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[BUG] When creating a new skill from RooCode settings, it is possible to create broken one #12368

@Olegas

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@Olegas

Problem (one or two sentences)

Try to create a skill, which is having a colon symbol (:) in it's description
Example:

---
name: test-skill
description: do something useful. Keywords: useful, skill, foo, bar
---

Such skill will not be displayed in UI

Context (who is affected and when)

Happens when user creates a skill with specially crafted description text

Reproduction steps

  1. create a new skill with RooCode UI (scope does not matter)
  2. in description field write something with a colon symbol (:)

Expected result

User can see a new skill in settings UI

Actual result

Skill is not visible (even after app restart)

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App Version

3.53.0 (44f6bba)

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None

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