YamlFrontMatterParser

Full name Microsoft.VisualBasic.MIME.text.yaml.YamlFrontMatterParser Assembly Microsoft.VisualBasic.MIME.text.yaml Members 2

A lightweight YAML front-matter parser specialized for SKILL.md files.

This parser is intentionally minimal: it only understands the subset of YAML used in skill metadata blocks (simple key-value pairs and inline/bulleted lists). It avoids pulling in a full YAML dependency so the module remains self-contained and easy to deploy.

A valid front-matter block is delimited by "---" lines at the very top of the markdown file:

name: pdf_extract_text description: Extract text content from PDF documents version: 1.0.0 tags:

pdf
text-extraction

01 Syntax

Microsoft.VisualBasic.MIME.text.yaml.YamlFrontMatterParser

02 Methods

Name	Overloads	Summary
Parse	1	Parse the YAML front-matter block from the raw markdown content of a SKILL.md file and return a dictionary of key/value pairs.
StripFrontMatter	1	Strip the YAML front-matter block from markdown content and return only the body (the actual markdown instructions).

03 Members

method Parse #

Parse(String)

Parse the YAML front-matter block from the raw markdown content of a SKILL.md file and return a dictionary of key/value pairs. List values are returned as comma-joined strings for simplicity.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`markdownContent`	`String`	The full raw text of SKILL.md.

Returns

A dictionary of metadata keys to string values. Returns an empty dictionary if no front-matter block is found.

method StripFrontMatter #

StripFrontMatter(String)

Strip the YAML front-matter block from markdown content and return only the body (the actual markdown instructions). This is used by Layer 2 to obtain the full instruction text without re-parsing the metadata block.