Method ParseMetadataOnly

Namespace: LMKit.Agents.Skills

Assembly: LM-Kit.NET.dll

ParseMetadataOnly(string)

Extracts only the metadata from a SKILL.md file without loading instructions.

This is useful for discovery operations where only the name and description are needed to decide whether to activate a skill.

public static SkillMetadata ParseMetadataOnly(string skillPath)

Parameters

skillPath string: The path to the skill directory.

Returns

SkillMetadata: The parsed metadata.

Examples

Quick metadata extraction for discovery:

var metadata = SkillParser.ParseMetadataOnly("./skills/code-review");
Console.WriteLine($"Name: {metadata.Name}");
Console.WriteLine($"Description: {metadata.Description}");

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException: Thrown when skillPath is null.
FileNotFoundException: Thrown when SKILL.md is not found.
SkillParseException: Thrown when the frontmatter cannot be parsed.