fix(skills): report YAML frontmatter parse errors and serialize SKILL.md safely - #1321
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 1 remains after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSkill discovery now serializes scans, records YAML diagnostics, and skips malformed skills. The extension API and webview transport expose diagnostics. The settings UI displays localized warnings. Skill creation and mode updates use shared gray-matter serialization options. ChangesSkill diagnostics and frontmatter handling
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participant SkillsManager
participant SkillsMessageHandler
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SkillsManager-->>SkillsMessageHandler: Return skills and diagnostics
SkillsMessageHandler->>ExtensionStateContext: Post skills message
ExtensionStateContext->>SkillsSettings: Provide diagnostics
SkillsSettings-->>SkillsSettings: Render warning alert
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….md safely SKILL.md files whose description contains unescaped double quotes failed to parse silently: gray-matter's YAMLException was swallowed by the outer catch and users only saw a misleading "missing required 'name' field" log (issue Zoo-Code-Org#859). - Catch gray-matter parse errors separately in loadSkillMetadata and log the actual YAML syntax error, with a hint pointing at unescaped double quotes in the description line - Build createSkill frontmatter as data and serialize via matter.stringify so special characters (double quotes, YAML booleans such as "yes", etc.) are quoted automatically and created skills always load - Pass lineWidth: -1 to the dump options (with a typed alias for gray-matter's outdated options typings) to keep long plain scalars on one line and prevent updateSkillModes rewrites from reflowing values into folded block scalars - Add regression tests covering both the load path (invalid YAML is skipped with the real cause logged, no misleading field error) and the create path (quoted frontmatter round-trips and loads on re-discovery)
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…er-yaml-859 # Conflicts: # webview-ui/src/components/settings/__tests__/SkillsSettings.spec.tsx
- Add settings:skills.diagnostics.title/description to all 17 non-English locales; the diagnostics panel keys from Zoo-Code-Org#934 were only in en, which failed the check-translations CI job (scripts/find-missing-translations.js). - Add an updateSkillModes unit test (modeSlugs written, then cleared; description survives the gray-matter round-trip un-reflowed), closing the last patch-coverage gap on the SKILL.md serialization lines.
Zoo-Code-Org#934 added skillDiagnostics to ExtensionState as an optional field but SkillsSettings read it without a fallback, so every SettingsView render where the field is absent crashed with "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')". This broke 14 webview tests in the platform-unit-test CI job (SettingsView.change-detection and SettingsView.unsaved-changes). Mirror the existing skills handling: fall back to [] via useMemo.
…ndary Add apps/vscode-e2e/src/suite/skills-diagnostics.test.ts covering the real extension host -> SkillsManager -> file watcher flow that lower layers cannot reach: - Writes a healthy and a malformed (issue Zoo-Code-Org#859 content) SKILL.md into the workspace's .roo/skills directory on real disk. - Waits for the extension host's file watcher to re-discover and asserts the malformed skill is omitted from getSkillsState().skills while a diagnostic points at it, and the healthy skill is unaffected. - Repairs the frontmatter in place and asserts the watcher clears the diagnostic and loads the fixed skill. Supports this with a test-only getSkillsState() on the exported extension API (mirroring the existing getTaskHistoryItem pattern), backed by ClineProvider.getSkillsManager(). Verified locally: bundle + webview build + USE_MOCK=true test:run with TEST_FILE=skills-diagnostics.test.js -> 1 passing.
Unit coverage for the new extension API method used by the skill diagnostics e2e smoke test: returns the skills manager's metadata and diagnostics, and empty arrays when the manager is unavailable.
Closes the codecov/patch/webview-patch gap (4 not-fully-covered lines): - ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx: dispatch real "skills" messages through the provider and assert skills/skillDiagnostics update, including the empty-array default when the message omits skillDiagnostics. - SkillsSettings.spec.tsx: render without skillDiagnostics in state (the exact shape that used to crash) and render diagnostics with and without line/column locations so every branch of the location formatting is exercised. Local: both specs 45/45 passing; lcov confirms all patch lines and branches in both files are taken.
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src/core/webview/__tests__/skillsMessageHandler.spec.ts (1)
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[]only. Add a case that omitsnewSkillModeSlugs, then assert thathandleUpdateSkillModes()passesundefinedtoupdateSkillModes()and posts the refreshed state. As per coding guidelines, include false or unset cases when defaults could hide omissions.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/vscode-e2e/src/suite/skills-diagnostics.test.ts`:
- Around line 56-58: Update the teardown in the skills diagnostics suite to
remove only the e2e-skill-good and e2e-skill-bad directories under skillsRoot,
rather than recursively deleting the entire skillsRoot tree. Preserve forced
cleanup while leaving pre-existing and other-suite files intact.
