argument-hint format validation issue
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- yaml
- Domain
- cli
Research direction
Reproduce the failure by adding argument-hint: [regression directory] to the frontmatter in a SKILL.md file and loading the skill with GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.65 on Linux x64. Trace the validation of argument-hint; done means this documented bracketed hint is accepted and the skill loads successfully.
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Description
Describe the bug
The skills now failed to load with:
✖ .../SKILL.md: argument-hint must be a string
This is my setting:
argument-hint: [regression directory]
And from both vscode and claude spec:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/agent-customization/agent-skills
| argument-hint | No | Hint text shown in the chat input field when the skill is invoked as a slash command. Helps users understand what additional information to provide (for example, [test file] [options]). |
|---|
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills
| argument-hint | No | Hint shown during autocomplete to indicate expected arguments. Example: [issue-number] or [filename] [format]. |
|---|
Affected version
GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.65.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
Add this to SKILL.md frontmatter:
argument-hint: [regression directory]
Expected behavior
Success to load the skill
Additional context
Linux x64
- Dominant language
- Shell
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