syncedSkills
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.
Skills can now load from a syncedSkills folder and show up labelled "synced" in your commands.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.228.
In the changelogs
10Releases whose published page names syncedSkills.
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v2.1.307
Usage data now labels skills from a synced repository separately
When Claude Code reports skill usage, skills from a synced repository are now labelled as their own source
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v2.1.293
Task notices now say which kind of subagent ran
Records for finished subagent tasks now include the subagent's type, and one synced-skill check applies only to skills from the synced folder
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v2.1.283
Synced skills are no longer labelled with a class when they load
Skills loaded from the synced-skills folder no longer carry a class label; their server details are looked up by skill name instead
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v2.1.281
Synced-skills loader skips skills with ':' in the name
Skills in the synced-skills folder whose names contain ':' are now skipped and logged
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v2.1.269
Skill override resolution now distinguishes synced vs. locally-overridden skills
Turning a skill on/off now correctly distinguishes synced skills from local ones with the same name
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v2.1.269
Synced skills no longer counted for bare/unqualified name matching in /context
Skills synced from claude.ai no longer claim short unqualified names in /context
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v2.1.269
Skill alias resolution now special-cased for synced skills
Skill name matching now uses declared aliases for skills loaded via sync
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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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v2.1.228
Skills synced from claude.ai
Skills from your claude.ai account can load as a source, but only if you set the sync env var.
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v2.1.228
Synced skills no longer have file attachments extracted, except when remote
Account-synced skills no longer have file attachments pulled out, except on remote or Cowork runs.
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First cited
7The earliest release whose published evidence quoted syncedSkills was v2.1.228, 11 Aug 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.
1 further span in the ledger name it. The list above is the earliest first and stops at 6.
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.