The `librefang` dashboard's federated catalog UI surfaces every optional SKILL.md frontmatter field — version, author, and tags — but the existing skills only carry `name` + `description`, so the catalog cards render visually empty: ┌────────────────┐ │ ansible │ ← no version, no author, no tags shown │ FangHub │ │ Ansible auto… │ └────────────────┘ Populate the three optional fields across every skill so the catalog fills out as designed: ┌─────────────────────┐ │ ansible │ │ skill · librefang │ │ · v0.1.0 │ │ Ansible auto… │ │ [devops][automation]│ │ [infra] │ └─────────────────────┘ Choices - author = `librefang`. Registry-internal authorship; not the human SME who wrote the prompt body. Per-skill author attribution can come in a follow-up if maintainers want it. - version = `0.1.0` baseline. Future content updates bump per-skill. - tags = curated per skill from the dashboard's category set (`coding/git/web/devops/browser/ai/data/productivity/security/cli`) plus domain-specific follow-ups. First tag is the primary category. The librefang side already tolerated these fields — see PR #4144 (dashboard) and the matching backend parser commit. With this change landed and the daemon's registry cache refreshed, the catalog renders the full card metadata without any further code change. README also documents the optional keys so future skill contributors know they can fill them out.
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| docker | Docker expert for containers, Compose, Dockerfiles, and debugging | 0.1.0 | librefang |
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