Singular tests not connecting with config files.

According to the docs: “To add a description to a singular test in your project, add a .yml file to your tests directory, for example, tests/schema.yml”

As far as I can tell, this doesn’t work. I have tried placing in both the tests and models directory as well as using both “tests” and the suggested “data_tests” as the top level tag in the yml file as well as removing all profile file level test configuration. The only way I can affect any change on a singular test seems to be to add a model level config block to the SQL file. As this does not support the “description” attribute, there is no way to document singular tests. What am I doing wrong here. No errors, no “unused config” warnings, just seemingly zero affect from a yml file placed in the tests path.

Using 1.8.7.

What am I doing wrong? Any workarounds to populate the description node on the manifest for a singular test?

I have the exact same issue on dbt 1.8.6. We have pre-commit hooks to ensure that we have tests documented, and I was getting frustrated as this simply doesn’t work.