claude-red at 8,489 Stars: Its Own CONTRIBUTING.md Says Skills Without Frontmatter Won't Load — 28 of 79 Don't Have It, and They Hold 77% of the Bytes

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

SnailSploit/Claude-Red describes itself as “a curated library of offensive security skills for the Claude Skills system,” and 8,489 people have starred it. Its CONTRIBUTING.md states the format rule the whole library depends on, in plain words:

“YAML frontmatter is required. Skills without it won’t load via the Claude Skills system.”

Twenty-eight of the repository’s 79 SKILL.md files have no YAML frontmatter. They do not start with ---; they start with # SKILL: followed by a markdown ## Metadata block. Those 28 files account for 2,753,891 of the repository’s 3,565,194 bytes of skill text — 77.2%. The five largest files in the library are all in that set, including one at 567,484 bytes and 15,151 lines.

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claude-red at 8,489 Stars: Its Own CONTRIBUTING.md Says Skills Without Frontmatter Won't Load — 28 of 79 Don't Have It, and They Hold 77% of the Bytes