skills
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
You can point a plugin's skills entry at "." to use the plugin root itself.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.221.
In the changelogs
22Releases whose published page names skills.
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v2.1.296
Skills can be requested from MCP servers, plus smaller skill sync changes
Claude Code can send a request to fetch a skill from an MCP server, and skill sync stops early when nothing is readable
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v2.1.285
Browser MCP server setup now runs a bundled Playwright script
Claude Code can build a browser MCP server that runs a bundled Playwright script with node and sets CLAUDE_TEST_PROJECT_DIR
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v2.1.282
Session edit permissions limited to skill folders
Session 'allow' rules for editing files by path pattern are now dropped unless the path is a skill folder in a .claude directory
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v2.1.280
settings.js MCP-servers-forward config field alignment fixed (whitespace only)
Whitespace-only formatting fix near the settings.js skills array check, no behavior change
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v2.1.260
Remote session now propagates skills/plugins list from worker init
Remote session init now also captures the skills and plugins list, not just commands and model.
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v2.1.260
SDK init frame now reports skills and plugins in use
SDK init handshake now reports which skills and plugins are in use.
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v2.1.233
claude plugin validateworks on directories without a plugin manifestclaude plugin validate now falls back to checking skills, agents and commands when there is no manifest.
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v2.1.228
Downloaded skill archives are inspected before extraction
Downloaded skill archives are checked before unpacking so they cannot write outside the skills folder.
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v2.1.228
Skills can be loaded from a
syncedSkillsdirectorySkills can now load from a syncedSkills folder and show up labelled "synced" in your commands.
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v2.1.221
Plugin manifest skills path may be the plugin root
You can point a plugin's skills entry at "." to use the plugin root itself.
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v2.1.221
The Agent SDK validates
skillsentries before turning them into permission rulesThe SDK now rejects malformed skill names with a clear reason instead of creating a rule that never matches.
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v2.1.217
Skills Discovery Migrated to
skills/listPaginated Methodfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.213
/import— Migrate Config from Other AI Coding Agentsfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.208
Official plugin prompt overrides via server-side feature flag
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v2.1.140
Plugin Path Descriptions Clarified — Override vs. Addition Semantics
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v2.1.133
Skill Tool Guidance Updated
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v2.1.129
Better Plugin Authoring Diagnostics
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v2.1.116
SDK and Agent Improvements
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v2.1.30
Enhanced Custom Subagent Schema
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v2.0.34
Skills API Client
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v2.0.9
Skills Support for Plugins
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First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
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.