- Around line 15-18: Update the MALFORMED_SKILL_MD fixture so the description
value is wrapped in double quotes while retaining the inner quotation marks
unescaped, ensuring the YAML parser reaches and reproduces the intended
unescaped-quote failure.
In `@src/extension/__tests__/api-get-skills-state.spec.ts`:
- Around line 17-27: Add nearby comments in the test setup explaining that the
mockOutputChannel and mockProvider objects intentionally implement only the
members consumed by API, so their partial vscode.OutputChannel and ClineProvider
doubles require as unknown as casts.
In `@src/services/skills/SkillsManager.ts`:
- Line 73: Update SkillsManager.discoverSkills to prevent overlapping discovery
runs from committing stale diagnostics or state; serialize concurrent scans or
commit only the newest scan’s locally collected results. Preserve successful
newer-scan results, and add a regression test using a delayed read that
exercises repair during a rescan.
- Around line 145-150: Update the description-warning logic around
getRawFrontmatterLine so it is triggered only by parser evidence identifying a
description syntax error, not merely by the presence of a double-quote
character. Preserve valid quoted descriptions and add a regression case covering
quoted description text alongside an unrelated frontmatter YAML error.
In `@webview-ui/src/context/__tests__/ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx`:
- Around line 247-266: Update the test for the skills message in
SkillsTestComponent to first dispatch a skills message containing a diagnostic,
then dispatch one omitting skillDiagnostics, and assert the rendered diagnostics
transition to an empty array. This must verify clearing an existing value rather
than only the default empty state.
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In `@src/core/webview/__tests__/skillsMessageHandler.spec.ts`:
- Around line 413-427: Extend the handleUpdateSkillModes test coverage with a
case that omits newSkillModeSlugs, then verify updateSkillModes receives
undefined and the refreshed skill state is posted or returned as expected. Keep
the existing empty-array case unchanged and use the existing mock provider and
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434-439: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse a typed message fixture.
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as WebviewMessage. This weakens compile-time validation for the regression payload. Declare the object asWebviewMessageand omitnewSkillModeSlugsfrom that object.Proposed change
- const result = await handleUpdateSkillModes(provider, { + const message: WebviewMessage = { type: "updateSkillModes", skillName: "test-skill", source: "global", // newSkillModeSlugs omitted - } as WebviewMessage) + } + const result = await handleUpdateSkillModes(provider, message)As per coding guidelines, “If an unavoidable cast is required, document why in a nearby comment.”
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…se frontmatter deterministically Addresses the CodeRabbit review findings and completes the patch coverage: - Serialize discoverSkills() runs through a promise chain so overlapping watcher-triggered scans never interleave; an older scan can no longer append a stale diagnostic after a newer scan has observed the repaired file. - Only emit the unescaped-double-quotes hint when the parser error is located on the description line itself, so a valid quoted description plus an unrelated YAML error elsewhere no longer produces a misleading hint. - Parse SKILL.md frontmatter with explicit empty options so gray-matter's global content-keyed cache is bypassed. The cache is populated before parsing, so a frontmatter that throws on first parse is cached with an empty data object and every later parse of the same content silently returns that object instead of re-throwing - which resurfaces the misleading "missing required 'name' field" symptom from issue Zoo-Code-Org#859. Tests: - SkillsManager.spec: regression test that a delayed older scan cannot append stale diagnostics (serialization), a regression test that a re-scan of unchanged malformed content keeps reporting the parse failure (gray-matter cache poisoning), a no-false-hint case with a valid quoted description and an error on another line, and a non-Error parse failure exercising recordDiagnostic's defensive fallbacks (gray-matter is now vi.mocked with the real parser as the default implementation). - ExtensionStateContext.spec: the skills message test now asserts the transition that clears stored skills/diagnostics, including a message that omits skills entirely. - skills-diagnostics e2e: the malformed fixture is now a double-quoted description with unescaped inner quotes (the exact Zoo-Code-Org#859 failure mode), skill files are written atomically (sidecar + rename) so the watcher only observes complete files, and teardown removes only the skill directories the suite created. - api-get-skills-state.spec: document why the partial test doubles need as-unknown-as casts. - skillsMessageHandler.spec: cover the omitted newSkillModeSlugs case (passes undefined, still refreshes the posted state).
