Does Dashboard Chat currently support Skills?
OpenAI Developer Community
February 22, 2026
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:
- Create a minimal SKILL.md and compress it to ZIP format.
- Create a chat prompt from the Chat menu in the Dashboard. https://platform.openai.com/chat
- Select “Shell” from “+Add” in the Tools section. The “Hosted Shell” dialog box will appear.
- Select “Upload Skills” in the Skills section and upload the ZIP file. Click the “Add” button.
- 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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