diff --git a/SKILL.md b/SKILL.md
index 9ba1c0cac..14ea5c609 100644
--- a/SKILL.md
+++ b/SKILL.md
@@ -1,22 +1,3 @@
-<!---
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-  distributed with this work for additional information
-  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
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-  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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-
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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-
 ---
 name: datafusion-python
 description: Use when the user is writing datafusion-python (Apache DataFusion Python bindings) DataFrame or SQL code. Covers imports, data loading, DataFrame operations, expression building, SQL-to-DataFrame mappings, idiomatic patterns, and common pitfalls.
diff --git a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
index b2db144e8..a7a497dab 100644
--- a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
+++ b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
@@ -48,4 +48,5 @@ benchmarks/tpch/create_tables.sql
 .cargo/config.toml
 **/.cargo/config.toml
 uv.lock
-examples/tpch/answers_sf1/*.tbl
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+examples/tpch/answers_sf1/*.tbl
+SKILL.md
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