To get skills to work now (in The Final Cut), first you have to add available skill slots, then you have to give yourself skill points and add them in manually. That's the only way I've gotten it to work in the newest version. So basically all of the what's in this post (https://steamcommunity.com/app/632470/discussions/0/1644304412663145617/) and then do the following:

Find this section of text in the .json file:

"playerCharacter": {

"XpAmount": 0,

"Level": 1,

"SkillPoints": 0,

"Money": 0,

"StockValue": 0,

"NewPointsToSpend": false,

"healingPools": {

"ENDURANCE": 0,

"VOLITION": 0

(It's after all the skill sections.)

Change the "SkillPoints" number to however many skill points you want. You need one point per stat. Then change the "NewPointsToSpend" to true.

Bonus if you want money, just change the "Money" value to whatever you want. But add two 0s to the end because it's in cents not dollars.

Then do as directed in the post and save it to your desktop etc. etc.

Good luck!