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Fixes #859
Stacked on #934 — that PR (also fixing #859) adds the structured
SkillDiagnosticcollection (SkillsManager.diagnostics/recordDiagnostic()/getSkillDiagnostics()) and the settings-page diagnostics panel. This PR keeps only the remaining gaps on top of it, so the diff stays minimal if #934 merges first and gets squashed.Problem (remainder after #934)
recordDiagnostic()reports the YAML exception, but the single most common trigger — unescaped double quotes in thedescription— still requires the user to read the raw YAML error and open the file. A targeted hint points at the exact line and the fix.dataobject, and every later parse of the same content silently returns that empty object instead of re-throwing — so a re-scan (watcher event, manual refresh) resurfaces the misleading "missing required 'name' field" symptom and drops the diagnostic.discoverSkills()runs; an older scan finishing after a newer one can append a stale diagnostic for an already-repaired skill.updateSkillModes()rewrites the file with js-yaml's defaultlineWidth: 80, reflowing long plain descriptions into folded block scalars (>-1) on every mode toggle — noisy diffs and format churn.createSkill()had the same exposure.skillDiagnosticsis absent. fix(skills): safely serialize skill frontmatter #934 made the field optional onExtensionState, butSkillsSettingsread it without a fallback — any render without it (and 14 webview tests in the unit-test CI job) crashed withCannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length').settings:skills.diagnostics.*i18n keys were only added toen, which fails thecheck-translationsCI job (all 17 non-English locales).handleUpdateSkillModespostMessage path, the malformed-load branches,updateSkillModes' serialization, and the extension-host → watcher → webview diagnostics flow had no tests.Changes
1. Deterministic frontmatter parsing + unescaped-quote hint (load path) —
src/services/skills/SkillsManager.tsloadSkillMetadata()now parses with explicit empty options (matter(fileContent, {})), bypassing gray-matter's global content cache so a malformed skill reports the same parse error on every scan instead of the first throw being cached as an empty data object.getFrontmatterLine()) extracts the raw top-leveldescription:line with its file line number; the "unescaped double quotes"console.errorhint is only emitted when the parser error's mark is located on that exact line — so a valid quoted description plus an unrelated YAML error elsewhere does not produce a misleading hint.2. Serialized discovery scans —
src/services/skills/SkillsManager.tsdiscoverSkills()is a non-async serializer chaining each run onto adiscoveryChainpromise; the body moved toperformDiscovery(). Overlapping watcher-triggered scans no longer interleave, so an older scan can no longer append a stale diagnostic after a newer scan has observed the repaired file.3. Stable SKILL.md serialization (create/update paths)
createSkill()andupdateSkillModes()now passlineWidth: -1(via a small typed alias, since gray-matter's bundled typings predate its js-yaml dump-options passthrough), keeping long plain values on a single line.yes) are quoted/escaped automatically and always round-trip.4. Settings crash fix —
webview-ui/src/components/settings/SkillsSettings.tsxskillDiagnosticsfalls back to[](same pattern as the existingskillshandling), so the component no longer crashes when the optionalExtensionStatefield is absent. Fixes the 14 webview test failures in the unit-test CI job.5. i18n completion —
webview-ui/src/i18n/locales/*/settings.jsonsettings:skills.diagnostics.title/descriptionto all 17 non-English locales (translated per locale), fixing thecheck-translationsCI failure.6. Tests
SkillsManager.spec.ts(gray-mattervi.mocked with the real parser as default implementation): a serialization regression test (a delayed older scan cannot append stale diagnostics), a gray-matter cache-poisoning regression test (a re-scan of unchanged malformed content must keep reporting the parse failure), the exact issue [Bug] SKILL.md YAML parsing fails silently when description contains unescaped double quotes #859 content (hint + diagnostic logged, misleading "missing required 'name' field" absent), a no-false-hint case with a valid quoted description and an error on another line, a non-Error parse failure exercisingrecordDiagnostic's defensive fallbacks, unterminated frontmatter with a dangling quote (diagnostic recorded, hint absent), create-path round-trip cases, and anupdateSkillModesserialization round-trip case.skillsMessageHandler.spec.ts: newhandleUpdateSkillModessuite (success, empty-slug clearing, omittednewSkillModeSlugs→undefinedwith a non-empty diagnostics list forwarded, missing fields, manager unavailable, rejected promise).ExtensionStateContext.spec.tsx: the skills-message test now asserts the transition that clears stored skills/diagnostics, including a message that omitsskillsentirely.api-get-skills-state.spec.ts: unit coverage for the new test-onlygetSkillsState()accessor (skills + diagnostics returned; empty arrays when the manager is unavailable).apps/vscode-e2e/src/suite/skills-diagnostics.test.ts(new): a real extension-host smoke test of the diagnostics flow — writes a healthy and a malformed (double-quoted description with unescaped inner quotes, the exact [Bug] SKILL.md YAML parsing fails silently when description contains unescaped double quotes #859 failure mode)SKILL.mdinto the workspace's.roo/skillson real disk via atomic sidecar+rename writes so the watcher only observes complete files, waits for the extension host's file watcher to re-discover, asserts the malformed skill is omitted with a diagnostic pointing at it while the healthy skill is unaffected, then repairs the frontmatter and asserts the watcher clears the diagnostic and loads the fixed skill. Teardown removes only the skill directories this suite created.Verification
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Merge #934 first, then this PR (no rebase needed: this branch already sits on #934's head plus upstream/main).
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