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# Validate Metadata • AI Agent SDK

> validate_metadata: Validate parsed skill metadata.

# validate\_metadata

Function

> This function is defined in the [**validator**](https://praison.ai/docs/sdk/reference/praisonaiagents/modules/validator.md) module.

Validate parsed skill metadata.

This is the core validation function that works on already-parsed metadata,
avoiding duplicate file I/O when called from the parser.

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
def validate_metadata(metadata: dict, skill_dir: Optional[Path], strict: bool) -> List[str]
```

## Parameters

**metadata** `dict` *required*

Parsed YAML frontmatter dictionary

**skill\_dir** `Optional[Path]`

Optional path to skill directory (for name-directory match check)

**strict** `bool` (default: False)

No description available.

### Returns

**Returns** `List[str]`

List of validation error messages. Empty list means valid.

## Used By

* [`validate`](../functions/validate)

## Source

> [card] [View on GitHub](https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/skills/validator.py#L139)
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> `praisonaiagents/skills/validator.py` at line 139


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