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Does Dashboard Chat currently support Skills?

OpenAI Developer Community February 22, 2026
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Does Dashboard Chat currently support Skills? I was able to set it up, but I couldn’t get it to work.


Summary: When running the simplest Skill (SKILL.md YAML front matter only) in the OpenAI Dashboard, the following error occurs:

Inline skill name/description must match the values ​​in SKILL.md/Skills.md front matter.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Create a minimal SKILL.md and compress it to ZIP format.
  2. Create a chat prompt from the Chat menu in the Dashboard. https://platform.openai.com/chat
  3. Select “Shell” from “+Add” in the Tools section. The “Hosted Shell” dialog box will appear.
  4. Select “Upload Skills” in the Skills section and upload the ZIP file. Click the “Add” button.
  5. Try chatting. The above error message will appear.

Expected behavior: You should be able to chat.

Actual behavior: Even with the simplest SKILL.md, the above error occurs and chat is not possible.

Environment: -Zip file structure:

sample-skill.zip
  └sample-skill
    └SKILL.md

SKILL.md contents:

---
name: sample-skill
description: This is sample skills.
---

(No body text)

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