skillOverrides
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.138 and was gone by v2.1.284.
Hide or collapse a skill without editing its SKILL.md
Anthropic's own wording. Read off All settings, captured 2026-10-22.
In the changelogs
14Releases whose published page names skillOverrides.
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v2.1.302
Skills that come from plugins can now be switched off in settings
skillOverridesnow applies to skills provided by plugins, which previously were always on, and organization-level overrides are also checkedfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.302
Synced skills replaced by a plugin are hidden and point to the plugin
A synced skill that now belongs to a plugin can be hidden, with a message pointing to the plugin skill or to
/pluginto turn the plugin onfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.301
Organizations can push more settings remotely, and the output style is now reported
Remotely managed settings now accept keys such as
effortLevel,outputStyleandattribution, and Claude Code's settings report includes the output stylefound in this entry's text
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v2.1.296
skillOverridesnow applies to skills that come from MCP serversSettings in
skillOverridesnow apply to skills supplied by MCP servers, matched by the skill's name or its alias namesfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.285
Error for a disabled built-in skill can now say why it is off
When a built-in skill is turned off, the error can now give a specific reason and say if a
skillOverridesentry also turns it offfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.283
/doctor prompt-auditreviews your project's instruction files/doctor prompt-audithands off to the bundled claude-api skill to audit CLAUDE.md, rules, skills and other instruction filesfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.283
Fewer names are checked when applying skill overrides to synced skills
For skills synced from claude.ai, skillOverrides now checks only the skill's name and one other key, so overrides under older names may stop applying
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.282
Synced skills are now tagged with a class, and
skillOverrideshandles them more carefullySkills synced to your account now carry a class, defaulting to account, and
skillOverrideschecks several keys per synced skillfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.282
Settings overrides for skills synced from claude.ai now also match their other names
Overrides for account-synced skills now also check their alias names, and two remote switches change how synced skill names are handled
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.277
Skill overrides now stored via null-prototype objects; new message for name collisions with Settings storage
Skill overrides use a safer storage format, and settings now warn when a skill's name can't be stored
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.269
New settings-review exemption bookkeeping for plugin/skill-managed settings paths
/settings-review now recognizes more plugin-related settings file locations for its exemption rules
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.248
Workflow-authoring skill autoloads and gates the Workflow tool
A bundled workflow-authoring skill loads itself when you mention workflows, and multi-agent runs need your ask.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.195
Skill Override Lookup Extended to Local Settings
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.105
Skill Listing Configuration
found in this entry's text
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted skillOverrides was v2.1.105, 13 Apr 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
150One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.