react:components skill not loading in copilot-cli due the colon in the name

Author: CloudYetiCreated Mar 24, 2026Updated Mar 24, 2026

When using the stitch-skills with co-pilot CLI, the skill fails to load due to the : in the name react:components in the SKILL.md file.

Here is the error: "The following skills failed to load:

  • .agents/skills/react-components/SKILL.md: name: Skill name must contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, dots, and space"

To resolve, in .agents/skills/react-components/SKILL.md at line 2, the name field needs to be changed from react:components to react-components — replacing the colon with a hyphen to comply with the skill name validation rule that only allows letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, dots, and spaces.

Source: google-labs-code/stitch-skills