What is the purpose of the Skill Metadata Placeholder?

It acts as a controlled test case to help developers verify how their systems handle Claude Code skills that are missing mandatory description fields.

Who should install this skill?

Only developers who are building tools, marketplaces, or CI/CD pipelines for Claude Code plugins and need a test fixture.

Why does the internal documentation say it has no description?

The omission is intentional; the skill is designed to trigger 'missing description' warnings in linting tools and test suites.

Is this skill intended for general productivity?

No, this is a developer-centric utility used primarily for testing, linting, and building plugin infrastructure.

Skill Metadata Placeholder

Name: Skill Metadata Placeholder
Author: bendrucker

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Developer Tools

Serves as a standardized test fixture for validating how Claude handles plugins and skills with missing or incomplete documentation.

About

The Skill Metadata Placeholder is a utility designed specifically for developers and maintainers of Claude Code plugin ecosystems. It acts as a controlled test case for verifying that linting tools, automated registries, and user interfaces can gracefully handle and report on skills that lack descriptive metadata. By providing a predictable 'empty' state, it ensures that software development workflows and plugin marketplaces remain robust even when encountering incomplete third-party contributions.

Key Features

Supports the development of robust Claude Code plugin tooling
5 GitHub stars
Provides a standardized 'missing description' test case
Enables validation of plugin linting and formatting rules
Ensures graceful degradation in plugin registry displays
Simulates incomplete metadata scenarios for UI/UX testing

Use Cases

Validating local linting rules for custom Claude Code skills
Testing a plugin marketplace's ability to handle incomplete entries
Debugging CLI output when documentation is intentionally unavailable

About

Key Features

Supports the development of robust Claude Code plugin tooling
5 GitHub stars
Provides a standardized 'missing description' test case
Enables validation of plugin linting and formatting rules
Ensures graceful degradation in plugin registry displays
Simulates incomplete metadata scenarios for UI/UX testing

Use Cases

Validating local linting rules for custom Claude Code skills
Testing a plugin marketplace's ability to handle incomplete entries
Debugging CLI output when documentation is intentionally unavailable