Hooks marked as "skipped" flag the entire scenario as skipped

[tristanzander]

👓 What did you see?

I recently went to mark a hook as "skipped" when it performed no function so that we knew when they did/didn't run. I discovered that Cucumber marks the entire Scenario as skipped even if only the hooks are skipped, and that felt a bit strange. Is this the intended behavior?

✅ What did you expect to see?

When running a hook that reports as "skipped", I would expect the result of the Given/When/Then executions to mark the status of the scenario as success.

📦 Which tool/library version are you using?

node v22.6.0
cucumber v11.2 and v10.9

🔬 How could we reproduce it?

// testing.js
const { When, After } = require('@cucumber/cucumber');

When('I do a thing', function () {});

After(function () {
	return 'skipped';
});

# testing.feature
Feature: Testing Cucumber Behaviors

    Scenario: Test
        When I do a thing

Output:

$ npx cucumber-js -r ./testing.js ./testing.feature
.-

1 scenario (1 skipped)
1 step (1 passed)
0m00.005s (executing steps: 0m00.000s)

📚 Any additional context?

No response