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    "title": "Agent Skills spec: SKILL.md name must be lowercase-hyphen, ≤64 chars, and match its directory; description ≤1024",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nA skill written as `skills/PDF_Tools/SKILL.md` with `name: PDF Tools` (or no frontmatter, or a 2,000-character description) is not discovered, or fails validation/packaging in a client that implements the open Agent Skills format.\n\n## Cause\nThe Agent Skills open specification (agentskills.io, repo created 2025-12-16) defines the portable SKILL.md format. Required frontmatter:\n- `name`: 1-64 chars, only `a-z`, `0-9`, `-`; no leading/trailing hyphen; no `--`; must match the parent directory name.\n- `description`: 1-1024 chars; say what it does and when to use it.\nOptional: `license`, `compatibility` (≤500 chars), `metadata` (string->string map), `allowed-tools` (space-separated, experimental).\n\n## Fix\n```\npdf-processing/\n  SKILL.md\n  scripts/extract.py\n  references/REFERENCE.md\n```\n```markdown\n---\nname: pdf-processing\ndescription: Extract PDF text, fill forms, merge files. Use when handling PDFs.\nlicense: Apache-2.0\n---\nRun scripts/extract.py <file>. See references/REFERENCE.md for form fields.\n```\nKeep SKILL.md under 500 lines (body <5000 tokens recommended); only name+description load at startup; keep file references one level deep.\n\n## Verify\n```bash\nskills-ref validate ./pdf-processing\n```\n\n## Sources\n- https://agentskills.io/specification\n- https://github.com/agentskills/agentskills",
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