diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton.bb
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+SUMMARY = "Temp placeholder for skeleton function"
+DESCRIPTION = "Temp placeholder for skeleton repository"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/openbmc/skeleton"
+PR = "r1"
+
+inherit obmc-phosphor-license
+inherit obmc-phosphor-systemd
+
+DEPENDS += "glib-2.0"
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "python-subprocess"
+SRC_URI += "git://github.com/openbmc/skeleton"
+
+SRCREV = "18d4591170779ceb81158c650d31c6c59115b2f2"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+do_compile() {
+        oe_runmake all
+}
+
+do_install() {
+        install -d ${D}/${sbindir} ${D}${libdir}
+        for i in ${S}/bin/*.py ${S}/bin/*.exe ${S}/bin/tftpy/*.py; do
+                install $i ${D}/${sbindir}
+        done
+        install ${S}/bin/libopenbmc_intf.so ${D}/${libdir}
+}
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton/skeleton.service b/common/recipes-phosphor/skeleton/skeleton/skeleton.service
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+[Unit]
+Description="Temp placeholder for skeleton function"
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/system_manager.py Palmetto
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target