field keeps normal validation, genuinely broken YAML still throws, and the leniency is limited to the one documented divergence from Claude Code. Please replace the hand parser and its tests with that, keeping one positive case (colon in description recovers with all fields intact) and one negative case (real syntax error still drops).
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts`:
- Line 92: Update the replacement logic around the recovered description and the
match symbol so trailing YAML comments remain outside the quoted scalar: detect
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Keep trailing YAML comments outside the repaired value.
When a recovered description ends with a YAML comment, such as description: tool: run # note, the current replacement quotes the complete value. YAML then parses # note as part of description instead of treating it as a comment.
Detect the comment boundary before quoting the scalar. Preserve # characters that are part of the scalar value.
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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.ts` at line 92, Update the
replacement logic around the recovered description and the match symbol so
trailing YAML comments remain outside the quoted scalar: detect the comment
boundary before escaping and quoting, while preserving # characters that belong
to the value. Keep the existing replacement behavior for descriptions without a
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Thanks for the PR. We're not taking changes to the orchestration and provider layers right now: that part of the server is being rewritten for V2, and merging into the current code would either conflict with or be thrown away by that work. Closing for now. If this is still an issue once V2 lands, please reopen (or open a fresh PR against the new code) and we'll take a proper look. |
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Summary
Fixes #7757.
parseSkillFrontmatterinapps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.tsstrict-YAML-parses eachSKILL.md's frontmatter and drops the entry entirely on any parse error. Claude Code's own frontmatter parser is more lenient: an unquoted scalar description containing aword:sequence (e.g.description: ... via kane-cli: run browser objectives, ...) is valid there, but strict YAML rejects it as an ambiguous nested mapping (mapping values are not allowed here). A skill that demonstrably loads and works in Claude Code was invisible in T3's own scanner and the$picker — the same cache snapshot showed the contradiction directly: the skill appeared inslashCommands(from the CLI's own probe) whileskillsstayed[].Fix
When strict YAML parsing fails, fall back to recovering
name/descriptionas flatkey: valuescalars — the only two fields this scanner reads — instead of dropping the skill. The fallback only kicks in per-line for top-level, unindented keys, and explicitly still treats a value as malformed if it looks like it was attempting real YAML structure that broke (starts with[,{,|,>,&,*, or!— an unterminated flow collection, block scalar, anchor, alias, or tag). That keeps the existing "genuinely broken YAML" behavior intact (e.g.name: [unclosedstill gets dropped, matching Claude Code, which wouldn't load that either) while recovering the specific leniency gap the issue reports.Test plan
kane-clifrontmatter from the issue; confirmed it fails before the fix (dropped as malformed) and passes after (recovered with the correct name/description).vp test run apps/server/src/provider/Drivers/ClaudeSkills.test.ts— 10 passed, including the existing malformed-YAML test (name: [unclosed) which still correctly drops the skill.vp run --filter t3 typecheck— clean (only pre-existing, unrelated suggestions in other files).vp linton changed files — clean.Note
Low Risk
Parser fallback is limited to two scalar skill fields and still drops structurally broken YAML. No auth, data, or API surface changes.
Overview
Skills that Claude Code loads but T3 dropped as malformed YAML now show up in discovery (and the
$picker).When strict YAML parse fails,
parseSkillFrontmatterfalls back to reading top-levelname/descriptionas flatkey: valuescalars. That covers unquoted descriptions with a colon (e.g.via kane-cli: run ...). Values that look like broken YAML structure ([,{,|,>,&,*,!) still count as malformed and are skipped.Adds a regression test for the
kane-clifrontmatter from the issue.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit f97d0d156e68a99c0789d6173ee9a9a45cb97159. Configure here.
Note
Recover skill frontmatter that
ClaudeCodeaccepts but strict YAML rejectsAdds a lenient fallback to
parseSkillFrontmatterso that when strict YAML parsing fails, it still recoversnameanddescriptionfrom flatkey: valuescalars. Values starting with YAML structural tokens ([,{,|, etc.) are rejected to avoid misinterpreting real structure as plain scalars, and trailing# commentsare stripped.namefields that cause the whole skill to be skipped.{kind: 'malformed'}for structurally broken values, so previously-rejected skills are the only ones affected.Macroscope summarized 98a98ba.
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