yasnippet weird-input when org-mode :tag: on same line

Question

I am trying to create a yasnippet for new projects in org-mode.

The beginning of the yasnippet looks like this.

# -*- mode: snippet -*-
# name: project
# key: project
# --
#+TAGS: project(p)

* $1
* $2                                :project:

However, I have the following problem on the line with the :project: tag. The input is input with large spaces between each letter. Is this a problem in org-mode or does the org-mode syntax for tags represent something in yasnippet definitions?

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