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Skill Upkeep Guidance Improvement

The skill-upkeep hint now includes explicit instructions to fold user corrections back into the driving project skill file, so the next session inherits the fix.

Details
  • The guidance is injected whenever Claude saves a feedback-type memory for a correction that concerns a repeatable step: verifying changes, committing, opening a PR, or running a project skill
  • The instruction text (constant KQr) directs Claude to also edit the corresponding .claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md file with a terse, general version of the same correction — so the fix is baked into the skill rather than only stored as a private memory
  • Claude is told to edit existing skill files rather than creating new ones, because a new project skill shadows a same-named built-in skill by that name
  • One explicit exception: if the correction concerns how to verify changes in the current repo and .claude/skills/verify/SKILL.md does not yet exist, Claude should create it
Evidence

Constant KQr (search for "When you save a \feedback\ memory because the user corrected how you ran a repeatable step")

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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