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Bundled skill validation fails with missing yaml

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Symptom: quick_validate.py exits with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml' before validating a skill.

Root cause: The bundled validator imports PyYAML using the plain python3 environment. PyYAML was absent from the managed interactive library manifest.

Confirm: python3 -c 'import yaml; print(yaml.__version__)'.

Fix: PyYAML is now declared in packages/python.txt; install/python.sh installs it alongside SymPy and the public runtime verifier checks both imports. For an isolated invocation using a different Python, run uv run --with pyyaml /path/to/quick_validate.py /path/to/skill.