diff --git a/scripts/lib/production-smoke.ts b/scripts/lib/production-smoke.ts
index 8fc1a850..94c13d19 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/production-smoke.ts
+++ b/scripts/lib/production-smoke.ts
@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ export const PRODUCTION_SMOKE_EXPECTATIONS: SmokeExpectation[] = [
   { path: '/', status: 200, bodyContains: ['<h1', 'Hyped agent skills'] },
   { path: '/alt', status: 301, location: '/' },
   { path: '/skills', status: 200, bodyContains: ['<h1'] },
+  // Exercise Skill data and behavior rules, which category pages do not read.
+  // The heading marker and text must render, even when an error page answers 200.
+  {
+    path: '/gh/anthropics/skills/skill-creator',
+    status: 200,
+    bodyContains: ['<h1 id="skill-heading"', '/skill-creator</h1>'],
+  },
   { path: '/community', status: 200, bodyContains: ['<h1'] },
   { path: '/collections', status: 301, location: '/community' },
   { path: '/guides', status: 410 },
diff --git a/test/unit/production-smoke.test.ts b/test/unit/production-smoke.test.ts
index a69d7b69..a61f8bb9 100644
--- a/test/unit/production-smoke.test.ts
+++ b/test/unit/production-smoke.test.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,34 @@ import {
 } from '../../scripts/lib/production-smoke'
 
 describe('production smoke contract', () => {
+  it.each([
+    [500, '<h1>Server error</h1>', 'status_mismatch'],
+    [200, '<h1>Skill unavailable</h1>', 'content_missing'],
+    [200, '<script>{"name":"skill-creator"}</script>', 'content_missing'],
+  ])('rejects a broken Skill page with status %s', async (status, body, reason) => {
+    const path = '/gh/anthropics/skills/skill-creator'
+    const result = await runProductionSmoke({
+      baseUrl: 'https://skilld.dev',
+      attempts: 1,
+      wait: async () => {},
+      fetch: async (input) => {
+        const url = new URL(input)
+        if (url.pathname === path)
+          return new Response(body, { status })
+        const expectation = PRODUCTION_SMOKE_EXPECTATIONS.find(item => item.path === `${url.pathname}${url.search}`)
+        const content = expectation?.bodyContains?.join('') ?? ''
+        return new Response(`${content}${url.pathname === ASSET_COHERENCE_PATH ? '<script src="/_nuxt/v2/app.js"></script>' : ''}`, {
+          status: expectation?.status ?? 200,
+          headers: { 'content-type': 'text/html', ...(expectation?.location ? { location: expectation.location } : {}) },
+        })
+      },
+    })
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      _tag: 'failed',
+      failures: [expect.objectContaining({ path, result: expect.objectContaining({ reason }) })],
+    })
+  })
+
   it('covers the public routes implicated by the closed incidents', () => {
     expect(PRODUCTION_SMOKE_EXPECTATIONS).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining([
       // The homepage asserts its own hero words, because the page's error