Skill files with malformed YAML frontmatter fail to install
Skill files have malformed YAML frontmatter, so skills fail to install in Claude Desktop, Cowork, and Managed Agents.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 3 March 2026 · last reported 7 May 2026
What's going wrong
Some skill files in the financial-services agent examples have badly formatted YAML frontmatter, so they cannot be installed.
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